Welcome to ROUND 2 of Test Wars between Season 1 and Season 2! Here are the updates: Updates: For this week, we are looking into a few more changes. Change #1 - Random KO times Players will now come out of KO at a random interval. This varies for each war, so check the war details for the exact times. This is something that you asked for in feedback, so please let us know how it plays! Change #2 - BFA adjustments *UPDATE* We originally wanted to try out a scheme where we would adjust the BFA affect in war. However, after testing this change on our end, we realized that it did not produce the desired results. As a result, this change will not be part of the war experiment this week. New test wars All wars will have Change #2 - BFA adjustments * Estoc Edge will be awarded as before. 1 level earned for winning, 1 level lost for losing. You will still lose a level if you leave your clan * Mithril will still be rewarded for winning. * No Rancor levels will be awarded * *IMPORTANT* All wars now have a member participation range of 25 to 33 members BLITZ RANDOM Duration: 1 hour Crystals: 1 KO: Random KO time between 5 to 10 minutes (two wars on Friday) Random KO Duration: 2 hours Crystals: 2 KO: Random KO time between 10-15 minutes (two wars on Saturday) 5 Minute Advantage Duration: 2 hours Crystals: 2 KO: Players can choose to come out of KO anytime after 10 minutes or automatically come out after 15 minutes (two wars on Sunday) Schedule Signup: 3-6 hours prior to War Start Time. This varies based on how close the wars are together. Matchmaking: 2 hours prior to War Start Time (Must sign up before this, rosters lock at this point) Activity Lock: Approximately 1 hour prior to the earliest War Start Time Start Time: This can vary up to 15 minutes. This will be reflected in your war timer. War 1 Friday BLITZ RANDOM Duration: 1 hour Crystals: 1 KO: Random KO time between 5 to 10 minutes Roster Size: Minimum 25, Maximum 33 PDT - Friday - 2pm-2:30pm EDT - Friday - 5pm-5:30pm GMT - Friday - 9pm-9:30pm SGT - Saturday - 5am-5:30am War 2 Friday BLITZ RANDOM Duration: 1 hour Crystals: 1 KO: Random KO time between 5 to 10 minutes Roster Size: Minimum 25, Maximum 33 PDT - Friday - 7pm-7:30pm EDT - Friday - 10pm-10:30pm GMT - Saturday - 2am-2:30am SGT - Saturday - 10am-10:30am War 3 Saturday Random KO Duration: 2 hours Crystals: 2 KO: Random KO time between 10-15 minutes Roster Size: Minimum 25, Maximum 33 PDT - Saturday - 7am-7:30am EDT - Saturday - 10am-10:30am GMT - Saturday - 2pm-2:30pm SGT - Saturday - 10pm-10:30pm War 4 Saturday Random KO Duration: 2 hours Crystals: 2 KO: Random KO time between 10-15 minutes Roster Size: Minimum 25, Maximum 33 PDT - Saturday - 7pm-7:30pm EDT - Saturday - 10pm-10:30pm GMT - Sunday - 2am-2:30am SGT - Sunday - 10am-10:30am War 5 Sunday 5 Minute Advantage Duration: 2 hours Crystals: 2 KO: Players can choose to come out of KO anytime after 10 minutes or automatically come out after 15 minutes Roster Size: Minimum 25, Maximum 33 PDT - Sunday - 4am-4:30am EDT - Sunday - 7am-7:30am GMT - Sunday - 11am-11:30am SGT - Sunday - 7pm-7:30pm War 6 Sunday 5 Minute Advantage Duration: 2 hours Crystals: 2 KO: Players can choose to come out of KO anytime after 10 minutes or automatically come out after 15 minutes Roster Size: Minimum 25, Maximum 33 PDT - Sunday - 1pm-1:30pm EDT - Sunday - 4pm-4:30pm GMT - Sunday - 8pm-8:30pm SGT - Monday - 4am-4:30am FUTURE WEEKS *UPDATED* In the future weeks, we will be looking into the following, more involved, adjustments BFA differences *NEW* - Our initial approach to fixing the BFA differences didn't quite work out for this week. However, we have another solution that we are working on for future weeks. BFE differences *NEW* - We have several ideas on how to balance this, and will open discussion on this topic once a solution has been found. Currently, we are not looking into reducing the BFE difference for players, but rather, finding better matches for players such that players with comparable equipment are matched together. Guild Hansels - There will be balancing changes that we will be making for this (and other similar) builds. There are definite imbalances that we want to address with how this build performs in wars. We will be making an announcement about this as well as soon as we have a possible solution.
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars Finally BFE and GH solutions are being thought of... starts slow clap ..................
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars Nice, hopefully I will be able to participate in these test wars this weekend Looking good KaW_Admin!
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars Can you clarify the random ko please? Does this mean that any time during the 5 minute window we can choose to come out of ko, or we will automatically be up without knowing when
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars Leave BFE and GH's alone please. Too many lazy asses here that cry about it. Want it? Earn it!
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars Any chance the originally announced 3:00 pm est start for Friday War#1 can be reintroduced?
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars Lol devs quick question for you. Why would anyone spend their time and money on building up an account and adding bfa if you're gonna weaken it to war. I for one am not a socialist and don't believe everything should be equal. Why should I get an advantage when I didn't earn it. You need to listen less to us and just work on making this game better not ruin it because people cried its not fair.
Re: Are them times confirmed and accurate for GMT this time cause last weekend the times in here were the same but all wars started 1 hour later??
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars We need clarification between 5minute advantage and random KO times. Very confusing on the OP
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars Ooh devs i hope you will make sure that GH get all their money back from guilds because just like tower build many people dropped build to be guilds. So i hope selling guilds will be full priced.
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars Test it without me lol. Keep changing things. God damn it.... U need direction, well thought out plan, and to stay the course and stop listening to the community. I guess that means me too. You handed out mith armor that makes eb armor pointless and when u (adjust) bfa all ur doing is making newbs thronged than those who actually put long hours n time in. That's gratitude for you....
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars Why balance BFE? Well why balance BFA, it's basically the same thing!
Re: Estoc Trials - Week 2 of Test Wars Ooh 1bil spent on guilds that's so hard to make. And with guilds you make more being a gh so you've probably profited off of dropping builds, with the towers they lost plunder, there is a big difference there. Most gh probably have a lot of money saved up somewhere whether it be in allies or in pots.