Matchups We rolled out a new matchup system this week, and as you can all tell, there was a pretty major hiccup. We had to re-ran the matchup process and this meant that there wasn't as much time to prepare for a war as you normally would. We apologize for this. However, we hope that this resulted in better matchups for everyone involved. If you want to analyze your matchup, you can now look at your notices to see why you were matched up with the opponent. On there, you can see how you ranked within all the clans that did sign up, as well as the number of active members both sides have. There are always going to be issues with outliers (clans that have a member composition of strength and size that don't match up well with others) but this system will hopefully minimize that as much as possible. Mithril Purchases Unfortunately, due to the matchmaking issues, we were unable to have Mithril available for purchase for today's war. We aim to have this ready for tomorrow. Red Paladin Equipment We will be releasing 2 new pieces of equipment for this week, this will be out within the next 2 hours. For a preview, please see the image below! The Ring of Lost Souls by KI-Germanicus-KI This fabled ring drags the souls of the Red War Paladins from the fiery depths of hell to wreak vengeance upon your enemies. Burnished Boots Crush the skulls of nonbelievers beneath these staunch, uncompromising boots. Lag We understand that some players are still experiencing lag. We are looking into all the feedback and are actively looking into ways to improve this for everyone.
Can't wait to see how much mith these new items are going to set us back. They do look pretty cool though..
Devs please stop focusing all efforts on the new equipment and focus it on the wars itself. I'm tired of huge mismatched wars lag and onced being KOd being stuck there. I'm sure everyone else won't complain either if you don't release equipment and fix the war mechanics first.
The new matchups are absolutely terrible. The top player of the opposing team has 14 mil cs! Our biggest is about 7 mil cs! See something wrong there devs?
Can someone explain to me how 100 vs 73 initial actives is fair? Lol And as I stated before, the lag is worse then it has ever been. For example, I had 100k spies disappear before I got a single notification. Another thing, your regen times are horrible. Either make it exactly on the third regen or the fourth. Don't make it in between. How does that even make sense? For example, I had 2 minutes until I thought I came of regen, when my 4th regen would come up. Which would have been 15 minutes. But nope, all of a sudden all of my spies and troops are gone, with 2 minutes still to go. Can you please tell me how that even makes sense? Lol. Usually I am pretty supportive of your ordeals developers, but come on now, what is this 2 months we have had the estoc wars out? Fix it sooner rather than later. /end rant
While it's not as fair as we have have liked, unfortunately you were the #2 ranked clan. Someone had to be matched up against #1. That's the nature of the system, and that is part of what we mean by outliers in the matchup process. The only other alternative is to "kick out" the outliers, but that also does not seem to be a fair solution as clans put aside time to participate. We are looking into see what we can do about this. It's based on time, not regen cycles. It may help to use a secondary timer once you are knocked out. Thanks for the feedback, I hope I helped in addressing some of this.
@ kaw_admin you really didnt answer any of the questions all you did was look at what he said looked at your book of responses and said well we tried our best and were still working on it. You have been working on it for about 3 months now. Your main concern was a stupid splash screen update and more armor that only the people who were in the strong clans can get because of your crapy matchmaking skills. Your matchmaking skills have sucked since day 1 of these stupid EE wars.
The regen timer can not be used to accurately track your KO. The regen timer does not start at zero upon KO, it resumes at whatever time it was at before a KO, therefore sometimes you might get out of KO on the third regen and sometimes the fourth. It's best to use your iPhone clock or another clock like kaw_admin suggested to time the 15 minute countdown. Although kaw_admin, with the issues regarding the lag, sometimes it's difficult to know when you've been KOed due to not receiving any notifications. I know you're working on it, and hope to see this issue resolved soon.
Thank you for your quick response, I have a question, are your matchups based on prestige or strength? I've always wondered. And regarding your timers, could you possibly make it so that when you get Knocked out your troops immediately start a new regen cycle? That would be awesome and would for sure make everyone happy
So we were the #2 team but still badly out numbered, so every week do we just not war, or limit us to 30 players and hope we draw someone different. Something should be done to make it closer, even if to equal the team numbers. Lag is horrible, I'm koed before I can hit once.
I dont know what happen but plunder bonus that i had earlier today from estoc had been dropped. Thats not cool guys. Make up your minds and dont tease players. I am expecting to get it back. My estoc lvl is still the same and i have same number of allies. It is somthing to do with your sustem. You cant just drop plunder from estoc edge as it please you. Fix the problem!!!!!!
It's based on a system we created to simulate a war scenario, and takes into account the strength of the players in the system. We then look at these results, and find the best matchup while taking into account active member sizes.
Your matchup was fair. There is nothing further I can say that would really help the situation. At this point, it is about how your clan adapts to the match-ups that you are given. As for my book of responses... I wish that was the case, then I could respond to a lot more players!