Idea to make Season 6 more attractive to new warriors

Dear Apes,

Following the posted Season 6 teaser there has been a lot of community feedback expressing unhappiness at the proposed war and rewards system.

Chocolate23 presented an excellent summary of the advantages and disadvantages, and I hope you have or will have read it.

Season 6 could be an excellent opportunity to get more people into Wars. You want to encourage players in existing clans, who regularly play together in PvE, to form warring sub clans and experience the thrill of warring together without dragging the many other clan members who are either unwilling or unable to participate in War. I can already think of at least one clan that has formed a LL-war sub clan for its members, and I had the privilege of joining them for their baptism of fire.

I think it's an admirable intention, but I do not think that the incentives to leave the safety and comfort of PvE for the hardships and inconvenience of war (banking, potting, suspending upgrades) are realistically offered.

We must also recognise that the current reality of the meta-game is that dedicated LL-war clans are not formed of homogenous clan members or family clans, but are formed ad-hoc and populated by experienced warriors across clans and people who do not consider they have a 'home' clan. This will certainly persist into Season 6, and rightly or wrongly there is the perception that Season 6 will become dominated by an elite of existing LL-war clans.

This perception will be further off-putting to new warriors who have no wish to be go to war only to be offered as sacrificial fodder.

The mechanics are such that new accounts and long-time PvE'ers will not have the sufficient BFA or BFE to be competitive. I myself have around a 5% bonus from BFE and a 6% bonus from BFA, and my BFA is barely in the top 2000 players by value.

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I believe there is a realistic and realisable solution that would satisfy both your objectives and the aspirations of new warriors, and that is to make Season 6 into more of a tournament by
manipulating the warring match-ups based on the total number of medallions per side.

For example in the first war all clans will start out on zero medallions, so there is a level-playing field.
After one war the winning clans will only be matched against other winning clans, all with medallions each. The losing clans will only be matched against other losing clans, or other clans just starting out, or other clans with a new roster of new warriors.

After some iterations of this matching system there will be a clearer division between the 'elite' LL-war clans who are warring constantly or near-constantly, and their less-experienced counter-parts still looking for a victory. This will level the playing field a bit and make the war environment less hostile to new warriors who can then realistically expect to be matched-up against other new warriors. Hopefully they will find that experience an enjoyable introduction to war, and would also allow commanders and trackers in training the chance to refine their skills without the pressure of being hopelessly on the defensive all the time.

The 'elite' LL-war clans will realistically have tougher fights against other victorious clans, and would have progressively less expectation of an 'easy' win.

If the alternative is that no new warriors form LL-war clans to participate in Season 6, and therefore Season 6 is only compromised of existing LL-war clans (given that most Indy warriors like myself will happily boycott the whole thing as it currently stands) there is no realistic difference in the end results, only the journey along the way. And who knows, maybe there will be some surprises.

Edit: removed bold text.

 

15% increase to combat strength is insignificant?

Regardless it is not relevant to the proposal, but thank you for reading.