As Kaw said during the mith sale : War is coming! So here are my thoughts ( just to share what i was thinking of when reading the news): All are in questions, but based on what called "tournament", here are my theories how it will go: - Top 200 Lb clans can join? So up to 200 clans join max, kaw will create a button for each clan can decide to participate in tournament (not for those out of 200 LB) - Kaw will match opponnent clans upon their stats or their prestige points for each 8 diff wars - Once war started, all clan members are active in war automatically. - All clan's prestige points will be reseted and kaw give the certain points each clan. Win more war out of 8 wars your clan will get more prestige points and at the end of seasons, the total points will determinate the winners. - Locked roster once tournament started and during the whole battle, once u leave clan, u can't join back during war . So must make sure to pick the right members and make sure they are committed to fight till the end of the season. I hope they will give some options for members join while waiting new battle. - You have to fight 8 battles in continue, and not you chose to declare. Once kaw matchs your opponent after each battle, they will start also the war for you and there will be few hours before it started. Big chance that you can't choose your opponent and your battle time. That won't happen because all clans must start war and end war at the same time to be able to conitnue the new match up. And you can't pick your own opponent clan because there maybe the one you want to war with is already at war, or the one you don't want to fight because there are your friends are in. So to be fair to all, kaw should do it for you. What's interesting: -Winners and finalists will receive great prizes! Points, crystals, etc -Winners and finalists will receive achievements -There might also be a chance to receive special equipment only attainable through wars And also there will be great fun as this time not only few people can join but max 200 clans ( 200 x 100 members) which is really huge. Time to spread your power, defense your reputation and earn respect. Of course a big clan with full of HLBC members will have more chance to win but they will also have to fight another clans that at the same stats. But the prestige points given will be the same for each battles win. So kaw match your opponent is fair for all. Tips on preparing for incoming war (quote from kaw_admin) -Spells and potions are key to ensuring victory => so buy more Miths and stock up pots -Learn to cooperate and work with everyones timezones -Also the most important thing is to have fun! Good luck to all and don't miss it!
BTW my clan is recruiting for this special occasion, min 6m CS and you must have no issue with farming before joining. Our current clan is 51 with war experience members. Wall me if you are interested, there are dozen of spots available.
First of all, this couldnt have been posted on the kaw_admin thread? Secondly, those 8 diff wars are of your own choice for opponent. This then enters you into the group of eligible candidates for the seasonal wars. If i understood the thread correctly. I doubt they will do total activeness at the start of the final wars, due to many players having jobs/lives (even if you dont believe it, some of us do have lives), and this will cause a decrease in potential participants as they will not be able to control their war times and thus become a potential leak. Now you say that these would need to be managed, true, but not allowing players the freedom to do what they want is contradicting on of the key aspects of this game. Committed to fighting till the end of the season? Thats a LONG time. Seasons are 3 months long. Sorry, but people need sleep and there is always something that prevents people from being able to have free time for war for 3 months. More likely they will be on and off, with the amount of people in each war fluctuating. You dont need 100 actives to win, you can win with 30 if they are skilled enough and can communicate well to pull off a victory. Considering that many of the top 200 are OSW clans, major eb clans, or minor eb clans with a enjoyment for BL hits and small time farming/osw. I dont think that all the players in this top 200 will be eager to join the war - this can be due to prior commitment of an OSW, or simply because items and growth are more important the small chance that you might get an item if your clan will win. Before you or clanmates rage at me for "hating", please remember that there is a difference between critiquing and hating.
Oh missbehave doesn't hate, just has the diff points. You are right at some points. - And it's true everyone have life, the war is opional, so those who can't, just can't. - 200 clan can join max, not all 200 must join and max 100 members in each clan but a lot of clan can't reach 100 members. The most important is how active they are. - Osw clans maybe interested in joining tournament, lol i don't know. If they won't, chance to win for others are high. Big epics clans won't join? Then war clans will. - If kaw don't activate all members in clans that join the tournament, that will be turle war, only osf or hansel join at first. At the moment, just some guessing though, we'll know soon, can't wait till that time lol. Have fun all!
It doesnt have to be a turtle war if you dont make it a turtle war. Although I agree. You could have it so they make a certain range of ranks/strength active at the start automatically, and it is up to the clan to manage their leaks by pinning and just generally being active. Although again this will decrease likely participants. And no, i dont hate. There is a huge difference between critiquing and offering different opinions to hating.
From reading kaws post many times I kind of get the following from it Prestige will be reset (when prestige first came out the stronger the clan the higher the prestige) so the top 200 will probably be based on strength Each clan participates in 8 wars. Perhaps this is done in a round robin style like they do in the world cup Teams with the highest prestige then qualifies for the finals Turtle wars are avoided by the stripping of hansels. And by warriors with awesome builds like mine All sounds like good fun to me To the very active goes the spoils
This system has serious flaws. Take voodoo for example they will most Likly all come in as pure spies with no allies. You can make nothing well they steal you blind and win everything ( for ppl that don't know pure spies are dtw unless have money out)
As always there will be exploits and dodgy play but at least there will be some excitement for a few weeks before everyone figures out what to do
Another thought is that some clans may have alliances or subclans with more than two in top 200. Now it may be low odds, but what if you are forced to fight an alliance or subclan?Would it mean an easy win because one side backs down, or an alliance is broken off / subclan gets mad, or just a friendly skirmish? Sorry if that sentence was a little long.
Are there any top 200 clans that would take me for the war please wall me if you are generous enough to
It's about freaking time ATA came out with a tournament system. People have been asking for it since 2010. 2010! people... But I can understand it took the devs a long time to resolve the plunder wars issue and implement EB's. I hope the TS is set up that True War clans can shine in these battles. Good luck all. Good move ATA.
Could be tricky if a clan with only pure osf or hansels join this war. But you can still open a pure osf even without gold out for steal.
@ madness : all if possible, if a clan and its alliance or sub clan are supposed to war vs each other due to the tournament auto match up. Well they have no choice, 1 clan must win. Hope they don't fight 8 wars with their subs lol or they we'll win all war. Also a lot of clans join wars, not big chance that they meet their subs, let's hope clans will be matched based on stats, and sub clan is often weaker than main in strength. Let's hope a clan # 1 in strength won't be matched vs clan # 100th or 200th.