Based on feedback from the community, we want continue tweaking our test wars and gather more data, so we are targeting Sept 9th instead of September 2nd for Season 2. Also, we are doing All Star wars after Season 2. To answer all war matchup questions, this is how it works: Step 1 We count the number of people who cast the spell, if your clan is below or above the restriction, you are removed. If it is an odd number of clans that signed up, we remove the last member to sign up from the matchup. Step 2 We look at your hit ratio. We make sure you that enough members from each clan can attack each other and not see without seeing the message 'You are too strong to attack' or 'You are too weak to attack'. We call this the hit ratio. Step 3 We add a clan's combined stats, BFA and BFE and match each clan based on these stats. If the difference is too large there is no match. If a player cannot hit anyone from the other team, we do not measure them in this step. We are going to adjust the way this algorithm works this weekend to emphasize stats over hit ratio even more than we do currently. This may create more 'no matches' but, based on feedback from the community, increasing the number of 'no matches' is acceptable. Equipment You will no longer have the ability to equip or un-equip equipment once match ups occur. This is a necessary change as we now take equipment into account for match ups. Without blocking this, players will take off equipment before match ups in an attempt to game the system. ***REMEMBER*** on the surface, you may be matched with clans that may appear to be a lot more powerful than yours. Do not worry! If this occurs, it most likely means there are members on the opposing team/clan that cannot even hit you. ***IMPORTANT*** we have also restricted member participation to a range of 26 to 29 members. *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 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. We want data about the 2 hour war, 10 minute KO so all wars will be this type War 1 2 hour war, 10 minute KO Friday PDT - Friday - 12pm-12:30pm EDT - Friday - 3pm-3:30pm GMT - Friday - 7pm-7:30pm SGT - Saturday - 3am-3:30am War 2 2 hour war, 10 minute KO Friday PDT - Friday - 8pm-8:30pm EDT - Friday - 11pm-11:30pm GMT - Saturday - 3am-3:30am SGT - Saturday - 11am-11:30am War 3 2 hour war, 10 minute KO Saturday PDT - Saturday - 7am-7:30am EDT - Saturday - 10am-10:30am GMT - Saturday - 2pm-2:30pm SGT - Saturday - 10pm-10:30pm War 4 2 hour war, 10 minute KO Saturday PDT - Saturday - 7pm-7:30pm EDT - Saturday - 10pm-10:30pm GMT - Sunday - 2am-2:30am SGT - Sunday - 10am-10:30am War 5 Sunday 2 hour war, 10 minute KO PDT - Sunday - 4am-4:30am EDT - Sunday - 7am-7:30am GMT - Sunday - 11am-11:30am SGT - Sunday - 7pm-7:30pm War 6 2 hour war, 10 minute KO Sunday PDT - Sunday - 1pm-1:30pm EDT - Sunday - 4pm-4:30pm GMT - Sunday - 8pm-8:30pm SGT - Monday - 4am-4:30am
Re: War Matchup and Schedule As someone who has tried to divide a clan equally based on stats alone, I know how hard it can be taking all the variables into account and pleasing everyone. And despite all that effort, there were still an outspoken few who weren't satisfied...even though they ended up winning. Looking forward to seeing the results!
This is such horse ****...why do you need data on this?! It's exactly like the entire season 1 wars except with 10 min KO's instead of 15
Re: War Matchup and Schedule If you are considering "combined stats" from troops and spies with the same weight as bfa and bfe, that is a serious problem for obvious reasons. I'm sure this has been said to death by now. Perhaps, we can get a clarification?
In Step #3, could you be more specific with regards to "if the difference is too large"? Is it a percentage of some sort? Thank you for listening to the kawmunity and working toward a better system.
Also not sure if this has been looked into but during ee it seemed that some players that were smaller would appear dts to us but would still be able to hit us which really puts us at a disadvantage.
It should go both ways right? If you can't hit them they shouldnt be able to hit you was the impression i was under.
There are some obvious conditions where you will see a defender too weak message. Players will see a message that say 'You are too strong' in the case that both attacker and defender are outside of each other strength range. We won't release the conditions were you may see defender too weak though most of them should be obvious.
Re: War Matchup and Schedule It's more complicated than that but we do weight them differently and this is something that we can/will adjust.
Right i understand the dtw but was just clarifying on the dts message. Thank you for the quick response.
Thanks devs for taking overall cs bfa bfe into consideration and listening to kaw-mmunities ewar concerns. Hipefully this allows newer players w/o good bfe to get decent matches too looking forward to this weekend and season 2!! Thanks again devs for all your hard work in endeavoring to make kaw the best and ewars workable!