We’re facing a team like this now. Some 1 hero teams, others have a roster full of 3 stars and others are fully loaded. The fully loaded teams are worth a TON so we were winning by a ton after the first round of attacks. Then the 2nd round of attacks came and I scored more points off of my lvl 1 3 star teams than I ever have. This is a losing strategy.
Winning wars is all about cup dropping… We decided that rewards in raids are already crap. So we put all one Aife in the raid defense and trying to go down in silver. Like this you will win every war. The matchmaking system is broken and we have to do this if we want to have some attention from developers. I agree also with this guys who are making protest ignoring the war because is bad implemented. They have to make the matchmaking at the end of preparation war and the first thing to count have to be top 30 hero rooster not the stupid alliance score. Till then everyone will exploit or don’t give a s…t on AW. I won’t talking about the rewards because they don’t exist in the first place. AW should count more than titans because is more work and strategy. SG wake up guys!
Why would you sacrifice raid rewards for war rewards?
Because people aren’t very smart.
Because is fun , because is the only way to have entertainment in this game. Because we are getting so bored with stupid titans and 8-7. That’s why. If I know that the war is not coming I will deleted this game long time ago.
See what you’re dealing with, @b_raven? Players who thinks it is more “fun” to drop cups and fight an imbalanced war, losing raid rewards in the process, than to maintain cups and fight a well-matched war.
After you loose 2 wars like that you start thinking is the only way to win a war. It’s not our fault. I know that is not a nice thing to do but if the devs are sleeping they deserve that. If many alliances start exploit this weak system maybe they wake up someday. And about the rewards în raid chest? Who cares about that. I can live without them.
You think it’s the only way to win a war? But that’s not what you said:
So now I’m just confused. Do you drop cups to get matched against weaker teams than you should because it’s the only way you can win, or because you think it is fun?
I hope I find a fair match next time. Not an easy war. Because when you get matched like us is no fun at all. For the last 2 wars we have opponents from other world. An example : we have only 10 people +3500 power, opponent only 3 below 3500. Very funny I think. So cup dropping is necessary to have a fair war because every opponent we have till now do that. Understand now?
This is our third war, and will be thirs victory, without cup dropping or other things. We, the whole our alliance enjoing the evens, talking strats, cheering each other. It wouldn’t be so interesting with this bogus things. So maybe, its your attitude, or something else.
Brobb - my complaints about it have nothing to do with advantages or scoring. it’s just NOT FUN. No one wants to have to spend flags destroying a 1 star 1 hero team. My alt’s alliance ran into the same thing about and it sucked the fun out of the whole War. Yes, a crushing victory is nice (which is how it’s ending up), but we wanted a challenge to push our teams against real defenses and only a fraction of our alliance got to do that because out of 26 teams, they only had 8 real defenses. So 1/2 to 2/3 of our flags would have to be spent clearing out 1 hero teams. Totally unfun.
and it’s not like the opposing alliance was hiding weak teams - their “hard” defenses were basically 5x70. And all the folks who threw up 1-star teams all have 3 70s and 2 60s up for their regular raid defense.
Or maybe we are all so good in raids and we managed to have a big alliance score with a less powerfull team. Anyway this matchmaking system encourages no more to get a higher level in cups because you are getting punished on wars. So is a big problem for the environment of the game.
Now that is a fair complaint.
So what do you think the incentive is for players to field single defender teams? I think they’re trying to be clever. I think when they realise they’re actually being stupid, they’ll stop.
Do you think there is another reason?
When you meet this types of alliances for 2 consecutive wars like us you will change your attitude also.
I’m not sure of the reason. Maybe they think it’s an advantage, maybe they just want to ruin people’s fun. I don’t know. I stopped long ago trying to reason out stupid.
I realized AW is still a work in progress, but the mass of humanity never disappoints me in its ability to take something that could be fun and screw it up.
Amen.
Well,
We had a really close match this time around. It was decided by less than 150 points and enough mistakes were made on our part that we could have made up those points easily enough if we had not made those mistakes. There were mistakes made by the other team and we were not on the ball enough to take advantage of them. Our experience was good this time around. Just thought I’d add that to the discussion. It was a great match up, even though we were short handed it turned out to be a very close match.
I honestly think the strategy is not unsportsmanlike. We had already thought about a similar one in order to reduce the number of weaker teams (which are falling anyway) or make them unattractive as goals. That’s just tactics, or at the beginning just tests to find out what works well.
Cups Dropping is much worse in my eyes, because it really makes you bashing weaker gamers, which then lose the fun in the game.
So far I can’t complain about the matchmaking either. Most of the wars were quite balanced and we have already won and lost.
If the matches are made by anything affected by cups, perhaps that should changed since Cups can be manipulated by cup dropping (alliance score is affected by this)…
I have had 4 wars so far and I really enjoyed all 4 of them. We had three alliances of similar strength, wich resulted in great battles. The fourth opponent dropped cups in order to get a weaker opponent (in this case, us) but we still managed to beat them.
Could the matchmaking be better? Probably. Could the rewards be better? Yes. But the the alliance wars have just arrived and I think the dev’s are working hard to improve them. So far, I think they’ve done a great job.