War matchmaking, number of players – different number of players from each alliance

[Sarah2]

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War matchmaking, number of players – different number of players from each alliance

Sorry if this has been mentioned in a topic before, but I couldn’t find anything. Our alliance has 14 members, and now we have been matched with an alliance with 18, of whom only 3 have opted out, so in the battlefield they have 15 members and we only 14, meaning they have 6 flags more than we do. I’ve been playing for almost 2 years, so all the time the wars have been going on, and never have I come across something like this before. I thought the amount of players participating in alliances …

Lost war due to the extra member

We lost the war because opponent had extra team how is that possible

Alliance Wars Matchmaking (Discussion & Developer Response) MASTER

We actually allow a maximum member difference of 3 but we give a “penalty” to the war score for every difference in member counts. In other words, we strongly prefer matches with same member counts. We haven’t adjusted those numbers since summer. I’ll drop a note to the team to at least consider if we could or should make the formula slightly less strict, i.e. penalize member differences slightly less in the matchmaking.

Facing an uneven number of war opponents, is not as rare as I once thought. GL