Wars. Can we have new members wait a day or two before opting in to prevent matchmaking manipulation?

[Guvnor]

Not quite… You are manipulating the matchmaking that way but NOT because of the algorithm getting confused or whatnot…

@Douchebogg

form a bunch of secondary accounts, put them in a new alliance

This is the key here in the process… “NEW” alliance.

With a “NEW” alliance you are manipulating the “Past War history” part of a war score…

If an alliance is brand new, they have no war score…

If we write it mathematically:
[War Score] = [Top 5 Hero Power] + [Top 30 Hero Power] + [Past Performance]
So a new alliance, has the [Past Performance] = 0

So matchmaking for a new alliance is still matching with a similar [War Score] alliance but there [Top 5 Hero Power] & [Top 30 Hero Power] is much larger than their opponent… because the [Past Performance] is zero (0)…

Mathematically, if 1 = new alliance & 2 = older alliance
[War Score 1] ~= [War Score 2]
[Top 5 Hero Power] + [Top 30 Hero Power] + 0 = [Top 5 Hero Power] + [Top 30 Hero Power] + [Past Performance]

Overall

Overall, this process is known as War Hopping or the War Shuffle.

There are a couple threads on this topic, the best ones explaining it are below:

Shuffle war strategy

Subject Shuffle war strategy Author’s intent I am not advocating the Shuffle war strategy. But knowledge is power. And knowing what is happening with your opponent is half the battle to defeating your opponent. If this turns out to be an opponent’s strategy, screenshots sent to customer service is your current remedy. Edit Switch after each war chest not after each win as previously discussed. Shuffle war strategy It would be more effective to lose ten wars ( twenty now) so both allia…

Help me understand (war related/ war shuffle strategy)

Last war we got our behinds handed over with a ribbon around it. Lost 5900 vs 6300. As soon as war ended almost all members left and joined the same alliance. All members from that alliance joined the one we faced. I think 5 have stayed at the same alliance. Can someone please help me understand why they want to do this and swap 25 members? The alliance we faced is ranked a lot higher, the players are equal level (more or less).

Loot Assessment - War Shuffle vs. Established Alliance, Which is Better?

War Shuffle vs. Established Alliance - Which is Best for Loot??? Premise The premise is simple. There is an approach to Alliance wars where the participants create a new alliance, win 5 straight wars, open their war chest & repeat. The trade-off on this is that each time they create a new alliance, not only does it reset their war score but it also resets their titan score. This means that the new alliance must rebuild their titan level from 1* again. The argument is that by sacrificing the …