What will happen in war matchmaking if this is the case

[zephyr1]

That’s my understanding, and seems to match what others have said:

Why I can't participate in the war?

When did you join the alliance? If matchmaking already started at the moment you joined you will not be able to participate in this one.

@LadySuzanne

If a player joins an alliance after matchmaking has started, the player will be put in spectator mode for the war. No team will be placed on the battlefield for them. This does not benefit their alliance.

@LadySuzanne

The players are ‘locked’ when matchmaking STARTS.

But there’s some debate in this thread of the exact timing, which actually turns out to essentially be asking the same question you are:

War matchmaking manipulation

Out of curiosity, it there any chance that an opponent can manipulate with the system as below? I noticed that a half of our strong opponents after the war was over changed the alliance to an another. But theirs places were taken by another very low level players. I read somewhere that the system needs 3 hours to match the alliances and that’s the minimum. Any chance that first the system is scanning the alliances, gives us some points for each player individually and then it takes three hours …

But suffice it to say that one way or another, the matchmaking happens based on a snapshot of eligible participants.

So regardless of when in the process the cutoff is, you’re either in both the matchmaking and the War, or you’re out.

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(@Kerridoc @Rook @Coppersky Possible Merge of Topic)