New members after the update

I have noticed the same thing. Maybe the way alliances are displayed when you search for them has changed?

We have 3 alliances running, and when some of us leave to join the lower alliances we cant find them

Perhaps people just quit playing after the last update disaster.
I have noticed huge increase in Asian players, just yesterday we kicked probably close to 50 of them - didn't speak English, requirement in our alliance.

After the update we haven´t had a single new recruit, before we had about 3 or 4 a day. There´s somethings that´s been screwed up with this too, apart from the broken AI. I still don´t get all this new events stuff when the game is not working properly. I mean if you´re selling brand new cars that has a faulty steering system the first thing you do is you don´t throw in a new sound system.

Hmm. Before we were only showing top rated, nearly full alliances, which meant a strong inflow of users for them, but it was nearly impossible for any new, or lower ranked alliances to get members. We now show a mix of top, mid, and entry level alliances, and shuffle through them at a more rapid pace. This means that top alliances will see some downturn in new members, but overall more alliances should be able to recruit members to rise up and challenge them.
Tower, what is your alliance name?

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Hi Ironangel, I am from the dominion Jedis, and I do face the same problems as the OP and those who have posted earlier. In the past, our alliance does fill up very fast in a few hours and our minimum medal is only 500. However after the update, we do not have a single recruit.

When I did a search for alliance in the gate without changing any of the settings, none shown up. When I did a search for alliance with 500 medals, none shown up too. I guess the only way is to do specific search "dominion Jedis" before it shows up, and perhaps that explains why we got no new recruits.

Really hope that you can look into this issue, as many alliance will dry up soon if nothing is done about this. Thanks for your help.

Ironangel, my alliance is called Viking army.

Hi ccfoo!

If you are NOT in an alliance, the first tab is populated with a variety of alliances. If you are searching, however, you will need to enter a few characters to start the search process. There is no way to see all alliances with specific filters set just yet (but we are working to improve that). When you post to recruit for your alliance, make sure they search by name for you in the meantime!

Update: 1 new recruit now, usually we would had about 10-15

Dear Ironangel,

I left my alliance temporarily and tried out your suggestions. I could not upload photos here, but the new alliance tab was not as you have described earlier. There is no mixture of top, mid and entry level alliance. It is only populated by 1-2 alliance with 5000-7000 medals and 40-50 members, the rest of the alliance have less than 2000 medals and less than 10 members.

This heavily skewed statistic might have caused very few or even no players to join the alliances of those who have expressed concerns here. My alliance is nowhere near Top clans, it has only 500 minimum medals and most of us are still in medieval of gunpowder age, we are not developed enough to have an unannounced sudden shut off of new recruits.

While I appreciate the new changes to the alliance gate, I sincerely hope that the Developers would not try to fix what is not broken and at least restore back the inflow of recruits to us, perhaps by rebalancing the heavily skewed numbers of clans with 1-5 members in the alliance gate to include more mid range and some top clans too (as you have mentioned earlier).

I think I can live with a dumber AI or other annoying bugs, but shutting the tap off alliance recruitment will cause many clans to die off, and an eventual self destruction of the game itself. Thanks for your notice and consideration in advance.

Ironangel, follow up: as explained earlier we kicked 3 members a few days ago. We got one new member and are now 44 members. No new members in 48 hrs now. Absolutt nothing. Requirement is only 800 medals

I think this is one of the worst changes Ive ever heard of in the game. It is going to kill teams and deliver much less fun experiences for those looking for alliances. I came to the forum today to ask if anyone else is having this experience because its been so noticeable in our alli, and I found this thread. We all know that having a solid team is one of the things that will keep people with a game, even if there are bugs, and other frustrations. We dont have a very high turnover, we lose maybe 2-4 members a month. Like some of the previous posters, we removed 3 folks right around the day of the last patch. We've gotten 0 in that entire time except for one that was a friend of a member and they searched for us. We'd normally have those three filled back within a few hours. We want to get back up to 35-40 player wars but can't now. We take in new players and teach them to be good at the game, and in turn they have loads of fun and we get a new member. Now, you are taking people looking for a fun team and giving them really bad options with allinaces that have barely any active members, if any. How quickly will they leave the game when they cant find a fun team or place to learn? How will established teams be able to survive. I will tell you what happens, teams will either die off due to dwindling activity, or they will search with others to merge with, defeating the premise of "other teams rising up".

I know you have good intentions, but this is awful. Please change it back quickly!!!

I agree with you, why put up 99% clans with 1-5 members when they might not be active at all?

Even if we are more established with 30-40 members, people do leave from time to time due to real life commitments, and now with 0-2 recruits after many days (who might not even be committed), how are we able to survive?

Many clans will just get smaller and smaller and be forced to merge or close shop. Please! This is one of the most groundbreaking mistake which the previous update has caused! Fix it ASAP!

Our alliance has never had a shortage of new members before but now we haven't seen any new members for days. We kicked out quite a few due to non-activity, not donating etc. and usually we would see three more easily. Nothing for days. I have even lowered the medal requirement and still nothing. We would like some new members, Welsh Allies is the alliance.

Ausies Rule 2 also a very active alliance with immediate new members upon kicking anyone inactive. Dwindling rapidly with no new members and a real concern. What is being done about this?

Update: Still only 1 new member since update, an urgent fix is needed!

I don´t get it why Nexon is trying to fix things that ain´t broken. This was one of the things that was actually working.

This should really be added to the known issues thread, its going to blow up within a week or two if not solved. Impact to alliances is tiny now compared to what its going to be. Of all the things happening with the last patch and AI, I actually think this one will hurt the game more than anything if its not fixed now.

We can no longer start a war because of our member base - we usually run with 30-35 for a good war but only have 32 members now. No war until it's fixed.

You could have two people sit out and do a 30 vs 30 war.