Change to WW matching

[Kev'sEmpire]

**World War Update**
Update time: 8th April 3pm (UTC)
Estimated Duration: Approximately 55 hours
World War will be disabled during the update

New matchmaking system will be impletemented, which alliances that have low level players in their war roster will be matched with alliances that also have low level players in their roster, preventing sceanrios like an alliance bringing 5 Cold War Age and 5 Medieval Age players to war from matching another alliance that brings 1 Cold War Age and 9 Enlightenment Age players to war.
All alliances Glory Points will be reset to a value close to 12000, however the current Glory Points of alliances will still be reflected on the new Glory Points value.
@everyone

 

[pckrn]

and a blog entry from muet
https://m.facebook.com/notes/dominations/developer-blog-world-war-matchmaking/1017030015174996/

 

[No Angel]

Hello big guys.. Welcome to 12K glory

 

[BHG_Muet]

I'm excited to finally be talking about the World War matchmaking update with everyone! To add some clarification on the Glory reset, all Alliances are having the same "crunch" applied. The formula will pull harder the further away from 12,000 your Alliance is. But, you'll still be higher than an Alliance that had less Glory than you before the crunch.

To help set expectations, the top end Alliances (those that are on the top 100 slots on the leaderboard) will likely end up somewhere between 15,000 and mid 17,000 Glory.

I'll be hanging around today between meetings to answer questions!

 

[Alexey]

And what if we start a war at 7th of April, so that the war day will start at 8th of April?

 

[BHG_Muet]

Part of the reason for the long World War downtime is to account for this. If you started a War right before we turn off the queues, that War will use the old system and old calculations for Glory. You'll still be able to finish the War and earn rewards from it.

 

[Persia]

Feel free to remove any of the plethora of cheaters on the leaderboard right now. Obscene amounts of proof have been posted for some of them. Any day now!

 

[No Angel]

Yeah there are some in the leaderboard that are inactive. They would still start in 17K. Unfair for active alliances starting from 12K.

 

[LordStark263AC]

Any word on hackers at all? Those guys are upgrading every single building simultaneously. When will it stop?

 

[oddin]

I'll be hanging around today between meetings to answer questions!

Since there will be massive changes, don't you feel like it is the right moment to perma ban the cheating alliances and players found at the top 100 and not only those?

 

[BHG_Muet]

We have the tool to target inactive Alliances and will be monitoring participation after the new system is live. We'll run it again if we see a need to do so.

 

[Cris 4321]

BHG_Muet i agree with some of the comments here would be great if as part of this overhaul you could tackle the cheating alliances (there are some that are made up completely of cheaters/ hackers), these alliances have been reported to nexon repeatedly by numerous members of the community, the proof provided to nexon is comprehensive and undeniable yet these are allowed to exist and pollute the game environment for the rest of the community. Inactive alliances are an issue but by far the larger issue in game today is cheats/hackers alliances. Thanks

 

[Horsepower]

JM, hopefully you will finally address the AR on steroids problem at the same time. This problem is hurting the game more then any other issues right now besides the cheaters. Please comment on it.

 

[BHG_Muet]

I touched on Assault Rally in another thread. We've been keeping an eye on the tactic's performance and will be making adjustments in the next release. We're currently investigating changes that will take from Assault Rally's defensive power and buff the defensive power of Protect.

While Assault Rally is strong, it is not performing anywhere near a level warranting a hotfix. If it were, we'd act accordingly. So, we're taking our time and making sure our changes are both preserving the fun in Assault Rally while bringing it more in line with the performance of other high tier tactics.

 

[No Angel]

Nice to hear
Though some people here are more interested in fixing the cheats and AR (which I don't think needs a fix, it's really fun for us majority average players to keep competing )
We are all excited to see how this new MM system rolls out!

 

[Persia]

How many other massive changes have gone by without them doing anything about the issue, which has actually worsened? It’s possible that they roll out a few token bans or something along those lines, but don’t be hopeful.

 

[Manifesto]

So don't start a war on the 7th.

 

[Peaced Off]

LMFAO he thinks cheaters will be addressed!!! He actually thinks it could happen.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHHHBAHABABBBABBABABABBAA

 

[Alexey]

Actually, I will start a war. Even if we loose a big amount of glory to sandbaggers, it will be all wiped out in two days) BHG_Muet, thank you for the answer!