Hackers, Matchmaking and the Updates

[GWKdog]

I have been a fan of the updates so far. I appreciate not being decimated by 160 atomic exploiters with elephants, as a maxed out CWA. I think it has put the brakes on p2w in the sense that at the highest levels, the stronger defenses negate a lot of the power of the paid troop tactics. If I go 3D7, a max CWA has to get lucky to get 3 stars on me with 4 hardcore paid troop cards. At least the war museum is random, buying EA was a definitive advantage over others for money and guaranteed five against almost anyone.

I bet if you spent the $100 or so on the current artifact sale, you'd get a bunch of trash artifacts that boost garbage stats like redoubt hp. Once the current event ends, war artifacts will get much rarer, which makes it even more price prohibitive to obtain that "+11% All Defensive Towers" x5 artifact... I will change my appraisal of the updates if they start selling them directly for money.

On the other hand:

I wondered why they focused on defense when the two most persistent issues brought up here and on reddit are hackers and world war matchmaking. Along with many of you, I felt like the community wasn't being heard.

I think I understand it now. Hackers and exploiters who obtain unlimited EA, sherman crab tanks, spies and heavy tank troop tactics drive revenue by making war in the top 150 much more difficult on offense and defense. This, in turn, causes whales to spend on premium TT, to crown new uni research, new armory research, and now buy museum chests to get war artifacts. The matchmaking "problems" are only problems to the posters, not the company because putting f2p players up against hackers/whales drives spending.

It's not that they don't hear you, it's that your problems with the game are profit points that raise revenue to keep the game going...

 

[Mcnasty]

How is your base if you were getting destroyed by so 160 global if you’re “maxed cwa”?

 

[Borck]

How sh!tty is your base if you were getting destroyed by so 160 global if you’re “maxed cwa”?

Well, my CWA isn't maxed out but it was four starred with supernerfed bombers and level 50 generals and Elite RPG by an Atomic cheater. The bombers are invincible and hydrogen bomb lethal, it took 1 run! to take out my TC which has over 140k HP without the road bonus. I received 300 Crowns in a new record time. So it doesn't have to be shitty per se.

 

[GWKdog]

No sh!t.
Nothing new in what you said. As long as players with disposable incomes play the game, they'll spend money on disposable troops.
More dollars than sense.

Looks like you're missing the point, as almost always. The bottom line is that the game was pure pay-to-win before and now it is less so. You might not like the randomness of it, but the truth is that it is demonstrably more difficult to take real money and turn it into stars in top 100 world war than it was last month.

How sh!tty is your base if you were getting destroyed by so 160 global if you’re “maxed cwa”?

You clearly didn't participate in wars in the top 100, prior to the update.

Are you literate? No global has ever been able to touch a max CWA, I said atomic. Specialized atomic hitters with max offense who dropped an elephant stable for six EA mercs, went 3O7, used four EA TT and dropped seven decoys were able to five-star level 300 CWA before the update/rebalance. To top it off, they had the war weight of global. Having 5 CWA go 3D7 and 5-10 of these type of hitters spamming elephants was ruinous in high-end world wars.




For everyone hollering pay-to-win, wtf do you think elephant archers were?

They were pay-to-five-star-anyone-in-the-game and those who used hacks or exploits (Cyrillic alliance names) to obtain infinite amounts of them dominated the top 100. Now they at least have to hit the casino to have an advantage and even then, I'm not seeing high drop rates of good stats on these war arts... it's less p2w, less hack2win and that's a good thing. War artifacts are going to have a negligible impact on world war, in comparison to pre-rebalance elephant spam.

 

[No Angel]

Hackers are hackers. No rebalance, museum artifacts or troop card sale will effect them
Ask my fellow Indonesians.

PS. I ain't part of them !

 

[GWKdog]

Hackers are hackers. No rebalance, museum artifacts or troop card sale will effect them
Ask my fellow Indonesians.

PS. I ain't part of them !

That's true. Trolls gonna troll (see manafoolio above), hackers gonna hack... but it's not helping them as much as it was. We beat the last russian elephant spamming alliance that we went up against using troop chest TT, as mostly f2p players because they had 5-6 rushed atomics that used to be specialized hitters (but now are just rushed atomics) like I was describing above and we have a full team with solid defense. That was simply not possible before the rebalance.

 

[Manifesto]

Nicely done GWKdog , complain toTinSoldier to get my reply deleted. Plus a nice TOS warning as a bonus.
I won't re-post it, wouldn't want to hurt your feelings again.

 

[GWKdog]

Back to topic, lets hope they don't boost offense too much. : )