Peace Treaty?

[KatZA]

Add some replays, tweak the alliance rankings and add a little funky code and BAM! An official peace treaty for many many alliances!
Whats up with the war matching Nexon? Lots of alliances are reporting that they aren't getting matches.
No point in getting us to test the war replays if we can't actually go to war...

 

[Krieg]

Kat is right. At 1st Dynasty we never waited so long for a war like this time. No matches since the update. Any other teams with the same problem?

 

[Technocrat]

It's been 4 hours and counting for us. Never waited more than an hour in the past. That being said, I would much rather wait than get stuck with a sandbagging mismatch. ;/)

 

[S_How]

It seems most every team with atomics are not getting matches

 

[S_How]

Same here Techno, would rather wait than get stuck with a sandbagging mismatch. Though, I think all of matchmaking is broken right now. What broke matchmaking with the atomic buildings that were fixed, apparently still breaks matchmaking lol.

 

[Krieg]

Just when we want to try war replays...

 

[SebQuattro]

I would much rather wait than get stuck with a sandbagging mismatch.

Somewhere on here, someone from BHG said the tolerance for a matchup increases with the duration of the war scan...

Personally, i'd cancel the war scan after an hour and restart to reduce the likelihood of an unbalanced war.

 

[S_How]

Id be willing to very happily wait a very, very, very long time if they can fix the matchmaking horrors of the past several months lol. Its posted in the bugs forum too btw, where a BHG rep said they were helping make people aware of the problem.

 

[JuDomines]

Probable quick fix for mainly atomic age alliance will be to add a fair share of sandbags to find a match

 

[Vixen]

really? you want to suggest that?

 

[Kam1983]

It took nearly 4 hours for us to find an opponent.

 

[Krieg]

TinSoldier Still we don't have a match. A hole day searching. Can you tell us what is happening with matchmaking?

1st Dynasty!

 

[Master Contrail Program]

Just adding another data point. Our current war has one atomic and one global on each side and we were matched in 15 minutes or so. Age wise this may be the most even war I've ever seen. Now this is a 15 v 15 down in the 16,000-18,000 glory scrublands so I don't expect the info to be of much use to anybody but the devs.

After the best bit of communication and updating in quite a while I hope this issue can be fixed quickly. Good luck all.

 

[LordAnubis]

the group im in didnt have a problem getting a quick match and we are heavy atomic. perhaps tweaking your lineup, increase the numbers....etc...

 

[Michele Nx]

Still no war for us, and we have been trying different numbers of all atomic. CS says restart, so our leaders did. They have also tried an arranged match with another alliance, same weight and starting search at the same time, no luck there either.

 

[Blacknife686]

We at Bellum Dominum came out of a war with replays, and found another with no problem in under 5 minutes. We ran with 3 atomics in a 20v20 war. Maybe the changes to war ranking are messing up people's search times then.

 

[S_How]

It took us over 30 hours to get a match, though when we did it was good...we are outmatched a little and they have one sandbag, but overall pretty fair matchup which is great. For context we are probably an early atomic average weight. Before glory and sandbagging, it was pretty common for us to wait about 12-24 hours for matches, tho we were doing 40v40 at the time....but it was ok because the matches were always pretty fair and fun.

Im wondering if they are trying to test out different ways to fix sandbagging. One of the fixes they mentioned as being considered was trying to match sandbagging teams with sandbagging teams, and non sandbagging teams with non sandbagging teams. That could possibly reduce the pool of available teams at the top end (like global/atomic teams). If that is the case (testing different fixes), I am 100% behind them in trying to find a way to solve the problem, I dont mind waiting as they experiment with different solutions. Although, Im still a big fan of just not counting the bottom 20-25% in matchmaking....seems like it would slightly expand the matching pool which is good for everyone, and combined with the glory penalty for extreme sandbagging it should eliminate sandbags.

Waiting days long term is no good....but if its a few weeks of them trying different tweaks to see what's best, I think thats great for the game and am happy to wait longer than normal.

 

[S_How]

Weird that the arranged match didnt work, did the other team match? We had speculated that there might be a few buildings that were still bugged and preventing matchmaking. I wonder if thats it.

 

[LordJestix]

It took us over 30 hours to get a match, though when we did it was good...we are outmatched a little and they have one sandbag, but overall pretty fair matchup which is great. For context we are probably an early atomic average weight. Before glory and sandbagging, it was pretty common for us to wait about 12-24 hours for matches, tho we were doing 40v40 at the time....but it was ok because the matches were always pretty fair and fun.

Im wondering if they are trying to test out different ways to fix sandbagging. One of the fixes they mentioned as being considered was trying to match sandbagging teams with sandbagging teams, and non sandbagging teams with non sandbagging teams. That could possibly reduce the pool of available teams at the top end (like global/atomic teams). If that is the case (testing different fixes), I am 100% behind them in trying to find a way to solve the problem, I dont mind waiting as they experiment with different solutions. Although, Im still a big fan of just not counting the bottom 20-25% in matchmaking....seems like it would slightly expand the matching pool which is good for everyone, and combined with the glory penalty for extreme sandbagging it should eliminate sandbags.

Waiting days long term is no good....but if its a few weeks of them trying different tweaks to see what's best, I think thats great for the game and am happy to wait longer than normal.

Good theory for the slow times. I asked in the SotN thread about if they are trying any of the community suggestions. Just trying to get a little more info into the process.

 

[vincentdang4]

Interesting theory except pretty much every single of the last 10 matches 1st dynasty has had involved sandbags on both sides except one. That one was max atomics on both sides. Those matches generally do not take more than a few hours to find.