War matchmaking and roads,caravans and farms

[Ypergamias]

With the current war matchmaking system with average alliance level, has a big negative aspect to the players who want to upgrade their roads,farms and caravans. Lets take 2 global bases, the first one is max 200lvl with every building upgrade to global.And the second 170lvl global player with everything upgrade except(iron age) roads,caravans and farms. This one create a chaos to war matchmaking system because the first player who did the right and proper thing has a negative aspect facing a lot stronger players than the second one. If it spreads to the rest members of alliances it creates a huge gap. I choose the second path and i stopped to upgrade this kind of things to enlightenment age. But i believe its wrong every game must push his players to upgrade all kind of buildings a to not being selectively ones,especially to create negative aspects.

 

[Green Bird]

We have been repeatedly assured that economic buildings such as the ones you mention are not considered for the purposes of war matchmaking.

 

[Master Contrail Program]

Ahh, but they are. The upgraded buildings have higher hp so that is a factor, however slight. Not sure about roads though.

I will say when I did my industrial age road upgrades not only did I gain 8 or 9 levels but I jumped three places in our war rankings. So.....? Inconclusive I guess.

 

[Krieg]

I think every HP upgrade should be accounted to war matchmaking because they make your base more hard to kill, even if they are economic buildings. Roads should not be considerate in my opinion.
More relevant though would be more transparent about the effect of university researches over a player level. A player with advanced researches can be 20/30 levels strong then their public level shows

 

[Green Bird]

This question keeps coming up very regularly. It would be great if someone on the inside of the development team provided some conclusive information!

 

[Quali]

Just something to bear in mind - roads increase the HP of your TC, and become more effective as their level increases. So even roads have some bearing on your war weight.

 

[takzilla]

Why don't you assign the targets according to their offensive capabilities rather than overall level?

 

[yemen]

In other places it has been noted that all offensive and defensive capabilities of your entire base are taken into account for war rankings - including small HP boosts from the university. So yes, your upgraded mill is taken into account in the sense that it's hitpoints are higher. But it won't be by much, because it makes a very small difference. Certainly not even close to as much as a defensive building upgrade with more offense and more defense.