World War Opt In

[Grits]

Please remove the World War Opt-In option. This is unnecessary. Being in an alliance should be option enough. If you don’t want to go to war, don’t join an alliance! Most of the perks only benefit war anyway.

It’s kind of annoying having 41+ members and only 29 are opted in. We were doing 30v30 wars but lost a member and now we have to bench 9 members! That’s 9 people that have to wait it out for the next rotation, and that kinda sucks.

Maybe give leaders Emergency Draft Powers where they can opt in other players in order to fill in the war lineup. But I still think opting in is obsolete.

Also, fix the chat. We can get on there and ask people to opt in for war, but if they haven’t been online for 3 or 4 days they aren’t going to see us ask when the chat scrolled down days ago. Alliance messages help but they’re too short. Need a few more lines of text. Maybe even a way to text other players.

 

[Grits]

Tsamu my suggestion for a limit was to prevent over overriding. Like say if an alliance has 40 players and only 5 were opted in. With a limit of 5 you could run a 10v10 war and keep everyone else opted out. Instead of taking 5 that are opted in and creating a 30v30. Same thing with 15 and 25...

But I have come to the conclusion that the opt in/out in general is a good thing for leadership. Deciding who to put in if everyone was opted in would be a huge headache since communication in this game is hard enough.

 

[Uhuru]

I believe the button on readiness for war should be, but it should not block the possibility of appointing a fighter to war, as it works now. Thus, the responsibility for participation is not ready for war fighter will be on the leader. We take bots (as plugs) to the war, it will be the same case.

 

[Berend_War]

See lot's of players opting out because a war critical building is upgrading.
I assign the targets and know who opted in or opted out.
In my assignment I would let everybody know when someone opted out.
If I'm lucky he might help out below. If not it's all on me because I included him or her.
Just a calculated risk, if someone opted out and I still include them in war it's all on me if the attacks aren't used.

 

[Grits]

Maybe limit it to Medieval Age and above? After all, the newer players are still tapping all the buttons trying to figure out what does what. Dragging them into a war before they’re ready might trigger their stress levels.