Club wars - Feedback

Firstly, thank you to Mai for some responses and sharing of information and updates. It's great to see some two way communication.

Kudos to EA for a few fixes:

• Matchmaking is improving.  Clubs are matching against other similarly ranked opponents. This means active clubs have a better chance of playing other active clubs. This is a much welcome development.
• Fewer war assignments in Contest of Mayors (CoM).  Thank you, but this is still not a proper fix.  
  • Yes, clubs can attempt to time when they are engaged in wars so that they try to line up war activity with weekly CoMs. But we shouldn't have to resort to this.
  • Also, it does not address the fact that there is 46 hours between wars (why 46? why not 48 or 24 or some other rounder number?). This means that war assignments during this period still cannot be done. You have to wait, or you have to skip and burn an assignment. Neither is acceptable.
  • Also, the 12-hour prep period means that you can only do war delivery assignments during this 12 hours: you are still waiting even longer until you can do a war attack assignment.
  • Please consider further fixes so that war assignments do not show up in your CoM if your club is not engaged in a war.

Now, a concern remains about matchmaking:

Because of the "start war" button, clubs are not synchronized in when they match for wars.  Clubs that wait for the button to become active and hammer it within a second or two are in similar windows with each other.  Other clubs that delayed (because of sleep or other life - what a concept!) are spread out over other times.

It appears that matchmaking happens very quickly.  Within a few seconds of pressing the start war button, you are matched with an opponent club.  Presumably, the same experience happens for the opponent - the wait is only a few seconds.  This means that 99.9% of clubs cannot match against each other.  You are not put into a matchmaking queue with every club in the world.  No, you are only being matched against other clubs that have also pushed the start war button within a few seconds of when your club has.

This will ultimately result in a massive stratification of the top rankings for clubs.  When it is not possible to match with other top clubs, how do you every compete with them?  You don't ever get a chance to defeat them on the battlefield and knock them down the ladder a few rungs.

EA, please don't wait half a year or more before fixing this.  You know the venom is coming.  As the top rankings become settled, clubs will complain that they never get to play other top clubs.  So please... please don't wait.  Fix this before the end of 2017.

Here's the fix:

• Make one, single start time, for every club across the world.
• Yes, this one single time will be bad, possibly very bad, for various people depending on where they live.  This is unavoidable, regretably.

This is the only way to have a "top 100" that is true.

You heard it here first.  The cries for this fix will only get louder with time.  I hope you will consider it.  If you won't, then I hope someone from EA will say so here, and provide an explanation about why it won't be considered.

Cheers.

- Modern Thinker (IGN: The Urban Playground)