EA StaffHello Mayors,
Today SimCity BuildIt was updated with a new feature - Club Wars.
Do you have any feedback to share about Club Wars with the game team? Please, use this thread, we will be happy to read and forward it!
Thanks!
-Mai
I have several issues with the way the war portion of the game has been implemented, but the one that really eats at me every single time our club engages in a war is the ridiculous 15-minute wait for an energy point to replenish. If I take the time to amass 15 attacks, I should be able to burn through them as quickly as I see fit, even if that is all in the first three mins of the active war hours.
Alterntively, if you feel that this energy replenishment period is just so absolutely necessary, Please, for the love of all things holy, decrease the time it takes to replenish a single energy point to something in the realm of reasonable like NO MORE THAN five minutes. The last 1-2hrs of the active war period could then have NO energy requirement at all (I would personally love to see how this affects gameplay and strategy).
Whatever the case, 15 minutes for every war energy point is just absurd and kills momentum. Waiting on anything in this game is a real killjoy (and there is already far too much waiting in producing items alone), so the fewer things we have to wait to do, the better.
@EA_Mai"a rating system some of you might know as 'Elo'"
Certainly that is not the case. We (1528) against another club (1582) get 26 rank (1554:1556) if we win, and they get 30 rank (1498:1612) if we lose. That is just the opposit what Elo says.
Elo says: the stronger gets less than the weaker if they win. Something like we the weaker (1528<1582) would get the more points, like 30, and the other club would get less points, like e.g. 26 if they win.
Hi ef-eff19,
I’m not implying anything stated is incorrect, I’m just not sure how it was calculated. In the thread “How is the war game ranking is calculated” I shared what I had learned related to the Elo scoring system and how it works. As a teenager I had a special interest in how world rankings in baseball were calculated and I learned the Elo scoring system was utilized - we had a family friend who was the Head of the Department of Mathematics at a local University and he was kind enough to walk me through it. It’s been a week or two 🙂 - so if you get a chance please see if it is consistent with your understanding. Your insight would be most appreciated. I think we are all trying to figure out if it’s the Elo scoring system or a modified version. Thanks.
It could be the opposite of Elo's sytem. Or it could be just a random score around 30. But it is NOT Elo's sytem. Period. (See my live example.)
Btw. Elo means "live" (n.) in Hungarian.
I am new to this game but I am enjoying the club war feature a lot. I can see these are not universally enjoyed and have a couple of suggestions that could help:
Introduce a feature that would allow Club Presidents to opt into wars (or out). This should be visible in Club information so members know if it is a club that wars or not. This would mean that the other admins cannot initiate a war unless the Club President changes the setting.
Allow Club Presidents to set frequency of war for example every war, every second war, once a week etc.
Individual members could be given the ability to opt out of next war if they will be unable to participate. When opted out, members should not appear on the war map or should be automatically shielded for the full war.. To avoid abuse of this feature, I think that the ability to trade with other club members who are warring should be turned off for the duration of the war.
I appreciate your feedback and experience - I take no exception to the use of the term pathetic - you are entitled to your opinion just as I am. I understand you don’t like this war game and I can appreciate it, Many folks have issues with the war game and I respect that.
However the conversation addressed was related to the bubble strategy which is overwhelmingly despised by the majority of the folks in the forum. While it is legal, it is no more than a child running up behind another one and punching them and then running and hiding behind their Mother. It’s nothing more than the four corners offense in college basketball where a shot clock was introduced by the NCAA to save the game. I consider neither of these to show great courage in fact that displays a lack of courage - thus the term cowardly (decorum forbids me from using the term that best describes it). It’s one thing if both clubs have battled intently and it’s near the end of the war and a club finds itself ahead and is “bubbled” or “domed” and is out of energy and low on war items, that is understandable. But when a team hides in a bubble 24+ hours, now that’s pathetic.
As related to your request for more land, I agree I’m out as well.
