Club wars - Feedback

Hi j6nicel, At the end of October I asked EA if feeder or satellite cities are legal in the game - they came back asking for a definition (as the legal team worked on the answer) and they shared a player can legally play multiple cities independent of each of but feeder cities are illegal. They stated they were working with their programmers to address this situation. As far as when, your guess is as good as mine. Many mayors and clubs publicly state they have their own feeder cities and nothing has happened, I see some of these same mayors complain about being cheated in CoM or war games and probably not realizing they are cheating themselves.

You sort of startled me a little bit when you talked about the 9 man team because that’s normally what we have participate - we’re always outmanned but we are scrappy with several true competitors. War games has created issues within several clubs, including ours - war games are strictly voluntary in our club, occur only once a week and I never push the button (VP’s only), although I proudly stand with my guys in battle. We have a couple who participate in CoM only (again voluntary), 5 are dealing with personal issues and are on sabbatical with the balance taking a break.

There are no feeder cities in our club (I’ve booted 6 out over the last year - they like to hide in legitimate clubs) and there is no indication at all that anyone in our club uses a feeder city. We are not after a top 100 world ranking (it’s not worth it) - we just enjoy working together, laughing with our “Bubble Boy”, and sharing antidotes and items with each other. Just is clarify we are 10-2 with our 1st lost in December by 200 pts (a 12k performer was in the hospital) and the 2nd loss the next week by 8k (8 vs 18 participants) - neither dampened anyone’s spirit, for us it’s about the competition and not winning or losing. Wish more folks thought that way - and we had a couple more with that attitude with us.

Good luck to you.

Hi j6niceL,

It’s great you guys share the same philosophy - I have competed athletically on multiple levels throughout my life and learned at an early age that sometimes folks are just better (trust me for years I’d analyze what I or the team did wrong). As far as the war games are concerned (without cheating) it is all about the cities economic strength and willingness to spend simelons or the mayor’s willingness to spend real money. I fit into the 1st part, my “beer” money goes to help pay off my children’s education. That’s why the war games (once a week) and CoM are both voluntary. 

I hope you and your team enjoy great success and avoid cheaters and “bubble hiders”. Good luck!

There needs to be a way to bring balance back to wars.  Once you approach the top of the leaderboard, nobody fights.  They get the slimmest of mathematical advantages and stay bubbled.  In fact, those are the only wars our club has ever lost.  They are long, boring events that reward nobody and take away from the spirit of club wars.

I propose that there always be at least one target up.  If a club decides to stay bubbled, the city that has been bubbled longest automatically repairs and unshields.  This will keep the fight going and shake things up for these teams that win by blocking active clubs constantly.

Thoughts?

Hi tttony1973,

I agree wholeheartedly with your frustration, I called it cowardly and got called pathetic for it...but I’m not sad,  so I have learned now to call it cowardly and pathetic. I think it’s probably up to the team to make sure you have one available, preferably an inactive member (at least that’s what I’ve been told - twice; bubble hiders are kind of sensitive).

I have proposed an 18 hour window for folks who launched an attack to fix their city or it would be automatically fixed (no war items awarded) and the bubble would be removed. The logic behind 18 hours takes into consideration that you may be competing with someone from another part of the world and considers sleep and work/school time - it’s not ideal, but it’s fair for all parties. At least it’s better than what we currently have.

Good luck.

Last war we met a club that won with 400 points more than us, just by sitting under shield for 22 hours. It should not be possibel. What if you could make it so that the max time under shield is about 3-5 hours? This will benefit active clubs and active players. We can still make our way out of shield on a shorter time, and passive players will be forced to activity because they pop out of shield either they work for it or not.

I understand your frustration but 3 to 5 hours is not practical and is quite unfair - please read my post below it explains why. Thanks.

Hey Modern Thinker, great to see you. I agree if everyone is in the same time zone - but unfortunately they aren’t. That’s why I proposed 18 hours and you get to attack them twice but only for folks that launched an attack. It’s far from perfect, but it’s fair. 

Quick question, have you ever seen or heard of anyone being attacked while in the bubble? It happened to us yesterday, I was in the bubble or dome and thought I was hit (but was not sure) but the 2nd and 3rd time there was no doubt. I said nothing, didn’t want to upset our guys...but privately shared it with one of our VP’s after the war and the same thing happened to him at about the same time. It was a tight game and I think we were slightly ahead (8 vs. 17 - yes we were outmanned again) when it happened. No complaints, no tears - they won by 2k, and in all honesty I do not think their collective team had any idea of what happened and I congratulate them on their victory - but they know 8 folks took them to the limit and yes my guys laughed and enjoyed the competition.