EA StaffPlease please please put an end to the hours and hours of staying under domes! I see this is the biggest complaint of all club members! We started a war last evening and the other team is losing but they have been under domes since the first hour. This happens alllllll the time! Makes the game completely boring!
Can you kindly comment latest update regarding club wars, there is not any "official" information letter why this latest upgrade was made and how it affects future wars and how the points are calculated onwards?
What does "fair play" means? Cheating clubs or players? There is a plenty of players who has spent a lot of real money and hours time daily to stay at top100 list, now everything is wiped off and only top20 is visible? I really wish you would open a bit reasons for this kind of upgrade.
My guess is that EA is trying to discourage cheaters to continue cheating since less spots in the table means less chances for cheaters and their clones (lots of cheater clubs have clones, and main + clones are all in top 100) to get the thrill they want from being visible to the entire community of Simcity. Legit players had put in lots of our resources already and we will just continue as it is. Cheaters don’t put in efforts, so high chance that they will give up playing if the chance to get into the table is slim.
Second thing, I suspect EA is going to closely monitor the teams in top 20 and suss out the cheaters. After all, it is easier to check the activities of top 20 over top 100. Of course, this can be entirely my wishful thinking lol
One of the cheater teams is currently in top 20, I know, because one of their ex-member told me. I want to see if that team will disappear to show that EA is really working to achieve fair play in the game.
Just the opportunity to stay under the shield makes the game interesting. As a result, the strategy must be much more sophisticated. It is not only important to score as many points as possible, but also to decide when to go out of the shield and when not. It should stay that way, that the club with the better strategy wins and not the one who invests the most time to attack. I can not see anything unfair in the strategy of 'Staying under the shield'.
I disagree that hiding in shield is a form of strategy. Basically, any team with 10~13 members can easily hide in shields. It’s a no brainer. If a team of 20 can hide in shields to win, now that is more impressive.
Frankly speaking, this club war does not need strategy most of the time, except for the use of boosts, etc and when the teams are evenly matched with close scores. I had fought many wars (from 3 times a week to the recent 2 times per week) since club wars was introduced, and based on my experience, it is just a matter of which team has more committed members who have high level attacks (the crux to winning actually) and have the resources to fight. There is only those same old rules to follow when fighting to maximize the chances of winning.
If you like to hide, just hide. EA made it like that, so I put the blame on EA. But don’t try to romanticize hiding in shields as a form of strategy because it is not.
The club wars are pure strategy. It's not just about starting as many attacks as possible, but also preventing your opponent's attacks. If a team collects so many points at the beginning that it is able to stay under the shield for the rest of the war, this team deserves to win.
I think that if you put all your opponents under a shield, you should automatically win that war. That way you can start a new war against an active opponent.
If there are not changes soon, I am going to quit playing and find a game that is more interesting.
The number of cards that can be gained (expensively) via credit card so vastly outnumber anyone’s ability to gain cards via actually playing war it all breaks down to three choices:
I’ve been playing Buildit since launch, have a massive city with a high war level, and would like war to be competitive. I WANT to play your game, I want it to be viable for me and you (EA) so am happy to spend ~$15 a month on it, but that’s not good enough for you. I’m literally looking at a $500 bill in order to continue play at the level of competition I’d like to - have the time and knowledge to - only there’s absolutely no chance I’ll do this. I’m not talking a top club even, you start to see this issue entering the top 1000, and we get apps all the time sick of encountering clubs who make large purchases mandatory for membership.
Most developers recognize nearly everything should be achievable in game via time and effort (the cake), offer limited affordable methods with the intent they work like a standard subscription meant for mass consumption (the frosting), and finally have expensive premium options for a little extra boost (cherry on top). A. Little. Extra. War here abandons that philosophy entirely, and just goes straight for a heavy cash grab, making ones competition level depend not on time, effort, knowledge, or skill, but purely on money spent (the cake is a lie).
I agree that EA tilts the advantage way too much towards players who slapped wads of money onto their faces. To make things worse, cheaters have even bigger advantage over legit players due to the high levels of magnetism they get through hacks, eg, simcash hack to buy cards from war store.
And with this ridiculous shield system in place, the odds of winning are further pushed towards the big spenders and cheaters.
One thing I like about CoM is that it is possible to win top prizes without spending lots of money or cheating. Sadly, club wars is totally the opposite of this. I just have this feeling that we are just fodders for big spenders and cheaters to whack.
So far, it’s disappointment after disappointment with regards to the progress of club wars. I even lose hope that EA will fix the shield problem!
