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EA_Mai
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7 years ago

Club Wars: Arenas - Feedback

Hi Mayors! I'm starting this thread for all your feedback about the changes to Club Wars introduced with Club Wars: Arenas. What do you like? What do you feel could be improved? Why? Anything y...
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NerfProbe
7 years ago

With four new attacks the war store, personal chests, and purchase packs need an adjustment.  Magnetism remains the most efficient attack, so the availability of its cards (and other older cards) is essential to development.  The problem is these new attacks will displace what could have been Magnetism cards providing a legacy advantage to older players / penalty to new players.  That’s bad for the long term health of any game.  Simple solutions might include increasing the number of cards dropped in personal chests by about 25%, for war store either add a 4th slot or decrease the refresh timer, and add a few more cards to each premium pack.

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SimilitudeB
6 years ago
I've tried to post on this thread multiple times and my reply appears at first then disappears as soon as I refresh the page. Anyone got any ideas what the issue is? Is this thread closed?
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    SimilitudeB
    6 years ago

    Maybe it's too long.  Let's try it like this...

    I'm president of a mid-level club (savannah arena) that plays for fun before a win so please consider my comments from that perspective.  I don't really care what happens in the top arena, though I'm sure others do.  Either way I don't need to explain how tedious it has become fighting teams that go under bubbles and sit it out.  What I don't understand is why EA don't fix it.  So, whatever good it may do, here's my suggestion:

     

    • Once a city is under a shield/bubble repairs become automatic.  Let's say you play in arena 3 and have 12 damaged buildings and for each one you repair you get a reward.  But if you as mayor do not repair them, your citizens will do it themselves.  So every 30 minutes (this can vary by arena) one building will be repaired whether you like it or not.  If you repair it yourself you get the reward and the clock is reset back to 30mins.  If it's repaired automatically you lose that reward. After a maximum of 6 hours all are repaired and you exit the shield bubble whether by choice or not and are back in play in the war.
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      SimilitudeB
      6 years ago
      This will not only make it impossible to hide indefinitely, but will encourage more active participation (i.e. spending money EA... take note!) for a number of reasons:
      • You'll have to repair damage reasonably quickly to get all the rewards.
      • Or you just don't get 'bubbled' at all (there wouldn't be a 30min clock until you're under that shield) by repairing before shield is activated.
      • It removes some of the power club presidents have over members to make them follow their rules and tell them how and when they are allowed to play under threat of expulsion, which I find appalling.  We are all independent players with our own cities and nobody should be at the mercy of another player. 
      • It will allow you to see a city repairing over time and know when you can hit it.  This encourages a player to 'self repair' and come out sooner to surprise the opposition.
      • It would eliminate the repairing of all but one damaged building so as to gain all (but one) of the rewards since repairing all but one building would mean you'd be out of your shield in 30mins.
      • If you choose to wait out the 6 hours you still have that option and can either forfeit the rewards or try to repair one every 29 mins and still get the rewards while you build up your stock of war items, energy etc., or take time out to sleep, work etc.
      • It will make the game more open and fair and ensure that there are regular targets available to hit, at least until the final few hours of the war.  Battling (not hiding) is after all, the point of the wars, isn't it?  
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        SimilitudeB
        6 years ago
        All of this benefits EA as well as us - the more activity there is, the more we expend our items and spend our SimCash.  Hiding under shields isn't allowing anyone to use or spend or do anything.  Of course there are some disadvantages e.g. you might get 'bubbled' while you're asleep, come back out in 6 hours and get 'bubbled' again without knowing or being able to do anything about it. But so be it.  It will be the same for both teams so loss/benefit is equal.  New tactics will be figured out.  The top clubs will keep spending money and guess what... you might find the little clubs spend more. I'm not saying this will solve other problems like club rotation (aka cheating) but it's a big start.  EVERYONE WANTS THIS so get it figured out EA.

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