Club Wars: Arenas - Feedback

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. 

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'.

@Superpraesi

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.

@JouCahainen

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.

@J6niceL

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 didn’t say staying under shield makes a team less deserved to win. You win, it is a fact. I’m not going to dispute that as long as you are not cheating.

Just that it doesn’t sit well with me when winning through hiding in shields is being glorified. This kind of battle is hardly a fulfilling one for either side. It’s painful for people who want to get chests. Fighting all the way is a win-win for both sides, we all get something. I had fought teams that outclassed us, but I still enjoy these fights because I can get lots of chests. You can’t be expecting your opponents to be clapping for you when your team deny them the chests.

And hiding is strategy? The minute I see a small team, I know what they are going to do to win. There is no element of surprise. So far, all do the same old drill: coordinate (I do give props for this), attack with magnetism and then shield up. Basically, it comes down to having high level magnetism to get the lead before shielding up. I have yet seen a team getting the lead and then shielding up without magnetism.

Using magetism is not strategy.

Hi J6niceL.

As always my friend it’s great to see you. I see you have come across a newbie today that believes “run & hide” is a strategy...if it looks like it and smells like it, I don’t have to step in it to know what it is. My wish and hope is that all of there run & hide sessions will be with folks cut from the same cloth.

The issue of “Fair Play” was raised and I started a thread yesterday below and stated the rules of the game need to be identified, shared in the forum in a prominent location, and consistently and immediately enforced...Identify, share and enforced...(ISE)

The best part of the war game is when you battle someone with the same competitive nature...where winning is the result of doing your best, competing like a man (male or female), and laughing and sharing with your teammates a special moment and walking away with great respect for the team that brought out your best regardless the final score.

As always J6niceL I figuratively extend my right hand of respect and friendship to you. Take care.

Pinn

All, your club has to do is: Don't let them get the lead. Your club has the same magnetism as the other club, so why don't use it. If you want a fight, man against man, I think an ego shooter game is the best type of game for you. The club wars are definitely a strategy game and I clapping for any opponent who is using a better strategy then us. The fun for me is to search for a strategy against this. 

It is very good that a small team with a few weaker players has a good chance to win the game. Please EA let the club wars as it is, a strategic game with good winning chances for bigger and smaller clubs.

@PinnacleValley

Well-said!

Fighting wars together is about having fun with our teammates, regardless of the final scores. I remember how you told me to accept defeat as it is the first time I posted here about a team that doesn’t sleep. After so many battles, I finally know how to do that. And so does my team. And with this, we are actually enjoying wars more. In fact, we get lots of awesome members who stay with us even though for some of them, their first wars with us ended in defeat. I think it’s because we take defeat well instead of blaming members or whatsoever.

Your wise words benefit us a lot 🙂

@Superpraesi

For the record, my team had thwarted some opponents’ plans to hide in shields before. I wouldn’t even call it strategy to be able to stop them from hiding. The reasons as to why we can stop them from doing so are simply because they have weak magnetism and more of us are online at start of war.

Do your maths. For us legit teams, the most we can get is about 3k from each city using magnetism, comic hands n movie monster. When the opponent with level 10 magnetism hides in shield and then sneak out to attack, he can get 4290 points. So do you have any good strategy to counter that? I doubt so. There is no way to. The level of magnetism is all that matters.

I can understand that a 10 men team needs to hide to win since it takes lots of guts to go up face to face with a big team. That is making the best of your situations, not strategy.

And I am not even hoping that EA will remove the shields because the shields gives the obvious advantage to those with high level attacks, meaning we need to buy card packs to gain an edge over others. It is all about money.

You can't compare a club whos members have level 10 magnetism to a club without those members and bring this as an argument against shielding. These clubs has always better winning chances, with or without shielding.