Very well stated my friend...
Everything DillyDilly states is actually very possible, at least in Arena 5. I’m not a Club president but I am in a very active CoM and War Club that would rather lose an active War than win an inactive one. Since we are large (22-25 members) with members all over the world (in all time zones), we are inevitably the much larger Club staring at umbrellas for the 1st hour and domes for the next 36 unless we’ve planned an open war. Almost every time a small, aggressive Club has managed to grab a solid lead, our president finds a way to connect with their president and work out terms so we can all have fun while they take the win (assuming they continue to earn it).
What you are sharing is correct and I praise the initiative and creativity shown by this action. But it takes me to one simple question - why should you have to ask someone to participate in what they signed up for? The question is not from the club perspective (that answer is simple) but from the game itself. Perhaps it’s due to poor design, poor planning, poor implementation, poor execution, poor followup, poor performance, poor response, poor attitudes...just recognized poor is a 4 letter word often preceded by another one which is how I would rate EA’s performance in dealing with this and many of their other issues which extends beyond in game opportunities.
Perhaps someone, anyone within the organization should consider this before you ask “what happened”? Just a thought.
Well-said.
Aren’t we supposed to do any best in wars? Why do we have to negotiate with opponents and compromise accordingly to be able to continue fighting?
Why do we need to talk to those unscrupulous teams? I have no interest in talking to them.
The system is broken like you had stated.
Actually, 100% agreement with you. I have this conversation with Club members all the time who play mainly for War now. This completely befuddles me. Why play this when there are literally hundreds of dedicated gaming apps with better war mechanics than this one?!? Better strategic elements; better weapons; better base building; better communications (chat) between Clubmates; better matchup algorithms; better war rewards. They usually say a combination of ‘They’ve already invested time here’, ‘They like their Clubmates’, ‘They don’t want to take the time to learn a new game’, etc.
The proliferation of Discord-based Open Wars has helped a lot and every week at the end of CoM our Rank 5, 25-member Club becomes a ghost town for 2 days as everyone goes to lower leagues to do Open Wars for better prizes. The more Open Wars people do, the higher the likelihood someone in your Club will have done an Open War with someone on the opposing team, leading to even more Open Wars. Unfortunately, small, aggressive teams still usually win these wars as there just aren’t enough targets to satisfy a hungry, large Club.
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