Developers Q&A FAQ

Territory Wars

Animefangod1: I was wondering if it was possible and if you guys ever would add a feature where you could watch your battles with other players so you could see where you are having trouble in things like arena and TW?
We had battle replays and consequently being able to watch other allies battle in the scope for Territory Wars, but unfortunately they had to come out of our update in order for us to get it done in time. There is significant tech work required for synchronous gameplay events which we just don't have at the moment but would really love to do in the future.

Sparrow: You mentioned battle replays are still a ways off, as a stop gap would it be possible/easier to let us see the team that attacked us in TW and its end state?
Would love to, but some of the tech required to preserve the history of the team that attacked you is needed as well. When we realized we couldn't get the battle replays in, we didn't want to ask the engineers to do the underlying tech first.

Why can we not change/edit/move Defense squads in TW during the setup phase?

Matchmaking is done after setup to ensure your guild is accurately matched up against another guild. If you can change your defensive squads after moving into the offense phase, then it would be optimal to pull all your mods off characters and not level characters up and only do it after the attack phase has started. That encourages a different type of play, one based around faking out your opponent, and while we certainly want to offer different game experiences, it is not the intent of Territory Wars at this time.

Thanks for answering my question, but I was asking about changing TW defense squads DURING the setup phase, not after it has concluded.

Characters lock at the end of the preview phase, so there would be no way to move mods, upgrade toon, or things like that. I think we all understand why that's important.

I'm asking about changing squad lineups/positions on the field during the setup phase BEFORE offense phase starts. Can we not get the ability to move or change squad lineups?

My bad, here’s your redo.

I don’t know but I think it was something we didn’t think of before TW launches (it’s not always easy to think of all the ways people will use or have issues with a system. And since then it hasn’t surfaced to be a pervasive issue. I’ll put it down on our QoL list though and see how much work it would be (it would require client work to select and undo a squad and possibly some other edge cases I’m too tired to think of right now.)

I’m sure you saw we did take defaulting most powerful squads into the TW select squad screen because we saw a lot of people accidentally hitting deploy with the wrong squad autopopulating. That is the first step to this fix and is an indicator that we will continue to improve this system.

Thanks for the clarification!
-C

legitimationcrisis: What happens when there is an odd number of guilds participating in TW?

The guild with the lowest participant GP, while still meeting the 25 member requirement will be considered the "odd man out" and will receive an Inbox message stating that we couldn't find them an opponent and 1st place rewards for their bracket (which likely is the lowest bracket).

Is TW on the verge of going away?
If it is staying for the long haul, are you open to player input about the match making and rewards structure?

Territory Wars are not on the verge of going away, Territory Battles and Territory Wars were two modes that were intended to satisfy different player types. Battles is where people with collections can show off and Wars is where people who are particularly good at PVP can show off. That's a real simplification of all the intention, but they are meant to be hand in hand in that way.

The ties solution had the objective to be granular enough to really address ties. Some suggestions we pulled from our beta team had different solutions but weren't granular enough to knock them out completely. Ties, btw, are basically gone at this point - but we expect them to come back as players get better and better.

That being said, we are open to player feedback for sure, and part of our communication strategy is going to be about how we can better create two-way dialogue on topics like these.

Hello!! Can you provide any clarity on why a more complex TW pairing method is superior to simply matching closely on GP of participating members? Shouldn't GP capture additional factors like # of G12, rosters, etc...?

GP while intended to reflect the overall power of characters doesn't always capture the nuance of good synergies and so while it can be a benchmark for overall power - it is actually not sufficient for something as intricate as matchmaking. Nightsisters are good example of where the GP doesn't reflect the power of the squad.

This is great. Too bad Q and A was a one shot deal.

in short the answers are to everything "no we wont add it, we cant say if well add it, buy our stuff even if its not what you want, deal with it"

Nice work Ultra. Very well put together.

Why are they so steadfast on Porkins not coming to the game? Every other character was answered with 'I can't talk about that'

"Boba_The_Fetter;c-1823381" wrote:
Why are they so steadfast on Porkins not coming to the game? Every other character was answered with 'I can't talk about that'

They don't like him.. I don't like him either..

We are getting another Q&A!

Lets compile questions in advance, and avoid repeating the same questions, and post the best of those prepared questions.

The Q&A lasts for a few hours and not everyone can be active or online during that time. So its best if we can all get together and compile a list to ask them as soon as Q&A starts

"Ultra;c-1829925" wrote:
We are getting another Q&A!

Lets compile questions in advance, and avoid repeating the same questions, and post the best of those prepared questions.

The Q&A lasts for a few hours and not everyone can be active or online during that time. So its best if we can all get together and compile a list to ask them as soon as Q&A starts

Another Q&A ... good let them answer the latest fiasco’s. And adress why people are leaving the game due to their decisions!

Oh wait they won’t, they either ignore real nagging questions or just give answers that do not really answer anything!

"USAFmedic129;c-1830125" wrote:

"Ultra;c-1829925" wrote:
We are getting another Q&A!

Lets compile questions in advance, and avoid repeating the same questions, and post the best of those prepared questions.

The Q&A lasts for a few hours and not everyone can be active or online during that time. So its best if we can all get together and compile a list to ask them as soon as Q&A starts

Ultra, how and where would you like questions compiled for the next Q&A? I suspect there will be tons of questions around new TW field, GA tourney and future releases and game balancing. Thank you, as always.

I was thinking someone should start a Question compilation thread and request the mods to delete posts that aren’t questions or answering questions that people were unaware that are already answered and then we can compile a list of the questions as the Q&A draws near. Anyone online can ask the questions from the list to the devs whenever they host Q&A.

I was thinking of making it democratic with the most liked question post (open to other suggestions) getting the highest priority and the questions to be posted in Q&A in batches of 5. Since the devs have a very limited time to answer questions, we can focus on what the community wants answered the most first

Questions that already have answers can be linked.

I’ll update the FAQ depending on the Q&A

Thinking of compiling dev responses to relevant questions from reddit too