Let's fix TW Sandbagging....

For context, I’ve only ever been in 2 guilds, both of which have been somewhere around 100th-150th globally in terms of total GP. Both guilds had TW as an optional signup. Previous guild were quite TW focused, current guild is not really TW focused. 

TW as it stands has 2 main issues, that are interconnected: 

• low participation heavily affects matchmaking
• low rewards heavily affect participation 

The matchmaking is truly awful. For our guild, I would estimate 40% of our matchups are completely in our opponent’s favour, 40% are completely in our favour which leaves 20% where the war could go either way. This is a sorry state of affairs, and makes TW a boring and predictable game mode for us. 

This thread has been quite refreshing when it comes to talking about participation. There’s been so many threads in the past that want to punish guilds that don’t enforce 50/50 TW signup, despite the fact that many of those guilds would enjoy TW far more if they let some members take a TW off from time to time. 

One of the best ways the devs can increase participation (which would in turn improve matchmaking) is to put otherwise difficult to obtain rewards in newly devised reward brackets. When Droid Brains were first added, guilds around 100th in total GP needed all their members to sign up to qualify for droid brains in their rewards. But those reward brackets haven’t been touched since, and many long-time players have a large stockpile of droid brains so don’t feel compelled to sign up. 

Stick omicrons and crystals in reworked reward brackets and participation will soon improve!