ATN - New Coalition War System Update

Let's start with why these changes were undertaken. For a very long time, players who regularly played clan wars have been complaining about the clan war season system and that it should be restructured. There were many suggestions made on the forum on how to change it, however the one that picked up the admins' attention was Desu's. (http://atwar-game.com/forum/topic.php?topic_id=9657) There has been a lot of discussion in this topic since the admins didn't like Desu's suggestion. However it did make them realize that there should be a change.

Some players suggested little changes to Desu's suggestion. Ivan, who was discussing in the topic, combined the different suggestions to make one that fit both him and Amok. Even though this is a good step towards achieving more clan wars, there were some who thought that it could have been restructured better. One of them being Desu, who still believes that his idea would make a better incentive for clans to clan war with each other.

Therefore, I have decided to go ahead and ask a couple of questions to Desu himself. To sum up the interview (can be found at the end of the article), he believed that the old system didn't encourage games and instead limited them. He thought having 10 games was not a big enough sample. For him, this was important because if a game wants to retain more players, it needs a competitive side. Afterwards I asked him some questions on the changes that have been made, his reply was that it was a good step towards a better CW system. However he still thinks that a percentage based system would be better. His suggestion was turned down because according to Ivan, it discourages lower ranked clans to cw higher ranked clans. "The current system discourages fighting higher coalitions as well." was Desu's response to this. He wants to put a solid base so that the community can do the rest.

Desu had realized the flawed system long ago but didn't do something about it because it never affect him, until the last few months. Being in Stalins Martians, he wanted act on it since the competence penalties were too big. He does feel better with the new update of min/max 50/100cp earned however, now the problem is that already higher competence clans earn 0.05 competence every win. Which is why he would like competence and CP earned to be separated. Last but not least, I asked him what would happen if two clans had the same percentage (in his system). He hadn't given a thought to that yet, however he gave a simple solution of looking at the both clans' record against each other for that season.

I had asked Ivan for some questions, but unfortunately he hasn't come online the past week to answer them. I will update the article when I have answers from him.

Afterwards I have gone on atWar to ask some players about the update and what they thought to get a general overview of what the community thinks of the update.

From the answers that I got, I can say that most liked the updates, however there were also some who didn't think it was the right update. Therefore most have concluded that there's room for improvement. Some stick with a league system like in sports, we will see if there are changes in the future!

While asking this question, I found Adiabatic who has another idea for the system. To sum up his idea "So basically I think that the average should be taken, not the first 20 or the last 20. It's not difficult to implement, just use a formula: (total CP for games won)/(total wins)". He believes that this will be a better representation to a clan. His suggestion can be found here: http://atwar-game.com/forum/topic.php?topic_id=10111&topicsearch=&page=2

And, don't worry guys, Santa is on his way!