Hello, this was my first experience in a WD event. It was a lot fun, but I have some issues to report:
1) On Saturday night, March 9th, 2013 - Sunday morning, March 10th, 2013, there was an unannounced system update towards the end of our battle leaving us all confused, and the notice said the game wouldn't be back up for three hours. Some of my faction members spent real dollars on gold to regenerate health and then we were summarily kicked out of the game. On top of that, it was also a Daylight Savings Time change night to add to the confusion. Please! If you're going to do an update or server maintenance, do not do it while people are still in battle - during a WD event of all times. Just pick a time, giving people fair advanced warning of the maintenance (like a pop up when they enter the game in the days leading up to a system down, maintenance event).
2) During our final battle, we had allies across the world from us who suddenly could not fight because the war was over for them, but we were still going. What's up with that? They spent money on gold to help us in the final battle, then can't do anything?
3) My faction fought and clawed it's way up into the top 1,000 ranks (943) and still none of us has received our award for that (Fahd APC, I believe) 4 days later now. We've e-mailed support since the war ended, but have not heard anything back. We're all very disappointed in the service.
4) We had some deadbeat-freeloaders, that dragged us down during Egypt. There should be some provision where the faction leader or the officers can prevent a faction member from getting an award, like place them on the "inactive list". And, if any member is placed on the inactive list during a WD event, they are automatically disqualified for the post battle rewards, if any. Real wars have much harsher provisions and punishments for deserters, disobeying a commanding officer, and those who go AWOL Why not a game?
5) The calculations of the points per attack seemed very confusing and random, some factions would give very good points when attacked and some would give very few points (across the board, each member in the faction). But each time we declare war, we're supposed to be matched up by the computer program against a similar faction as far as attack/defense right?
6) I was shocked to see that next war is coming up so soon, as many have reported. And 4 days is too long a WD event.
OT: It would be nice to able to add to "favorites" other allies that are not in our faction, but friends with, to keep them at the top of our "My Allies" list, like top 25 or something. Or make the allies list searchable. Once you get in the 100's of allies range, it's a daunting task to try to find somebody in your list.
Thanks,
Noodles
