Boosted battles not happening for all teams

[Ozymandias]

There are three criteria that need to be met in order for a premium match to trigger:

1. Factions must be close in rank

2. Each faction must be within 20% of total power (attack + defense) from each other.

3. The number of faction members must be within 25 of each other.

The closer these criteria are between the two factions, the greater the odds of getting an Epic or Legendary match up.

So that effectively means hardly any premium matches for the most powerful teams... Is that the intention?

[Ozymandias]

There are three criteria that need to be met in order for a premium match to trigger:

1. Factions must be close in rank

2. Each faction must be within 20% of total power (attack + defense) from each other.

3. The number of faction members must be within 25 of each other.

The closer these criteria are between the two factions, the greater the odds of getting an Epic or Legendary match up.

What does "close in rank" mean, a%, or a #?

[Mike-]

There are three criteria that need to be met in order for a premium match to trigger:

1. Factions must be close in rank

2. Each faction must be within 20% of total power (attack + defense) from each other.

3. The number of faction members must be within 25 of each other.

The closer these criteria are between the two factions, the greater the odds of getting an Epic or Legendary match up.

The current importance of the 3 criteria:

#1. 10%
#2. 80%
#3. 10%

Fix it today!!

[zhenyu]

There are three criteria that need to be met in order for a premium match to trigger:

1. Factions must be close in rank

2. Each faction must be within 20% of total power (attack + defense) from each other.

3. The number of faction members must be within 25 of each other.

The closer these criteria are between the two factions, the greater the odds of getting an Epic or Legendary match up.

Bolt, consider the premium wars is an indication of how good/fare is the matching system where the more legendary wars we are in, the better the matching system is. So far, i think the results proving that this matching system is broken as we had been in less than 10% of any sort of "bonus" wars. we had fought 50 wars so far and only in 4 premium matches.

[Modern War Forum GF]

There are three criteria that need to be met in order for a premium match to trigger:

1. Factions must be close in rank

2. Each faction must be within 20% of total power (attack + defense) from each other.

3. The number of faction members must be within 25 of each other.

The closer these criteria are between the two factions, the greater the odds of getting an Epic or Legendary match up.

Based in these requirements I got 2 simple statements:

1: Teams that are composed of strong accounts, but not spending as much as usual have a slim chance to trigger a premium

2: Teams that are relative weak, but Very active and/or spending more then usual, have a slim chance to trigger a premium.

conclusion 1:teams need to match their spending/activity to their stats in order to get a premium, which in a sense sort of makes no sense.
Conclusion 2:teams going mental on a legendary in a sense puts you out of range of another premium, until other equal factions do THE same...

[Danger Mouse]

There are three criteria that need to be met in order for a premium match to trigger:

1. Factions must be close in rank

2. Each faction must be within 20% of total power (attack + defense) from each other.

3. The number of faction members must be within 25 of each other.

The closer these criteria are between the two factions, the greater the odds of getting an Epic or Legendary match up.

Ok, so let me do the Gree math.........

A one man army, ranked 500 at the start of the war, with 25 trillion att/def scores meets a 25 man faction, ranked 499, where each faction member has 1 trillion att/def - and that will trigger the match.

A 20 man faction, ranked 50, with 200 trillion att/def meets a 60 man faction, ranked 5, with 600 trillion att/def won't trigger the match.

First scenario, the players in the 25 man faction don't have a snowballs chance in hell of getting any WD hits in because of the individual att/def mismatch.

Second scenario the players on average have exactly the same average att/def, but don't get the chance for epic WD points.

Is it just me, does it seem that there must be something else in play here to determine whether a match gets triggered, or am I missing something here? Even if it's correct, does that strike anyone as an evenly thought through criteria for a set of triggers???

[Hobbs]

There are three criteria that need to be met in order for a premium match to trigger:

1. Factions must be close in rank

2. Each faction must be within 20% of total power (attack + defense) from each other.

3. The number of faction members must be within 25 of each other.

The closer these criteria are between the two factions, the greater the odds of getting an Epic or Legendary match up.

What a Crock of S**T...
This criteria is supposed to be the algorithm the game uses isn't it?
So you are now saying that if Alghoritm is working as intended then almost EVERY match would be a Premium Match!
My faction has not had a single Premium match as many others by the posts in forum..
So either the Alghoritm isn't working as it should or the new feature isn't working as it should,EITHER WAY it's another flawed addition that has created an unfair advantage to some factions.

[Sandman 1]

So we should at least be able to get a premium match. So us being a always top 25 teams has had now 1 epic battle and now 2 premium battles has no chance to get a legendary battle because we r either to strong to be ranked only top 25 or to weak to be top 25. Seriously?? Do you want us all to quit. How in your right mind can anyone think this is fair. Teams getting 8-10 legendary battles. No way can we compete with that.

[Laurence1]

Not going to spend gold on something you can't control? The oxymoron is strong with this one indeed!

Really ? Prior to this WD each team could control the amount of spend and clearly know where they would finish. We now have no control over this due to some teams getting whatever battles they get, while other get none. So no control over results, is that clear enough?

[Danger Mouse]

Really ? Prior to this WD each team could control the amount of spend and clearly know where they would finish. We now have no control over this due to some teams getting whatever battles they get, while other get none. So no control over results, is that clear enough?

So you knew exactly how many WD points you would get each hit, exactly how much time you'd have to wait for a match up, exactly what teams you would be matched against and exactly how many hits you were likely to get, exactly how many points opposing teams were going to score against you, exactly how many points opposing teams were going to score against each other. You know exactly how long this game will last before Gree decide it's not worth the hassle and pull the pin, popping all those shiny pixels like a soap bubble? You were in full control of all that huh? Wow, busy boy.
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True, now you have even less control. It's almost as if they are deliberately trying to kill their biggest cash cow.
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Cue Dewie.

[PFBKiller]

The current importance of the 3 criteria:

#1. 10%
#2. 80%
#3. 10%

Fix it today!!

Couldn't agree more!

Gree: While I'm sure some teams are elated that they're now in a tier they've never seen before, they've gotten there by spending a fraction of the gold the other defending teams have been to date. You need to do something to change the algorithm..

Perhaps ensure every team gets the same number of these 'super duper' matchups so its actually fair to everyone? Maybe cap the number of them? Some have yet to see one of these battles (after fighting 70 times) others have had them a number of times. Meanwhile your golden geese are all talking about quitting.

You'd best do something, quick. Look at the leaderboard and do some math on gold spending.. People have given up defending, and it's due to these changes.

[DEWIN NUTTIN]

So you knew exactly how many WD points you would get each hit, exactly how much time you'd have to wait for a match up, exactly what teams you would be matched against and exactly how many hits you were likely to get, exactly how many points opposing teams were going to score against you, exactly how many points opposing teams were going to score against each other. You know exactly how long this game will last before Gree decide it's not worth the hassle and pull the pin, popping all those shiny pixels like a soap bubble? You were in full control of all that huh? Wow, busy boy.
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True, now you have even less control. It's almost as if they are deliberately trying to kill their biggest cash cow.
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Cue Dewie.

Brother mouse, I suggest we simply sit here on the banks of this lovely river and watch the chaos erupt upstream.
Why look, there's a massive fire over there.
That used to be one of those Arctic Mining Rigs, I think.
Look over there, that must be awful hot.
I think our work is done.
Let's just enjoy the view.

[Laurence1]

Not going to spend gold on something you can't control? The oxymoron is strong with this one indeed!

Really ? Prior to this WD each team could control the amount of spend and clearly know where they would finish. We now have no control over this due to some teams getting whatever battles they get, while other get none. So no control over results, is that clear enough?

[Tony81]

Brother mouse, I suggest we simply sit here on the banks of this lovely river and watch the chaos erupt upstream.
Why look, there's a massive fire over there.
That used to be one of those Arctic Mining Rigs, I think.
Look over there, that must be awful hot.
I think our work is done.
Let's just enjoy the view.

Can you also please add forums to what you don't dew too?

[DEWIN NUTTIN]

Really ? Prior to this WD each team could control the amount of spend and clearly know where they would finish. We now have no control over this due to some teams getting whatever battles they get, while other get none. So no control over results, is that clear enough?

The puppeteer or the ventriloquist always has control over her marionette or his "doll" (with his hand up the little doll's wooden derriere).

The results as in outcome, those are phoned in, dude.