This. 10 charactersIt wasn't just Top 10 teams. It was most of the Top 100 I think. The thing is, the strategy of keeping CP low at least at first SHOULD have worked. It WOULD have worked if Gree had not completely changed the matching formula between the last war and this one. We waited an hour and a half to declare our first battle. We had ZERO CP and were matched with RK. We stayed outside the Top 300 even and a few battles later were matched with FUN. We didn't bother to put any pointless points up against them so our CP stayed extremely low. Our very next match? FUN. Again. By the end we faced FUN 4 times and RK 4 times. Probably nearly half our matches were against Top 10 teams. And we were NEVER above #22-24 at the highest.
It is patently obvious that Gree changed the matching system in order to kowtow to FUN and maybe the other very top teams. After the fact, I now see claims that they still had terrible matching times. But we ALL checked that leaderboard for movement every five minutes of every hour of every day, and anyone saying the top teams' matching times were no better this war is full of horse doo-doo. As I said somewhere else, the matching time for top guilds changed. Fact. Numbers prove this. And how many times teams ranked lower were matched with top teams changed dramatically. Fact. Numbers prove this. It is not possible IMO that these two very clear changes are unrelated. As to why these changes one needs only ask who the changes were actually good for.
I am curious. How many times this war were FUN and RK matched with each other? FUN and SB? RK and SB? I would bet my savings (small as that is) that that number is also dramatically different from the last wars. And no coincidence. Ladies and gentlemen, I stand corrected when I long ago said that hackers would ruin the game. If the game continues in the direction it will be ruined all right, but ruined because Gree kowtows to the 1%ers and blithely f***s the rest of us in the a** in the process.