Best time of day to start 50x50 wars? How many clans do 50x50?

I've noticed - starting wars at some times of the day (3pm to midnight eastern time ) will never get a match on 50x50... going on 8 hours now, had 7 hour averages about ten or 15 times... and as high as 11 hour waits from time to time...

a few updates ago -- before they 'fixed' war matching and took away our 45x45 -- we would get a -relatively-fair match within an hour... every time.. it was great...


Now that they have 'fixed' the matching system - its impossible to get a match in any predictable time... really messes with our schedule..




We've started around 11am eastern time this past 5 or so times -- and we get matches in 2 to 4 hours... that time seems to be busier for clans of 50x50... but its just not our ideal time...



Anyone out here have any experience with this?


I've started almost 200 wars since starting this game.. I've tried all kinds of tricks.. restarting the search every X minutes... trying at different times of day.. etc...

The clan that is struggling to get wars matched in decent times -- we have two of them actually...

one has a few max th11's on top - a variety in the middle and about 10 or 15 low weights on bottom...

the other has 5 town hall 8 weighted people, and the other 45 are all town hall 3 to 6. -- you'd think that clan would get matches easier and faster.. but some of its accounts are hybrids.. defenseless - low weight high offense types... I expect that could be part of the issue in finding matches... cause the top accounts in that war - are town hall 10's that mirror up to town hall 8's... I'm guessing the matching system is trying to match town hall to town hall along with weights... and failing to do so.


Any thoughts? opinions? experiences anyone can share?

I'm sick of these long search times...

My 30x30 clan finds a match in 2 hours or less... its also full of hybrids... town hall 8 to 9 weights...

and our 40x40 'normal' clans find wars in 60 to 90 minutes on average (few or no hybrid accounts)

Took us 15 hours to find a match... after that long wait - it was the same type of match we always get... weight to weight a proper match -very comparable between the two of us...

of course; we are hybrids with th9 and 10 attack power.. the enemy's best accounts are mid th8... they are rushed and nooby... easy easy war for us..

But why the 15 hour wait?

Anyone here care to share the average wait times you get? when is the best time to start a search?


it seems that the only time 50x50 wars ever sync up is between 9am and 1pm eastern time.. if you start a search at any other time of day - you will be waiting until the next day between 9 and 1 to get a match...

Ring ring, that's because of your so many hybrid engineered villages

We usually search between 6PM and 9PM Gmt, 50v50. Usually does not take more than 3 hours. Mostly under one hour.
Our last wars have been at weird hours, but there's no real reason about it. I guess we all forgot to search and the American co was going to eat dinner and he noticed no war was started. Probably somewhere around 5AM Gmt.

Also, not sure if you do, but we dont stop/restart


Edit: yes of course we have engineered villages too, but not so extreme as yours. All our top are normal villages (ranging from mid 10 to low 8). The rest is kinda a mishmash but war matching favors the top anyway (or at least it should)

We do 50 v 50. We run pretty heavy. Top 27 are TH10 or higher.

It doesn't take that long to find a match and it's generally pretty close.

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Originally Posted by LegionOK

We do 50 v 50. We run pretty heavy. Top 27 are TH10 or higher.

It doesn't take that long to find a match and it's generally pretty close.

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took 5 hours today - started at 11am eastern time.

Those who say you get matches fast; - What time and time zone are you starting searches?

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Originally Posted by blombardo

took 5 hours today - started at 11am eastern time.

Those who say you get matches fast; - What time and time zone are you starting searches?

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Search started 21h 52min ago and there's 2h 16min of prep day left
So that's 1h 8min of search if my Maths is not mistaken

Search start at ~4 PM Gmt

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Originally Posted by blombardo

took 5 hours today - started at 11am eastern time.

Those who say you get matches fast; - What time and time zone are you starting searches?

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This is what you get for putting weird clan composition..like a few max TH9 at the top and a bunch of Th6s at the mid and bottom. You are just begging for a mismatch (either favorable or unfavorable). No wonder, you think that every 15 wars, you need to gems in order to avoid losing.

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Originally Posted by TangoFever

This is what you get for putting weird clan composition..like a few max TH9 at the top and a bunch of Th6s at the mid and bottom. You are just begging for a mismatch (either favorable or unfavorable). No wonder, you think that every 15 wars, you need to gems in order to avoid losing.

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Why are you here trolling? Provide an actual answer - a response to the question at hand -- or keep your opinions to yourself...

What size wars do you run - when do you start them - and how long does it take you to get a match?

Before the update we would always match in 10 to 60 minutes. Post update it's crazy long...

The actual matches we have gotten post update are all pretty much what we expect them to be - based on how we have chosen to engineer our clan... we DO get the matches that we want... almost all the time.-- unless someone engineers better...

before the update we would have 14 good matches that were as expected - then one bad one in the enemy's favor.. and not necessarily due to any engineering.. it was just due to a bad matching system.

The new matching system is working better - its just taking a bit too long sometimes and is un predictable.

The point of this topic is to find out -- just how many clans are actually doing 50x50s... should we start doing 40x40? would that allow us nice fast war search times again?

We have another clan full of the same type of engineered accounts - well 70% are -- and that clan gets matched 30x30 within an hour almost every time.

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Originally Posted by blombardo

The point of this topic is to find out -- just how many clans are actually doing 50x50s... should we start doing 40x40? would that allow us nice fast war search times again?

We have another clan full of the same type of engineered accounts - well 70% are -- and that clan gets matched 30x30 within an hour almost every time.

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Can't answer definitively as I never try to war 50v50, but I wouldn't expect many to war at that size. You're looking for an opponent filled to the top (yet nobody's upgrading/on vacation) or one with a feeder that obsessively tops up the main clan to war at 50. Seems that would be a small number searching for war at any given time.

If I remember right you mentioned having a lot of low ths in the roster too, that can definitely lead to a longer search.

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Originally Posted by blombardo

I'm sick of these long search times...

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It's the engineering, combined with the 50v50. You are really doing everything in your power to prevent an even matchup, so the matching algorithm doesn't want to give you to an opponent even it knows has zero chance against you. On top of that, I'd say it's a relatively rare thing for clans to do 50v50 searches to begin with, so the pool of opponents is small.

It's like the New York Yankees taking on anyone in the middle of Siberia, and then wondering why the league hasn't found them an opponent.