Really supercell? 40 minutes of war search for this?

We just got an insanely unballanced 50x50 match after nearly an hour of "search for a match" - after a full hour of cancel after 5 minutes searches. We've had matches that were unwinable but still worth the effort, and we've been the overpowering clan a few times too. Neither is as much fun as a match that comes down to the wire with full participation. This match is the first one where it's not even worth filling the war clan castles. Just game over - space marines vs Aliens, and we don't have Ripley.

The match system is BADLY broken. I would like a checkbox that says "please make a fair match even if it takes days" because a match that is not even remotely winnable is just free loot for one clan and 48 hours of waiting for the useless war to end to try for a better match for the other.

I think the match system is breaking down because fewer clans are warring - the possible even matchups are getting less and less available. I believe the loot crisis for TH10 and to some extent TH9 players is to blame. Elixir is very hard to earn lately as a TH10. And let's face it, it's your TH10 players with max troops who are filling those CCs for wars. That gets expensive, and while the buff of war loot bonuses has helped, it still doesn't pay the elixir cost of filling CCs for defense and then the ongoing donations on battle days for attacking. My clan still wars about twice per week. But while in the past it would take generally up to 10 min to find a usually decent 15v15 opponent, it now takes well over an hour some days. And when that happens, you're more likely to be paired against whatever clan the game can find to pair you with... I think if SC created a system where top camps wouldn't lose elixir on wars, then we'd see better matchups come back...

1.) There are more than enough clans that start war at the same time and are a good match. The problem is that the matchmaking algorith does not only try to find a match with the same strength but also searches for clans with similar structure for example with members close together or all members at the same level. If Supercell gave more weight to the top players and did not try to match the structure we would have perfect matches in a few minutes.

2.) Having 2 th10s instead of max th9s is not an unfair match. We had a match were our average level was 60 and the average level of the enemy was 46. Everybody of us was about 1 th ahead.
Another match the enemy had 4 high th10s (around lvl120) and 6 nearly maxed th9s while we have one very low th10 (lvl85) and 3 mid to high th9.

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Originally Posted by Ramb02

I think the match system is breaking down because fewer clans are warring - the possible even matchups are getting less and less available. I believe the loot crisis for TH10 and to some extent TH9 players is to blame. Elixir is very hard to earn lately as a TH10. And let's face it, it's your TH10 players with max troops who are filling those CCs for wars. That gets expensive, and while the buff of war loot bonuses has helped, it still doesn't pay the elixir cost of filling CCs for defense and then the ongoing donations on battle days for attacking. My clan still wars about twice per week. But while in the past it would take generally up to 10 min to find a usually decent 15v15 opponent, it now takes well over an hour some days. And when that happens, you're more likely to be paired against whatever clan the game can find to pair you with... I think if SC created a system where top camps wouldn't lose elixir on wars, then we'd see better matchups come back...

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I agree but would add when my clan gets a new guy if we get two really bad matches the new guy bails. After a few clans do this they stops doing wars. There should be some return for CC donators in war. Its very costly and I can understand some people not wanting to war with the chance of not getting anything back and loot being bad for many people as it is just compiles the issues for them.