Opt out of war toggle

It would be awesome if there were a "opt out" toggle for clan wars.
CW has split our clan. We've been together since the game was new. Half our members just want to farm. Half want to war. We formed two clans, but that killed the comraderie we used to have.
We've merged back, but are losing members who have been part of our clan for over a year because of clan wars.
The functionality already exists with new members who aren't immediately eligible. Please allow us to toggle that on indefinitely for members who don't want to participate in clan wars.
Thanks.

Welcome to the forums.
Please read some of the forum rules before posting. You didnt break any of them, but it is highly advised for people who have a new idea to search the forums and make there arent many threads with the exact same idea.
This has been requested many times, and im sure it is being looked at. However, the button could be abused

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Originally Posted by ColonelAwesome

Welcome to the forums.
Please read some of the forum rules before posting. You didnt break any of them, but it is highly advised for people who have a new idea to search the forums and make there arent many threads with the exact same idea.
This has been requested many times, and im sure it is being looked at. However, the button could be abused

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I actually think its a good and helpful thing if guys raise their thoughts (this and others), as many times as they can and however they want.

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Originally Posted by Hephaestus

It would be awesome if there were a "opt out" toggle for clan wars.
CW has split our clan. We've been together since the game was new. Half our members just want to farm. Half want to war. We formed two clans, but that killed the comraderie we used to have.
We've merged back, but are losing members who have been part of our clan for over a year because of clan wars.
The functionality already exists with new members who aren't immediately eligible. Please allow us to toggle that on indefinitely for members who don't want to participate in clan wars.
Thanks.

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How it should work...

There should be a button (it can be a new one or the war shield can be modified) that toggles a player as in or out.

Access to hit the button to toggle should go to the leader and the player in question.
---- individual players cannot opt each other in or out
---- its an argument either way to give it to co as well - Good for clans where co is a management job, bad for clans that give it out like candy. (I consider the latter to be a sign of a bad leader)
---- A leader who abuses authority to opt guys in against their wishes are really just hurting their own selves for how they are adding a risk to their war participation. (the guy might then just not attack anyhow, if not seeing eye to eye with leader he wont care)
---- A leader opting a guy out against his wishes has that prerogative to decide who he wants in his war. And its still nicer than just kicking the guy like happens now.

The status of a player is only a factor right at the time a war starts. Instead of just selecting all eligible players from the total population it will just be all eligible players from the opted in group.
---- Can even implement by leveraging the existing eligibility functionality that currently is only driven by a timer.

After that everything works the same. The list of warriors from the clan is rounded to an even 5 via the existing logic and then the matchmaking calculation takes place also using the existing logic.

A player joins a clan with his eligibility set the same way it is today. (He is in unless there is a timer)


Things that would not happen -
...A player cannot add themselves to a war after the fact. If they change their status during a war it makes no difference until the next war when that status is read at startup.
...This would not serve as a way to replace members that take off during war. if they do that then there is the same affect on the war as there is today. Unused attacks stay unused. (it will never change that this just stinks when guys pull that stunt)