Clan Wars List of Wanted Features: Opt Out; Donation Stats; Heroes in

There are a number of features that are repeatedly requested as improving the balance and gameplay of wars. Part of the reason is that war is brilliant - it allows mid level farmers to develop high level attack strategies in a teamplay cooperative environment that brings a clan together. But there are a number of features that just get in the way.

1. Opt Out: Some days players simply can't war, or because of their low trophies they arbitrarily miss out. There needs to be an opt in / opt out feature for war, so that someone who can't war for a few days does not have to either massively drop in trophies to the bottom of the clan or leave entirely for a few days. The social effect is isolating on that player, and it has no other effect on gameplay. This could be entirely individual player based, or leaders/coleaders could have an override to omit a player from the war.

2. Donation stats: There's no easy way of doing this, and I do agree that donations to war CC should not be counted towards other donations (or XP). That said, bigger players in clan with higher level troops spend the most on war and gain nothing - even notionally recognition - for that effort. Donation stats make it easier (although not obvious) to see who is donating rubbish to the war cc as a troll move.

3. Heroes in War (while upgrading): Sure Supercell wants to get us to use gems, but well.. like many people I can't afford to gem the time for heroes to upgrade. I have to work at them slowly over time, and to avoid letting down my clan I have to leave the clan for war - I don't have the skill to constantly war with just one hero. So that's the social isolation all over again.
Three possible solutions:
3.1: Just make heroes available on war raids.
3.2: Put hero upgrades in the lab
3.3: Create an "armourer" who upgrades heroes. Could add fancy hats and rubbish as well.

4. Better Matchmaking: Currently the game is based on iterations of worse and worse matches. Mismatches can become optional by allowing leaders to have a choice whether to prioritise a better match or a faster match.


Anyway, comment away.

Totally agree with all but #3. Just be patient. I think #1 is the most important thing needed right now, just narrowly beating #4. Very good ideas.

Good thread 👍, glad someone made it. I think the opt out is probably most important. I don't really see why not, because you can just kick and invite which is practically the same just less convenient, so it's not like it would make the game worse in any way.

Agreed. One through three would make an out-standing update.

Number four is pretty hard to do much about, unfortunately, as there are so many factors at play.

#2 isn't the dire in my opinion but is easy and should be added as long as it is seperate from the normal donations

#3 is being petitioned in this forum, so sign it if you haven't already. I don't see why we shouldnt be able to use heroes while upgrading at all, personall.

#4 is hard to implement, otherwise it would already be in place. It is very important and would help, but realistically, this is very hard due to the large number of factors. To make better matches, a larger amount of factors would have to be considered or more clans would have to be searching for war simultaneously.

#3 is what I personally want most in CoC right now. I'm just going to copy my post from my thread here to express my opinion on this.
"The main reason is because people don't want to kick people and invite them just so they can opt outon war. While that is a solution, it has some consequences, including misunderstandings, drama (omg, you kicked me out so that I wouldn't be in war) and loss of donation statistics.

Some might argue that if one does not wish to participate in war, one must simply join a clan that does not participate in war. The reason this is not true for many people is that those who care about being able to opt out are more likely to be loyal members, or at least friends with many. Leaving as a group is not a solution either since the group of friends would still be split between warring and not warring. Splitting the group results in the splitting of friends, which lowers the amount of motivations to keep playing CoC. If sister/feeder clans been implemented, that would be a long workwaround that could still be flawed.

There is another reason that this is suggested, which is that players will still "have a life" outside of CoC. This includes vacations, examinations, business trips, blackouts (+and other force majuere disasters) in the residence of one player which doesn't affect the others physically etc.. Thus, some players would only opt out some times and return to war actively."

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Originally Posted by TheConfuzed1

Agreed. One through three would make an out-standing update.

Number four is pretty hard to do much about, unfortunately, as there are so many factors at play.

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Thanks, I agree that 4 is difficult. More or less an after thought.

My understanding of current matchmaking is that it is structured as a trade off between faster time and better match, and could be tweaked to give leaders a little input into that balance. Complex, yes.

I agree with everything on here, #3 being the thing I want most out of the next update (HINT HINT SUPERCELL) however #1+#2 have been talked about in my clan as well. As for #4, even though it is a good idea, I don't see how it could be implemented, but let's hope they find a way

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Originally Posted by choczombie

Thanks, I agree that 4 is difficult. More or less an after thought.

My understanding of current matchmaking is that it is structured as a trade off between faster time and better match, and could be tweaked to give leaders a little input into that balance. Complex, yes.

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#1 makes #4 impossible. Drop/kick, then rejoin is causing many of the "mismatches" that people complain about today. Opt-out will make it much easier to work the system.

#2 really doesn't matter. Only the members in your clan with the top level troops should be allowed to donate anyway. Anything less is dedication to loosing.

#3 I understand why people want so bad but I don't really care either way. Would be nice to have but we go without spell factories while they are building too.

#4 . . . see #1. It is a matter of how each clan is scored, then matched with another clan of the same score +/- a tolerance to ensure a fairly quick match. Since people are already upset with the match making system be prepared for it to be much worse if SC makes it easier to manipulate with an opt-out system no matter how fast or slow the clans are matched.

I would also include a method of implementing war strategy as #5 also. See the "War 'Dibs" / strategy UI" link in my sig. In short, a way to assign targets so it is possible to have an overall strategy. Something as simple as "Dibs" would work but a more robust and flexible UI like the one in my linked thread would be better.