Idea for a new cw feature

Good evening.
There have been many different suggestions in the past concerning clan wars and how they could be modified.
My apologies if my idea was already mentioned and/or ruled out in the past.

Clan War Option: "Surrender"
Tonight, I had the (to me rather interesting) vision of having a surrender button in clan wars.
This idea was due to the fact that sometimes, for whatever reasons, the clan sees a war as lost and would like to give up.
A "surrender"-button should of course not be usable to skip clans until you (as leader or co) find one that you assess as easy to beat. That would totally defeat its purpose.

There are numerous possibilities how this button could work. Here is my personal favourite;

• "Surrender" only usable by the Leader (or alternatively also by cos as they can also start a war.)

• When the leader/co hits the button, war for the clan surrendering is ended immediately. This should not end the war for the opponent clan, as they may want to keep going and pick up the spoils of war. Problem: Surrendering can be abused by having the whole clan th-snipe, surrender after the first hour of battle and collect the spoils you get by loosing. Possible sollutions: 1. A percentage of the spoils is lost by surrendering to the opponent ("Reparations") 2, Clan can't go to war for some time. eg: 10% of the remaining time => 10 hours left = 1 hour wait before being able to begin a new war; 1 hour = 6 Minutes and so on. ("Rearmament")

• Once the opponent clan has surrendered, a button appeares, reading something like: "Accept (unconditional) surrender" (Thus they know the opponent has surrendered.) By pushing this button, the leader or co claims victory for the clan and ends war for his/her clan. Alternatively, the leader/co might decide to continue warfare and give the members the possibility to collect more loot by using the rest of their attacks.

• Second Version: Clan A >>offers<< a surrender, meaning it has to wait until Clan B has accepted or denied. Warfare continues as normal. If Clan B accepts the surrender, war ends for both sides, Clan B being the winner. How to prevent (in this example) Clan B from abusing the function by accepting Clan A's surrender after the tide has turned against Clan B?! Clan A can always withdraw their offer of surrender if Clan B hasn't accepted or rejected yet. As there may be clans with only very few co's it may make sense to have Clan A's offer of surrender withdrawn automatically once they have more stars than Clan B.

Having said all that, i personally prefer the second version as this seems to me as being more realistic and less likely to be abusable.

[An aditional feature one could add is the possibility of writing a short message to the other clan when surrendering.]

Thank you for reading and good night,
99percent

Good idea, but easily exploitable as a family of clans could give each other wins by declaring on each other and deliberately surrendering.

Supercell needs to keep the times they pay out war bonuses at a 48 hour minimum or they would be paying out too many. And it would be a lot. 2 clans could agree to put out th and each snipe each other and surrender all in 30 minutes. And an hour later each do the same thing with another clan. Believe me this one would become rampant (more fake fast wars than real ones) if it was possible to do this.

They could add the surrender button but still the remaining war time would have to remain on the clock until you can declare again. But that I think would negate the reason most want the surrender button so why bother with it at all.

Additional editing...

I do see in the suggestion that the person has tried to cover for the cost to SC issues and that was a smart factor to add. The numbers did not quite balance completely the way presented but if you worked them more you might get to something.

Possibility - If you surrender you are sacrificing bonus. Easy math and SC comes out ahead so they would like it. This would not be desirable to anyone seeking to make a profit on war, so those guys might want to decide to wait for the bonus money. But for those that are just eager for more action and don't care it would work.

This is well written and very easy to understand. This idea has been suggested before but this time I want the feature to be a thing. I liked the second version (with the offer).

One of things I would like to point out is that if you are surrendering, then you are losing. That means you get 1/6th of the loot if you surrender and the opponent clan gets it all. Many people in the thread are talking about clans agreeing to surrender to abuse the system. However, we should keep in mind that whichever side surrenders, is forfeiting 5/6ths of the loot they get from the clan war.

1/6th is still a lot if somehow clans do agree, so a time restraint is also neccesary. I think a 12hour wait is best because a surrender's only advantage to the losing side would be to start a new war quicker. Thus, the wait shouldnt be more than 24 hours. 12 hours makes it so that it is disadvantageous to surrender halfway through battle day when you realize you are losing because to me surrender means that you know you couldn't win.

Going back to my first paragraph, I think that the second version is best. This is simple and it means that Clan A is truly surrendering and Clan B can do what it likes. Rather than a withdrawal, I think the surrender offer should be time-limited. This means that depending on how fast Clan B sees it, they can take advantage, rewarding activeness. The time should be something like 3 hours, IMO, but that can change.

Great idea and welcome to the forums!