Allow Clan Leaders To Select War Roster

[ADAWWG1976]

Let me preface this by saying I love war. It is a fantastic feature. It presents a challenge and has helped me improve as a player.

With that said there (in my opinion) will always be members within a clan that either disagree or won't commit as strongly to it as others.

I am a member of a clan along with 3 feeders. We have a mix of th10 th9 and th8 players. I'm finding ever since war was implemented the turnover amongst the clans has increased dramatically. Here are some of the issues.

Some members want to farm
Some members want to war
Some members leave during war
Some members don't use war attacks (and are subsequently booted)
Some don't know how to attack (yet)
Some want to war but occasionally have obligations that make them unavailable for some wars.
Some noobs donate weak war troops and someone forgets to check
Some noobs forget to set up proper war base.

You get the picture.

I suggest in a future update Supercell implements a feature that allows the leaders and co-leaders to select a WAR ROSTER. So if I'm in a clan with 40 members and only 20 members want to war I can choose just those members to go to war with. The remaining members can farm as usual without affecting the war results without being kicked out for not participating and still be a contributing part of the family.


Clan Wars is good now but it would be great if more control was given to each individual clan regarding who actually participates.

Ps. Just signed up to the forum today so forgive me if this idea has been mentioned before.

[AxionXD]

It's called Clan Wars not Some of the Clan Wars.

[rwelshjr]

ignore the sarcastic one liners. You will get a small (very) vocal minority that will start beating you up for even posting it and trying to convince you SC is not doing it because they think its bad, they will even selectively show you posts from SC employees (they will show you one from SuperSteve with their personal interpretation but will not show you the one from Marika) so get ready for all that. (and sorry, its free speech here so we have to let them have their rant)

But the fact is it's a really good idea that over 3/4 of the COC community wants (they wioll deny this too) so trust most agree with what you have posted.

Below is the suggested approach I have added to many of these threads.
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)

[ADAWWG1976]

Disagree with you. Not everyone wants to war..people have different goals and are at different stages.

Members of a clan that are able to and want to war should be able to. And members of the same clan that don't want to should be able as well without penalty or affecting their mates

[rwelshjr]

Disagree with you. Not everyone wants to war..people have different goals and are at different stages.

Members of a clan that are able to and want to war should be able to. And members of the same clan that don't want to should be able as well without penalty or affecting their mates

Disagree with me? I agreed with you though!!

[QueenBeeq]

The vast majority of players want/need this. We see these threads daily because so many people want this. There is no way SC does not know how much this is needed and how many people want it. Its a matter of if they want to add this feature and when. There is much debate on this topic, again daily.

Glad to see threads keep coming up though, it just hammers through the point that so many need it.

[ADAWWG1976]

Rw. You put a lot of thought into it That would be awesome.

And I love the game. I realize no game is perfect and I wouldn't change a lot with this one.

Only reason I feel strongly about this is it is the biggest source of conflict within clans. Why alienate members if it can be avoided.

Thanks for the feedback

[AxionXD]

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind an opt out feature.

However, I believe Clan management is one of the key obstacles of Clan Wars. It makes it more challenging. Have we lost wars due to inactivity, absolutely.

Sometimes, it's not the most powerful clan that wins, it's the most organized.

If it were strictly based on combined, individual strength, people would not have a chance to overcome a mismatch. By having the wild card of clan activity and attack management, you create an environment that allows the underdogs to overcome higher adversity.

Many of the wars we lose is because those of us that are Co leaders, who we designate our "War Generals" weren't as active and didn't direct people enough. You'd be surprised how much better you do, even at 100% activity, if you have someone actually manage the war itself.

[ADAWWG1976]

And sorry. Rw. I was disagreeing with the first post. You commented before I had finished typing.

[rwelshjr]

Rw. You put a lot of thought into it That would be awesome.

And I love the game. I realize no game is perfect and I wouldn't change a lot with this one.

Only reason I feel strongly about this is it is the biggest source of conflict within clans. Why alienate members if it can be avoided.

Thanks for the feedback

Agreed. it would allow a person to practice good clan management without having to cause conficts and alienating people. (and I understand al the arguments that people should not feel alienated by being kicked over and over because its never intended to be cruel, but they do feel that way is the bottom line)