Wars are getting later and later. Due to searching times. Maintenance breaks etc. the 23 hour prep day would sort this issue out...those who say its not an issue. Dont war back to back so dont understand the issue....
Wars are getting later and later. Due to searching times. Maintenance breaks etc. the 23 hour prep day would sort this issue out...those who say its not an issue. Dont war back to back so dont understand the issue....
I am the leader of a th8 through th10 clan and i can say from my experience that it is possible to get matched with a chinese enemy any time from 8:30 pm EST to 12:30 pm EST and yes, i mean 16 hours out of the day. I only search from 2:30 pm EST to 7:30 pm EST and we usualy get matched with clans from europe and north america, never chinese because they are asleep around this time. Also we win 95% of our wars and i think this is a big reason whyOriginally Posted by Xitra
Our clan wars 3 days a week to avoid this. Our prep days are Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday. But the main reason we do this is because we like semi-consistent start times. So this would really help us as well.
As for getting matched against a Chinese clan, I hadn't considered start time as a factor in getting matched with one. What times should I avoid? We usually start around 8 AM, maybe as late as noon, though sometimes I'll push back as late as 6 PM if I have a nice research finishing. Like our current war, I have level 5 wizards completing at 5 PM today, so I started the war search last night a little after 6 PM, so I could donate wizards to war CC before prep day ends.
My clan is small, doing 10v10 wars. We win almost every war. However, a few wars ago, we got matched with a Chinese clan. As soon as I saw their clan, I knew we were toast. They were clan level 2, and this was only 8 days after the clan perks were released. So I knew that had to have won their 4 previous wars. They didn't have time for 5 wars, and it takes 4 wins with at least 18 stars and at least 9 opponents defeated to get a 10v10 clan up to 500 XP. So at a minimum, they didn't suck. Worst case, they might even be really good.
We ended up losing 19-23. We probably could have beat them, but we had some coordination issues, only used 11 of our attacks. Needless to say, the Chinese clan used 18/20 attacks, 3 starred our bottom 7 bases, though they only managed 2 stars total against our top 3. We managed 7 stars against their top 3 bases, so I feel we had stronger players. We just couldn't get everyone to attack, and our weaker players failed a few attacks.
I actually liked the competition!But I don't relish the idea of having to do it frequently.
Anyway, it was our first loss in the last 10 wars. (I don't keep track, and the war log only goes back that far.)
Last edited by ZionAntero; March 13th, 2015 at 09:25 PM.
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Agreed. We are in the one day off in between crowd so the 24 hour schedule is important to us. And because we don't war back to back we don't want to get messed up because it supposedly solves a problem we don't have. So I guess it goes both ways that neither side is too concerned about the others problems.
So my vote remains to keep it as it stands.
BTW - This suggestion would not sort out maint breaks. Nothing sorts out maint breaks, they just randomly happen for random periods of time and mess with everyone no matter how they operate. But those just have to be lived with.
Last edited by rwelshjr; March 13th, 2015 at 09:32 PM.
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Simple solution to 23-hour prep day for those who want war day to start at a specific time: Start your war search an hour later than you want war day to start.
Simple solution to 24-hour prep day for those who want to war back-to-back at a fixed schedule: Can't be done. Schedule will slip at least a few minutes every day, and eventually you will have to take an effective day off (even it it's only like 8 to 12 hours).
Sorry, I'm not really understanding what the problem is with a 23-hour prep day. Seems pretty straightforward. First couple times you might get bit, if you forget that prep day is only 23 hours. After that, everybody's happy.
Edit: And yes, it would sort out maintenance breaks. Most breaks are shorter than an hour. It might push one war past your usual scheduled time, but you can make up 45 minutes each war (assuming 15 minutes for search), so eventually you are back on schedule, even after a break that's longer than an hour.
Last edited by Xitra; March 13th, 2015 at 10:25 PM.
Thanks for the numbers.
That's 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM for us on the left coast.
Oh, and were those numbers before or after daylight savings?In other words, should I push those times an hour later to compensate for daylight savings?
No, this idea makes absolutely no sense
No big deal, but it makes sense.
A lot of clans would like to war at the same time every 48 hours. The search times means that you can't do this. 23 hour preparation time is a very simple solution. Preparation time is very long, and never do you need the last hour. More often, the members are counting down the start of war.
i love this idea! we have the exact same problem. we war all the time and we like to end in the evening but we get pushed back a half hour or an hour every war and eventually wars are ending at midnight and we have to waste an entire day to start another war so that it can end in teh evening again.
no problem man, and do not push them back an hour for daylights savings, may a Chinese clan never cross your pathThanks for the numbers.
That's 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM for us on the left coast.
Oh, and were those numbers before or after daylight savings?
My stats: TH10, lvl 182, GG 1.24 Billion, total donations: 427k cup record: 3202 war stars: 674, 231/250 zaps, Bk 40, Aq 40, 808 attacks won and 14,500 donations best cycle record, been clashing since June 2013
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Simple idea, Continuous War Feature.
How this works?
You set it to start war at whatever time you want it to always start at, but only at the top of a given hour. The game will do its search at that time automatically. The time it takes to find another Continuous War Clan needing a match for that time slot will both have thier prep time 'eaten into' to keep war on schedule. While the search is going on, you can see your half of the map, but not the other side. You cannot donate to your war bases yet until a match is made.
Both clans will have synched up and fairly deducted prep time, and both now can keep thier tight war schedule.
Added Edit: Given how the system now knows you are wanting to war right after the current war, it can pre match people before hand, saving time, better matching clans, and likely reducing the down time in searching since it isn't an as-needed matching search.
Last edited by WarrenJames; March 14th, 2015 at 05:38 PM.
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