You ignored my thread :(

mom, help, that stefano dude is being mean to me :'(

@FiveSmith: Obviously we would want our beloved game to prospers, yet everybody has his own opinion.

You talked about "Expansion of Warzone" forum without talking about me? You sir, made me sad today, good day! 😤

You ignored my post :(

cool update, I haven't visited those fora in months so I don't know what was going on :o keep going!

Warzone Newsletter #2

A recap of interesting stuff of the first half of April 2023

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Clan Wars Season 29 ended, Many clans competitively push in Season 30

Season 29 ended regularly. MB got their Top-1 for the 12th time in a row (14th total).

Harmony made it to Top-5 again. Mothership’s performance was ~30% lower than in a few previous seasons, so they dropped off the Top 3-5 bracket. All other Top-9 spots are significantly the same as in previous seasons.

The overall CW activity in S29 went down a little, compared to previous two seasons. Yet everything seems to change in Season 30.

From what I know, at least 3 clans are trying to push this season hard: Optimum, Myth Busters and Harmony. For a few days before the season start of S30, Optimum was hyping their upcoming push, which had been addressed by MB in their internal and external motivational (A nice screenshot was leaked to GC chat on that occasion. Now we also know Optimum has a spy in MB).

The first slot of Season 30 had massive, probably record-breaking, participation of 155 players.

We also have seen some interesting transfers between Myth Busters, Optimum, M’Hunters, but little actual details have been shared. The most notable are:
- MH manager switched to Myth Busters
- A player who joined Optimum, lost 2 games to MB (one game was a instant surrender on 1st turn), and then left Optimum for FDC
- A player officially having accounts in M’Hunters and Myth Busters (That may be OK, as they are no longer direct competitors in CW)

IMO, the key questions to this season are:
- How high in rank will Optimum get?
- Will we see changes in the list of Top-9 clans? After 3 days of the new season, Mothership seems to fall of Top-9 😦

CW S29 – https://wz-clanwars.netlify.app/season_29.html

MB preparing for day 1 of S30 – https://ibb.co/5FRSWB2

CW S30 – https://wz-clanwars.netlify.app/

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Clan day 05/04/2023

Sale of clans for just 2$ is always exciting. 26 new clans created + there is at least 1 clan, which was paid for, yet the actual creation is delayed. All mainly potentially “dead” clans.

In 2022, when such a sale was done for the 1st time, there were 48 new clans. Of those 48 clans as of today:

- Only 4 clans have more than 1 million points earned by its members in the last 30 days. The full list:
-- Ving
-- Nordic Empire
-- Go Bruins, Amen
-- IT
- 1/3 has zero points earned by its members in the last 30 days

Currently, not a single one clan from the 2023 sale seems to me to be a community-successful one so far. Would love to be proven wrong. Make your bet on which clan of those new 26 will be the most successful in the upcoming year.

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Warzone big update spoilers – Changes to Ladders

Fizzer mentioned on the forums, that the upcoming update will be big.

Players, who participated in Ladders have received a notification, that the Ladders will be reset and that an overhaul is coming within next few weeks.

Any more details? From one of the AMAs I remember that Fizzer wanted Ladders to be equally accessible in the app, just as they are on the web. That’s all.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/731235220623327302/1095100535306211388/image.png

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Expansion of Warzone

Since my most recent last mentioning, the thread had grown from 5 pages to 15 pages. Definitely, that thread is one of the most notable events of the 1st week of April. To be honest, I gave up very fast on reading all of it.

There is an opinionated summary at the page 14, which grasps most of the discussions. Yet, it may be a good starting point.

https://war.app/Forum/682682-expansion-warzone

Search-Deploy-Commit S2 E12 a cross-over episode with TI Junkies

The released episode of SDC was an interview of TI Junkies, a YouTube/streaming group which plays a game named Twilight Imperium.

Unfortunately, I found this episode not very relatable. It was neither about Warzone nor about someone, whom I knew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWECFF1irNI

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Warzone Awards VI – 2023 Edition dead or not dead?

I personally really enjoyed the Warzone Awards by Cursona from last year. It was too sad, that the original creator had to abandon doing them. Was quite excited when there was a glimpse of a chance that those will be hosted this year. Even if the Awards would not be in a video/streaming format, they would still be quite memorable. The forum topic, where the potential Warzone awards were discussed, was quite enthusiastic at first, then got trolled a lot and quickly went stale in February.

It was stated recently by krinid, that he still has the plans to do the awards after Clan League Season 16 games are finished. Would love to see that happen, although my expectation bar is low.

https://war.app/Forum/674970-warzone-awards-vi-2023-edition

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Impossible Series: Unite Japan beaten for 1k coins

In February a very hard single player level was introduced to the community with the challenge to beat it or just to survive long enough. A prize of 1 000 coins was promised to the first player to beat the level, and lesser prizes for certain other achievements.

From what I understood, the difficulty of the level cam not only from the level’s setup alone, but also a requirement for AI randomly in a certain way to be beatable.

By the end of March, the level finally got beaten by player Warzone666#1 from Japan, who is merely unknown to public and plays only single-player levels.

https://war.app/Forum/676061-singleplayer-level-1000-coins-prize

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April Fools’ Day joke tournament and a game

To celebrate April Fools’ Day, waffle 2.0 made a joke tournament. While it was advertised as regular “Strategic 1v1” it actually had modified settings:

- 42 wastelands with size 69
- cards totally messed up so that they would cause massive lags, when watching game history and maybe playing
- very unobtrusive boot settings
- cannot instantly surrender, because it needs to be accepted by the other player

The tournament was aimed to effectively trap people in long, never ending games.

The tournament is still going. We may see the hilarious reactions screenshotted and posted to the forum thread.

Just_A_Dutchman_ also made an April Fools’ Day standalone game with a custom mystery mod. The key idea is to unravel, what that mystery mod does. Would be great, if someone makes a better recap of what’s going there.

Tournament: https://war.app/Forum/683886

Game: https://war.app/Forum/684913-april-fools-game

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UnFairerOrb76 retiring from Warzone

Unfortunately, UnFairerOrb76 one of the popular Warzone mods developer announced his retirement from Warzone.

https://war.app/Forum/684965-see-tunnel

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Thanks for reading.

Edited 2023-04-14 16:15:05

You forgot the biggest "April Fools’ Day Joke Tournament". It was Mathematician's "No-Luck Lotto Tourney" where pi found out that Otto was cheating

kallisti has made one too

The idea of my game was simple. I had made a quite simple mod, but it would make the game (so far) the only one of its kind. I transformed the source code into some obfuscated, one-line bs and challenged everyone to figure it out. It turned out it was a bit easier than I thought, but it was still fun to see everyone trying to figure it out and be somewhat confused if they did.

The answer to what the mod does is already given in the game chat, but you are still able to try and figure it out for yourself. there's no prize if you do or not, it's just for fun!

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Here you go FiveSmith :)

Warzone Newsletter #3

A recap of interesting stuff of the second half of April 2023.

Actually, not many events have happened (or maybe I missed a few), so it might be a good opportunity to write more of my own thoughts about the events.

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Clan Wars season 30 ended - significant changes in final ranks

Optimum got 2nd. Not only they improved their participation to the level of Prime, but they managed to maintain a 60%+ win rate for the season. If someone were to displace Prime from second, let it be a clan that can bring not only many games played, but also high strategic skill. Congratulations.

Harmony had a "push" season, and while they significantly improved their metrics, it did not convert into more territories, as lots of other clans have been extraordinary active this season.

Big changes in the Top 6-9 bracket:
- Entered the "coin zone": Le Furie Azzurre (first time after the LFA⇾TBD split) and Devil's Soldiers (first time ever)
- Left the "coin zone": The Last Alliance and The Fancy Dot ●

The change was due to LFA and DS improving their performance, while TLA and FDC have stayed at the level of their previous seasons. Basically, we see that the last "community-centric" clans have been ousted from the coins by the CW-centric clans with strict participation policies.

Mothership, while maintaining relatively high spot, is steadily doing down in terms of CW metrics. By the end of the season, one of the 2 managers of Mothership quit and joined knyte club (the future clan of TBD). Actually little detail known about what actually happens in Mothership.

https://wz-clanwars.netlify.app/season_30.html

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The Blue Devils and Devil's Soldiers transferring to knyte club

The 2 connected clans are transferring to an uncapped clan knyte club for the next Season 30 of Clan Wars. The goal is to avoid the 40-people clan cap of the newer clans.

knyte club clan was kindly provided to TBD by player l4v.rov ("knyte" was his old name in Warzone). As knyte club is almost guaranteed to get top-5 in the next CW season, that would effectively mean that:
- 4 of the 5 top CW clans will be the old clans, which were once taken by newer communities in order to remove the burden of the clan cap for their communities. The fact that Myth Busters is a capped clan and still winning CW for a record-breaking streak only makes their triumph more glorious.
- 3 of the 5 top CW clans are clans owned by l4v.rov and generously given the clan communities for use.

Good luck, knyte clubbers! :D

https://war.app/Clans/?ID=345

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MTL ama

alexclusive held an AMA about Multi-Template Ladder (MTL) in order for it to have greater popularity. From under 70 (maybe around 60) players at the moment of AMA, now the MTL has 76 active players now. In fact, I am not sure about the numbers, because the MTL website seems a little bit abandoned and partly malfunctioning. At least it got a 20% participation boots.

The MTL was an initial inspiration for many of my own projects, and I wish it growth and success. Yet, I am worried that MTL is underappreciated indeed for a reason. Some say, that "MTL is by far the best competitive aspect of the game". Can't argue with that, as I am definitely not a strategy expert.

But what I see as an outsider: huge learning curve of 50 templates thrown at once into the face of a newcomer; outdated website with many not working features; one of the listed founders offline from Warzone for 2 years. The project looks either unmaintained properly, or shows a clear example of what an "elitist"/"walrus" ladder is.

I am worried, that just spreading info about MTL (with no changes or updates) is just not enough for it to gain popularity (if that was the goal).

Fun fact: alexclusive himself is currently unranked on the MTL, because he hasn't played (or finished?) a single game there for a few weeks already. Compare that to his 8 games in 20 days of the most recent CW season.

https://war.app/Forum/686396-mtl-ama

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Clan League division winners of Divisions D1-3

All the D Divisions of the Clan League effectively already have winners set:

- Div D1 - 1st: The Blue Devils; 2nd: Prime
- Div D2 - 1st: Nestlings; 2nd: SPARTA
- Div D3 - 1st: Myth Busters; 2nd: M'Hunters

Congrats!

Interesting that in higher Divisions of Clan League there is no clan even close to securing the winning spot.

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Search-Deploy-Commit episode with Interview with Kenny • apex

Listened to it. It was an interesting one and I enjoyed it. Going back to actually Warzone is very nice.

Go check it out yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abibH5o5oN8

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Big Warzone update with ladders rework - still waiting for it

The heading says it all. 3 weeks passed since the Ladder reset notice.

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That's all for now. Thanks for reading. Comment, like and subscribe :D

Edited 2023-04-29 21:54:29

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- Left the "coin zone": The Last Alliance and The Fancy Dot ●

First time in 30 seasons we weren't able to get rewards :(

I am someone who joined MTL after that thread. I would totally recommend joining, every template I have played has been a blast (though I am not very skilled at them) and the game joining process is quite smooth once you have joined the ladder. My only criticism is that the website is quite a mess.

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Warzone Newsletter #4

A recap of interesting stuff of the first half of May 2023.

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Update 5.24: Ladder refresh

The 5.24 patch arrived. The patch is mainly about the ladder revamp.

Most of the changes were either met positively or at least in a neutral way (app integration, rating system change, ladder rewards). But some had really negative feedback:

1) The old “3-day boot time” was initially announced to be changed to “one-day boot with an additional day of banked time”. Later, after huge backlash from the community, the new settings were set as “one-day boot with 2 days of banked time”. But according to strategic community (and I personally totally agree with that), this is still too low and damages the player experience.

During the recent AMA Fizzer shared his point: Ladders should be quicker, and he assumes that majority of people would actually prefer shorter boot times and if you can’t play with the 1d+banked boot timers, then, probably, Ladders are not for you.

2) Also, there was a change, that was initially announced but thanks to community feedback was scrapped, – making ladders use the no-luck cycle turn order. (When the initial turn order is determined by who took less time to make the picks).

I guess, the ladder tuning is not over, as at least the boot-time change is still actively discussed. The petition-thread to revert boot times to 3 days is now trending as of now. During the AMA Fizzer said, that there might be a dedicated poll organized to gather more feedback.

Relevant links:
- https://war.app/blog/index.php/2023/05/update-5-24-ladder-refresh-and-more/
- https://war.app/blog/index.php/2023/05/ladder-refresh-launch-date-updates/
- https://war.app/blog/index.php/2023/05/upcoming-ladder-refresh/
- https://war.app/Forum/689303-1day-boot-ladder-update
- https://war.app/Forum/689222-pure-skill-ladder-update
- https://war.app/Forum/690127-keeping-ladder-booting-time-3-day

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Fizzer AMA 13.05.2023

A great chunk of the AMA was about, the Ladder update and boot timers (see the insights on that topic in the previous part of my post).

The major takeouts from the AMA:

- Fizzer is happy, that now currently all major features are accessible both in App and Browser
- The 5.24 patch has actually two new secret features:
-- There are actually more leagues introduced in the Ladders, than you can see currently. Now you see only Bronze (rating 150+), Silver (250+ rating) and Gold (rating 400+) leagues, but there are in fact hidden leagues for higher ratings!
-- Warzone has now a feature for Fizzer to make (in-app?) polls. Polls should have notifications and that’s all what we know as of now.
- Fizzer teased one new feature, which he is currently working on: making 3d maps run in browser. You may see the technical demo at this timestamp: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1819048989?t=02h23m28s

Relevant links:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBejBESzua8
- https://war.app/Forum/690317

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Clan Wars Daily Bugle

Texx from Harmony clan started a series of posts with daily recaps of the Clan Wars events. The recap involves:
- vivid commentary on the intraday statistics
- news on players, who might have “perfect” CW season
- recap of notable games
- random fancy charts

The CW Daily Bugle proved to be a community success, with lots of positive feedback.

Link to the CW Daily Bugle: https://war.app/Forum/689050-clan-wars-daily-bugle

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Search-Deploy-Commit – Interview with Kill Pete Strategy

The most recent episode of Search-Deploy-Commit podcast is another crossover. It was an interview with Kill Pete, who is a major youtuber from the Risk: Global Domination game. (Risk-like game which is most similar to the original Risk and has gained widespread popualrity)

The episode was not about Warzone, but mainly about the guest. Nevertheless, I liked it. It was fun to listen to. If you have heard the name of Kill Pete Strategy, you should definitely check out the episode.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOCHH_omMxg

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Clan League punishment and CLOT is down

We got first (and maybe the only) punishment for rules violation in the Clan League 16.

In DivA of Clan League player rakleader from ONE! shared in discord a screenshot, that shows a part of the game, which was still running. The screenshot sharing was mainly for bragging and did not really affect the game in question.

ONE! were punished, that ONE!’s Substitution Limit for the next season becomes reduced by 1/2 to 6 substitutions.

I find the chosen punishment to be a little bit strange, in the way that it imposes future limitations on the next season, instead of punishing the current season, that is still going.

Link: https://war.app/Forum/642190-clan-league-16-signup-announcements?Offset=351

The B’s CLOT which is used by the Clan League was down for a few days. The games’ creation and scoring were delayed. In the end it turned out to be nothing serious, but the issue was fixed quite quickly and there was always some informational feedback from the CLOT’s and CL’s maintainers.

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Mothership drama?

After the departure of one of the Mothership managers, the clan seems to face other issues.

First the facts:
- Romy, the leader of Mothership, left Mothership on 2023-05-04 and joined Mothership II
- Romy is not the actual owner/creator of Mothership clan, the real owner has been offline for 100 days
- Since Romy’s transfer, at least 7 high-level players have left the Mothership franchise in the past few weeks: 5 went to M’Hunters, 1 to knyte club, 1 is a free agent now
- Since Romy’s transfer, no new players have joined Mothership, while there were a lot of joins to Mothership II

What I assume (Mothership is quite a closed community, so that’s all we have for now):
- Romy left Mothership either accidentally or due to unknown circumstances.
- There were no other managers in Mothership (I failed to identify other potential leaders or potential technical accounts with managers rights, and the founder is offline), so Romy effectively got locked out of Mothership, leaving Mothership with 0 active managers.
- While Romy tries to solve the situation, there may be some internal issues, that’s why a big chunk of players decided to switch clans. Same issues, why the other Mothership’s manager left earlier.

If my assumptions are correct, then it is sad. That’s basically a risk for any clan where the original creator is not present. In any case, I wish Romy and Mothership to successfully resolve the issue.

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That’s all for now. Thanks for reading. Comment, like and subscribe 😀

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Warzone Newsletter #5

A recap of interesting stuff of the second half of May 2023.

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End of Clan Wars Season 31 – MB still top 1, Optimum – 2nd

The key questions for the season was: Can Optimum beat Myth Busters and get top 1. While there was a fierce competition for the half of the season, in the end MB saved their top-1 CW spot and Optimum ended 2nd. Halfway through the Season 32, we already see, that Optimum is not contending top-1.

Besides Prime falling to top 3-5 bracket, the other Top-5 clans are the same (Consider The Blue Devils and knyte club to be the same clan).

Changes in Top 6-9:
- With the transition to knyte club, the Devils soldiers clan effectively disbanded. All the leaders and “active” players went to knyte club or other clans. And despite there are still 10+ players technically staying in the clan, the clan is not a contender anymore.
- Mothership finally succumbed to the drama, which I was describing in the previous newsletter (and will describe more in this, but later), and finished 10th right out of the coin zone.
- The same two clans, which left the “coin zone” in season 30 are now back in Top 5-9: The Last Alliance and The Fancy Dot ●.

Links: https://wz-clanwars.netlify.app/

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3x DRAMA: TR-8R vs VERAVARI, alts in Clan Wars, M’Hunters poaching from the Mothership clan

Player TR-8R compiled and published a document in order to expose VERAVARI’s:
- playing with 2 different accounts in Clan Wars
- recruitment practices aggressive to other clans and questionable “wording” used to describe those recruitment practices

VERAVARI responded with a series of arguments and screenshots, and now we have a more or less complete story about both of the events.

Recap of the alts in Clan Wars situation:
- Player Ziya was a real-time friend of VERAVARI and genuine player, who lost interest in Warzone.
- VERAVARI started playing with Ziya’s account in Clan Wars for Harmony clan, while still playing with his main for M’Hunters.
- The double play was exposed to Harmony’s management, and VERAVARI was asked to stop playing with 2 accounts (btw, kudos to Texx from Harmony for maintaining high standards of CW competition).
- VERAVARI stopped multi-accounting in Clan Wars immediately.
- VERAVARI (we don’t have screenshots) asked Fizzer about the situation. Fizzer imposed no punishment.

Recap of how Mothership sank:
- 2023.05.02 – VERAVARI wants to contact Romy (the leader of Mothership), finds that he was blocked and then plans to recruit (“poach”) all Mothership’s members because of that.
- 2023.05.04 – That’s when Romy got locked from Mothership. We still don’t know the reasons, but rumors say, that Romy’s younger family member got access to her device and left the clan. Anyway, judging by the dates, know that, VERAVARI’s plan to poach was not because of Mothership’s issues with manager rights. The manger rights situation was a beneficial coincidence.
- 2023.05.11 – VERAVARI contacts a player (presumably, Wismerhill) from Mothership, settles for his transfer to M’Hunters and claims that by that time “most players of Mothership are already waiting for the [CW] season to end to merge with MH”.
- 2023.05.XX – Somewhere in these dates, the information leaks to the global chat and VERAVARI claims that it was a “partial merger”, that he “didn’t bypass the leader”, “she (Romy) never gave us (M’Hunters) any disapproval”, and “both clans were already hyped for it, and everything happened smoothly”.
- 2023.05.16 – TR-8R contacts Romy, who confirms, that she “never agreed to that” (merger/poaching).
- 2023.05.19 – First day of a new CW season, and there is an exodus of players from Mothership to Mothership II, M’Hunters and knyte club.
- 2023.05.19 – It turns out that the contacted player has forgotten about the invite from M’Hunters and has joined knyte club instead.

TR-8R posted a link to the doc to an existing clan drama thread and two new threads named “Please Ban VERAVARI”. Within a day, the new threads were deleted by Warzone forum moderation as “hate threads” (due to the language used in the threads and in the doc). The thread’s text was later restored in a newly developed “leaks-and-sus” discord server, where it was saved for history purposes.

As an aftermath:
- Mid-season 32 of Clan wars M’Hunters are top-6 (with a very significant gap to top-5)
- Mothership II is 10th and fighting to get back to coin zone
- TR-8R blocked VERAVARI everywhere, where he could
- I got blocked by Romy 😦

Links to the remaining post (has link to the docs and VERAVARI’s answer): https://war.app/Forum/693452-clan-drama-oral-typed-really-history?Offset=34

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Death of The Royal Falcons clan

While not in the scope of the previous drama, these events are quite relevant to it.

Players Tim and Word walker who were the 2 managers of The Royal Falcons clan have left the Royal falcons and later joined M’Hunters. Thus leaving the clan without any managers.

It is not confirmed, but presumable the owner of the clan is 4 yeas offline from Warzone. So that makes The Royal Falcons another lost/”dead” clan.

That situation is a little bit different to what happened to Mothership. M1’s players were poached from a clan against the clan leader’s will. In the Falcons’ case, it is the Leaders, who were invited to another clan, what does seem less questionable and aggressive. Don’t know whether is a “merger”, or “poaching” though. I guess it all depends on what will happen to the other members of the Falcons, who are currently staying in clan.

Link: https://war.app/Clans/?ID=150

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Search-Deploy-Commit episode – Interview with Hangfire

A great interview with a clan mate of mine about his activities to help test mods and other.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9-KoIVAT_k

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French Community clan retracting from next Clan League

There has been information, that clan French Community which is currently in Div A (and 99% not relegating) of Clan League will not participate in the next Clan League.

I do not know the reasons. Maybe those were explained in the Div A channel of Clan League Discord server, but I have missed them.

The hunt for players probably has begun.

Clan League Discord: https://discord.gg/Gm5cTtxSZ3

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What is a personal “perfect" Clan Wars season

In the Top CW Performances Scoreboard thread by Texx there was a minor yet important discussion of whether FleXUS has had a personal perfect Clan Wars season earlier.

A personal perfect season is when a player has 100% participation and 100% winrate in a given Clan Wars season. The whole discussion and community interest about people getting personal perfect seasons was majorly inspired by Texx in his bugle.

The season in question is FleXUS’s season 28, where he had 18 games (100% participation) with 11 normal wins, 6 free wins and 1 game, which was won, but ended after the CW season completion, so it is forever shown as a pending not finished game. That last game is a reason to question whether FleXUS had a perfect season.

If anyone asked me “Has FleXUS had a perfect season” -> My answer: “Yes, he has. Having a won pending game is so much different to having an actually lost game. What he has achieved, what no one has achieved yet.” If in future anyone will make a perfect season either without pending games or without free wins, I would call that a perfect season which will override FleXUS’s achievement.

I think that this is important, because:
- Except for that event, so far no other player has ever achieved a season with 100% participation and without any actually lost game, so that is some big news.
- Now we as a CW community have a great, unique benchmark for personal achievements in Clan Wars.

Link: https://war.app/Forum/688477-top-cw-performances-scoreboard

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Other events in brief:
- Clan Wars Daily Bugle is probably retired. There might be a release with some charts mid-season or after the season ends, but no more dailies. Texx feels that people underestimate the effort he had to put in the bugle, and it is a sacrifice to write the bugles daily.
- There has been no follow-up on the poll about ladder boot times from Fizzer.

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That’s all for now.

The 3x drama might have overshadowed some other events of this period for me, so if you think, that I have missed something, feel free to write a comment.

Edited 2023-05-31 05:04:05

@FiveSmith
▶ Thanks for explaining the situation objectively and sticking to the truths. While the sentence: "M1’s players were poached from a clan against the clan leader’s will" is not wrong, I would like to say that I only saw Romy's name in clan bio, so contacted her first. When I realized I was blocked, I tried to contact her by other means.

▶ When Romy left M1 and didn't returned to M1, I decided to stop trying to contact her and just write to all M1 members (that 1 screenshot was just sample, since those are private conversations, I didn't showed them all). M1 members were all positive about the merging proposal so lots of members came. Even the ones that went to M2, KC or other clans, were positive about the M1's partial merger with MH. That screenshot is posted to prove that.

Edit: So only leader left in that clan was the owner when I contacted its members. I literally don't know who is the leader, I just know that that person was either inactive or don't like Romy (because Romy was not returning to M1). So technically its "against leader's will", but the leader was unknown & probably inactive player

Edited 2023-05-31 08:17:18

Yay! Today this thread got highlighted!
Thanks everyone for the likes!

UPD: And it's gone :(

Edited 2023-05-31 17:51:30

Warzone Newsletter #6

A recap of interesting stuff of the first half of June 2023.

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Update 5.24.1 is live

Ladder boot times were partially reverted and increased to 1.5 days. There was no official poll abortion, but probably there will be no poll about the timers. Looks like Fizzer will be more relying on stats.

The ladder rewards were improved:
- The undeniably good rewards-zone was extended from top-50 to top-100
- The minimal noticeable good idle rewards, extended from top-50 to top 250

Other changes are mostly bug fixes.

Link: https://war.app/blog/index.php/2023/05/update-5-24-1-small-update/

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CW season 32 is over, S33 started

Season 32 was kinda boring:
- Top-5 unchanged. Gz to Myth Busters. No real competition from Optimum.
- In Top-9: Mothership II managed to get back to coin zone. Le Furie Azzurre fell off.

SerFen from MythBusters has achieved the Personal Perfect Clan Wars season (100% participation + 100% winrate) in CW Season 32. Congratulations!

While there were questions, about whether FleXUS had a perfect season earlier (there was 1 game, that was won, but technically got locked as “pending” because the season had ended), this SerFen’s run is undoubtedly 100% win rate.

Season 33 started and we see something interesting:
- knyte club assembled their new roster is now fighting for top-2 spot. As of now (7 days into the season), knyte club are ahead of Optimum with a few wins
- Both Harmony and M’Hunters have incentivized recruiting and M’Hunters actually may compete to get to top-5 by displacing Harmony

Another worrying trend, which I have noticed in the recent seasons, is that CW maps are getting bigger and seasons are getting longer. In seasons 23-25 we had CW map with ~240 territories, and since then they gradually get larger. In season 33 we got a map with over 300 territories.

Link: https://wz-clanwars.netlify.app/

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Clan drama: Italia Caput Mundi is kaput. Viva Italia!

Short recap:

By May 2023 the clan owner of Italia Caput Mundi, player Fiorenzo Rimastone, had been offline for ~1.5 years. We also know, that he is actually an alt of player Scrooge McDuck from Masters clan, who was not very active in the last year either.

Mid-May 2023 Fiorenzo Rimastone becomes active and starts mass kicking players in waves:
- end of May – 15 players who were offline for long
- beginning of June – 18 players, who, presumably, didn’t play CW
- mid-June – all the remaining 27 players were kicked (including managers)

Total 60 players (including 45 active players) were kicked.

As of now:
- Italia Caput Mundi has only the clan owner in the clan and the clan bio stating “Due to low participation, the clan is officially dissolved”
- The community of the former ICM clan is reassembling under new clan “Italia”, however that new clan is capped, unlike ICM.

We also have a leak from a game chat that Scrooge McDuck (main account of Fiorenzo Rimastone) is “planning to grow up another clans he has in standby”. So that might be a way to restart a clan.

My opinion? Firstly, being offline for a year, then coming back and nuking a more or less successful clan is definitely not a friendly move towards your fellow clan mates. Secondly, I don’t understand what’s the point of kicking players from an uncapped clan, if you actually want to do something with it. Not only that immensely sets the clan development back, but this also is a bad reputation for the clan leader. I see no logic in these actions.

Links:
- https://war.app/Clans/?ID=325
- https://war.app/Clans/?ID=755

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Clan League 16 winners – Masters clan

Masters clan has secured its 1st position in Div A of Clan League 16, so they are now officially the winners of the main community event for clan competition. Congratulations!

Link: https://bit.ly/3U11lqK

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The legends of Warzone Idle Battles

WarTog compiled a list of players who each had managed to collect 102k points in WZ Idle Battles and get a legendary artifact from it. There are 6 players: WarTog, otto#5, Gunk, Ivan2, Cryptic, FTWW.

For those who don’t know WZIB, these are events held every 30 minutes for idle players. They award point for competing: from 10 to 50 (for getting 1st). Now you may estimate, that to get 102k points, you would need to take part in 2k+ battles (also this should be done within 1 Super Ascension). Basically that’s a massive long grind, and interesting, that while WarTog was the first one to achieve that, we now got plus 5 more players, who managed to fulfill that goal too.

Link: https://war.app/Forum/698364-warzone-idle-battle-legends

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Other events
- Multi-Template Ladder is down for a few days already (maybe even a week). We dont know exactly what happened. Definitely not the best news to MTL’s development. Hope it will get back soon.
- Manager’s Real-time League failed to launch due to organizational issues and might be dead by now. The idea was cool though.
- Texx from Harmony and Orcus from Optimum (main: Phobos#3) are starting BO11 match, with the loser will have to play a full CW season for the clan of the winner.

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Edited 2023-06-17 00:16:12