Dear Muet

[Horsepower]

Muet, could you please communicate with us about your progress in fixing the Space Age war weight bug. Many alliances are seeing really bad war matchmaking and it’s getting worse. Seems like this bug has been going on for a long time now. It’s really hurting the war experience.

Thank you

 

[LordStark263AC]

Couldn't agree more.
It's just not right seeing Space Age players ranked below CWA and Atomics AND having less War weight than CWA and Atomics

 

[BHG_Muet]

Talked it over again with one of the designers and we believe there might be a bug with the new level of buildings that have been added to Space Age since its release. We're investigating this theory as part of the upcoming 7.4 release.

 

[Dracula3811]

BHG_Muet it isn't just SA that isn't war weighed properly. There are some CWA as well

 

[Horsepower]

Muet, thank you very much for responding.

 

[oddin]

Can you confirm that fixing the war weight issue will auto resolve the matchmaking again or will it require something more?
You guys did a good job on the new algorithm. It is a shame to see it malfunctioning because of bad calculations in war weight.

 

[BHG_Muet]

Yep! If it is a weighting issue it would correct some of the mismatches since the new system does evaluate war weight.

 

[BHG_Muet]

I've not seen weight issues with CWA. But, it is easy to add CWA to our investigation.

 

[Prodigal Clint]

BHG_Muet , I tired to write you this privately, but it won’t let me.. so here goes

Hello Mr. Muet,

Don’t know if we have had a chance to meet, but I’m one of the Admins over at DomiNations Prime. Between my team and the community I’ve gathered a bit of intel on the Space Age bug. It’s hard to be 100% positive given all the unknown factors, but based on what we have seen im fairly certain the following buildings are bugged, account for either zero or negative weight when fully upgraded to space age max: SAMS, Bunkers, Air Defense, and Machine Gun Towers.

Also in the reverse, quite certain the following buildings are operating properly as far as their weight is concerned: Tank Depots, Towers, Fort, Silo, Garrisons.

The rest we are still testing. Also this happened in Atomic Age for quite sometime (I don’t think you were around then), and it really became a big problem (as it is now). I mention this because it’s quite possible the same buildings are bugged this time in the same manner. Not sure, just may help the hunt to mention this. Hope this helps!!

I’ve honestly been debating for weeks whether to release this list to all the players in hopes we can balance it out ourselves, as the biggest teams weight wise are reaping the biggest rewards from the bug just naturally, and it’s really having a huge negative impact on everyone else’s experience..

Regards,

Clint

 

[BHG_Muet]

Hi Clint!

Thanks! I'll share this thread with the designer investigating.

After doing some digging on the problem, It wouldn't surprise me if DomiNations had a similar issue in the past when updating building levels. Rest assured we'll be including process changes this time to ensure the bug doesn't occur again moving forward.

Just to set expectations, a fix for this issue may take some time to get completely rolled out and will probably be slotted alongside the next major release. I don't have a timeline on that but I wanted to make sure you all knew that we're not talking next week or anything.

 

[Magenia]

Sorry to say but this issue is nothing new, it actually comes since the time CWA was released, and it looks like it doesn’t affect all building/troop upgrades and it’s more evident whenever you crown/speed up any ongoing upgrades rather than leaving them run full length.
We have brought this issue to CS and mods for a long time now, and it’s not possible that players keep losing XP and dropping in rankings

 

[pckrn]

you made the same mistake before back when cwa was the last age and you added new levels to defenses and those didnt have any war weight.

this will happen again in digital age wont it