Please Increase the Territory War Registration Phase Length

WhoVille_Sheriff

I have a guild full of casual players who are here to enjoy the game. Even with 38 members over level 65, we can't seem to get everyone to sign up for Territory wars in the 24 hr window.

Would you please extend the signup phase to more than 24 hours? I know these are now posted on the calendars, but most casual players don't even know forums exist. My dedicated players are suffering from this and I feel the 24 hour window is short sighted until the schedules are fully established. I don't see why it couldn't be extended since the first war had a 5 day registration phase.

Another option would be for a message in the inbox of all players over 65 to sign up for the pending war. I would settle for that, too. Not much work, but very beneficial for all players and officers.

StarSon

-1 if you can't be bothered to register in a 24 hour window then you obviously don't care enough to participate.

Liath

Given that the registration period for this one was identical to the last phase of TB, the only way for people not to notice it was there was for them not to participate in the last phase at all. I don't think that's really the type of guild that they are looking to cater to with this content. IMO, TW is already pretty drawn out for what we're getting out of it.

Just put a reminder in your chat sticky if people need one.

WhoVille_Sheriff

Liath wrote: »

Just put a reminder in your chat sticky if people need one.

That's a good idea. We officers just kept spamming chat to make sure people took notice, which doesn't work when the chat is turned off. We missed the last 2 of them by 1-2 people, grew by 11 members and ended up with 20/50 this time. Very disappointing to my highly active crowd.

I know it's just a game, but I would really like to try it out. Making it more pronounced would draw more of a crowd, which brings in more money for CG/EA.

Varlie

I think that may make things worse for you. If you have several members who don't check in every day then they will most likely either miss the Defensive stage or the Attack phase as well. Either one will make it difficult to take first place.
Your best option is to find which players in the guild are interested in participating in the wars and use them. You will be set with a team that matches the GP of the participating players.

WhoVille_Sheriff

@Varlie The middle of the week is what kills us. All of us are career, family people who don't have much free time in the mid-week. Thursday through Sunday is usually a higher traffic time for us. Though we have a good 20 members who play all day long, myself included.

Liath

Varlie wrote: »

I think that may make things worse for you. If you have several members who don't check in every day then they will most likely either miss the Defensive stage or the Attack phase as well. Either one will make it difficult to take first place.

The difference between first and second place isn't that big. The OP isn't getting to play at all, so I'm sure he would be happy with second place rewards vs. no rewards.

Varlie

OH, I see. He's not hitting the minimum participation number. Yeah, some rewards to beat no rewards. I think Liath's idea of setting the Guild Message as a reminder is probably the best idea.

WhoVille_Sheriff

Liath wrote: »

Varlie wrote: »

I think that may make things worse for you. If you have several members who don't check in every day then they will most likely either miss the Defensive stage or the Attack phase as well. Either one will make it difficult to take first place.

The difference between first and second place isn't that big. The OP isn't getting to play at all, so I'm sure he would be happy with second place rewards vs. no rewards.

Yes, a mere chance would be nice. We have the people, but apparently need more than 24 hrs to gather them for registration.

@Sirlagzalott Registration period doesn't change any of the activities inside of TW. Once you register, you simply wait for the flag to drop, right?

Liath

WhoVille_Sheriff wrote: »

@Sirlagzalott Registration period doesn't change any of the activities inside of TW. Once you register, you simply wait for the flag to drop, right?

Yes, but the issue, at least for me, is that the total rewards we get across these events is dependent on how many of them are run in a set period of time. Increasing the time TW takes likely means a longer time before the next TB, which is where the better rewards are.

WhoVille_Sheriff

Liath wrote: »

Yes, but the issue, at least for me, is that the total rewards we get across these events is dependent on how many of them are run in a set period of time. Increasing the time TW takes likely means a longer time before the next TB, which is where the better rewards are.

Registration could overlap, I thought. Seems that wouldn't hurt anything in terms of activities in TB or TW. If they overlapped registration phase, then guild officers would have extra time to prepare if needed.

Perhaps I am missing something? My lack of experience with Territory Wars is probably showing.

RivanSunslayer

I'm an officer in my guild and we're having the same problem. We've got 30 members over lvl 65 (most are lvl 85), but not everyone logs in on a 24 hour basis, but most do every 48 hours. The last 2 Wars we've had 21 people sign up. I'm all over Guild Chat and our leader leaves a reminder message up. When there was the longer sign-up period with the first one we got enough members to do it and even registered a Flawless Victory. If the game developers could maybe just extend the sign up to 48 hours, it might help the casual but competitive guilds participate. Hopefully another day for sign up wouldn't bother people too much.

Liath

WhoVille_Sheriff wrote: »

Liath wrote: »

Yes, but the issue, at least for me, is that the total rewards we get across these events is dependent on how many of them are run in a set period of time. Increasing the time TW takes likely means a longer time before the next TB, which is where the better rewards are.

Registration could overlap, I thought. Seems that wouldn't hurt anything in terms of activities in TB or TW. If they overlapped registration phase, then guild officers would have extra time to prepare if needed.

Perhaps I am missing something? My lack of experience with Territory Wars is probably showing.

It can overlap TB, but I don't know that they are allowing it to overlap another TW, which is an issue since they are planning two TW in a row each time. There's also been a large amount of complaining about the overlap because people want time to switch guilds/bring in new people in between, which would delay things further.

I would also be perfectly happy if they got rid of the notion of two TW in a row in order to have more TB. But my guild seems to be in the minority in hating TW.

StarSon

Liath wrote: »

WhoVille_Sheriff wrote: »

Liath wrote: »

Yes, but the issue, at least for me, is that the total rewards we get across these events is dependent on how many of them are run in a set period of time. Increasing the time TW takes likely means a longer time before the next TB, which is where the better rewards are.

Registration could overlap, I thought. Seems that wouldn't hurt anything in terms of activities in TB or TW. If they overlapped registration phase, then guild officers would have extra time to prepare if needed.

Perhaps I am missing something? My lack of experience with Territory Wars is probably showing.

It can overlap TB, but I don't know that they are allowing it to overlap another TW, which is an issue since they are planning two TW in a row each time. There's also been a large amount of complaining about the overlap because people want time to switch guilds/bring in new people in between, which would delay things further.

I would also be perfectly happy if they got rid of the notion of two TW in a row in order to have more TB. But my guild seems to be in the minority in hating TW.

If you join a guild after preview starts you can still join TW, you just have to be in before Defense starts.

Tinks

The problem is that those who log in don't see the war event. On Android at least, from the main screen you can get directly to a battle that may be running prior to the war. You don't see that there is an upcoming war event.

Shaolin_Fantastic_1

Yeah I'm quitting my guild it doesn't matter if it was three days they won't do it I even said just join u don't have to play still second tw we missed so I asked to be demoted told the guild leader to promote another player who played every day and after the raid I'm finding another guild. U have to look at the guild and see if it's a right fit for u. I love causal guild I know stuff happens but if I look at the last activity and u were on and didn't check the chat and didn't join yeah I need and probably u need to move on. I like some of the people who actually chat some live in other countries which was cool but it semi free stuff for the tw and we missed it twice.

Nacrum

For me, 24h is already too long as it is.

I understand why it’s that long though and its good.

Making it longer to enable casuals to get better rewards thanks to more of their super casual guildies being able to sign up seems kinda pointless tbh.

If you want higher participation the answer is to get another guild, not to slow everything down for the rest of us.

WhoVille_Sheriff

I'm the guild leader and refuse to let down my group. I understand anticipation is something that some of us struggle to deal with, hence the lack of patience. Registration takes no effort from anyone leading the activities, so having it run an extra day (especially when in the middle of the work week) would allow a higher participation. I still see no evil in that. Not sure how it would be a hardship (assuming it just overlapped with the end of the previous activity).

Invalid_

It’s already 24 hours. Maybe you need active members.

Vladamera_69

Luckily, you guilds that don't see a need to find a way to accommodate guilds that are having trouble reaching 25 players don't make the rules. CAPITAL, EA Why does 25 have to be the requiement, why not 20?

WhoVille_Sheriff

We hit 29 signees and are able to participate this time!

I saw a post about why they chose 25 minimum, but I don't remember which post it was under. Something about squads for offense and defense.

The rewards are also clearly scaled for big, experienced guilds with hefty rosters... 20 members would almost be worthless based on the payouts. Unless you had 20 x 3 mil+ accounts.

I still think preview phase could be longer for everyone. It hurts nothing and allows us to put down the game to keep our jobs or families intact (higher priorities for most).