Fort Battle Balancing Event

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Goober Pyle

The West Team
Fort Balancing Strategist
Howdy Cowboys and Cowgirls,

Note: This is an initiative to be voted on Colorado. If 51% of voters accept it, we will do the following:
The voting period is between: 2022-10-15 00:00 and 2022-10-18 10:00
Based on acceptance the imitative starting and ending time will be announced in this thread.


In this per-world Opt-In two week event/initiative, Sheriff John NPC will dig Daily battles at each medium fort with Join Restrictions.

Information:
  • For the duration of each battle, the designated fort will be reassigned to a GM town, set to not-capturable, and modified to have lowered structures.
  • We will contact through support system one owner of the fort which will be used and will ask them to confirm that they allow their fort to be used in this event. Accepting the request is voluntary.
  • Upon conclusion of the battle they will be restored to their original condition and returned to their owners.

Joining the battles:
  • The participation is voluntary. For each Battle, the join restrictions will use algorithmically determined line-ups attempting to identify potentially balanced distributions of towns between two virtual alliances - each player that has participated in a Fort Fight recently will be assigned to either attack or defend on a given day (every day it is selected).
  • Important! This does not mean that you will be subscribed for the battle, you will still need to join manually each battle (but you will be able to join only the side to which you have been assigned by the applied join restrictions).
  • Players that have not participated recently in any battle (since ~March 1st) will need to reach out to Goober Pyle to be added to the "guest lists" either in game or via support ticket and will remain on the guests lists for the rest of the event!
  • In case the fort will be full, it may happen that not everyone will be able to join. We are sorry for these possible inconveniences.

Additionally, the battle caps and tower levels will be adjusted as deemed appropriate to achieve filled battles with a target of Attackers having a 30-45% expectation of prevailing with a 1.1:1-1.2:1 ratio of attackers to defenders.

At the end of two weeks a proposed line up of new alliances will be offered and I will gladly answer any questions I can about the data I have generated. A Second poll will be run asking whether the world would like to adapt the battle caps and fort structures suggested by the data, and whether they would like to adopt the new alliances (if so they will need to undertake that part themselves).

Please note that this initiative was created in order to provide more balanced Fort Fights! Any questions regarding this should be sent in this topic or directly to the support team by selecting Contests & Fort Battles category. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!

Your The West Team
 

Goober Pyle

The West Team
Fort Balancing Strategist
This initiative was approved 496-202 (with 102 abstentions)

The first battle under this initiative Is anticipated to occur on Oct. 22
 
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