War pity

Can we talk about pity in war. Why is this a thing?

 

Yesterday about 1h 40min into the season Desolate Valley attack would cost us 35600 emeralds, what a bs

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As we continued to defend our terrs, pity was activating on more and more guilds to eventually make it impossible to defend

 

So did Wynn just decide to add this "feature" to just avoid draining terra and essentially go for hq snipes??? I don't really understand why this was added.

 

I don't understand either

 

depends on the guild attacking tbh, if the guild is really strong and completely steamrolls the defending guild, the defender cant really retaliate back since their attacks cost 32k which drains their ems quickly

not directly related to the topic but there was a 15 day war between 2 alliances last season check it out tho

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i think the general consensus is that pity completely stomps an attackers/defenders chances of winning (depending on who it procs on) and its not really fun when your guild auto-losses because you ran out of emeralds and cant continue warring. the massive fight the last 3 weeks did not involve pity yet it still went very well, although it was due to the megaalliance splitting and thats just the guild climate changing, which takes a while and cant really be forced

im curious as to what was changed since pity had been gone since 1.20.3 first dropped and it came back really hard this season without a mention in patch notes

 

i think one of the main issues right now is that there's no real reward for being off-map, and there's not a real reason to engage in a large-scale conflict like the one that just happened/is still ongoing besides boredom or for the possibility of getting a claim (which doesn't help the overall climate). i'd also argue it's way too easy for allies to prop each other up, mostly via the sending/tributing of resources.

tl;dr - there's very little reason to be off-map, especially if you want to actually benefit from territory benefits. it's also really difficult to uproot an alliance that's holding, even if you wipe 1-2 guilds on the map, it doesn't take much for other allied guilds to prop them back up. these imbalances contribute to the dead attacker scene, which only snowballs the defender/map holding issue.

basically its easier and profitable to perpetuate the status quo which only snowballs the issues above which makes it even harder to go against the status quo until some sorta shake up happens in those who hold the map.

also if you're trying to encourage multiple smaller guilds to attack at once, that's just gonna lead to sub spam. (like what happened with that big conflict except with stalling)