Seasonal RW 'Ironman' tournaments

Just a thought, and it needs WAY more refinement/thought (not my strong suit these days) before it’s even really a suggestion, but wanted to put the format out there to see if anyone else had anything to add.

 

 

So, we all know RW is a great source of income, and real wars can be fun when you get a good matchup, but termed wars seem to be the way of Torn, and they’re quite boring. Matchups are lopsided, turtling is expensive and boring, but is of course a good strategy, and in the ranks below Diamond, it’s really dependent on who has the 2-3 highest stat players. All roads lead to termed wars for easy money. This is already common knowledge. 

I think it would be fun to have seasonal Ironman or death match bracketed tournaments. All voluntary, I’m sure that staff could use a metric like average battle stat score/faction size to put brackets together, etc.. kind of how RW is now.. but, ya know, not broken. 

Once it starts, it’d be a fast-paced game play. All players could start with 500 or 1000 or some arbitrary number of ‘war energy’ (independent of regular energy, maybe?), no self hosps, 10 minute max hosp timers, limited medical cooldown, and instead of having to have a large lead to win, first team to X score while holding Y lead (say, first to 1000 wth at least a 25 score lead). It could be over in hours. One loss (maybe 2?), you’re out till the next bracket. Winning teams goes on. On and on till the final bracket, and there could be multiple ‘leagues’ depending on faction strengths. 

As I said, I know there’s a ton of details that would need to be ironed out, and it’s a pipe dream anyways, but I think it would be fun.

 

Another, easier RW iteration I think would be fun would be allowing factions to team up. Two smaller factions link and enlist together, and get matched with two other factions that have enlisted together.

 

Idk, just think it’d be fun to refresh some of the competitive aspects of war. 

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But in all seriousness.

 

Matchups are lopsided, [...] and in the ranks below Diamond, it’s really dependent on who has the 2-3 highest stat players.

That is true right now, but as Pete made it pretty clear in [THIS] post, there's a significant change to matchmaking in the works that will take faction member battlestats into account when matchmaking.

 

All roads lead to termed wars for easy money

Not all roads, but as it currently stands, yes, it appears that most ranked wars are termed and not genuinely fought. Makes me sad, and I hope that changes. As a side note on the topic, Pete has said that the goal for fixing this is more focused on the carrot than the stick, so hopefully the rewards for making a genuine attempt at a war are a sweet little boost.

 

I think it would be fun to have seasonal Ironman or death match bracketed tournaments. All voluntary, I’m sure that staff could use a metric like average battle stat score/faction size to put brackets together, etc.. kind of how RW is now.. but, ya know, not broken. 

I'm generally in favour of large scale events, especially ones that encourage people to work together and build good rapport and teamworking skills (realizing that I sound like the HR representatives that drove me crazy for years with that sentence). I don't know that a special ranked war bracket is necessarily the best event for that, but a regular ranked war bracket, on the other hand...

 

All players could start with 500 or 1000 or some arbitrary number of ‘war energy’ (independent of regular energy, maybe?),

I know this isn't really the meat of the suggestion, but that's twice in a pretty short period that someone has suggested two separate energy pools, specifically for regular energy and war energy. I'm not loving this trend.

 

All in all, changes are coming to RW matchmaking, so keep at it and know that things will get better in the future, and I think the idea of having a regular ol' ranked war bracket for, say, just Diamond (or just the top performers in Diamond) would be quite neat.

 

#chedging

This just sounds like the elimination competition with extra steps. Would be cool as an individually run community event, like systoned’s poker ladder, but outside of that… 

 

i do think the paired up faction idea sounds cool, but again would have to be community driven. Not a bad idea, just on we already have in another form