Avatar Conquest/Unlock/Progression system - thoughts?

[Postino]

According to others honor upgrades are there.

And you're absolutely right Tomi, classic is the only option for competition

[Tomisama]

According to others honor upgrades are there.

And you're absolutely right Tomi, classic is the only option for competition

Oh yes, and they are there for all units, allowing instant pre-battle incremental modification to suit.

Choose your battlefield clan, your army, adjust upgrades, all for the specific battle being hosted.

You are not locked (or unlocked) into anything.

There is no leader board for Classic (what a shame), but community competitions have their own scoreboards.

Now; if they would only get it all working

[Tempiic]

Yes, sorta gunslinger.

And the fact that custom mp games don't have a ladder and that you can't see in the lobby which hosted games are custom and which are avatar ones, kinda is a bit of an annoyance as well. But it would be much bearable if team MM would be much workable and would stop hosting at small unit sizes.

I also don't like the hero units, the great guard cav unit, and the cannon bune.

[Kocmoc]

Siege battles with huge units will be interesting. If I think about it, you wont get many units on the walls, right now i only played with small, but that could be a big spoiler.

[Sp00n]

I find the Avatar hugely addictive tbh and its obviously the way they are going with the Classic side being so limited, Ive seen very few playing classic which is sad but things move on, in terms of tournys it will be interesting to see how many embrace Classic or if Avatar based is the wish of the masses, time will tell I guess.

[Tomisama]

Clan Wars "may" offer both Avatar and Classic, and see how it goes.

But again, they both have to work for at least 3v3 first

It may be a case of which ever one works first


The problem I see with an Avatar Contest, is when not all players are the same level.

There is the enevatable delema waiting where a Team with less than all upgrades for all of its members is fighting one with more, and claims that the match was not fair.

What do you do with that?

Without same-unit availability balance, how can you have a creditable test of skills?

These contests are major undertakings for serious Clans.

Do you think that they will just toss it off to poor luck?

Multiplayer contests like any sporting event in the world, must have verifiable equal access to advantages, otherwise they will not happen at all.

I am totaly for the Avatar Map competitions and Leaderboards, and the non Match Made Avatar pick-up games, they are great fun and provide an introduction gateway to multiplayer for untold thousands of players.

But if they are not verifiably balanced (all players at the same level), they can not provide a bonified proof of the skills of one team over another, at a particular point in time.

Am I wrong?

[AggonyKing]

Lower level Avatars definitely have problems against higher level avatars. No matter how much the cost difference between avatars is. Not only that but also the vets you build could either be stronger or weaker than the vets your opponent has build. I do think there's way more chances for tactical builds on conquest mode. BUt classic mode does have a more level playing field.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Siege battles with huge units will be interesting. If I think about it, you wont get many units on the walls, right now i only played with small, but that could be a big spoiler.

I played them with Large units and yes Kocmoc, even with Large you can't get as many on the walls though I don't know about Ultra though.

[Kocmoc]

According to others honor upgrades are there.

And you're absolutely right Tomi, classic is the only option for competition

actual its about fun and i see many people enjoying vets and tweaking their army.
That classic is the only option to play a competition I heavily doubt!