Clan Wars Past Their Prime? By Pat Willis#224534

There have been speculations going around  that clan wars may be wearing thin on a lot of players nerves of late. Arguments about proper division line ups is par for the course really, however now the new specialist position is under fire. People claiming it is a good way for the weak to hide, others say it allows for an even playing field with the defender setting the rules of engagement for the attacker. Both sides have their pros and cons, and I leave it to those with the patience to discuss such things to do so.

Personally I said over a year ago that we collectively would have this problem down the road, now it seems others are finally understanding what I was saying back then. I remember when Clan Wars were every three months or so, my first was CW III, then a few months down the road we had CW IV. Now we are seeing them every month and the big thing to wait on is Faction Wars. I posed this question before, I pose it again, "If every game is the Superbowl, then just how important is it when the actual Superbowl comes around?"

Are there ways of reviving these concepts to make them fresh and interesting? Perhaps, I have suggested for Faction Wars at least to go ahead and have clans pick one of the three factions to side with. They would in turn receive bonuses depending on the faction they sided with. Maybe one is pure offensive bonuses, one pure defensive, and one maybe a good balance of both. Divide the clans up with those choices and do elimination style fighting until only one remains. No Divisions just pure Factions and their sides, welcome to thunder dome kinda fight.

Clan Wars however I don't know, the divisions keep shifting, no one can agree on specialists, every war someone is complaining they are in the wrong division, and even divisions themselves being manipulated by ALTS and screwing entire divisions over. That's a whole lotta broken to fix, but I do not have the answers for that, and if I did would they be taken seriously anyways? So I leave it to you loyal reader what should be done? The elephant in the room is exposed and has been for some time but many choose to gloss over it. Anyone got any good ideas? Present em to Chef see what says, see if they are doable. I write this to bring attention to the matter not just to bitch about it. I also left a suggestion or two of my own for part of the problems that are being seen. So guys and gals how about it? Suggestions, ideas, new concepts to bring up pertaining to this? If so hell it can't hurt to bring em up and lets see what happens.

 Submitted by Pat Willis#224534