welp, this is why I leave the wordplay to you.

Live Arena seems to be problematic sporadically with regards to location/providers/etc.

Siege just continues to be SLOOOOOOW for most folks, from what I can tell. 

Well, in my clan, 6 players with 7 accounts do show interest in taking part in a Siege.

If you do the math, you quickly realize the problem these players have. 

At the same time we are in the same clan for more than some years and basically do not want to switch clans.

How about the proposal to split the Siege? 

Bronze Siege with 3-10 players taking part?

Silver level with 11-20 players taking part

Gold level with 21-30 players taking part?

Adjust the size of the fortress and probably rewards as well and than some more small clans could take part.

*Cough*Getridofredbuttom*cough*

I agree implementation was not perfect by any means, but I think its great content that can be "easily" fixed to correct some of the errors in the upgrade/repair system etc.

I'm curious what others think needs to be improved?

NOT INCLUDING:

Better matchmaking

Better rewards 

In-game chat improvements

"Make it fair for inactive clans..." lol

I've been trying to think of how this could be fixed, and ultimately I think they just need to completely re-do how assignment of teams works, both on defense and on offense. I get that they're trying to encourage more involvement at the clan level, but the game simply is NOT designed for that to be practical, for so many reasons (*cough* chat system *cough*).

Instead what I would do is - for the defense side, have every player in the clan create two defense teams, and then have the clan leader/deputies assign those defense teams as they see fit. Similarly, for the resources, have all of the contributions of the players automatically be pooled, and have the leader/deputies assign them, instead of individual players. Realistically, this part of Siege is the least relevant for an individual anyway.

Over on the offense side, I think they should retain the interactiveness as far as combat is concerned - I don't think these should just automatically be resolved. But, I also think that choosing the fights individually is a bad idea, because participation is definitely not easy to either enforce or entice. What I would do instead is, similarly to the defense side, have each player in the clan come up with up to X offense teams - not sure the exact number, since I still haven't figured out how the mana tower rebattle system works. Then, the leader/deputies will pick from those teams and assign them to battle against specific enemy teams.

Once the team is assigned for battle, that player would get a notification ingame - maybe one of our favorite red icons or whatever - to indicate that they have a battle they need to fight. They'd have a certain amount of time to fight that battle - say, four hours from when it is assigned - after which the fight would just be fought automatically.

4 minutes seems fast, yes 😏 😏 

I've had to restart my client a few times this Siege and then upon restart the page loads fine - but then I have no timer left on my pick phase and need to restart the whole process again. 

😂

I have not had any issues with Siege loading.  However, I have at least two clan mates who insist they lost an attack scroll when the game went down yesterday while they were in a fight, and they did not get the scroll back.  Our Siege is gonna be a close one and every attack scroll feels like it matters this time.  

Kinda sux to lose them that way.  

Wanted to submit feedback that in Siege Events, it would be nice to see how many Attack Scrolls both Clans have used in total. Or at least on the Ranking's page. I can't tell if some of my clan members haven't used any scrolls or if they've just lost all their battles.

But yeah I'd also like to know how many scrolls the opponent has used. If I see our Stronghold is still standing and they've used 90, I can rest easier lol

Would definitely be nice to see nice, concise info for planning - especially in the later stages of Siege. 

I do believe iterations of this have been passed along, but will send this along again. 

Add in the fact you're currently being punished for upgrading your stronghold and it's DOA for me.

Hey Plarium!

Y'know what's really frickin' weird?

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I can click one of those to send a direct message to some random I faced once in live arena, but I have no way to send a DM to someone who's been a clanmate of mine for 3 years unless they check the clan chat and join the cluster discord.

Wouldn't it be nice if a game mode that relies heavily on clan communication also offered the same level of communication functionality that AOL instant messenger had in 1996?

So, for this second Siege, I'd say about 2/3s of the members of my 5 clan cluster just don't care.

People had to be nagged and cajoled to even bother taking literally 1 minute to set defenses.

The first one was effectively over in the first 6 hours, this one was a struggle to get people to even participate.

Players have been asking for better communication since game launch, with a renewed push from it since siege was introduced.

Pretty sure that not only will the devs not even consider it, but they'll try to give you the plague just for bringing it up.

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Okay, here's the part I don't understand:

Why is it if i restart Raid and go directly into Siege, I can start a battle just fine;

but if I did NOT restart the program immediately before trying to fight in siege it takes between 4 minutes to half an hour?

I don't understand programming, the very concept scares and confuses me, but I'm pretty sure something has to be pretty goddamn *wrong* for that to be happening.

We're almost 4 months in, and not only isn't there a fix, to my knowledge the devs haven't even acknowledged the issue.

I wonder what participation in Siege is like for the majority of clans. I can say that ours basically ignores it.

seeing that the red dot from it has become a permanent annoyance, ive almost missed participation a couple times now.

Yea im on a black listed discord we are in the top 30 all clan leaders are there that are in the top 30 including me and 98% of all of them are mad most of them ended like mine a tie no chest and mad lol 

Ah. Well, that was the reason. But, still, it's kinda odd - my two teams are indeed set, but they're the last in Group 3 and the first in Group 4 on the stronghold, however, none of the previous spots are occupied.

1) Feels strange that I wouldn't be able to re-assign my team (unless I can and I'm unaware of how to do that)

2) Also feels strange that it would automatically occupy the same positions as before, when nothing before it is occupied.

Wonder if it could be because I was in the middle of using it when block went up?

I'mma go back to hiding under the porch