Developer News 2/3/17

nice.. looking forward to a new map. tnx for the update Strayed.

Fantastic news! Yes I'm concerned about losing daily tasks but really hopeful about the league system. And a new map!

Any word on when these features might come out?

Will league system be rolled out as part of v2.6?

I'm a bit worried about the league system. It seems to favor clans, so what about DPI players?
Loop Stratos is a good example. How do non clan players fit in a league system?

DPI: Damn proud independent

Any reason they can't do both?...  daily tasks would give building players a chance to earn some au to build themselves.  League play would reward the players for actually doing it and growing their accounts.  This would be specially true if the league play rewards are tiered. 

Just a way of separating players into comparable groups.  In the old MM, we called them tiers....now they will be called leagues.

My the best estimate is that your performance score will drive the league classification....every 5 games you will be re-evaluated on what league you should be in.  The theory is then you fight other players in your league in matches.  And then rewards are higher as you go up in leagues.

Timing:  hopefully with 2.6 update coming out

New MM explanation:  war-robots-forum.freeforums.net/thread/1719/new-explained-theory-experience-updated

As a clan member, I have more concerns about the league system as I think it will fragment current clans as members will be placed in different leagues.  In the old system, we could stay within bronze or silver or gold....now the new MM may make it difficult to be so static.  

So clans will have to rethink who or what they are and that will affect their rosters.....

I don't see clans benefiting from leagues any differently than under the old tiers system.  I think it will depend on how many leagues they have - if they have 5-8 leagues, then you will see clans focused on certain leagues.....may make feeder clans even more important so players can move within one overall clan but find plenty of clan mates to squad with.

Cheers!

Well, the leagues, I usually have to watch, are soccer. So I, falsely, assumed, that it is primary for squads...

I've written this on the facebook page, which runs under moderationwe'll see if they will publish it or delete it:

"Greetings

From the wikia forum, we read this:

"League system: There will be higher rewards for climbing to higher divisions. Pixonic is planning on taking out Missions(The daily task system that gives out 30 or 40 gold depending on the task you do). Pixonic wants the league system to do what the daily task system was originally supposed to do(reward higher tier play) but better."

I strongly beg to reconsider this insensate position.

Already with the new MM, most players have no real way to earn gold but completing the daily missions. This allows for a slow build of decent hangars even for not paying players. If newbies and free players will see no clear way to play in a minimally competitive way without essentially having to pay cash for gold, they will simply leave (to be noted, the frustration with the new MM is already palpable).

Now, I do understand Pix is not a charity company and is looking for money, and bless you for that. However, the game need a large number of players to stay interesting and essentially crushing free-for-play players' hopes of being able to slowly grinding their way to a few gold bots might perhaps give you a brief boost of cash in the short term, but is going to be devastaingly bad in the mid term.

Please, reconsider this."

Also, since I just noticed that they seem to have outight disabled teh visitors' posts, I've added it in a comment here

How do you get a reliable elo score let alone a handicap when "tanking" is still rambant? In most sports leagues with handicaps sandbagging your handicap (tanking), is illegal,as is throwing games do get an easier schedule. Won't this issue need to be dealt with first?

Missions are not the same thing as the daily tasks. They're talking about those "pilot of the day/week/month" awards. I don't think they're taking away the daily tasks, unless you have inside knowledge that differs from what's in this Pixonic blog post: warrobots/new-matchmaking-what-it-is-all-about-and-whats-next-69698fcc7929#.uc4va5jlz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">medium.com/warrobots/new-matchmaking-what-it-is-all-about-and-whats-next-69698fcc7929#.uc4va5jlz

"Last, but not least: we want to give you better rewards for improving. It was the initial intent of the “missions” system, but as it turned out only a small handful of people could have access to “Best pilot of the day/week/month” rewards. And those who went to the extremes and managed to do so weren’t even acknowledged as deserved. With the introduction of Leagues system, which is deeply intertwined with new matchmaking, everything is going to change."

Thank you for that clarification. Those rewards are indeed called missions. I think most of us erroneously confused tasks and missions.

Then it's a complete mess of illogic and inconsistency from Pixonic. There is something in the game that's called "Missions" - pilot of the day/week/month - and that seems clearly designed to attempt to "reward higher tier play". Daily tasks are not called "Missions", and have nothing to do with higher tier play. And what I quoted above was Pixonic's own words, and was clearly talking about Missions, and didn't mention daily tasks.

Don't bother emailing pix about the game and how it sucks now, you will just get a generic reply, my whole clan got the exact same reply..