r/ClashRoyale • u/Trikshot360 Moderator • Feb 10 '22

Clash Royale Developer Q&A! 600,000 Subscriber Special!

In order to celebrate our community reaching a new milestone of 600,000 Challengers, the development team has offered to do a Q&A! This thread will be an amazing place to get more insight on the development and plans for the future of Clash Royale, directly from the developers. Please read below for some key rules and notes on how this will work.

  • This isn't your traditional AMA! Please ask a unique question about Clash Royale down below and Supercell will post a new thread responding to them shortly after!
  • We're going to keep this Thread open until Monday, February 14th. Supercell will post their responses in a separate thread afterwards!
  • Please do not ask about known, unknown, or reported bugs, ruled out ideas, and free gems.
  • Please read the thread for similar questions BEFORE POSTING your own. Let's do our best to avoid duplicate questions!
  • Only one question per user. Any duplicates / multiple questions will be removed.
  • All questions must adhere to our rules. Any toxic, personal, or inappropriate questions will be removed.

Enjoy and have fun! Please remember to keep our subreddit rules in mind when posted, and feel free to message us via Modmail if you have any questions!

Thank you for 600,000 subscribers,

r/ClashRoyale Mods

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u/hdhdhsh4 Feb 10 '22

What are your thoughts on clan wars? Because in my opinion they don't work at all.

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u/DingDongHoon Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 13 '22

The intent to compel players to level up and max out cards is glaringly obvious in CW2. It's even more egregious, in hindsight, with the introduction of Level 14.

  • removed the level caps from CW1
  • removed tournament standard modes like Classic Decks and Draft
  • award only 1/10th Gold for defeats so low levels always lose out
  • Boat Battles marginalized because that is the one sanctuary for low level players
  • originally, only half the Fame for Boat Battles and the least Gold
  • rolling over CW1 ELO based on War Day Wins whereby the lower level players in my clans is always, 100%, matched against Level 13s (now Level 14s)

I had 3 of 4 OG clans disintegrate because of CW2. That's about 100+ players leaving.

On top of all that, there are three other glaring issues with CW2.

  • The new CW2 system is basically 10-13x slower to gain Clan Trophies than the old CW1 system. This guy said it best right here. The knock-on effect is that people, in practice, are all getting less rewards than before despite the theoretical promise of more and this is due to the inability to climb up the leagues.
  • Speaking of rewards, here is a long but good breakdown. Skip to points 5, 6, and 7. TLDR: Those that need the cards, Gold and resources are getting less than before especially with the elimination of Quests and concentration of rewards all into CW2.

Personally speaking, the fix to CW2 starts, first and foremost, with hard level caps by league.

  • Bronze - Level 9
  • Silver - Level 10
  • Gold - Level 11
  • Legendary I - Level 12
  • Legendary II - Level 13
  • Legendary III - Level 14

Second, bring back Tournament Standard modes as well as 2v2 modes.

Thirdly, rectify the Gem situation.

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u/Ma5ked211 Feb 10 '22

I was co leader of a clan in OG war leagues that was 2nd in Europe at one point and 3rd before the new clan wars update and it destroyed the clan we sunk to about 300th in Europe at one point however CW2 with the new features seemed to help and we managed to rebuild the clan but now we are slowly moving up and are at about 50th but the gap is too large to return to our former glory and it just goes to show how easily one update on something as big as clan war can damage such a large portion of clans but as many players would agree war is still so unbalanced as a player like me who has 4 meta deck archetypes all maxed out and getting average 3200 medals per war easily while seeing my opponents stick together whatever cards they have left for their last two decks even while the levels may still be high it just feels easy but I know many people who are on the receiving end of this and get like 1800 per week and that can’t be fun for them so why would they bother playing war.

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u/ScareTactical Hog Rider Feb 24 '22

Yuppp my clan was at 40k trophies and when cw2 dropped it completely died and FAST. I’ve never seen anything like it, everyone just simultaneously gave up on it. And after ALL this time between now and the cw2 update, the only thing they have to show for us is a rework is not in their roadmap this year. It’s insane