Someone told me that my team is top heavy. I don't disagree. Our top three players are: 92k, 22k (me), and 10k. After that it ranges from 7k to 1k. I have always suspected that our high end player maybe skews wars against us. Is that the case? Typically our lower end players do have a harder time.

It's better to have all members in a team with almost same mp imo because match making may have something to do with total MP so your high MP players are the reason you are finding a team with Average MP almost equals to your team but that team may have well balanced team members so it's easy for high MP players and very difficult for low MP players imo...

I am in a team where I can only actually fight 2 matches this war. :(
I just won them both, but I cannot even attempt the remaining 23 nodes.

@Clackers said in Top Heavy:

I am in a team where I can only actually fight 2 matches this war. :(
I just won them both, but I cannot even attempt the remaining 23 nodes.

What has the 2 fights in war have to do do with finish the 23 nodes and with this topic?

@Marianne-van-Es It means I am also in a top heavy team.

@Clackers oh you can't attack one of the other 23 islands ok, I understand we have this sometimes too but we say to our lower level just try nothing is lost by trying you may get lucky.

@kavish-madaan said in Top Heavy:

It's better to have all members in a team with almost same mp imo because match making may have something to do with total MP so your high MP players are the reason you are finding a team with Average MP almost equals to your team but that team may have well balanced team members so it's easy for high MP players and very difficult for low MP players imo...

We tend to notice something similar, but the more we have fought we come to many other teams that are also top heavy.

@Kaiju My team is lil bit like "Top Heavy " too. I think it's too hard to recruit all same mp players or even reject high mp players. But I recommend keep uplifting your mp requirements once in a while like in a month or in 2 weeks and keep recruiting 😉

@kavish-madaan said in Top Heavy:

@Kaiju My team is lil bit like "Top Heavy " too. I think it's too hard to recruit all same mp players or even reject high mp players. But I recommend keep uplifting your mp requirements once in a while like in a month or in 2 weeks and keep recruiting 😉

That's exactly what I do. I think I was lead for a couple of months before I could make it 500. Then a few months later it went to 1000. Just recently it went to 1500, but even that is not hard and fast. Maybe I moved to soon? But it is HARD to recruit, especially when you don't do B2B wars. We take a day off in-between, but I think many people just blow us off because of that.

@Kaiju Use discord app and fb messenger or other social app to recruit loyal and active players... Communication really helps a lot

@Kaiju said in Top Heavy:

Someone told me that my team is top heavy. I don't disagree. Our top three players are: 92k, 22k (me), and 10k. After that it ranges from 7k to 1k. I have always suspected that our high end player maybe skews wars against us. Is that the case? Typically our lower end players do have a harder time.

If your top player makes up 50% of your total MP then you have a real problem. Either that player needs to take some drastic measures to reduce MP or you need to think about replacing him. If his strength is what his MP suggests, he would probably be better off in a stronger team anyway whilst you would benefit from fairer matches without him!!!

@Kaiju I can't see how any but the top teams would not be top heavy. I think monster power is a poor judge of power. If you do not have at least one of every book at level 100 with level 4 runes or better, you are not likely to be an important factor in battle except on newly formed teams, obviously the first goal is getting three lv 100s for dungeons, then maybe a different three-6 for pvp. If you are not using lv 100's your monster power doesn't matter . I have seen members trying to join team that have all sub 100"s and yet have higher monster power than someone with a few 100's. The sad thing is that way to many people can't seem to grasp that you need to build for high enough gold flow to constantly grow food non stop. If you have been playing very long, your monster power and your level will naturally go up fairly fast....

@kavish-madaan said in Top Heavy:

@Kaiju Use discord app and fb messenger or other social app to recruit loyal and active players... Communication really helps a lot

Thanks I use Discord, but can't get my team-mates to all join. I can't use Messenger, but I still have a dumb phone, unless..can I install it on a tablet?

@David-ML said in Top Heavy:

If your top player makes up 50% of your total MP then you have a real problem. Either that player needs to take some drastic measures to reduce MP or you need to think about replacing him. If his strength is what his MP suggests, he would probably be better off in a stronger team anyway whilst you would benefit from fairer matches without him!!!

She would be better off on another team, but she is also family, so I have a hard time kicking her.

@Kaiju said in Top Heavy:

She would be better off on another team, but she is also family, so I have a hard time kicking her.

LOL but maybe reducing her mp isnt a bad idea, and I looked at your log you win some and you lose some not really bad log I say

@Marianne-van-Es said in Top Heavy:

LOL but maybe reducing her mp isnt a bad idea, and I looked at your log you win some and you lose some not really bad log I say

So she has been playing for 4 years. She is out of space, and can no longer hatch monsters. I am pretty sure she (Crashorama, aka Crash) qualifies as a collector. As I understand it, the only way to reduce MP is to get rid of monsters right? Somehow I don't anticipate that going over well.

Thanks BTW for your opinion on our war log. We have a lot of room for improvement if we could just get higher participation. That is another reason to not get rid of Crash is that I can count on her for 5 battles.

Thanks everyone for all of the comments and suggestions! It all helps! You people are my only sounding board to see whether what my team is doing is the norm or not.

@Kaiju said in Top Heavy:

So she has been playing for 4 years. She is out of space, and can no longer hatch monsters. I am pretty sure she (Crashorama, aka Crash) qualifies as a collector. As I understand it, the only way to reduce MP is to get rid of monsters right? Somehow I don't anticipate that going over well.

I totally understand, It looks a bit like my own Monstagram, but what she could do is get rid of easily breedable ranked monsters if they are also max leveled because the mp of those have a pretty big impact on your total mp.
But that said i don't think I would do that myself because it's a lot of work to get them to that point.
So hopefully that storage comes soon and monsters that you put in there will drop the mp if they also not can give gold

@Kaiju yea I am pretty sure you can.. I use messenger and discord on my tab

@Kaiju said in Top Heavy:

@David-ML said in Top Heavy:

If your top player makes up 50% of your total MP then you have a real problem. Either that player needs to take some drastic measures to reduce MP or you need to think about replacing him. If his strength is what his MP suggests, he would probably be better off in a stronger team anyway whilst you would benefit from fairer matches without him!!!

She would be better off on another team, but she is also family, so I have a hard time kicking her.

I can understand that this is difficult. We have removed on two occasions long term members as they just couldn't keep up and became a liability for the team. We explained the situation and luckily they understood and we parted ways. Maybe start an open conversation and see where it leads....