EDIT: It's over! You can watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/1MpTFhudlV4

Please join me for an Ask-me-anything session live on twitch!

Thursday at noon PST. See this link for the time in your local time zone: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2022-10-27+noon+PST

I'll be answering questions from the community live on twitch at https://twitch.tv/FizzerWL

If you can't make it but still have a question, leave it as a reply in this thread and I'll go over it on stream. You can view the recording after it's over.

Edited 10/28/2022 02:24:31

countdown for those living in various other time zones: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=time+until+Thursday%2C+October+27%2C+2022+at+noon+Pacific+Time

Thursday @ noon in Pacific time is:
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- 9pm in Berlin
- 10pm in Moscow
- Friday 12:30am in Delhi
- Friday 3am in Beijing
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Some questions:
1) What's your favorite Warzone Clan feature?
2) Which feature has most exceeded your expectations (in terms of how the community has used it)?
3) How'd you decide which level Commanders would unlock at?
4) Is the "intel move" Rufus discovered (https://www.warzone.com/Forum/652358-warzone-secret-want-know) a bug?

Edited 10/26/2022 21:41:13

Why no multi day clan wars?

To popularize use of mods, I demand a cw template that uses the fort or tank mod. Is this possible?

Can we do a community contest for a new cw template that must use mods? :)

Is the Warzone Trophy still awarded? And what is the criteria that makes a map beautiful?

is as the saying goes

beauty is in the eyes of the fizzholder

@Alphazomgyy
There are
a) a community effort to change CW format. Discord link: https://discord.gg/gSwXSK2D
For me, the most severe CW problems are:
1) Matchmaking. If a clan has a very low CW rating and 2 players from that clan join the same template, they are nearly guaranteed to have one of them not have a game (and no free win); regardless of how many opponents there are present.
2) Rewards. Near the end of seasons, ranking is almost set in stone, meaning that there is very little reward for continuing to participate (this seems to be solved by shorter seasons). Everybody with at least 1 win gets the same rewards. This means in a clan, there can be a group of people playing 20 games and a group of people playing 1 game, both receiving the same rewards.
3) Supports spite. If you make a big cooperative game/ event, you should make sure that nobody can hurt their group by doing bad actions. The CW/ cap violates that principle. Several capped CW-focused clans were met with a decision whether to kick people from their clan who don't participate in CW. Harmony, and possibly other uncapped clans, suffer from the 40-player CW cap. We had players who join CW and then don't participate. What are you supposed to do with such players? On one hand, this behaviour damages the whole clan and cannot be tolerated; on the other hand, are we really supposed to punish people for showing interest in a clan event?


b) Modder community effort to make an open game slot, where certain templates with mods would be, joinable by anybody. Discord link: https://discord.gg/q6x5zfSa

Edited 10/27/2022 09:24:51

Does this twitch mean more Captain of Industry?

I made the following suggestion: https://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warzone-features/suggestions/45625777-secondary-open-seats. If it helps, I can mail friends and acquaintances to get 600 votes there.

Edited 10/26/2022 22:34:09

I would like to ask the following questions and would appreciate as best can be offered response. Sadly I can't participate in the stream and look forward to reviewing the recording

Idle: Instead of win the match for arena rewards, can it be play a match instead? Some templates are hard to get a win on for mediocre players like myself. I've pretty much given up from even trying when I see some template maps. If it cannot or prefer not to change, can the thought process on why the win is insisted be explained?

Idle: The +100 AP for superascension permanent reward feels underwhelming compared to all the other rewards. Can it be changed (not a rush but at some point? If it cannot, can the thought process on why it is the way it is be explained.

If a mod turns one client order into multiple orders into the server, is the move order preserved? I can’t test it right now.

If the move order isn’t preserved I could use multiple client orders instead.

Edit: answer is that move order is preserved

Edited 10/27/2022 20:28:43

1. What is your plan for custom images, aka whats next to get them. Im hoping for structures to avoid incompatibility as more mods use them.

2. reiterating what @καλλιστηι said, can we see some modded templates get rotated into open games, me and the other modders will be happy to create and test these templates before getting them public

3. whats the point of (mod print) in Mod Development tab, i never got it to work when testing mods on the browser, also couldnt get reloading code to synch between browser and standalone client.

I will be working at that time, so I'll leave my question here. Considering that many people will want to ask, I believe it's fair to limit it to my main question.

What's the exact disadvantage of using an elo-based rating system (comparable to the MTL) in competitive formats like the 1 v 1 Ladder?

The mathematical argument provided in the past that the player base was too small was proven wrong repeatedly by example ratings (players downloaded all 1 v 1 Ladder games and ranked them with different versions of elo, creating greatly fairer results than the currently used BayesElo), as well as by the very existence and functionality of the MTL, which has an even smaller player base.

Thank you in anticipation :)

it'll be 3am here, so ask this for me:
Have you ever considered changing the controversial Clan wars system or the clan cap?
Is it okay for those several templates to dominate QM and CW for that long? Ever considered a change?

@fizzer Do you like tanks?

TANNNKKKSSSS!

Edit1: tankssssss


Edited 10/27/2022 20:34:06

Actual Question:

the only unlockable thing on https://www.warzone.com/Unlockables that is unavailable to members is the idle SuperCamp, as of present there is no idle advantages for buying a membership. Could we get like unlocked for members?

Edited 10/27/2022 20:35:32

Shouldnt there be more screws used to craft higher-developed items in idle? (I am not sure how this things hold together 🤔)

Edited 10/27/2022 15:31:21

nah, they are meant to be one time use. That's why you need so many of those higher-developed items :)

1. Will the Elitist Africa template in QM ever be update to have the newer version of the map?

2. While on the topic of outdated things in QM, how about making Template Votes expire when a user is inactive for more than a year? Right now, its very hard for new templates to get high enough into QM, which is unfortunate since some new templates like Trippel-Tafl would be cool to actually play in QM.

Could it be possible in the future to have a voting list in QM for members only. This list would only include templates that members can play on and as such only members can vote on. For members, the top 3 (for example) of this list are added to the total amount of playable templates on QM.

This way members can have some special templates like ME Swapped Picks. Atm the non-member majority is simply too big to overcome in votes for members.
It would allow members to get a small extra advantage from their membership, while also having a visible display (the membership voting list) for non-members so they get a little bit more of an incentive to buy the membership (and/or maybe the strat pack or something).