Title is pretty direct

I make tournaments a lot, often for a lot of coins and the settings always allow for a maximum fill time of 1 day before the tourney starts.

Today I made a coin tournament mainly for Hawks and Nestlings members but for anyone interested, but it might be difficult to fill the tournament in just 1 day and I don't want it to be filled with byes. A lot of our clan members aren't on everyday but could easily make it to my tournament if they just had a little more time than 1 day to join. :/

I think the max fill time should be increased to at least 2 days to give people more time to join these tournaments. I think that's more than reasonable.

If people disagree that's fine :)

Edited 12/11/2023 02:06:46

I feel this is part of the same flawed thinking that made Fizzer reduce the boot times in ladders first to 1d and now to 1d12h. He believes (and said at multiple occasions) that anyone playing MD games should be up for logging in daily, which is a thing you absolutely can't expect even from the most ambitious players. Once he acknowledges it won't work like that, he'll fix the other problematic features that force you to log in daily as well.

Edited 12/11/2023 03:32:15

Its 2023! Personally i think its not to demanding that in the near future, everyone gets a wz-chip implanted directly into their brain, allowing them to be online 24/7. At that point, you shall play 2 real-time games in parallel at any moment in order to keep your account.
A break will be granted during night time, where ads will be played that will subconsciously influence your dreams and you will wake up with a burning desire to meet singles in your area (idk what ads are on wz, cool kids have membership)

Yes I complained about this to Fizzer but he said it is simply because of server costs and to reduce spam. He doesn’t really care

I would 100% create more tournaments, and this would allow planning real-time tournaments ahead of time, a nice luxury.

3 days boot is default for making games. 1 day 12 hours with 1 day 12 hours banked and 4 hours per day is for ladders. I'm not sure what it is for multiday QM.

Default time for it to start should be the largest boot times at minimum.

I don't see why someone shouldn't be able to schedule a tournament to start in a week in advance. 1 day isnt always enough time for people to actually join.

You should be able to play MD games when you are able to, it's in the name. It's even advertised as "Asynchronous games: Warzone games can be played at your own pace. Your friends don't need to be all be online at the same time to play with them. Take your turns when it's convenient and Warzone will wait for you." on the about page. Tournaments extend multiday games. Boot times for multiday can never be more than 100 days, so time for max time for tournaments to fill should be that. When the tournament starts at minimum should be the lowest boot time for the template or what is used when making the tournament.

There is probably a good compromise between 1 day and low server costs vs 100 day and more user created tournaments.

Tournaments are less common than MD QM games and ladder games. Surely there’s higher server costs for them than tournaments. And MD QM is something new players are automatically added to first time they visit the QM page. Would save server resources to not auto enrol them on those games because they get given games they didn’t necessarily sign up for.

I think that lots of people here don't fully understand the fill-up rules of the tournaments, thus the complaints, imho, are aimed to a wrong issue.

- You can have a tournament with fill up time of weeks (maybe months), if that is not a coin tournament.
- The 1-day fill up restriction only applies to coin tournaments.

So, in my opinion, the question is "why is there no choice of how to make the coin tournaments"? Probably, because they are advertised in global chat and on the public tournament dashboard, so the follow-up is "do we want the public tournaments page to be full of unfilled tournaments"? (for a similar question of mega games, Fizzer's response was "No")

@Pink Hawk, if you are doing a tournament for friends (or people, that trust you); just make the tournament itself a non-coin one with a fill-up time of your choice; state the prizes in the description; and then, after the tournament ends, just distribute the prizes via dedicated coin games.

About 300 of 512 people joined https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=55182 and that’s with 1000 coin prize, advertising in forum and allowing invites to be forwarded. Probably got spread through discords as well.

Chances are, if there were a few more days of it to start, it would have been full.