July Event and Future Seasons

1984BigBrother: Tankers, I have made my decision and NA will be pushing forward with the new features. I made this decision after reading through the comments and talking with a lot of players that played 1.0. The main reason I made this decision is without chips it would not be like 1.0, I don't think anything we implemented would have the same feel as the original map. I would like to take some time to talk about a few of the other things brought up in this thread: Simplicity - I sort of agree with all of you, I think there should be a very simple way for clans that will have a hard time getting on the map to perform in actions that 1. affect the map 2. earn them gold, we have been working out how to make this a possibility and the best luck we have had is with the convoy system. For the top clans, I can almost guarantee the with new development the map will be more complex (or at least have that perception). We have more developers working on CW then ever before (which I think is a great thing) we are going to try a lot of new things compared to the previous 5 years some will be more successful than others. The Alliance Mechanic -  Some of you may not like to hear this, but the Alliance Mechanic has been a wild success in my eyes. The first part of my conference was about numbers before and after Alliances. We found that this mechanic not only increases the number of clans that played on the map but also increased the number of clans that earned at least 10,000 and 25,000 gold throughout the season, it also drastically increased the number of battles that happened on the server during the season. I am really trying this season without the mechanic to see if we lose those gains or if there are other factors that play into this. Reward Tanks - Reward tanks only have and only will be available during campaigns. I don't know where the confusion is coming from but this is how it will always work.  The time between seasons - This is a very hot topic for me. I totally agree there should be clan activities other than strongholds available during the whole year. Currently, we are basically planning all of our big activities around other events that are happening on the server which will continue but we are looking at the possibility of reopening the "Training Map" (it would basically be another front) in Antarctica, this would be open 365 (minus freezes days for patches) and would "replace" the 0 gold provinces we tried last season. This is basically a small step toward the goal of having CW available all year. As always I really appreciate the all of your time and I look forward to delivering you all a better system in the future. GL HF, Big