Not a Bug [12287] Tournament level 1 - enemy squad size is 85% instead of 75%

[Dony]

Game version: v1.18.3-(ed3dc9d) (2016-11-10 9:45)
Game world: Beta1
Browser + version: Firefox 49.0.2
Flash Player version: 23.0.0.207
Operating System: Windows 10
Screen resolution: 1920x1080
Account name: Dony
Humans or Elves: Elves

Reproducibility: 5/5 (1/5 = happened once; 2/5 = happens randomly; 3/5 = happens sometimes; 4/5 = happens often, but not always; 5/5 = happens always)

Quest title: none (if applicable)

Current situation:
Patch note state that Tournament level 1 enemy squad size should be 75% of my squad size
Province 1:
5v5 battle: 36 player squad size versus 31 enemy squad size = 86,11%
Province 2:
5v5 battle: 48 player squad size versus 41 enemy squad size = 85,42%
Province 5:
5v5 battle: 72 player squad size versus 61 enemy squad size = 84,72%
Province 7:
5v5 battle: 168 player squad size versus 143 enemy squad size = 85,11%

Expected situation:
It should be 75% instead of current 85%


Reproduction Steps :
1. check tournaments

 

[Amy Steele]

Hi Dony - it seems that this may be happening because this week's Tournament started prior to the update to 1.18, so the old figures are still in use. We will check again at the start of next week's Tournament, and forward this if the level 1 enemy squad size is still 85% then.

 

[Dony]

sorry but old figures are 80% same as on live server, not 75 nor 85

 

[Dony]

guess what, 85% again

 

[Amy Steele]

Thanks Dony, we can confirm this issue and will forward it to be fixed

 

[Muf-Muf]

Unfortunately we have to get back on this one. It turned out that the information we had contained a rather unfortunate typo, and the "bug" of the units actually having a squad size of 85% turned out to be correct after all. We have now corrected this in the Release Notes as well. Comparing the numbers, you can now also see that the tournaments get harder by 15% with every level in a consistent way with the 85% squad size. Also, we have seen that players don't struggle too much with the first levels of the tournaments, but rather with the levels a bit later on. We do apologize for this mistake in our communication.