Clan Wars: Guarantee Small Earth in every time slot
Small Earth 1 wasteland or Small Earth Auto Dist should be in every time slot.
Right now it's possible for the following time slots to occur:
MME Commanders LD No Cards by itself
MME Commanders LD No Cards, MA MME Light Fog LD, and Strat 2v2
With the current design, even a 3-template slot could have templates that are unpopular and non-viable (the MME LD templates due to how incredibly long they take, Strat 2v2 because it's infeasible for most clans to have 2 players on CW at once willing to play that template and also because it takes ages too). Meanwhile, SE templates- particularly SE1W and SEAD- are overwhelmingly popular and drive up participation in a slot. They're the most popular templates among casual players, quick, and well-suited to RT play.
Many participants do not have the luxury of checking multiple slots a day. If SE were guaranteed in every slot- then the vast majority of players would have at least one template per slot that would actually make Clan Wars enjoyable for them.
Think of it like a pizza party you want a lot of people to attend: you always have cheese and pepperoni, cause if people show up and their options are Canadian bacon-anchovies-pineapple-jalapeno, cauliflower & pickles, and deep dish Swedish banana pizza, you're gonna have less and less people show up to your pizza parties over time. Please always order cheese and pepperoni because almost everyone who eats that cauliflower and pickles pizza doesn't actually like it- they just settle for it cause you gave them no good options. And don't just tell them to keep coming to the next pizza party on the off chance it has cheese or pepperoni, cause that's incredibly exhausting.
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Skapis commented
I don't see why Fizzer would not do it. SE is the most popular template. And it's easy to do it.
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l4v.r0v commented
Since SE has limited strategic merit (although it's the bedrock of casual play), it might also be a good idea to guarantee Strat MME, FB, Guiroma, or another MTL template if the slot has 2 or more than templates.
Guaranteeing SE would ensure that every slot is viable for at least the casual players, i.e., the bulk of potential participants. Guaranteeing a template with strategic merit (ideally not just one of three but something from a broader rotation- and please don't try to pick this rotation yourself, or you'll make it like the horrible RTL rotation; wcs just tell Beren to pick it, most everyone will be happy) would guarantee most slots are also viable and enjoyable for competitive players that will put in a little more time to enjoy a game without a low skill cap like SE.
Then on the third template we can feast upon all the cancer. This has the downside of making templates outside the guaranteed rotation impossible in most slots (i.e., no MME LD unless there's 3 slots, which also means almost no one will play MME LD because almost no one plays it when they have 2 other options, especially good ones). But the net effect on participation will be wildly positive and will make 3-template slots probably more common than otherwise, to compensate.