An idea to improve GAC time dramatically

"Ultra;c-1896468" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1896463" wrote:

"Ultra;c-1896458" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1896452" wrote:
One adjustment that could also work (suggested previously by someone else) is to do 1 defensive set day at the beginning. During that day you set a defense for each of the other 7 players in the group. Then no matter who you face you have the same defense you would right now, but it can reduce the round by 2 days.
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Personally I feel the blind defense suggestion is not good. It's part if the game mode, it's part of the strategy.

I like the 24 hour break, except when I forget what day it is and have a panic attack that I have not attacked/or forget to set a defense....

I mean, the day 1 defense is your auto set for the next two opponents

but if you feel like you need to make an adjustment, the defense tab is there for you to change it

Like you try BH and it didn't work so well, so you add in an auto taunt for opponents 2 and 3

Or if you made a mistake in your defense, you can fix that for next two opponents

But without knowing your next opponent, it would be hard to adjust.

I really like setting individual defenses, I think anything that reduces my ability to do that hurts me. I would like to keep that feature. There are solutions out there that give us the best of both worlds.

Yes. I am proposing to lose the benefit of adjusting to particular opponents. The tradeoff is shorter Grand Arena downtime. How often do you adjust to your opponents? I am in Division 1, so my opponents tend to have almost all factions rared up, so I stopped paying attention to what my opponent does, and set my best 8 defensive team regardless of what they have since they have all the powerful toons and factions. I think that is how endgame GA is shaping up to be. I used to adjust all the time before until the last two months of Grand Arena. Do you still do it regularly?

Its very rare that I might run into a weaker opponent or sometimes an opponent with no Darth Malak but they usually are a round 1 matchup, which is what Day 2 is for (adjusting to an 'easy' opponent)

At least 1 opponent each round I have changed my defense. Many times I have changed for each one.

But without knowing your opponent you cant adjust for that weaker opponent.

As suggested above, why not leave defenses open, and allow us to set defense for each opponent. I would much rather take my time to set 7 defenses, and those who dont only set 1 and it gets used for each matchup.

It is the same benefit of removing the second and third defensive setup days.
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I do agree that end game may end up being less dynamic as you get to the top and the same meta teams show through, but I will go deeper and look at mods and adjust teams accordingly too. It's a fun strategy to try and read your opponents counter teams and see if you can throw them off.