"leef;c-1538151" wrote:
"Funderbolts;c-1538145" wrote:
"leef;c-1538136" wrote:
xeynx
How can you say that your shard isn't competative if you don't even rank high?
You’re concluding that his rank is due to the presence of competition, rather than a lack of him caring to spend time on a boring game mode. I know I personally open arena twice a day on auto just to get the daily requirement. Same deal with fleet arena. There’s nothing fun about it.
If your definition of competition is merely the presence of other people, then yes, Arena is competitive.
But it’s not competitive in the sense of being a free-for-all to get rewards at the higher tiers.
I'm asking how he's able to determine that his shard isn't competative without being in the top20 himself.
I am however certainly concluding that his rank is due to the presence of competition. Why else would he rank top100/200 instead of #1?
There are a few reasons.
First, I'm not a whale. (My shard is too young for FTP to be competitive. Not saying there are 0 FTP at the top, but the majority did whale from dolphin to kraken level.)
Second, I'm in shard chat for my shard. I think we have 98% of the top of the shard in shard chat. They actively collude as to not screw each other. There are agreements on who gets 1st which day if there are multiple in the same payout.
Third, I hate the arenas. It's a skewed PVE step up from GW with limited retries. It's not PVP, don't try to sell it as such. GW takes its nodes from player made squads. The only difference is that people have a set group at a certain rank.
Just because I, myself, do not whale and have a strong enough squad to get into the top 50 is not evidence of competition. It is purely a function of 1) Gear level, 2) Mods, 3) TM luck, 4) care level.
I am sub-100, or at a minimum low 100s, but I do float upward due to defenses. It happens.
So, in essence, yes, there is "some" competition. However, the point is, if we had the top 200 in shard chat, we would see 0 "competition". I definitely would not attack someone who's waiting for payout if I can avoid it.
Saying, "hey, I'm gonna attack you since you had payout already" so I can get to the next rank is not competition. The more people in shard chat, the less "true competition" there is.
