Are people pretending to not see a real problem in the PVP arena?

You're looking at the wrong thing though. It's not an issue with the game. It's an issue with outside communication. If people couldn't communicate outside of the game, the only way this could happen is if the people from the same arena shard were in a guild together. In that case you could blame the game because of how allies are suggested. Otherwise it's a product of outside communication, not from the game itself.

"phinfan309;c-1455780" wrote:
You're looking at the wrong thing though. It's not an issue with the game. It's an issue with outside communication. If people couldn't communicate outside of the game, the only way this could happen is if the people from the same arena shard were in a guild together. In that case you could blame the game because of how allies are suggested. Otherwise it's a product of outside communication, not from the game itself.

The game enables it though, and does absolutely nothing to stop it. That’s like saying the parents who allow a party with underage drinking at their house while they are home aren’t responsible because they didn’t buy the beer.

"leef;c-1455770" wrote:

"Bulldog1205;c-1455766" wrote:


That’s what guilds are for. Arena is a competition. A group deciding they want to work together and split top rewards while deciding who is and isn’t allowed to be a part of it is horrible game design.

you mean that place where you compete with your guildmates for top raid rewards? ;)

Lol, that’s a separate issue with raids being outdated. I was speaking more about TB and TW where guilds work together.

How would you rotate/shuffle shards? Arena shards are made up of players that entered arena at about the same time. That's a pretty easy and fair system. If you start shuffling shards randomly you give some players big advantage over others based on when they started playing..

You cant really start making arena shards based on player's gp or roster either - you would end up putting all top players/spenders against each other... that would negate any reason to spend on the game or the sense of pride and accomplishment from getting to the top..

I guess if I had this problem I'd be annoyed as well. Thankfully I don't, unlucky.

"Actionhunk;c-1473371" wrote:
Well the Arena shard I am in has 10 players in my po and they organize on attacking before p.o.
If am am rank1 30 minutes before p.o. I will be attacked non-stop and not be able to attack even if I spend all my time the last 30 minutes resfreshing and hitting enter.


If I can I'll post a video (not sure if I can record that much on my phone but I will try)

All players in the shard chat coordinate on keeping out of top 20. This specific shard chat has 28+ members.

This is organized to a degree that makes the game rather lame. What is the purpose of an arena if it serves to simply give the same crystal mafia a high crystal reward so they can retain a favorable position and not spend too much money in the game.

Make it equal for all. rotate/shuffle shards every 3 months.

The dev team has stated from a technical standpoint they cannot shuffle shards.

First off all, there is no PVP in this game. If you want to pvp dont play this game.

"ProximaB1_;c-1480938" wrote:

"leef;c-1455718" wrote:
That still doesn't explain how an arena leaderboard can be ruled by garbage squads.
But yea, it sucks when a group of players is locking you out at pay-out. Best advice i can give is for you to join them. It's not perfect, but it's better than constandly being locked out.

It would be extremely hard to stay at the top if you have a garbage squad even with a huge help from guild mates. I personally ran into this awhile back they didn't have garbage squads but weren't elite either. The lesser of the group couldn't beat the top of the groups squads though. They would move up as a group and then the top squads would put in Biggs leads. So the lesser players could pass them once they were all at the top. Then the best ones would fix there squads once they fell to make a wall to protect the lesser squads. The guild fell apart so isn't an issue anyway.

call me crazy, but it's that just waaaaaay too much effort to get your groupmates to rank high? I would be amazed if this isn't an extremely rare thing to happen on leaderboards.
Maybe i'm just being naive though.

Pls change the PvP system and I'm fine with STR content...or whatever comes next :wink:
Arena system is teh stinky ''mafia'' poo right now so it has to be changed! Do some rankings, win to loss ratio, etc. There should be plenty of ideas floating around from actual players. And if you really make ships faster, you can squeeze that one hour timer to 30mins. We don't want to spend daily 2 hours just for arena+ships (and to mention that we are not even fighting, but just waiting for that lame timer to expire = waster of our time and not fun at all) so 1h30min would be much better or make it a challange and do the same to arena, 5-6min timer max. You can beat them right, but can you finish your opponent in time?! :wink: <- This should provide some loses(draws).

btw: NS are really boring and that's the polite version.

"Kyno;c-1473520" wrote:

"Actionhunk;c-1473371" wrote:
Well the Arena shard I am in has 10 players in my po and they organize on attacking before p.o.
If am am rank1 30 minutes before p.o. I will be attacked non-stop and not be able to attack even if I spend all my time the last 30 minutes resfreshing and hitting enter.


If I can I'll post a video (not sure if I can record that much on my phone but I will try)

All players in the shard chat coordinate on keeping out of top 20. This specific shard chat has 28+ members.

This is organized to a degree that makes the game rather lame. What is the purpose of an arena if it serves to simply give the same crystal mafia a high crystal reward so they can retain a favorable position and not spend too much money in the game.

Make it equal for all. rotate/shuffle shards every 3 months.

The dev team has stated from a technical standpoint they cannot shuffle shards.

Changing that Shard ID value in the database is super duper hard.