This is not my first post about this subject but I believe a response from the developers is required to address a major balancing issue between arena and ship shards. My ship shard is artificially active (https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/137480/major-issue-in-the-calculation-when-determining-ship-shards-for-july-aug-sept-2016-starts#latest) because of the day I started playing the game and the allocation calculation on the day ships launched. Furthermore, as a result of this shard having a disproportionate number of highly active players, others from the same vintage do not. On my shard chat, several members are on this shard and most have contacted customer support as it typically requires two refreshes and a high percentage win-rate to hit the top five. This is in contrast to those not on this shard who can hit the top spots with less than five battles and are basically guaranteed crystals for little effort. While not strictly game-breaking, this makes ships unbearable for many on this shard and a large number simply gave up after the first few weeks. After the recent changes to rewards the shard has got even worse, to the point where it turns a point of frustration to a real impediment to playing the game.I would urge the developers to look at the statistics of this shard and either redistribute players or simply to run the same arena and ship shards

Moved to correct sub forum. The devs have stated they don't move players or shuffle shards, so I am afraid you may not get the response you are looking for.Arena and ship shards all have this same discrepancy, some shards are just more active than others, even with players all "evenly matched" due to start time or fleet arena algorithm.

But they have also acknowledged mistakes and corrected them. This shard is so many standard deviations beyond a normal level of activity that it is driving people to quit or not bother. Simply hiding behind we don't change shards is not constructive given thus is a clear exception. Also burying this post in the ship forum adds to the frustration when this post is not actually about ships but the calcaulation used to derive the shard.

What about divide our shard in 3 or 4 different shards ?

Articlficily active? Are you saying there are bots playing?All "shards" are meant to have everyone play, and have everyone spend money. That is the goal. Any less than that and you are lucky.

The idea is that this shard has people well over 100 with 7 star chimeras the day they became available. Most other shards I know of, if you had a 7 star Chimera the day it became available you were ranked in the top 5 for sure. That is what overly active means.

Arena and Ship Shard Dislocation | EA Forums

11 Replies

NyKynoe
8 years ago
Moved to correct sub forum.

The devs have stated they don't move players or shuffle shards, so I am afraid you may not get the response you are looking for.

Arena and ship shards all have this same discrepancy, some shards are just more active than others, even with players all "evenly matched" due to start time or fleet arena algorithm.
AJRSuperstar
8 years ago
But they have also acknowledged mistakes and corrected them. This shard is so many standard deviations beyond a normal level of activity that it is driving people to quit or not bother. Simply hiding behind we don't change shards is not constructive given thus is a clear exception. Also burying this post in the ship forum adds to the frustration when this post is not actually about ships but the calcaulation used to derive the shard.
mattos37
8 years ago
What about divide our shard in 3 or 4 different shards ?
FierceRevan
8 years ago
Articlficily active? Are you saying there are bots playing?

All "shards" are meant to have everyone play, and have everyone spend money. That is the goal. Any less than that and you are lucky.
Phelynor
8 years ago
The idea is that this shard has people well over 100 with 7 star chimeras the day they became available. Most other shards I know of, if you had a 7 star Chimera the day it became available you were ranked in the top 5 for sure. That is what overly active means.
mattos37
8 years ago
Please do something about this ship shards. I wanna play ships like everyone else
Nikoms565
8 years ago
"Phelynor;c-1366729" wrote:
The idea is that this shard has people well over 100 with 7 star chimeras the day they became available. Most other shards I know of, if you had a 7 star Chimera the day it became available you were ranked in the top 5 for sure. That is what overly active means.

Then many shards (including mine) are "overly active". There 7* Chimeras the day that they dropped that didn't hit the top 10, let alone "top 5 for sure". Everyone presumes their shard is harder or more active. It probably isn't. There are whales at all levels and that started at all different times.
mattos37
8 years ago
No no it has nothing to do with some presumption. Many evidence has been found on this post :
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/137475/distorted-ship-shard/p1
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/137480/major-issue-in-the-calculation-when-determining-ship-shards-for-july-aug-sept-2016-starts#latest

And we arent talking about top 10 or 5 on this shard, a top 500 is hard to maintain. top 100 is impossible without a daily refresh.
AJRSuperstar
8 years ago
@Nikoms565 this shard isn't just a bit active, it's structurally broken. People who rank top three every day on my arena shard will routinely post pictures of no option but to fight a 7* Thrawn when battling for spots above 200. Conversely, players on my arena shard who aren't in this shard routinely state that it takes almost no effort to hit the top spots, with some holding top ten for 24 hours. This imbalance is clearly unfair, especially given the oversight in the calculation when determining shard allocation

Customer support has acknowledged the issue, albeit timing of any solution is probably still weeks, if not months away
rodrigaosm
8 years ago
Same problem here. I take all my shots every day and i can't still in top 500. Guildmates have lower fleets than mine and still easily top 100. Any error ocurred when they shuffled the shards i guess.