Well seems like they where planning a change after all :wink: Not what i thought - but seems better to me at least. I know for some people this will be a disadvatage - but I do believe it will be better for the overall health of the game.
Though they might as well have removed the arena and put all the rewards into GAC. Set it up with one currency instead of GAC currency and arena currency. Furthermore let people join GAC from lower levels and make brackets of lvl 30-40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, 71-84 and 85 (current one) or something like that. And instead of the 1-1-1-1 format make it a 1-1 format (no ships) for lower lvl players. :smile: