Arena Payout Sniping

"Revenant;64790" wrote:
Fix arena payout sniping, it is not competitive or fun to be locked out of your payout despite being able to hold the position for the majority of the day uncontested.

So for 23 hours and 55 minutes your team is winning on defense but only looses in that last 5 minutes before payout?
Sniping sucks but it is unfortunately the way they made the game. The good they payout #1 ~24 times a day on every leaderboard. The bad defense doesn't work so you have to play the sniping game.

This has been the name of the game since day 1. Not changing now.

A few suggestions... Learn when others have payout by watching when they are most active. Realize some move or fight back outside their payout. Consider making a thread with the names of players on your shard so you can talk or coordinate better. Learn the flow of things during your payout so you can time it better for a better placement. Good luck.

"Revenant;64790" wrote:
Fix arena payout sniping, it is not competitive or fun to be locked out of your payout despite being able to hold the position for the majority of the day uncontested.

Use a team that holds. Or play like the 99.99% rest of the game

Yah it sucks. Especially when you pay 50 crystals to snipe someone but get the message "Error: Your team is already engaged in an arena battle." because someone is sniping you.

I think a live arena ladder would do the game a lot of good. But lowering the rewards a bit but making it the highest rank reached over 24 hrs might be a good stopgap. It's not fair that some are on much more competitive laddes/payout times than others.

"scuba;640833" wrote:

"Revenant;64790" wrote:
Fix arena payout sniping, it is not competitive or fun to be locked out of your payout despite being able to hold the position for the majority of the day uncontested.

So for 23 hours and 55 minutes your team is winning on defense but only looses in that last 5 minutes before payout?
Sniping sucks but it is unfortunately the way they made the game. The good they payout #1 ~24 times a day on every leaderboard. The bad defense doesn't work so you have to play the sniping game.

I'm not saying I win 23 hours a day. Clearly my defense is working as I haven't been going below rank 3.

My point is that there should be a better way than being blindly locked out.

I was able to take the spot back from same player within 35 seconds, which due to some server time issue didn't register even though I had 10 seconds left.

"Nodisintegtations;640847" wrote:
During the last 10minutes fight someone so they can't snipe u

This. If you engage an opponent when you're in first they can't snipe you.

Holding a top spot in the arena for the 23 hours a day that virtually no one is playing in it doesn't really mean anything. It's drastically more competitive as 6pm approaches, adjust your strategy.

yeah you can hold that spot because everyone is waiting until payout to play

If u can beat his team faster than he can beat u, he cant clock block u.

E.g., say u can win in 2 minutes 10 seconds. But it takes him 2 minutes 45 seconds to beat you. If ur ahead, just wait until 7 minutes and 30 seconds to block out. If he is already attacking u, no problem. His fight will be over with more than 2 minutes 20 seconds 9n the clock. And if it is just the two of u, u will get the battle if u buckle down for the next 5 minutes and refresh ur matches like a hawk.

If u are behind, at least take the courtesy to climb to 2 or 3 spot before u attack him, if u want him to do the same for u. Give it time, bc people are morons. He might not get it for a cpuple of weeks. Again, just wait until 7 minutes and 30 seconds and attack him. If it is locked, dont worry. It can't stay locked for more than 5 minutes. Keep on trying to enter the battle until it works, and when it does u will have at least about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. After he wins 4th or 5th place a couple of times bc he tried to unsuccessfully snipe u from the nosebleed seats, he will start to get it.

If he can beat u faster than u can beat him, he can block u all day. Try for second place! This is where wings teams have an advantage.

If u got a 3 or 4 way battle in ur payout, it is gonna be a crap shoot.