Auto Set should be Auto Lose

You set half a defense and are upset about losing? If real life issues stop you from setting d in 24h just take the L and set d next time. If you have irl issues that stop you from setting full defenses every time then we’ll, gg I suppose, and gl with everything

This is a very odd complaint. OP got distracted over a period of 24 hours and didn't set a proper defence. And is now complaining that his opponent didn't set a proper defence.
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would like to see a screenshot after the fight ;)

Wouldn't that just disadvantage everyone trying for feats when they run up against what would have been an auto set D, though?

not proposing a change where you can't battle an autoset team. Just saying that autoset should not get a win

"CrysSyling;d-249566" wrote:
I had a situation in GAC in which started to set my D and got distracted and never finished. I ended up setting a mostly empty D. My opponent didn't set any D. He got an autoset D. And so because I tried to set D but didn't finish, my opponent is going to win.

How is that fair?

I tried and couldn't finish due to some real life issues. He or She didn't try at all.

Simply put. If you autoset, you should loss. And if both autoset, you both should lose. No more of the "higher GP wins" when you autoset. Autoset should be 0 banners always

Just to reinforce my point - autoset should not be rewarded at all. No one should win an autoset D. Autoset should be an automatic loss. Obviously there should be some punishment for not setting a full defense. but losing to someone who didn't even try shouldn't be the outcome

You can't just make both people lose if both autoset. That's not how it works. Someone needs to advance in order to make the GAC event progress. You don't need to be angry at the game just because YOU didn't manage to set defenses in time. Of course real life happens and you can get distracted, but you have 24 hours to set it, and if you're not a hyper-competitive player it shouldn't take you more than like 10 minutes. That should be doable for almost everyone, even if you are very busy.

On a sidenote though, I think it would be more fair to make the autoset feature set a player's weakest characters on defense rather than their strongest. That way they get punished for it more, and the person that actually wants to play and do feats gets punished less. It's usually very hard to do feats when when someone autosets and people that don't care about the mode shouldn't be in the way of people that do like to play it.

"CrysSyling;d-249566" wrote:
I had a situation in GAC in which started to set my D and got distracted and never finished. I ended up setting a mostly empty D. My opponent didn't set any D. He got an autoset D. And so because I tried to set D but didn't finish, my opponent is going to win

Hm, just realized that gac consists only ot defense phase. So whoever set more defense will get auto win.
Thanks for the insight OP.

"AlexanderG;c-2300136" wrote:
This is a very odd complaint. OP got distracted over a period of 24 hours and didn't set a proper defence. And is now complaining that his opponent didn't set a proper defence.
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Although the complaint about auto-set defences is valid, I couldn't get a full clear against one today which could affect kyber later on.

If you saw that they were autoset, why didn't you clear one team to win? Obviously they didn't care and weren't going to attack. This is a non-issue.

2 options come to mind, but I’m sure both are too difficult to implement.

1. Upon joining, players have to set a defense. Can’t join until you do. Then during the “set defense” stage players are able to edit their defense if they choose to based on their opponent. Editing is enabled until the end of the defense period. This way there is no auto-deploy - if the player never edits their defense then the pre-set defense remains in place. It also allows for fixing errors made while setting defense.

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2. A player has to have set a defense in order to play offense. No defense set = locked out from offense stage.
Meanwhile if a player doesn’t set defense, their opponent instead faces a standard Defense made of AI units. So anyone facing a non-deployed in a given division would face the same defense. They can work on feats and on clearing to earn points while the non-deployed gets no points.