Collusion in Arena

"Corruptor;c-1679566" wrote:

"Ryan0324;c-1665369" wrote:
I'm telling you it happens. I'm at 6 now because I went ahead and finished my extra attempts. Once I get up in the morning, promise I'll be out of the top 50. And I know I'll hear that it's my team and defense, bit there are teams way easier to beat out than mine that never get sent back as far as me. The truth is I'm being targeted.

Yep. Only reason you would drop so low is that you’re targeted. Don’t feel bad though, I’m that guy on my shard too. Sad thing is that peeps bought revan and purposely knock me down and they don’t even make their own payout????? Salty much? I guess when you throw that much money into the game, they don’t need to worry about making first.

Someone sounds salty...

Srsly if u drop out of 50 it's ur own problem. The fricking shard chat players stay in top 30 most of the time - u cant knock someone to below 50 if u are in top 30.

I have an alt, also in a shard chat and it has dropped below 50, once below 100 overnight. U just happen to be targetted by other pubs as well. My main rarely drops below the 30s now, but only last week i dropped below 60. IT. HAPPENS. And when it happens more often than not, clearly your team isnt strong enough to hold.

Top 20 is relatively harmless (for those in the chat), because everyone climbs when and where they need to. Ping pongs doesn't happen. Once I fall back to 20ies though, I could easily see myself in 50ies next day.

As said numerous times earlier: No, not all your top 100 are conspiring against you. Noone even cares as long as you aren't getting into the 20.

It's doubtful you will get a direct answer from any of the devs. However collusion as we call it "arena shard chats" are already facilitated in the forums since the beginning of the game. That my friend is as close as you get to an official statement.

Shard chats put players v CG. People think this is PVP when it's really players v capitol games. The sooner people realize that, the better. :)

"joaojoaoobao;d-184237" wrote:
I wonder if the arena collusion is considered right or wrong by EA.

I currently spend real money to buy crystals and improve my game.

But if I get into the collusion of my arena I can get crystals without spending money.

So I think it's much better to go into collusion, but I do not want to be considered a hacker or thug by EA and have my account banned or impaired.

If EA does not consider it wrong I can stop spending real money and play much happier.

You won't be considered a hacker or a thug for getting into a shard chat.

People can hate on shard chats all they want; I used to before I joined mine and saw how things really are. Now I know that my shard chat looks out for not only the members of the chat, but really anyone who has a known payout time. Those people don't get "sniped" or hit coming up to their hour just like the rest of us in the chat don't. As long as no one is being targeted by another player, all is smooth sailing at the top of my shard; for those in chat and those outside it.

Communicating in a social game, which is what this is, is something you should consider if you want to make your game experience improve. Not worrying about getting sniped and missing payout is a huge QOL improvement.

Also, this entitled view is ridiculous. It is not an entitled approach that people in shard chats have. It is a position of compromise for the good of your shard mates. You can view it however you please, but everyone in my chat has earned their way into it and is on a rotation that gets everyone maximum crystals for that PO hour. No one is "entitled" to their spot, they have earned it by compromising other days so they don't have to worry about their crystal income.

And as far as doing something about chats; why do you think they put in the in game chat function? They know they cannot contain this issue and that they have zero control over what people do in third party apps. We will always find each other and if a shard shuffle were implemented there would be a discord server for Arena just like the one for TW. Besides, most people at the top of shards are in good guilds and those guilds are easy to find making the players also easy to find.

99% of the biggest whales are in shard chats, do you really think EA is going to start banning whale accounts due to them being part of a shard chat?

"BubbaFett;c-1664663" wrote:

"No_Try;c-1664308" wrote:
It's doubtful you will get a direct answer from any of the devs. However collusion as we call it "arena shard chats" are already facilitated in the forums since the beginning of the game. That my friend is as close as you get to an official statement.

No.... Silence.is pretty much as far from an official statement as you can get... To me it screams "We need to ignore the problem, because if we acknowledge it, we would have to do something about it"

I see it as a confirmation of this player behaviour, rather than ignorance of it. It's completely caused by the initial design of the arena.

"BubbaFett;c-1664819" wrote:

"LynnYoda;c-1664803" wrote:
99% of the biggest whales are in shard chats, do you really think EA is going to start banning whale accounts due to them being part of a shard chat?

They don't have to start banning people..... Just shuffle the shards once in a while....

What will that solve? Absolutely nothing because we will just start new chats each time they are shuffled.

I don't know what the solution would be. I found my shard, the response I got was "the shard doesn't want to add you." And I am capable of getting into the top 10. Or at least I was and tried to get in the shard. Now I get targeted specifically. So I can get sent back from #3 all the way to #103. For me it's really made the arena unenjoyable. Especially knowing I have a better team than others in the shard and knowing I now am competing against everyone in the shard. And there is nothing I can do about it.

I'm telling you it happens. I'm at 6 now because I went ahead and finished my extra attempts. Once I get up in the morning, promise I'll be out of the top 50. And I know I'll hear that it's my team and defense, bit there are teams way easier to beat out than mine that never get sent back as far as me. The truth is I'm being targeted.