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I don't know man, my sollution is to give up on arena being fun. At times when metas shift it's fun to play, the rest of the time it's just a crystal dispenser. I'm fine with that.
Since skill plays such a small role in this game, truly competative is pretty much impossible. The AI is intentionally bad, it's so bad that it overshadows team choice. strenght and even mod (dis)advantage to a certain extent.
Sure, the battles are semi complex and you can definately form a team that does(n't) perform well, make wrong/right choices wich ability you use or who you target first etc. But it's all pretty basic stuff.
I'm fine with highest rank achieved though, it's certainly more user friendly. Not sure if it would stop collusion, or make it worse. It would make it easier to not get targetted since others can't monitor the top10 all day long.

Initially reading this post I thought like others that changing up the arena shards will be a bad idea and would really just make things easier for people who have taken time away from the game(Catering to them), But after reading more responses here I have a new idea that I think would be alot more fun.

If every day or every week our arenas switched up completely, not just moving a few people around but actually doing a whole arena mixup so people fight different people every day or every week however it should be segmented. That way there is very little chance of collusion and we would have a much more diverse time in arena.

I see a few issues right off the bat that could use some ironing out like where do people start out in the leaderboard when it resets, and should these arenas still have 20k people or should it be much less? 5 fights a day may not be enough and fight timers could become even more bothersome. So with these questions in mind a week minimum might make more sense.

This should probably be done only to arenas that have been around for more than a year cause it would most likely only hurt newer shards/leaderboards. Yet in general this would make arenas more fun to me and allow people to fight new opponents instead of having literally the same fights over and over every day against the same people who we already know everything about their team including their mods without even looking.

Im weary to suggest something like this cause a good idea can very easily turn into a bad idea and this could end up feeling like tournaments but I guess I'm being optimistic today.

"Ben_Sunwalker;c-1410161" wrote:

"Woodroward;c-1410142" wrote:
Any arena shake up is a bad idea. If you take people who are used to being at the top and shove them to the bottom. That isn't going to encourage them to spend more, it is going to encourage them to STOP PLAYING.

I used to play a game called outwar. People kept asking for server mergers due to inactivity. The game finally ended up doing it to reduce costs... and the small amount of people actually playing the game dropped by 50%!!!!

People think rearrangements are a good thing, but all they do is minimize the time people have invested, there is no actual gain for the majority of the population.

I dont think you can generalize like that, at all. Have you ever read a book called “Mindset”? I think you, sir, have a fixed one.
I wont bother explaning (seriously, read the book, its enlightening), but other people have a growth mindset, in which challenges are welcomed because they represent chance of growing.
Id love a shard shufffle even though I finish top 10 everyday - it would bring a lot of fun and competitiveness in a boring and colluded shard.
Bring. It. On

It's not a generalization. It is a true statement based on experience with many games like this.

Firstly, the idea that you are going to bring anyone back to the game is laughable. People either come back or they don't (the latter is more likely), so once people are gone, they are gone.

Most people that are in the "boring" situation of fighting the same people for years on old dead shards like getting their free rewards... that's why they are still playing. This will be the majority of players on older shards because more older shards will be mostly dead than very active. (numbers indicate this, so it is also not a presumption).

Basically, you are responding as though this is an opinion, when it is really just the way things work in this type of thing. Arena mixups have NEVER gone over well in any of the dozen+ games I have seen try it.

And for pete's sake people: THERE IS NO COLLUSION IN ARENA!!! Your morals are not laws, cooperation is not collusion. Mods already shut down one thread about it and warned everyone not to bring up the topic again. Quit saying it, quit thinking it. It isn't true and will only get you in trouble.

"QueenAdreena;c-1411831" wrote:

Honestly I agree with your sentiments, but incase you were speaking on my suggestion right above your comment, I was saying it would allow me to fight different people not different toons, I fully expect the teams to be almost the same.

Am I (normal user) able to close a thread?

Tired of seeing hateful/negative/assumptive messages on my thread.

"Dread;c-1412059" wrote:
Am I (normal user) able to close a thread?

Tired of seeing hateful/negative/assumptive messages on my thread.

Unfortunately we do not have that option

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