From my point of view the current state isn't... Too bad. I am sitting at 4 million GP, I have one GL and just got executor. This season I have made it to chromium (fingers crossed as long as I don't lose the next two).
Many of my matches are against people with 4-6 GLs and rosters that realistically outpace me.
Some major things I have noticed:
- A lot of people neglect their ships. I put my 4 star executor with P1 on defense and I usually get 1-2 holds there.
- A lot of people like to use their GLs, I mean... They are cool and they took a lot of work so they use them on offense. This makes it easier for me to push through their defense's and even in the matches I lose it is very close score wise.
- Scouting helps in a major way. This goes along with my point above. If I see a GL on defense, I try to swap my teams around to make sure I have an option, either my GL or a cheap counter, if they have a strong team on defense I look for something to counter it and take it off my defense if it is there. Most people don't change their defenses week to week and this lets me be very prepared.
All of those points above is more work than some people might want to do but I am currently sitting on 9 wins in a row and I am really enjoying my time in GAC. Punching up is a fun challenge.