Easy Fix for Arena

"Silentbobus;c-1496570" wrote:

"swgohfan29;c-1496563" wrote:

"Silentbobus;c-1496559" wrote:

"Darthpedro;c-1496488" wrote:

"Silentbobus;c-1496476" wrote:

"Darthpedro;c-1496468" wrote:
@Silentbobus

Again what's the solution for the 5 people battling for #1 at payout all ending their battles within milliseconds of each other? Especially for the person in 5th who battles for 1st but ends up finishing in 5th because they ended their battle half a second too early do you seriously not see the problem with your idea

How would all of these people know when every one else's games were ending? How is the proposed system worse than the current one where the top 5 people don't/can't battle because the slots are all locked?

Well if they all start their battle at exactly 5 minutes to payout with the intention of ending 1 second before payout it comes down to a game of chicken where fractions of a second decide your position.

Now here's an even bigger curve ball because since, 6th can attack 2nd, 7th can attack 3rd, 8th can attack 4th, and 9th can attack 5th. Under your proposed system I can be in 5th battle for 1st and if I mess up the timing and am the first to finish battling I can end up collecting 9th for my payout instead of 1st who I beat.

You are getting caught up on edge cases. This is a fix for the general case.

Which in my arena is the people in the top two spots, sometimes the people in the top four spots, colluding with each other to ensure that no matches can be started against their squads. I know they are colluding because they tried to rope me into it as well. Under the current system it is very easy to lock down slots, just have #1 play #2 to a draw, then have #2 play #1 to a draw. Rinse and repeat.

If you have a better method to fix this problem than the one I proposed then by all means post it here.

1. i dont see a rpobelm, so i dont offer a solution
2. If i attack a player who is just about to finish attacking a player, and both of us win, who do i go to? the player my opponent just beat spot? my opponentz old spot? what happend to the spot that my opponent manages to get? who goes into my spot?

1) You really don't see collusion / locked spots in your arena? Where do you place? I remember seeing locked spots even in my first account where I was struggling to stay in the top 100. Now that I end in the top 5 most days I see nothing but locking.

2) It would depend on the timing, lets say that you are in 100th, and attack an opponent is attacking a person in 90th who is attacking 80th and you both win. If you win first, you'd get 90th, and your opponent would get 91th then your opponent would win, getting 80th, which would push you down to 91th. If instead you won after your opponent had already taken 80th, then you'd get 80th and they'd get 81th.

Another way to do this would be to use Elo, which is what most games use for rankings.