Eliminate preview phase for grand arena

There could be some merit to removing the preview phase and join in option, and simply making it so your first defense set triggers the join and locks in your characters skills/mods/zetas/etc.

Then at least there's no complaints about a completely empty board with no defenses to work on challenges, and we skip that extra day of anticipation.

"Edison;c-1717530" wrote:
There could be some merit to removing the preview phase and join in option, and simply making it so your first defense set triggers the join and locks in your characters skills/mods/zetas/etc.

Then at least there's no complaints about a completely empty board with no defenses to work on challenges, and we skip that extra day of anticipation.

It will not make it start sooner it will start on the start day rather there is a preview or not.

"Edison;c-1717530" wrote:
There could be some merit to removing the preview phase and join in option, and simply making it so your first defense set triggers the join and locks in your characters skills/mods/zetas/etc.

Then at least there's no complaints about a completely empty board with no defenses to work on challenges, and we skip that extra day of anticipation.

There would also be the horrible downside of forcing you to set defenses before seeing your opponent’s roster, taking all the strategy (and the whole point of the game mode tbh) away.

Also autojoin everyone will increases massively the chance of you getting matched against an inactive player (inactive for a year, or someone away for the week, whatever), and it has zero positive outcome.

All in all, and of course that’s juste my personal opinion, removing the joining period of those events makes no sense whatsoever.

"Gannon;c-1715561" wrote:
Ok I get that, I hated the flash events also, although I managed to catch most of them.
My point was that if there is one all-in event (territory battles), why not make the other events (territory war and now grand arena) all-in also, and eliminate the need for an extra day off staring at an empty board..
Especially if the initial runs are indeed all-in.

Just doesn't make any sense to me, as a guild leader, to allow ppl to opt out of some events but be expected to be fully active in others. Everyone in my guild is expected to be fully active and participate in everything, or they can go find a casual guilds that doesn't care. Most guilds function that way. Why confuse things by adding all-in for some and opt-in for others?

I run a guild as well. If someone is going to be busy in real life or unable to participate in TW we prefer that they sit out. It gets very difficult to float people in TW.

"Obi1_son;c-1715740" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1715395" wrote:
They need to have everyone signed up before they can match you. Part of the matching is to set the number of squads placed, which I believe they said is based on the lower number of the match.

So yes there is a reason.

This explanation makes sense for tw but zero sense for ga. They are matching players based on a players gp and deciding how many defenses to set based on that same gp. Are you saying that someone could manipulate their go by a mil or so, enough to to change the defensive teams. After you defended their use of gp for matchmaking, you say this??? Please think before you type.

It's not about the GP. That doesn't change regardless of whether it starts with a preview phase or not, people can remove mods all the same.

It's about it being opt-in. This minimizes the number of people who get matches with inactive accounts. Clearly there are still problems with ppl not setting defense, but imagine adding in all the accounts that were abandoned over the last 3 years.

As for TB, it being opt-in doesn't make any sense, because the difficulty doesn't scale. Whether you are a 50m GP guild or a 250m GP guild, what you encounter in TB is exactly the same. Not participating is a guild issue, not a CG issue.

"Obitoo_johnobi11;c-1717972" wrote:
I don't know about the preview phase but the review phase suucks!! I have won the battle and i need to wait an entire day to get my rewards??? Why?

Nope, rewards already have landed, Try force closing your game and reopening it. Review phase has zero to do with reward dispersal

How about, have the 24hr join phase. Once paired. Give us an option to start the next phase once both players have set their defenses.

I do agree that it sucks to have to wait so long to complete the event. However, that's the only way to allow sufficient time for those who have to log at different times.

Preview Phase needs to be cut out altogether.
24 hrs preview
24 hours defense set up
24 hour offensive strike
24 hour review
24 hour defense set up
24 hour offensive strike
24 hour review
24 hour defensive set up
24 hour offensive strike
24 hour review and receive rewards
That’s 10 days to do at the most 3 opponents. Time needs to be cut. If I have this figured wrong then please let me know. To me it’s going to cut the joy out of this grand arena just because it’s drug out through way to many days.

"Benchmark;d-189901" wrote:
Preview Phase needs to be cut out altogether.
24 hrs preview
24 hours defense set up
24 hour offensive strike
24 hour review
24 hour defense set up
24 hour offensive strike
24 hour review
24 hour defensive set up
24 hour offensive strike
24 hour review and receive rewards
That’s 10 days to do at the most 3 opponents. Time needs to be cut. If I have this figured wrong then please let me know. To me it’s going to cut the joy out of this grand arena just because it’s drug out through way to many days.

7 days