Fixing Squad Arena
TL;DR at the bottom. The problems The biggest fundamental issue with squad arena is collusion. Not even specifically what those involved may refer to as "negative collusion" but collusion as a w...
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"Mageduckey;c-1208038" wrote:
You say I'm not accurate, then go on to restate part of my point by suggesting starting a new account. Thanks for making my point for me?
Increasing payouts cuts into CG's crystal sales, so that won't happen.
The arena does work fine. I promise you you're not being targeted by colluding players out at the 200+ range; that just doesn't happen that far down. Your problem is that you left the game for a while and are at a disadvantage because you refuse to pay to make up for lost time. All you're doing is hiding that situation (that is innate to the business model of this game) in the discussion of collusion, potentially because you're aware of the negative impact a hiatus can have on persistent game server positioning.
You already have your answer - if you don't want to pay, you need to start a new account to get around the advantage others have of investing 4 months more than you. The system will not change because it hurts CG's income and the continuation of the game.
And there you go. How can you possible argue that a system is effective when it literally is more rewarding in the long term to throw away six months of progress to make a new account than it is to continue with your six invested months. That's a textbook way of determining that a system doesn't work properly, so in a roundabout sort of way, you've counterargued yourself.
I also never claimed I was personally the target of collusion, I was not writing because of myself. My post was a generic critique of the squad arena system, talking about problems faced by many, many players including my guildmates at times. Collusion is an entirely separate problem to what we've been discussing.
Also, I have laid out a solution which would enable CG to fix the problems without significantly discouraging spending on the game. Neither you nor I can truly say how my solution would impact that, because we don't know. The devs can do research on a wider scale and determine what impacts it would have, and if they find it to be damaging to their revenues that's ok, but there's simply no way to know unless they do some research on it.
