Fleet Arena is Broken

Yeah I cant find any sympathy for your plight at all. Heres a fact. There are over 50 better fleets than yours on your shard. Just because some of them move out of the way to let others earn some rewards they otherwise wouldnt get in no way entitles you to be one of those others. On my very old fleet shard none of that takes place at all and I have maintained my 47 rank for a couple months now with no movement at all. So frankly if you want fleet rewards you need to build a top 50 fleet on your shard cause whether some coordination exists or not you have no case for changing an entire system just because you cant compete. 

The same fleet meta has been here for two years, Leviathan, and that is all you need to focus on for this game mode. I have the fleet, no thought required. Win the coin toss and win the battle, lose the coin toss and reinforce with Scimitar then win the battle. I think it is strange that my relic 7 will always win on offense even against someone who has invested in all relic 9. I agree the top 50 is different than the top 500 and you make a good point about inactive players getting the same reward. I had not considered that aspect. I have no issue getting knocked back and you should expect that outside your payout hour. I just do not like that a group of players can active block other players from climbing just to be difficult. I have no issue if someone in the same payout hour bumps me since that is the way it goes. It sounds like a lot of you are in good shards that are generally friendly. Sadly that is not the case in the shard I am in.

I have no issue getting knocked back to the 40’s I have Leviathan and can make the climb. This shard actively pushes you back to above 20, not because any of them lose any payout but simply to be difficult.

I have moved my payout time and have reached out to them. They indicated they are not interested in any new climbers. I wish they were cooperative.

I have made multiple attempts to reach out to members of my shard. They are not receptive to new climbers and have communicated such. I have even moved my payout time to when only 1 or 2 of them are getting paid out. I have communicated I am only looking to get a top 10 or 5th place if it lines up. I wish I was in a cooperative shard but they do everything they can to block anyone but their group from getting into the top 20. They block it all 24 hours if they can. Thanks for the advice others will find it helpful.

Its not my logic, it was the unstated reason CG did it. Because before people would focus on just the 1 meta arena squad and ride it for months. Then gac came and you suddenly needed like 10. Even in kyber you only put 3 fleets on defense and need 3 for attack. 

The main reason your idea shouldn't be used is because top 50 fleet arena is almost a totally different game then top 500. With some exceptions for really crazy shards. I'm in my shard chat but still sometimes have to climb from the 20s and I do arena battles every day and sometimes get knocked back by outsiders too. Why should someone ranked 500 who's 2 metas behind or doesn't consistently play get the same rewards as me? Thats just as entitled as anyone else. 

You clearly have no idea of how busy some shards are. 

I take 1 or 2 every night in fleet arena but frequently get dropped below 40th in my shard. There are some shards that are worse than mine. 

it's not that difficult I stopped having issues the minute I mapped out my fleet shard. I moved myself to a timeslot that was open, and allowed me to stay in first till like 9 in the morning ensuring I rarely fall out of the top 10 making it very easy to get back to first. There is nothing stoping you from contacting people. 

Have you reached out to members of your Fleet Shard? It's not so much "by invitation only" (or at least, it shouldn't be), but by people who make an effort. I know for our Fleet Shard, we have an entire list of people's pay out times and we coordinate efforts so that someone who is in their "pay out hour" - that we don't attack them, so they can rise as far as they can to get the best pay out.

We can only do that if we know. You might have to make some effort to find out, though. You'll have to get the user's name and what guild they are in. Then go to SWGOH.GG and find that guild, and then find that user within that guild... so you can copy their ally code, so that you can then message that user in game and ask "Hey, can I join the Fleet shard chat?"

Yes, you will have to join discord - as we use this for communication. But in this game, guilds and shards are very active on discord. Again, it's about making an effort to be a part of a community.

My $.02 worth - take it for what's it worth.

So those that are part of their Fleet Chat that are allowed to climb without worry of being pushed back or blocked are not getting rewards without effort? Sound like they are entitled too.