Fleet mafia and new ship

"MrRandyWatson;c-2427978" wrote:

"Intimmydation;c-2427972" wrote:

"TargetEadu;c-2427636" wrote:
Also things depend on how mafia-esque the Shard Chat is. Some chats are nice and are just for organizing payouts. Some can be more exclusive/restrictive, but would welcome players with powerful Fleets. Some will only begrudgingly accept new players they can’t shake. And then the really nasty ones could just have their members attack and timeout so you can’t climb even with a meta fleet.

For what it’s worth, I only joined my Shard Chat after I unlocked Executor (fairly soon after its release) and started accidentally causing them issues by climbing at random points. That was more due to me not understanding what Shard Chats were, and for the most part mine’s been great, but it is a way to get yourself known.

My fleet shard is super accommodating, we reach out to invite anyone we see cracking top 20 so that we can coordinate POs and not snipe each other. Even those that don't join, the majority only climb just before PO and we don't have issues (and we avoid them as well if we can).

There are a few that refuse to join, and share a PO time with others...and purposely move into position to snipe b/c just before PO back to the further position (i.e. moving from 6 to 5 before going to 1, instead of just going 6 to 2 to maximize both players POs).

Granted, I am super lucky in my shard, my former guild mate is in it, hasn't played the game in 1 year and his Executor is still sitting at #22

Mine is the exact same way. The entire purpose of our fleet chat is to include everyone so we all maximize our payouts.
We've never shut anyone out and never will.
We don't gang up on the few people that refuse to join the chat and occasionally snipe payouts.
We help each other with counters and team setups in Discord.

I'd be bummed if that left almost more than the crystals. My fleet shard is like my second Alliance.