GAC draw

Your 4* Executor doesn't have full reinforcement slots available, so you can't get max banners yet. 

You've had 3 draws? Wow!!  I've been playing since the start of GA/GAC and I don't think I've ever had one.  I'm not sure which is more surprising, you have had 3 or me never having any.  I did lose 3 in a row recently all by less than 6 banners, though.  Super grrrrrrrrrrr!

I think you're right.  Getting even banners with a smaller roster is more of an achievement, and the smaller roster should be given the tie break.  However, the end of the day, don't fret about it.  You'll win as many games as you deserve. 

Sometimes, losing the last game of a season will give you more wins in the first week of the new season.  You'll get 3 easier games than you would have if you won that one.

I agree wouldn’t the more “skillful” player be the player with less GP that managed to tie anyway? It’s a niche enough occurrence that I don’t think many players would try and “min-max” their rosters and keep their GP purposely low just in case of a tie. So I 100% agree, stop blatantly favoring players who open their wallets. They have enough of an advantage with the things they buy such as LS bundles (as they should) but making game modes cater to these players is just too much. Ties in particular would be nice and relatively inconsequential to change.

I wasn’t sure if that’s the case, thanks for confirming. So I am locked out of using it on offense, isn’t that just great…

LOL at the implication that each and every time there’s a draw in GAC, the player with higher GP has spent money to be in that position. 

Big day next week.

Fair point. It’s definitely not each and every time. But I would wager a majority of the time, especially with how GAC matchups have been lately with huge differences in GP everywhere but the highest leagues. 

Also you’re not accounting for why CG implemented ties to work this way. They likely did it because it is more likely to favor people who choose to spend money on the game as players who spend money tend to have higher GP thanks to things such as LS bundles. So I may have worded it poorly, but the point is that the system is intentionally favoring these players despite already having the advantage of getting what they bought and I think that should be changed in the case of ties. 

you’re not accounting for why CG implemented ties to work this way. They likely did it because it is more likely to favor people who choose to spend money on the game

No. This is not why. Early on there was pressure to not relic up any toon you weren't using heavily because you were penalized with harder matchups based SOLELY on GP. 

Now, later they changed that to the skill rating, but when CG realized that people were being rewarded for NOT investing in characters, they decided that was bad for the game. They thought that improving your characters should never give you a disadvantage, and when they changed GAC they made it very clear that they were giving ties to the higher GP player so that people would not gain an advantage keeping trashy characters like Bodhi Rook at LVL1/G1. 

If you gained an advantage in GAC by keeping your GP low but your guild gains an advantage in TB by each player maximizing their deployable GP, then personal success in GAC and guild success in TB would create conflicting incentives, which would also create guild strife as some players hurt the guild by minimizing their GP to maximize their GAC chances. 

It's not directly about money, and the reason isn't a mystery -- it was just announced so long ago that lots of current players missed it (and some no longer remember). 

It is unhealthy for the game to give players an incentive to keep toons g1/L1, and the tie mechanism reflects that. 

That said, they also put a lot of scoring details in GAC to minimize ties so that this wouldn't come into play often -- and it generally doesn't. 3 ties in GAC is some really bad luck and I'm sorry about that. 

They thought that improving your characters should never give you a disadvantage, and when they changed GAC they made it very clear

I should add that they ALSO made it clear when they nuked the Paper Zombie strategy for NS (A g1/L1 self-resurrecting tank on a squad that gains TM when allies die was MUCH better than a g12 self-resurrecting tank who wouldn't die as often). 

The rework of Zombie to make sure the toon granted more advantages at g12 than at g1 also came with a statement that they were committed to making sure no one ever gained an advantage by not improving toons. So that's twice that they told the player base in no uncertain terms that this was going to be important to their design philosophy.  

But you didnt have more skill. If you did you would have won by 1 and not tied. And just because someone has more gp doesn't mean they spent at all. How do you know the other player didnt work as hard? If they rewarded the lower gp account there'd be less incentive to grow your roster. It does stink to tie 3 times in a row but thats really an edge case not something that happens frequently. Do you know you get more banners for underman? Thats why characters that can solo stuff like omi wampa and savage can make a difference.