GAC Kyber 1 bracket depletion

It might be working as intended by CG but from a player perspective it feels unfair and unintuitive. If you win 50% of your matches you’re obviously playing with people of similar skill level, then it makes no sense that your skill points in game are decreasing further because of the squish.
Either you should get more points for a “win” than is deducted for a “loss” and use the squish to remove inactive players over time. Or if you have the same score for wins/losses just get rid of the squish.
It feels a bit dishonest that you moved our crystal income to GAC and slowly reduce it over time by pushing down the reward levels artificially.

"thedrjojo;c-2400880" wrote:

"Scarecrowlfc;c-2400860" wrote:
Honestly its pretty simple, the more players that quit while in those ranks the less there will be. You cant gain the points of players who have stopped joining. If there is less players in kyber 1-4 joining there will naturally be less players in kyber 1 with how the skill point system works

There is plenty of evidence that the same if not more people are joining gac, so it's not about people not joining. You need to go 6-3 in a season or your skill ranking in k1 will be less than it was to start a season. There are plenty of posts and people tracking the numbers.

Its not about players joining its players in kyber quitting. 100,000 new players could join in the new leagues but they wont replace the players with high gac and gp quitting

I tried talking about the squish issue with CG last week but i am not well versed on this enough

@Taliana what's your input / suggestion on whether this is an issue or not and what's your proposed solution?

"HumbleMumble;c-2400881" wrote:

It feels a bit dishonest that you moved our crystal income to GAC and slowly reduce it over time by pushing down the reward levels artificially.

It can feel that way but you have to factor in how many players started earning way more crystals the minute they moved crystals to GAC.

It's a lot.

It would make sense to me to expand GAC in K1 every time it gets squished to zero. After this first squish to zero, an additional fleet and squad in each zone in K1. Once the second squish pushes K1 to zero again, they will ripple the expansion downward. At a third skill squish to zero, might see expansion at leagues below Kyber.

"TVF;c-2400891" wrote:

"HumbleMumble;c-2400881" wrote:

It feels a bit dishonest that you moved our crystal income to GAC and slowly reduce it over time by pushing down the reward levels artificially.

It can feel that way but you have to factor in how many players started earning way more crystals the minute they moved crystals to GAC.

It's a lot.

So? Does that mean that they can artificially reduce the income, just because it was less more than a year ago? How long will it take until the old income is not compared to the "new" one?
If they cut the rewards in half in a year, is it still ok because more than 2 years ago people got less?
It is now long ago enough to not always compare to before, the "new" reward system is now in place long enough that this can and should be considered the Status Quo and the norm.

To see that people slowly drop and will keep on dropping and therefor get less and less rewards because of the squish is a legitimate reason for concern and it is also a legitimate reason to try to make CG aware of it and see if there is a way to change this.

We're earning more crystals, but they are also more needed. There are more and higher requirements to farm, conquest, carbonite salvage, kyrotechs, etc.

The squish makes no sense as way to remove non active players from division/leagues, by simply not joining their skill rating should and will go down moving them. So why keep squishing it other than to reduce crystal income?

"Lumiya;c-2400916" wrote:

"TVF;c-2400891" wrote:

"HumbleMumble;c-2400881" wrote:

It feels a bit dishonest that you moved our crystal income to GAC and slowly reduce it over time by pushing down the reward levels artificially.

It can feel that way but you have to factor in how many players started earning way more crystals the minute they moved crystals to GAC.

It's a lot.

So? Does that mean that they can artificially reduce the income, just because it was less more than a year ago? How long will it take until the old income is not compared to the "new" one?

I'll let you know if I fall from K1 to K4.

Furthermore, people in lower divisions get pushed up.

Also, of course they can "artificially" reduce income. They artificially raised it too.