GAC on life support
@CG please please please GAC is in need of serious help. This is the premier game mode for most players and the reason many of us play the game and it has lost its fun factor except for the very top....
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"PeachyPeachSWGOH;c-2361470" wrote:"TargetEadu;c-2361402" wrote:"PeachyPeachSWGOH;c-2361383" wrote:"harvestmouse;c-2361368" wrote:"PeachyPeachSWGOH;c-2361366" wrote:
Joining GAC is optional to begin with. If someone doesn't want to play but still join because they want the rewards, they would simply not opt out even if you give them the "option".
I think the OP is suggesting that an opt out is as reward beneficial as being tumour to lower divisions. It's a fair point.
I don't think GAC is on life support though!
I'm honestly having a hard time parsing that sentence.
I think the idea is it’s healthier for GAC to give people an incentive to not sign up at all if they’re not going to put in the effort, vs what we have now with people joining and not putting in effort but still giving lower division players a hard time.
In my opinion, I don’t see a great way of fixing people’s enjoyment without breaking someone else’s. Skill here is a mix of effort and roster, so if you’re smaller in GP you need to - and often can - make it up in effort (whether into your development or your battling). That’s how GAC is meant to work, and it lets you put in less effort if you want to. You’ll just get less rewards."harvestmouse;c-2361427" wrote:"PeachyPeachSWGOH;c-2361383" wrote:
I'm honestly having a hard time parsing that sentence.
Problem: The further down players fall, the harder their teams are to beat.
Example: Player with 4 million gp attacks with any old team once, on auto to get minimum rewards. Never to hardly ever wins doing this and eventually falls to Carbonite 5.
New players reaching level 85 are then paired with this player. They have no way of having a meaningful match up.
The experience isn't what was intended for a competitive GAC battles ; especially for a new player this is pretty damaging.
Solution: Remove players that fall so far below their starting division due to continual lack of activity.
Either A: Group them together.
B: Let them opt out of going through farcical matches.
Well I understand what the problem is, and agree that it is a problem. I just don't see how any opt-out mechanism like what OP proposed would work. I mean, the point of opt out is that someone has to choose to stay out. People who join but do the bare minimum obviously choose to do that, so the only way for them opt out would be to make the rewards for staying out of GAC better than those for playing but doing bare minimum. That would just be unfair to the participating players.
Here’s the thing about fairness: the “problem” is the large-GP players who don’t put in effort and thus lead to unsatisfying wins for smaller players. Is getting rid of that fair? Because you’re getting rid of boring wins, but you’re also getting rid of a bunch of wins. So you’re trading enjoyment of the gamemode for the actual reward levels. That doesn’t seem fair.
