GAC Skill and banners.

"DarjeloSalas;c-2324213" wrote:

"Disruptor92;c-2324211" wrote:

"DarjeloSalas;c-2324205" wrote:
This is the biggest flaw of the new system, in my opinion.

They wanted to increase engagement, but if I open the GAC map to find my opponent has first time cleared the whole map, then I drop on a couple of his teams, there is absolutely no incentive for me to carry on. Sure, I could spend another 45 mins beating the 11 ground squads and both fleets, but why would I bother?

And before anyone mentions 90k credits for a win, I’m sure I’m one of thousands of players for whom that sort of “reward” is completely meaningless.

I personally would still play regardless of having a chance to win or not. Not for the credits, but to boost profile stats. But that's just me. I know many people don't care about those at all.

I did exactly that in the “final” last bracket…
https://swgoh.gg/p/343174317/gac-history/?gac=83&r=3

Didn’t do it for profile stats - did it because my conqueror and I had a superb conversation going through in-game chat and I wanted to do the honourable thing.

But in other matches (rd2 of first bracket, rd1 of current bracket) my opponents have simply stopped when the outcome was decided.

Yeah, same here. My opponents also all didn't "fully" attack. They could have cleared more but probably just didn't see a point in continuing, which I don't blame them for of course. But besides the stats or credits, I think there's nothing wrong with just doing all of your remaining attacks even if you know you already lost. If you know you already lost, you can at least practice counters or just play around and experiment without pressure. Since you already lost there is nothing else to lose, so you can only benefit from testing things out. And who knows, maybe you'll find a counter that you've never noticed before and that you can now implement into your future GACs :smile:

I remember having a match some months ago, where the opponent attacked me first and was extremely efficient. When I started attacking I failed like my first or second battle because I took too much of a risk, and then already knew I lost. So I used the remaining battles to just test some wonky counters for fun/future use. It cost me some banners, but 50 banners hardly matter in the grand scheme of things. It's really really rare that 50 points prevent you from getting to Kyber or something, so I didn't mind too much. Now with the new system banners don't even matter anymore if the win/loss is already decided, so for me that's even more of an incentive to just go all out and try new things :smile: