Grand Arena Championship Update [MEGA]
"CG_SBCrumb;d-211725" wrote: Hi Holotable Heroes, The Grand Arena Championships Exhibition has wrapped up and we wanted to take this moment to reflect on the gameplay experience and where we want...
Forum Discussion
There's some good sounding stuff in that post @cg_sbcrumb but also some issues, mistakes, and missed opportunities:
1) If you've genuinely heard players are highly frustrated by the "Tie Breaker" situation then how can really think that always awarding the win to the player with the Highest GP in the match is either an improvement or gmgmgttm reduce player frustration? If anything it should go to the player with lower gp for 'rising above' their gp, but it'd be far better to use a genuinely fair Tie Break such as awarding the win to whichever player scored the most 64 Banner victories (if both had none or the same number then move to the most 63, then 62 and so on) thus more likely rewarding skill/tactics & risk taking (with undersized squads) rather than a GP value you have no control over when matched with someone.
2) If you genuinely want feedback, suggestions, help etc from the community with regards to cheats/cheating then you need to tell your moderators to STOP heavy handedly closing or just straight up deleting any and all threads people post about cheating (excepting where someone posts a specific player or guild name or player id etc which should be removed from public view and reviewed behind the scenes so finger pointing doesn't become the loser's recourse!) We need to be able to discuss the situation freely if the best ideas are to come about, and frankly it stinks of a "sweep it under the carpet" attitude when posts get deleted for simply mentioning the problem!
3) You seem to have missed out adding a GAC Title for "Aurodium" league
4) It looks as if we're still not going to be getting any Fleets in GAC (or any variety of 3v3, different sector setups etc) Why?? Many players have invested heavily in fleets specifically as an alternative to the Revan Meta era of characters as a way to compete in the game, now they're constantly getting matched up against Revan owners but without their own game investment of Fleets. Ships seem to be getting utterly sidelined by GAC, and you've also now moved out of "Exhibition Mode" without ever having live tested any potential Fleets issues in GAC, or 3v3, more/less sectors, etc. So what happens now you're "Live" if there's a big issue that we never got a chance to find? Or are fleets now being totally sidelined and forgotten about in GAC?
5) If you want to resolve the participation & "feats completion" issues then surely it would've been far more helpful, and pretty easy, to simply fill any empty defensive squad slots with the 5 lowest gp chars from a player's roster? Easy, doesn't affect their attacking squads, totally stops the empty slots issue.
1) If you've genuinely heard players are highly frustrated by the "Tie Breaker" situation then how can really think that always awarding the win to the player with the Highest GP in the match is either an improvement or gmgmgttm reduce player frustration? If anything it should go to the player with lower gp for 'rising above' their gp, but it'd be far better to use a genuinely fair Tie Break such as awarding the win to whichever player scored the most 64 Banner victories (if both had none or the same number then move to the most 63, then 62 and so on) thus more likely rewarding skill/tactics & risk taking (with undersized squads) rather than a GP value you have no control over when matched with someone.
2) If you genuinely want feedback, suggestions, help etc from the community with regards to cheats/cheating then you need to tell your moderators to STOP heavy handedly closing or just straight up deleting any and all threads people post about cheating (excepting where someone posts a specific player or guild name or player id etc which should be removed from public view and reviewed behind the scenes so finger pointing doesn't become the loser's recourse!) We need to be able to discuss the situation freely if the best ideas are to come about, and frankly it stinks of a "sweep it under the carpet" attitude when posts get deleted for simply mentioning the problem!
3) You seem to have missed out adding a GAC Title for "Aurodium" league
4) It looks as if we're still not going to be getting any Fleets in GAC (or any variety of 3v3, different sector setups etc) Why?? Many players have invested heavily in fleets specifically as an alternative to the Revan Meta era of characters as a way to compete in the game, now they're constantly getting matched up against Revan owners but without their own game investment of Fleets. Ships seem to be getting utterly sidelined by GAC, and you've also now moved out of "Exhibition Mode" without ever having live tested any potential Fleets issues in GAC, or 3v3, more/less sectors, etc. So what happens now you're "Live" if there's a big issue that we never got a chance to find? Or are fleets now being totally sidelined and forgotten about in GAC?
5) If you want to resolve the participation & "feats completion" issues then surely it would've been far more helpful, and pretty easy, to simply fill any empty defensive squad slots with the 5 lowest gp chars from a player's roster? Easy, doesn't affect their attacking squads, totally stops the empty slots issue.
