"Grand Arena" gets Worse

"leef;c-1819641" wrote:

"Dk_rek;c-1819620" wrote:

"leef;c-1819070" wrote:

"Holtom2000;c-1818816" wrote:
just got a reminder to set my D. why bother? my opponent has the falcon. has Darth revan. I mean... cmon! why validate a broken game play I have no chance of winning

you kinda validated the game mode by joining. I do however understand that you won't bother with this round because you're severely outmatched. The game will set a def for you, but it will chose your highest GP toons so your chances of scoring some credits will probably be low.

they can enjoy my ... gimmie a second...gotta see what my lowest 3 GP are...ok CUP,range,lobot

i couldn't care less about that tbh. It just requires more effort on your part and i'll just take the easy win.

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"jhbuchholz;c-1819640" wrote:

"Dk_rek;c-1819620" wrote:

"leef;c-1819070" wrote:

"Holtom2000;c-1818816" wrote:
just got a reminder to set my D. why bother? my opponent has the falcon. has Darth revan. I mean... cmon! why validate a broken game play I have no chance of winning

you kinda validated the game mode by joining. I do however understand that you won't bother with this round because you're severely outmatched. The game will set a def for you, but it will chose your highest GP toons so your chances of scoring some credits will probably be low.

they can enjoy my ... gimmie a second...gotta see what my lowest 3 GP are...ok CUP,range,lobot

This seems pretty childish.

The metric CG is most likely using to determine how successful GA is is number of participants. By joining you contribute to CG viewing GA as a success.

By setting one week defense you punish folks that have no control over GA matchmaking. It's kind of like beating up the guy next to you at a sporting event because your team is losing. He can't make the team you're watching any better just like your GA opponents can't fix the matchmaking.

In both cases you send a stronger and clearer message to the right audience by simply not showing up.

I don't care about the message.... if your gonna finish in last everytime your gonna finish in last....i'm still going to get my 8th place rewards

all your doing is encouraging the people coming in last is to make an already horrible power gap get even wider by me not getting my omega and 3 salvage..... I mean come on.... you realize over 32,987 GA's I would be missing out on a piece of gear....

"Dk_rek;c-1819656" wrote:

"jhbuchholz;c-1819640" wrote:

"Dk_rek;c-1819620" wrote:

"leef;c-1819070" wrote:

"Holtom2000;c-1818816" wrote:
just got a reminder to set my D. why bother? my opponent has the falcon. has Darth revan. I mean... cmon! why validate a broken game play I have no chance of winning

you kinda validated the game mode by joining. I do however understand that you won't bother with this round because you're severely outmatched. The game will set a def for you, but it will chose your highest GP toons so your chances of scoring some credits will probably be low.

they can enjoy my ... gimmie a second...gotta see what my lowest 3 GP are...ok CUP,range,lobot

This seems pretty childish.

The metric CG is most likely using to determine how successful GA is is number of participants. By joining you contribute to CG viewing GA as a success.

By setting one week defense you punish folks that have no control over GA matchmaking. It's kind of like beating up the guy next to you at a sporting event because your team is losing. He can't make the team you're watching any better just like your GA opponents can't fix the matchmaking.

In both cases you send a stronger and clearer message to the right audience by simply not showing up.

I don't care about the message.... if your gonna finish in last everytime your gonna finish in last....i'm still going to get my 8th place rewards

all your doing is encouraging the people coming in last is to make an already horrible power gap get even wider by me not getting my omega and 3 salvage..... I mean come on.... you realize over 32,987 GA's I would be missing out on a piece of gear....

Like leef, this doesn't really bother me. I still think it's a childish approach that could be handled better. Like by not seeing any defense and letting it auto deploy.

You're clearly making an effort by setting a single team so it's more than just giving up.

If you're going to put some effort in you could at least make it meaningful and visible to CG (they're probably also tracking how many auto deploys occur).

Don't join: sends a message but losses out on rewards

Join and set one week team: sends no message, gets the rewards, (potentially) ruins the experience for your 3 opponents

Join and do nothing: sends a message, gets the rewards, leaves (almost) nothing for your opponent to be upset about

You seem to have selected the most negative of the options identified so far.

I've faced seemingly impossible odds in GA a few times and won nonetheless. Sometimes through no doing of my own when my opponent never attacked me. But I've also won a few times by putting my best squads on defense. My opponent did the same and had nothing left to take out my defense teams, whereas I had enough half-geared fluff to zerg down one of his teams in 5 or 6 battles. So just because your opponent has 3 times as many zetaed g12 characters doesn't mean you don't stand a chance. Always make an effort and the outcome might surprise you.

I never said I loose all the time. I took first in 5 of the first 6. Ive never placed last but keep getting 2nd because im always about 500k behind my opponet who always in first and wins.

"Darth_DeVito;c-1819797" wrote:
I've faced seemingly impossible odds in GA a few times and won nonetheless. Sometimes through no doing of my own when my opponent never attacked me. But I've also won a few times by putting my best squads on defense. My opponent did the same and had nothing left to take out my defense teams, whereas I had enough half-geared fluff to zerg down one of his teams in 5 or 6 battles. So just because your opponent has 3 times as many zetaed g12 characters doesn't mean you don't stand a chance. Always make an effort and the outcome might surprise you.

Yep me too, it's all about getting your mods right and using the right counters. Was pretty sure i'd lose my last round (12 G12 v 37 G12, 15 zetas v 29 zetas) but managed to pull out a win.

Stats:
Char GP :: 1.4M vs 1.4M
Ship GP :: 983K vs 940K
C Arena :: ​ ​ 65 vs 169
S Arena :: ​ ​ 13 vs 79
Zetas ​ ​ :: ​ ​ 15 vs 29
6 Star ​ :: ​ ​ 11 vs 9
7 Star ​ :: ​ 121 vs 105
Gear 11 :: ​ ​ 19 vs 1
Gear 12 :: ​ ​ 12 vs 37
Mod Stats:
6* ​ Mods :: 16 vs 16
10+ ​ Spd :: 53 vs 42
15+ ​ Spd :: 15 vs 5
20+ ​ Spd :: ​ 0 vs 1
100+ Off :: 12 vs 17

Any system which punishes players for simply activating toons (here's looking at you EP shuttle and Ebon Hawk) is a terrible system. Sadly, that is what I and many others currently do.

Welcome to Star Wars: Galaxy of un-activated Heroes Online...

"C_Augustus1;c-1821443" wrote:
Any system which punishes players for simply activating toons (here's looking at you EP shuttle and Ebon Hawk) is a terrible system. Sadly, that is what I and many others currently do.

Yep. I took a 38k GP hit when I activated EP shuttle. I decided to stop the bleeding by not investing more into that ship since I currently have very little use for it. I now also have an inactivated 5* Ebon Hawk.

Last time I counted, there were 38 ships and 4 capital ships. So even if I had all good ships, I can only use 28 and the rest are just fluff GP.

Yup, activating and upgrading ships gives you even more bloat, so...