Leave GA alone

"Voltarc;c-1869351" wrote:
To Yae and Liath: I have 3.4 GP and currently 10 gold geared characters (up from 6 or 7 at start of Grand Arena.). I have been playing just under 2 years and think I’m doing just great thank you. I have spent about 20 bucks on this game and probably won’t spend any more because like I said it seems to be a hole to waste your money. It would cost thousands to make a significant change. I agree the problem is me...I have not spent nearly enough money. I just scanned through the other 7 players. Two have 46 gold gear characters the weakest looking player has 21 gold gear. When I say I have about 20 effective fighters I mean that I have about 10 characters or so that are not gold gear that I can use to sometimes use to kill the defensive characters. Most of these players should be able to slaughter most any defense I put up, but sometimes I get lucky (or they mess up) and only clear a few areas. I got the phonix squad fairly early and was able to get Thrawn fairly fast mainly because I watched the show and they appeared to be pretty good. Was still gearing up an emperor lead sith team. So I got lucky twice when they added thrawn and reworked the emperor. So other than the classic emperor lead making up 5 of my gold gear characters the rest are crew for my arena ships. I got biggs early with a maxed out Ackbar capital ship. (Don’t laugh it got me to top 50 in arena) and my main mistake was I should have switched to my maxed out Chimera faster when Bosk’s ship became a thing. (I currently have a gold gear Bossk). So if I had focused all my grinding on old republic I might have gotten Jedi Revan by now but to do that I would not have been able to work on my arena ships. (Which had priority prior to Grand Arena)

My opponents REALLY have about 4 Jedi Revans, Malik, about 3 Treyas, etc and in most cases those characters are also gold gear. As far as I can tell I was right in line with what I was supposed to do... and in fact got very lucky and twice focused on critical teams before they became meta changers. Some people ignored ships and maybe that is what a mostly free to play player should do though I believe the ship arena scores were well worth the effort. However even there I am feeling the squeeze: already took on an all Rebal team with the falcon which does seem to be the new top meta team. My current chimera team with Bossk is probably the second best meta team, but I happen to have most of the rebel ships close to were they need to be...if I can upgrade two bounty hunter ships a bit more I’ll have the falcon also.

I've been playing slightly longer than you have, but missed a couple months due to military deployment. I also bought a small early purchase but haven't spent since. I am 3.25 million GP.

I have 29 G12 characters. Since GA was announced, I have G12'd Jedi Knight Revan, Bastila Shan, Jolee Bindo, Grandmaster Yoda, General Kenobi, Canderous Ordo, HK-47, Rose Tico, and Ewok Elder, and Wicket.

I, a person with comparable spending habits, GP, and play time to you, have G12'd as many units as you have in your entire roster. And I also have a G12 Biggs. Who I still use. And some currently homeless G12s who seldom see use anymore or don't see use yet, like Resistance Trooper who got displaced everywhere but hSith by Rose or HK-47 who doesn't have a team yet. It's not money that's the problem here. It's your resource management.

When you say looking through the bracket, there are four Revans, a Malak, and three Trayas, you're also saying four members of the bracket do not have Revan, seven do not have Malak, and five do not have Traya. Some people will have toons you don't have. This is not some grand betrayal. At this point, you've had three shots at Jedi Knight Revan. If you've missed all three, that's on you. Traya has been out for over a year. At 3.4 million, you can certainly get a place in an hSith guild. If you do not have her, that is because you've chosen to not have her. Which is an odd choice if your focus has been on Territory Wars. Jedi Knight Revan and Darth Traya are both extremely useful in Territory Wars.

You've made bad choices. You are now facing the consequences of those bad choices. And the way out of the situation is not to spend thousands. It's to start spending your resources more effectively. The problem is not the fluff at the bottom of your roster. It's that you haven't built up the top.

"Voltarc;c-1869468" wrote:
Ah I see, so really we understand each other perfectly: you believe sandbagging you roaster when you have the gear sitting around collecting dust is a strategy that make you good... and I just see someone using an exploit to get any easy bracket for easy wins that is ruining grand arena.

This is a resource management game.

Saving resources and spending them judiciously is not an exploit. It is the basic mode of play.

What's more, the rewards for GA and the differences in the rewards brackets are not huge. Certainly not make-or-break. And if you seriously think people spending their resources wisely on characters they actually intend to use is an elaborate scheme to cheat at GA, you are overly fixated on small income differences.