Leave GA alone
First off let me go ahead and say people are going to hate this post, i write it with that understanding. Grand Arena is a place for people to test themselves vs people that have the same GP. GP is yo...
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"Voltarc;c-1881364" wrote:
Amazing...everything of which you just said was wrong.
I have fought at least 1 (sometimes 2) Maliks in Grand Arena since the day he was released.
YOU got Darth Revan free to play (NOT MAXED?) and you usually only see 1 other Darth Revan? You need to check the rosters, not just the defense, of the 5 other players...though that still means there are two Darth Revans...Not to mention all the other gear 12s. You should have several players with about 40 gear 12s.
You COULD have saved all the gear and crystals needed to outright buy Darth Revan but at the cost of upgrading a lot of other stuff. Not the normal way to FTP but possible. With a really awesome guild you could make up for some of the gear you would have sacrificed to do that...but you would not have the most recent 3 metas either(I assume you mean Malik, Jedi Revan, and Padmae? Grevious? Chewy and C3PO?). Need some cash to get all that fully geared up and modded properly. The Emperor is NOT beating ALL of that. (I hope your not trying to say Emperor Palpitine is one of the 3 recent metas)
TO ALL OF YOU STILL trying to say you don’t need a potential couple of THOUSAND DOLLARS cash to climb to the top of Grand Arena:
in an interview the developer literally said you might need several thousand dollars to catch up! Gotta give credit for being honest, and appreciate the effort to fix things so the (I think...gotta wait and see I guess). Heck I even blew another $20 on energy recharges...gotta take advantage of those double rewards lol. Still I am concerned that the match ups might be deliberately setting recent cash spenders against FTP players. Apparently the developer says this has not been done...but EA literally has a patent on the tech to do this....matchups can be based on purchasing to make sure the players gets someone they can beat.
This kind of stuff makes me very queasy. EA had to publish the payout rates because some states consider it online gambling. But tech that does matchmaking based on purchasing would undermine this.
In my opinion EA must also publish anything that then changes matches based on purchases because that is also then a purchased advantage. I will believe the developer for now...but I have been so consistently burned by grand arena I am very suspicious. (Kind of wonder if I should have spent that $20)
No developer ever said that in an interview. You are referencing a twitter reply from Carrie. One which people love taking that small piece of that tweet completely out of context and ascribing things Carrie did not say to it. She did not put forward the number, that was an unaffiliated Twitter user, and was with respect to the nebulous idea of "catching up," which is inherently absurd in Galaxy of Heroes where every PvP mode is instanced or tiered by power or start time. There is no "up" to catch. If you choose to obsess over having the newest shiny immediately but don't manage your resources effectively, you can spend large amounts of money if you so choose, but are under no obligation to do so and can perform well without it.
Or you can use the time between the first instance of an event and the second to see how well it works and how much you want it, and prepare for the second or third coming of the event.
Yes, preparing for these events has an opportunity cost that you could put toward other projects. Those other projects have an opportunity cost you could put toward preparing for these events. Everything has an opportunity cost. It's about deciding which projects are worth your while. If you cannot choose, and you spread yourself too thin, you end up bad at everything and have nothing.
The matchmaking is being refined for GAC, but the algorithm at this time is very simple, based almost entirely on GP. Not spending. You have managed your resources poorly, created a poor roster with poor tools, defined achievable goals as the realm of whales as an excuse to abandon them then wrongly dismiss fellow F2Ps who achieved those goals as anomalies and whales, and then blame CG's matchmaking for you playing badly.
This is a partly PvP game. Half the players in any match lose. You manage that chance with skill, by playing well both short and long term. You are playing badly. Therefore you perform badly. And it is your fault. Which is a good thing; because it is your fault you have the power to fix it. Or, you can continue to embody this meme:
https://i.imgur.com/Dj8sI9K.jpg
I am at a lower GP than you, and free to play. I have JKR, 3PO, and Chewie. I do not have Drevalak or Padme, though I am preparing for both. My Grievous is a work in progress. I am doing well. You do not need to have the latest, the greatest, the newest shinies in order to do well. You are surrounded in this thread by other people of comparable power, play time, and spending who ALSO do well.
Also, yes, Palpatine is one of the 3 recent metas. 3PO, Chewie, Grievous, and Padme were never a dominant meta. The current meta is Drevalak. The meta before that is JKR. The meta before that is Sith, which yes, is a Palpatine dominant meta. Palp lead beat Traya. Traya lead beat Bastila. Bastila lead beat Palp, but with the most difficulty, leading Palp to dominate. The last major meta before that was Titans; JTR and Nightsisters didn't really lay down roots.
