Hello! I would like to draw your attention on a particular point that impacts negatively hundreds of players.
When ships were introduced, an algorithm placed people in different fleet shards depending on when they started the game, how evolved their roster was, and more importantly, whether or not they were level 85. This algorithm for fleet shard creation worked well except for one shard, the one of people who started around June-September 2016. Only the most active people / spenders were level 85, which resulted in the creation of an abnormally highly competitive fleet shard. As of now, it has over 100 people with a roster of 3 million GP or more, 7 of those being in the top 100 GP on swgoh.gg
There are well over 700 people active daily, with more than 100 people trying to get #1 every day. The shard chat has over 80 members and is forced to refuse entry to more people because payouts are full (up to 10 people sharing a payout).
Top 300 (and possibly below) is exclusively made of 7* Chimaera fleets with a fleet power of 420k or higher (averaging at 440k for top 100), people drop 70 spots on average daily, while they could stay top 20 all day on any other fleet shard.
A lot of people gave up trying to get to the top because it was such an headache, and even those who still play daily are becoming more and more annoyed with fleet arena, resulting in tensions between players.
Long story short, this fleet shard has way too much active players on it and it becomes unhealthy for players who either give up on rewards they would easily get on any other fleet shard, or spend hours each day to get to the top (people who have been in the top 10 for a while have over 4000 fleet arena battles won, for only 2500 squad arena battles won, and they do 5-10 battles a day in squad arena). This is even more of an issue now that there are other time consuming game modes like TB, TW. This has been brought up several times on Reddit, but since right now I have the opportunity to talk directly to a member of the CG team I thought it could help to solve this issue.
Here are links to Reddit posts about this shard:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/5f26t7/abnormally_competitive_ship_arena_shard/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/74eagm/abnormally_competitive_ship_shard_ii/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/8abqv6/dear_cg_please_fix_our_ship_shard/
Thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully something can be done about it (best would be to split this shard into at least 4 distinct shards, so that competition would go back to an average level).
EA Staff (Retired)
