Looking into issue with Grand Arena Championship

Few people in my shard were able to get in have restarting and trying to get into GA a few times

"Ruark_Icefire;c-1893723" wrote:

"Kluge;c-1893719" wrote:
This is the kind of stupid _____ that should get people fired. (insert PG-13 word for excrement since you can't say $hiT in the forums). But hey, at least we'll get some more double drops to make up for the lost rewards.

If programmers got fired every time a bug went live there would be not programmers left.

This is not a bug. This is putting out such an inferior product that it can not work on the most rudimentary of levels. In my and anyone elses business you get one chance to impress because if you don't your clientele will go elsewhere. CG and their crew of just out of college millennials do not get that basic principle of business yet.

This was an exhibition for exactly this reason. They will give us free stuff, and fix it, and then it will start again. No big deal. Patience.

"Darth_DeVito;c-1893737" wrote:
@CG_Erik Since you're canceling this GA, you need to reset the championship score. Without punishing people for completing the fleet battles ahead of time since some of us spent crystals to do so. The next GA needs to have better matchmaking within a single division, not across different divisions like this time, as well as autodeploy for all missing defense teams (even when people set one defense squad manually). Anything else royally messes up our championship scores.

Championship score does not carry over from championship to championship.

As to your point on matchmaking? Making divisions a hard line across which the matchmaking system cannot cross makes it a more gameable system that rewards maintaining your GP just below a cutoff line in order to farm more vulnerable opponents and cut off stronger opponents, while punishing people just above that same line by limiting them to harder opponents. It introduces a wrestling style incentive for spitting in a cup all day before weigh-ins.

Making it a soft line which the matchmaking algorithm can match across reduces the degree to which the system can be gamed in that way. Not eliminate, no, but definitely reduce.

"Nasdadjr;c-1893759" wrote:

"Ruark_Icefire;c-1893723" wrote:

"Kluge;c-1893719" wrote:
This is the kind of stupid _____ that should get people fired. (insert PG-13 word for excrement since you can't say $hiT in the forums). But hey, at least we'll get some more double drops to make up for the lost rewards.

If programmers got fired every time a bug went live there would be not programmers left.

This is not a bug. This is putting out such an inferior product that it can not work on the most rudimentary of levels. In my and anyone elses business you get one chance to impress because if you don't your clientele will go elsewhere. CG and their crew of just out of college millennials do not get that basic principle of business yet.

That may be the case, but you need to go through multiple lines of code after typing it... you are bound to miss something, or you type one bit of code that stops another line from working. In your line of business, you make a mistake your clientele might leave, so if you aren’t happy with the product CG has provided you with, after stating they are looking into it, then leave. At least they are trying to fix the issue, as if they knew what the issue was, don’t you think it would have been sorted by now?

"Darth_DeVito;c-1893737" wrote:
@CG_Erik Since you're canceling this GA, you need to reset the championship score. Without punishing people for completing the fleet battles ahead of time since some of us spent crystals to do so. The next GA needs to have better matchmaking within a single division, not across different divisions like this time, as well as autodeploy for all missing defense teams (even when people set one defense squad manually). Anything else royally messes up our championship scores.

Why the hell would you refresh fleet battle? (except getting higher rank, which is not related to this GA)
You had 7 days to do 15 battles. You can do 5 battles per day for free. This waste is on players who want to show their big muscles, not CG.

"Sicnyc;c-1893761" wrote:
This is amazing.
So there isn’t a single programmer over at CG who can figure out how to open this up for those locked from fighting?
Instead I just wasted the last hour and a half of my life for nothing and I’ll have to do it all over again.
Top notch programming job on new content as usual guys.
Great job.

It’s probably a workflow that can’t be reverted to a previous state or something. Even if it could be reverted, there’s no guarantee that the cached data won’t interfere with the updated information.

"JacenRoe;c-1893754" wrote:
Eric says they are discussing compensation since this round is a wash. Zetas and high level mod slicing material like what we would have gotten from regular gran arena would be great. The double drops didn't quite cover it.

Yeah double drops didn't cover it. I've never failed to get at least 2 zetas in each GA and the double drops gave me 0

Good luck? They need to do their jobs.

"TVF;c-1893626" wrote:

"Beyol;c-1893621" wrote:
You know you complainers sound so childish. Why don't you get a job doing this and play your own game if this one bothers you that much. Childish.

I don't know, even I can't really defend this one.

Seems like having this run on the weekend might not have been the best idea.

When TVF starts dropping some criticism you know its bad!