[MEGA] State of the Galaxy: November 2021

I do like the spirit of the changes, but this will be a massive reduction of gem income for nearly everyone who is doing top 1 right now. That is absolutely clear. It also doesn't deal with hackers and punishes small/mid size accounts, who even if they play very well and smart will be systematically faced by much bigger rosters. The ladder system means that top kyber spots will be filled by 9M+gp players irrespective of ability.

Arena was a terrible game mode. Glad that it's gone (I was getting 500 easy daily gems, but having to be there at a particular time sucks). What about ships?

I guess that the clear winners are the bigger accounts who enjoy PvP, and the clear losers are small/new accounts doing top 1, who are thoroughly fucked now.

Can we speak about 3v3? The majority sentiment is that we should simply get rid of 3v3. Why stick with it?

"Kshsedch;c-2317856" wrote:
Perfect example for how CG team kills their own game.

They have no idea how unpopular GAC is.

Yeah, because squad arena is sooo much fun

Well, it was good while it lasted.
Don’t mean my time in the game, but my time in Kyber. No way i’ll be able to compete against a guy who has 2m more gp than me, because eventually, over time, Kyber will be filled with the highest gp players as pg is not part of matchmaking anymore.

It could still be a fun game mode (even if there isn’t really a roster management aspect anymore, as you should just get the most gear possible the quicker you can via any means, money included), so wait & see.

And there is one mistake in the State of the Galaxy post:
‘ Kyber League should represent the very best players in the game who use their squads to their fullest.’
That is not totally true. With this system, ‘Kyber league will represent the very best players in the game who have the strongest characters maxed, the widest rosters AND use them to their fullest.’

First time posting here just to say that i'm almost done with CG and SWGOH.
Lot of weird changes the last months and now we will be pushed to play GAC 3v3 (i really hate that) and also Hondo Ohnaka is NOT here.

I'm almost done, almost.

If they think we’re going to spend money to replace the crystals we’re losing they’re lost their minds. I’ve been a heavy spender to keep up in squad arena. Wallet closed.

Am I reading this right? No gp consideration outside of initial placement? The whole idea of shards was fighting against players of similar time in game. All but end game players gets completely skunked by this, and by taking away our main souce of crystals it makes it harder to grow, are you trying to kill your game?

So a skilled lower gp player will get knocked out simply because they will hit higher GPs after winning and have no shot against those rosters, that will so demotivating as I had no shot to win.

You need to put gp brackets back in to avoid big mismatches, your algorithm will not do this right it needs to be hard coded.

Eliminate squad arena entirely and add rewards to dailies.

It is obvious you did this to make newer players have to spend way more to catch up. Have to build many teams as opposed to 1 Meta, truly pathetic money grab, esp after botching conquest. What a joke.

"dogwelder79;c-2317836" wrote:
People in shard chats were too used to getting crystals with no effort. Now they'll have to work for those crystals. If matchmaking is good, this might not be a bad idea.

I forgot that this was a full time job and not a mobile game

"dogwelder79;c-2317836" wrote:
People in shard chats were too used to getting crystals with no effort. Now they'll have to work for those crystals. If matchmaking is good, this might not be a bad idea.

Climbing every day is no effort? Better to shift crystals to a game mode where there is rampant cheating that can't be mitigated in any way? To a game mode that is hated by many? To a game mode where someone can look at what you set on defense due to the decision to make GAC defense history public?

If people are not happy with this change, the best thing to do would be to not engage in it, let your voice be heard wherever you can and stop rewarding them.

They should also reevaluate the 3v3 as well. Either give players a choice which they want like TB or do away with it all together.

GAC is a massive time sink. With arena i can at least skip it some days or do other things while waiting for the timer. Resetting this many teams in GAC over and over is the reason why I stopped playing it. If that's what it takes to get crystals in the future i might just as well stop playing. I've been playing daily for years and spending money. No more with these changes. I'm tired of being in a game that feels like a chore or full time job.