"iMalevolence;c-2436224" wrote:
"Lumiya;c-2436222" wrote:
What you said could also be said about GAC and TW for example. People not participating or participating is not just a fleet "problem" and to be honest, fleet is the smallest of the "problems". TW and GAC have much bigger problems because of that.
You can not control how much people play the game and there will always be areas, where participation or a lack thereof will influence something. Taking crystals out of fleet will not change anything but instead will actually make it worse if they land in TW or GAC for this very reason and the matchmaking wich is influenced by participation.
GAC and TW opponents differ per event, so activity differences in a singular instance is a less relevant metric than activity levels in fleet shards that are the same pool of players and have been a problem for 6 years. Additionally, in most cases, greater activity in those events is rewarded, which is the ultimate goal. Because the pool of players is not fixed, the players who actually put in the time and effort will be rewarded. The same cannot be said for fleet, for reasons stated above. It is bad design when one player can get 8x the rewards that another player can get while doing 1/8th the work.
I have a 7* Leviathan, and after 3 wins in my fleet shard, I've moved from 40 -> 31 -> 24 -> 31 -> 40 -> 31.
You do realise, even if you are against the shard chats, that having the same Players in fleet actually makes it easier to counteract the "problems" you are describing if you can coordinate?
And what you say about CAC and TW is right in theory but we have so many examples that show that the reality is a lot different. There are so many players and guilds whom are affected by the matchmaking which is based on participation in a really bad way. You are not new to the forums so you know very well how negatively people are influenced in those areas and based on the number of posts it is obvious that those modes are influenced a lot more than fleet, otherwise we would have a lot more posts about fleet in the context of participation.
Last but not least: Of course you are rewarded if you put in time and effort in fleets and participate. It's just as true as in GAC or TW. It's the same concept. Let me remind you that GAC is coded to give you "only" 50% wins, so you will also experience losses and therefor get less rewards. You can not win all the time and get the best rewards there either. In fleet it actually is possible.
