"Lumiya;c-2436227" wrote:
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.
The problem of the thread is not counteracted by shard chats. If one shard has 70 active players that can take first and are allowed/able to climb, those players are required to refresh and put in more battles than players in dead shards. That alone is at least 50-100 crystals per day that other shards don't have to spend. That's a loss of 12-25% rewards that other players don't have to deal with.
People get sandbagged in TW, sure, but that's a problem with rewards capping at 380M when top guilds are 650M and guilds can drop down to 30 players and get an easy win for max rewards. CG has several options to fix that issue.
GAC evening out at 50% W/L is fine. But rewards can be granted through GAC in other ways. Or in other ways in fleet arena that are more fair.
