"No Defenses Set" in Grand Arena [MERGE]

Why not have the join period also be the set defense period? If you dont set a defense, you don't end up in the tournament.

Probably those people , who were told they played wrong by collecting bunches of toons and leveling ships and told they just made bad choices. Probably don't care about said event, so either didnt post defense or like me posted 1 team of lvl 1s

I wish we could collect our rewards now since the match really is over.

I sat on pins and needles waiting for this to start. Now I have to wait some more.

"OzwaldEMandius;c-1714353" wrote:

"Citadel_of_Ricks;c-1714341" wrote:
No defense equals you lose since you can't earn enough on offense to overcome someone who set a defense and got territory rewards for "clearing" yours. I did the math as soon as I saw no defense for my opponent thinking they pulled a fast one on me.

No because you lose the points generated by setting banners. That’s 90 vs 64.

I am just over 1M GP, which means 3 squads of defense, so I earned 270 banners by placing those squads, which my opponent did not. That means I am up 270-0 going into attack phase. They set no defense, so I was awarded all banners for those zones, so I have 600 banners. Even if my opponent wipes my 3 teams clear without my defense registering a shot, they can't get more than 600 banners. SO just the act of me setting a full defense and them setting none means I win automatically.

Hence, no defense equals you lose.

Same here no bonus awards no quest progress.

Maybe in order to join, you are required to set X default D teams in the signup screen. They will be used if you dont manually set D.

"VonZant;c-1714507" wrote:
Maybe in order to join, you are required to set X default D teams in the signup screen. They will be used if you dont manually set D.

Yes if no defense is set you get the boot frim match making.

Join, set nothing, get rewards = free stuff for doing absolutely nothing.

This is the problem of giving stuff to people who lose. I remember when Warhammer online started rewarding gear to the defenders of the city, it ruined that entire aspect of the game cause why would you defend the territories when you could lose on purpose to get better gear?

These people who put nothing on defence would only try to win if they only got stuff for winning, the fact is that this entire thing gives out participation rewards to everyone, and because of this you can completely ignore that it exists.

Only this time even the people who ignore it get winning rewards.

Edit: Think about the actual Territory War in this game. Winning means more zeta's for your entire guild, there is actual incentive to win. Winning in this one gives slicing mats that no-one cares about and some droid callers that are not used by most of the characters in the game - hopefully the rewards for winning actually do outweigh the rewards for showing up later on.

"Darknesswon;c-1714696" wrote:

"Gorem;c-1714676" wrote:
Join, set nothing, get rewards = free stuff for doing absolutely nothing.

This is the problem of giving stuff to people who lose. I remember when Warhammer online started rewarding gear to the defenders of the city, it ruined that entire aspect of the game cause why would you defend the territories when you could lose on purpose to get better gear?

These people who put nothing on defence would only try to win if they only got stuff for winning, the fact is that this entire thing gives out participation rewards to everyone, and because of this you can completely ignore that it exists.

Only this time even the people who ignore it get winning rewards.

Edit: Think about the actual Territory War in this game. Winning means more zeta's for your entire guild, there is actual incentive to win. Winning in this one gives slicing mats that no-one cares about and some droid callers that are not used by most of the characters in the game - hopefully the rewards for winning actually do outweigh the rewards for showing up later on.

I doubt most people who posted no defense care at all about some slicing mats. I think it was because they dont care for the game mode.

Then they shouldn't have joined. And they shouldn't ruin the experience for the other players.

"Thatdelong;c-1714198" wrote:
The same garbage happened to me too. Why join and then not even bother to set Defense? Don't want the other guy to have to even work at all? It's selfish and IMO will be the biggest problem with this game mode, as it completely drains the fun out of it. I was excited to battle and now I'm just angry and exasperated.

"Nikoms565;c-1714716" wrote:


Then they shouldn't have joined. And they shouldn't ruin the experience for the other players.

Players didn't have the option not to join.....the tutorial pop-up stuff forced everyone to join this exhibition round. Players won't have to join the regular GA if they don't want to play.