Please hide GAC scores!

Or just post up the best score you can. Either it will win or it won’t.

"Waqui;c-2152017" wrote:
How exactly is it an advantage?

It's an advantage to know what score you need to win, obviously.

You can debate how much of an advantage, and in some cases it's none (when an opponent scores very high), but it's obviously an advantage with everything else being equal.

"Waqui;c-2152043" wrote:

"TVF;c-2152025" wrote:

"Waqui;c-2152017" wrote:
How exactly is it an advantage?

It's an advantage to know what score you need to win, obviously.

You can debate how much of an advantage, and in some cases it's none (when an opponent scores very high), but it's obviously an advantage with everything else being equal.

And it helps you score more than you could without knowing the score beforehand? How exactly?

Because you don't have to take risks if the score is lower?

You also know the average amount of banners you need to earn per battle, so you also know when to undersize or not, and how careful you need to be. And if you are going below average for all the character battles, you know the amount of banners you need in ships to win.

It absolutely is an advantage to have your opponent go first and know how they performed. For all of the reasons outlined above.

Heck, on my last GAC, I had a GL-less opponent, so I took the opportunity to practice using some counters I don't usually even try. And accomplished a feat I normally writhe have ignored.

"Waqui;c-2152167" wrote:

"DarjeloSalas;c-2152149" wrote:

"Waqui;c-2152147" wrote:

"DarjeloSalas;c-2152141" wrote:
TVF didn’t say it helped you score more than you could.

I know. But his reply to my question didn't answer the question. I'm sure he must have had a point with his reply (he always does with his posts) but it made no sense as a reply to my question.

"DarjeloSalas;c-2152141" wrote:

Scoring your highest possible score involves risk, and the advantage that going last provides - if it ever does provide an advantage - is knowing how much risk you need to or don’t need to take.

So, you agree knowing your opponent's score doesn't actually help you score higher than you max possible without knowing the score?

See my follow up post.

Looks like we agree then :-). Knowing your opponent's score doesn't help you win the round but it could help you to a less stressfull offense, where you can slack, maybe do feats (for less banners) and still win the round.

You didn't actually read his post did you? Or at least, if you did, you intentionally misinterpreted it to fit your narrative.

Knowing your opponents score can help you win the round. It gives you a better idea where to adjust risk v. reward - and if your opponent scored lower (and you know this in advance) you can slide away from the risk side of the equation. If you did not know your opponent's score in advance, and instead went after your "maximum" score, with high risk attacks, you could lose more easily if things go bad for you in one of those battles.

If you still insist that knowing your opponent's score in advance can't help you win the match after it now being explained in multiple ways, by multiple people, I can only presume you are posting in this thread then...https://i.imgur.com/05TDC9H.gif

Oh noes I went first so I will surely lose!!! :o

"Rath_Tarr;c-2152694" wrote:
Oh noes I went first so I will surely lose!!! :o

Did someone say you can't win if you go first?

That's not the point, and I know you know it's not the point.

Congrats on the win though.

"Legend91;c-2152842" wrote:

"TVF;c-2152797" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2152694" wrote:
Oh noes I went first so I will surely lose!!! :o

Did someone say you can't win if you go first?

That's not the point, and I know you know it's not the point.

Congrats on the win though.

It's not like 2476 is an unbeatable score with what I see there on defense. Malak/Nest solo vs Shaak, JKR+GMY duo vs KRU, SLKR solo vs GG, Nest solo vs Palp (depending on potency vs tenacity)..but 2476 is a good score non the less.
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On topic:
Going second is a significant advantage and I'm tired of this discussion. All relevant information (banners scored, number of battles and zones cleared) should be hidden but since CG is too lazy for everything or just doesn't care this won't happen.

Or the significance of this advantage is exaggerated and calling them lazy is just a lazy argument.

The significance of the advantage is completely dependent on the situation.

And most often the argument is that there's "zero advantage ever" which is completely false.