Servers, Rankings and GW understanding

If you are talking about arena groups, commonly called "shards" you are assigned to one when you unlock arena at lvl 28.

Devs call them "leaderboards"

Thanks for your answer.

No, I am talking about the way player are dispatched to play against one another. Surely we don't play against people from India or there would be more than 15K people per category... Is there a way to know if I am on the same server as my cousin who lives in the same area and plays star wars too.

And sub-question, how are the catogeries determined in the squad arena? For example, I am lvl 75 atm and the #3 in rank is lvl 83, how could I hope to beat them?

"Filipensky;c-1445530" wrote:
Thanks for your answer.

No, I am talking about the way player are dispatched to play against one another. Surely we don't play against people from India or there would be more than 15K people per category... Is there a way to know if I am on the same server as my cousin who lives in the same area and plays star wars too.

And sub-question, how are the catogeries determined in the squad arena? For example, I am lvl 75 atm and the #3 in rank is lvl 83, how could I hope to beat them?

It still sounds like you are talking about arena, since that’s the only game area in which you really “play against” somebody else. But Kyno already explained that so I’m not sure why you’re saying no.

The answer to your sub-question is the same. Your arena leaderboard is set when you reach level 28 and includes people who reached that level at about the same time you did. It includes people all around the world. You can tell if you are on the same leaderboard as somebody else by whether the top 50 are the same people. The guy who is higher level than you has been progressing faster, likely by doing more energy refreshes to get more xp.

"Filipensky;c-1445530" wrote:
Thanks for your answer.

No, I am talking about the way player are dispatched to play against one another. Surely we don't play against people from India or there would be more than 15K people per category... Is there a way to know if I am on the same server as my cousin who lives in the same area and plays star wars too.

And sub-question, how are the catogeries determined in the squad arena? For example, I am lvl 75 atm and the #3 in rank is lvl 83, how could I hope to beat them?

Squad arena servers or shards or leaderboards or whatever you want to call them are based on when you unlock squad arena at level 28, as @Kyno said. The guy at lvl 83 on your shard hit level 28 close to when you did but has advanced quicker than you have, probably by using more refreshes to gain XP quicker. Shards are global so yeah, you are probably playing against people from all over the world.

OK. I didn't understand correctly Kyno then... And they could've bought things to progress faster. That's clear, thanks.

Now, I will always keep the same leaderboard? Is it ever "rescrambled" like when you reach lvl 85 or too many people stop playing in your leaderboard?

note: why "shard", is it only meant to confuse people? Aren't shards used to nlock and evolve characters??

no you never change leaderboards or shards..

Shard is a poor choice of word to use, leader-board isn't any better, that's the list of top guilds. Arena battle-group is a term that would make sense to people, but it is too late.

"Filipensky;c-1445556" wrote:
OK. I didn't understand correctly Kyno then... And they could've bought things to progress faster. That's clear, thanks.

Now, I will always keep the same leaderboard? Is it ever "rescrambled" like when you reach lvl 85 or too many people stop playing in your leaderboard?

note: why "shard", is it only meant to confuse people? Aren't shards used to nlock and evolve characters??

@Filipensky The leaderboard group you are in never changes. As for why shard is used to refer to leaderboards, I have no idea. Not sure when that started and it can be confusing.

Thanks for your answers it helps me so much to understand the game!! :)

well that sucks. If you have the badluck to try to not pay for the game and get in a leaderboard where a lot of people pay then you're doomed, though I guess that is what EA wants, to get more people paying... anyways.

So the fleet arena is decided the same way then, you can get different people in your fleet arena because everyone that is in your leaderboard of squad arena will not have necessarily reached fleet the same time as you?

And is GW based on your leaderboard? For the difficulties I mean? like they take people below your rank for #1-4, about your rank for #5-9 and above you for #10-12 battles?

"Filipensky;c-1445634" wrote:
Thanks for your answers it helps me so much to understand the game!! :)

well that sucks. If you have the badluck to try to not pay for the game and get in a leaderboard where a lot of people pay then you're doomed, though I guess that is what EA wants, to get more people paying... anyways.

So the fleet arena is decided the same way then, you can get different people in your fleet arena because everyone that is in your leaderboard of squad arena will not have necessarily reached fleet the same time as you?

And is GW based on your leaderboard? For the difficulties I mean? like they take people below your rank for #1-4, about your rank for #5-9 and above you for #10-12 battles?

@Filipensky fleet arena is the same, based on when you hit 60. Will be different than your squad arena. I don’t think GW is based on your squad arena leaderboard in any way though.