Setting GA Defense

"Gannon;c-1760937" wrote:
I think it should always be manual.

Why? I set my defense in round 1 and I'm happy with it, so why make me spend more time manually setting the same defense in round 2 and 3?

To me it would make more sense to just set your defense once for all three battles. Then they could shorten the event by two days. Would be a little less confusing and time consuming.

"RebelLion;c-1760963" wrote:
To me it would make more sense to just set your defense once for all three battles. Then they could shorten the event by two days. Would be a little less confusing and time consuming.

Nah. Rosters change and strategy changes. That frankly would be a bad decision

Different opponents require different defense strategies. Use your pre-sets, <5min and you're done.

"FailingCrab;c-1761062" wrote:

"Feefyefoefum;c-1760910" wrote:
Its still not working, so I assume they are trying to get it to function 'properly'.

Defences have to be set manually atm

This is incorrect.

Auto defence in round one has been disabled because it was bugged. If you don't set a defence in round 2 or 3, it will set whatever you set in the previous round.

The last two GAs I only set defence in round 1. This time I've had slightly tougher opponents so have manually set each round.

Well I hope you are correct but you are so far the only person to report that this has happened.

I would love to hear from anyone else who has done as Failing Crab has done, ie set defences in round one but not in rounds 2 or 3 but their opponents have had round one defences to attack in both subsequent rounds

Its still not working, so I assume they are trying to get it to function 'properly'.

Defences have to be set manually atm

Got it. Thanks for the heads up.

"Shok;d-193904" wrote:
If you don't set a defense on the 2nd or 3rd battle does it auto populate the defensive deployment you used on the previous battle? I know they had some bugs with this function, so I wasnt sure if it works now.

That seems like unnecessary coding. You should have to set that manually. The reason there would need to be a lot of contingent coding is a player may change up his 1st 2 defense's characters that may have been in last pound's 3rd defense. So now the dog's have to write the code considering:
If you rearrange your defense roster don't autopopulate
If you don't rearrange your roster autopopulate
Don't do any autopopulating across GA events because 3v3 5v5 alternate and because your roster will further develop
Unforeseen contingencies might creep up
All of this thinking could be prevented by setting defense manually

I think it should always be manual.
Also, anyone who doesn't place defense should be disqualified and get no rewards. They can generate random gw teams to compensate. Lol

"NicWester;c-1760938" wrote:

"Gannon;c-1760937" wrote:
I think it should always be manual.

Why? I set my defense in round 1 and I'm happy with it, so why make me spend more time manually setting the same defense in round 2 and 3?

I don't think it's that much time but I understand your point. Also keeps opponent from being able to collect credits and actually play the game. I'd be very upset if someone didn't set against me again