Shard chat or groups for fleet and arena.

It's just the way it's done - for years now. CG knows and doesn't care to do anything about it. Reach out to the people in your shard and see if you can get in the rotation. If they won't let you in, consider yourself locked out. It's unfair but it's the reality of arena in this game.

It’s been this way since the game started, and there’s no easy solution since it’s often coordinated through an outside app (Discord).

The best advice I can give is to build up your own team so you can beat their teams consistently, and hopefully they’ll eventually send you an invite.

Some shard chats are more accessible than others so I hope you’re dealing with decent people. My shard chats look at the fleet/arena setup and try to get the most people the best possible payout. So while these systems feel like a mafia vs single player from the outside, on the inside it is mostly about getting as much as possible from CG for as many players as possible through improved payouts throughout the day.

My advice would be to continue to reach out to these shard members and hopefully through persistence you’ll be invited as well. Good luck.

I’ll offer up the same advice. Reach out to someone around your payout. The shard might be closed to new members until the lv/maul meta effect is known. However most shards are pretty relaxed. The whole point of them is to spend less time focused on the arena each day while increasing/maximizing shard members crystals.

I know those who are not in shards view them as bullies trying to steal your lunch money. Honestly, most shards could careless about individual people not in the shard. Of course if you are climbing hours before your payout then they’ll care. Also, everyone who wishes for shard chats to some how be eliminated or “fixed” just don’t understand the chaos arenas would be without them. They bring stability to shards and predictability.

As someone above mentioned, you’re not the enemy, cg is. Your shard isn’t trying to actively screw you more than likely though there are exceptions based on the behavior of individuals both in and out chats.

Finally, if you can’t beat jmk regularly that’s not the fault of the shard chat. No one is or should get first if they can’t beat jmk at a high rate.

"TheDude420;c-2306728" wrote:
It’s been this way since the game started, and there’s no easy solution since it’s often coordinated through an outside app (Discord).

The best advice I can give is to build up your own team so you can beat their teams consistently, and hopefully they’ll eventually send you an invite.

Or ... Just reach out to one player for shard chat ?

Or ... Build it own shard chat ... I just built mine so it's doable.

Yeah I got invited to my shard chat after making it to #1 with 4* Executor. One of them was crying a bit at first, but they're generally OK dudes. They don't like when someone outside of the chat bumps them though, so you need to get an invite.

"TheDude420;c-2306728" wrote:
It’s been this way since the game started, and there’s no easy solution since it’s often coordinated through an outside app (Discord).

The best advice I can give is to build up your own team so you can beat their teams consistently, and hopefully they’ll eventually send you an invite.

The easy solution would be to completely get rid of a blatantly rigged system. Find a non-pvp way to make up for any crystals earned through it. Its unfortunate they can't/won't punish the people rigging it though.