Shardchat destroys fun

Im sorry for your experience.

Personally speaking tho, this is because of the ridiculous way of distributing crystals among the players implemented in this game. They(your shardmates) are only trying to safeguard their interests; their investments they've made for the past 4 years while you were playing casual(dont take this as an insult).

As someone who is in an all welcoming shard chat, people like you *can* get annoying for us, because we are unsure if trusting you will actually pay, or if you are here only till this meta lasts. Hope you understand, and focus your angst in the correct place.

They should just make it top rank for the day.

Reduce the reward a little & we can shut down all shard chats, the hour stress of sniping & all that rubbish.

No, it doesn't.

What would you have lost, by joining the shard chat?

It's simply a way to be gregarious, cooperate and maximize returns, to stay competitive. There are plenty of people to hit when climbing and I see nothing wrong in being civil about it.

I had an issue in fleet, with a Russian guy always attacking me on my payout, which was the same as his. We were the only ones on the same payout and, yet, he would always attack me while climbing. He would not reply in game, nor on Discord. I reached out to his guild leader, who was quite nice, and no reply from him. One day, I got fed up and I locked him at 17, I think. We could both be #1 and #2, but since he would always attack me, I burned crystals to hell and locked him there. On the 3rd day of this back and forth nonsense, both of us missing out on hundreds of crystals, he reached out swearing at me. And he, at this moment, understood that cooperating was more benefitial to both of us and it has been this way, ever since.

You may have learned a lesson for life right there. In the end, you are the one who did not join when invited, so now you live with the consequences of your choices.

This is just a game, but, in real life, certain doors will only open to you once.

I'm part of a shard chat & benefit from it greatly, but I don't agree with the above.

This is an example of the community working around a poor design choice, not a great system overall.

For me it’s just cheating.Do it if you think that’s the way you should play a game. But don’t flame/punish people who don’t want to join. They didn’t attack me around my payout because it’s also theirs, they just did it to punish me playing the game as intended. And as I said, they don’t communicate with me. I don’t get an explanation. I even asked politely what his payout is. I just didn’t want to bother someone. And that’s my „reward“? And it‘s my fault?

Im not a fan of it. I wish it didnt exist. Alas I hate getting knocked out of top 20 more.

Highest rank of day would also remove all this payout timing changes issues also. Not to mention the stress of playing for a specific hour (Which is horrible to fit into real life).

It's just a better system & if the concern is that too many free shards go around then reduce the max payout a little to compensate. You still have to get to number 1, you still need to beat a number 1 squad so I don't see the problem.

"mvmss;c-1797690" wrote:
No, it doesn't.

What would you have lost, by joining the shard chat?

It's simply a way to be gregarious, cooperate and maximize returns, to stay competitive. There are plenty of people to hit when climbing and I see nothing wrong in being civil about it.

I had an issue in fleet, with a Russian guy always attacking me on my payout, which was the same as his. We were the only ones on the same payout and, yet, he would always attack me while climbing. He would not reply in game, nor on Discord. I reached out to his guild leader, who was quite nice, and no reply from him. One day, I got fed up and I locked him at 17, I think. We could both be #1 and #2, but since he would always attack me, I burned crystals to hell and locked him there. On the 3rd day of this back and forth nonsense, both of us missing out on hundreds of crystals, he reached out swearing at me. And he, at this moment, understood that cooperating was more benefitial to both of us and it has been this way, ever since.

You may have learned a lesson for life right there. In the end, you are the one who did not join when invited, so now you live with the consequences of your choices.

This is just a game, but, in real life, certain doors will only open to you once.

Bad excuses like this that you make up for yourself because you cheat are the main problem, not a solution. Lesson for life? Are you serious? „You have to cheat because we do, otherwise we will punish you“? It’s ridiculous that you want me to play against the rules and when I decline it’s my fault and I have to „live with the consequences“? That’s a new level of being a hypocrite. Wow.

"Noxfire27;c-1797693" wrote:
For me it’s just cheating.Do it if you think that’s the way you should play a game. But don’t flame/punish people who don’t want to join. They didn’t attack me around my payout because it’s also theirs, they just did it to punish me playing the game as intended. And as I said, they don’t communicate with me. I don’t get an explanation. I even asked politely what his payout is. I just didn’t want to bother someone. And that’s my „reward“? And it‘s my fault?

sounds like a bunch of ... bags, it's not your fault.
Shardchats are like guns, they're harmless without humans to use them, they can be used for good but they unfortunately can also be used for bad.
i personally rather blame the players like the ones you're dealing with than blaming it on the shardchats.

"elmarko1234;c-1797696" wrote:
Highest rank of day would also remove all this payout timing changes issues also. Not to mention the stress of playing for a specific hour (Which is horrible to fit into real life).

It's just a better system & if the concern is that too many free shards go around then reduce the max payout a little to compensate. You still have to get to number 1, you still need to beat a number 1 squad so I don't see the problem.

There are many issues with this. Firstly, there are only 24 of any position PO a day, there are an "unlimited" number of top positions in the day, so it's a little different than just decrease the PO a little and it will all balance out.

I see this making any issues with shard chats worse. Now instead of a 24 position based rotation, you have a rotation trying to get upwards of 30-50+ players into first. Shards will be more active, which would make shard chats more active.

Taking a position at some point in time also takes away from the competition. You dont race to be first at some point, you race to be first at the end of the race.

If you know there is someone you cant beat, you simply wait for someone else to beat them then take the spot from them. This would make that easier than it is now to take first, even if you cant win all the time.
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All in all, I'm not saying we couldn't have a better system, I just dont think a top rank for the day system is better.