Shards - unfair advantage through ships?
One obvious addition from the recent update is that we can now see the fleets of allies, shards members, etc. From memory, on the launch of ships people were supposedly divided equally into shards bas...
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To put my ship shard into context, 13 out of the current top 20 have a 7*, gear 11 Nilhilus...
I think the problem here is that I started the game in August and when ships came out, there were a lot of spenders who were level 80 - 85, while most FTP players would have been sub 80. For shards that started materially earlier you don't experience this issue as most players would have already reached level 80. For shards starting in September or October only massive spenders would be able to hit level 80 given the cap on energy refreshes. Can't say for certain but this appears to be how I assume they cut the shards up which has led to a massive concentration of big spenders on one shard and effectively FTP ship arenas...
And looking through my character shard, there seems to be a big divide between players who are ranking very highly in ships with weak fleets and those who are ranking materially lower with stronger fleets. This just seems unfair given we all started on the same date and early success (whether through clever farming or paying hard currency) seems to now leave players handicapped in zetas which have become a crucial part of arena
I think the problem here is that I started the game in August and when ships came out, there were a lot of spenders who were level 80 - 85, while most FTP players would have been sub 80. For shards that started materially earlier you don't experience this issue as most players would have already reached level 80. For shards starting in September or October only massive spenders would be able to hit level 80 given the cap on energy refreshes. Can't say for certain but this appears to be how I assume they cut the shards up which has led to a massive concentration of big spenders on one shard and effectively FTP ship arenas...
And looking through my character shard, there seems to be a big divide between players who are ranking very highly in ships with weak fleets and those who are ranking materially lower with stronger fleets. This just seems unfair given we all started on the same date and early success (whether through clever farming or paying hard currency) seems to now leave players handicapped in zetas which have become a crucial part of arena
