"NicWester;c-1572828" wrote:
"GOWLIKEABOSS;c-1572816" wrote:
"NicWester;c-1572616" wrote:
"Natos;c-1572613" wrote:
Yea dude. 50+ pages of responses from folks who were all sitting pretty on top of their shards....
Maybe you're the exception?
Thing of it is, ships 1.0 wasn't competitive. No one cared. At one point I was in 321st place for a week straight by doing nothing more than going into one battle early in the morning, retreating as soon as it was my turn, and then not touching ships again for the rest of the day. That's seven consecutive days of doing nothing and my rank not changing. When I woke up and found myself at 322nd place, I did five fights and finished 210, then went back to not caring.
People at the very, very top of each leaderboard were sitting pretty because the pressure beneath them was minimal at best--no one cared. Now folks care again.
The meta before was bad and drove people away from this part of the game. Now the folks at the top are trying to do the same thing in 2.0 that worked in 1.0 and aren't getting the same results because the meta changed. You change with it. Or you don't, and you lose, and that's okay, too. But coming here and crying foul because the meta that was in place for the past 15 months since TIE Reaper was released and now it's changed? That's pretty lame.
321st eh? Wow. Lol.
If you were holding at 10 then sure.
But there comes a point where you become too much of a challenge for the people below you and you bottom out wherever that is.
Doesn't mean it's not competitive, as we don't know how many people are in our fleet shards. If you took all your ships out but the required minimum and you used only your weakest ships and you STILL didn't drop, then I'd agree with you.
I was using Endurance when that was a big "HIT ME" sign and you would frequently lose to 5* Chimaeras.
We don't know how many people are on each leaderboard, but what I know now is that things have become much more volatile and people rise and fall every day. There's a reason for me to do attacks now, and those attacks involve some actual tactical thought as well as considering the larger strategy of what to put in reserve.
You think it's all just RNG and coin flips, but you're like some kid who put their toe in the hot tub, said it's too hot, and then went away. Get in there, get used to it, enjoy the water, it's wonderful.
what is wonderful if you something that the player painstakingly built up the years whit an update destroyed??? The game goes in a direction most players do not want, SithRaid, Ships 2.0 and the next updates will go in the same direction. You have destroyed a nice game and you will destroy it even further
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