Before the update I was in top 10 30% of the time, top 20 70% of the time. I am and I was playing Endurance with much lower score then oponents I'm atacking. Now I find it sometimes hard to beat to top 20. With introduction of 3v3 battles people who focued only on correct 3 ships early have great advantage over the people who tried to keep whole ships team relatively equal. It's ridiculous up to the point where someone has only 3 good ships with really bad reinforcements and AI easily take out 1 attacker ship before player can do anything in first round, 1 another in the second and that's lost. Also in 3v3 RNG and speed play much greater role. Most of the teams I see are Tarkin + Biggs, Vader, TF swap with Kylo, with support of Boba. There is absolutely no diversity and the battle is 75% times finished in the first round, depending only on who kills Vader first.
You say that the battles take less time - of course they do! As I've mentionded, its clear in the very first round who will win and no reinforcements can change that. Also many players finish battle in 2 min and wait until final 30 s to prevent loosing position - shorter battles mean shorter statistics.
Also it was said that more people engage in the ships battles - how it is possible if I can check positions 3-5 hours before the rewards hour and until then I see that only me and one other person try to climb?
Me and my whole guild consider ships 2.0 to be just terrible. Reinforcements bonus wasn't a bad thing, but 3v3 is simply terrible RNG, lacking in ships diversity.
EA Staff (Retired)
