Sniping near payout

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Some people like to watch the world burn… I just swapped places from 8th to 4th EIGHT times in the 2 hours leading up to my ship payout (and burned a time refresh to lock myself into the battle for 1st six minutes before payout) tonight.

Our shard co-public enemy #1 (there are 2 of them that conservatively spend an average of 600-700 crystals a day in time and battle refreshes, both have been in the shard chat before and removed themselves) paid out 6 hours ago.

@LordDirt

You obviously didn't read what I wrote.

The problem isn't my ability to win battles. My being good or not doesn't enter into it. Even if I was fighting for 999th place and someone sniped me, the (hypothetical) fact (in this hypothetical scenario) that I'm terrible at squad arena doesn't make it okay for someone with 12 hours to their own payout to knock me back down to 1040th.

The problem is people attacking me during my payout time when it's 12 hours away from their own. The offense always has the advantage, you know this. My teams can be good and still be beatable.

This is solely about people who don't respect others. End of story.

It's Player VERSUS Player
There's no rule that says someone can't attack you just because it's near your payout
If anything, it's proper competitive behavior to hit you at or just before your payout
Now you have fewer crystals to grow your roster and oppose me in the future

I hope I’m doing this to you. I literally hit arena whenever it’s convenient. Sometimes middle of the night, morning, lunch, or 5 mins before payout. I don’t really care

@Baibars

I would give this downwote if I could. Not nice to generalize it on Eastern Europe people, this has nothing to do with your point

For the record, I did not generalize about eastern Europeans. Every single person who engaged in the sniping I was talking about had their payout set for evening in eastern Europe. I attempted to contact every single one. ALL of the ones that contacted me were people who mentioned speaking a non-English language as their native language. When I asked where they were in the world, all of the people who responded confirmed that they were located in Russia or elsewhere in eastern Europe.

I did not generalize. I talked to people. I looked up their payout times (to make sure they weren't attacking me because we had payouts close to each other). I was careful to say here "It always seems to be" because some people didn't talk to me and they could have been in the middle east or Africa or just set their payout for a time that wasn't in their evening. But I did not generalize, and I wasn't looking to blame eastern Europeans: I have actual facts, confirmed with the actual snipers, that I was being sniped either entirely by eastern Europeans or at the bare minimum by several eastern European players and a couple of players who seem to eastern Europeans based on their payout times, which were the same as other snipers.

Also, please note that there's a difference between "almost all of the people sniping me are from eastern Europe" and "all eastern Europeans are people who snipe others".

Thanks for the supportive comments, TheJEFF and feralicious.

I have DM'd others. I think I've also DM'd the person who hit me today, but not recently. Sometimes they refrain from hitting me for a few months, but then they're back at it again. That's why I put my PO times in my name. I get it that people can't remember everyone's PO. I think the answer is simple: don't attack until it's time for your climb to your payout, which is at MOST 3 hours before PO for people that fall really far overnight on active shards.

But if you have to practice or whatever, I think it's wrong, but okay, if you have to practice, the least you could do is respect the times of someone who puts their payout in their name.

Anyway, thanks for letting me vent.

"LordDirt;c-2281719" wrote:
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So you never lose on D? Interesting.

"Solus_Imperius;c-2281762" wrote:
It's Player VERSUS Player
There's no rule that says someone can't attack you just because it's near your payout
If anything, it's proper competitive behavior to hit you at or just before your payout
Now you have fewer crystals to grow your roster and oppose me in the future

And CG just laughs and laughs and laughs.

"TVF;c-2281796" wrote:


So you never lose on D? Interesting.

All day everyday. My fleet arena doesnt let me in so I just fight them everyday. No reason this guy cant either.