Split the problem fleet shard again.

There is definitely inequality in effort require for rewards between shards. Our shard is a Jan 2017 and we have less than 10 active players that take 1. We have a chat but it's more social than anything and as long as no one is sniping 1 outside their payout we don't stop anyone. I normally do 1 or 2 battles a day to get 1 , so have absolute sympathy for those less fortunate ending up in a highly competitive shard through none of their own doing. I wasn't overly happy (or mad) about crystals moving from squad arena , but have enjoyed the change. Perhaps it's time to move fleet crystals, as it's the last "must do at a set time each day" part of the game (given upcoming raid changes). Perhaps if the new raids had equivalent crystals as fleet arena similar to the squad arena redistribution to GaC.

"Lumiya;c-2409526" wrote:
I will never understand such behaviour! Our shard chat is so friendly and we often chat about so many different things. Seems I got lucky with my shard mates. Fun fact for us it's actually the other way around. I always try to reach out to people who break into top 30, some of them don't even enter the chat or just simply don't respond.
We even had one who did not react to our invites and wanted to stay all day on #1 and fought everyone even if his payout was 12 hours later. Must have burned many crystals for those refreshes just to hog that position.

Your shard isn't the problem fleet shard, if you know stories about it, you will understand why the shard chat is more of a mafia, not open to outsiders and very aggressive in keeping people out

Only problem about moving them to raids is for people who are active in the solo parts of the game but are in low activity guilds. It would mean two of the three major crystal income points (TB and raids vs GAC) would be dependent on other players. That could cause issues in guilds.

"Ultra;c-2409529" wrote:

"Lumiya;c-2409526" wrote:
I will never understand such behaviour! Our shard chat is so friendly and we often chat about so many different things. Seems I got lucky with my shard mates. Fun fact for us it's actually the other way around. I always try to reach out to people who break into top 30, some of them don't even enter the chat or just simply don't respond.
We even had one who did not react to our invites and wanted to stay all day on #1 and fought everyone even if his payout was 12 hours later. Must have burned many crystals for those refreshes just to hog that position.

Your shard isn't the problem fleet shard, if you know stories about it, you will understand why the shard chat is more of a mafia, not open to outsiders and very aggressive in keeping people out

I read about the shard and know what the problem is. Doesn't change the fact that I will never understand such behaviour. The chat snippets op posted are more than unfriendly and how people can be like this to others I actually also do not -want- to understand. Just because there are lots of active players competing for the positions it is no reason to be this uncivil to someone else, imho.

"wildnz;c-2409528" wrote:
There is definitely inequality in effort require for rewards between shards. Our shard is a Jan 2017 and we have less than 10 active players that take 1. We have a chat but it's more social than anything and as long as no one is sniping 1 outside their payout we don't stop anyone. I normally do 1 or 2 battles a day to get 1 , so have absolute sympathy for those less fortunate ending up in a highly competitive shard through none of their own doing. I wasn't overly happy (or mad) about crystals moving from squad arena , but have enjoyed the change. Perhaps it's time to move fleet crystals, as it's the last "must do at a set time each day" part of the game (given upcoming raid changes). Perhaps if the new raids had equivalent crystals as fleet arena similar to the squad arena redistribution to GaC.

No, just please no... Do not move the crystals. Then fleet arena will be obsolete and we already have way too little for ships as is.

I understand your sentiment, but in this case I disagree. Add to that what is happening in GAC it's even a bigger no from me.

"Lumiya;c-2409544" wrote:

"wildnz;c-2409528" wrote:
There is definitely inequality in effort require for rewards between shards. Our shard is a Jan 2017 and we have less than 10 active players that take 1. We have a chat but it's more social than anything and as long as no one is sniping 1 outside their payout we don't stop anyone. I normally do 1 or 2 battles a day to get 1 , so have absolute sympathy for those less fortunate ending up in a highly competitive shard through none of their own doing. I wasn't overly happy (or mad) about crystals moving from squad arena , but have enjoyed the change. Perhaps it's time to move fleet crystals, as it's the last "must do at a set time each day" part of the game (given upcoming raid changes). Perhaps if the new raids had equivalent crystals as fleet arena similar to the squad arena redistribution to GaC.

No, just please no... Do not move the crystals. Then fleet arena will be obsolete and we already have way too little for ships as is.

I understand your sentiment, but in this case I disagree. Add to that what is happening in GAC it's even a bigger no from me.

But a consistent crystal income shouldn't be reliant on having a singular meta fleet and being part of an in group. If a group of players can fix the results against other people, CG should consider punitive action towards those players and/or move rewards to a game mode where it is less possible to fix the results.

I am sure they will move them soon (tm)

It would be fairly simple to fix fleet arena to be fair to all independent of shard and also remove the risk of collusion. If CG had the inclination to fix it.

"scuba;c-2409556" wrote:
I am sure they will move them soon (tm)

I'm sure it's coming at some point and I'll be ecstatic when it does, but people have been saying that since the squad arena -> GAC change. It's so far removed from the last change that it almost feels like it won't be coming anytime soon.

That is quite an obnoxious shard. Our one is a lot friendlier than that. But we are probably a lot smaller at the top than that one. We sure wouldn't respond to a request to join the chat like that one did.