Squad Arena

"Gannon;c-1814858" wrote:
Yea, all valid points. I just wish they'd do something with it. I don't think it's changed at all since I started playing years ago.

I've never met anyone who actually enjoys squad Arena, they just do it for the rewards.

I enjoy squad arena.? One of my favorite modes, always has been.

"Tbirds01;c-1815518" wrote:

"Gannon;c-1814858" wrote:
Yea, all valid points. I just wish they'd do something with it. I don't think it's changed at all since I started playing years ago.

I've never met anyone who actually enjoys squad Arena, they just do it for the rewards.

I enjoy squad arena.? One of my favorite modes, always has been.

You enjoy fighting revan constantly? Or are you in a lower tier where there's variety? ? just curious, cuz you're legit the first I've ever seen to say that

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"Gannon;c-1815588" wrote:

"Tbirds01;c-1815518" wrote:

"Gannon;c-1814858" wrote:
Yea, all valid points. I just wish they'd do something with it. I don't think it's changed at all since I started playing years ago.

I've never met anyone who actually enjoys squad Arena, they just do it for the rewards.

I enjoy squad arena.? One of my favorite modes, always has been.

You enjoy fighting revan constantly? Or are you in a lower tier where there's variety? ? just curious, cuz you're legit the first I've ever seen to say that

I enjoy squad arena. One of my favourite game modes. Always has been

"Gannon;c-1815480" wrote:

"leef;c-1815460" wrote:

"Gannon;c-1815444" wrote:

"leef;c-1815434" wrote:

"Gannon;c-1815414" wrote:

"leef;c-1815403" wrote:

"Gannon;c-1815359" wrote:

"leef;c-1815350" wrote:
Ofcourse players who pay get a leg up vs those that don't, but i still wouldn't consider arena p2w.
Also, it remains to be seen whether or not spending on DRevan actually gives you a leg up vs those that didn't, it's not looking promissing at the moment.

I get that for some aspects of the game, but many ppl are in each shard? I've seen up to 2,000 ranks. That means that a very small percentage are actually getting the high end rewards in arena, which seems ridiculous to me. Back when there were a dozen competing meta teams it wasn't an issue, but now it's one team taking the top 100.
They broke it a long while back. It's not fun or engaging, it's not competitive at all. It's all about who pays for new metas, and they get all the crystals.

Imo it's quite a large percentage that is getting high end arena rewards due to how arena leaderboards are set up. It's freaking amazing that i only have to compete with a select group of players (around 10k players i believe) who all started playing at roughly the same time i did.
The fact that everyone has the same team makes it even more f2p friendly and less p2w.

I dunno about that, highest I've gotten was 25 with the same meta team as the other top 200 in my shard, and despite having better mods than most I couldn't ever break thru that barrier. Get knocked down faster than I can hit. Meanwhile most of my guild has a lesser version of the same team and are much higher ranks. It's ridiculous.

And the Darth revans are absolutely paid for. No-one in the game has a g11 or g12 Darth revan right now off t they haven spent money. It's literally impossible, especially with the new gear

It costs roughly 5750 crystals to get those 2 new gearpieces, so i wouldn't call it impossible to have a g11/12 DRevan right now.

Impossible without spending isn't the same as impossible. It's obviously possible. But without spending money, who has 5750 crystals, plus whatever it took to finish getting stars for the old repubs plus gearing them to 11+? ? I've yet to hear of a f2p player who already has a g11+ Darth revan squad in arenas the day it dropped.

i obviously meant without paying since having 6k crystals is not uncommon for f2p players who do well in the arena(s).
I could easily g12 my DRevan right now if i wanted to and i'm completely f2p. I'm however not in a rush since it would cost me more crystals, but it's by no means impossible without paying.

Well you've had better luck than anyone I know. I could maybe get enough crystals together to finish farming DR, but wouldn't have enough by far to gear him to 11+ today. That's months and months of hoarding crystals if you don't pay for em.

Luck's got nothing to do with it. Piling up crystals instead of spending them is not unusual.

"Kyno;c-1814833" wrote:

"Gannon;c-1814732" wrote:
I dunno if it'd be lower tho, really. Cuz there's only, what, a max of 24 ppl per shard who can get first place rewards? If they cycle up each hour, which is unlikely. And that's if they spend insane amounts of time slogging thru revan after revan every day lol. If they equalized it, or made it based on participation, players in the lower and middle end would get much more from it.
As it is now tho is pretty terrible for the average player.

Previous examples of this coming down the pipeline have ended up with less rewards, but yes more spread out..... just not sure if that's a good thing.

That would definitely be a good thing for the health of the game. If there weren't such huge differences between the payout ranks, for example it would reduce the motivation for some of those toxic players; those who constantly ruin other players' fun by teaming up and chain locking people as soon as they hit the top 10-20 before their payout. Such behaviours will only stop if the game mechanics make it less beneficial for them. From a commercial point, think about it this way... why should a player be motivated to spend money on a new meta toon if they have the bad luck to be in a shard that will never let them reach the top ranks, no matter how great their team would be?

"Gannon;c-1815588" wrote:

"Tbirds01;c-1815518" wrote:

"Gannon;c-1814858" wrote:
Yea, all valid points. I just wish they'd do something with it. I don't think it's changed at all since I started playing years ago.

I've never met anyone who actually enjoys squad Arena, they just do it for the rewards.

I enjoy squad arena.? One of my favorite modes, always has been.

You enjoy fighting revan constantly? Or are you in a lower tier where there's variety? ? just curious, cuz you're legit the first I've ever seen to say that

I don’t fight revan all the time, in a lower area, yes.? sorry for the late response.

"Kyno;c-1814727" wrote:
My concern would be that any rework of the current system will end up with lower income of crystals for the players.

Also, GA or any other replacement cant really have a daily PO, so the income being spread out would also be a little different. I'm sure we could manage but would just change the normal cycle.

Of course it will lower overall income because it will shut down the practice of sharing max possible rewards through shard chats instead of really competing for it (as it must be in PvP). But it's hardly a bad thing.

And daily PO problem is easy to solve - they just can calculate GA rating monthly and then send every player crystals daily during the month according to that rating. If GA will become main PvP mode they will need global GA rating anyway.

It also will solve a very bad practice (for mobile game) where players essentially must be online every day in certain hours to receive max payout.

Squad arena and fleet arena are both just garbage for sure!!!! Ppl with weaker squads then mine in a different arena shard can get better rewards then me even though I've been playing longer and have a more powerful squad, they need to rework it to match ppl up so that the shards can remain competitive!