"FerLandrossa;c-1748742" wrote:
"Feefyefoefum;c-1748739" wrote:
"Bosske2018;c-1748331" wrote:
Grand Arena is a pvp mode style game. The system should be used just like TW. If they change GA to help the pve players they should also then change TB. Because people who have bloated rosters get more rewards than players with more focus rosters from TB.
This is the fact of the matter.
Players have fluffed/bloated/inflated their GP so they and their guild have a bigger GP, so they get better rewards from TB.
It was a tactical decision, made by them, to benefit them and their guild and I am sure both they and their guild mates enjoyed spending the extra rewards they gained
Now those same players want to exclude parts of their roster, so they will get better rewards in GA.
Sounds an awful lot like wanting to eat your cake and have it too
No. It's about generating match ups where it's actually competitive. Total GP matching does not create this when only the top portion of toons actually have any relevance to the outcome.
"Liath;c-1745701" wrote:
"Tanzos;c-1745639" wrote:
"Liath;c-1745566" wrote:
Improving your roster towards a particular goal takes time. If you expect to do anything in this game “right now” then you generally have to spend money to get it done.
No, you can’t downgrade those characters, but you can improve the rest of your roster around them so that they are a smaller and therefore less relevant portion of it. The highest number of character teams you need to place on defense in this mode is 7. Figure out the 7 best defense teams and the 7 best offensive counters to those teams. Build those characters. If you have them all perfect, it doesn’t much matter what the rest of your roster looks like. And the closer you get to this ideal, the less it will matter what the rest of your roster looks like.
Saying you can’t do anything to improve in this game mode is defeatist nonsense.
Unfortunately raising characters to G12 just puts me against players who have more G12 than before. The difference, in theory, remains the same. The "fluff" still exists and will always be dead weight until they stop release new characters and everyone gears every character because there's nothing else to do, or the release a lot more "useless" characters that no one will gear up. Niether of those will happen.
I've always focused on top tier characters, I G12+ C-3PO 2 days after unlocking. I have never neglected top tier characters. The problem is my GP is quite literally inflated. I don't use actual useable gear on useless characters, so I haven't been using gear unwisely. Leveling to 85, starring to 7*, gearing to purple and upgrading abilities to 7 hasn't hindered my top roster development. I just don't hoard that stuff.
I have a ton of credits, 73mil and no one left to level up. I have tons of purple mats (224) that only 20 characters aren't all at ability lvl 7 (I stopped once GA became a thing). All the 7* came from bronzium, and assault battles or events. Again, I just don't sit on it.
What am I going to do with 224 purple mats if only takes 30ish for a Zeta?
It's not like I wasted those materials, I just didn't sit on them.
That's my point. There is such an excess of materials that there's no point in hoarding them so I use them. Some don't for no legitimate reason other than to hoard.
If I took all the levels off, abilities back to 1, unstarred the characters I don't use, and geared them back to 1, my top tier of characters would NOT get better. I would just be sitting on even more materials have a ton of already.
Does anyone understand the difference I'm saying? My choice wasn't to waste materials on useless characters, it was to not sit on materials I have a gigantic pile of.
I understand over time it will balance out but that would take a very long time because now no one is going to upgrade the useless characters now that GA is a thing. So I'll continue to stay a step behind until the "good" characters now become useless.
I didn’t say anything about you wasting materials. I said that if you want to improve your roster for GA going forward you can do so.
No. We can't. That's the point. You can't ungear and unlevel those characters.
My prior post was specifically addressing this point. Just saying “no we can’t” without acknowledging anything I said isn’t productive discussion.
