5 years ago

The Fleet Arena Shard with a serious competitive DISadvantage

I am in part of the fleet shard that was migrated/split over a year ago due to over-population issues (You can learn more here: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/169822/ship-shard-migration-status-update-5-17-18). The shard at issue was simply split in half and remained extremely competitive. With the recent changes to ships, I have been much more excited about developing teams but still hold back because the cost and effort to compete in this shard is way too high. To put it in perspective, I did a quick snapshot of the top 50 in my shard tonight and came up with the following stats:
My Top 50 Fleet Arena Stats:
**The most obvious stat to show the crazy competitiveness would be the average fleet arena wins logged
Average fleet wins for the top 50: OVER 5,500!!
1) Average total GP: Over 5.8M
Almost 10 people have over 6.5M
2) Negotiator Count:
About 40 people are already at 7* and have been for awhile
There's about 5 of them at 6* (None at 5*)
Majority of them have GK at Relic 7
3) Non-Negotiator Teams
There's about 5 Rebel teams with Ackbar AND Bistan's ship crew at Relic 4+ :D
4) GAS: (Just trying to show the type of people in this group)
A large majority of the 50 have GAS unlocked with approximately 15+ with GAS Relic 7
5) I'm currently hanging out in low 300s and most people around me have over 5M GP and 5-6* Negotiator with G13 Relic GK. Just showing that there are plenty of good comps even down here.

I'm bringing these stats up because I would like to see if any other fleet arena shard is anything close to that because I doubt it. As a recruiter and guild officer, I have reviewed hundreds of rosters and most of them easily make it to the top 100, but wouldn't stand a chance at that in my shard. The saddest part when comparing someone's roster is the amount of fleet wins they logged compared to mine (I have over 3400 fleet wins). The amount of effort I put in for way less rewards is depressing.
In summation, my fleet shard has continued to create a serious disadvantage considering the amount of potential zeta materials from fleet arena tokens and crystals lost had we been placed in a more normal shard when ships were originally released over 3 years ago. It is time to address this once again and another simple split would not do us justice. Thank you for your consideration.

ChristophIV
Hero+
5 years ago
What would be your suggestion for a fix?
almightywood
5 years ago
No there was precisely 1 shard that was formed day 1 of ships that was ridiculously overcompetitive.

The gp/ship stats of the people in the shard are meaningless. Of course they are all going to be super high because it is a day one shard. Some other shards may have more advanced ships in their rankings than this one shard but what they don't have is 5000 people nuts about ships.

This one/2 shards have 2500 people all nuts about fleet. Those 2 shards literally have more fights in a day than most do in 2 weeks. This is why CG/EA split the shard. It came to the devs attention how sickly overcompetitive this one shard was through their own tools. It's not the OP's whiny why me wrongness (like people usually assume in these situations), it's the truth.

You naysayers don't know what you are talking about, but it is also the OP's fault for bringing up irrelevant stats. The number of ship battles is the important part here.
JEDIFULBRIGHT
5 years ago
I am in the same fleet shard that was split. It is overbearingly ridiculous. Everyone in the top 100 has relic 7 on every Galactic republic pilot. I spend 300 Crystal's a day to stay in the top 50. They need to split these shards again in my opinion.
TheSithVicious
5 years ago
"Jedi_Fulbright;c-2047305" wrote:
I am in the same fleet shard that was split. It is overbearingly ridiculous. Everyone in the top 100 has relic 7 on every Galactic republic pilot. I spend 300 Crystal's a day to stay in the top 50. They need to split these shards again in my opinion.

You spend 300 crystals to earn 50 crystals?
Rath_Tarr0
5 years ago
"niko4;c-2111422" wrote:
Just wanted to throw this out there to show the type of players in my fleet arena shard - there are 10 people in my top 50 that have both GLs (geared and zetad). It hasn't even been two months since release. This is not a normal fleet arena . . .

Unless CG suddenly decides to strap wings and proton torpedoes to Rey and Kylo, those GLs make absolutely no difference to your fleet shard.
RavenClaws86
5 years ago

We were absolutely not placed in already existing shards.
maximumbanana18
New Spectator
5 years ago
So in ravenclaws screenshot, the the top reads “we will be migrating players..into new separate shards’ so plural, meaning more than one shard. Seems to imply that it was split into more than half.
Also reads that it was done ahead of changes to fleets they would do this to one specific shard and no others, also probably implying that they won’t be doing it again and judging by the lack of any official communication, this means they don’t want to do it again.
@niko4 youre probably going to have to get over it and keep on going as is. If your fully r7 across the board then you better start planning on the next meta and see what you can do.

I’m in a reasonably competitive shard, only have 3400 or so wins, but everyone is 7* with high relic counts atm, I’m pretty sure any fleet shard that’s been around since 16/17 is going to be competitive. Not sure anyone else on any other shard is complaining about it though.
NyKynoe
5 years ago
"Waqui;c-2111753" wrote:
Maybe Kyno would care to investigate and find out the details. He has some contact to CG. Maybe he could clarify it for us.

It appears I was wrong, which I believe I clarified in the thread that post came from, that it was just what I remember. Obviously I didnt get that in game message that clearly states what happened.
NyKynoe
5 years ago
Just for the record, I am also in a fleet launch shard and have around 6300 fleet wins (with an average of 7 a day, would put me on track with the shard back in January too). There are a few in the 5K range with some quick checking, but almost all are 6-7k.

I dont see anyone who has unlocked both yet, but GLs are not a measure of anything when it comes to ships.

As they said in the post the split was due to population and no other factors. The 300-400 are still active from what we see of players who are in the chat but stopped caring as much about ships right now.

From what I have seen a few relic levels doesnt do much to the win ratio, as long as you upgrade what counts and match speed, you stay in the ball park.
Waquira
5 years ago
"Kyno;c-2111829" wrote:
"Waqui;c-2111753" wrote:
Maybe Kyno would care to investigate and find out the details. He has some contact to CG. Maybe he could clarify it for us.

It appears I was wrong, which I believe I clarified in the thread that post came from, that it was just what I remember. Obviously I didnt get that in game message that clearly states what happened.

I don't see that in that old discussion where your comment is from but thank you for clarifying it now.