The Strategy of Losing in GAC

"Starslayer;c-2344993" wrote:

"sloweagle;c-2344889" wrote:

You don’t lose any crystals if average win rate is 50% in the long run. But achieving 50% win rate with more 0-3 and 3-0 will have higher income that a bunch of 2-1 and 1-2. The lower bound of crystals income for 50% when doing 2-1 and 1-2 only is 1500, and upper bound is 1700 for 2x 3-0 and 0-3. It is not a lot of crystals, whales certainly don’t care. But for me f2p, it can add up slowly :)

Did you try to play 'normally' first ? You may lose crystals from extra wins you could get by going higher in the ladder...

Yeah. I play normally to hit 6 wins first, and then start to play casually. In the last few season, I usually get to 6 win with 1 loss. I end up getting 8-4 and 7-5 in those seasons with a 0-3 in the last one.

Unless I can keep winning record without moving up rank, sooner or later I will get to my equilibrium rating range. So I don’t lose any extra crystals by climbing the ladder, I just delay it. The caveat is that if I can climb into top 50 and stay there with a winning record, then, I might want to play harder. But for a 100% pure f2p, I thought that’s mission impossible. Maybe I will just gradually climb up to see what is possible.