This is the real meta, and it needs a nerf

"Kyno;1007480" wrote:

"scuba;1006591" wrote:
1. Reduce rewards, allows way more top finishes by my suggestions below and doesn't break the "economies"
2. Get rid of tiered rankings for awards. Keep the ranks and rank swapping just to keep more equal teams near each other but being a certain rank at a specific 1 second time means nothing for payout.
3. Make payout reward tiers equal to winning x number of arena battles between resets vs x ranked opponents. Example win 4 battles vs top 10 teams and you get maxed payout. Win 3 vs top 10 opponents you get next tier of payout.

Until they get rid of being a specific rank for that one moment in time lockouts will always be a part of arena.

I know this is not a full plan but, how would that work:

- you either get a lot of place 1 because people will all do 10 battles if they can get to the top 10 and win 5 battles to get to that tier.(reduced rewards could balance this out but that's a problem too)
- a floating bar which means whales take first case they will just burn refreshes to push the top tier out beyond reason.
- reduced rewards could kill competition because it could cost you more to get to the next tier of wins then you would make, and people lose interest because of the lack of income. Your always going to fall in arena but climbing right now can be a reward because you only need that one last battle to get a good reward, climbing to top 10 but only having one battle there could be less income
- collusion of the tournament type comes back where 2 players bounce back and forth to get max reward tier with minimal effort.
- sniping of a different kind, where you just always push someone back from top 5 every time they enter causing them to burn battles forced refresh (and reduced rewards) would be the new snipe.

Just some thoughts. I agree there could be a rework to get a better system.

There will be some issues with most systems. With the reduced rewards I really don't see many wasting that much effort to push others out, but yeah all those issues are possible. I honestly see them doing nothing to change Squad Arena and it will stay the way it is.