Tournament Question

"War;818857" wrote:

"lRushl;818827" wrote:

"Dooku_for_days;818825" wrote:

"lRushl;818820" wrote:

"War;818809" wrote:
At some point during the day, instead of putting late joiners into new tournaments, they get filtered into older tournaments that weren't quite full. So waiting right till the end just puts you into an older tourney shard anyway.

There's no getting around the system; players have tried starting super early, super late, certain times, you never end up on a smaller or easier shard. It's all RNG no matter what time of day.

I know but the more points they have, the more points you'll get. If you play early you'll get points locked really quickly whereas at the end of a tourney you can get high points for a longer period of time

That's not how it works

It is, it's the difference of points between you and your opponent. If you have 0 and 70% of the tourney have +3000 you'll get high points until that 70% point
It's also a ratio with your bracket rank reward

It's not based off the bracket or difference of points, otherwise when you drop out of a bracket you'd start earning higher points again. It's based off how many points you've accumulated.

If it were based off bracket or difference in points, I could start early nabbing high point fights. Then wait till I've dropped a bunch and farm myself back up with higher point gains again.

Per update notes it is scaled on difference between your total accumulated points and your opponents.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/69338/game-update-9-28-2016

Players earn points in combat for each enemy unit they defeat and earn bonus points for their surviving units. These points scale based on the difference in cumulative points between the player and opponent.

Dropping down is not going to be a huge difference in points between you and your opponents.

Well that's interesting, I wonder if it still works that way? They've made so many changes to tournaments since September that I'm not sure how accurate those patch notes are anymore? It would be such an easy exploit that they must have done something to counter it, than again 24 hour tourneys are still a new thing.

I may or may not try starting late if my schedule allows for it. Worth a shot I guess, but only for Vader's TIE. Not going try anything different for tournament characters I'm not interested in.

"War;818897" wrote:
Well that's interesting, I wonder if it still works that way? They've made so many changes to tournaments since September that I'm not sure how accurate those patch notes are anymore? It would be such an easy exploit that they must have done something to counter it, than again 24 hour tourneys are still a new thing.

I may or may not try starting late if my schedule allows for it. Worth a shot I guess, but only for Vader's TIE. Not going try anything different for tournament characters I'm not interested in.

I will also say, the last 2 "tournaments" that the opponents I saw that had lower point totals than me were always the lowest point payout options, the guys in 1st or 2nd that had a sizable lead were the higher payout options, definitely not as high as when first start with 0 and are climbing, and then the ones with more but close were the middle point options.

With the scaling on points total falling back is not really that exploitable because it tends to show you opponents close to you and you are only falling back as people are getting more points than you be it 1 point or 100 points. The point spreads are very minimal once you get in the higher ranks.

I am sure they have it on some algorithm to ensure you get minimal points at some point. Dropping from rank 5 to rank 100 you are most likely not going to get the guy in first as an option to battle.

"lRushl;818820" wrote:

"War;818809" wrote:
At some point during the day, instead of putting late joiners into new tournaments, they get filtered into older tournaments that weren't quite full. So waiting right till the end just puts you into an older tourney shard anyway.

There's no getting around the system; players have tried starting super early, super late, certain times, you never end up on a smaller or easier shard. It's all RNG no matter what time of day.

I know but the more points they have, the more points you'll get. If you play early you'll get points locked really quickly whereas at the end of a tourney you can get high points for a longer period of time

That makes no sense

I'll try for the tie advance to get into the top 25 this way and let you guy's know.