Unbalanced fleet arena

The OP left a lot of information out, but he's not wrong. Fleet arena is extremely unbalanced, especially for players that started the game before fleet came out. When fleet first came out, the shards were populated by players who had been active for a long time already with a similar GP/start time. Many of these established players continue to play to this day so the ships shards are very crowded and most have maxed out fleet teams. Newer players enter ship shards early on and most of the players that end up in the same shard end up quitting after a few months ( as most players do ), so they have a significantly easier shard to deal with. CG went so far as to split one of the early shards because players with maxed out fleets where having trouble cracking the top 500. They really need to split some more of these older super competitive shards to balance things out more.