Why are GA rewards "bad?"

"Delvorin;c-1788551" wrote:

"Eddiemundie;c-1787873" wrote:
@Maxx121312 no they can’t do that because the ranks are randomized within the same win rate, so u cant work towards it.

There should be more rewards for a fricking week long event. Anything other than 1st place is really meh for the effort.

Isn't the rank of those with same number of wins based on points?

Arbitrarily based on GP as likely as not. It's just wins and losses they are counting.

Its a week long event that they keep calling their "masterpiece" or "the best place to test your roster" They go overboard with buffs to random toons, why not go overboard with rewards for a change?

Imagine the incentive to participate and take this seriously if there was 10 zetas on the line.

1-2-3 is like, nothing. lol. Why does it go 1 then 2 then 3.

Plus more rewards would be more inviting as well, and better gear rewards, seems like the GA that gave us stun guns will never be topped. Why not carbs and stun guns, that'd get people participating!

"Gorem;c-1788668" wrote:
Its a week long event that they keep calling their "masterpiece" or "the best place to test your roster" They go overboard with buffs to random toons, why not go overboard with rewards for a change?

Imagine the incentive to participate and take this seriously if there was 10 zetas on the line.

1-2-3 is like, nothing. lol. Why does it go 1 then 2 then 3.

Plus more rewards would be more inviting as well, and better gear rewards, seems like the GA that gave us stun guns will never be topped. Why not carbs and stun guns, that'd get people participating!

I don't think I've ever seen it referred to as a "masterpiece." And the "random buffs" are in Territory War, not GA. At least thus far, there haven't been any GA-specific buffs. And I'd say it currently is the best place to test your whole roster - where else are you using anything but your one best team? I'll concede that matchmaking is a bit flawed, but they've already stated they plan to stop counting ship GP when there are no ship territories, so they're obviously aware of the issue.

The reason they don't give you 10 zetas is because zetas are meant to be a meaningful choice that determines how your roster develops. If they just handed out giant piles of them, they'd lose their importance. 3 for 1st place is a pretty good number imo - it's the same amount you get for a high level Territory War win.

And similarly, the reason you don't get a big pile of carbantis and stun guns every time is that those pieces are meant to be bottlenecks. Again, if you could just build up whoever you wanted whenever you wanted, there wouldn't be nearly as much weight behind the decision of who to gear up.

If you're setting the bar for a "good" event at "it needs to reward massive piles of every resource I want," there's never going to be a "good" event for you.

I’m surprised nobody else has voted that they want an exclusive GA character added to the rewards.

The rewards tables need to be higher for the ability mats & gear, and should be graduated based on the GP tier of the group, the Items like Zetas or Omegas are about right. But with the time investment for this mode they should pay out for a much higher rate for the other items.

But knowing how CG usually works, this is unfortunately going to go down with the increase in GA frequency, so more effort to get the same rewards that we get now. So now it'll take 3 events to get the rewards that we now get from two.

"EgoSlayer;c-1789904" wrote:
The rewards tables need to be higher for the ability mats & gear, and should be graduated based on the GP tier of the group, the Items like Zetas or Omegas are about right. But with the time investment for this mode they should pay out for a much higher rate for the other items.

But knowing how CG usually works, this is unfortunately going to go down with the increase in GA frequency, so more effort to get the same rewards that we get now. So now it'll take 3 events to get the rewards that we now get from two.

My hope is that the rewards per event will go down, but will go up per month. So you'll get less for each individual win, but more over a full month if you win 3 times. Guess we'll see.

"Rath_Tarr;c-1789985" wrote:

"Jarvind;c-1789918" wrote:

"EgoSlayer;c-1789904" wrote:
The rewards tables need to be higher for the ability mats & gear, and should be graduated based on the GP tier of the group, the Items like Zetas or Omegas are about right. But with the time investment for this mode they should pay out for a much higher rate for the other items.

But knowing how CG usually works, this is unfortunately going to go down with the increase in GA frequency, so more effort to get the same rewards that we get now. So now it'll take 3 events to get the rewards that we now get from two.

My hope is that the rewards per event will go down, but will go up per month. So you'll get less for each individual win, but more over a full month if you win 3 times. Guess we'll see.

So less reward per hour spent. Doesn't sound so promising when you look at it that way.

I guess? I mean realistically how long do you spend playing the GA event? 15 minutes total per round, maybe?

Keeping the rewards modest discourages cheating. In arena, if someone is smashing their way to the top with a bogus under-geared team, it is easy to spot and easy to report. If you make the GA rewards too lucrative people are more tempted to risk it. It would be VERY difficult to determine if someone cheated since you don't see the squads they used, like arena.

"mesa176750;c-1790032" wrote:
The biggest problem is that I have to dedicate several hours to GA

I'm having a hard time buying this.

Setting defenses takes like, 5 minutes tops.

Attack phase takes maybe 20 minutes total, if you're going for a full clear? I have a hard time believing that every match is a buzzer beater. Most are probably over inside 2 minutes.

There are three rounds, so that's a little over an hour spent over the course of a week. How are you sinking "several hours" into it? I honestly can't even think how.

"Jarvind;c-1790008" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-1789985" wrote:

"Jarvind;c-1789918" wrote:

"EgoSlayer;c-1789904" wrote:
The rewards tables need to be higher for the ability mats & gear, and should be graduated based on the GP tier of the group, the Items like Zetas or Omegas are about right. But with the time investment for this mode they should pay out for a much higher rate for the other items.

But knowing how CG usually works, this is unfortunately going to go down with the increase in GA frequency, so more effort to get the same rewards that we get now. So now it'll take 3 events to get the rewards that we now get from two.

My hope is that the rewards per event will go down, but will go up per month. So you'll get less for each individual win, but more over a full month if you win 3 times. Guess we'll see.

So less reward per hour spent. Doesn't sound so promising when you look at it that way.

I guess? I mean realistically how long do you spend playing the GA event? 15 minutes total per round, maybe?

A lot more than that. I am at around a 100k-300k GP disadvantage in squads so I have to study my opponent's roster closely before setting defense and study my opponent's defense closely before committing to attacks.