4.867m gp, 1.975m gp, 5.124 fights

I usually am able to remain top 10 overnight. 2-3 battles a day is usually sufficient, and I don’t remember the last time I refreshed for ship.

Running the HT/HMF meta with a lot of gold mods. 1.8M GP from ships with 1,100 fleet arena battles in approx 2 years.

The experience you describe is more like my experience in Arena. I just swim along top 30 and to get 1 every day would likely take 2+ refreshes assuming a few losses along the way.

i'd reckon players usually give up on #1 if it takes them 2 refreshes, so i highly doubt what you're experiencing is a common thing.
Are you in contact with other players on that same leaderboard? If so, are they experiencing the same thing? If so, you're most likely on a super competative leaderboard.

Jedibaer and I are in the shard that was split into two but should have been 3 or 4. I have very good ships tho not with every last g12+ piece or 6 dot mod on and I still fall back to the 300's if I'm not careful.

For me it is highly variable, sometimes I don’t fall much, other days I fall out of the top 50. It seems pretty random. From talking to others it seems my ship shard is more competitive than most.

I'm on the same shard and it is not normal. Recently i had my first day in months where i wasn't able to play. It didn't even take 12 hours to drop from the top to 150+. Cg already admitted that this shard was different to anything else. Splitting it into 2 didn't make it any better though

"Jordylee24;c-1866803" wrote:
Jedibaer and I are in the shard that was split into two but should have been 3 or 4. I have very good ships tho not with every last g12+ piece or 6 dot mod on and I still fall back to the 300's if I'm not careful.

Holy! You fall into the 300s in one night? Thats a pretty nasty shard.

I'm at 3.5M gp. Usually fall between 15-35 with 5* falcon and 6* HT and a 385k fleet but I'm really cheap. I can take 1 if I do all my fights but usually top 5-10. I never ever refresh.

I’m 3.9mil fall back to between 10 and 14 overnight, usually takes me three fights to get back to top 2 at payout.. never really refresh unless I make a huge mistake..
Fleet of 402k ish, 7* falcon/Biggs/ht

Oh, my main account is in the same shard as Jedibear... I have no idea how it happened but they have pretty much dropped most of the krakens and whales and most active players all in one shard. They even had to admit to their mistake and how unusual the shard is and split us in two and it helped somewhat but not really as it just meant the players who were more or less dormant before the split and given up, taking top 100 and calling it a day, started to push now... So it is still a black hole sucking in our time and crystals...

And maybe I wouldn't realize how bad it is if I didn't have a second account who has a very chill ship shard. In my main shard you do NOT survive if you don't have maxed ships and pretty much all your crew maxed ( me can miss a g12+ here and there as it is just painful to put g12+ on Bistan, Ackbar and SRP but chances are you will get targeted more as your fleet is relatively easier to win against). In the fleet shard my mini is in, I was able to get top rank with just 5* MILf (it is now a 6* one, I didnt have to bother with getting it to 7* even the second time around) and a lame phoenix & rogue one team where most aren't even g11, some are even g8... and I never had to bother to upgrade my Bistan... I pretty much never need a refresh climbing in that shard despite my fleet being much much underpowered than my main. If I wake up somewhere in 15-20 it is a bad drop day (whereas in main's fleet shard it is a sign you should go buy a lottery ticket!) We actually have non-Ackbar fleets in top 50, even top 20 in my second account's fleet shard. I doubt we have a non-ackbar anywhere near top 200 in my mains...

The comments made by Jedibaer71, Jordylee24, Fabirus and Ace are in fact 100% true. I also am in that same server. If you arent fully committed to at least g12 your pilots, your toast. So that requires a investment also. Then you factor in the drop overnight, that also requires investment. Yes I understand the cycle, but a 50 plus drop overnight and in some cases a few hours is considered a "good night". Yet i see other people complain dropping to 20 overnight is to far. As previously stated it's the way the server was populated that caused this issue. A huge percentage of active competitive players are in this server even in the 200-300 range with fleets worthy of competing. The spilt that occurred should of been done 3 or 4 times, rather than only 2. It's just discouraging and really takes the enjoyment out of the game at times. Hopefully our voices can be heard once again.

That is brutal....