4.867m gp, 1.975m gp, 5.124 fights

"Huatimus;c-1867009" wrote:
Ships were implemented much later than Launch of the game. The most active players who all logged in and sexcited to try out the new ships feature on the first day logically all got in to this super active Leaderboard. I was not level 60 yet when ships launched so I managed to avoid this cluster fest.

I was online when fleet was launched... I remember the excitement and pretty much checking it out asap... Figures to this day I pay for that. Next time this game launches something new (doubt it will) I am not touching it for a week!

all I can say since I am in the same ship shard, is that prior to the split getting into the top 100 was a daily struggle and most times would settle for between 200-100 position. after the split I can make the top positions but WILL drop daily to the 40s and that is with some intermittent attacking throughout the day. When that does not happen you will still be in the 20s and you count those days on your left hand over the course of a year and will still have some fingers left and are very thankful.I have a max'd out fleet (6E mods, zetas, G12, etc).
On my alt account will drop to 15-10 sometimes, mostly stay in top 10. My fleet there has no G12, no 6E mods, some zetas. And I auto play win. Not a winning strategy on my primary account. General communications with others in my guild has no one else in a ship shard that is as aggressive as my primary. Most people report ship shards that are on pare with my alt account.

The fact is, we are all behind 5-25 complete zetas behind because of this shard and furthermore our zetas have come at a much higher crystal cost than many others. This is a very big deal to those of us in top 50 gp guilds. And is 100% wrong. To make this right, CG should split at least the one half of this shard again and give all of us 200 zeta mats. There are a huge number of big spenders here.

i can only repeat, that this daily grind is a huge annoyance for my time-management. i mean, we can join our personal best payout time, what helped us a lot. but after falling out of the top50 the climbing is a hard work. in my "normal" arena i need normally 4/5/6 fights. this is a healthy climbing. more than one refresh isn't necessary. start climbing 2 hours before payout is no problem.

but in the ship shard, i make my first fights on my payout-day (!) on the next day i start early in the morning, 11.00 am i have my payout. when i am top 20 two hours before, i anyway need minimum 4/5 fights...

of course ea/cg has no interest to divide this arena-group once more. this arena-group is a gold-mine!

we need miminum gear 12+3 pilots with gold mods.
no question all ships maxed
pilots with zetas are better and faster than without zetas
we need countless crystals for 2 or 3 fight-refreshes each day

BUT:

is this the health, the devs so often mention? the only reason to do this grind, is the zeta-currency. i am miles away from other player with an easy ship-shard. the longest time i was able to reach top50, after the divide top20.
not before the free payout-joice i am able to reach rank 1. i don't want check, how many full zetas i'm behind. now in the grand arena i notice, what this overloaded shipshard did to me.

perhaps the devs can answer some questions about the "game-health" and the existence of a shard like this.

i love this game, the idea 5v5, also 3v3. and i don't need one fight to go for gold, but the half morning reserverd for climbing is a no go.