A fair grand arena match...?

"RandomSithLord;c-2010994" wrote:

The perks and disadvantages of playing casually. It's nice that your daily routine is not half-dependent on a mobile game, but on the other hand, the higher your GP, the less likely it is to face completely casual and/or generally out-of-touch players when it comes to strategy.

As I said above, in week 3/4 you are matched with players of similar win/loss ratio. If you lost all your matches at that point, chances are they have done the same. It is only this fair the matchmaking can get.

If you want a win, at some point you need to do a minimal amount of research instead of just waiting to fight another player that is even less interested in getting familiar with different game mechanics.

Aren’t you contradicting what you said? Since I am playing casually, why am I getting matched against players that are, by your analysis, spending far more time and effort researching strats? So: I’m just good enough to be matched against people who do that, but I never get to go up against another casual player? Why? Because I invested in useless toons like Phoenix, wiggs etc.. (plus a bunch of useless ships btw) and now my GP reflects “value” in those choices that isn’t really there?

Put it this way- every single opponent I face in GA has DR/malek. That means they also have a JR squad. I do NOT have DR/malek. Or half the other toons they have that they use to murder me. I’m playing the eternal catchup game created by our dark masters at CG, so at this point, my best squad is JR. Right off the bat I’m at a disadvantage. I don’t have time or money to spend leveling grevious, or the bugs, or whatever the flavour of the month is that I need to counter revan. After months and months of losing round after round after round, it would be nice to feel like I even have a CHANCE at winning. Getting annihilated over and over DOESNT inspire me, or encourage me.

So why am I matched against players that have them? By contrast, some in my guild have only been playing for a year.. they haven’t wasted resources on toons like Phoenix.. their roster is highly specialized to keep their GP low, with only their most important toons maxxed. They have DR/malek, and report winning all/most of their GA matches. Yet they’re in division 6. If I went against them, I’d probably lose.. yet they’re considered to be ranked lower than me..?

Anyway, whatever. I feel like no matter what I say, you’re just not going to get it. Grand arena hasn’t been fun for me since day one.