Returning old player, keep going or restart?

just depends how serious u want to play...arena is gonna be terrible to try to climb to a certain point and that's the primary source of resources apart from guild activities..so if u just wanna play for fun and not by the 'clock' then it would be better to keep what u have...but if ur thinking of being competetive u should start over...warrior's pillar system on utube is the best guide for that

Thanks for the advice everyone.

You could just make an alt account to start over and still have your main if you choose to go back to it.

"Gifafi;c-1947956" wrote:

"taquillasun;c-1947817" wrote:
Why would anyone start over? If it's been a while, just look at it as a head start..... there's not enough GP there to throw things out of whack for GAC matchmaking. Now or in the future. Keep your squad and keep going. Why would you even consider starting over??????

what kyno said, and also op's roster is not good due to the long abscence. He wouldn't lose much in terms of wasted time by starting over. Once in a while someone will have a decent roster but be far behind in arena and want to stick it out. here, op will be doing himself (or her, obv) a disservice and will probably just get frustrated and quit again

I played from dec 2015 to may 2018 and then took 10 months off. I was way behind in arena, but there was no way I was starting over, as my roster was good in many areas of the game besides arena.

The OP, on the other hand, does have a decision and it’s close. I can see them going either way.

For now I am going with James’ suggestion and making an alt plus keeping my old account. Since the older account has hundreds of sim tickets, I don’t need to spend a whole lot of time on it so I am just trying both out to see which one I want to continue with.

Again, thanks to everyone for all of the responses

Start over. Not a close decision imo

Start again, you must.

I have taken months in breaks: I started nearly three years ago but quit twice. My roster is so unfocused, completely lacking the obvious dominant teams and my best are under geared.

I now face players incredibly focused all the time and it pushes me to quit playing every day...

No need to start again, if you don't plan to play consistently and aim for top ranks in arenas anyway. With you current account you will be able to contribute more in guild events and have your fun there.

If you hit a young fleet arena shard, you could go all-in on ships and pilots to take top ranks here, and accept a top-500 rank in squad arena.

Leave the starter guild, though, and enter a real guild. There are a few in the 30-50 million GP raid, who farm heroic AAT. Try joining one of those.

I completely agree with @uno. If you start over, and don't play 'seriously' anyway, you won't reach much higher ranks in squad arena than your current account has.

Honestly, I would re-think your decision completely. Unless you plan to play very casually it’s probably not worth it either way.
There are plenty of candies that need crushing out there.