Returning old player, keep going or restart?

"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

"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

"DiamondTears;c-1948102" wrote:
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

I was late to the party, but that would be my suggestion. Playing both until it's clear which one you want to continue.

My biggest recommendation is find a guild completing heroic raids and is very active. You'll be able to build teams much quicker and use that as your primary source to rise in arena. Maybe you'll be lucky and find a guild that just needs a 600 ticket generator and is running Genosian TB too. If so, focus on the next ship meta and you can probably get to the top of that much quicker then character arena.

If you haven't unlocked fleet yet definately keep what you have as new fleet shard you'll be on even footing to climb to top for the crystal income, wish I'd paid more attention to ships when they first released

If you've been gone that long, I'd just find a new game, to be honest. I took a break of about a year and a half and catching up was a pain. Restarting isn't a great solution, either.

Starting over used to be a good plan, because you could laser-focus and get to the top of a new shard in Squad and Fleet Arena, thereby securing a strong flow of free crystals.

The issue is that this has become so commonplace, with people either starting over or making "alt" accounts, that nearly everyone else in the shard is doing the same thing as you. Newer shards have Revan teams well into the hundreds, all modded according to the dozen or so guides out there on how to build your roster up from scratch. So you don't get nearly as much of an advantage as you might have a couple years ago.

By contrast, while I don't ever expect to make top 5 in my 2015 squad shard- the mod gap from the time I took off can't be closed by anything but lucky mod rolls or a non-speed-based meta, which I don't ever expect- it's extremely easy for me to lazily place in the top 50, because 95% of the shard burned out ages ago and is either inactive or "casual" players.