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6 years ago

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no function in GA join period to back out / rejoin to update mods/gear

Product: Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes Platform:Android Tablet What type of device are you experiencing the issue with? pc emulated OS Version win7 64 Ally Code: (Find it here: http://bit.ly/AllyCo...

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GladOS-013
6 years ago
@Player_dlemb9so wrote:

Really? Designed as intended? How about COMMUNICATE about these things before they explode?

This was communicated last week.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/217926/updates-on-current-issues#latest

Since setting it up this way was intentional, the devs are aware of how it works. That's why it is "by design" and not a bug.

If players don't like the current design, the feedback section of the main forums is the appropriate place to give feedback, as ChristophIV said.

GladOS-013

Hero (Retired)

6 years ago

@Player_dlemb9so wrote:

Really? Designed as intended? How about COMMUNICATE about these things before they explode?

This was communicated last week.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/217926/updates-on-current-issues#latest

Since setting it up this way was intentional, the devs are aware of how it works. That's why it is "by design" and not a bug.

If players don't like the current design, the feedback section of the main forums is the appropriate place to give feedback, as ChristophIV said.

FeedingYouPie

6 years ago

The communication implied, in it's specific example of resetting your roster lock in TW by leaving, that this would be possible for GAC as well. It was NOT communicated that players could not leave and rejoin GAC after this change was made.

Also if the devs really read the feedback section, the game would have a lot less bugs and be more enjoyable, but we know they don't.

shhfiftyfive
6 years ago
not to stray off topic, but "working as designed" has cases where its just not true, and yet should we post here, for example:
remember before DSGeoTB released, the announcements from CG Devs mentioned it would be a 4 phase 4 day event.
but because they forgot to hire someone to make that work correctly, they just pushed it live w/o the intended design. (so a bug).
we ended up with (4) 36 hour phases over 7 days. that was not working as designed. and they never fixed that either.
so with that example above, let's use that example to get back on topic (exact same issue):
this GA signup was never intended to lock rosters on sign up. never intended means its a bug. period.
- shhfiftyfive
  6 years ago
  to further show this is a bug, the game currently shows incorrectly to players that roster lock will happen at end of sign up period. this is untrue.
  - GladOS-013
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago
    The communication seems pretty clear to me:
    
    CG_Tophat wrote:
    
    We had an omission from our most recent patch notes. We’ve changed when the roster lock occurs for both TW and GAC matchmaking. Previously, your roster did not have a snapshot of your collection taken until the moment matchmaking had begun. This resulted in some players rosters being updated after the moment matchmaking by the nature of the system going through and taking snapshots of everyone’s roster. Now, when you click the Join button your roster is snapped.  For TW, if you exit, you are removed from matchmaking consideration. When you rejoin, your roster is snapped again at that moment. Apologies for the omission.
    
    They talk about both TW and GAC rosters locking at Join. Since you can leave a TW, additional detail is provided to inform us what happens in that case - because you can Join multiple times. Since that isn't an option in GAC, no further description was needed.
    
    With regards to the 36 hour GeoTB phases - there was a scheduling bug, and to compensate for that bug, they set the phases at 36 hours. Therefore the 36 hours was an intentional choice made by the developers, and was not a bug.
    
    https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/207446/planned-schedule-for-grand-arena-championships-exhibition-and-geonosis-territory-battle
    
    I know you're frustrated by this, and I also would like to see a "leave/rejoin" option or "refresh player roster" button installed. However, this forum is not the correct place for the discussion. That is the reality of the situation - and complaining about it does not change the fact.
    
    The only bug that I see here is that when they changed the player lock at join, they didn't update the text, so the countdown "to Player Lock" is not an accurate statement and should be fixed.