Bring Tournaments back

LegacyPanda

The purpose of this thread is to inspire others to push for some form of a return of tournaments.

Tournaments bring life to the PVP aspect of the game. You find yourself battling new squads you have not encountered before and many players from different shards. Personally (and I believe I'm not alone), I feel that the arena becomes very dull once you make it to the top 50 and even more so once you hit the top 10. As one who finishes top 5 daily, I have contemplated swapping my arena squad just to have fun battling other squads in my arena.

Tournaments are a lot of fun and have great potential! Please share ideas you may have to make tournaments come back

UltimateSeaDog

Before anyone replies, please remember:
DON'T FEED THE TROLL.

LegacyPanda

Perhaps instead of doing character releases via tournaments there could just be a large amount of gear as an reward. Perhaps equivalent of 3-4 raids.

TZangetsu14

You will get all the "but it's not fair, I can't rank high!! Make it available to everyoneee!! I spent all my alley points already =(" coming out

CF_Jedi1234

At least it would be fun

CF_Jedi1234

Maybe they could give us Domination Points, which would be used to unlock rare characters like Baze, GK, etc

LegacyPanda

TZangetsu14 wrote: »

You will get all the "but it's not fair, I can't rank high!! Make it available to everyoneee!! I spent all my alley points already =(" coming out

They already have, and now the new characters are being handed out like candy instead of creating competition to be the first to have them. I've never taken first in a tournament, but they are enjoyable while they are around.

Jopa_Tice

I have a better idea. Make the tournament within your guild only. You can "Annie up" with gear in your supply to create a winner style reward. No restarts and must use and equal amount of charters that everyone has, such as 5, 10, 20, 50... etc.

LegacyPanda

Tournaments, yes are about competition as always, but also open the PVP aspect of the game up and encouraging creativity just for fun.

LegacyPanda

CF_Jedi1234 wrote: »

Maybe they could give us Domination Points, which would be used to unlock rare characters like Baze, GK, etc

Simple and effective. Introduce a new currency store that allows bulk purchases of harder to farm characters (Baze, Chirruit, First Order Stormtrooper, etc.).

TZangetsu14

LegacyPanda wrote: »

TZangetsu14 wrote: »

You will get all the "but it's not fair, I can't rank high!! Make it available to everyoneee!! I spent all my alley points already =(" coming out

They already have, and now the new characters are being handed out like candy instead of creating competition to be the first to have them. I've never taken first in a tournament, but they are enjoyable while they are around.

Yeah I agree, I enjoyed them even if I was frustrated at times.. I just saved my points to make a run at shards I wanted.. these crybabies want to be able to get every single character shard available. Either way no matter what they do you have those that cry there isn't enough ______ or make _____ easier, I can't _______ this long.

LegacyPanda

Jopa_Tice wrote: »

I have a better idea. Make the tournament within your guild only. You can "Annie up" with gear in your supply to create a winner style reward. No restarts and must use and equal amount of charters that everyone has, such as 5, 10, 20, 50... etc.

In house guild tournament would be fantastic. It would also introduce friendly PVP.

RacerDejak

2016 : Close the tourney, it's rigged
2017 : Open the tourney, it's fun
2018 : Close the tourney, it don't have improvement and still rigged
2019 : Don't u guys miss the tourney?
2020... 2021... 2022... and so on

Nightlores

No thankx. Current way of releasing toons is way better. And doesn't feed the cheaters

BulYwif

Tournaments were dedicated to people having 24h to lose non-stop in the game. If you're playing the first day and can rank top 100, you're sure that when you wake up the day after, you felt to rank 3000 or 4000.
Was also funny during the tournament to refresh every 5 seconds the ranking and see that at every refresh you lost 100 places.
So, no thank you. No more tournaments like that.

NinFang

NOOO. Tournaments were a horrible idea/design that failed so hard. Most players would spend several hours in a tourney and earn barely anything. While others in other tourney shards spent far less and got a full toon.

Romao33

JonNoNothing

EA introduce bad tournament to player that why people hate it, lol

swgohfan29

NO. just no.

Daemoe

LegacyPanda wrote: »

The purpose of this thread is to inspire others to push for some form of a return of tournaments.

Tournaments bring life to the PVP aspect of the game. You find yourself battling new squads you have not encountered before and many players from different shards. Personally (and I believe I'm not alone), I feel that the arena becomes very dull once you make it to the top 50 and even more so once you hit the top 10. As one who finishes top 5 daily, I have contemplated swapping my arena squad just to have fun battling other squads in my arena.

Tournaments are a lot of fun and have great potential! Please share ideas you may have to make tournaments come back

No.

Brainsym

No, good riddance, hope they don't come back at all.

Robhar3187

The lack of content has gotten so bad someone wants tournaments back, that's pretty telling

DjangoQuik

No. Tournaments were never really competitive - the competition wasn't in skill or roster depth or squad composition; it was simply a competition of who could spend the most (first crystals, then ally points). How is that fun?

vlad745

I want them back BBBBAAAADDDDLLLLYYYY. I actually don't care about prizes, but just want to fight against top players in the game which is what I did enjoy greatly.

However, with new "balanced" AI approach in the arena where a lot of inferior teams can with against superior teams there would be no point in tournaments. For tournaments AI should be the way it was during the tournament era - not so lenient towards the attacking teams.

Also, there should be a special tournament for eg. top 10 shard players to further reward them for all the hard work they put in their arena teams and game overall. In that tournament they could play against other top 10 shard players from different shards and compete for souped up prizes. This probably invites trooling, but there needs to be a investment-reward approach for people that put up investment in the game.

danflorian1984

I would like tournaments back on one condition, no more refreshes. Every toon to be used only once. So no more 24h pressure, no more advantage for whales.

nite0wl29

Umm...how about NO! A mobile game isn't meant to have one spend hours on! And those of us with families aren't going to spend hours on to work hard at getting to a high rank, only to be knocked back down a thousand ranks an hour later.

LegacyPanda

vlad745 wrote: »

I want them back BBBBAAAADDDDLLLLYYYY. I actually don't care about prizes, but just want to fight against top players in the game which is what I did enjoy greatly.

However, with new "balanced" AI approach in the arena where a lot of inferior teams can with against superior teams there would be no point in tournaments. For tournaments AI should be the way it was during the tournament era - not so lenient towards the attacking teams.

Also, there should be a special tournament for eg. top 10 shard players to further reward them for all the hard work they put in their arena teams and game overall. In that tournament they could play against other top 10 shard players from different shards and compete for souped up prizes. This probably invites trooling, but there needs to be a investment-reward approach for people that put up investment in the game.

I believe many people are not understanding the purpose of the thread. It's to inspire new ideas and yes, bring back tournaments. Maybe the reason it was such a bust amongst people is because it was not released properly. Open mindedness for new ideas will bring it back and make it fun, not closed minds resistant to change.


- Make a currency store, similar to ships, that is tournament specific for hard to farm toons.

- Instead of character releases VIA tournament style, make the rewards gear equivalent to 3-4 raids (since gearing takes a long time).

- Set new rules for tournaments; bring a 3 strike system. Once you lose 3 battles your ability to battle ends until a server wide refresh.

gunff

CG_NotReallyAJedi wrote: »

I definitely think that our initial design around Tournaments was actually really fun, but somewhere along the line, we dun goofed. I, personally, think there's still a lot we could do with the tournament structure and ways we could fix it so that it wasn't... you know... "not fun", and I really would like to revisit the concept in the future.

That said, I don't think there's a universe in which Tournaments comes back to life any time soon. We have quite a bit on our plates at the moment, and our existing content is doing a much, MUCH better job at the whole, "players enjoy it" thing.

So yeah, more content.

This was already brought up a couple weeks ago with a dev response on tournaments.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/107804/i-miss-tournaments-dev-response/p1

PsychoticRage924

Tournaments?
No.

Angrybaldman

Screw new characters and ships. Bring gear tournaments around and I'll happily participate.