Dear Devs - I believe i have the answer to arena shard collusion: Arena Shard Rotation!
July 13, 2017 9:11PM
edited July 2017
I believe if you rotated arena shards on weekly basis that it would deter players from colluding as it would be tedious to find the top teams on the shard every week.
There could be a shard reset day, say sunday/monday on the time when the least amount of payouts are affected, where all of the player-base gets randomly shuffled. Then on the rotation day, give the players 10-15 free arena battles so the shard can align as it should with the top players near the top. The rest of the week would play just like it is now.
Edit: you can only be randomized into a new shard with players that started he same month as you. This would keep it fair for new players.
What do you think?
There could be a shard reset day, say sunday/monday on the time when the least amount of payouts are affected, where all of the player-base gets randomly shuffled. Then on the rotation day, give the players 10-15 free arena battles so the shard can align as it should with the top players near the top. The rest of the week would play just like it is now.
Edit: you can only be randomized into a new shard with players that started he same month as you. This would keep it fair for new players.
What do you think?
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Yep, feels like those who feels some how there is a need to ban people for working togethet must have some personal issues they have yet to resolve.
The title alone heavily implies that there is a problem, that the devs have acknowledged, with collusion.
Personally, I feel that if I were to lose the people on my shard, who I've gotten to know over the past year and a half, I would be uninstalling the game. Them, and my guild are really the only reason I still play. I know a lot of people would have my opinion too, but there will of course be others who would disagree.
I do strongly believe the game would see a huge drop in players if something like this were to happen though.
Um so you cant collude for top places in arena you would give the game and your guild up ?
/clap
Edit: In fact I'd be able to work with top players on any server so in reality, collusion doesn't come into it.
How doea it take it away ? You dont play with them and if you talk with them its a 3rd party app
Agreed. Also, while I do have 4-5 people in my guild in the same shard, we work closely with 15 players or so in other guilds. Isn't that additional engagement and connections between players who are excited to talk about the game a good thing?
Also "collusion" refers to a secret, or illegal conspiracy. Its a silly label attached to it by people who are bad at arena. Since it isn't illegal its just cooperation, or collaboration. Demonizing something by using overly negative language is a classic propaganda tactic. Kind of like using "piracy" to describe copying a file. Nobody is murdering their way through a sea side village to steal gold doubloons, but just saying what it is doesn't sound evil enough. Same with "arena collusion."
But CG and the players don't really want competition, which makes sense in some ways when you've been playing a while every night having to battle and suspend what ever activity you are doing to time and block movement and lock yourself into place is a pain and gets old after awhile. There is a burn out rate there. Making it easier through cooperation helps avoid some of that.
However a shuffle would be highly entertaining on the forums though as they qq.
That's why I was saying you'd get more arena battles on the day of rotation so that you could get to the top without crystal refreshes
So you have to spent hours just to battle back to where you were? Is not like everyone have to time and energy to do such chore
Whether or not collusion is a problem is for a different post.
Problems in a shard shuffle:
The important part, there is no guarantee this would end anything. People can find each other pretty easy and at worst it takes a day.
If it's not competitive enough for you, just don't join the chat of your particular shard. They will attack and snipe you multiple times making it more fun for you.
Here's a quick solution to that, you're ranked according to your arena team power. That way everyone is at least close to the rank they should be and won't have to spend hours getting back to the top
Here's another solution. Don't rotate them to begin with. While we're solving problems that don't exist do you have suggestions for the surplus stun cuff dilemma?
So what your saying is it's coming in the next update?
I have the low power rating in top 20 since the only zeta on my team is DN, yet I rarely get moved form top 10 since I have good speed on mods and a good setup. If you have been playing the game you know power rating means nothing when it comes to how well a team works. Let along where you are placed in arena
Hahahahahahahahaha!
-Developers