Grand Arena Placements for 12/29: How’s it determined?
So what’s the deal with the latest methods of calculating placement? It’s not GP. I have a higher GP than most but below. Is it now by win/loss then GP?
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All 8 players in my Grand Arena bracket only have a difference of a couple 100s GP
the player with the most GP and the player with the lowest only have a difference of 466 GP
Yet here’s my GP from within the Characters screen, which appears to match my placement in my GA matchup list.
Here’s the current rankings within my GA matchup list:
1st is 4,694,815 = HUH?
2nd is 4,695,455
I’m assuming the GP is changing after the GA is set, but you’d think the player stats from within GA wouldn’t change to help with setting defense. Further, why are both my screens reporting different values at the same time?
Because if you tie it goes by your GP! It happens. In fact, the very first GA my guildie tied and lost.
So now why does it matter?
The GP in the top pick takes longer to refresh, upwards of an hour. The 2nd pic your GP changes with every little thing you do, like switch mods. I experimented with this a while back when a guildie pointed it out the discrepancy in his GP from screen to screen.
So your placement in your GA bracket is probably based on your 2nd pic, assuming you made some changes at the last minute.
Hmmm...I’m not sure how to look up your locked GP..
I looks like every time you click on somebody’s inventory, it shows their (and your)current GP & Inventories, not their locked. Good to know.
It may also affect your starting matches (tho likely that’s random). Ultimately, I care about game bugs, especially when I’ve spent so much. Regardless, if my GP is reporting incorrectly then that can matter in ties. Now that AKAren spent his valuable time answering me, you can stop worrying about being argumentative and stop posting your worthless replies.
Realistically, that doesn’t matter because you’re just as likely to have the highest in a group as you are the lowest, unless you are exactly at the cutoff point, i.e. 3,999,999
Where it gets to matter, still only slightly, is when the all the 1-0’s match up with each other and all the 0-1’s, etc.
It takes the value shown at your roster screen. How do I know? Otherwise I would be placed in a bracket above.
Exactly my point. Worthless lol.
One player appears to have increased his roster GP by approximately 3k GP after roster lock. Simple explanation. However, If you can proove that none of the 8 players changed anything that affected their total GP after lock, you may have a point.
This must be what caused CG to post a statement about ties being broken by locked GP. Enough people must have clicked on opponent’s inventories without realizing you’re being directed toward their current GP.
So far, it’s been in descending GP order for me each GA. I know that correlation does not equal causation, but it makes sense that it would be that way.
Also, This GA I have the lowest and I’m paired against the highest.
Not really worthless if two people tie, locked GP is used to determine the winner of that tie, and there is a bug in the game recording what that figure actually is.
And anyway, I checked my first round matchup seconds after the setup phase started and we both had exactly the same GP. Who wins if we tie?
I was referring to the comment that my replies are worthless.
They are. You added zero insight - only argumentative and heightened responses purposely attempting to be combative. Please move along outside of my thread.
I checked all opponents’ rosters as soon as setup phase started - and I mean the very second it started.
My 8 player group was NOT organised by lock GP in descending order. And the matchups were NOT 1v8, 2v7 etc because I’m 3 and up against 7.
One weird thing, all 4 in my group who own revan are at the top, with one exception - me being in 3rd. This was the same last time.
One thing we could attempt to verify - do we all see the “view rewards” screen the same? I’m in 3rd on my screen. Am I on 3rd on all my opponents’ screens?
So for snakes:
1st screenshot is his maximum GP
2nd screenshot is his current GP
3rd screenshot is GP at the exact time of GA launch (which ranking is determined from)
I'm #1 on my screen--no Traya, no Revan, and not the highest GP. Everyone else has Revan and Traya and all the marquee characters at 2* level 1 and a conservative estimate of 6,000 G12s.
Really looking forward to those Fleet Omegas!