I was curious if anyone has found arena rankings a bit odd at the higher tiers. Most notably, I will go a full week without losing much rating. I normally hover around #100 or so (older server with a bunch of whales, and since I am F2P i am pretty sure im gonna stay there).
Anyways, I will stay around #100 and when I wake up in the morning I will be maybe #170/200, which is fine. I grind my way down to #100 again for payouts. This will go on for about a week or two. Then, for no reason what so ever, I wake up and am at #500+.
Like, what's the deal with that? I havent changed my team, my comp, any characters, or anything. Its just like I wake up one day and everyone on my server is like "Yea, let's just mess with this guy in particular."
I just find it weird 0_o
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One person refreshes and defeats five more people, those 5 get angry that 'they have dropped so much' so three of them refresh. Then those three anger five more and three of them refresh. Now you've got 13 people refreshing all at the same time. Then those 9 anger 5 more then 3 more each refresh. That's 18 people. Then those 18 cause 3 more refreshes each. That's 87 players doing 5 more battles in only a few hours. That's why there is so much turbulence all in one day, then quiet for a couple of days.
It may also be that when people stop playing for a period, they close that server for that person and move new people into the new server to keep it "fresh." Obviously that is speculation but it's just weird that without changing anything on my side I have to spend a week or so just moving back into the #100 slots.
I am by no means complaining, was just wondering if there is some kinda kick me sign on my back haha
That actually makes some sense. It's definitely possible. I don't see why they have to target me tho!
I actually was on once when I dropped from #119 to like #130. I immediately found the #119 guy and took back my slot. He didn't mess with me again after that :P
This has only really happened to me about 4-5 times over the course of me starting the game. It happened to me last week around wednesday or something, but I felt like starting a thread on it because I am bored at work
I also just RECENTLY recovered and am back at #119 from my horrible arena drop last week
This is by far, the most logical theory I've heard for this.
parenthesis to this discussion:
@cosmicturtle333 your description above reminded me of this video about traffic jams - it makes sense!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M
I am not as high in the rankings as others, but I burn all my battles at once as well.
As for checking, I only really check when it's time to do battle haha. I only open my game maybe once a day for about an hour,finish all my objectives, then not turn it on again till the next day.
Most days I finish at pay out in top 4 and fall to low to mid teens when I start my climb back up for payouts then a couple of days in a row came by and I was falling to high 20's which never happened to me before. Plus I have noticed some new names at the top of the leader board that I have not seen before.
I agree its probably a domino. I just cant imagine being around #100 and going to #500. I dont feel like there is THAT much competition on my server. Once I get shoved out of the #200 bracket, you'd figure all those people who lost rating would be back to where they were originally.
It could also be bad luck that I am the lowest rated for people trying to climb and I just happen to be the easier fight.
Again, not really a complaining thread, I was just curious if there were people who saw little activity for weeks then just get slammed into the wall