We don't need preview phases.
What's the point to have them? Just jump to the setup phase and add ready button so it can start immediately when the players are done setting up defences.
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The set up (as you keep calling it) is the first defence setting stage. The preview stage is to allow players to sign up. Global game, so a 24 hour preview/sign up phase is just fine.
2) Set D
3) Attack
I don't see the issue.
This. Think of the "preview" phase as a chance to get your mods in order, make sure you've geared/starred/leveled any newish toons you wanted to add. I actually like a 24 hour countdown timer to matchmaking.
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I beat the REAL T7 Yoda (not the nerfed one) and did so before mods were there to help
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So people have a time period to do any last minute upgrades / changes to their rosters.
Just because you dont use the time period doesnt mean others dont.
Like this GA is twice faster
Yes and then this will happen.
1) People won't be able to adjust their characters
2) People will get mad because not everyone sets the exact same defenses.
Maybe think of how your ideas will play out.
No offense but it would make GAC worse.
OP is stating remove the beginning period. There isn't a review phase.
Then 24 hours for players who actually want to participate to sign up for the first GA. The preview phase.
Then matchmaking the active players into groups for the first GA in the sequence.
Then 24 hours for players to set defenses for the first match.
If you eliminate the preview phase then you have to auto-enroll every single account in the first GA and you will have a _lot_ of inactives.
Aye man I mean that ain't no problem for us
Yeah it's like going into a MMA match having no clue who your opponent is.
And since you have no idea you prepare for an opponent in similar size to you.
And then you get matched up with The Rock
And you lose.
If you don't have a Preview/Joining phase how are you going to have a setup phase to "jump into" since it's that Preview phase that allows people to join and then be matched into each mini league of 8!
Who are that "we" exactly? Personally I need them to define if I want to participate in GA at all and, more importantly, do some adjustment to my roster if I want (last minute character upgrades and mods moves).
Haha, getting matched up with The Rock in MMA...
I think the only way to get rid of the "preview phase" for territory wars would be to automatically add all members of a guild to the event. Some members might night want to or might not be able to participate. Having a join period allows members who want to participate in any event to join. This allows the game to adjust the number of required teams per phase.
eg. if he has strong jawas and/or zzBossk you should not place geos in def
Are you the **** that joins and decides you no chance at winning, so you don’t set D out of protest?
The first 24 hours is for everyone to have time to sign up.
The second 24 hours is for everyone to have time to set D.
There is no 24 hours to analyze your opponent. If you choose to use it that way, fine, but it's irrelevant to the topic.
This is the reason this phase exists. If they scratch it and everyone is force signed in lots of people will have inactive enemies which means they don't have any fun and/ or competition and will start complaining about it soon.
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If you skip that phase, then matches will pretty much be random and could potentially have a starter guild vs an elite guild. Or if you just say to match solely on guild GP, then you could have a laser focused, super active 120 GP guild with all the current meta toons vs a 120 GP guild that has a bunch of inactive members and/or outdated rosters.