Please filter the potential grand arena opponents
I feel, for the health of grand arena, that your opponents should be filtered by characters as well as galactic power.
With Anakin coming to the game soon, he will pose a threat greater than malak to the health of the game. If you happen to go against an opponent who has this character and you don't, you cannot beat them. This makes the best mode in the game irrelevant and unfun.
I propose that on top of your ga matching based on gp, it should also match based on if you have certain characters.
Obviously the new Anakin is one and I believe malak should be another.
This should prevent F2P players from giving up on grand arena.
Please just concider it.
Regards,
HappySideOfFear777
With Anakin coming to the game soon, he will pose a threat greater than malak to the health of the game. If you happen to go against an opponent who has this character and you don't, you cannot beat them. This makes the best mode in the game irrelevant and unfun.
I propose that on top of your ga matching based on gp, it should also match based on if you have certain characters.
Obviously the new Anakin is one and I believe malak should be another.
This should prevent F2P players from giving up on grand arena.
Please just concider it.
Regards,
HappySideOfFear777
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And it's fine if they get out played, aka they make a mistake and load tm or misuse their teams and used their counters too early.
But if the match is over before any attacks take place then what's the point in playing anymore?
Think through the precedent that this would set.
The same, I think, that a 95% meta of one character sets.
It's obviously an instant loss if, after missing the event, you can't be bothered to work on the counter either. But, as every time before, there will probably be a counter.
That doesn't make any sense, but sure.
You can argue what better roster means, but not the fact that it's taken into consideration.
It'll balance itself over the duration of GAC.
Players, who unlock GAS will have an advantage, yes, and it is all good. If they farmed an geared to meet the requirements they earned that advantage.
F2P players can still do well - probably just as well after the introduction of GAS as before. If you don't meet the requirements for the event, you most probably already are at a disadvantage compared to players who meet the requirements.
I'd say that the issue comes down to the difference between the following:
1) "Not currently having one of the counters for one of your opponenent's squads" - It happens, deal with it
2) "There not being a viable counter to one one of your opponent's squads" - Wrecks the game mode, removes any fun from the game, causes people to quit the game.
So, it all comes down to whether or not there is actually any viable counter squad to 'Ganakin + 501st' when he starts appearing in GAC and Arena from next week? If there is, then fine, he seems really over-powered but if there's a viable counter then that's OK. If there is not a viable counter then it's ridiculous to pit people with that squad against people without it for the next 6-months.
CG said quite clearly a while back that their intention was for a 'rock, paper, scissors' style meta, and they themselves have commented on how stale and unhealthy for the game the 95%+ Ackbar+Falcon meta was for the Fleets, so it would seem utterly ridiculous for them to bring out a squad meta that couldn't be countered unless they deliberately want to demoralize the majority of the player base.
I guess we'll see pretty soon...and of course if a viable counter is identified we'll have to wait and see if CG does their classic move of doing a post-release nerf/buff to kill off that counter!!
Any ideas what could be the counter? "Hide the Nihilus" was the only plausible idea I have seen so far, and I don't really think that one is viable with Rex and his instakill.
I was referencing the fact that Darth revan with malak was 95% of the arena meta for a while. Which is horribly unhealthy for the longevity of the game.
Aah, the good ol' longevity of the game.
I'm curious though, what are your thoughts on Arena right now?
I think it's bad. I think any meta that's over 50% is no good. I'd prefer to not have anything over 30%. Maybe 40% if the leader can have some good variation under them.
I dont think you know what Meta means...
Well correct me if I'm wrong but isnt it the distribution of teams? Aka the current meta is 75% Darth revan. 7% IG-88, 6% Padme, ECT
Yeah so CG finna penalize their "investors" by giving them harder GAC matches?
That's such a awful business idea from their point of view.