Grand arena join/leave clarification

JediFrost

I’m sure it’s been asked before but I can’t find a specific thread about it, and don’t particularity want to look through the Q & A’s to see if it was brought up there.

I am curious as to why there is a join and leave button for territory wars so you can make sure you have everything set up correctly. However in Grand Arena, there is a join button, and you better have your mods setup correctly or your SOL. I have a habit of clicking on the GA button on the main screen and clicking enter right away to see what’s going on in GA, unfortunately I did that before I switched some mods back, clicked join accidentally and I can basically guarantee I will get slaughtered in this GA as a number of my best characters don’t currently have any mods. I appreciate that is my fault and on me, however...

I’m curious as to whether an option to leave your GA before it locks will be implemented at some point?

Any clarification on this would be greatly appreciated.

MomoTheNinja

Long story short, It's probably like this because it was originally designed without the need for a leave button. GAC used to lock at the end of the Join period, which is why there's a countdown to "player lock", even though it now locks when you click the join button. So because they designed it not to need a "leave and rejoin" (unnessary when you have lock at the end of the join period), they never considered people needing to leave after they hit the button.

The link I'm posting is when they announced the change. Here it explains that locking in the join period was causing some problems with locking correctly, so they changed it.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/217926/updates-on-current-issues


In the December Q&A here is what they said: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/220196/developer-q-a-12-04/p1

Q: Can there be a way to leave and rejoin GAC or otherwise decide when to lock your roster?
A: CG_Tophat - It's being discussed. No plans in the next client release, but potentially future ones

So my take is just that they designed it without a leave button, because the original design didn't need a leave button. So, when an issue came up that made them have to change how it locks, they just left it as is and threw it on the back-burner because it's a low priority issue for them.

CCyrilS

MomoTheNinja wrote: »

Long story short, It's probably like this because it was originally designed without the need for a leave button. GAC used to lock at the end of the Join period, which is why there's a countdown to "player lock", even though it now locks when you click the join button. So because they designed it not to need a "leave and rejoin" (unnessary when you have lock at the end of the join period), they never considered people needing to leave after they hit the button.

The link I'm posting is when they announced the change. Here it explains that locking in the join period was causing some problems with locking correctly, so they changed it.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/217926/updates-on-current-issues


In the December Q&A here is what they said: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/220196/developer-q-a-12-04/p1

Q: Can there be a way to leave and rejoin GAC or otherwise decide when to lock your roster?
A: CG_Tophat - It's being discussed. No plans in the next client release, but potentially future ones

So my take is just that they designed it without a leave button, because the original design didn't need a leave button. So, when an issue came up that made them have to change how it locks, they just left it as is and threw it on the back-burner because it's a low priority issue for them.

That's a long story short?

TVF

(Too late!)

MomoTheNinja

CCyrilS wrote: »

MomoTheNinja wrote: »

Long story short, It's probably like this because it was originally designed without the need for a leave button. GAC used to lock at the end of the Join period, which is why there's a countdown to "player lock", even though it now locks when you click the join button. So because they designed it not to need a "leave and rejoin" (unnessary when you have lock at the end of the join period), they never considered people needing to leave after they hit the button.

The link I'm posting is when they announced the change. Here it explains that locking in the join period was causing some problems with locking correctly, so they changed it.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/217926/updates-on-current-issues


In the December Q&A here is what they said: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/220196/developer-q-a-12-04/p1

Q: Can there be a way to leave and rejoin GAC or otherwise decide when to lock your roster?
A: CG_Tophat - It's being discussed. No plans in the next client release, but potentially future ones

So my take is just that they designed it without a leave button, because the original design didn't need a leave button. So, when an issue came up that made them have to change how it locks, they just left it as is and threw it on the back-burner because it's a low priority issue for them.

That's a long story short?

Yeah....I got a little carried away...

Lysandrax

MomoTheNinja wrote: »

A: CG_Tophat - It's being discussed. No plans in the next client release, but potentially future ones

If only talking about it gave it any value.

GAC is a good thing being handled poorly.
Bad lock-in, often causing toons to not be modded as they should be
Poor weighting of relic toons.
Poor matchmaking, more than just the top total minimum should be used on matchups.
Not enough divisions at the top end, a 4.5mil can vs a 6.5mil.
Poor organisation of leagues, harder to get to the top the higher your GP is.
Worse rewards than it's predecessor.
Bugs that cause a match loss and usually GA loss

GA has been out for a year now, a lot of these problems shouldn't exist anymore.

In other news, stick around for the new Kessel Run bundle coming

Soon.

we're very excited by this budle, we have been working on it since the last bundle helped us so much.

TVF

I disagree with most of that post.

Lysandrax

Always appreciate the input.

Jarvind

Solution: be lazy like me and never move mods around.

TVF

Lysandrax wrote: »

Always appreciate the input.

Cheers.