Galaxy war changed from max arena power to max toon power by patch?
I've been tracking my arena power, my max power, and my opponent power for ~2 months. From the Mar 23 patch onward, the war has been fairly predictable -- opponent power in an increasing curve from around 60% of max arena power to a bit over 100% of max arena power.
I just finished my first run after the patch update, and rather than starting at 60% of my max arena power, the run started at 81% of my max arena power and ran up to 134% of max power by the last node. However, when I recalculated the run against max power (sum of the top 5 characters), I got almost exactly the same curve as I had before. 60% up to 100%.
Is there a bug during the patch that reset max arena power (the guild stat still shows my old max arena power). I also won with that team about 3 hours before the galaxy war restart.
See below for the full data (note the link previews as white for some reason, so I also gave it after the hopefully clickable link as two pieces)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Da6haT9Bb15ikm2XRl6JzgZoFnNtBFLDgRongdoQF-I/edit#gid=1141892594
https: //docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Da6haT9Bb15ikm2XRl6JzgZoFnNtBFLDgRongdoQF-I/edit#gid=1141892594
I just finished my first run after the patch update, and rather than starting at 60% of my max arena power, the run started at 81% of my max arena power and ran up to 134% of max power by the last node. However, when I recalculated the run against max power (sum of the top 5 characters), I got almost exactly the same curve as I had before. 60% up to 100%.
Is there a bug during the patch that reset max arena power (the guild stat still shows my old max arena power). I also won with that team about 3 hours before the galaxy war restart.
See below for the full data (note the link previews as white for some reason, so I also gave it after the hopefully clickable link as two pieces)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Da6haT9Bb15ikm2XRl6JzgZoFnNtBFLDgRongdoQF-I/edit#gid=1141892594
https: //docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Da6haT9Bb15ikm2XRl6JzgZoFnNtBFLDgRongdoQF-I/edit#gid=1141892594
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GW yesterday was very different with all along higher dodge and higher tier opponents earlier in game.
I'm trying to figure out if this is likely permanent and hence arena power is now irrelevant or if it was a bug.
Only strat is to use your strongest players from the first node.
Yesterday I was so close to completing, last node only sid left and he killed the last of my A team before I could retreat, no-one could kill him from self heal.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/comment/354766/#Comment_354766
See the 4/24 update megathread. It got worse. First two nodes were same power level, so I thought the theory was good. Next 4 nodes were 1500 harder (about 3.5%). Node 7 was 2500 harder (about as hard as node 12 was yesterday). Quit out of frustration; got no theory on how this could happen unless my data is confused with someone else's who is much stronger.
Don't hope. Do it. Gw has been an issue for months as have numerous other complaints. Yet instead of fixing existing problems you release poorly executed new content that flat out sucks and are nothing but blatant cash grabs. Stop leading us on and friggin fix gw, the credit crunch, the horrible drop rates, etc. NOW. Otherwise keep hemorrhaging paying players, and keep struggling to keep decent ratings @CG_JohnSalera
Perhaps this is the problem... the fact you are still considering options rather than implementing meaningful changes.
If you provide us content worthy of us paying for it, we will pay... it doesn't work the other way around.
May the Force be with you.
I suspect they have to figure out what they should change since they don't want to just revert it backwards. I made a suggestion on how I'd fix it on the 4/24 update megathread, but any fix which isn't something like "just remove protection for defenders" is likely to be hard enough, and removing protection would create a different set of issues (offense now is stronger if the player gets protection). Removing protection for both sides also screws up the intended balance.
That said, if the bug that was hitting me (opponents not based on arena power any more, and today it's not even proportional to top 5 toons) is hitting other people, they could see a large increase in difficulty. Most people aren't tracking opponent stats closely enough to know if it's hitting them though. I'm hoping the bug is fixed since I was otherwise enjoying the game.
Eric11, just saw this. So any upgrades to your arena or top 5 team that could account for this?
Galctic War match making was most certainly changed with the last update. I have opened a support ticket for the issue. I run my lowest power team in Arena specifically to have an easier GW. My max power level is around 13K. I am facing teams of over 18K in the last node now. You can have your developers look at my account with their new tracking tools to verify. Same ign as my forum account. Based on your comments I'm assuming this was unintentional but can you please verify?
Nope; I have no theory of what could have happened. Only major upgrade was Barris 4*->5*, but that's not in my top 5 nor on my Arena team (I use her for GalWar). The upgrade also wasn't anywhere close to 1500 power increase, star upgrades get around 500.
Ok, it was user error. I failed to record the strength of the team at node 3, and didn't notice until I got over my rage-quit and made it through to node 11 and noticed I was recording at 10. On closer inspection I worked out that putting the "missing" entry at node 3 made all of the power levels roughly line up. Therefore we're still in the bug of galactic war difficulty being calculated related to max toon power rather than max arena power.