Another battle of who has the most ally points. This is an improvement over who has the biggest crystal vault, but it is still repetitive and boring. It's just a big pvAI spree.
How about the devs set a common enemy, and then everyone competes against the same opponent to see who has the best setup. It could be a cumulative enemy at certain levels/phases like the Rancor or the AAT tank. and the players points would add up until the end of the tournament. Then everything is level, and it is left to us to figure the best strategies to advance in the tourney.
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1. Defensive squads can be set once per refresh.
2. Battles won on defense will award points = to 10% of the potential reward for the attacking team.
3. A maximum of 10 refreshes for each toon
4. A toon only NEEDS to be refreshed if it is actually defeated in battle (otherwise the toon can be refreshed at players' discretion to refresh the toon's HP/protection and/or cooldowns.
5. For no. 2 listed above to work, it require offensive points and defensive points to be listed separately on the arena Matches screen. Total points will be displayed in the rankings summary like normal.
6. No. 1 listed above will allow players' to determine how effective their squad is and will allow for 2 adjustments for the length of the tournament. If a squad is too tough, it will not be attacked and earn no points. If it is too easy, it will also earn no points.
Edit: added 5. and 6.
If they X'd out player names then they could give points for defense and not have to worry about collusion
If they did this then you'd likely be complaining that this format caters to the whales. Whatever EA comes up with there will always be people like you complaining. You think the tournament is boring? Good. Don't participate.
Spent my entire saturday night last tournament just attacking and refreshing trying to find the easiest team to attack. Way more time consuming than other parts of the game. (Much better than crystals still though)
I agree on defensive meaning something. Wiggs squads are not all that I've not run them in ages in arena and I destroy Wiggs teams.
And then ppl will complain that it's repetitive and boring and just another raid, but solo...
It's boring and I'm trying to offer a solution that involves strategy and thought. And I don't participate because the tournament is just an arena spree that the winner is based on who has the most ally points. They can do better than this. You can offer a better solution than your troll response "Don't participate", but that would require thought on your end.
Don't be like that... Everyone should give feedback so they can refine and refine and refine to make a bettertournament with each iteration.
I disagree with this person, but at least they're:
1) Staking a definitive claim instead of trying to weasel faux support by making a bogus, biased poll.
2) Has discrete, enumerated points that are expounded upon and given context instead of vague "this sucks" statements.
3) Offers constructive solutions instead of just saying "fix it."
To do this though you have to set refresh limits. I say 5 per toon (raise costs if you want). Otherwise we will be playing all day.
Good point @NicWester
What would you think about @DarthBlartMC 's suggestion of removing names from the tournament?
Also, you said you disagreed with OP. Do you like the tourney as it is currently?
I feel this is a much fairer way to award participation - set the character shard rewards suitably high. That way, EVERYONE is on a level playing field, and you won't get situations where top 100 is, say, 5000 points on one ladder, and 10000 on another.
First question first: Eh. Not a fan of it, but I wouldn't be mad if they did it. I remember names well when I'm refreshing looking for a good target. Removing names would make it more frustrating. I also like seeing names because then I feel like I'm playing a real person, as opposed to an AI generated filler team.
Second question second: Yeah. I didn't refresh much in either tournament (twice in the first one, and as long as it cost 100 tokens in the second) and finished just a little over 1000 when prizes were distributed. I would prefer if there was a cap on refreshes per character--putting a de facto cap on the attacks per day, but also letting me be able to say I Am Done Today. But, overall, yeah. I like the tournament.
I am still 10 shards short of unlocking Shoretrooper. Don't need another almost done character to collect dust. If Shoretrooper shards were the reward this time as well I would make the effort to at least unlock him. As it stands, I'll burn my 100k ally points on bronzium packs. My son loves to open them and his happimess is more important than sitting mindlessly for hours only to come up short on another character that will be chromium exclusive in a few weeks.
Thing is... Then don't. I'm not trying to be a **** or anything, or be one of those "DON'T LIKE IT, DON'T DO IT GOSH STOP COMPLAININGSINGINGING" people.
But the purpose of a game is to have fun, so if you're not having fun don't do it. I don't have the constitution to do what Whiteroom has done, playing for three hours. That'd get real boring real fast. So what I did was do 5 fights when I got home, then do my Galactic War while watching The Wire. Did two more, then started in on Arena. I've got 22 hours before my rosters refresh, I can do more attacks in the morning and a couple more later in the day.
My plan isn't to get 1st place. That's too much of a time commitment. But I think I'll do about 30 attacks a day, which should get me around 500 this time (better than the last two tournaments) and then no more. I don't want to spend all that time.
Anyway, my point is, you don't need to win. Just do what feels comfortable to you. You'd be surprised how well you can do in this thing with a minimal investment of effort. 1000-1500 has great rewards, and doesn't take too many attacks to get.
Inside a game that is all about the grind, why is anyone surprised?
My point wasn't to complain. Simply voicing an opinion that it is pointless to even spend more than 5 minutes a day doing it. I did with Shoretrooper and have a still locked character that I now have to pay to finish. I don't see Chirrut being any different.
I will do my battles with no refreshes and get what I get. I'm not going to invest any more time than that since I see no light at the end of the tunnel.
I don't pay to play so there is no point in chasing shards of a character that will inevitably be a chromium release. I'll get whatever the reward box gives me and move on.
I think they should just get rid of pay to refresh, in any currency format, all together. Just refresh the roster once every 24 hours. I will say I do like the idea that if the character lives thru the battle they get reset for free, that is a "strength" test, however even that should be limited.
Defense's should be ai/dev generated teams.
I have no problems battling wiggs teams but battling them 20+ times a day is just boring.
Edit: Just thought off something else. Make it opposite factions. You pick a faction for defense, set your defense team and than in offense you have to use the opposite faction.
The only good thing about fighting wiggs all day is, win or lose the matches never last long.
You're on wrong thread. This thread was started to complain about how boring the tournament is, I suspect. Doubt you will find many that think the way you do here so................
And this is actually what I'm doing. Just not playing (as of this moment I haven't even entered). But then that really sucks for us, as we can't get a character. These are exclusive rewards we are talking about, so it hurts us to not participate. It's either participate and grind or risk falling behind. It's not exactly great for the game to make such a big feature boring as hell.
It actually is a shorter, more intense version of the AAT grind.
Would take a bit of changing how boards are set bc it wouldn't be fair for someone with 20 guys to go against someone with 90. I think that would be easy though, design boards to build in a range targeting player lvl , # of each star lvl and average gear.
But hey watching a guy that has 2 teams and a million ap battle for hours is fun too lol