On my shard I found out in the top 10 people talk to each other and decide who gets what place. This is some punk kittens. How do I know this? I was approached with this on my shard. Through message in discord and asked if I wanted in. I was told I'm messing up their payouts hence why they want to bring me into the fold. I got to the 1 spot in arena by myself and without collusion. Bunch of punks. I wonder how deep this runs on other shards.
@CG_Kozispoon what can be done against this if anything? Seems like a sly manipulation. I don't care who gets mad at me, I'm not with this behavior.
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Can't man. I had to grind hard to get there. Screw them.
This is how the world works
To me, the social/communication aspect of this game is the best part; i.e., chatting with guildies, sharing strategies, telling jokes, etc. It's probably the only reason I'm still playing. I made friends with my arena shard guys too. I know when people's payouts are so I make sure not to hit them when they're trying to climb. That's not collusion; that's common courtesy and just being a nice guy. I'm nice to them, they're nice to me. If you're nice to them I'm sure they'll extend you the same courtesy. If you don't play nice and choose to hit people during their payouts can you blame them for wanting to move you back?
As far as "how deep does it go"... it's every single shard. lol. I recommend joining your shard chat. It will improve your payouts and serve as another venue for making friends in the game. Win/win.
Your hard work is over, join them and it only gets easier. Or continue to fight them tooth and nail everyday, and you'll be added to there hit list and it will only get harder for you
If they asked you in it’s probably because they want the time zones known.
As others have said above some shards are really cray. 2 chats, big time war, people allow you only certain spots. And if a guild takes over the shard they can flex really hard.
Yeah. This. I kinda think it's dumb too, but this is the way things go on EVERY shard. There's a whole subforum here that is basically dedicated finding shardmates and colluding: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/categories/pvp-and-rivalry
Welcome to the reality of the game.
Honestly, you should just join the chat. Then there is no more grind, since most of the top 20 will just leave you alone if it isn't their hour.
But hey, if the company endorses this behavior, maybe its profitable for them - I dont know.
What I do know, sir, is that Im a rebel like you are, and no collusion will stop me from playing the game nor achieving the rank I desire - Im not anyones kitten and I play against whoever I want whenever I want.
All you colluders are just lazy and not hard working enough. Watch out, fellas, that may not work so Well for you guys IRL.
Your're nice to them and they are nice to you. What you said in your post is collusion bud. All good man. Thanks for the heads up.
Everyone can win against anyone on offense in arena nowadays, even with crap mods, given the rock-paper-scissors landscape created by CG, a limited AI and the powercreep toons released in the past 12 months.
There is zero merit reaching 1st at payout.
Not joining the chat and not knowing who has his payout when will result in you impacting other people's real life by sending some people down when they are climbing. This is time in their life they would use otherwise, especially since payout is dinner time for most. This is not nice and worse if done on purpose....
Collusion implies something illegal or against the rules, and this is neither.
They probably make more money when a small group is getting all the good PvP crystal payouts it forces a larger group to buy more crystals to catch-up
Cry me a river. Whatever you do don't join a group that will enable you to earn more crystals without threat of being bumped.
Honestly this is the 1000'th post like this send it where the rest of them get sent.
It's not that people are mad at you for not joining...it's just they cannot understand how unintelligent it is.
You don't like what I'm saying... Then get the stepping. Quit acting like a troll. You have your opinion I have mine. Savvy
Let me give you an ingame example: on TW, a tie means both guilds get the same rewards - however, everybody hates a tie, no one does the favor of “being nice” to other guilds. So this thing about “its not collusion, its a courtesy”, is complete ****.
Also, how many people you reckon share the same payout in a shard? Id say at the very least some 10 people. So obviously only one of them will get the top reward. If that’s the case, why not just avoid this thing and being truly competitive?
Because people are lazy and just want the easy way out. Which I can respect, but please don’t portray this collusion thing as good. And it hurts specially the longevity of the game, cause people will spend less by sharing payouts.