I realise that a number of you are quite happy with your payout times.
I am aware that the payout times are related to the timezone you are in when you registered.
I am aware that I could start earlier in the day and hope I hold my position but this is really not practical due to the competatve nature of my shard.
I contacted support, after reading about someone who had this done, to move my arena payout (AP) and fleet arena payout (FAP) a couple of hours later or earlier. They told me to post here with this and try and get a discussion going, as that is what has happened with the cross platform inability of SWGOH when switching Android to iOS.
My personal issue with my payout time is that it is 17:00 and 18:00 GMT (currently during the winter months). I leave work at 16:00 and then commute home. I am travelling for about 30 minutes and have stops to make on the way. Then I have family admin, a dog to walk and a child to put to bed.
This then means that the two hours which are stressful anyway after work have the increased pressure of trying to get battles done and climb the arena ladder. I realise for a lot of you that this won't be an issue as you may have a decent payout time or less commitments.
I am proposing that we be allowed to change our payout time once, so as to avoid some perceived ability to abuse the function. I would also say that given the importance of the arena that the decision on payout time should be made when you sign up with the game offering you an option and letting you know that the arena will require about an hour for each one.
TL;DR
On sign up give an option of when you would prefer your arena payouts (including a change once they realise they have chosen poorly), or a one time change for existing users to be able to choose a time where they will be able to manage their arena climb better.
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The first time could be a free option, followed by a fairly high crystal cost thereafter.
While I am not opposed to an opportunity like the one you are proposing, I feel that it's slapping a bandaid on a broken arm.
Thus, I would much rather see a rework of the concept of squard/fleet arena turning it into a system where wins/succesful defenses gives points, something like the TW structure, for individuals, which would reward performance over 24 hours rather than timing / coordination to win.
Unfortunately I suppose we are equally unlikely to see any changes to this mode whatsoever...
There is a high need to change payout time but people should not be able to exploit it.
It would be great to be able to change as I don't stay up till 4 AM to battle it out.
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My issue is that my original payout time was great. But once we adjusted our clocks to 'fall back' by an hour in fall.....made things very painful. So, even a button that said 'adjust with daylight savings time' would help me out'.
I'd very much like to see a one time change.
Couldn't have been said better.
The current arena system allows for bullies to organize as a mob and keep anyone outside of their precious little group away from the top positions by ganking/stalling them.
Whilst Lozsta's (or anyone's really) need to change his payout to fit his real life schedule is very understandable, this would allow the little mafia kids to completely take over the whole shard as hostage and never allow anyone to really climb. (By distributing all timezones to their members).
What would really elevate the game (and eliminate the need for Lozsta to change his payout times), would be a completely different rating system, like the one Emmant proposed, or a zero-sum rating system, or ANYTHING that prevents exploit by organized mafia.
How about you get X combats per daily reset and get to do them anytime your daily schedule allows?
Then every hour the game calculates the highest rated players per timezone and distributes the rewards.
You can still sell crystals to players that want to do more attempts, but they have to earn their rating by winning more consistently and not by having their buddies lockout their opponents.
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Except that arena payout time is not a "choice" fir anyone. Its 6 or 7 pm local time. Starting over wouldn't accomplish anyrhing if yiu stayed in the same time zone. And traveling several time zones to install a game seems a bit impractical for most players.
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Alternatively...
Calculate payout based on the highest rank achieved during each 24 hour window. Problem solved. People can climb whenever suits their schedule that day, and EA gets more time spent in game because players would be more likely to climb on a daily basis, not just on the days their schedule permits.
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You can manually edit the time on your phone, the game will eat up whatever you throw at it.
How the tables have turned...
That isnt to say it will never be but the time and effort is not an easy or short term option at this time.
I agree the daylight savings thing would help enormously. If it hadn't fallen back to a 16:00 to 1700 for arena I wouldn't mind quite so much as I am nearly always home and out with the dog by then, and hitting the battles is easier then.
The one time change would help then.
I think this is the same for a lot of players. The payout time is during work or just after which is i,possible for CG to predict but if you are making every new users payout between 16:00 and 19:00 their local time then you almost certainly hitting work or commute time.
I think the arena climb idea is a good one but I have thought about it many times and I am not sure how they would do it. People are already saying that a single time change would allow for the "kids" (who are probably P2W) to coordinate their climbs.
If I had more suitable time in the day I could play at work no problem, and would probably start my climb an hour before and spend crystals to climb further.
I stated in my initial post that I realise many people are incredibly happy with their payout time, I am not trying to annoy them, but I am certain one day their circumstances may change and they might like the chance of a one off change.
I should add my RL friend who got me playing (**** him) is literally up the road, same country and has a 2 hour difference in his payout time to myself. His is much more convenient to me in that it is two hours after mine.
I have reached out to a CG dev and spoken at some length to them about this. There is no issue doing it. The exact word used was "impractical" now that is not "impossible" so if the system was developed to facilitate these changes then it wouldn't even be "impractical".
Right from the onset you get trolled over.
Make the service cost 900 crystals an can be done once a year, the end.
Of course, we can't even get the 5%TM on Talzin's lead fixed, or challenge gear our of Raids, or the QoL requests players ACTUALLY asked for...... so wanting something like this may as well be asking for the moon from CG.
I was told by support to post it here, if I want it and it seems others do too, so I am doing as I am told by them. They seem pretty dismissive of a huge issue that people have.
Other companies (not sure if I am allowed to post names of other companies, if I am not please edit this out, company is Steam) Also lock your account to the region you have made it in, effectively editing your purchasing options, product availability etc. This is not changeable by the user, however, they have dedicated help desks (kinda like this one) that can do it for you, if you provide proof of changing residence (they only require proof because it's a legal matter, these matters do not apply to this particular case). A system adapted to our game would be a single, player-side change where we can all change our payout times, and then have a help desk that can do it in the future should you require it.
I hear a lot of growling about how it would cause mobing in the arena shards. Mobing is already present, in a great deal, and this feature would actually reduce it. The problem is a lot of players that care about this game are playing it for a long time and they are in older shards which do not see the same level of mobing because when they were made, the shard making intervals were a lot more frequent (it used to be a new shard every 2-3 days, then every week and now it's every month).
I would be a lot more concerned about a man/woman who has to move 2-3 times a year due to his job, spends thousands on this game monthly and just wants to have the product he is grossly paying for.
The bottom line is, this system was created to promote competitiveness, to enable multiple high-tier payouts trough dedication and strategic playing. It backfired, created mobs that dominate the top tiers. Shuffling the payouts can only do good at this point. And bad QoL and PR decisions has already cost CG a lot of high-paying consumers who left because of this particular problem. A X000 dollars a month spending user will simply quit this game because his job as the CEO requires him to work at the time this game forces him to play. Make the change, earn the trust of the community and a lot of revenue in the process.
My reasoning for wanting to change, and probably several others above even though they don't admit it, is because of the Shard chats that have been allowed to run the arena payouts for so long. While they are coordinating through Discord, CG/EA should have a way they can suspend or ban accounts for taking part in these. And if not, then they could at least allow us to change our payout times so that we don't have to be shamed for attacking outside of when you are "supposed" to attack.
FYI - I am in one and am in the rotation for top 10 so this isn't just someone who is mad they can't get above 100 in their shard. It literally takes all the fun and competition out of this game and I HATE it. It basically requires you to tip-toe around who you can or can't attack and if you attack at the wrong time you get shamed. Ultimately some would say simply leave the shard chat but as anyone who is in one knows, if you do this they will put you on a hit list and you will never stay in the top 20 for very long. So they have basically taken over an entire aspect of the game and require you to play a certain way. This completely goes against the competitive nature of the arena. If they aren't going to do anything about these shard chats I would hope they can at least give us a way to make arena enjoyable.
Here is the answer, CG/EA starts suspending or banning accounts that are taking part in these shard rotations. I am in one only because if you don't you will be put on their "hit list" which completely goes against the competitive nature of the game. I have to attack who they tell me to and at specific times of the day. How is that fun? And EA/CG does nothing to stop it. Hey EA/CG - THIS IS YOUR GAME - quit letting small groups of people control it!
Allowing a limited number of timezone changes a year would lead to shard domination by a small group. In fact, it would help dilute shard chats power by allowing more players the incentive to move up in “off” hours and increase the “churn” in the upper ranks.
One other incorrect notion is that allowing timezone changes would lead to too many crystals being paid out. More crystals means more players advancing which means more competition which means more frustration which means more impulse buying. It’s all relative.
Right now you have an uneven distribution of players in payout hours. People in US Centraland Eastern timezones are competing agaist far more players for their payout hour, while players with Greenland timezones have almost no competition in their payout hour.
Allowing limited timezone changes would have just as much on arena as in game chat had with arena, virtually zero impact.
The only thing I can think of is that there is some vanity stat that EA/CG management tracks based on total hours logged or certain hours during the day they need to increase user logins. Let players change their payout times to times that meet their schedules.