I am in a very old arena shard. As the ranks at the top keep thinning out, we seem to have new whales that suddenly climb to the top with monster GP (I’m 6M+ and these guys without ever cracking the top 20 in nearly 5 years have more gp than I do). It would seem that some prefer to spend rather than worry about the payout, and I am grateful for those players!
Some in the shard began speculating they were CG plant accounts that were there to give us competition/encourage spending as they rarely communicate with the rest of us. Seems far fetched.
Then suddenly this person appears in our nearly 5 year old arena shard.
SLKR is doable at 3M GP. My alt has similar GP but I went for seps/malak/501/padme and currently hoarding. My questions are:
How do you keep playing this game for almost 5 years and only have 900 squad arena battles?
Or
How did this new account get assigned to my arena shard instead of a shard with other accounts the same age as theirs?
And before you tell me “some people don’t like arena, he just lucked into having all the FO and got SLKR out of luck!”, how does someone play the game for almost 5 years and manage rank 12 in fleets using executrix?
Something smells fishy, but I’m sure Kyno knows how this is all on the up and up.
1
Replies
Dunno about the trixie though.
You can always reach out to the player in-game to see if they are planted accounts (Hint: There aren't any)
Occam's Razor.
That or it's some convoluted plan put in place by CG to get your shard to spend......
I did a break after I activated the arena. It was for ~2 years. I come back and played often and started whaling a bit. (I came back around JTR)
Whaling started around Revan pretty hard but that's because I love KOTOR.
After that I made it towards the top 10.
After the GL's I was one of the first that got a GL in the shard so I took often #1.
So, people took a break from the game and paid (mostly) to keep up.
You can see this if you watch the mods closely because many of them are not good.
This. @TJax , I took 1.5 years off. I'm working back up F2P though. I just hit fleet rank 80 for the 1st time and my arena is climbing. Looking at Vader as my best path to top 10 arena.
If I spent some cash.... I'd be saying hi to people that haven't seen me in top 10 in 4.5 years
I can imagine some long time player doing the same and adding some cash in to help , if he hasn't been up in the top ranks before he wouldn't be known to you or be in a shard chat like me, probably some bored person with a new job maybe .
It isn't 900 battles it is 900 wins. If they hate fleet and arena and just open it and press auto for dailies then it isn't a very surprising number, especially if they took time off.
900 WON, not total battles . Which isn't very suspicious at all really .
900 fleet wins which is a hell of alot more than me and im top 20 fleet
900 wins over 1800 or so days ,let's make it easy and say he won 1 battle every 10 attempts over 2 days (5 daily) put his win ratio to 10% so he's probably had 90k battles but that's just a rough guess
I play one fleet battle a day and until recently was happily staying in the top 50.
So yeah, 900 wins is really not that dubious.
Edit: Just checked my stats and my Fleet Battles Won is 1,020. And as I say, I was happily staying in the top 50 until recently. And I started playing a year or so after the game started.
We are also under the assumption that the player took a few years break and returned which would explain his low number of squad arena battles won
I understand that... Still its low especially for a day 1 shard.
Almost everyone in my arena (Nov 2015) has 5,000 plus arena battles... Some have 10,000+ I do one a day for achievements sometimes not even winning it and I still have over 5k.
So 900 battles over the life of an account is extremely low even if they took 1 or 2 years off. Climbing to the top requires at least 5 wins a day more like 10 so that's equivalent to 3 months of winning 10 fights a day.
Maybe he started the account, took 4 and a half years off then came back and dropped $20k to whale out after 4 years of marination. It's possible just unlikely
It’s not as unlikely as would seem. I took 4 and a half years out. Got the game pretty early on but I didn’t get into it at first. Re downloaded it about 4 months ago maybe. Top of my arena shard is just GL and a couple GAS teams all with at least 5k squad battles won. Ive put a couple hundred into it got myself up to about 1.2m GP currently and I sit around the 350 mark in arena with only 140 squad arena battles won. It would take a fair bit of money to get to where he is but it’s not inconceivable.
I have been in a guild with whales who sit in the 400+ range in arena. some just doing the 2 battles a day and walking away.
without knowing more about the timeline its hard to say how much they spent on SLKR, but $20k is a little high just to get that team to that point. he could have come back months ago and been working solely on this, yes spending, but it wouldn't need to be $20k.
Stop confusing total wins and total battles
@TJax can you send us a screenshot of the total battles ?
I dont believe he is. he may have used the word battles, but the numbers he is referring to is the wins.
my shard is in a similar age and i'm at 8k area and 7.4k fleet wins. i would imagine my shard mates are in a similar range.
again, this all just points to them taking a break at some point.
in all honesty, i would suspect that a player being "placed into" this shard would post somewhere quicker after seeing his opponents than his opponents would, if that was the way shards worked. (which we know its not)
Here is the rest of the stats.
The only possibility is this player started the game and quit before they were eligible for ships, and then whaled significantly recently. They also must have had this account join TW for the zetas because they have 6 more than my alt account, and I have been at the top of my fleet shard, first to get ****, among the first to get negotiator, and never spend fleet currency on anything but zetas. Zetas became purchasable from fleet currency long after ships started, they could not have save up any other way without being assigned a ship shard.
Is your alt account as old as this account is because that could explain his extra Zeta's