Is it just me, or did the Arena get really competitive?
Prime Lorca
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So... I have this "strategy" in the arena. I find a rank where I think people won't attack me and I chill there. Usually I don't move much - 1,000ish places at most. Today in admiral division, I dropped 1,000 places, so I fought back up. Only to drop 2,000 places some hours later. I can't remember the last time I slipped that far. Then I saw another anecdote (Bylo) where a captain slipped further than normal.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
And did the top 1% just expand by a couple spots in the last couple days?
Is anyone else experiencing this?
And did the top 1% just expand by a couple spots in the last couple days?
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Sure would be nice if they expanded the top rewards a little to account for that. Plus more players having the most popular ships maxed, plus Garth of Izar to hit those top ranks. Just a thought.... Maybe give top 2% the top tier of rewards.
My free account has it worse. There I only want to stay around 6500 and have to play 7 or 8 times to manage it.
That seems like a fair assessment, <Tuvok> however </Tuvok>, for those of us that have made an effort to finish in the top 1% for the 120 schematics, it has gotten much more difficult in recent months, I believe that is the core of what @Prime Lorca of Izar is positing.
Garth has made a lot more people competitive.
Faction Events:
Players: DB should make rank rewards a percent like in Arena so adjusts for the change in participation.
Arena:
Players: DB needs to stop using the percent and expand the reward tier.
DB: So we should do what again? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Those two points are not mutually exclusive and seem to be a misrepresentation of what Lorca said. Asking if it makes sense to slide the bar from 1% to 2% in Arena is not the same as suggesting an abandonment of a percentage ranking system.
Like today, somehow I’ve stayed in the Top 1% while most days I’m kicked to ~1600-2000 by the middle of the day. So normally, I fight back just before the day’s switch over then fight for my position again for the rewards. That’s far from ideal/possible for everyone but it’s the best way to stay sorta stable.
Sure it does. When the number of players decreases and you then ask to increase the precent that implies you don't want a percent but a static number players getting they highest rewards. Of course no one complained when the players were increasing and the ranks grew.
Since I don't use anything but a phone, I guess I'm just speculating without evidence. But maybe...?
There's some nuance. Part of that is the schematics economy. It takes so daggon long to max out a ship that I'd like DB to throw us a bone.
There's also the decreasing participation in Arena over the past months. I don't see much decrease in event participation, but I'm pretty much never at the bottom so I don't know for sure.
I didn't expect this month to be any more competitive than last month. I think the same number of people would want Valdore schematics and this month's schematics. I think relatively few captains had either ship maxed when the month started. Personally, I find the Valdore more desirable, so I expected a bigger push last month.
That's how percentages work. But now that there are fewer people playing arena, you get people saying, "top 1% is less people, please make it top 2% so we get more people ranking at the top again." They don't actually want a percentage based rank, they just want more/easier rewards.
Since you seem determined to keep mentioning that, please at least get your facts right. I will quote the passage you are referencing to make it easier to review, and will italicize the bit it appears you missed:
You have made a very good point about an unintended consequence of raising from 1% to 2%, but it is inaccurate for you to say that anybody has made such a request as, "top 1% is less people, please make it top 2% so we get more people ranking at the top again." It was a suggestion, an idea, posted for the community to read and give feedback on, like you sarcastically did. Take comfort and be secure in your knowledge that your point was made, received, and has been accepted by the community.