RichinZhills
Corporal
The PvP arena is yet another aspect of the game I will no longer waste my time with. Sadly, after about 3-5 support requests with the same answer as usual, nothing changing and tickets just getting closed, I'm done. I don't think it even went past the level 1 support team as a mention to the developers.
As a qualifier, I have 16 worlds and I play most of them equally, Founder in two and leader in 3 others. I found FoE when Covid started, so I've been at it a few years now. I'm more into the challenge of events and getting them completed than the grind of GbG or GE. When I started the game polivation wasn't automatic and the hood had every Age available, so you got pillaged a lot by higher Aged troops. Come full circle now and it seems that my High Aged troops are now something to cry about. How it's so unfair that players who have parked in a certain Ages are getting pillaged by junior players who have them.
So back to PvP. I get it, a way to challenge other players and see how well you do against them. You set up a defense for other players to fight you and you get a choice of fighting 3 different players from the same, higher, or lower Ages. Fair enough, except if you have higher Aged units. For the past 3 months I've basically been give the choice of about 14 different players in the top tier to fight. Points sometimes range from 375 to 474. So in 5 battles, that could be close to 500 points I lose. As for players attacking me, facing my defenses? None, I haven't been attacked in close to two months, So that's probably another 1-1.5k I don't receive daily that other players probably count on.
So gone is the challenge of fighting different players and seeing different names show up. Sometimes I get the #1 player in Progressive 15 times in a row, even if I hit the refresh button each time I can. It seems that when she's #1 in PvP I get shifted to the #1 in Contemporary, but if she drops to #2, she's my only selection until she grabs #1 again. She uses Oceanic Troops and I get about 380 points for those fights. At least with Contemporary I get 475 and I'm only fighting a fast & heavy with 6 rogues. Can't even begin to figure out how the points are backwards on that. A Copter/Tank/rogue combo beats out CRABS/Turturrets/Rays just doesn't seem right. But there you have it, I have the same #1 opponent, two Ages higher than I am that I get locked in with, for lower points facing units 5 Ages higher than a contemporary player. Not being attacked at all and no support or even consideration when I open a ticket up.
And for what, a 20% chance at 30 diamonds after a week? I spend 75 a day just collecting from all my cities. So to me it's broke and it doesn't seem it's important enough to fix. And how you might add could it be fixed? Hell, it's PvP, take out any kind of matching algorithm and grab any player from that Age. They signed up for PvP, they know they'll get attacked, they signed the waiver, and so what if I beat them with whatever troops I have. Still a lot more fair than giving me the same opponent that I beat 5 times in a row where they get to be the only player losing points. Spread it around so no one player is singled out.
As a qualifier, I have 16 worlds and I play most of them equally, Founder in two and leader in 3 others. I found FoE when Covid started, so I've been at it a few years now. I'm more into the challenge of events and getting them completed than the grind of GbG or GE. When I started the game polivation wasn't automatic and the hood had every Age available, so you got pillaged a lot by higher Aged troops. Come full circle now and it seems that my High Aged troops are now something to cry about. How it's so unfair that players who have parked in a certain Ages are getting pillaged by junior players who have them.
So back to PvP. I get it, a way to challenge other players and see how well you do against them. You set up a defense for other players to fight you and you get a choice of fighting 3 different players from the same, higher, or lower Ages. Fair enough, except if you have higher Aged units. For the past 3 months I've basically been give the choice of about 14 different players in the top tier to fight. Points sometimes range from 375 to 474. So in 5 battles, that could be close to 500 points I lose. As for players attacking me, facing my defenses? None, I haven't been attacked in close to two months, So that's probably another 1-1.5k I don't receive daily that other players probably count on.
So gone is the challenge of fighting different players and seeing different names show up. Sometimes I get the #1 player in Progressive 15 times in a row, even if I hit the refresh button each time I can. It seems that when she's #1 in PvP I get shifted to the #1 in Contemporary, but if she drops to #2, she's my only selection until she grabs #1 again. She uses Oceanic Troops and I get about 380 points for those fights. At least with Contemporary I get 475 and I'm only fighting a fast & heavy with 6 rogues. Can't even begin to figure out how the points are backwards on that. A Copter/Tank/rogue combo beats out CRABS/Turturrets/Rays just doesn't seem right. But there you have it, I have the same #1 opponent, two Ages higher than I am that I get locked in with, for lower points facing units 5 Ages higher than a contemporary player. Not being attacked at all and no support or even consideration when I open a ticket up.
And for what, a 20% chance at 30 diamonds after a week? I spend 75 a day just collecting from all my cities. So to me it's broke and it doesn't seem it's important enough to fix. And how you might add could it be fixed? Hell, it's PvP, take out any kind of matching algorithm and grab any player from that Age. They signed up for PvP, they know they'll get attacked, they signed the waiver, and so what if I beat them with whatever troops I have. Still a lot more fair than giving me the same opponent that I beat 5 times in a row where they get to be the only player losing points. Spread it around so no one player is singled out.