💬-events-feedback

[candid torrent]

Because we are still before that date. 🙂

[left marlin]

No Gwen Demarco shards in the Event Store 👎👎

[novel mango]

<@&509690795536941056> is there comp chest coming for those who couldn’t log in and fell down the event leader boards because of it? I was in second in one and fell to fourth big difference in rewards.

[rough ravine]

The only Vindicator ship I recognize is this one (Gotta admit, got a little excited for the crossover, Lol):

[novel mango]

If they make a game like the old empire at war I am out of here.

[opaque hawk]

Can we get confirmation that the calendar is correct and Echos of War is FKR for 20-60 (last month 50+ was xindi for it)

[rough scarab]

Whales were probably complaining they couldnt dominate the slb even more than usual so the FKR switch 😂

[quaint burrow]

Why are you giving g2 resources as mission rewards on an ops 40 plus mission? Make it make sense

[full swan]

Yeah lemme raise this.

[left marlin]

@full swan will Scopely do anything to assist players like myself who dutifully did all their Syndicate XP turn ins shortly after Event reset, but BEFORE the new Events went live, almost an hour late? We still haven’t gotten any points towards the Syndicate: Ascended Shadows (Heroic) SMS. Will this get resolved or are we just SOL cuz Scopely couldn’t roll out new Events in a timely manner? Thank you 🖖

[full swan]

Maybe ping support and see if they can take a look. Esp. if turned them in when reset should normally occur.

[left marlin]

Already done. But the Tribbleshooting bot is an exercise in sheer frustration and I know CS is probably swamped atm cuz of the (far too) numerous glitches. I’ll be shocked if I get a response before the Syndicate Event ends tbh. So I was hoping you would have some news about this, since I’m sure there are many players in same predicament as myself

[ruby ivy]

I am f2p and there has always been at least one thing i have been pleased with and looked forward to pushing for in the arc event store, but with this one wow there is just a lot of "meh". Even when it was just officers it was at least game changing officers, these are just way too niche.

[ashen ice]

Can we please get proper 60+ content in the event store. Only 💩 there. No G6 ship BPs, no G6 cloaking, etc.. pathetic

[novel mango]

<@&509690795536941056> I have been vocal on my discontent so I want to be fair. Thanks for making sure all got the golden 3 day shield!

[full swan]

Yup! Glad we could do that too!

[paper viper]

where are the BP's for the vindicator?? I don't see them in the faction store

[molten marlin]

f2p path is next month

[hollow pier]

This needs to be fixed too...

[sand willow]

where r the charged nanoprobes for ship parts in event store?

[molten marlin]

Once you build the talios, you don't get them anymore, it's for the vidar only.

[past shadow]

a fantasy ship and fantasy officers, which have nothing to do with Star Trek ... if you want to kill this game , go on. If you are lacking of ideas, maybe because nobody of you ever watched Star Trek at all. or didn't go further than TOS - what about Prodigy? Never heard of that? Then google ^^

[ivory cape]

Been waiting for any kind of feedback and still nothing, are y'all just going to skate over the alliance tournament rewards issue where people who were relegated to a lower league got rewards from both leagues, thereby earning more than alliances that maintained master league status? So should we all just be aiming to get relegated instead in order to maximize rewards? @full swan

[full swan]

I heard something about this...Lemme see what I can find out.

[manic sinew]

What do we get for being Scopely playtesters for the new Arena stuff? We're literally doing that part of the job for them to the point that they think it's a good thing and we should be happy about being used.

[twin nest]

Also, is the test going to consume tokens, give rewards???

[vagrant arrow]

Will the arena battles have a consolation prize for the losing team?
i.e. can we just join, ignore it and then collect the loser prize once it's done?

[molten marlin]

you lose arena ranking, but will still get emblems

[true hare]

but in the store you unlock more rewards both by increasing the faction rep and by getting higher rank

[vagrant arrow]

Will we be able to join the arena battle solo or with an incomplete team or will it wait till there's a full group before pairing?

[molten marlin]

Cannot join unless team is full, there is no matchmaking for your team. The queue is like a wave, but alliance only

[forest hedge]

@full swan The mirror wave still like this, how do u expect our player to do even 1x of syndicate milestones, even after maintenence its still buggy

[little plover]

Same in gorn

[next hemlock]

same in mirror space ^

[lucid idol]

<@&509690795536941056> the scoring for the solo armada damage slb is NONSENSE. I have done extensive testing using 1, 2 and 3 ships. 1 ship provides by far the least points, there seems to be no discernable difference between 2 or 3 ships. But regardless there is a HUGE variation in scoring for the same ships vs the same armada. I can get anywhere between 13bn and 53bn points for a rare borg 60 solo. Who does the maths at your place, seriously?

In addition, the fact we are now two maintenances deep in as many days and the above issue (blinding display issue in waves) is still ongoing is RIDICULOUS, get it together for the love of god 💩

[opaque hawk]

we got dropped from expert to adept even though we were 8th in our bracket and above the line, and only got the rewards from adept 8th place...

[next hemlock]

i bet it comes from the extra damage when you have a weapon with multiple shots, and you kill the sphere, all shots still fire, dealing pure hull damage, without any form of mitigation ( atleast not in the logs ) and it just spams "Destroyed" a few times. ( and by this analogy if you have a titan with max fortify and the right research, you can double your shots, and maybe your points ) it would also explain your randomness, because i bet you have a ds9 crew in there with obrian, and he doesnt always trigger / modify the number of shots

[pale mulch]

I asked this earlier but it has been deleted and I don't know why??? Why are the things you need to get to upgrade your new ship the Vindicator Taking 1 week?

[surreal monolith]

It hasn’t been deleted, it’s in #🏆-event-chat where you left it 🙂

[pale mulch]

For some reason that Tab disappeared but thank you

[pale mulch]

This screenshot of it and I can't find it until I click your link?

[iron python]

You appear to have the feature on where it collapses channels that don't have a new message.

Event chat is up in the Neutral Zone...

Yours is the last message in the channel so it hasn't lit back up yet.

[pale mulch]

This is what I see after I click your Link That's why I said it disappeared

[lucid idol]

<@&509690795536941056> still radio silence regarding how this fault is still a thing, you planning on giving us an eta on a fix? I'm out of mirror tokens and there's no way I'm risking an epileptic fit trying to do a MU wave with this madness

[near saddle]

We get your side here, Johnny. Unfortunately, we don’t have an ETA on a fix yet.

[lucid idol]

A token gesture of some MU credits would be nice please if that is the case, I'm sure most people would agree. I think we've reached a point where a bit of compensation is due 🙂

having said that, trell-a would be nice too since I can't go into mirror universe without getting a headache either

[opaque hawk]

wooow, so yesterday, Away teams for arc, today away teams bp,
today Gorn Arc event, tomorrow Gorn thursday.....

[covert zephyr]

Can someone look at tying the tier to the payout on this like other more recent ship parts options in the shop? This is no use to a T8/T9 Nx

[fresh frost]

this arrow, next to 'The Neutral Zone' - tap it so it points downwards. You've collapsed it at some point which is why it's not showing channels with no new messages

[novel mango]

Maybe add the Augur TOS skin to the event store sometime, it’s always just TOS Enterprise.

[uncut cloud]

This lag is making it hard to play. Trying to kill Gorn hostiles and when I see a hostile, get to it, it's already dead because someone else was hitting it. Ships are moving slower than normal or not at all.

[median tapir]

What we want to know is whether there's a free way to unlock the new ship, with a timetable for it. Why it's not included every time a new ship shows up is beyond me.

[molten marlin]

f2p next month, no details yet

[flat coral]

I'm speaking on behalf of the like dozen or so members of my alliance who are all very unimpressed with a UI change since the update yesterday. Now, whenever we get rewards for a milestone for an event, it just says "Daily Goals Claimed" and shows you your rewards, but it doesn't say what event. The only indication that it was for an event is that you get the popup from clicking on the event button. I want to know what event I'm scoring in without having to search through my events 600 times a day. Please for the love of God put this back the way it was.

[molten marlin]

The daily goals thing should be fixed on tuesday.

[flat coral]

I didn't see anywhere that they said they were fixing this so as long as they put it back, we're good. The dozen or so players who have complained in AC about this represent about 20% of my alliance and one of those players is a video game designer by trade. He's actually probably the one who is the most annoyed by this just because it's his actual job. He seems to be faster to get annoyed by things being busted in game if he knows it's a simple thing, so I'm assuming this is a relatively simple thing. There are other times things break in game and he'll explain to us that this is a bigger fix and will take time and then we're like "cool. I'll just report this then."

[pale mulch]

Thanks, I didn't notice. 👍

[keen egret]

No, this should have been fixed yesterday... just saying.

[molten marlin]

Should've been fixed before that, just relaying what I know

[cinder grotto]

I don't understand the Gorn Hunter event Unstable Discoveries: Fractured Hegemony. I killed level 60, and 61 Gorn Hunters in Nerokira hours ago, but I have no score in the event. The event specifically says L60 and 61 Hunters should score 3400 and 5500 points, respectively. I killed them 3.5 hours ago, so this doesn't seem to be lag. I woudl like to kill even higher levels, as I will have to kill about 58 hostiles to finish the event with just level 60s.

[civic warren]

Scopely pls add the discovery section 31 refit to the event store. its been over a year since i get to unluck some shards in a event store but never get to finish it. This month is hopefully the month for it! 🤞

[lofty glen]

Matchmaking for arenas is as 💩 as expected. Team with highest ops of 57 gets matched up with a team with highest ops of 63? Gotta wait 2mins for each ship to repair without the arena speedups 🙄

[cold grotto]

Explain to me Scopely how a match in arena with a team of ships under 300 mil each with a team of ships all over 5Bil or more is a Fair match?

Scopely crap strikes again

[austere mortar]

<@&509690795536941056> i read the vindicator event should be on thursdays. thursdays is already 1) grind eclipse 2) grind gorn.

Why can’t the vindicator event be on a monday when the event is mining? why overload thursdays so hard?

[errant wind]

What about the 2 minute plus repair , we ended up with no ships in the event as a ops 66 wiped them all out , this is badly flawed big time

I had to watch and do nothing to help as they where slaughtered for over 2 minutes , was all over

[hallow trellis]

Would recommend team matching based on average team power as opposed to alliance power, players ship power varies alot even in the strongest alliances, it should be more inclusive. I would also like to see if disabling buffs all together would make matchups more competitive, I'd also like to see collective armada directives for the group i.e more roles based member strategy, the team's assigned grinder collects directives for the whole group and any team member can then run it.

[pseudo lion]

Fid the APAC beta for Arena. Hated it. Lag was the worst I've ever seen. Matching is bad. We were matched against opponents way higher than us. We were wiped out in the first minute abc then spent w minutes per ship in the penalty box called repair euth no way out except time expired. The Armadas went crazy and didn't conclude snf just hung open. All of them. Event worse than the bad experience I anticipated.

[icy marsh]

doing the arena and it pulling all your miners off nodes and returning them home is utterly annoying...

[icy marsh]

you can't mine and do the arena at the same time as it'll pull all your miners (like it does in incursions)

[hot pelican]

The 2 minute repair timer needs reducing drastically for the arena

[errant wind]

Get rid of it

[austere mortar]

same issues with the grind events then if that’s the case.

[shadow trellis]

So don’t do arena during lat rush 🤣

[zenith ivy]

ARENA Feedback, APAC server 188
from an active 82 player alliance
ops bands to join a squad too constrictive, leading to players unable to join squads who wanted to and unfilled squads waiting ages to get full, most didn't get full and abandoned. We had a L67 player who couldn't join any squads but his own and nobody could join him.
You have to remember that APAC has players from ALL timezones on the planet, both northern and southern hemispheres, so getting 5 players together is one thing, getting 5 players of similar Ops levels together is much much more difficult.
You probably need to open it up so squads are not necessarily all from the same alliance and also change the ops limitations. As a L53 player, if I want to play with a friend who is L67 then you should be able to facilitate that. I can do armadas with him, I can do waves with him, should be able to go to arena with him.

[lean cargo]

As a L53 player, if I want to play with a friend who is L67 then you should be able to facilitate that
Disagree with this bit. There's no 'playing' with those ops difference. Only getting carried if they're on your side or getting slammed if they're on the other. You can't compete if you're up against people who have ships in the grade above yours.

[icy marsh]

Feedback:
Arena PVP is, unsuprisingly, incredibly unbalanced if the ops band is too big. There's very very little way for someone to kill one faction ship tier above him (unless he's very high tiered vs newb next tier) and pretty much impossible for someone 2 tiers down. Is a 20m saladin gonna do well against a 250m g4 corvus? Is a 250m corvus gonna do anything against an 1 bil rotarran.

However since its restricted to alliance, the band has to be big otherwise unless you're in a HUGELY ACTIVE BIG alliance, you'll pretty much never fill it out. I'm on a top 3 alliance in an OK server and most likely we'll see 20-40 players AT MOST active at a time. You spread those out across 40-60+ ops ranges and its gonna be a nightmare to get 5 people all willing to do at the same time. You go to a smaller alliance and its a dead feature most likely.

How to fix this? I have no idea - there's too much fundamentally broken with the PvP foundations that anything you'll do is just gonna be a tiny bandaid on a fatal wound.

[lean cargo]

Best thing that can be done is to open the squads up for the whole server (not just the alliance) and close the ops brackets with a restriction to one specific grade. Might make for some long queue times in APAC but otherwise it's just a coinflip on whoever has the higher ops player.

[terse pewter]

matchmaking should be done by amount money spend

[spiral grove]

Feedback about Arena:
Is it possible to reduce the squad size to 3 instead of 5 so that it is easier to fill the spaces?

[zinc heath]

This is for the Arena: It is fun, but I encountered an error 0, Screen lock which required a re-start. Also the match just showed 3 players when the match started.

[mortal tartan]

Matchmaking is crap, and the massive ops level ranges on teams is a joke.

2 min repair timer is too long - if it was reduced to 1 minute it would be a more engaging event, and less one sided.

Every single match I played had about an 800 point difference one way or another, because once one team gets the upper hand and takes out all the enemy ships it's game over, they can't recover.

There were no close matches, you either stomp or get stomped. This tells me there is a flaw in the balance.

Plus the obligatory bugs and glitches - ships being stuck in warp, lag, being booted out of your own armadas.

[lucid idol]

<@&509690795536941056> still no mention of mirror waves fix eta? or any compensation for the lack of them. It's a pretty important part of my daily game play to be able to pull things from the s31 store, and I've been dry of mirror universe credits for 2 days, with absolutely no info on when I'll be able to stock up again. I'm sure this is the same for others, and for a game where daily pulls are quite important, this isn't really an acceptable level of service. Can you please at least give us some form of feedback on what is being done? I also think it's time we got a compensation chest for it please, this is a long time to be unable to use a pretty significant part of the game...

[stray oriole]

Already looking forward to the roll out on the EU servers.. seems to go down as another failure. Just like alliance tournament and a lot of the other new stuff. Small alliances already have trouble filling armadas and often have to go solo or with two or three. Seems to be a good idea to set it open for the complete server (like waves), 3 players, shorter repair time 30s max 1 min and with smaller ops ranges. LLP.

[true hare]

Seems a bit odd to allow you to get points for the vindicator weekly event since you cant even get the event without vindicator.

[cold sandal]

'Destroy federation hostiles'…todays event…who's that supposed to be?

[sinful stratus]

The armada assault slb is pointless for level 50s lumped in with the 60+ crowd.

[icy marsh]

wait what? the 50s are with the 60s again??? last month the echoes event had 50-60 doing xindi armadas, how come its changed so much this month.

[terse pewter]

Is consistency in quality drivinf the game

[vale harness]

So will there be some sort of PVP balance during this Arena thing or will 60’s an 70’s be in there demolishing the lower lvl players?

[icy marsh]

i think you already know the answer to that question

[vale harness]

I do 😂

[regal oxide]

<@&509690795536941056>
Current G6 player armada event. This is a PAY only event.
You would need to buy 2 packs simply to complete/score in this event that rewards store credits…..the same store that has literally nothing for players in the g6 economy??

You honestly must have some very thick “whales” if they engage in this rubbish.

[lucid idol]

if half the whales on my server are anything to go by, most of them are very thick 😂

[lucid idol]

The whole reason they're trying to force us all to participate in PvP is to try and force more spending, it's a well known fact that pitting players against each other encourages higher spending, it's the same reason incursions exists. They want it to to be unfair, they want the person who has paid the most to upgrade their ship and paid for the most PvP primes to crush everyone else, because odds are at least one of the people they face will be encouraged to do the same. I don't bother with PvP primes, and I never will, because PvP is god awful in this game.

[vale harness]

This is why I do not participate in any PvP events. Kinda sucks balls getting blown up by an ops 70. I cannot compete against a 300 billion powered ship.

[hard plume]

same me, here is no PVP implemented which is depended by brain, only by wallet. so no intrest in any arena match, or waste anything for the mirrorfaction if it can not be gained by pve

[cinder current]

Unbalanced fights as already noted - either huge win or huge loss. Band needs to be narrowed. Also I was in a tc defense when a match was started. I received no points for the time my ships had been in tc. Assume ships mining would be similar - what happens to cargo?

[soft agate]

So if my math is right. Have to do 42 of these because the vindicator can’t reach systems with level 60 armadas.. Are y’all nuts

[vale harness]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-oh-yes-yes-o-yeah-yes-no-yes-go-on-yea-yes-gif-14382673246413447193

[karmic isle]

I do not have the dimensional breach event that others have. Appears that only those players with the vindicator can see this event ?

[soft agate]

@full swan so i bought a ship that i will never be able to upgrade… please have someone look into this insane scoring

[molten marlin]

yes

[soft agate]

And then can’t complete an event to upgrade it weekly as that’s the only way to source the upgrade parts

[astral talon]

Why not just do FKR solos the normal way? Granted it’s still gonna be about 10 of them, but better than 40 Doms. Next week, it’ll definitely be completable after you’ve got 2700 Unc FKR solo directives. (And you’re right about the warp range on the Vindicator. It sucks and should be fixed, but you def don’t have to limit yourself to 60’s). EDIT: Also, Vindicator can be Disco’ed to Dom solos and holds up pretty well so won’t need to be repaired too much

[soft agate]

I get 3 a day and have to do 3 a day to keep up with the daily pulls…. They are not being saved for a week at a time nor should anyone be forced to

[astral talon]

Perhaps, but if they don’t make a change, you still don’t have to choose. You’ll def have to slow down for 6 days, but 3 FKR’s/day or 9 FKR’s every 3 days is the same thing. You could easily do 2/day and bank 6 so you have 9 next Thursday. Then you plan for Thursday. Run 10-12, stock up on the same amount of credits, pull the same amount of chests, but also get the Vindicator SMS done. Or just run 20-30 Dom solos. Maybe Scopely will change this, but I’m not holding my breath. 20 minutes of Dom solos wasn’t too bad, but I’m def going to pull slightly fewer chests this week so I can shift to FKR solos as I push deeper into G6

[soft agate]

It’s a PITA but it did reach bajoran 60 solos.. so thank you for that suggestion

[astral talon]

Glad it worked. I’m right there with you for a better option (or fewer points to complete or whatever), but I do think trying to slowly shift to doing FKR’s will be the best solution long-term. A man can only do so many solo Doms 😂

[reef hull]

@near saddle Hi 👋 just my feedback from my little corner of APAC server 201. We're enjoying the event but the ops lvl restriction is difficult for the few big whales we have. People are thinking, that to participate, they may have to move to an alliance with more whales.

Could it be an option to loosen up the ops lvl restrictions and to instead, incorporate a restriction on the power of ship they can send?

Cheers

[keen egret]

"I find your suggestion intriguing. Can you please explain how it will generate more revenue than the current configuration?"

-Scopely management

[rocky sierra]

Can’t finish Dimensional Breach scoring isn’t functioning properly ran 3 federation armadas and two solo dominion and no points

[rich bough]

Seems you can't speak the truth on these platforms

[zenith carbon]

or instead of creating a squad which is only open to ops levels 7 lower than them, they join a squad.
Ops 67 creates squad -> ops 60+ can join
Ops 60 creates squad -> ops 53 - 67 can join
ofc if not being "in charge" is a problem then that won't help

[gusty robin]

Regional SLB for FT, hard pass.

[worn wolf]

Alliance help don't count for event

[left marlin]

<@&509691205798592532> You know, back when Ticket Events first came out, they put 1 shard of one of that month’s Officers in the top Milestone for each Ticket Event. And when Blue Ticket Events first came out, there were multiple shards. I highly doubt it would impact your pack sales at if you brought this back. And I think it would be a great and easy to implement goodwill gesture towards your players. Thank you 🖖

[fading basin]

I still think removing event store currency from ticket events is wrong , i know this has been carried out for the last couple of event stores but i am asking you to return to the old model thanks

[sinful heart]

Why not both? I mean seriously, doesn’t cost them a dime.

[copper shadow]

well if they put event store currency back in ticket events 1. They'd have more packs bought for event tickets because people would be doing them everytime. 2. Things they claim ftp can get would actually be true and could be achieved by ftp. 3. They could garner a lot of goodwill with the constant bugs/glitches that get introduced every month and only 5% of them get fixed.

[fresh monolith]

event scoring by epic armadas. ...epic armada respawn time: 2 weeks each? 🤨 🥱 😴

[cold sandal]

https://tenor.com/view/its-a-mess-seth-meyers-late-night-with-seth-meyers-its-a-disaster-a-travesty-gif-20021430

[vagrant vale]

Pinched from memes section

[odd shuttle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8GKHDmMUwg

[vagrant vale]

Probably need to sell a few more grabhammer packs to speed players up to higher levels, if the 7 level range is going to be an issue for the next feature, sell the solution 💰💰💰

[vale musk]

OPS 53 in a bracket with an OPS 65 is... 💩 Scopely!

[crisp patio]

Except the issue is for the higher ops players so rushing up isn't a solution it makes it worse. My alliance has 3 people entirely out of range of everyone else

[zenith flicker]

Congratulations on making the cheapest arc out there. Nobody ever asked for regional events and especially not for the whole first half of the arc.

Why is the best prize for one person when you've joined 100 servers? So give out 100 first place prizes you cheap folks. Where are the refits and skins we've been asking for in the store?

Why are y'all so cheap with the prizes when you clearly put us all together. Man alive you know why only a dozen or so folks bought the new ship on each server cause it's a loop in a loop to upgrade AND it doesn't appear to have any value to this whole arc's main mechanic release.

[left marlin]

For cryin’ out loud Scopely! Can we plz just go a couple months without an increase in the Milestones for the Heroic Officer Recruit SMS?! We don’t care how much more mats are being put in packs each month. Most of us don’t buy those overpriced packs. And there’s no way the increases of refined mats in the packs and especially in the Battle Pass can justify these kinds of frequent and excessive Milestone point increases! You’re killin’ us Smalls! 🤦‍♂️👎

[novel mango]

They don’t care.

[high aurora]

<@&509690795536941056> Cosmic Cleanup store is missing <@&509691205798592532>

[lucid idol]

Moderators have no power over these things, dunno why people keep tagging them 😂

[high aurora]

They have the contacts if the CM is not around to pass along the information to Scopely

[keen egret]

Is anyone else missing the cosmic clean up options in the event store?

[shadow trellis]

Everyone is

[humble sleet]

The overall idea I think it good, however the lack of transparency and the fact zero people from my server showed up in the top 100 so it was impossible to guess that the bracketing was very disappointing.

[zenith flicker]

I'm with you but I'm tired of giving credit for ideas and half arsed activities. You don't get a gold star cause the idea or the thought or the intention were good. You don't get an "attah boy" cause of positive intent. We need to stop normalizing the pros or positives are what matter when things are half baked.

Scopely isn't a child needing gentle parenting, they're a corporation putting out mediocre or problematic content on the regular.

[humble sleet]

<@&509690795536941056>
So far disappointed with the new Regional SLB’s, “Arena Prep”, especially the “Supremacy - Regional SLB”….

The overall idea I think is great, like the “Echos of War” event and similar ones we’ve seen in the past Arcs it encouraged continued engagement, with significant rewards, however I have questions about the transparency, specially the bracketing **and what defines “Regional”

For example As a mid 40’s seeing the winner at 140m+ “power gained” (which would be over 9.3333m in research**) and a few others in the 100m range there is a bit of shock.
To even place in the top 100 i would have to score another 13m in points which feels like an intimidating amount of research or construction, and that’s considering the 17m power score I had at only 199th place.

For perspective I had quickly gone from OP’s 42 to 44 on the last Arc and there was a ton of high value research for me to do, to say nothing of my mostly untouched ExBorg faction favors I invested in for this event.

So again it makes me question both the bracketing of it and how someone in the 40’s was able to gain 140m+ power in 48 hours.
(Yes I’m sure it was a whale, but that is still a questionable amount of gained power if the bracketing was in any way reasonable).

Oh as a side note no one from my server was in the top 100 it’s impossible to even guess as the OPs breakdown…..

This is further demonstrated by the linked recruit Regional SLB today.
No one from our server shows on the Regional board, even with scores in the normal recruit SLB that would place in the top 10.

[half flare]

Not participating in the material spend sms due to the (very high) milestones relative to the (above average) value of the officer.

[half flare]

I’m told the regions are 1. North and South America, 2. Europe and Africa, 3. APAC. You’re probably running into an ops 40 something whale in a relatively new server.

[humble sleet]

Maybe, but also remember/want to say most of that research wasn’t in the 100k per research completion.

But that doesn’t answer why the regional linked spend event doesn’t show anyone from my server if those are the pools,

[spare shore]

Scopely PLEASE for the love of everything holy and unholy stop doing these gorn events. I know it's super easy for people who have the officers but those of us that don't and don't have the ship can't complete those

[keen egret]

Yeah, so you need to buy those officers. Then it's no problem.

-Sincerely Scopely 😋

[north granite]

That really is the lesson people should have learned long ago: spend or get out.

[astral talon]

No, they’re broken up a bunch. Might be Ops across regions. A select number of players from each server. Something. Folks on my server both above and below on spend SLB are not in my RSLB

[novel mango]

To tell Scope how we feel, not that Scope seems to care.

[open panther]

<@&509690795536941056> Please pass along some positive feedback with regard to the current arc events. Thank you for including the Unstable Discoveries daily quests to the arc. Yes, some folks are raging because they do not have the evicertor yet, but it's been available via the free-to-play grind for a few weeks. I like the Unstable Discoveries events because they are relatively easy to complete AND they double as things we would do anyway for our normal progression so it feels logical to complete them versus just doing grind events to complete the event itself and then having to do daily grinds on top of that. Also there are heroic events this month for the whales and big spenders to go after. Overall I think this month has been the most balanced event-wise in many years. Good job!

[small narwhal]

The ops bracketing is tighter I think. I don’t see ops 59s from my server on the rslb but do see the 57s (I’m 57)

[astral talon]

Yep, that could be it. I started this RSLB as 63 and I see the other 63’s when I scroll down. May be just one ops/bracket

[flint geyser]

Why did this change at reset, it went from ending in a few mins to a 3 day event??

[keen plank]

That has always been a 4 day event, maybe you are confusing it with the supremacy event that ended at reset?

[subtle oracle]

can we get a eta on Allaince tourdument please

[fluid gust]

Monday middle of the workday, brilliant timing... will it actually last long enough for people to get home from work?

[quaint parrot]

Community knows Arena Combat would start on Monday (tomorrow) five days ago, at least five days ago, and there is an in-game countdown for each client: on Monday with two mining events that community loves and I have not read any complains about this.

FYI, next Monday there will be another Arena Combat run

[runic meadow]

Mining Monday…………..the nodes are there 24/7/365. absolutely pointless event.

[shut wharf]

At least monday arena might free some nodes... but still midday PVP event feels strange, as if they did not want to have many testers??

[quaint parrot]

Mining Monday is pointless, you are right, and this is one event: the second one is more interesting.

So, let's mine Trellium hoping to stay alive and in the meantime let's mine latinum and complete BP event: is there enough time to play Arena Combat? I (me) don't know, I (me) don't care because I have not this problem.

[astral talon]

I'm guessing it will be impossible for Scopely to code Arenas in a way to leave miners out. They're likely doing a server transfer for each arena instance, and any ships left out make that impossible. I understand the desire to have both, but I imagine it would require a complete rewrite of a core backend mechanic... and we all know THAT ain't happening (and might well take the game down for 3 months if they tried, given their track record)

[mossy crystal]

i need the treasury event :S

[chrome oracle]

with all the changes made constantly to how events get displayed. How about just giving us an extra event view that shows all incomplete events. We go from some arcs where the ticket events are with SLBs only to suddenly another arc having multiple SMS but you have to click through all the categories to make sure you don't have one incomplete by mistake

[ocean crypt]

are we getting another spend trill token event or was the one we had it for the arc

[runic meadow]

You will find out after you spend them all.

[umbral ether]

Lost hirogen stopped scoring for me, anyone else? Update - I restarted my PC client and it auto-completed, just fyi

[earnest ginkgo]

Recruit Masriad Vael -SLB event has some random OP35 player mixed with OP20 players, seems a bit off

[hollow lichen]

Maybe a biiig spend who went from 20 to 35, you stay in the bracket you started in

[ripe elm]

Still no indication on how long arena events run for , have people trying to sort out alarms and lunchbreaks and if participating at all is doable and all could be for nothing if its over before they can get on.

[median loom]

Totally Stupid of scopely to run the Arena during the day on a week day. Don't they know their player base have jobs and that's the only way they can pay for the packs that Scopely need to sell to make an money

[stray plover]

@full swan Why is the event store purchase for only all 1000 Prime Syndicate XP particles? Is this just a mockery for those who purchased some but not all of the Prime Syndicate XP particles in the Alliance Tournament Store? How about selling them in packs of 100 limit 10 instead of 1000 limit one so some people don't have too many or offer a refund for the alliance store?

[strong ether]

@full swan They forgot the new Symbiosis // Part 2 officer avatars. Need to do this ASAP since the event is now running and ends tomorrow. Maybe they are releasing them a different way but usually an avatar is a reward for getting the new officer or placing in the events.

[plush fulcrum]

They can't run the event at the weekend, cos when it inevitably crashes and burns, there's nobody working at Scopely to fix it.
Plus, running it during the week means fewer people available to play, hopefully keeping the lag to a rating of terrible rather than unplayable 😀

[keen egret]

Terrible is the new normal. Arenas won't be improving that, methinks.

[ionic vault]

Arena SMS not giving any points

[cold grotto]

Arena started Pfft why bother, as usual Scopely can’t get anything right and the match ups are ridiculous so no point doing them. Alliance of 77 not participating as crap event. Why dont you try fixing other crap before introducing more broken crap.

[icy marsh]

Having players with g4 unc/rares going up against g6 ships....that's of course gonna be fun contesting for both sides...?!

[pseudo lion]

Matching for Arena combat still a problem. Seeing ships mire than 10 of range nit 7.

[molten marlin]

it's 7 of range of the host, not eveyone in the match, matchups use an average ops level and ranking metric

[pseudo lion]

Also, what happened to the event running a full day? Only running about half a day. My alliance members who are active in the first half of the day not given chance to participate. 😡

Average ops level my eye! My team of mostly mid to upper 40s with a 54 highest was put up against a team nearly all in the 60s. It was an insane wipeout. Must be fixed!!!!!! Or scrapped because I won't participate if it is as unfair as that going forward. Try using fairness as a guiding principle when matching. That's not what happened so far.

[molten marlin]

As ranks raise, the teams matchups will even out more. f2p players will start getting matched with more of their own, assuming there are any in range and queued.

[pseudo lion]

Assuming any non uber spenders are wanting to join!!! Be fair from the start or forget it! 😡

[vagrant arrow]

Anyone else having issues with the Arena SMS scoring?
Won 2 matches but only got points for one of them.

[mortal tartan]

Whelp, they managed to make the matchmaking even worse than it was in the trial...

[vagrant arrow]

Every match up is hugely lop sided one way or the other.

[spare shore]

Be glad you can even do them

Bc of slow mode I have to reply here but something is better than nothing even if if it's difficult

[twilit adder]

Be glad you can do broken content? Why?

[forest hedge]

the event milestone cannot be completed no matter how many arena has done

[silk harness]

1. Arena matching up with higher players always
2. Armada timer locks you out at 10 seconds (where is your common sense?) this isn't like normal armadas we're barely getting a chance to get one
3. I get the matchup is difficult to get right but at least have common sense with the other things
4. One of the arena matches my ships bugged & wouldn't move the entire time
5. SMS points not counting, should've finished it by now

[iron pivot]

6. lag

[serene falcon]

7. Lodge a ticket for non sms scoring ending in 3 hours, support says 72 hours for response 🤦

[iron pivot]

7. What's the point of having a uat if you ignore the testers?

[dusky arrow]

It's not possible to get the necessary players in our alliance together for a complete team in the arena in a just 8h time frame.
Make it open for the whole server like wave defence then you get activity in the arena.

[hollow lichen]

would be nice if the sms points worked

[unreal coral]

8 hour window starting at 11am (UK) is very narrow for those who work as it ends at 7pm, 10 hour would be better, also a slightly broader ops range would be better - maybe 9 levels

[leaden spoke]

So when i try to equip an arena group, the system says a player wt ops 56-70 is needed next (i am 63), but the 2nd best player in my alliance is 53. so i can not play arena, right? 😄 and to plan this whole arena thing in europe from noon to 8pm is a bad joke, the most players are at work most of this time

[unreal coral]

maybe a "scale back mechanic" -15% (or some sliding scale) to everything for every level you need to be artificially scaled down to reach highest ops range allowed

[lucid idol]

<@&509690795536941056> in what world is this fair matchmaking?

[hollow lichen]

why do we have to wait for the timer to deploy ships and then warp over? losing a few seconds because of it

[fluid gust]

the level restrictions are a problem...
our alliance can't make a team with our wide level spread.

[idle breach]

Scoplay you need to change the system and make it just like the wave, where everyone can join, or make it that the players from the server can join in your arena bracket.
I just left my alliance to join another alliance and I have the same issue ( lack of players active at the same time ).
Make it server open or alliance open and match people based on the total power in the arena.
This restrictions are a joke ……

[muted jewel]

Was willing to give it a try but impossible to get teams at this hour in EU and it only lasts 8 hours……

[patent sail]

<@&509690795536941056> is Arena really intended to only last 8 hours during working time on a work day? How should someone do it, if you too have to have members in your ops range?

[quaint parrot]

someone has answered to your question: matchmaking system needs more than one or two or three or etc. matchmakings. Next week the next run could have fairer rounds

[wide mason]

Agree, this basically prevents me playing as the whole thing is running while I’m at work.

[ashen urchin]

can't even participate in this arena event because guild mates are too small......... only 1-2 players in my guild (of 73 members) will fall in my bracket.

[charred hazel]

Feedback: In Arenas 7 ops range makes it a little more competitive(like 1%), but seems pointless if the matched starters are different ops level

[heavy rock]

the arena is bad for europe, timing is bad,certainly for a working day,also as the level matching is very restricted, not just on ops lvl, which is ok if you got the numbers in your alliance, otherwise cannot do event, in affect another scopley fail, as they do not understand the lvl of players on each server or where. Would make more sense not to restrict to alliance only and agree matching is not great.

[outer verge]

12:00 in Germany... most are working... thats a event you can forget... and the lags are rediculesd

[charred hazel]

8hr window on a standrad business day 😂

[odd dock]

@near saddle we getting a comp chest for the new pvp arena mate?

i dont see how opening the arena during EU WORK HOURS is constructive. WE.. (as in players) need to work to earn money to spend. no money = no spend. Tell scopely to take their heads out you know where ty.

[austere mortar]

i was just about to mention the arena being primarily during hours when players are at work is HORRIBLE! Otherwise it is not (yet) the DoA mess i expected. But it’s buggy

[sand sky]

Guess the6 are hoping if they run it went most people are at work the lag won’t be too bad, then they can claim it as a complete success

[unborn linden]

and how are the players who play alone supposed to do the arena event???, that hasn't been thought of again

[molten marlin]

you don't

[zenith carbon]

can't have it both ways, either be a solo player or join an alliance
on the other hand... allowing solo players to be their own squad of 1 would make it easier for alliances of low ops to get wins 😂

[queen kindle]

Join an alliance if you want to play group content. The game's intended to be played this way, and if you purposely limit yourself to solo play, then you won't be able to experience all of the offerings.

[shadow flare]

If you have ops advantage you win.
If you don't, rarely worth trying.
This isn't a fun feature and not an example of 'quality over quantity' that we were expecting, it's literally rolling the dice to see if you have the highest ops player than the other group

My suggestion, make ship selection limited for each arena. G3/G4/G5/G6 ships only, higher rewards if you use higher grouped ships, and open up the ops range so we're not waiting around for the 5th person in your alliance to come online who's in the ops bracket you need

[idle breach]

Well I left one and joined a top 4 alliance on my server and still can’t do the event because of the ops restrictions and the time of day.
Any advice ? Guess not .

[honest pond]

some people are solo because some other people decided to push it that way...people with power here, in game and in scopely...just saying

[amber pilot]

Arena = probably the stupidest event I've ever seen. the side with the strongest ship wins, because he can easily intercept all the other ships as they fly in

[outer brook]

Yup, and the two minute repairs make it game over right away.

[green ibex]

Leave it to scopely to run an event only during day hours while people have WORK to do ! When I’m home the event is over 💪🏻😂

[unborn linden]

I didn't leave an alliance for nothing and continue to play alone, if you're going to do events then do it for all players and groups and not just for top alliances that invest money in the game

[barren arrow]

Why run Arena event in the middle of a busy working day???

[turbid haven]

Just open Arena like Waves, so you can gather from a bigger player pool.

[idle breach]

We can’t do it either, ops restrictions and time of day make it impossible.
I am beyond annoyed as I had to leave my guys and did it for nothing . 😡😡😡

[tiny orbit]

Seriously? This is just a joke, pure and simple... 8 o'clock and it started in broad daylight. I might not even get home from work when it's all over!

[green ibex]

Same here

[quaint parrot]

Simpauly has said your problems are noted. Then, arena combat is the first content in which players need other players to play, the first and the only one at the moment.

[oblique ridge]

Why on earth set EU Arena for 10:00-18:00 UTC?? No opportunity to participate by the time you get home from work, let alone have dinner.

This just doesn’t work mid-week, especially on a Monday - you can’t preload your miners for Lat Rush.

Very, very poorly thought out…if any thought went into it at all.

[grizzled crystal]

@near saddle the repair speed up should be standard and nothing you need to buy or limited on as it slows the fight.
Also the matchmaking needs to be adjusted e.g. a max ship level
As stated by all the above in that form the event will be dead

[south prism]

EU timeslot is really bad. The most people are working and have family time until 18:00 UTC
To add a EMS Event is also a fail.

[pseudo coral]

The arena is flawed. All ship speedups should be disabled or adjusted to a similar value. There needs to be adjustments so that a level 40 has some ability to compete with a 49. Power pickups, etc. potential is there but it's like playing an arena game where one side has pebbles and the other has nukes.

[clever sail]

[EU] This whole event launch is flawed. starts literally in the middle of people's workday, I won't be able to do anything for it till 16:00 UTC, which only gives me 2hours left to participate. Literally taking ppl's workdays not in consideration

[sand temple]

arena feedback without being able to play arena:

• Event only 8 hours. much too short -> there have to be other ways to get emblems for terran faction. Make Arena 24/7 like waves.
• Arena grouping should work like waves, so players from different alliances could work together.
• It would be nice to be able start if group is not full - better to loose arena than not to play at all!

[cosmic olive]

If you don't limit it to alliances, it would be more balanced. Just have a queue like in WoW Battlegrounds: only players of the same level (+-3) and rank are randomly assigned to the two teams.

[outer brook]

If one team has lvl 60 ships and the other does not, the fight is decided. Give us a forfeit button to deal with the thing you call matchmaking.

[wet grove]

No, Scopely, just no. You cannot match a group that is completely under 60 with a group that contains 2 60+. The "balance" of pvp in this game is so inexistent, that our players are declaring this feature dead on arrival while they are doing the first matches

[stark hamlet]

SMS event isn't scoring correctly- only getting awarded 10 points regardless of win or lose

[still gale]

also ems countet only first win i am missing points for second win and two times loosing till now

[outer brook]

Maybe go for server wide squads and strict level brackets along the ship requirements, like 46-49, 50-52, 53-55, 56-59, 60-62 you get the idea. And 24h at least.

[obtuse badger]

I would like to thank Scopely @near saddle for putting event credits behind an event where small alliances cant even participate in. Well done

[runic meadow]

You lost me at Lat rush😂😂😂😂

[stark hamlet]

Also, if you've got miners out in token space, do the arena, and you'll find your mining ships back at base when you return - bit of an issue with that!

[sullen coral]

This is probably the only feedback these "people" want to see. The rest is likely ignored.

[south prism]

It would be better if the group starter can choose a ship limit max. G3, G4, G5 or G6. So people with higher OPS can play with lower.

[digital pilot]

To sum it up in regards to arena :

• abysmal time window
• horrible matchmaking
• content based on an already hardly working or satisfying PvP system
• excluding not only players under 40 but a big chunk of alliances
• tying a faction shop to this utter nonsense

Can we have arena systems back ? At least for them it was easier to pretend they never existed.

[craggy elm]

<@&509690795536941056>

Here is some Arena Feedback

• Ship stuck during Arena pvp
• Soloarmada-Timer on 10 sec - ship still getting shot
• Ships with impulse crew glitching hard - hard to know where the ships are
• Directives for Survey kills ain't counting right. It's not always 25 per Freighter and 100 per Cruiser
• Ships sometimes ain't executing orders. Attacking a ship - red circle around enemy, no eta to enemy on ship.
• Matchmaking ain't good.

[inland karma]

I think scopely need to review the event timings, I work 12 hour shifts , no chance of completing the new arena event , congratulations scopely you must be all part time workers

[pseudo coral]

Reduce 2 minute repair/ remove all speedups/ all players should be equal / try playing an arena game for research?

[exotic wind]

Just echoing what others have already said - this is dead on arrival for me. Having it only available during an 8 hour window that exactly matches my working day means I can’t play, except for maybe a bit on my lunch break. But… it recalls all your ships, of which I currently have 2 in token space. And then to add insult to injury it’s tied to an sms awarding event currency.

[craggy elm]

Transfer stuck

[lean nacelle]

Thanks for nothing Scopely, arena with none to join, can’t finish sms or slb events for arena.

There is simply not enough ppl in alliance to join due to ops restrictions, this is just stupid..

[safe ether]

This new arena mode is only up for one day a week and in an 8 hour window? Whats the bloody point

[tiny orbit]

the point is in the suffering of the players. the developers do not benefit from us being able to quickly buy something from the Terrans

[still gale]

sms doesnt count right had 4 matchings 2 wins 2 looses and got only 40 points in sms should be if i read description right 100 points so only first matching (win) got counted

[raven oar]

yeah, it is really only designed to benefit the top alliances, where all players are roughly the same size. Our big players are rarely all on the same time, so I guess they miss out. Smaller players want to join in, but can't because of level restrictions. Creating a squad takes forever because people are busy and not all online.

[still gale]

even if i forget about all other problems (bad timeframe, bad matchmaking, excluding alot of players/allys) at least the points should count right in sms and so i ask my self they said first servers to run test will be apac did they get feedback or was apac unable to play couse of hurrican

[serene falcon]

APAC server here. Oh we played and we gave feedback but we got crickets.

[raven oar]

Strongly recommend opening up the squads to an entire server, similar to waves, and narrowing the bracket to make for fairer matching. I can't say this strongly enough, but as it currently is, it does not encourage players to engage with the event.

[open oxide]

Arena: the next big flop is born !

[odd dock]

scopley dont work weekends UNLESS somethings wrong with the store ... no surprise

[still gale]

exactly what i was thinking sorry about the part with the hurrican in my post

[weak crag]

Here is my humble opinion. If you are not sure if a new feature like arena works in a reasonable and fair way, please do not include it in an arc and give arc tokens as rewards. There will be a lot of frustrated players missing those tokens without any proper chance of getting them. And i am not talking here about the so called match making that pits ops 40 vs ops48. What exactly do you expect will happen?

[serene falcon]

All good. We are still leaving feedback on the APAC channel but personally I think it was just a ruse to make us think they actually would listen to the feedback by asking six servers to beta test. This is just another epic fail. Wait till you get stuck in the prep phase, that's a barrel of fun.

[deep halo]

FYI in Europ we are at work for like 6 hours on 8 of event @near saddle

[fallow bramble]

yup... its absolutely bs that its only 8 hours.... people work have famiies... diffferent time zones.... so not only are we limited to people in our own alliance, within 7 levels, we now also have to ensure people who are in different time zones all can be on at the same time... like no one works.

[raven oar]

and just looking at in game reasons...some alliances have territory takeovers during this time as well.

[still gale]

for the european servers it is on monday where ppl put often the miners in tokenspace couse of lat-rush but if you go to arena all ships are home again you dont loose only a good chance in lat-rush-event you also loose the tokens

[short ermine]

Missing points for an Arena win but points from losses seem to come OK 🤷

[still gale]

i miss points from one win and two looses got only from first fight (win) the points (in sms) (sbl seems to work normaly)

[quasi warren]

true, running an event from 12:00 to 20:00 isn’t sufficient for most people

[regal oxide]

Arenas: Ops 67 with a 10billion power cube in with ops 57 starter who had 1 ops 62 in his team.
Yeah why bother??

[desert nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/kid-sports-fail-golf-swing-gif-18301490 new arena feature

[ripe cairn]

Arenas. get rid of the repair timer and the repair tokens then it might be more fun getting swatted off a ship 10 times your power lol

[jolly temple]

There was nothing in the description to say level 40+ only my alliance was looking forward to the arena. With only 4 level 40+ players we are disappointed. And I agree the time factor is way out.

[grizzled crystal]

It doesn’t matter if you give feedback on events or in general. So many things have been addressed so many times and Scopley just doesn’t care about it.
They stated they have understood more quality over quantity and look what we get every single arc. More bugs than in Starship Troopers! And now that ridiculous matchmaking. Well the only thing they care is how many ppl paying for this poor content

[molten marlin]

Mitch Hedberg:: "That used to be me, still is, but used to as well"

[austere mortar]

<@&509690795536941056> this has been said multiple times. arena event ran during the time when most people are working. this is not just a slap in the face this is a kick to the teeth of those that play this game and were even looking forward to this event. This must be rectified!!!

[odd dock]

@near saddle all US players getting a comp ... but not all EU players? only affected eu players? eg only ones who participated?

as in those who didnt work today ?

ALL EU players should be getting a comp for the inappropriate participation time.

got to step on the average working man/woman/etc .... extremely disappointed
👎 👎 👎

[warped sluice]

8 hour event on EU during a working day who come up with that great idea 🤦🏼

[grizzled crystal]

https://tenor.com/view/scopely-does-not-care-we-do-not-care-gif-16666710433616706365

[austere mortar]

@near saddle comp chest for the regional arena even with only field rations? seriously? after scoring issues? i think i want a little of whatever you guys are smoking 😂

[idle ledge]

https://tenor.com/view/1inch-1inch-exchange-1inch-dex-defi-crypto-gif-24852783

[candid torrent]

Came to say the same thing.
What happened to the one day for Arena event, as was announced??
Some players start playing on the evenings.

[barren arrow]

One player in my alliance got 6k trill emblems in compensation, I got 2k emergency field Rations instead as I managed to get two milestones in the event.... Means I'm missing out on 4 5k trill emblems for the event store ... What gives <@&509690795536941056> ???

[terse pewter]

plus the field rations are waisted spend on chips and never received them btw it's still handing out september chips...

[cobalt echo]

When you reached the daily PvE cap, it is no longer possible to gain directives in Arena.

[molten marlin]

ew

[austere mortar]

two different comp chests

[odd dock]

you saying they remembered to issue last months comp chest? i thought the wait was going to be 2 years?

[round flume]

Again , why do you Beta Testing when nothing words once Release is there ? <@&509690795536941056>
Comp chest only for the participating Players on EU, when us will be given to all Players ? Common pls…

[cobalt echo]

<@&509690795536941056> Just so you have this bug on the radar.

[lone whale]

No way, you guys released yet another time consuming and complicated "feature" in the game when everyone's telling you to slow down and fix all the issues the game has and.... SUPRISE! It too has issues 😂

[inland goblet]

I don't know what part of the body content creators use to think, but it's clearly not their head.
How can you do an event on Monday, in the middle of a workday?

🤬

[molten marlin]

content creators have nothing to do with it

[proven sparrow]

<@&509690795536941056> How about a little balance in match making between the 2 starting Ops level players

[inland goblet]

Really?

1. It's a content.
2. Someone create it.
   => He (they) is (are) content creator(s)

[idle breach]

The brackets will balance themselves in time . Everyone starts in the same bracket at first, in time this changes .
The problem is the ops restrictions that prevent people from doing the event . I have high ops players leaving their alliances because they can’t participate, and this is outrageous.
Think for once devs, think ….
You allegedly tested this new feature…. Allegedly….

[amber pasture]

2 v 2 arena

[proven sparrow]

the poin system is just solo based so why do we need 5 people to join anway instead of solo queueing and joining random teams

[inland goblet]

Another question.

What should small alliances with a wide range of players by ops do?
If there is no physical possibility to collect a squad of five players?

All content passes by, right?
Brilliant. Simply brilliant!

[copper reef]

My feedback on this event - this is by far the best new event / mode Scopely have introduced in the 18 months I've been playing.
We've had some very close matches, including beating teams made up of 60+ players by our group of mostly 50+ players. With good tactics, this mode is a lot of fun.
Down sides and improvements:

• the lag is not great
• it's bad for the very low or very high in level in the alliance. Our level 67 can't find a match because he can't join the vast majority of us starting, if he starts, there aren't many 60-70 players online to join him
• timing is awful. Why run this for only a few hours during a work day?

Solutions:

• add a button for the person starting the arena to open up the slots to anyone on their own home server, that way the lowest and highest players might have a better time finding people their own level
• make this even a Friday night or Sunday day time event or something. Without high levels of participation and quick matchmaking, this mode will die out.
• the lag is a general issue. This game feels sluggish and buggy at best of times, but especially on a phone or during incursions. I'm not a coder so don't know what the solution is, but other similar games aren't like this, so suggest Scopely need to remove some of the bloat and inefficiency.

[next lion]

I just wanna say thanks scopely for introducing event myself and the few others in my alliance can never participate in without disbanding the entire alliance and join the people who don't like. Would be better to just quit and uninstall the game at this point as this is now the 3rd aspect of the game that we can't really take part in. Thanks scopely, really looking out for the entire community here, seriously, what's wrong with a duos or even a solos version, it's not that difficult since your power ranges mean the guy with the biggest ship usually takes everyone out anyway

[loud glade]

If you want to introduce a new feature, please don’t make it so that feature is only available during a limited period in the daytime on a workday. I had a brief period during the day when I could have participated, but then there were not enough other players online to form a squad as, shocker, they were working too. Then the event finishes during peak commuting time. I won’t be able to get back in game before the event ends, I won’t have then even seen how the new feature works. If you then DO put the event on at a playable time for most people, lots of us will be disadvantaged by not having participated before and knowing what to do or how it works.

[grizzled crystal]

I raised that question in August when there was still July in field rations. It’s only every 2nd or 3rd month where the tokens match the real month… I’d say cba but the lat rewards are 20% higher every month so typical Scopely

[obtuse badger]

My feedback is simple for the Arena ...... the list is too long with whats wrong with this piece of content

[grizzled crystal]

It will be buried soon as they won’t be able to fix the most important part which is matchmaking. So congrats to all players, especially those in US that never wasted time on arena.

[median loom]

Getting lots of Subspace comms errors in the arena. Had to restart 5 times in 1 battle. Also not always entering when it starts automatically. Now the timing - 8 hour event starting at 11am in the UK and ending at 7pm. Most people are at work and unable to compete

[grave matrix]

Yay more garbage roll outs! Keep it up, Scopely! Where quality is job 💩

[winter narwhal]

Arenas is DOA for me, can't get a squad together because I can't get enough players of my range online at the same time BECAUSE THEY HAVE JOBS AND FAMILIES

[main tendon]

Common sense when designing this matchmaking? Was it used at all?

I’m all for SBMM but you cannot be putting people in completely different ship brackets. Absolutely wild that someone who’s just got a 42 is put against a Sanctus? Dev team - use your brain????

[dark jewel]

<@&509690795536941056> why not move the starbase into the Arena?

[proven sparrow]

This is so stupid, I want to do some arena but ther eis 4/5 people in my ops range online that can join yet we cant start or do anything

[winter narwhal]

I've gone from excited about a fun way to do pvp to frustrated and bummed out because I literally can't play it because the event timing is stupid 🙃

[twilit adder]

Not sure why anyone got their hopes up, almost all of the major changes for years have been busted

[wide dagger]

Event timing crazy in the week and only 8 hrs. Come on scopley engage your brain

[sullen coral]

<@&509690795536941056> Some positive feedback re:Arena. EU server 403. Our alliance managed to participate in the arena. We found that it was stable & performed as expected. The matchmaking was a little skewed.....but that was both in our & the opponents favour through the matches. We weren't always the much weaker or stronger team. The sms didn't score at first, but seems to have caught up. Overall, we quite enjoyed our first foray into the new content. 👍

[plush roost]

💩

[candid torrent]

Arena – and again, something against small alliances.
We have 4 people above op. 40. We thought, nevermind, we try it. Even managed to be arranged at the same time.
4 people cannot start anything.
And even worse, our levels between 40 and 49, that is not even one range.
With these strict rules, why is it forced to make the squad only inside one Alliance? This could be similar as waves – cooparate with other players on server. (With group chat option! That is a pain point during waves.)

[lavish lantern]

my team was in brackets OPS 41-55....i'm OPS 49.....how does player from OPS 41 can compete with players from OPS 55? we need better matching for that...

[civic warren]

Quality over quantity and we keep getting stuff that is DoA... lagg, not counting points propperly and matchmaking is a joke. Limited availability during bad hours.
Where is the quality besides in the trash

[tribal kindle]

yes g4 matching with g5 & g5 with g6 players is a bit lame. one player can just own the entire board which makes Arena no fun (i do like the idea but it needs finetuning). also the timing is waaayyyy off

[dry dew]

Small players in the group have no chance, only if the opposing team has no clue what they are dooing.

[scarlet escarp]

Why limit time to do areana to 9 hours?! Just why? Don't want any other answer other than why.... Oh my

[hollow lichen]

nice to get abysmal lag now that EU after work is trying to get stuff done too

[scarlet escarp]

Actually seething

[median loom]

Just had multiple ships stuck in warp during the arena. That makes it game over.

[fluid gust]

should work fine as long as the matchmaking accounts for the squad's peak power.
i had a lot of fun doing them, but that was because we had a mid-G5 peak with low to high G4 players, and got matched up with teams around midG5 peak with mid to high G4 players.
we won every match, but about half of them felt like we were punching up and winning because of our agressive play and use of all resources available to us. good crews, good ships, smart use of repair tokens, and use of support abilities.

a mixed team with low and high level players can actually do great, even a mixed G4/G5 team can win from an all G5 team.
if you have a mixed team, let the higher level players focus on the pvp while the lower level players focus on getting pve kills for points. everyone contributes.

[left timber]

Please stop acting like it was good just because you matched with players you could crush lol! The brackets are completely illogical and Scopely always does that. There is no fun in me at my operations level fighting a L70 player. Tactics can't save you from a 6B ship with a speed crew.

[crude crescent]

Arena matchmaking is terrible, teams are not of equal strength, one big player in opposing team can hunt down every ship entering the system , again ops range is much too broad as in normal pvp.

[copper reef]

We've had games that we could crush, but the best match I've had, we were way out matched vs ships 3 of my team couldn't touch, and we still won, by focussing the correct things and not sitting there crying about how unfair it is.

[left timber]

So the opponents had lag 😂 Cool story. Maybe try and read the room a bit. Instead of acting like it was all fun and games because you fluked a couple wins. An Alliance of 85 and 80 people at work like normal people. So then waiting to find 5 people in your bracket who can join is just beyond nonsensical. The event was poorly thought out and that's a fact not an opinion lol!

[daring basalt]

Proper messed up the ops levels on this Arena thing - max ops level 60 in ours matched against ships of 62,64... what a complete waste of time and effort - absolutely ridiculous again - maybe the beta testing should have lasted longer!

[alpine topaz]

6? We have a dude with a 100B+ cube and a backup 22B cube.

[scarlet escarp]

Maybe the event should've last longer, 9hours.. jokes

[fluid gust]

this is indeed an issue, people are counted as part of the higher grade 3 levels before they can even have a ship of that grade.
but this is an issue with most events and content.

[scarlet escarp]

I've not even done one run because I can't get a team in the last hour?! I just don't understand your logic. 2000 emergency rations do naff all when it comes to the fact I've missed out on the launch content because of your lack of scheduling. 🤬

[daring basalt]

Its the matchmaking thats the issue - level 53 opens up a squad and it only allows players within 7 so max 60 - so we have 5 players all under ops 60 - and we are matched against a team that has 2 players above 60.... its like what is the actual point - may aswell just bin the arena and fix the rest of the game

[long goblet]

This arena proving groups SMS is a joke, how are people supposed to finish that in 9 hours when I would hazard a guess and say the vast majority are at work during this time!

Absolute rubbish from Scopely yet again!

[fluid gust]

didn't see signs of lag, just crewing that wasn't good enough, too much focus on pve by higher levels, and a complete lack of support ships.
we won 1 match partly because i was smart enough to bring in a titan-A when i noticed it was going to be a tough fight.

good play won challenging matches, which is how good pvp works.

[left timber]

Top lad 👏👏👏 I guess that's all we need to do to win then. Just smart enough an hope the player 7 ops bigger than you has a PvE crew on his beasts. Thanks 🙏

[fluid gust]

are you comparing your own level to the top of the other squad, or the top of your squad to the top of the other squad?
if your top player was 7 ops below the other squad's top player, that is bad matchmaking.
but that's not what i saw, the top never went more than 2 levels over our top players, and at that point the top players in your team are supposed to fight so the lower level players can score points.
it's not direct pvp that wins, pve wins and pvp just serves to make the pve harder.

i wonder if having a wide range of squad members actually promotes fairer matchmaking.
we had an ops49 leader, so we could have a player range of ops 42-56.

[left timber]

As a L58 player if I wanted to start a match it would allow players from L51-L65 to join from my team (If people werent naturally at work). The matching just pulls players in the brackets together meaning you can then face 5× L60 players. I understand that you had some good battles but posting here making out like it was a great feature discredits the situation for the vast majority of people. Even the first match I had was so unfair for the other side. As their biggest player was L52 I just smashed through them all. The brackets are a joke and hoping to relying on poor crewing and research from a whale to win something that should be competitive is not worth more of anyone's time. There are way too many negative variables in its current form for anyone to celebrate what happened today. I just want Scopely to actually understand how frustrating it is constantly releasing underdeveloped and poorly planned content. When we all would rather a much more stable game with things that actually create a better gaming experience.

[hardy torrent]

I think the alliance-only part was to make sure solo players can't compete. Incentivizing further alliances and alliance participation.

[proven sparrow]

Matchmaking should have been match making the Arena teams Ops level so Ops 42 leader vs Ops 42 leader.
matchmaking should also be like match making in other games where there are timers on match making
So Ops 42 searches for match of another ops 42 for say 30 seconds ( cant find match)
Search expands
Ops 42 searches for Ops 41 / 42 / 43 Opponent
30 seconds and cant find match
Search expands
Ops 42 searches Ops 40 / 41 /42 / 43 /44
and so on...

[wide mason]

Just got home from work and I have 25 mins to try the arena. Been waiting 10 mins and so far no matching squad. In addition there is event currency tied to this I'm going to lose out on. It's a shame, as this could be a great feature but running it for such a short time at a time that most people are working is quite frankly, illogical.

[distant pebble]

Matchmaking Terribad. I liked the match up against 2x 70s. I can’t even have our 70 join if I start a match.

[fluid gust]

should've told marcus to take the lead.

doesn't excuse the bad matchmaking, but would have probably gotten you some better fights.

[left timber]

The brackets should be locked 5-10 downwards from the leader. This way at least you know both your whales will be level locked. If you have a bigger friend online who wants to play. Then he/she could just be the leader and you disband yours. If not you will just keep walking into a totally unwinnable situation. The idea is a good one but it's just not ready and they should wait. Quality > Quantity really needs to start making a comeback 😂

[scenic smelt]

So close and yet so far. AGAIN !
The matchmaking is a fantastic idea for players seeking for PvP. But once again, the whole feature is broken. Not from a technical perspective this time (because i did not experienced any particular lag) but by the machmaking system.
Somehow ops48 can face ops 59 that is litteraly unstopable.
I don't know why, but the squad leaders ops should be the base of the matchup. It's simple and efficient.
Because of power bracket - researchs/artifacts mostly - even badgey captain alone on his own on a sanctus will dominate the battlefield (ridiculous impulse).
Such a shame. Why do I feel there are rushed feature and not minimum tested features ?! This is typical easy feedback a simple test server would have pointed out.

That's so frustrating. I wanted to compete. It was the same for wave defences, alliance tournaments. And now with the Arena.
SLB are pointless because of either technical or functionnal bugs on launch making the game frustrating for everyone. I don't even wan to play this anymore.
Anyway, once again, I give up on this feature and let the other having some kind of "fun" with this.

[boreal coyote]

best name award ⚔️

[distant pebble]

Cool match up :

[proven rover]

Arenas is DOA for me as I only have around 20mins left on the event having just gotten off of work. And this is on a working from home day, without a one hour commute. Arranging the event to run during work hours doesn't seem very flexible or considerate to the working player base.

[fluid gust]

don't make your "whale" the leader, better to make someone 7 levels below your highest level the leader.

[crystal vector]

Getting disconnected everytime I enter the arena with a ship...what's going on?

[left timber]

That would be us purposely trying to use broken game matching to completely override and kill the fun of your opponent. Basically how the 1st 2 battles went before people finished their lunch breaks from work. We shouldn't have to circumvent constantly the failings of the game. I also have smaller Alliance mates who I want to have fun and not keep getting pushed away from the game. So it would just be better for all if the game was fixed to make things more fair. They can sell us speed primes and autorepair artifacts to make cash later lol! #MoneyMoneyMoney

[short ermine]

Arenas are fun when you get a good match up but the timing is terrible, many of our alliance only come online around now or even later and have no chance to play in it at all.
Early in the day it ran well but the lag and bugs were much more prevalent this evening, EU time

[trail solar]

Matchups so far: Ships 10x stronger or 10x weaker. Completely pointless.

[left timber]

Thank you 💯 Unless you kept winning. Then it was all fun & games 😉

[fluid gust]

we had a broad ops range in the squad with ops 56 highest and ops 43 lowest, all matchups had mid-G5 players matched up against our 2 mid-G5 players, and supported on both sides by mid to high G4.
we won every time, but we only once got an actual flat ops advantage, and even then the opponent still had G5 players and ships on their side.

[long goblet]

Arena Feedback

Where is the match making logic???

A bunch of 53's (my team) Vs a team of ops 62+ impossible!!!

[balmy oracle]

So normally I'll start with moaning about new bugs and other stuff but this time I'll do it the other way:
Arena looking good, the only issue I see is the range of the lvls +/- 7 is a bit hard, as 57 I have to fight lvl 64 that's not really good, lvl 50 have to fight me, that's bad for them too. But the mechanics and arena as itself is something new which really made fun, playing as team with 5 Vs 5, really nice

[vagrant topaz]

Arena feedback: on a monday between 12h and 20h. Why on earth are you making an event for unemployed people? 🤡🤡🤡 do it 24h or on a SUNDAY!!!

[thin yarrow]

Arena Feed back thanks for putting it on at a stupide time i manage to get in to 1 match after i got home as i work for a living and cant be on your game 24/7

[left timber]

Yeah I get it. If you have just middle L50 players and down. You can't really get that mismatched. As ship powers are not that drastical. Once a L60 player is involved with the new ship power strength it has. It completely changes the dynamics of the game. So G4-G5 and G5-G6 are just uncloseable gaps. This is why people rush to certain ops and then camp. It is what it is at this point. I just know for me and many others. If something isn't fixed this will become another area of the game just causing lags and bugs. It would be better if they made the join feature like a wave. So at least you could then post on GC and ask for help.

[earnest thunder]

So the arena is actually a good thing but unfortunately I think the runtime is a bit short - only 8 hours makes it difficult to find a team in the alliance, especially when it takes place during a lot of people's working hours. Also, the two matches I had were a bit inconsistent. A 49er started and we had 45s, 47s, 49s and 50s and the other 50s, 56, 56, 57, 57 noch chance against 400mio schiff with 50mio newton

[balmy oracle]

Hope the time was only cause today was the test
Was the first time I really enjoyed pvp

[scarlet escarp]

Level bridging in matchmaking is bad.

[junior sequoia]

Why do an eu event that doesn't cover non eu working times.. majority of people actually work during the day and are not sat around waiting for arenas to start. Make it a 24 hour event to be fair to everyone

[neon terrace]

When will it dissappear???

[keen sand]

Same issue here with a normal job there is nearly no time to play this event, very frustrating. Also putting this in parallel to the mondays mining event is absurd, when all your miners are called back by joining an arena battle. I had the choice of not competing or prematurely recalling my miners from token space 🙄

[amber prairie]

"Scopely, Inc. is an American interactive entertainment company and mobile-first video game developer and publisher. Wikipedia" Americans.. That explains everything.. most Americans don't even know there are other country's outside their bubble with people living in complete different time zones..

[oblique ridge]

Arenas were always going to be a disaster. They’ve never got Incursions working reliably so who thought it was a good idea to introduce another mechanic that moves you to another server.

Completely tone deaf, too, when all we want is bug fixes and stability.

@near saddle @full swan @icy cairn @wanton copper Could we please have an update on Mirror Waves? With the Syndicate expansion, the timing is dreadful - the currency from these is the source of 7500 XP per day so our progress is being drastically impaired.

Please, please, please get rid of the “Claim all” button and Arenas and put the game back in its pre-M71 state. We’re all sick of the tone-deafness. Two years in a row we’ve been promised quality over quantity in the roadmaps and nearly 2 years later we’re still waiting.

If we must have Arenas, at least run them for 24 hours per region and at the weekend so people have the opportunity to participate. 8 hours during the working day is ridiculous. Monday with a mechanic that recalls ships from token systems (including miners) was not well thought out - people like to preload for Lat Rush.

[crude lily]

Just finished work and the arena event is over, er, Monday in Europe is still a work day Scopley, better be sending some comps to the players that can't do the events because they are during core working hours only, why aren't they 24 hours?

Update..oh, you did send an SMS comp, just shows you know it was another bad idea🙄

[amber prairie]

Also would love this reminder from an awful event to disappear..

[cloud wadi]

Hello Team, so...feedback to Arenas 🙂

First, me personally, love it! good idea to bring peeps together! and literally, cheered up my pvp life 🙌 💜

Pro:

• pvp event, good 👍
• 2 ships, good 👍
• scoring mechanic, good 👍 (like the mix of pve, armadas and pvp)
  Keep this up 👍

Cons:

• For EU, 8h during working hours is truly not good. event started 12pm for me, returning from work, uff 🙈
• Move it to Tuseday, Monday it lat rush...or leave the miners as their are. Rethink 😄 Its an motional thing, not retional.
• matching Some of my teammates, even lower ops 40s-50s have been matched with an ops 65 🙈 this is demotivation and no fun. rework
• Repair time of 2 minutes : We klick fast, its a 10 min arena fight. 2 minuts are to long locked up 🙈 rework
• **Repair tokes : Please, by the love of god and this game...stop motinizing everyting. When you play as an ops 60 (me), against 2 ops 63...i need to repair send out...to smash them. Dont make me pay to help my team **😕 Dont kill the good vides of teamwork please 🙏

[worn galleon]

So having the Arena on the same day as mining was by design? and also, limiting the hours to when people are working. I mean, if you just want the game to be retirees and let it die, cool, but, man, a lot of extra work to go that far

[runic meadow]

agree with everything except lat rush, don’t care about that. Will not be doing the arena if you have to buy the repairs, may as well just buy a pack of something I need.

[cloud wadi]

yea, for some lat rush is their thing, I do respect my teammates there. Playstyles matter 🙂 yes, its emotional, not rational for us pvp peeps. a miner would agrue other way around 😄

Yes, monetizing the repair and so the win....bad idea. this needs to be gone fast...real fast. Else, vibes are killed. You pay for FTs, officers, ship packs. PVP is already to high monetized....to pay for repairs is not a good shot imo.

[runic meadow]

Yeah, I stopped very early from buying Fusion rods, sneaky stealthy tax that they are.

[cloud wadi]

hehe, yea....well....yea...that comes on top 🙂 if a low spender has just one main ship (I do only have 1 60 ship), i need to think twice what to put on....PVE epic, or base crack rare...or now (after 5-6 month waiting...finally PVP FT 😅 ). But thats also already monetised. So, PVP alone brings soooooo much money. paying for repairs is just a really bad move imo 🙈

However, I do love the Arena concept tho 💜 truly...we had worser events...this is defo not a DOA....when the monetasation of the repairs are stopped 🙂

[cloud basalt]

Arena was interesting and definitely has potential. But the match-making drawing in opponents that are outside of your groups bracket needs sorted.

Timing - too short and held within the working day (at least for the EU servers) which meant it was a struggle to get a team together at times.

But even bigger issue was the lag. Absolutely awful and seemed to get worse through the day. That absolutely needs to be improved before this runs again.

[lone whale]

Perfectly fair and balanced 🙃

[misty jay]

If the goal was to prevent as many players from participating, 8h from noon to 20:00 is still too broad, I would suggest 3:45 AM to 4:00 AM, that should really work well.
But seriously, I usually work during the day, with little time to play before later in the evening. You know, life stuff like getting the kids from school, sports, feeding them and so on...
It so happened that today was a bit different, I left around noon for funerals, came back home around 20:30, expecting to be able to discover that new feature in the evening.
You know, that time when a lot of players are available to play...
So yeah, missed it entirely. Great job.

[paper hazel]

What a farce. I have one G6 player and he has no chance of getting a full squad to do this. Is the goal of this to break up mid level alliances?

[shut wharf]

OK my feedback on arenas was again censored with no reason. The EU schedule was totally unfair. Monday at midday and stopping the event when people eat is no way a good choice.🤬

[molten marlin]

Bet it wasn't no reason and in fact you hit an auto mod word filter

[novel mango]

So I can’t join any because of my ops and can’t start one for lower ops.

[lone bronze]

So if guild has only 3 61+ players they can participate?

[undone iron]

There's currently 7 people in my alliance that want to play. There has been since it launched 25 minutes ago. But because of ops range limits we can't make a group of 5.

This needs to be reduced to groups of 3 to actually work.

[copper reef]

Some good matches against your guys from DOM earlier 👍

[boreal coyote]

27 minutes and counting waiting for a match, well done!

[runic meadow]

Was a good event, hopefully it will run at a more acceptable time on the next run. If they make you pay for the instant repairs, that will kill it. So maybe it was good whilst it lasted.

[copper reef]

IMO, if instant repairs are just too easy to get, it'll ruin the game more than if they're paid content.
If people can just keep repairing and returning as many times as they want with their top tier ships, it'll make it very messy.
I liked the mechanic that you went in with your best, you had to put your second best stuff in while that repaired, if it got caught.
People just going to keep coming back with ultra fast ships that are impossible to catch with the lag
But....at a certain rank, you can buy them with your store currency, so I guess they're no paid only, but still not too easy to get

[runic meadow]

Yeah, that’s one way to look at it, but as with everything, if it can be bought it will be bought. So it’s just more pay to win. Will be interesting to see how it pans out. After the horrendous year so far, it goes down as a win.

[ebon crystal]

Bravo Scopely!!!!! Another event that could have been a very good thing if only the game was working properly!!! The lag is awful in the Arena and it's unplayable. Hope you choke on all the money you made by still trying to sell us this broken game!!!

[patent river]

Alliances need an option to be able to have randos come in to fill a group.... even big alliances can't fill these during work hours...

[runic meadow]

We had 3 or 4 teams going at it.

[novel totem]

<@&509690795536941056> I'm an EU player and just finished my normal work day. I was somewhat excited to create a squad and get some Arena games in. I just found out that the arena for EU is already closed after only 8 hours, which are (mostly) during a working Monday. Sorry guys, I have a company, I have clients that pay me so I can use some of that money to buy the one or other pack. By placing the Arena during a normal work day you lock me out from taking part. This is somewhat uncool. It should be open for 24 hours to cater towards all players schedules. There is no way to get store access w/o playing arena. That's uncool.

From what I hear from my alliance mates (and see in screenshots) arena suffers from the same unbalanced PvP as the whole game does. The level banding can place a G4 player against a G6 player. You missed the mark by not creating arena templates. Normalizing all players' ships and crew to a weekly / monthly / seasonal arena team and let players figure out crews and tactics to battle it on an equal battlefield, where Ops level provides no advantage, but tactics, coordination, teamwork and skill do.

[merry totem]

CAN YOU PLEASE REMOVE THE LVL 62 players in 46 to 59 arena ???

[shadow trellis]

Please don’t cross post

[fallow fox]

I’m just here to gripe about the schedule/timing of the arena events. By the time I get home from work I’ll have less than an hour to participate. Not everyone can drop everything on a Monday

[novel mango]

This landed like a wet fart. Limited time (8 hours), durning work hours and no lows ops version.

[tacit ferry]

Arena event pairing is not fair, complete waste

[night otter]

You make a new pvp arena and shockingly it's bugged and laggy from the start.

[hearty echo]

Simply: Area Matching is unbalanced making it a game of power instead of strategy. It needs fixing

[undone iron]

Still haven't been able to get in one. I'm in an active enough alliance with 100 people in it and about 40 are within my ops range if I start. And from what the one group that did get to run tells me they were paired with people 5 ops higher than anyone in their group.

I love features that I can't engage in and if I want to do a token grind (which is basically everything) I could get yanked out at any point.

[forest spear]

Arena feedback... it is terrible.
Basically just a way to hold you hostage while whales destroy you in pvp you have no chance to win.
Like Assaults, this is yet another tone deaf ideea.

[mossy helm]

that game is time consuming enough without making this excruciating arena

[dawn glacier]

Arena just seems like more DOA content. All those work hours that could have been put into fixing the game's numerous issues, instead of making content people don't engage with. Such a shame.

[broken cove]

if whales even get to join lol

[fair lantern]

Well that was the most utterly disappointing experience I've had in a while. I joined something in the hope of fair matching. One level 57 vessel with the speed crew and not a single one of us could scratch it. Wiped every one of us out. One point to a thousand. Really! 😂😂😂

[forest spear]

They sure managed to join mine... having a ops 64 with two maxed G5 epics camping your entrence into the system is not even remotely fun.
This was poorly done. VERY poorly done.

Why Scopely can't just tier these things by the ships you are allowed to build is a mystery to me.

[urban marsh]

look at your arena ranks and theirs. Even avg ops is not that far away

[granite rain]

Not letting the 30-39's play is real ****ed

[novel mango]

They don’t care they are trying to force us to spend to level up. It won’t work with me.

[turbid hamlet]

Why are these rewards so low? It's the same as our server SLB payout and yet here, we have to compete across multiple servers making it even harder to rank. 😦

[ornate flax]

Had two matches that were good ... and one match completely mis-matched:

[cold sandal]

Tried two rounds of Arena today and announced right afterwards to my alliance mates, that for the time being I'm simply going to pass on it- it's no fun at all, if one always gets taken down by players that are 5+ lvls higher- simply because $copely is incapable of providing a somewhat proper balance for their newest 💩

[karmic isle]

In what night mare is this supposed to be a fair and balanced PvP event ??? Another Scopley failure. It’s NOT even remotely possible for my team to score a point let alone have a shot at winning !! We need to be able to limit adversaries ourselves !! Not let Scopley decide what’s fair. I don’t want a shot at losing, I want a shot at winning, a fair shot !!! We need a slider that limits both high and low that only the leader can adjust

[proven sparrow]

I too did first of all have an issue with the 2 minute repair time but then i remembered there is more than 2 ships on your docks so you can load out every ship and by the time you go through all your docks the first ship has finished repairing

[storm mica]

Did you win?

[dawn glacier]

Why do we have a token mining event at the same time the arena (that recalls all ships...) is running? Did anyone think about how to implement it correctly or better?

[cloud wadi]

ohhhh.....I wasn't aware of that tbh...thought, the docks you chose and thats fix 👀 was so focused on other things 😅
My best 2 ships would still be locked...but...this gives me more flexibility.
Thank you 😃 🙏

[fair lantern]

Scopely's biggest mistake with Starfleet Command is failing to recognize that for PvP to be truly engaging, there needs to be a genuine chance for both victory and defeat. If there’s no risk of losing, there’s no real sense of winning either. For players who spend heavily, the thrill quickly fades; it's the same outcome every time—everyone else is defeated, and they face no real challenge. On the flip side, players who aren't willing to invest large amounts are almost always on the losing end. This dynamic strips away the incentive to even participate, making it monotonous and ultimately discouraging. 🥴

[merry totem]

WHY ARE WE FIGHTING LVL 64 ON LVL 50 playerrs ????

[scenic flint]

What in the every loving BS is this "You can only repair 1 ship at a time" for Arenas? I paid to have 2 ships repairs at once and Scopley takes it away whilly nilly? That is utter crap

[karmic isle]

Couldn’t have said it better even after reading your post

[wanton anvil]

Matchmaking is very bad. Too many clicks required to join. Not a good experience- pass on this feature.

[ornate flax]

That would be... no

[storm mica]

https://tenor.com/view/ryan-gosling-wrong-answer-frustrated-missed-it-by-that-much-dammit-gif-15185751496522839759

[scenic flint]

It seems the "Based on the Average levels of players" was a lie. It's based on the brackets of whoever started the squad. So a lvl 57 leader allows for a squad of all 64s at worse case scenario.

[karmic isle]

👍🏻🙄

[heavy ivy]

trying to get alliance people on in the range is also an issue

[proven sparrow]

it should be based on the leaders ops level, its so simple to do, why cant scopley get it...

[night otter]

First impression, massive fail. If you don't have enough players in your level range good luck getting in any. The +/- 7 ops levels is stupid and puts small alliances at an extreme disadvantage. Scoring is stupid and over all stupid. Way to take a good idea and completely Scopely it.

[patent river]

Lack of players who drop due to lag unable to come in.. or their client crashed and didn't rejoin the game.. this can be crushing... and a major KILLJOY to arena...

[heavy ivy]

This would have been better designed as a you click join and it pairs you up with random ops levels close to yours against the same type on another server. Having to hope that in an 8 hour window you can manage to get 5 people that are all able to join co-ordinated and ready to go isnt the best way to do this type of thing. A 1v1 arena would have been a much simpler idea even 2v2 or 3v3 would have been more manageable to co-ordinate. Having it as alliance only makes it really hard to reach these restrictions of getting 5 people of certain ops levels together to enter.

[vocal coral]

the ops level thing could be increased +/-10 might help a bit... I also think 5 folks ready to participate is a bit much (given the darn ops range limitation) as in waves getting 5 folks is tough enough with everyone being able to join a wave indepdent of their ops level.

[shadow trellis]

Allowing non alliance members might be a solution as then could use ally’s with same ops issues

[karmic isle]

It’s NOT limited to 7, it’s limited to 10

[patent river]

Arena.. Scopes back door way of clearing server mining nodes....

[night otter]

No, it's +- 7 ops levels on either side of whoever created the team.

[heavy ivy]

if a 60 creates it then the 67 can get in against the same team as a 57. Basically you acn see up to +14 from your level with bad luck

[chilly veldt]

Areans are very hard to play when on cell phone with no wifi.

[karmic isle]

And yet some how I end up fighting a player that i should NEVER face !!!

[dawn glacier]

First arena match. The other team had a huge power advantage. Smashes our ships instantly. We all have to wait 4 minutes to repair the two ships or send in weaker ships to get smashed. No fun was had. Who thought this made sense?

[vocal coral]

becuase you never participate in territory takeovers ? 🙂 uh you're 57 you are being hit by everyone up to 70 in game

[karmic isle]

This is an arena PvP event that is supposed to be fair and balanced, I came here looking for fair and balanced like Scopley said it would be. Had I wanted to be a target with no chance of ever beating an ops 67 player, I would have changed ships to realtas and put a target on my ship. And waited for the next TC .

[forest spear]

That's two consecutive arenas that pit me against ships I can't possibly beat - with my STATION.
Scopely if your goal is to anger your players, this is a fabulous way to do it.

[vocal coral]

Nothing about PvP is fair and balanced in this game... sorry but you're hoping for too much.

[night otter]

Repairs should be instant. The whole thing needs to be reworked. So much for the beta test lol. Probably didn't even listen to them or these issues wouldn't be issues.

[boreal coyote]

Going to need to rethink rewards participation. Been doing this for 100 min. Cant do anything else. Mostly waiting. doesnt spopley think more alliances with spread power lead to more spending - I am in an alliance with 100 people. I can jpin with 54 of them. It was 30 min to get our first match off the ground and now another 10 minutes of dead time while we wait for another participant.

[proven sparrow]

2 Minute repairs is perfectly fine, Everyone has multiple docks they can launch ships while your "best 2 ship slots are repairing"
the only thing they need to do is make Matchmaking match a leader of the opposite team with the same level leader.
Thats it. thats all that needs to be done to make everything fair

[rapid eagle]

Just ran into an issue, I'm in a small alliance, and we have 3 players over Ops 40...we have no way of participating in the event unless we get a sudden influx of new 40+ players or me and my other mates above 40 leave for another alliance....not good

[cedar osprey]

Yea matchmaking is messed up when my max allowed ops levels to join my squad is lower than the opposing team

[night otter]

If you have to punch up have fun with those repairs while they wipe out everything else you send

[merry totem]

How is this fair ???

[hard plume]

it never planned to be fair its planned for gain money from players

[hollow oriole]

Don't run this crap on Monday when people are in token mining 🤷‍♂️

[austere mortar]

i know arena has likely been talked to death, but feedback is feedback

1. Scopes did western europe dirty. They had the event during working hours. This meant that a lot of players in my position had a lunch break. That’s it. This is inexcusable.

2. The matchmaking. Ugh. This is a big deal for many reasons. Whichever side has the biggest ship wins period. I saw G4 in the same arena as opposing G6. they were both started by G5 players but not the same ops level. i think 53 and 56 or 57. I can’t remember. This game pvp is so broken they even one ops level is sometimes a deciding factor.

3. Getting a group together can be hard. Time of day, alliance size / member ops differences play a huge role. It lowers the fun / adds frustration and i don’t think there is an easy fix. at the same times, we should not have to build our alliances based on arena group ops levels.

4. This may be me only, but impo losers should not go away empty handed! the matchmaking is luck and therefore winning is luck. there is little to no skill involved. i know that may be a controversial opinion.

This arena event has left such a sour taste in my mouth i don’t know what to use to wash it out.

[rapid eagle]

you still get loot if you lose, but I agree with the rest of your points

[proven sparrow]

I did punch up quite a few times. which is why they need to match make leaders ops so a Ops 42 vs a Ops 42 leader because
Ops 42 Leader with a max Ops team member of 49
Vs
Ops 49 leader with a max Ops team member of 56

is seriously imbalanced and makes taking part no fun

[scenic flint]

I know that opposing alliance! Lol

[night otter]

Yeah do you want to keep sending out your best and maybe have some kind of chance or send out ships that have no chance?

[scenic flint]

Things may balance out when players get into different leagues (ie bronze, Silver, Gold, etc). But for now, Arena match making is trash

[proven sparrow]

I send my best to kill all i can, when repairing i send a Mantis to sting their big so hopefully someone else on my team can kill them and when thats dead i send a max impulse ship out run rings around the big guys and hit the guys and hostiles in the back until my pvp ships are repaired 🙂.

I was fully entertained in the arena and had alot of fun.
The balance was just totally off
and the time of day the event was on was also totally off

[proven sparrow]

Sorry to tell you this but the leagues don't mean a thing, the only thing that matchmakes is the Ops level.
You can tell this because if 1 person in your alliance is in Gold League and everyone else are Bronze
Is the game going to prevent them from joining that team in your alliance? ofc not because they will never get to play unless there is 4 other players inside your alliance within ops range and in the same league

[scenic flint]

Well that is utterly stupid. Why can't Scopely just follow what every other match making system out there? Why re create the wheel?

[red tree]

Arena seems fun! But depending on ops, forcing it to be five player teams may ice some folks out of actually playing the arena.

May want to consider an option to allow alliances to do small team versus. In other words, 3x3, 4x4 - not tie it to 5x5.

Smaller alliances/newly ascended servers are going to have a hard time filing teams that large at the various player levels — even when you’re talking about the highest level players.

Again, recommend allowing smaller team matching or allow smaller teams to just assume the risk they may be going up against a five man team. Build in an override switch or something. Even if they lose, at least they get something. Plus it helps players participate that are on different shifts/schedules.

(originally posted in gen feedback but moving it here)

[round moth]

This looks like a fair fight, arena needs better matchmaking

[graceful tundra]

Arena PvP should count towards power destroyed!

[scenic flint]

It doesn't? Holy crap this is bad all around.

[naive grove]

WHERE IS THE BALANCE?

[tame terrace]

Another interesting concept, poorly executed. 🙄. You need to:

1. Shrink down the span, four ops up and four ops down
   OR
   fix your matching algorithm so that it matches the combined power of the teams within 100,000 points of each other (just an example)

2. Make it so anyone on the server can join the match so that people that are higher or lower ops can do the event without having to leave their Alliance.

3. Make the event 24 hours so that the people on the night shift can play too

4. Have an above 40 category and a below 40 category, maybe 25-39 category. (YOU HAVE GOT TO STOP IGNORING THE BELOW OPS 40 FOLKS)
   6)Oh, and, DO NOT PUT IT ON MINING MONDAY. 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

[graceful tundra]

They literally said they're not making content for G3 anymore, it's retired. It needs to be ignored.

[tame terrace]

Who the heck is running this company, that is one of the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard unless they plan on tanking the game period (which who knows?). Everyone has to start at the beginning and you aren’t going to hold people’s interest for them to GET to 40 if you don’t engage them. You have people ops up before they have sufficient power and then they are stuck. I realize Scopely is trying to find ways to force people to spend money but bottomline, people are either going to spend or they aren’t. In some ways I wish they had ignored the below 40s when I first started playing, I would have quit then🙄.

[boreal coyote]

Up against 2-12 levels higher. Yup scopley fair 😂 ( minus bad for pre determined results )

[graceful tundra]

There's plenty to do en route to g4, more g3 content would slow progression, you just like complaining.

[proven sparrow]

its been going so long now 🤣

[hollow oriole]

Lol that's normal 🤣

I do agree with MOOMB that G3 needs work. Scopely still opens new servers for starting players, and sure there are things to work on but some of it is dead (Franklin/Franklin A are essentially useless in current game). Even if they don't do something about events/features they should be looking at mats sourcing to empower and incentivize people to move to G4 faster. Our server started May 2023, free to play people are still in G3 or early G4 even while the heavy pay-to-play are Ops60.

[hazy hare]

All my ships are locked during Arena combat. Why?

[scenic flint]

The initial prep locks the ships but once the arena starts they should unlock

[proven sparrow]

Only all locked during prep, once the timer hits zero on arena prep, you can launch 2 ships

@hollow oriole I know quite alot of Ops 39 that deliberately stay at 39 for fast and easy topping of event leader boards for max rewards (officer shards and whatever else) and refuse to move up for that reason.

others are hard stuck there waiting to unlock a G3 Epic faction ship before moving up.
I myself was one of them and i know alot of people which would love to move up but still do not have the reputation or faction ship shards in order to move up. it would be useful if something was done to help people unlock their ships faster in order for them to be able to move up. since trying to take part in events 40+ with ships like Saladin just does not cut it and make them end up failing to finish events

[round jay]

This Sucks limited to Alliance only, so dependent on having the right ops lvl people on to play, was able to do 4 games then NOTHING and only 4 hours left.

[tame terrace]

So I want to think abt what I am saying 🤷🏻‍♀️😝.
Incentivize is an excellent word. Having just gone through several weeks of having limited events because I was below ops 40, I found it dull 🤷🏻‍♀️. So you have the option of opsing up before you ready and shooting yourself in the foot or having few events to do and get extra stuff to grow.

[waxen totem]

Needs to be solo and smaller group options. This is bananas that I’m required to have every member 40-50 on at the exact moment to participate. We have 20-30 active member in an alliance of 50, and I’ve been waiting hours to get 5 people to join. I shouldn’t have to be in a 100 person alliance to do these

[rapid eagle]

another thing too, for small alliances and alliances with lots of different ops lvls it's not really feasible to put together a group of 5 people to be able to even queue...that and being in the former, not being able to even score on the arena slb for today is a big bummer

[round jay]

and all dependent on peoples play times. 8 hours is NOT Long enough, should just be every day

[mental robin]

At minimum, 24hours per run.

[polar bobcat]

Agreed on all points

[opaque hawk]

@full swan 8 hours is rediculous, i have 30 min to play during that 8 hour window, and it took 10 min to crew, my level range in my alliance filled during that time, so down to 10 minutes to try to get one, nope, see you next week i guess.

[ebon crystal]

So I start a Squad which should be between 49 and 63....... and we get a match up with a bunch of 63 and a 66....lol Bravo Scopely againt you've out done yourself!!!!!

[half flare]

The no repair button bug has to be fixed. Or put the “repair with our made up currency that doesn’t exist” button up top. And also fix the lag. And also scrap this entirely.

[manic estuary]

So these arena freighters show a "chance of megachest" but it must be an awfully low chance because I've killed hundreds and have seen zero 0

[merry raft]

This arena thing is stupid. I may never actually get in one waiting for similar ops to be online

[slow wasp]

i'm hearing that our team is enjoying the new content ... wish i could join in the fun ... but with the limitation on availability, not enough players in the range on at the same time to complete a squad. great job scopely .. NOT.

[burnt olive]

Arenas need to be run on the weekend. Since it runs only 8 hours, people with regular 9-5 jobs won't be able to compete, especially if you're on the west coast.

[spiral marsh]

This needs brackets. I'm level 40. I suggest 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.

[opaque hawk]

they dont care about us slobs that work normal jobs, only those that have so much money that for for whatever reason they dont have to work.

[zenith flicker]

Yeah the banding is trash but leave it to scopely

[keen sail]

I might be the minority, but I actually enjoy the arenas. However, I'm lucky in that I'm apart of a decent-sized alliance with plenty of active members similar to my ops and power level. More than anything, I'm happy to see an update that isnt tied to a paywall for a change.Things that may help:

• Arena should definitely be on the weekends, or at least multiple days like war chest or invasions. Running them ONLY on a Monday during the day is pretty inconsiderate towards people with lives.

• Matchmaking is okay in my experience as an OPS 44 mostly F2P. However, I know plenty of folks around my ops level, especially those 100% F2P who can't compete with those who play all the time and spend cash. That being said, matchmaking should take power level into account as well.

• Seems like there's a bug that won't let players leave the staging system. It happened to two of my alliance members.

• Obviously, this is pretty unfair to smaller alliances who just don't have active members of similar ops levels. I don't know how to address that, but I'm sure plenty of others have brought it up

[twilit adder]

Facing G6 ships when your server is G5 locked is stupid and lame

[empty robin]

The design of arena is really mind boggling. You run it on a monday when people have ships mining in token space. So you add that it recalls ALL of our ships? Then you start it at noon and have it run for only 8 hrs? So now I have to recall my token miners or not participate in arena at all... and I am not even off work yet... I will only end up with 2.5hrs of time to play arena?!? And that is if I can start playing the instant I get off work, and if I can find alliance mates that are ready to play and if I can find matches...

These design choices are infuriating!!!

[round jay]

SCOPLEY, 57 + 7 = 64 NOT 65....

[opaque hawk]

their crown is on a 58, not 57

[round jay]

is MATH HARD?

[dawn glacier]

Pull the feature. Apologize to everyone. Move whatever person dreamed up this train wreck into a group that only works on fixing existing bugs.

[ebon crystal]

Another Fair match up eh Scopely!!!! lol WAKE UP!

[patent river]

why? now they can monitize the next few months making this "fair"

[round jay]

if your highest is a 61, then we shouldnt be figthing 62' and now we get a 69?????

[twilit adder]

That’s at least within 7, we just faced a 69 with a 54 starting and our server is 60 locked

[opaque hawk]

Matchmaking is crap, but that's not what you said, their highest level is within 7 levels of THEIR leader. Not yours....
Be happy you can lose and get points. I can't play during their 8 hour window so get nothing.

[hollow cliff]

does not matter when your lvl 50 vs lvl 60-70 you lose there is no balance

[karmic isle]

No great loss

[robust bobcat]

Arena Issues,

Lagg after about 30 minutes of the Event Running.

Team Matching: Putting Players of 58 against 70's is Not Fair Matches Heck anything of the highest player in the group is unfair matching.

Repair time of 2 minutes is to much (should be 30seconds maybe 1 Minute)

Armada Timers for Groups is to long.

other issues do complicate the fairness of the the event

but did have fun in the first 30 minutes when there was ZERO Lagg...

[sour sapphire]

I’m always complaining when STFC gets it wrong so I want to be fair when they get it right, arena is the best thing y’all have introduced since waves, it’s been a blast!

[twilit adder]

Waves are also bad lol

[ionic trout]

Arena should be locked to G3 ships only. That would make it more fair.

[sour sapphire]

When they don’t work, I strongly agree. When they do, they’re really fun. Usually complaints like this are from people who can’t participate or can’t participate well. This has been great for my alliance so far anyway 🤷‍♀️

[tame terrace]

Since you sometimes are waiting forever for people to join, you need a repost button so you can repost the arena you start without canceling and starting it again

[twilit adder]

They never work though, even at their best they crash 1-2 times a run on mobile

[dawn glacier]

Maybe you guys just shouldn't make features starting with the letter A. First it was assaults, now arena. Both are horrible and were a waste of development time.

[ionic trout]

The basic idea of the Arena is okay. It is the Scopely implementation that stuffed it up.

[upbeat tide]

the time limit on the event is absolutely unfair to people who work all day and have families to tend to... not cool... Not to mention doing it on a day when people mine in token space.... Speaking as an admiral btw... on behalf of my alliance... Don't anger people if you want them to enjoy a new feature which could actually be really fun

[astral talon]

Well, this could be a great mode if PvP was balanced. Def think locking goodies behind a bracket ranking is going to deny a lot of folks access to useful perks. Should just let people slowly grind currency

[azure sail]

Man, i wish we could actually try this new Arena feature. As a member of a medium-sized alliance with varying ops levels outside of 7+- band and multiple players in different time zones/schedules… doesnt look like we are not even going to get to run a single match because we cant get 5 players together within the same band. Wish there was galaxy-wide squad matchmaking so we could actually play. 😕

[twilit adder]

Ya the balance is trash

[astral talon]

Forcing folks to only pull from their alliance is going to seriously impact a LOT of G6 folks. It’s tough to get groups if alliance makeup isn’t just right. Seriously need to allow folks to make groups from their server. I guess you’re using the armada mechanic for the grouping (hence the 5-mans), but it’s going to be yet another other way G6 is being left out and one more reason folks will be discouraged from pushing into it

[royal bramble]

Yeah. Arena is stupid. Takes away perfectly good game time one could spend grinding away on one of the 89 different loops.

[twilit adder]

It’s the 90th loop

[viral socket]

Fair and balanced, especially when you can’t do anything with any of your ships

[jagged current]

Horrible lag in arena. Matchmaking needs to factor in power.

[hidden lantern]

The level band is + or - 7 levels, you need 5 players. Reduce the level band, remove the alliance only restriction, reduce the players to 3.

[oblique wyvern]

MASSIVE lag in arena. Half the hostiles I target are either already dead or half way across the system. None of the players are where they appear. Target a player in an armada and my ship bounces back and forth like a stalled target break. I really, really like the idea, but this lag is the worst I've seen in my 3+ years playing. Horrid execution.

[thick locust]

that sounds like you would make it even harder for smaller alliances to get a team if you narrow the level range more

[inner hull]

Yeah facing a 53 as a ops 41 really ruins the fun

[hidden lantern]

Clearly you missed this part, from lack of reading comprehension:

remove the alliance only restriction

Reading fully is fundamental.

[thick locust]

if you remove the alliance restriction you dont really need to adjust the rest.

[twilit adder]

Why is every matchup unbalanced garbage? If my group’s range is 45-52 we shouldn’t be matched up against 3 53s, a 54, and a 57

[valid stag]

@full swan Arena pairings SUCK. I was in an ops 46-60 group and it put us up against a group with 4 64’s. That is NOT ok. Also on 2 out of 3 arenas, one of my ships got stuck in warp and i was stuck with only one ship i could use. Restarting the app didn’t help. Arenas need serious work. This isnt rocket science, you just need to fix the bugs and base team pairings on the highest ops level player on each team

[sterile yew]

<@&509690795536941056> Having the starter ops level be the end all is dumb. 50+ in a lvl 40 player's arena is dumb

[light canyon]

This arena event is complete trash. Either you spend forever waiting for people to join or forever for the one running to run it a complete and utter failure especially since before it ever started the way it read was it would automatically move all players to the system when it was full but no it has to be actived by the one who starts it . Waisted all day just trying to either run one or join in one. Complete garbage much rather do solo armadas

[ivory summit]

When your event is so trash you have to put a 5m slow mode on feedback channels

[light canyon]

Really this garbage event is already going to be over?

[hard gulch]

my thoughts on the New Arena is it NOT an Alliance Tourny and should be open to all servers to join NOT just Alliance members. i can't get a full squad of ops level requirments.

[twilit adder]

🗑️💩🗑️💩🗑️💩

[lost osprey]

I work 12hr days. Even though I'm in a Top 5 alliance on server 31, there are only 8 players available for me (ops64) to arena with. By the time I get home from work, I get less than 90 minutes hoping that at least 4 of the 8 are online. Yup, didn't even have a chance to try the arena and with the current day/format layout for this event....it doesn't look like I'll ever get a chance to try it.

[true hare]

Yeah changing it to 3 man, or opening it up to other alliances would be nice.

[olive geode]

how about scrapping it and forget it ever happened

[light canyon]

Yeah it kinda sucks you can’t run arena unless it is full, if one who starts it isn’t online your stuck if you can’t get anyone else to join your stuck. Might as well remove this garbage arena . Much rather run the stuff solo or just do missions

[sterile yew]

you can leave the squad

[late orchid]

Very poorly thought out being alliance only...have the option to set to just alliance members or server wide to form a team... or lower the pvp team number reqs. Not all alliances have enough people to run these things especially the big bois

[light canyon]

Complete trash event. Try to do either by joining or by doing your own and get to never even do anything and now it’s over. Clearly no one wants this trash event. At least not on USA servers

[signal wraith]

Arena. It's stupid and a waste of screentime you already force us to do too much of.

Im a relatively strong 50, and I cant scratch a whale 53, let alone the possible 57 I could wind up fighting. What is this garbage?!

[olive geode]

not any different than regular pvp. equally frustrating

[light canyon]

Clearly not looking at how many people actually into PvP on other servers. Comparing American servers against APAC servers is wrong way to go . Not everyone into PvP as this arena event clearly proves

[signal wraith]

Sure it is. I don't HAVE to regular PvP against opponents I know I cant fight, in order to drip in some currency to eventually get rewards whales already bought to slap me around with.

[karmic isle]

Am I gonna have to look at this arena notification for the next 6 days despite arena being over for over 10 mins now ? I tried clearing localizations, but nothing worked. Arena is closed now Scopley

[fading hatch]

Ending the arena event before people can get home and play is just BS

[queen locust]

International standard date format (ISO 8601) would work better here to avoid confusion: YYYY-MM-DD

[sick crypt]

My server is ops locked at 60 but u put us up against ops 65 players.. it was just them killing us

[tribal granite]

The event was fun (certainly the most fun PVP thing I've seen in this game by far), but there's some glaring issues to work out with it:

Matchups need refining. G5 servers shouldn't be fighting G6 servers, for example. But sometimes we'd fight against groups where their lowest level was one less than our highest level.

There were issues targeting things. On PC, I could only target enemies in armadas when I zoomed in super far; otherwise it'd target the armada itself, which is almost worthless in this event. A teammate on mobile said he could couldn't target anything well in there.

Armada timers lagged. I had a ship stop in an armada circle with 11 or 12 seconds remaining, but it got told it was too late to join.

Party formations need work. I'm OPs 47. A teammate is OPs 55. We couldn't play together unless someone OPs 48-54 hosted. This made it a struggle to form teams that could have otherwise played together, so we struggled at times to find enough teammates to play with, even though we had enough.

[light canyon]

Probably, I just want to know if I’m going to get anything for waisting my entire day just trying to participate in this garbage event that one member wouldn’t run when full or couldn’t. And for not being able to run one myself for I couldn’t never get a full crew to do so? I really waisted my time from 10am tell it finished just trying to get to check out this stupid arena garbage. Worst event ever in the entire history of this game!!!!!

[last lance]

I had a lot of fun. Not perfect but it is a hoot. So many crybabies here. I give this one 💯

[mild glacier]

Arenas are an absolute FAIL! It could be a fun thing but the glaring lag issues make it impossible to play and the matchmaking is horrid.

[sick crypt]

Also arena lag..I send my ship and die b4 I can even see it in arena..great job scopley

[clear wyvern]

All these screengrabs with help requests. Help your alliance!

[ionic trout]

The matchmaking formula is totally useless especially when Ops 46 get matched Ops 61.

I still reckon it should be locked to G3 ships to make the matching more fair.

[paper sand]

Alright, who has gambled? How much mirror dust is in the Terran Store pull? It’s 100.

[boreal coyote]

<@&509690795536941056> ok - arena is kinda fun. Match making = awkward. I'm a 48. fought multiple 60s today [ no 60 in my group, and losing rankings when way out matched 😐 ?]. Way, way, way 2 much of a time suck. Open it up like waves. When you are in a group the updates are not good [ when full, when starting ]. I had alliance mates sit out because they couldn't get a group. During the workday only? not super cool. Recalculate rewards, faction store costs [ cap attempts if you need 2 ]. I can't for the life of me see doing this every Monday. Trying to get 9 wins. That is 90 minutes game play with no queueing or waiting. 7 loses for single pulls each day, thats still 70 min game time. Thats crazy. I'm not retired yet. [ edit ] forget to add, when you dont have enough credits for a mada in an active arena battle, it can send you to the store - are you kidding me 🤣 ]

[spiral carbon]

<@&509690795536941056> Hats off to the team on this one. Please ignore the salty people. This event was absolutely the best one out of everything I have played over the last 18 months. The trailer getting you to sign up showed epic ship battles, and I was always sad that was something that was put into the trailer just to get people into the game. Arena delivers on that. This feels fantastic even as not-a-whale. My entire alliance on 99 and my whale friend group are raving about this. Bravo. Well done.

[rain spade]

Om this Arena thing, the times it is up and running should change because some of us that are not online during the day cannot get in on it. Should add a 2nd option for us night owls. Or make it run longer, say 12 hours, like noon to midnight.

[graceful needle]

The Arena needs to be removed and revamped. do to irl I won't be able to participate the arena as long as it remains on Monday.

[latent hearth]

I think this event can be a lot of fun but several things have to be fixed.

1. At the end of an arena all the participants should not be auto joined to the next one. Nothing more infuriating than a leader going afk at the end of the arena and then for the next few hours people are joining and waiting for nothing.
2. Arena grouping should be server wide not alliance only. This would allow groups to form quickly and limit the time a leader can be AFK. If a team isn't joined in 1 minute break it up.
3. Don't run a PVP event on mining Monday
4. If you open up the teams to server wide you can narrow the banding to make sure competitive teams match up. Also don't let people game the matchmaking by loading up realtas on their dock for the matchmaking then swap to big ships for the fight.
5. Probably most important is removing negative rank points for losing. This grind is too long for people to have a chance with random matches. The only way to consistently win is to game the system to your advantage. Which comes down to only grouping with people you know are good and have the "Uber" PVP FT/crew/etc

[sharp abyss]

Would someone please disband my squad and remove the Arena icon. Its stuck there and I cannot remove it.

[light canyon]

Shoot I’m retired and I don’t want to spend my entire day just trying to join an active que or starting my own just to set there all day long with nothing being accomplished. Can’t run one unless you have a full team that sucks. Can’t start one that is full if the one that started it is either offline or having issues. Joined one that got full but no auto run like the discrimination reads for this event. Don’t know if he had isssus due to hurricane on west of South America and in the gulf coast or because he in Florida and still having issues. Tried running but never could get it full to run even once. Worst freaken event. If I could run it more like armadas especially solo armadas maybe, but this go was a complete and utter failure and waist of my time for the day since I tried since 10am tell it stopped. Spent 2hrs twice waiting in a full que just to check it out and another several hrs waiting on members to join so I could run one. I suggest you look at how many actual PvP players there are on all servers and how many non PvP or sometimes PvP players there are and adjusting the whole thing to accommodate all players not just PvP ones

[undone iron]

Feedback after managing to play ~10 arena matches.

1. Overall it has a lot of promise and is fun as is... at times. I'm going to focus on areas of improvement but it's a really solid start.
2. Teams should be 3v3 ideally, maybe 4v4 and you should be allowed to click a button to open it to the server if you want (or maybe just that you can send a link and anyone with that link can join). The goal of this is to help people get a workable group in less time. I sat for over an hour even though my alliance is 99 people and over 40 are in my ops range for the arena.
3. The armada timers would remain after armadas didn't successfully run, just a big 1 or 0 floating. This caused visual issues and could be accidentally clicked making attacking others and farming hostiles behind them very challenging. It seems like you added a special "denied" or something that's meant to pop-up. Maybe remove that until you can sort this out?
4. It needs to run for more than 8 hours. my ally got back 20 minutes after it ended because he works from 3-11, basically the whole time the event was running. I'd suggest running each group on a different day. for the full 24 hours.
5. There needs to be a button to leave that end screen faster. Sitting there for 21 seconds feels like an eternity as there's nothing to look at. Just like with Wave rewards add a button to collect at the bottom to solve this.
6. I had one run where my protector died, was listed as warping, and then never unlocked. It also prevented me from sending in a second other ship. It only happened 1 out of ~10 runs, but then again, I didn't lose a ship on about 5 of those.
7. Lag in general was really noticeable. It's levels that I'd just ignore with hostiles, but it caused me to miss armadas and enemies to be in different places than they looked (so they attacked me instead of me getting away).
   8)Matchmaking was decent but getting a run of 49-57 against my team of 42-50 was nasty. I'd rather wait 20 more seconds for a better match.

9. More than once an armada disappeared after being defeated and didn't respawn. The two times I noted it, it was the bottom group armada. But it's a small sample. One of those two times I know we won because I ran it. The other time I don't know if it was a win or loss that happened before it disappeared.
10. Some matches I didn't lose any ships, but when against higher levels I'm sitting there waiting with all destroyed and 1 to repair. I know there's speed ups but I'm not going to use them when we average 50M less than all of them. Allowing for two repairs at the same time at least makes sense. If you lose everything you'd still be out 2 mintues or more before you can send a double back in. And at the times when you have no ships, sending one at a time is often worse than just waiting. So right now I likely get to a 3.5 minute wait just to send ships back out. I know this is the money maker of this event. But a second repair or shortening the one repair to 1 minute or such would be massive.
11. would be nice to be able to ping your allies. I understand how hard that could be to implement, but when you click the map, getting the "go" as well as a second option might be helpful to signal people. However anything like that would need a lot of playtesting as I can see that being a recipe for failure as people accidentally click "ping" when they meant to click "go" and now they're dead or missed the armada. Maybe a long press could be a better option.
12. Please make the indicator that I'm in a group of 5 go away.

[misty plover]

Brilliant, schedule your new feature such that it perfectly aligns with a work day! I literally had 30 mins to play when I got home and managed to get one in. I'm going to be at the mercy of traffic, 5 other people in my alliance in my level range being on in the 30 minute window I have to participate.

Times events like this suck, there's no consideration for people who live in Hawaii or Alaska. We have to scramble for remaining crumbs in Incursions. Wave defense is such a time commitment that it should be soloable because it's a ghost town. The more content that is released that I cannot participate in, the less inclined I feel to play.

[woeful skiff]

Thw new arena wvent needs to be able to queue 3v3 etc instead of 5v5. The brackets in many alliances will be unable to muster a 5v5 even in a highly active alliance.

Even trying plan and work around certain lvl ops players starting arena to maximize players that can join 5v5 is hard to achieve.

[tidal minnow]

We are at 4 hours now and still stuck there myself as well

[tall cedar]

Arena shows promise, and I had fun. It would definitely be better if level matching was narrower - I'd suggest more like +/- 3 Ops levels, which means that the team would have to be formed from a server-wide sign up rather than limited to an Alliance sign up - this would benefit speed to form and reasonableness of the fighting, and thus be a LOT MORE FUN! I see very similar suggestions from lots of people above, maybe Scopely can do some A/B testing with these suggestions to improve the formula? 👀

[hidden tinsel]

is there a way to mine trellium without the protector?

[honest pond]

kill hostiles

[verbal surge]

you can mine trellium with faction surveys, it just won't be very fast depending on your research

[twilit adder]

Kill NSEAs that afk’d mining in the 3 intro zones.

[stone perch]

Arena could have been fun, no idea as I couldn't participate during the 8hr timeframe. Might as well bring back burst events to ignore as well.....

[cloud wadi]

mine with a G4 or G5 miner 🙂

[opaque jacinth]

Time for the Arena's event to start is very early - it started at the middle of working day (Germany time) so when I've reached home and was able to play a bit: all was long time ago over already

[woeful quarry]

The event has promise. Your time window needs to be extended though. 8 hours is not enough for people with jobs and a family.

5v5 is too large. I would suggest 3v3 and narrow the level limit to +/-4. Allowing G6 to take on a mid level G5 or a G5 to take on G4 is what pushes people out of the game. An epic g4 will lose to a rare g5 every time.

Again, there’s potential here with some minor tweaks.

[outer seal]

I had the number 6 issue as well: a ship would repair but then just get lost/stuck when warping to the arena system, which meant I was only able to use 1 ship instead of 2. A hard reset of the app (on iOS) in the middle of the arena didn’t solve the issue, although at least when that arena ended the ship was back in my station like normal

[wicked current]

Enjoyed the arena experience overall, matchmaking could be improved for sure but otherwise no gripes. 3v3 and also 1v1 would be good, being able to do a match without having to wait for others and being forced to think about crewing and ship selection beyond the best one or 2 is interesting. maybe 1v1 with 3 or 4 ships. We also played around with pvp games involving mining resources while protecting yours attacking others which was fun

[vivid venture]

24 hour events please

[scenic flint]

Regarding the Arena.

1. It's a good idea in general, but it fails spectacularly in the details.

2. Limiting it to only 8 hours is horrendous. I was able to get 2 tries in shortly after it opened by taking a break from work. But once I was off of work, I had things to do in real life (Pick up kids, dinner, T-ball game, etc) that kept me away. By the time I was able to sit down, open a beer, and relax while trying to get some more play time in, I couldn't form a squad to play with as we didn't have enough people online.

3. Forming Squads should have 2 options, one being "Open" where anyone can join, and another where it's restricted to alliance only. Practically ever other game with online match making does this; you can form a group with friends or just join an open lobby. Why didn't Scopley simply follow the industry standard?

4. Match making. The patch notes lied to us. It's not based on "average level", it's soley based on the level range of the team captain. This leads to wildly unbalanced matches. Also I've seen report where the arena rank is not being considered. I don't know if that is true but arena ranks absolutely need to be taken into consideration. This will mean that those ranked higher wont be able to join lower ranks, which will restrict available players even more but see point 3.

5. Maybe there should be an option to start with less than a full squad. If people want to play with an handicap (5v3 or whatever) or even solo, let them.

6. Taking away paid features like cloaks and extra repair slots is down right awful and borderline illegal. We paid for those features to be available at all times.

7. Pvp in this game is inherently unbalanced. This Arena is Scopely best bet to have an actual balance of sorts but they failed to achieve it.

[raven wren]

I'm sure this has already been said by others, but I will add my voice to the chorus. It makes no sense that you would schedule arena events every Monday on the same day as Rules of Acquisition and then also implement a mechanism where entering the arena recalls your ships from token space. I ignored the arena because I didn't want my ships recalled. If this happens every Monday, there is a strong incentive to not participate in one of the two events. But the Rules of Acquisition is also an ALB.

[astral talon]

Any surveyor

[true radish]

Arena Feedback.

Overall I think the arena combat concept is good and I had fun participating when I could.

1. This event should be longer! It ran for less then 24 hours and I was only able to participate in a couple arena matches and was hoping to do some this morning but it's over. Saw some of my alliance mates didn't get a chance to do any due to timing. Need to make this event a full 24 hours like everything else you do.

2. PVP was ok in the matches I participated in but I can see issues based on who is leader. Had a match where the opposing team had one +7 ops level team mates and there is nothing you can do which takes a lot of fun out if it. Maybe should be bracketed based on ships available. Like 40-45, 46-52, 53-55, etc. so players have a chance to have fun with pvp and matches are more evenly matched.

3. I like the free repairs but let us instantly repair and get back into the fight without paying. 2min penalty becuase you died and are smaller then opponents doesn't make this fun. Having to pay for speed up tokens for repairs is no bueno. I had one match were we wiped the opposing team out and didn't have any opposition for those 2 mins. I'm sure they didn't find the experience fun and rewarding to want to continue.

4. Exit screen is long wait for no reason. Just exit us back to our server and have rewards / post battle be click able like normal event completions.

[astral talon]

Great points... except 6. 6 is just silly.

[lost totem]

Many great points made here. Our experience was very positive for the most part. Some repeat points and suggestions

• extend past 8 hours to maybe 12 if starting during a work day, not everyone is ET where it started at 3PM vs 1PM for MT
• Our server is capped at 50, we did hit a few 53+ and went welp but we knew that going into this it could happen not sure how to prevent or make it less frequent
• we are a smaller alliance of 13 still growing, but let us open up to outside the alliance
• matchmaking took seconds once we had a group, i suspect this will change as time goes on so previous point can help get more people going
• dont run during lat rush, choose a better day as many dont want to recall from token space

Overall, yes there were bugs, performance issues BUT it was (from our experience) one of the most stable features launched this year.

[green mica]

Mining Monday has useless rewards. Every day has stuff, choose what’s most important.

[dark horizon]

PvP is pay to win all the way, thats enough of an incentive to not participate in the arena, unless they actually make it fair to everyone joining in

[wanton anvil]

Arenas- The Good: they worked (in general)
The Bad: 8 hrs is too short. 5x5 too many (3x3 would be better)
The Ugly: getting stomped due to poor matchmaking left a lasting impression- I probably will not engage with this feature again.

[runic meadow]

I do believe Scopely should take into account all our T-ball commitments before they decide to run an event.

[scenic flint]

T-ball is serious business around here. lol. You should see how some of the parents act...

[misty jay]

@full swan @near saddle feel free to reassure us at any time that our feedback has been heard, and major changes are coming 🙂
I sure would love to be able to even try the feature next time.

[eternal stag]

really enjoyed the arena, can't wait for next time. jut a little balancing issue and some lag to solve for next time.... though the balance might take time to work out as more and more people participate and get ranked

[azure sail]

My personal thoughts on Arena…

As a top 3 player (Ops56) in our medium-sized alliance, with top guy being Ops 57, and having a wide range of Ops down… we have a very difficult time finding someone to get online at the same time to be squad leader to maximize the 7+- band. With 40 minutes remaining in the event, we were able run 3 matches.

We handedly won the first match. Matchmaking was good, I was able to spank them on armadas, as team ran interference…was a very fun match. The 2nd we got matched with Ops 60+ players and they just camped the solo armadas…didn’t even have a chance. Match 3 they have several strong Ops 59 players, we lost but was a very close match. There was some lag but performance was pretty good and I personally had lots of fun for the limited time we got to play.

• Improvements & things that need to change *

  — Public Squads for Galaxy w/ Team Chat. It was SUPER frustrating trying to get enough players within our alliance together at the same time. There must be a public squad option in the future. There were several other G4 players in my alliance that wanted to play but wasn’t able to ever get enough to squad up.
  — Longer event runtime. 8 hours was away to short. We were just starting to get in a groove late at night and event ends. Should be a 24 hour event at the very minimum.
  — Repair only 1 ship at a time, every 2 minutes? This was also SUPER frustrating. I like the limit of 2 active ships in Arena at a given time…any more is too much…but you MUST be able to start those 2 minute repairs immediately. At the minimum, repair 2 ships at once but would like to start every repair once ship dies. Im okay with 2 minute repairs if we can start them immediately…otherwise, lower the repair timer to at least 60 seconds.
  — Squad 7+- banding…im okay with this if there is a Public squads option so I can join and play with others in my galaxy (like Waves). Otherwise, matches need to be dropped down to 3v3 for Alliance Only Squads.

[runic meadow]

Maybe you need to merge alliances. Just sayin, a lot of complaints coming from small maybe not so active alliances.

[azure sail]

I do get that and has been something I’ve thought about mentioning to leadership but our alliance has a lot of personal history on our server and don’t honestly see that happening, unless someone where to join us…which most other alliances probably are in the same boat with regards to their alliance history.

I do not want this feature to punish smaller/medium alliances, just to push everyone into mega groups of higher players alliances.

[runic meadow]

The timing was not great, so hopefully the overlords will listen. Weekends would work best for most, I imagine. But it did work so they got something right.

[cloud wadi]

👀

[wicked current]

didnt get u lot sadly 😭

[azure sail]

Completely agree, probably one of their best working feature launches in a long time, IMHO, and i personally loved engaging with it. They just need to make some tweaks and changes to improve the experience.

[jagged current]

To add to what I posted last night:

1. matching formula needs to factor in power. Getting curb stomped by people with triple your power is no fun.
2. Mondays are no beuno. Tuesdays or Fridays are better imo as they don’t have recurring events.
3. 8 hours is too short a time. I only had time to do two runs.
4. the lag needs to be addressed. Lag was so bad during my second run that I could barely do anything. 3v3 with tighter level controls could be nice.
5. I had no ships I could use for half my match due to the curb stomping. Either shorten the timer for repairs overall, or make the losing teams timers speed up automatically based on enemy points.

The feature could be fun, but needs some work to balance it out lest it become assaults.

[lucid idol]

<@&509690795536941056> I see you have launched a new wave pass, but still not fixed MU waves.... you're joking right?#

[honest pond]

basic ones broken as well? ...............................

[vocal coral]

MU Waves are still broken and you are pushing another wave pass ? seriously scopely

[honest pond]

do the basic ones, easy

[vocal coral]

Yes leave half the waves feature broken for over a week and htat's ok because you can still the "easy" ones but you don't get the credits that actuall allow you to do other things in the store....

We can complete 10/10 waves on MU and the payout converst to the other credits while getting various other stuff out of the store.

[honest pond]

that i agree, was just offering suggestion how to complete mentioned event...take it or leave it

[dark horizon]

how is it even possible to get 300k points within 30 minutes from event start in "Profit from Ruin SLB" ?

[lucid idol]

that was absolutely not my point, I was pointing out how ridiculous it is of them to release a wave BP when half the waves are still broken and have been for over a week now... a full week to fix a pretty vital feature of any game is unacceptable. I appreciate you're making a "suggestion", but we're not fools, we're fully aware of how to complete the events. Keep your unsolicited advice out of the feedback channel pls.

[honest pond]

🤣

[verbal crescent]

"You know what would be funny? Everyone did the Arena thing yesterday, and spent all their Terran credits to level up. Let's do an event today that gives credit for spending Terran credits!"

[odd dock]

beautiful, another event to showcase the '30%' go home sending people home 8 times in a row ... i cant wait for the complaints

[runic meadow]

You had me until you said you were not a fool.

[lucid idol]

another pointless response, go be childish in the neutral zone

[runic meadow]

Blow up a few xindi 62’s.

[sterile yew]

@full swan After playing the arena it wasn't as bad as I thought with matching. We trounced some higher level groups. I think there needs to be some adjustement but not sure what the best course is. Maybe do some minor adjustments over the next couple months to try differnet things. I wish it was longer then the time it ran.

[twilit adder]

Hitting a big aquatic battleship would be my guess

[molten marlin]

had 1.5m in 5 minutes from 3 surveys

[last lance]

So.....you would skip the arena event for Rules of Acquistion Monday mining...that pays out nothing of value and because you don't want to have your ships recalled. MM only pays out the top ten spots and the rewards are crap. Since this is an opt in event, have fun watching your miners mine stuff...

[dark horizon]

kind of difficult for ops 49, no ? alas the one of 1st place is ops 50 (why the hell in 49s SLB is beyond me) but he should not be able to hit that high up either ?

[runic meadow]

Indeed, I was only answering your question. They should be split to make it fairer, I do not know why they do not split the SLB’s.

[opaque hawk]

Oh yay, an SLB to spend credits i couldnt get because the event to get them was only 8 hours long..... @full swan
oh nevermind, i see yall are selling them as well............

[dark horizon]

I'd rather watch my miners mine than watch p2w blow my ships to pieces and not even be able to repair because that requires currency i can't get unless i watch my ships getting blown up over and over

[low radish]

Number 6 - What's dumb about this is that other features still worked. All the primes, the FTs, etc

[warm kestrel]

I logged in last night to try and do the arena event but it said it doesn't start until next week... reading above, it only ran for 8 hours?! Between work, family and being on pacific time it's generally around midnight eastern before I can dedicate time to play. Group events like this are hard enough when they run 24 hrs. Am I correct that I can only join/form a group with members of my own aliance and there's no option to join a random group? Is that intended as a means to limit participation? Haven't you learned from previous attempts that partial day events don't generally work well for your demographic? Since it will only run for 8 hrs. on Mondays, you've effectively created a non-event for me. Thanks for nothing.

[crude lily]

Dear Scopley, a long time ago you stopped running away teams events that had to be completed doing missions and you gave us the option to use trait xp, please bring these back into the events as we all hate doing away missions spending speedups all night, thank you🤪

[fading crag]

The Arena should last longer, 24 hours at least. And preferably on a different day: Tues, Fri, or Sat.

It shouldn't be just alliance members only, it should be open to the server. Give tags to the members of each team that only they can see so we know at a glance who is on our team and who is not. I would be fine with a choice like Draco said here:
#💬-events-feedback message

It needs more hostiles for weaker players that don't have the directives for the armadas and can't kill the other players.

[signal wraith]

Right near the end of Arenas my Ops 50 alliancemate had to deal with an opposing 50 with a L55 734m NSEA Protector.

What the wallet warrior nonsense is that?! I thought the p2w 53 (I'm also ops 50) I couldn't dent earlier was bad, but that??

I said it when this was announced; there is no such thing as "skill based matchmaking" in a game so thoroughly weighted by p2w mechanics. There nearly NO possible way to create fair matchmaking in STFC.

[native spear]

Please highlight that the arena event is only open for a limited time. The event closed way too early and MANY did not get a chance to participate. The timing did not align with daily reset or 24 clock or anything. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Several in my alliance got home from work and logged on only to see that the event was closing and/or closed for the week. At least offer a chest to those who could not participate….

[serene falcon]

Fabulous customer support from Scopely. Lodged a ticket for missing sms scoring, response was "thank you for your understanding but we are unable to compensate you with the missing emblems at this time" and closed the ticket. Scopely, you suck 🤬

[full swan]

Adjusting the time of day it runs was very popular feedback that we raised to the team yesterday. I'm cautiously optimistic.

[green mica]

Monday was a good a day as any for me (Friday/Saturday would be bad) but it should be 24 hours.

[austere mortar]

@full swan while coms about upcoming events is good, some official communication about the overwhelmingly troubled arena feedback and what is being looked into would likely help many sleep better…

[humble shoal]

Also it would be great if they finally told us when the Origin sector reset will be.
For about a month now official communication has been worse than ever.

[full swan]

I agree! And I THINK we'll have an update about Arena tomorrow...

[pearl cloak]

Fall events, okay. We know what we're doing, but what are getting GETTING?

[fading venture]

Where do I submit my hours to get paid for playing this full time job?

[patent river]

first time playing a multi-player "F2P" game... free is your free time flying away...

[green mica]

Please don’t change how it works, just how long it runs (and give a few free insta repairs every week). It’s an amazing feature.

[turbid hamlet]

Will we get any extra events for this due to the Hurricane? Dont think will hit the last milestone with missing a day :/

[astral talon]

Pretty sure there are 23 events and you only need ?20?

[green mica]

I see over 12 days left, so probably at least 12 events. You need 11 more, no?

[finite pelican]

Can scoply increase the alliance award for mining Monday event? Scoring 1st as a alliance and getting very little award Is almost not worth the effort. Thanks

[molten marlin]

players have been asking for an update to the rewards for a very long time, they don't seem interested

[lucid idol]

what about an update about mirror waves? Despite having some flaws arenas actually worked, mirror waves have been broken for a week...

[molten marlin]

slotted for the 17th

[cunning chasm]

Can you please make hostile killing events more reasonable? Its not fun killing several hundreds hostiles for single event. And its even less fun for fresh 60-63 players, you either need to kill 200-300 hostiles in L60 system or do 6-10 runs with max buffs on L63. We only have like 1.2b ship and even after getting 63 ship it takes A LOT of time and resources to upgrade it enough before you can really start killing 63+ ships. And that's me with high research and a lot of primes, it will be even worse for F2P players. (It would be nice if we can get again some changes reducing amount of grinding, with all new ships and factions its getting unbearable again)

[fresh frost]

looks like you're on track, too?

[lucid idol]

thanks for the update 👌

[fossil skiff]

Good morning does anyone know when the next invasion event will be ?

[dusky fjord]

no one, not even scopely employees, knows when TC reset is🤣if you’re asking about incursion that’s another they don’t know🤣

[urban shore]

It'll be whenever they stumble across the code that controls it

[timid flume]

What do you mean? We get all kinds of discord pings. Unfortunately it mostly deals in the yes we know it’s broke and we’re “fixing it”. If I was a spender I would have stopped spending months ago.

[rain spade]

@serene falcon at least u got a response, I have a ticket still open from 5 months ago, still no response.

[molten marlin]

give a cm your ticket number

[rain spade]

@cunning chasm I have said it a few times that scopley needs to refrain from adding more bell & whistles to the game, and take a couple months and fix everything in the game to work on all platforms the way its supposed to work. All this freezing, crashing and lag is getting out of hand. almost makes the game unplayable.

[humble shoal]

"Communication" does not mean to ping everyone for nothing new. They don't even use US roles if only US servers are involved.
And after 2 weeks of Symbiosis 2 we still got no https://discord.com/channels/509679626763632640/971166351253209148

[green ibex]

Tc reset and a server merge… oh boy oh boy … do the minds at scopely think in a different way ?
How about do a merge after TC reset … and then a week later start a new tc event

[peak geyser]

Next event store can you guys recalibrate the costs of skins in event store? Assuming the fleet commander at 180k credits makes the equivalent of a $100 pack, or even the 200 event credits for $100 in the store; how does 300 credits (almost $200) make any sense for 80/120 shards for assimilated amalgam?

[versed goblet]

This event store is pure trash. Not worth the time to complete the events to earn the coins.

[chilly cobalt]

<@&509690795536941056> two days back to back with away teams events is very player unfriendly. This is the second time this arc.

[torn jewel]

They're already recycling tasks within the same Arc, pretty lazy tbh

[lyric quiver]

New territory season before server mergers, that doesn’t seem right.

[violet geyser]

anyone having problems with this event? i kill the reds and i dont get any resources

[molten marlin]

if you hit the 2k hostile limit, you won't get any loot, which means no points for the event

[tropic palm]

You no doubt hit the 2000 kill reds limit

[violet geyser]

🤔💩

[versed grotto]

Should probably tag hammy let him know we need these hostile limits dropped

[green mica]

It really is time to remove the hostile limit. If you’re worried about people botting, work on catching them. But a 2k limit is ridiculous.

[copper shadow]

personally with everything in game i find it hilarious that we have a hostile limit so what if players grind 10k hostiles worth of rep a day they still have to worry about killing the npcs repairing their ships and the best part they're limited in how much they can refine per day so its only sitting in a bloated inventory not like we all refining 500k ship parts a day or some ludicrous number like that rofl and yes i know i forgot a lot of punctuation

[twilit adder]

Yep, #2 in the event in my bracket is a known botter that’s been doing it for 2-3 months now

[flint geyser]

2 consecutive grind events BUT THERE IS A HOSTILE LIMIT!!!! great idea more quality 💩

[patent star]

I'm also stuck on the 2k grind limit. You had two grind events back to back and now I can't score. 😐

[proven sparrow]

Yeah, I haven't been able to score at all in this event because of this stupid 2k grind limit. Scopley adds so many events and still keeps this stupid limit in play.
Came 1st in yesterdays Xindi Scrap event.
Now cant Score on Gorn event
Have to spend all day tomorrow now trying to catch up on Gorn after the block is reset and what then blocked again for the next event and cant gather any other resources needed for my other 70 refinery's and faction jobs

[elder granite]

My ships do not display cargo as I kill hostiles. game is ridiculous!

[proven sparrow]

you are at the 2k hostile limit, this is what we are complaining about. Scopley still has this stupid 2k limit on attacking hostiles yet added so many events that you cant take part in them.
once you have killed 2k hostiles no mater what they are.
You no longer get XP, Loot, Chests or Faction rep and might aswell turn off the game

[elder granite]

That is ridiculous!

[pulsar hatch]

Been that way for a few years now.

[bleak basin]

Hostile limit + Grinders event that only gives credit for loot two days in a row = NOT COOL

[turbid hamlet]

Can you STOP putting so many hostile GRIND events during the busy work week while leaving NOTHING on weekends!!

[neon plover]

@quasi ingot <@&509690795536941056>
What is this BS?
You changed the "Symbiotic Exchange - SLB". Originally it was for levels 10+, not it's for 20+.

I specifically did not spend my Trill emblems in order to participate in the 3rd SLB on 23-24. Now that you've changed this, we can't participate anymore AND you've taken our chances away.

This is profoundly disgusting.

Change the event back, or compensate us adequately.

[agile zinc]

I've never played any game apart from this that has a limit on how much loot/hostile rewards you can get. Scopley really need to remove this and just let people grind/play how they want. If I want to do all my grinds for a week on a weekend then let me.

[lucid idol]

it's a (really ridiculous) anti-bot measure, it punishes people who play a lot to try and combat botting, just in a really lazy way

[pure gorge]

Man that hits me so hard, I get 1 or 2 days off a month. So of course I try to stock up on my loot so I don't have to do as much during the rest of the month when I am working.

[willow coral]

there is logic behind the 2000 kill daily loot limit......however there isn't with the constant npc kill SLB's 😦 whoops, soz edited 🍻 @molten marlin

[molten marlin]

it's 2k

[agile zinc]

Don't worry guys, tonight will be borg or dom hostile loot 🤣

[astral talon]

I'm not so sure the 2k hostile limit is a bad idea w/ all the SLB's. As some have mentioned, it opens up the meta to a (small) element of strategy and makes for a more competitive race. You can choose to blow your 4000* kills in one SLB, go 2k for each SLB, or other combinations. Opens it up to others to challenge you if you used your kills to dominate one but then find yourself flat-footed and can only compete after nightly reset in the next.
Like others have said, there are definite reasons for the limit (mostly for bots, but I like to think it's also got a "stop playing already!" mental health component), but this is adds an unexpectedly interesting strategy to the meta

[astral talon]

At least you didn't lose anything by hoarding.

[north granite]

Scopely does not care for anyone’s mental health, see packs store and the sheer overwhelming plethora of events every month that revolve around buying or having bought enough to complete them.

[astral talon]

Oh, I didn't mean it was deliberate on Scopely's part. I like to think of it as them unintentionally introducing a mental health component that ever-so-slightly undermines their obvious lack of concern for it.
"Wait. Why aren't people grinding hostiles 24/7 and buying more packs to upgrade or repair? ... ... ... We did WHAT?!?!?!"

[north granite]

Add in the packs involve a gambling element, and they WANT you addicted and spending all your free time and even much of your structured time around the game, plus more money than you can think about until the bills show up.

[brisk narwhal]

I wouldn't mind the "you need to pay" events if they would include options for free to play players to get similar types of rewards, maybe a little less but something for folks to be able to not just be left out or be punished for not paying. It was because of all this paywall discrimination that I actually stopped spending. Because I don't think it's okay to essentially punish some people for not being able to afford to shell out like that.

[dusky fjord]

started an fkr epic and got zero pus for “echos of war” event

[last lance]

<@&509690795536941056> - From FW on Server 20. We see and appreciate you all splitting the Mission Key SMS milestones into two. Now 18 days of pulling that key can't be totally ruined by one busy Saturday. We have also really enjoyed the Unstable Discoveries META events, the Long Con Events and the Echos of war events. We also see an appreciate the event store loot payout this month...which seems....so far....much better than the last two event store months. I have also liked that some FC's are in that event store. Good job on this months event, event changes and loot. Deserves a hearty Attaboy!

[scenic flint]

<@&509690795536941056> please tell Scopely to look at the event calendar when scheduling events.

There is nothing wrong with this event if ran on any other day other than Apex Thursdays. You run the Battleship version instead.

[green mica]

Right, because it’s gonna be easily completable by almost everyone by hitting level 40s. If you’re at a level you can do that, go hit a capital trader.

[scenic flint]

Doesn't matter if it will be easily completable. It's a matter of efficiency.

[green mica]

Would take me hundreds of eclipse I’m not gonna do anyways. Would take you one capital trader (if it’s actually efficient for you to hit eclipse).

[scenic flint]

It doesn't matter what it would take you to do to complete it. It's more efficient to have events match. And for some there is a decent chance of completing both events at once and not everyone can hit capital traders and win. There is more players below ops 40 than above it right now (Source: RevDeuce).

[green mica]

That’s your whole argument 🤦‍♂️
It’s not more efficient when completing eclipse events would give people above 40 only 1% completion to that event. And hitting capital traders is something anyone with a g3 epic should be able to do.

Also, regardless of whatever Rev thinks, scopely has made it clear the game is designed for 40+ now.

[scenic flint]

Why are you arging against this? You admit that you have no stake in it since you wont hit eclipse hostiles anyways. Also I was only using Rev as a reference for the claim that there are more people under 40 than over, not for his opinions on the matter. It also doesn't matter if new content is designed for 40+, there is still quite a few players under that and there is nothing wrong with trying to maximize efficiency.

[green mica]

Because you’re arguing that scopely redo the order of events to save people at a level of the game they do not design for anymore one single hostile. Go hit one single capital trader and you’re done.

Or, you could wait to do your eclipse event until after reset tomorrow when you get the battleship event. Scopely gives you an hour in which you can score on tomorrow’s event while still scoring for eclipse.

[scenic flint]

It's not just this one event you rube. How many days in a row did we have away team style events this past week? If Scopely can learn to actually plan events around each other to match similar yet separate events like the various AT events or even the battleship hunter event around Apex Thursdays, then the game as a whole will be better off.

Also the thing about having "an hour in which you can score on tomorrow’s event" isn't something the Scopely designed or planned, it's related to DST and Scopley not adjust reoccurring events around it.

[astral talon]

Scopely hasn’t planned events for overlap or efficiency in… ever. When it happens, it’s rare (and likely accidental). There are all sorts of reasons for the arc runner to set events up the way they do, and keeping screen time to a minimum and/or allowing us to double-dip appear to be purposefully avoided. (ETA: To the below-40 point, it’s clear Scopely is pushing folks out of G3 since it’s “legacy” content. Planning events in a way that the G4 folks talk about how easy they are to complete is a direct motivator for G3 to ascend)

[sharp sapphire]

Trying to contact support to submit possible problem connected with the Arena . I couldn't exit the Arena in game so logged out, tried to log back only to get an Error messg. Error code 5, on both my phone app and computer. Been trying, since Tues night, to report the problem but cant find a link to Support to report it. Any help would be appreciated.

[trail solar]

Its very, very deliberate. They intentionally design these games to be very addictive.

[astral talon]

Right. That’s what I said.

[verbal surge]

The announcement for the heroic spend sms is distasteful
You’ve been increasing the milestones every single month in the past year, making even the first milestone a lot more expensive with lower rewards than it used to pay out.
The announcement like you’re doing us a favour couldn’t be further from the truth
Stop your forced inflation and make the events worthwile again

[midnight atlas]

Apex Exile has stopped scoring, S102

[lost swan]

#👽-how-to-contact-support 🙃

[outer oxide]

I noticed the change in time to the Arena start time in the EU servers. It should fall in line there for the majority now. Thanks for taking feedback into consideration for them. For me, the start time lands at 7AM so I will be asleep when it starts. I would still like the Arena event to last at least at a minimum of 12 hours instead of the 8 for more match opportunities.

[ocean crypt]

so what's happening with territorys, seems alliances are already taking over systems right now

[molten marlin]

it was reset yesterday, people are reclaiming what they had

[edgy bison]

Monaveen is not scoring in battleship event.

[molten marlin]

auto chasers need to match the ship for the event, manually hit the hostiles in the system with the monaveen and it works fine

[graceful needle]

It's not supposed to

[visual hill]

so autofarming for the battleship hunter event doesnt work? but it worked with explorers and interceptors??? wow

[fleet wren]

I’ve been level 40+ for quite some time and yesterday there were too many events sending people in different directions. I was in game for most of the day focused solely on events and still had one I didn’t have time to get to. So the efficiency would have been appreciated

[green mica]

If you’re 40+ it’s not more efficient because the level 40 hostiles will give you an insignificant amount of points 🤦‍♂️

[elfin nest]

Why is Mess hall not considered in the advance development SLB?

[molten marlin]

they keep swapping what works for it

[chrome grove]

Whispers of the Fall : Battleship Hunter . Given there is no other mention here, I must assume it is only me with a issue . . . . I have tried using the Kumari and Borg Cube in several Systems, inclusive of while doing my faction dailies . . . . Why do I not score in Battleship Hunter Event while I am clearly using a BattleShip ?

[low radish]

spend event before the weekend spend event? Seems a bit much

[visual hill]

Same here

[chrome grove]

Lezat and Pasadoran Battleship V Battleship appears to be ok 👍

[visual hill]

Thanks! appreciate that. Now why would scopely say in the event "any hostile"? smh

[chrome grove]

The wonders and mysteries are way above my comprehension bud 🤪 . But your very welcome

[true hare]

I know that if you are autogrinding it doesnt work correctly. The "attacker" needs to be a battleship, so if you are autogrinding and the hostile it spawns isnt a battleship it wont work.

[sweet bobcat]

seriously what is scopely thinkin? arena on mondays...
Most people have jobs to do in the week xD

[frank solar]

And making it later in the day pretty much eliminated 2nd shift and third shift workers from ever being able to participate. They could have just made it 12 or 24 hrs not just 8 hrs. It’s a feature I liked and now I’m all but eliminated from participating cause of the time change. Thanks Scopely.

[sweet bobcat]

i am eliminated aswell, i work in 2 shifts and either nobody is online at the time of the arena or im at work so this is BS, most mayor events last full day and best ones r in weekends....
So why not make arena a weekend thing or 1 on monday and one on saturday maybe....

[true hare]

I have been and will be able to participate but i agree, increase the window so everyone has a chance to participate.

[sweet bobcat]

yea host it 2 times a week (monday and a weekend one), just make some kind of weekly token that u can use for one of them

[nocturne zephyr]

i do believe that the arena should run longer than 8 hrs cause now with the adjusted time people in my alliance who work the day shift the next day are saying they may not be able to really participate

[spiral carbon]

Players: We really like this event. It's really really good exactly as it is but can you make it 12 hours or maybe not on Monday? Maybe take a look at the 7 level difference.
Scopely: Good news commanders, the event is now 3v3!
Players: We literally said it was good...
Scopely: And also it's one hour later!
Players: But it was good...
Scopely: We're considering a new prime to submit your feedback!
Players: What?

[royal kiln]

Adjustment to arenas is just a display of scopely being tone def.

Ppl dont want sooner/later 8 hour windows. No matter where you put that 8 hour window, some ppl will not be able to play.

3v3 only makes it less enjoyable for smaller players in group. Now 1 person can quickly kill off the other teams ships amd put them on 2 min repair ques

Congratulations scopely, you received feedback and made it worse.

[astral talon]

A lot of people asked for smaller matchups. On Rev’s survey, it was Top 2 (24h being the other). I do wish we got more time, but 3v3 will at least make matchups quicker

[wanton anvil]

I did not see many players say they liked arenas. In fact many said they did not get to play or that they did not find it fun. I commend Scopley for trying to make arenas better.

[warm kestrel]

I wanted 3v3 between 9p-1a Pacific (12-4a eastern), when I play and most in US are asleep. Since my schedule doesn’t fit with when they want to run the event I’m not certain I care anymore. Is it too late to withdraw my survey?

[wise lintel]

Can we please change the Friday eclipse ticket event to a different hostile type?

[lilac oracle]

You have to attack them, not auto grind

[fluid lotus]

Small games should be an option sure. But it shouldn’t be the only option. The thing is the play space in arena was designed around 5v5. Having the same number of hostiles and armadas in 3v3 is going to be dumb. I doubt they’ve done a balance pass while reducing the player size

[sly juniper]

@full swan Again arena runs during work hours and on a weekday 👿 Good luck finding players being able to participate....

Or maybe I should adress the economy guys, since it seems they run this game: If me not work ugh! then me not be able to buy primes ugh ugh! Bad scopely! bad!

[latent steppe]

Could you explain why the Monaveen, a Battleship, killing Texan ships is not scoring in the Whispers of Fall Battleship event?

[molten marlin]

Because auto farming doesn't work unless the chaser matches the ship for the event

[latent steppe]

The event states kill hostiles with a Battleship, there is no stipulation of what hostile, doesn't even say need to kill Explorers. Therefore Monaveen should score

[molten marlin]

It does score, when you manually hit hostiles like intended.

[latent steppe]

Again, then it should stipulate that. I know it's ancient history but, they did say they were working on reducing ghe time needed to complete the events daily. They've failed miserably

[sinful oxide]

@full swan Sir, if you have changed the format from 5 vs 5, I sincerely hope you also lowered the OPS span so its not still +-7. Otherwise you just made it worse (not that it would surprise me sadly).

[molten marlin]

5 vs 5, not 7 vs 7 and the +7/-7 hasn't changed

[wide mason]

The timings are improved but still too much overlap with the working day. Probably will now miss over half the event instead of all of it. Why not align with dailies and make 24 hours?

[long goblet]

<@&509690795536941056> is this a typo? How exactly does this provide a more convenient window for players in the EU? The standard working day is 09:00 - 17:00 so 14:00 is no better for a huge number of players.

My working day is 08:00 - 17:30 so 14:00 is a terrible start time! And why is the event only 8 hours???

[wide mason]

Worse when the clocks change

[light canyon]

Arena changes wont much matter , if you have to rely on the one that starts the que for it to start it. Either let any member in it start it when full or make it start on a timer when it’s full. Otherwise it can still be a problem for people to participate in . My entire experience with arena was the member that started the Que never started it when it was full that and when trying to start my own could never get enough to join. A timer or keting any member start it when full will solve part of the issues with arena

[orchid token]

14 UTC for europe is 16 CET currently so it runs until midnight which is way better than the 12 to 20:00 CET last week, but officerberkel is right, once we change into standard time we are back to +1 towards UTC so it will be 15 CET

[long goblet]

14:00 UTC is 14:00 GMT+0 (UK standard time, 15:00 BST) so it is a rubbish time for us.

[orchid token]

yeah then after change its flat 14 . still not ideal. i mean americans also change a bit later, maybe they will move the time window once more by 2 hours in november. we can just address the feedback.
still i m rather happy it was shifted by 4 hours else it would be impossible for many of us to even run for 1 or 2 hours

[shrewd snow]

Being in eastern US this runs from 5pm to 1 am. So instead of conflicting with work scheduling we've basically been told, "well screw your family dinner time and sleep time then". Having a single 8hr window once a week regardless of start time does not solve anything and will never be fair to all players. It needs to either be a 24 hour event like everything else or run varying 8hr windows multiple times throughout the week.

[merry totem]

Are we having a treasury chest parts this week?

[solemn tide]

the change is 3v3

[inland goblet]

Logic and Economy.

The event shop sells a set of particles for Prime Syndicate XP research. The set costs 150K emblems. That research gives a bonus of 100% to the daily claim of syndicate XP. In my case, it is +1500 points.
Next, in the same tab, you can simply buy syndicate XP.
17.5K costs 7500 emblems.
That is, for 150K emblems I can buy 350K syndicate XP.
To get the same amount after purchasing the Prime, I will need more than 233 days (well, okay, less - if I make a claim on cooldown).

Do you really consider these equivalent purchases?
350K points now and immediately, or 350K in 230+ days?
Even taking into account that after these 230 days I will continue to receive "bonus" 1500 XP?

I mean, sure, in the long run it's more beneficial to have a stable bonus. But don't you think this "long run" is a bit too long?

[molten marlin]

original reply said they changed it from 7vs7 to 5vs5, hence my reply, i'm well aware that it was changed to 3v3

[summer canopy]

The arena would be appealing if I didn't have to recall all my ships. I'm not losing mines (some of which are agreed unhitable on our server) for a low amount of rewards
Have it work like Wave Defence and just pick two ships

[green mica]

You will use all docks though. And it’s not low rewards.

[ripe elm]

Playing hide the sausage with the solo armada event worked well.Only peeps who saw it were the very limited number of players who bought the ship. Only 25 g4 and 21 g5 players scored on my server.....Bravo.

[solar citrus]

Scopely, I just want to thank you for adjusting this event and reverting back to the old style scoring. As mainly ftp this helps and shows us you were listening.

[neat condor]

spending Recruit SLBs with an option to score points using Rare and Epic armada directives either need to count Exchange armadas, or explicitly state that Exchange armadas don't count

[rough ravine]

One of the easiest things to fix about Arenas was to move it from Monday... a day where a LOT of people place their ships in Token systems for mining. Arena pulls those ships out when you enter. Why can't we run Arenas on a day when Token systems are not used so heavily, creating a conflict?

[rough ravine]

It says right in the event description text "spending regular armada directives". Eclipse have never scored in these events. Seems pretty clear.

[tame terrace]

<@&509690795536941056> I just heard rumors that Alliance tournaments aren’t running this month or next and are tabled indefinitely. 😡😡😡😡😡. Did the event have problems? Absolutely, FIX THE PROBLEMS. I think one of the biggest issues is it was such an obvious money grab. It gets old when coupled with all the problems, etc with this game. Some suggestions are rather than have people all pick from a pool, give everyone a list of items that change every two hours and make them ops appropriate. They did better the second round but there were still issues to be resolved. They scaled some events but it didn’t help when the only choices for an ops 28 person was kill Xindi, Gorn, or Rare Dominion solos. So now we have people who have things they put all their time and effort into getting and they can’t complete them because Scopely decides to suspend the event?

[mental rain]

I hate that you changed it to 4pm for Us. Why? I am busy in evenings. So effectively pushed me out from playing it. Why not just make it all day? Or from 12 to 12. So afternoon, evening, and late night all get a chance? But 4pm? Jeez that stinks <@&509690795536941056>

[pseudo lion]

First squad from my alliance ran2, and both were totally unplayable due to many crashes, horrendous lag and controls not functional.

[sacred tusk]

Lag is so bad, they are unplayable, and can only repair 1 shi[p at a time? fix it Scopley, this is absolute rubbish.

[icy marsh]

the new 3v3 format makes overmatches much worse so far. now, just 1 ship that's much more overpowered than anyone else can easily kill the entire opposing team faster than before. 1 hour into new session in apac and people already are losing interest

[pseudo lion]

Had the same exactly opponent squad 2 battles in a row. There is no fairness in matching!! Maybe worse than the last "experiment" Total failure @

[pseudo lion]

One additional thing. I have 8 docks. I prepared 7 ships for Arena and left one to finish mining in token space. With the first Arena battle I saw that although I didn't touch the ship mining, the Arena pulled my ship out ear. This was NEVER disclosed by Scopely or any content creator whose videos I watched. No wonder Arena is so bad an idea, it forces total participation or nothing.

[serene falcon]

FIX THE MATCH UPS! and the armada bugs, seriously how can they get this so wrong, all the time

[neat condor]

Using this logic, Borg and Dominion Solo Armadas shouldn't score for Solo Armadas. Additionally, there is no such thing as a "regular armada directive". Given that Borg and Dominion solo armadas score for Spend Solo Directives, there is no reason to think exchange armada directives wouldn't score for Spend Regular Directives. And finally, this is the feedback channel. I am offering the feedback that the event should either be updated to include exchange armadas, or the text should make it clear that they aren't included. Why would you push back against clarifying text?

[shadow flare]

It's rubbish when it adds insult to injury by dropping your progress on the bronze/silver/gold rating because you lose a match where you literally have zero chance of doing anything except getting blown up on system entry

"qUaLiTy OvEr QuAnTiTy"

[torpid epoch]

Like this

[icy marsh]

I've noticed a rise of a new strategy - afk loss farming 🙂

[arctic crater]

https://tenor.com/view/hiding-hide-and-seek-careful-investigation-ninja-gif-13913424499449793891

Current Community Manager situation

[shadow flare]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-fun-fun-fun-kazoo-kid-gif-16972938

[amber chasm]

Ur logic is wrong, exchange armadas are connected to a 'special' event, in this case Apex, and always have been directed solely towards Stella events.

Same as Cardassian armadas or the Doomsday armadas.

No point to keep pushing against what other people say in this case, regular armadas are FKR armadas (faction armadas), the first ones introduced in the game and will always be.

[pseudo lion]

Pirate Armadas are not FKR Armadas nor are they special event Armadas such as Apex and the like. Sometimes they count in regular Armadas and sometimes they don't., depending on how strict the event description is.

[vagrant arrow]

The arena match-ups still suck. We've resorted to just starting them repeatedly and not doing anything. Just collecting the losses.

[flint geyser]

Broken - weve joined but cant see who now stuck on entering arena after clear local I would post screenshot but slowmode on

[shadow trellis]

How’s it broken it might not be able to find an opponent yet

[flint geyser]

now Ive joined but didnt show the oposition so broken as in not working as expected!!

[arctic crater]

if you join after the 2 min countdown when entering the arena area, it won't show the opposition. it'll take you straight there.. this is a normal screen

[flint geyser]

it was stuck on that until I restarted the game!!

[flint geyser]

it would be nice if there were some armada reward loot as well as points

[shadow flare]

Apparently sarcasm is blocked by the chat filter...

[molten marlin]

Caps are blocked

[flint geyser]

all this waiting time is a waste1.5 min preparing for what?

Stuck

[left marlin]

Hey Scopely! Not too late to add Gwen DeMarco to the Event Store. Just sayin’ 😉🙏🖖

[hollow lichen]

HOW is arena more laggy with 3v3 compared to the previous 5v5??

[worn wolf]

🤮

[ornate jasper]

Arena pairings are an absolute joke. Two 60s and one 57 vs 2 66s and 1 63

[lucid idol]

<@&509690795536941056> as suspected, all 3v3 has succeded at is making matches take longer. there is no difference to the fairness of the matchups, as everyone told you when you announced this.

[shadow trellis]

Think the 3vs3 was so teams could be made easier as some I think found it hard to get 5 players

[copper reef]

Well done Scopely. Last week wasn't perfect, but with the 5v5 matches we overcame some much bigger teams that were made up of mostly bigger players. But again, you've listened to the wrong people.
3v3 makes this event so much more pay2win than ever. Matching 3 x mid 50s with 3 x mid 60s, it's impossible, they can just camp each armada spot, and because there's fewer people in there and less chaos, it's much harder to go about unnoticed and play for the objectives.
Even just one player can now tip the balance so much more easily, there are far fewer people on the map for them to kill so can keep the whole area clearer and skew the whole game.
This PVP mode has now become just sit and wait for them to complete and accept your 400 points for a loss.
Total waste of time now.

[noble drift]

<@&509690795536941056> with reaching hostiles limits I can`t collecting armada directives 😒

[ivory coral]

Matchmaking is still completely garbage. First match - 56/56/60 vs. 63/64/64 - At least give us a button to forfeit the match, so we don't have to waste our time with such 💩

[inland goblet]

Fair matchmaking, they said...
.

[mellow fjord]

<@&509690795536941056> Please bring back Alliance Tournament this month. Its a great feature with sourcing for awesome things. Its not yet a perfect feature but it needs to run to get better.

Also Warrom needs to run more often

[visual furnace]

No events for the Arena this run and no repair speeds ups? come on guys!?!

[hollow lichen]

so far all our matches except 1 have been with a team of late G5 players and always matched against teams with at least 1 G6 player in with the matching ships. What do you expect us to do....

[ornate jasper]

Last 2 matches there have been 2 low levels and 1 high level, definitely some carrying going on

[broken crystal]

with smaller teams in the arena, a single super strong player counts more and can screw up everything. please make the level ranges smaller as well

[pseudo turtle]

Indeed. They'll just say that there aren't enough players to make the level difference smaller. Which to me is a sign that the whole thing simply won't work in this game

[dapper path]

👆 This <@&509690795536941056> 👆

Timewise 3v3 is taking ~2/3rd longer. With the prep time + arena time + result match times combined, means that for the losing it’s basically ~15minutes of watching paint to dry…

Give us a folding option or something, just anything to exit this useless ~15min “lockdown”.

[lucid idol]

I agree, so far I've only benefited from it, but guarantee soon enough I'll be put up against someone with a G6 rare and I won't be able to scratch them, I've had one competitive match so far but even that was unfairly skewed in my favour as the 63 ops guy didn't have a g6 uc

[main tendon]

Quality matchmaking. We felt so bad for them. Honestly, sort it out. If matchmaking is gonna be this skewed when it comes to levels, at least put it back to 5v5 when you can at least do something sometimes among the chaos

[broken crystal]

we are 50/52/52 and are paired against 46/53/59. he starts 300 point armada and we cant do anything. he kills our armada leaders and we cant do anything

[modest sapphire]

Arena matchmaking is bs and a joke
And the 8hr runtime is pathetic

[fluid gust]

was on the receiving end of one like that, but with a full grade gap.

[broken crystal]

LOL

[fluid gust]

got another...
would appreciate if it was impossible for G5 and below squads to be matched with G6

[dapper path]

Another big downside of the 3v3 <@&509690795536941056> , is that it is “too easy” now for the team which is having the biggest player. Cuz due to less players, it’s a lot easier now for the strongest one to wipe out the entire opposing team strongest ships, effectively rendering that team powerless and/or without any viable countering options very quickly, cuz all they have left are small or slow ships now that their better ships & crews are being locked down in that silly 2min repair modus…

[ancient frigate]

The matchmaking is worse tham last week, higgest possible player klevel at the own team 63, opponents 66, 68, 64.....well done scopely....how should this work

[obtuse badger]

Ops 54 started a squad --- ops 47 - ops 61 can join the squad calling match making bs is an understatement

[uneven jolt]

Arena Feedback Repair Time is to loooonnng.

[lucid idol]

ahhh yeah here we go, my team 62/60/64 ops, vs 64/65/66, seems fair..... getting absolutely steamrollered

[stray oriole]

Lost an arena match and didnt even get any rewards or points.. bug? Or did i do something wrong.

[onyx radish]

Really?

[main tendon]

Don’t run this event again until you’ve fixed matchmaking. An actual toddler could figure this out. Joke

[languid moat]

Feedback.. you made it worse, you made the terrible ship imbalance even worse, don’t blame elo, don’t blame ranking.. blame yourself. YOU designed the algorithm that is matching one set of players with another set of players and allowing one team to have ships Ten to hundred times stronger than the other, and reducing the player count has accentuated it and made it worse …

[uneven jolt]

Nice of you to give us the option for a Full unlock with a spend SMS. Hope to see this in the future with officers.

[neat condor]

this is the feedback channel, its entire point is pushing against the current state and asking for something better. Just because exchange "have always been directed solely towards Stella events" doesn't mean that can't change, or that the description of the spend SLB can't be updated to explicitly mention what group armadas count. Its crazy to me that asking for a description update so that new players who don't have your deep knowledge of the game's history don't waste directives is getting any pushback at all @amber chasm

[covert oriole]

Feedback , last time I had fun this time no end feedback

[neat condor]

also, we just had a bounty hunting event, where exchange armadas did count, so this apex only narrative is incorrect

[ashen prawn]

matching is crap

[last lance]

By ops that looks like a great match up....based soley on power, it looks like your ops 49 rushed his ops a bit.

[primal burrow]

I realise it's near impossible to get a perfect matchmaking system... but an option to bail when you see it's so overwhelmingly unwinnable would be appreciated thx. don't think my squad of ops 50's really fancied waiting around for the whole time whilst 2 ops57's and one 59 ran rings...

[thorn sand]

I’m ops 56, and I get teamed against a group of 61-66 ….and you call this “fixed”…..back to the drawing board guys and maybe take a pay-cut

[soft linden]

Areans have broken, we cant impulse anywhere.....

[spark cypress]

I would give a left leg for this kind of match making.

[molten marlin]

there are some actual bad matchmakings, that's not one of them, probably the closest matched i've seen today

[spark cypress]

like that? 😮

[soft linden]

i bet you didnt even bother sending ships....

[subtle scarab]

Arena a failed future

[fluid gust]

arena works great, when matchups are even.
last week every matchup was fair for us, this week i haven't had a fair matchup for an hour.

[green mica]

Needs to go back to 5v5.

[subtle scarab]

When we finally got a team there aren’t any opponents to compete against so people will drop off

[main tendon]

Lmao ‘working as intended’. What god awful matchmaking

[craggy elm]

You could do us all a favor and accept the fact that most of the matchmakings are garbage.
No need to point out the few that ain''t. It's not even noticable.

And please stop telling stuff like "but the ranking"

[median loom]

<@&509690795536941056> Can we have a forfeit button in the arena please. When you are so over matched, rather than making us sit through upto 10 minutes of pain.

[grizzled crystal]

Well, what’s your problem? No one stops you spending $200k to catch up quickly /sarcasm

[twilit adder]

It’s not their fault your 49 is weak, that’s a match where your side should have the advantage since it should be 3 rares vs 2 rares and an unc

[ashen prawn]

oh it is, matching only by lvl is crap high 10

[chrome surge]

an ops 56 shouldnt be matched against a 45 - level brackets and matchmaking is garbagio

[sharp thistle]

A team of ops 60+ shouldn't be matched with a team of people under ops 60, but Scopely couldn't care less about anyone as long as the whales are happy crapping on players

[twilit adder]

So some strong ops 42s should have to deal with 46 ships because you don’t know how to complete research? Ops based is about as fair as it’s going to get since ship acquisition is based on ops.

[covert zephyr]

Strangely, people don't like being setup to be other peoples punching bag...

[sick furnace]

Arenas need a concede button for poor match ups, just a waste of everyone's time otherwise. In fact you may as well just let AI crunch the numbers and not bother with actually fighting, because there is no skill involved.

[green ibex]

Make Arena a 24hour event !!!! Then we can play when we have time !!!!!!

[ruby ivy]

Arena needs a 'surrender' button, some battles are so one sided that it is just a waste of 10 mins of your game time!

[tight sierra]

Ever too much docderence between teams, 90pc of games dont start. Have to be narrowed the matching, better cancel the match then have soneyhing like 52, 59, 59 vs 59, 66, 66!!! Or leave the possibility to cancel the matching

[dusky arrow]

Arena still not even playable once because of no one in level bracket is on in my alliance. Open the groups for everyone on the server.
3vs3 is also not possible in my alliance.

[lament cradle]

Come.. this is boring.. .. . good arena event but this lags.. jumping ships.. you cant see anything.. every event.. Waves.. Arena.. always the same..

[errant tendon]

Doesn't help when you can't actually target ships regardless of size

[toxic wraith]

Why run arenas, at same time as territory capture, wave defence rare ticket events, that both require hostile killing and armadas and pvp, but pvp in arenas doesn't count.. On top of mining Monday on a weekday when 75% of people working, need to eat, or in uni travel home, then eat, got to get up early next morning to repeat..
And give only 8 hours of which 1 or 2 hours is usable
And guess what you have event reset followed by mini event reset, TCS running at exact same time.
Then you got others who traveled to work and just started an 8 hr shift...

[sullen willow]

Arenas pointless because of the same lag that plague this game

[zenith fern]

Arena = 💩 !

nuff said!

[broken crystal]

I had 8 Arena games today, didn't have a chance in any of them

[slender marsh]

Why does the entire base for the arena have to be drawn, I can only play with two ships anyway. It should be similar to how two ships are selected in advance for the waves.

[toxic wraith]

Because you can play with every ship in dock, but only 2 at a time

[pliant palm]

this arena should really be moved to the weekend or at least a day after lat rush as there is a lot of ppl doing lat rush that would like to do the arena but can not as they just used a lot of tokens to do lat rush

[tight sierra]

We have to desert It in mass

[odd dock]

pvp arena fail. tbh if youre not going to open up team forming to server and keep it locked to alliance, it wont matter how few you make the teams...

enjoy your failure in 2 months

[jagged current]

I like the surrender idea. I’d happily pre surrender to a horrible match. Or maybe a “nope” button when the match is horribly unfair

[primal burrow]

honestly when it comes to g6 players their ships are in a completely different league to everyone else... even if matchmaking means they can't get a match... you'd please a bigger portion of the player base and I'm sure they'd understand having to wait...

[oblique basin]

Not a chance in hell. Can we not have a "Nope" withdraw option please???

[violet geyser]

developers, compared to surgeons who operate and kill people, I strongly recommend changing jobs

[lucid idol]

now on 4 matches in a row vs 67 ops, I'm highest ops on my team... literally nothing has changed since last week, except it takes longer for the massively unbalanced match to end

[dull crescent]

@Scopely/Reddits MAKE BETTER MATCHES. ARENA SUX NOW. A 54 PLAYER TO FIGHT A 62......WHAT DO YOU THINK?

[green ibex]

Make it 24 hours … not 8 … people have lives and jobs … don’t have the time to play this run , great fun 😡

[rigid crown]

24hr mismatched battles - no thanks. First fix the matching and lag, then perhaps prolong event. Else it‘s even more frustrating

[south prism]

Repairtoken in fraction shop are to expensive. As lower player I die very often

[main tendon]

Just felt it’s needed to further evidence the outstanding matchmaking algorithm you have. Like genuinely, how do you look at this and think ‘yeah that’s what we want’.

[odd dock]

the real reasn they reduced it to 3v3 ... for whale advantage! true story

[tribal kindle]

One more usefull thing....when a squad is being formed...have people auto-leave when they go offline. Got a member forming a squad while he is offline for almost an hour now.

[austere mortar]

matchmaking still has to improve. a group started by an ops 53 should not be facing off with ops 62+. secondly, deactivate hailing frequencies in arena as it adds to lag

[ivory cape]

Is anyone else annoyed by arenas being on mining Monday? Bro I wanna leave my miners in token space...

[tribal kindle]

dont get me ranting...am proud of not swearing in the msg above

[lucid idol]

CMs rn
https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-homer-simpson-gif-13518564799186478937

[vivid venture]

My opinion for Arena is make the brackets G3, G4, G5 etc and add in solo Vs solo mode with each player allowed 3 ships at a time

[pastel tusk]

The arena squad matching is completely broken

[left rose]

yep. this is so absolutely pointless

[odd dock]

the overall issue with the pvp arena is that scopely have no idea what they are doing.

a whale will steamroll a nonwhale right? therefore will not need to use repairs as often as the plankton they gobble up.

scopelys idea to make money is to sell repairs ... to the very ppl that dont buy

i give this 2 months before its as dead as worms

[versed grotto]

Can some PLEASE explain how a 53 can start an arena squad with a 57 and a 59 and we end up against 2 57s and a 59
@full swan

[pastel tusk]

Its annoying that once a "match" is made there is no wayto cancel if the match isn't suitable. Your locked in

[left rose]

46, 2x 51s joined against....a 52, 54, and a 56, their ships are all 3x-6x stronger than our ships. I dont have a ship over 100m yet, but sure....someone with a 600m+ cube is a fair match

[scenic flint]

<@&509690795536941056> I like the changes to Arena. But I do wish I could just start a match with less than a full squad.

If I want to play at a disadvantage, let me.

[meager moss]

Arena matchups are way off. I was top 56 when 50 staryed and getting matched with 60 and 63, no chance

[austere mortar]

this here should NOT be possible!! <@&509690795536941056>

[deft rain]

level 42 opener with a 49 on the team, opposing team has a level 56 player, apparently your all's definition of the word "balanced" is way different than ours

[loud tide]

You can’t collect arena hostiles tokens if you have hit your daily hostile limit. That needs to be fixed please otherwise those that grind — which you make us do are out of luck

[dawn glacier]

Arena is still "big ship wins". Ops 56s can't compete with a maxed Ent-D. No fun to be had.

Update: next match had an ops 63. Zero balance here.

[last lance]

I like Arenas...I want to start with that. It does suck though when I create a squad and it flases a message in AC to join but only ops 46-60 (as I'm ops 53). Then to get matched up against some 61+ ops. If I can only have folks up to ops 60 join, then any team with a 61 ops or more, should be excluded from my matchmaking. If I cant have them in mine, they should not be allowed in thiers.

[pastel tusk]

Frankly I'm just not going to bother with it.

Nice in principle but Nil pointe for execution

[main tendon]

Literally. Every. Game.

This is stupid. Comp chests for time wasted?

[fervent meteor]

Scops narrow minds cannot understand a incredible complex concept such as "fair competition"
I belive fair, for them, is a 100 dolar bill !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Arena was the best idea in the year, IF they could make it workmin fair terms....,the way it is now is just another forgeteble thing, like the MU or waves.....not even a Battle pass event can save this if not changed quickly !!!

[scenic flint]

Also, I wish we could start a pm from this screen

[deft rain]

another power failure in this update, you guys just do not even hit the lowest level bars of performance. the window of pairings needs to be much lower than 7 levels based o the starter, 3 levels plus or minus maximum, a 42 can be paired with a team started by a 49 which can have a 56 i it, do you guys even play this game to realize how broken that is??

[marble hatch]

3v3 matchmaking is doing a bad job of averaging players ops with their rank. Not because the formula is broken, but because 3 people make a worse bell curve than 5. Please put it back to 5 scopely

[golden kiln]

@full swan were there supposed to be events that dropped as well?

We are missing a sms and slb i thought

[pastel tusk]

That should apply to both squads

A 45 leading both squads and matching average ops levels

[odd dock]

i bet next weeks solution is to introduce normal pvp bracketing ... so that all those whale teams with 65-70s can go round and swat the 45 teams

[pseudo arch]

Got into a match with folks 3 or 4 ops lower, but they have maxed versions of the latest meta crew and Tantalus field, so their 17m enterprise can kill my 39m Valdore. Pvp in this game is so broken, this is a useless event until pvp balancing happens

[modest sapphire]

Make arenas on the weekend so more people can play rather than the die hard higher ops and spenders which seem to dominate the arenas

[vocal adder]

sooo much wasted time in these things.

[hazy swallow]

Yep. Matchmaking still sucks. 🙄

[odd dock]

Prime Matchmaking Cancel Button ... only 99.99 .... coming soon

[humble shoal]

How can this be called balanced matchmaking?????

[golden kiln]

Its not lol

[forest spear]

Amazingly, you managed to make the Arena WORSE. The matching from last time was poetry and genius in comparison to this garbage.

[copper reef]

Scopely I'm so disappointed you've made such a mess of what could be an awesome feature.

Putting a level 63 with a 63 ship and G6 research against a 53/56/56 IS NOT FUN!!!

We literally don't leave base most of the time, just wait for it to be over. If there was a forfeit button, we'd be pressing it.

Is this feature is to remain 3v3 there has to be a MUCH BETTER level cap on this thing and stop matching players that have ships 2 whole tiers up!
Understand this game is 100% pay to win. Why bother trying to make matches based on "skill" when it should be based on how much you've spent.

Until there's a cap on how many levels up you can be matched against - this feature is DOA

[dawn glacier]

Arena's matchmaking is still broken and unbalanced. It will be a dead feature in no time. Pull the feature, let's move on with our lives.

[jagged current]

You have much higher standards than you should given how badly they make mangled PvP. Simplest answer is that which is least likely to be adopted by scopley- drastically cut the PvP range.

[twilit adder]

Matchmaking is still absolute trash

[umbral ether]

agreed, the matchmaking is horrible

[scenic flint]

It's quite obvious they don't actually play this game. They may play test, but they are not daily players.

[vocal adder]

go out with a bang they say

[thorny storm]

That's cute you think they really test it.

[humble shoal]

it is. Scopely calls this "balanced"

[golden kiln]

“Working as intended”

I mean, let’s be serious. The entire purpose of these events is to make you want to rage spend.. of course they’re making unbalanced teams lol

[scenic flint]

I did say they may play test. Lol

[forest spear]

If that is their goal they are doing the opposite with me.
When I am angry I do not spend on anything, not the battle passes, not the new ships, not the new officers, not primes, not forbidden tech, NOTHING.
They get nothing from me but ill will and hostility while I shield and go do something else.
In fact, bye, Scopely.

[broken crystal]

I just had my first win today. from 12 matches.

next matchup:
lvl 48,50,54 (360m score total) vs lvl 55,56,62 (960m score).

you have so many metrics for matchmaking available. please use them wiser

[nova flicker]

matchmaking algorithm needs some improvement, but 3v3 vs 5v5 was way easier to get into. big time improvement. part of the matchmaking problems i see are the players fault for bringing two other schmucks at the low end of the range, when the other guy brought bigger ones. that's players fault for not understanding how this works.

[golden kiln]

Well, you’re a far smarter person than the average Scopely customer lol

[subtle scarab]

Well there where a few nice pvp battles

[royal kiln]

3v3 matching is absolutely horrid ... with 5 you could at least be somewhat competitive with swarming a larger team ... with 3v3, all it takes is one larger player and its over

[void light]

The problem is Ops level is a garbage way to balance teams. Hw much money spent influences your power at an ops level more than anything

[sinful stratus]

Match-makong is broken

[fluid drum]

My 10 year old niece just asked me how is it fair that the max level in your group is level 50 and you are having to fight level 54s. I smiled at her and told her congratulations you are smarter than the scopely developers.

[rapid yacht]

Our team - 48 (leader) 50 and 53 - opponents 65, 63, 60 - really Scopley

[karmic isle]

Again with the ops 64 vs ops 57 arena PvP !!!! What on earth is fair about this ???Scopley, you did NOT hear all of us that posted about how bad this is !!! What is fair about this !? We don’t want this !!! This is just another total waste of time

[fathom walrus]

Its suprising a well conceived match making system would make it in to Arenas. Look to the SLB's

[fluid drum]

Leader 43, group 49 and 50 opponent 46, 49, 54. I know the developers at scopely aren't Rocket Scientists, but a third grader would know that something ain't right here.

[neon dragon]

Arena - when my miners got recalled their contents didn’t count towards my daily goals or events. Did it even go into my inventory or was it all just lost!

[proven sparrow]

So what happened to even match making Ops or even +7 ?
I form a group and can only add 40-49 to my group so why was I matched against a ops 55 that can add 47-62?
Where was my ability to add a 55 to my group?
I thought i seen a post saying it was "more balanced"?
@full swan

[molten marlin]

-7+7 was for forming your group, not your matchups. Matchups are supposed to be average ops and ranking (we don't know the weight of the rank) but the average is apparently not working

[proven sparrow]

They cannot at all use a match making formula based on ranking. The only way of having a formula like that is to have arena teams locked so once you form a group and start playing you are locked and forced to play with the exact same team for the entire season.
If they are using ranking as a formula then they need to get their heads checked

[gritty surge]

This is just not right

[spiral carbon]

<@&509690795536941056> you had a great thing, and then the devs listened to the people who weren't enjoying it anyway, and killed it for the ones who were

[fossil rune]

So I have a suggestion open the teams to region wide or server wide. Right now high level players in alliances still have no one to queue with

[karmic isle]

This is what a proper match up is supposed to look like. If I had lost, it STILL would have been a fair PvP fight!!! We do not care that it’s supposed to be a +7/-7 , that’s NOT what we want, and that’s what we are griping about. You’re acting like we are too dense to understand that. What you don’t get is that THATS what we are griping about !! It allows an ops 57 player to get matched with an ops 64 player. That is not a fair matchup.

[molten marlin]

You're misunderstanding what i said.

[fluid drum]

I have developed a new arena strategy, get a group of three together launch and then go watch youtube until the battle is over and collect our 400 credits for the loss. Stress levels reduced to 0.

[uneven jolt]

Thx first time doing Arena, this was fun when i got a team together. Was only the last 2 hours we manage to play. But I enjoyed the Arena. Yes there was some few run overs. But there was also some good PVP fight. Hope it returns. Some in my alliance was hoping it would run in the weekend. Don`t let this become a feature that we see 1 or 3 times then we don't see it again like: Incursion, War Room, Aliance turnament, even if its bad we need the soursing of suff in the Event Stores. Better with some bad souring than nothing at all. Im happy with this result after 1 round.

[patent star]

We're all low rated... and we get people who have 5x our power.

[sinful stratus]

They just aren't. We had a 58/60/64 all bronze 4 vs a 60/66/66 that were silver. At some point, go hmmm, that ain't right

[vague nest]

<@&509690795536941056> how does this match making happen? 10 ops levels apart? Come on….. I’m just gonna afk through this loss.

[eager hornet]

Dear Scopely, how about NOT making Arena event on the same day as Lat Rush? We're all in token space & no one wants to waste tokens. Tuesdays are WIDE OPEN.

[turbid hamlet]

The Heck is this Horse pooey?? The ship isnt OPS locked and can get this strong at Ops 50?? What is this the new Jellyfish of today?? Every other ship i s Ops locked but you didnt with this??

[deft wren]

Lost

Anyone else find that the timers in Arena are off? Ships not making it to armadas in time, the event duration ending early etc

[plucky raptor]

Opened Ticket #26937733. KeptainConfucius 40 min ago. In arena the lag is unacceptable. 10 attempts to lock on or move my ships. This is intolerable. We lost cause of lag. I could not participate successfully I was only cannon fodder. I'd even restarted the game Please fix lag or compensate for system caused loss.

[signal wraith]

Arena = still absolute trash. You should be ashamed foisting this garbage on us.

[dark jewel]

<@&509690795536941056> why not just make it 70 ops every time.. I'm just ops 58.. it's easier to code.

[plush wharf]

Arena is dumb. No thanks. Can’t take all the money scopley. Gotta eat

[deft wren]

Given the terrible matching and the inability to back out of these unfair fights it seems a bit much to be losing rep after each lost arena fight too. I would suggest dropping that

[versed grotto]

This is just ridiculous. How does a 57 starter get matched with a 61 starter. How is this "balanced matchmaking"