#Make Open Beta Competitive

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tired heart
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I believe its crucial that we have the arena in a competitive state (balanced + incentives to grind) for our Open Beta launch.

Rewards were supposed to be paused for a couple of weeks. It's been a couple of months, and when people ask about it in the chats, we don't get answers. Part of me worries that the team is silently removing arena rewards because there will be an airdrop already.

This post highlights the importance and impact of having arena rewards back in force, at least for Open Beta. The goal is to gauge community sentiment around this topic and hopefully learn about the team's plans concerning arena rewards.

The competitive side of the arena is a key component of our ecosystem. With arena rewards, the demand for illuvials and armaments will be much higher. This, in turn, means higher prices and an incentive for people to play Overworld and pay for their runs. More people paying for Overworld means higher fuel prices and encourages people to buy lands and play them.

Having the arena in a competitive state for Open Beta will bring the entire ecosystem to its magical, interoperable state at Illuvium's most important moment in its history.

The airdrop is to attract people to our ecosystem. I believe it's important to have arena rewards so that everyone can fully engage with the Illuvium ecosystem and truly fall in love with it.

Let's convert those airdrop farmers!

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wispy verge
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I fully agree with Patate. We need some incentive to also play arena again as we want to cover a wide variety of player types. Thanks for bringing this up!

unreal storm
craggy herald
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Agreed

unreal storm
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I am possitive.

cunning mango
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Yes I support this. We need more players in Arena. Right now it is empty and queue times are really long.

In the current airdrop structure there is no incentive Unless experience gained in arena is way higher then collecting experience in overworld. Then we could level to stage 3 in arena. instead of doing a crazy amount of battles in overworld

haughty haven
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I'm with you on this. These airdrop points structure completely forgot the arena.

unreal storm
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This is just testnet. But, if we pay fuel and going OW and catch illvial nft.Where is value of nft.somebody should buy nft's.otherwise nft and land will be no value. where will be Arena players come from?

rain magnet
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yes i agree 100%

shy dawn
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We understand that now the team is interested in finding and fixing as many bugs as possible, and OW after patch and going on the testnet is full of it.
But as I remember the main competitive game is arena and OW is just the way to have more tools for arena.

So if we give airdrop points only for hunting it means no1 will test anything except OW. It will lead to more unknown bugs in zero and arena on the main net, and nothing good will happen.

All who can play arena played OW enough, otherwise you will not have any good units in decks to compete.

I'm personally played like 2 weeks, catch all units, and sick of doing same over and over (jump into 1000000 battle to hope it will have something except lynxes), and I want to play arena, compete, create decks and so on, and not start over grind infinite encounters to test my luck, especially coz all player from Russia, China, and many others can't play OW without VPN.

So.

GIVE. ARENA. REWARDS. BACK.

compact sphinx
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There should be airdrop points for - winning games in arena or have weekly leaderboard rewards as airdrop points

haughty haven
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There is 100 points per hour played. That's it.

hasty lagoon
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Agree 100%

icy dagger
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I agree with Patate

swift cape
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Agreed

elder warren
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I agree that arena rewards should come back when appropriate. Ideally, that will happen when the game (Ascendant Arena) is in a place that will retain players. I question if the game is currently in that state. Most recently, it appears that a lot of resources and focus has been on OW. And excellent results have been produced (in OW). This has continued with the airdrop system rewarding mostly OW as well. I'm confident that Arena will get the same treatment - but it would be nice to hear an official response (which has been lacking regarding Arena lately) and a timeline (re Arena) would also be nice.

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# tired heart I believe its crucial that we have the arena in a competitive state (balanced + ...

I agree, I love arena, its right up my alley and I enjoy playing it even more than the overworld. But right now there just is not the player base to engage in arena activity, everyone is in overworld for airdrop and the drive to play arena for some people disappeared with rewards. I think when the game comes out, for the first few months at least, we need to bring rewards back and drive up the player numbers in arena, as this not only helps sync up the overworld and arena, but starts building the arena player base early for when tournaments begin. I love what has been done with the overworld, very great job, but I think it would be a mistake to put arena on the backburner and I think bringing back rewards is a huge step in making sure that its still relevant and make sure people know its still a huge part of the game.

compact sphinx
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If we bring airdrop points for arena matches / wins into the openbeta test net there will be a huge shift to arena again imo

acoustic obsidian
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While we are updating Arena we have removed rewards. As you know, there is a new game mode coming. While we don't have a confirmed date as yet, once the new version is released rewards will be turned back on.

quasi abyss
quasi abyss
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Continuous improvement will make it more acceptable to many players.

acoustic obsidian
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No. Both modes will have rewards but we will launch the rewards program together.

tired heart
acoustic obsidian
tired heart
acoustic obsidian
patent stump
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i agree with this arena airdrop points or bring back arena weekly leaderboard.
ps. please dont forget the ore miners guys sadge

tired heart
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@patent stump for part 2 of testnet its all about ores only, no?

patent stump
tired heart
unreal storm
elder warren
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wen dashboard too? That thing looks dope af.

patent stump
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dashboard and leaderboard

eager briar
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I just want to play arena all day, please give some incentives so that I can have some matches

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unreal storm
eager briar
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Also still getting some crash in game, this is why we need more test

shy dawn
elder warren
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People waiting long time for a match probably have this bug and don’t realize.