After the reset you need to start at least one new ranked game to get the placement matches restarted. If you don't start that new game and just finish off older ranked games, you will not be placed. When started that one new ranked game, you need to finish another five games to get in a leaque again. Worked for me
Lol, Im pretty sure that first match was mostly luck on my part. Will send juuicetin and invite. Also didn't respond to the games after a bit as it was already 4 am here and I decided it was time to sleep. Lol
That would actually make a lot more sense. I fully understand that paying users will (and should) get more perks than those who play for free. I just think it's unfair to take back the advantages we've already been given. However, people have made some better suggestions. Someone said you should be able to start a game and set your own timer; this way people could choose the games that better fit their pace. If something like that could be implemented, it would rule. Also, as a mention, I do plan to buy the full game, in my own time. But that's up to me. Still, since the devs themselves gave people the option to play (to some extent) for free, I think I'm fully entitled to do so without being judged. I'm not stealing anything so I shouldn't be made to feel like I am. I see sanctimonious reactions like these far too often.
While I agree with that, you should also notice that there is a distinctive "I want and I am entiteld to play everything for free" attitude. As there is nothing wrong with taking up a free offer, there is nothing wrong with changing a (business) decision (like restricting some aspects of the game to paid users only) too. You paid nothing for having fun with this game. Good for you, nothing to complain. But if a specific aspect may get risticted to paid users only for various reasons, you have no reasons to be mad about anything. EDIT: BTW, I don't find it very probable that the game will be changed for paid only leaque play. So this is a very theoretical discussion. There are other, better ways to improve some aspects of the game that need to be addressed.
Playing the arm chair game designer here... I'd think the best solution would be that you can play friendly matches in any order, but you press a 'play league game' button that automagically takes you to the league game that has been waiting for your turn the longest. Either play a turn or play no turns. Friendly matches don't matter as much. Piss off your friend too much and he'll smack you in the back of the head. Random match timing DOES matter.
Yeah right. And I'm sure it's luck you've got my back to the wall in the second one we're playing now. Bloody hustlers everywhere.
That doesn't really help with the problem. If people don't take their turns, maybe eventually they reach a time limit and forfeit, but that doesn't help me, I still spent my time on a game that never even finished.
This this this!!! Mentioned something similar pages back. This would solve the issue and be fair IMO.
One solution might have been to let free users play friendly games and unlocking any of the IAP unlocks the league games. I'm not to bothered anyway as people who don't take their turns are free wins for me =)
But that applies even in a premium league. You can't force people to play even if they're premium users. Do you think 3 bucks will tie everyone down for life? This will be an asynchronous game no matter what suggestion they implement. I hope so, too. However, since I've noticed that the devs take interest in user suggestions (which is awesome, btw), one can worry. I never said I wanted everything for free, though. I'm ok with my missing features and limitations. But if they're gonna start cutting out options (hypothetically), and going all "don't pay - don't complain", then maybe they should stop labeling these games as "free" with so much ease and enthusiasm. I mean, take a look at the TA review. So put a price on it from the start or call it a "limited-time trial" and everyone will get the picture.
You can't force people to play, but you can give them a reputation. Very few people will pay $3 several times for several different accounts just so they can shed their reputation. But the problem of people making multiple free accounts is widespread in many games (not clear yet how much of a problem it will be in this one).
The 2nd one right now is going pretty nice, but I'm sure you're gonna turn it around, I noticed pretty late and there's not much I can do now. But we've had our interesting twists, definitely want more matches whatever happens .
First time around I was in master league but now I am in gifted. Question about this. Once you're in a league do you only play people in your same league? Like your specific named division or the entire gifted league? I'm in round squirrel division LOL anyone else? Also two bugs I'm still experiencing. One where my games list will not load and I have to restart. Secondly the game still crashes a lot when trying to make new games and when finishing my turn. Iphone 4s
I don't have problem with free players contribute in League games and I'm fine with pricing scheme overall but.. What "concerns" me is that we payed 3 dollars for 2 top (and most expensive) unites and we don't have a chance to use them. That being said I think runners are a bit overpowered (no matter how much I like them). Most of my games lately relate on runners which are cheap, have 5 hex move (and sight) because everyone try to rush my base with them. That is a problem specially on bigger maps when you have 2 spawn spots. I'm forced to make 2 runners all the time just to see what my opponent is up to. That makes games runner fest, less strategy involved and less interesting to play. To give us a chance to use Bombshell, Mobi and Scramble they should increase HP of base for at least 2 points and reduce runners sight or/and movement to 4. That is not much of balance but it would change the whole point of strategy IMO.
Oh, Did you send me an invite? I think I had 20 games last night, but I freed one up this morning. I made the mistake of starting too many random friendly matches that are tying up all my game slots. I would love to face some new opponents and welcome all invites except I really can't start playing too many games for another 3 more days
I don't think any of us have been playing for long enough yet to be able to reliably judge the overall game/unit balance. I'm discovering new strategies all the time, and each one affects the whole. I'm content to trust that the time the developers spent with the title up to release affords them a more complete picture at this stage.
Sonova... I thought placement matches weren't affected by the reset. 5 for 5 with 4 done before the reset... and now I have to try to find 4 active players again. That's what I get for skimming through the news.
same thing happened to me. I was masters the first time around and then I was gifted after the reset even though I won all my placement matches. I noticed that I have been playing people from clever to masters league. Also, even when I play people from gifted league, they are from a different division from me most of the time
I see, thanks. It would be cool to be able to challenge people that are within say 20 spots or 10 spots of your division. Also it will be interesting to see if runners need balancing. They are pretty strong but I'm not sure if they need reduction or not. Changing their range to four would dramatically weaken their's abilities.
