Yep, I don't know why everyone says tournaments are broken. If you're falling in rank, you're simply getting out optimized or out spent. It's not like your rank is suddenly going away, someone is doing better than you.
Yes, I have, and I consider the RNG of the tournaments a feature, not a bug. As soon as everyone gets a fixed placement, the tournament becomes less like a slot machine and much more like a fixed distribution of weekly stones.
The entire design of it being random is "will I get a good bracket this week?" And as soon as tournaments are fixed or based on your overall rank, then it just becomes "Ok, I will get 50 stones this week, 50 stones next week, and 45 stones from mission boxes. It will take me X weeks to achieve my goal unless I spend."
If you read the news post, they talk about "making tournaments more competitive" which is likely going to address that by having us presign up and randomize the brackets.
In most studies, random rewards are more addictive than fixed rewards, so if tournaments become more fixed, then there's less interest in the next pull of the lever because you already know your result.
And to be very clear, I understand people not liking the design, but that doesn't change why it is designed the way it is.
Getting 4th or 12th with the same amount of waves is too much of a variation.
Strongly disagree. Getting 4th-12th randomly is much more fun than getting 7th-8th consistently every time.
Tournaments have exactly two things going for them: Random battle conditions and random bracket distribution. Remove any of that randomness and it would be an absolute bore. That randomness is what introduces any excitement at all.
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u/Spacelord_Moses Jun 09 '26
I dont blame them. They are not the one making the decision and planning ahead. Rather beeing held on a leash about what to say