Champion battle removal

@h0b0jo0e I don't think champion battles are necessarily a bad idea, they just aren't worth it. They're like 3x harder to win and you get maybe 50% more rep? Also even if you do queue for it you basically never get a match cus there's just so much less of the larger boats. Most times if I try I spend 2-3x longer in the queue just to resurface at an outpost. The game is also just not balanced that well. A solo is not gonna go beat a Gally crew of similar level. The mmr in hg just makes it pointless to try.

I dunno what the right fix for this is, but these are all the issues I see.

@fysics3037 I don't think they're a bad Idea either, I said I just don't use it and I don't know if others do either. But yea, the basis is that I do not think they are worth it.

Remove the champion requirement and let people vote on it with no streak.

Then change the battle from fighting a bigger ship to fighting in a 5 or 6 ship battle with no restrictions on ship or crew size.

@fysics3037 said in Champion battle removal:

@h0b0jo0e I don't think champion battles are necessarily a bad idea, they just aren't worth it. They're like 3x harder to win and you get maybe 50% more rep?

Unless they changed something, they don't give ANY extra rep whatsoever. Thee give nothing. It's explicitly an ego feature that nobody ever uses.

I'd love it if they changed that side into a multi-ship battle royale instead. Like voting on the left side is 1 ship vs 1 ship, and voting on right side is whatever a max server can hold these days relative to each ship type.

I wanna know the data rare has on how often people get enough streaks and vote to fight bigger ships as a sloop.

I bet is very low. Since sloop players (mostly solo) despise third party ships…and most the time it’s brig or gally

@sweetsandman last I heard it gave a little more, but then again I've never even been matched in one (dc'd like all 20 times I've tried lol) so I wouldn't really know.

@fysics3037 said in Champion battle removal:

@sweetsandman last I heard it gave a little more, but then again I've never even been matched in one (dc'd like all 20 times I've tried lol) so I wouldn't really know.

In the Season 8 deep dive vid they flat out said there was no additional reward for it, so unless something has changed since then....? But I doubt it since they pretty much left Hourglass to rot.

They dont need to remove it, they just need to make it actually have some kind of use other than "just cause i can", since it offers very little.

i dont even know if you get more rep for a champ win. thing is its close to impossible since brig is so much stronger than sloop and gally is so much stronger than brig. idk i feel like i might vote for it if i would get 5 lvls of rep for a win.

so yeah nobody is doing it, just as nobody is raising HG to be invaded.

rare is in a pretty good spot rn since they have managed to keep my expectations at an alltime low. and i wouldnt expect any HG changes basically ever.