Steam version.
Last week, I played in Amethyst league. I finished about place 14 or 15; safe midfield, neither a promotion nor demotion spot.
To my surprise, I was promoted to Topaz today.
How did this happen?
P.S.: Before the topic comes up again, to not report “good” bugs: I expected a slow week so that I can focus more on the new kingdom. So a league, that may be even more competitive than the one I was in last week, is not what I want.
Player’s can also drop down to a lower league. This occurs if you finish the week ranked in your leagues “Relegation Zone”. Each league’s “Relegation Zone” does vary a small amount in size and does get smaller the lower the league gets.
Finishing in the demotion zone makes a player drop down one league, unless you are in the Bronze League which has no demotion zone as it’s the lowest league.
If a player doesn’t play for the entire weekly event, they will not drop down a league.
If you can’t play for a week, you don’t touch PvP at all and you will stay in the league you are in. If you purposefully wanted to get demoted, you should have played at least one PvP game and ensured you were in the relegation zone, maybe by trying to lose (not always possible to guarantee demotion if multiple people are not playing - it sorts alphabetically it seems).
Not much at all. Launching it in this state and leaving it so over the holidays is not good enough.
lol, 100 wins and still in relegation zone of amethyst? Sucks to be in that bucket.
You were in a pickle if you wanted to get all your PvP rewards for the week and also be demoted at the same time. Looks like one of those instances where people will tell you to not moan that the game is doing you a favour and not to tell teacher, even if you didn’t want such a favour.
I had 85 wins (just enough to clear pvp rewards), was in position ~20 in my league and got promoted to topaz also, it makes no sense… I’d rather have stayed in amethyst or went down to emerald, to be very honest
And here’s the next question for devs: If a player doesn’t play for the entire weekly event, they will not drop down a league.
What is meant here?
One week of not playing PvP or one week of not playing the weekly event like Invasion, Raid or ToD?
I’m glad you can play enough games to even consider promotion… the load lag is utterly awful between battles for myself and my wife. Upwards of 2 minutes between battles. That’s on PS5, and might aswell quit playing at this point… seems like its been about a month without a fix.
I had a similar thing happen to me. I was deliberately staying in the no-promotion zone (to let all the “race to diamond league first” people pass me by) and got promoted anyway. I’m surprisingly salty about it.
Usually it was thought to be the other way around; that the standing in your personal ladder has only influence on yourself, but not on the other players in there, who might be ranked against completely different accounts.
If it is the way you say (which does not sound unlikely), they messed this up completely.
On the OTHER hand: If there was a hidden “real” ranking system, we would not only have players, who benefit from it, but would have heard complaints from those, who scored less than they expected.
And if that had happened to anybody, I am sure, we would know by now.