Same here, my server NEVER has anyone doing arena at all :/

You get cross ranked arena once your server hits 60 days.

Then you can be matched up against all servers of your region (so all EU servers).

Im form server 400+ and get matched against server 80 sometimes. If there are long queues its because many people abandon arena since you need over 13k initiative to become sage of 6 paths.
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That's a lot of initiative do you know anyone who has that much?

Comments on the forum, people saying that they cant beat super kage and were waiting to have 13k initiative before trying again.

Im at 7.5k and can't beat jonin. Above me are kage, and super kage ranks.

In the ranks above the competition is probably fiercer so you end up against people with huge initiative. i probably wil need around 8-9k to beat jonin abd above 10 to beat kage.

13k for super kage doesnt seem unrealistic.

I was able to reach six path 2 days ago with 10776 initiative but with the mei team so that makes it easier.

So you need around 11k initiative for 6 paths. Thats good to know (maybe the guy who wrote 13k initiative was just very unlucky).

The mei team you mean the common blitz team with GNW tenten or the chojuro ao team?

Are you talking about overall team initiative here?

Arena works with overall team initiative since you dont specify which equipment (and therefore bonus) goes to which ninja.

its the one with water main, mei, mabui, tenten

How much init depends on what server cluster you are in. Cross server arena use the same brackets as matsuri and spacetime. If you are stuck with double digit servers, you'll need a lot more init than if the oldest server in your group is in the 300s.

For the OP, what likely happened is that you had a glitch and cross server failed to activate. If you are in the cross server que, the whirlpool circle should appear twice when you que up. If it appeared only once, then cross server did not activate. This post was last edited by IamAscrub at 2017-5-23 06:59

The reason why the queues are long is simply one: since weaker people that never reached sage of six paths once don't get their negative points resetted and every time they go in just meet monsters and get their negative streak increased they give up and never click on ranked again. Until oasis don't understand that they have to remove negative points for people that never reached sage of six paths you'll experience these queue because none joins it knowing that 99/100 they'll lose and that their negative points won't get reset at the end of the month.

Wrong. Im on the 400+ servers and i get matched with guys from servers lower than 100. Matsuri and spacetime have closed brackets, that's true for sure. However it is not the case at all for the arena, where ALL servers from your zone (UK, HK, LA, ect.) participate at the same time.

This allows you to have relatively short waiting times (at Jonin i wait for around 2-5 minutes tops). However it also matches people who have played the game for almost a year with people who have just started a couple of months ago.

the reason why you get so long queues?
simple, is written here:

http://forum.naruto.oasgames.com/en/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=19561&extra=page%3D1

Did you meet them in ranked arena or training arena? Are you sure that rank and training have the same pull?

I dont know about training, since even if i get destroyed there i don't really care enough to strike a conversation xP.

I met them on ranked. Since some meta teams can't kill sailor sakura (although my other 3 ninjas cot destroyed), we had 5-7 extra rounds to talk. And in my last 5 fights at least 2 poeple where in servers below 100 (in the 80s i think). My rank is jonin so i can't even imagine hwhat it must be like in kage os super kage.

If you pass the mouse over their portrait tells you their server if you didn't select the hide option in character