people keep telling me to let them play how they want to play. Again i'm gonna have to say it, i'm not telling people to change their way of playing. I'm telling what happens by playing like that. Playing by always having to follow what another guy does, it's not really you playing, you're just following what that person does step by step, you're not making your own game like that, and of course people get bored and the servers pay for it. If anyone wants to play like that go for it, but people will get tired of that.

Maybe the boom period of this game is simply over, it was great in 2016, now it's dying fast and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Your responses came off that you were judging the people who follow metas. You can't assume all people (hopefully you aren't) will get bored playing metas. What happens if they follow a meta and happen to be one of the top players on the server? I've seen players still playing after I come from a a long hiatus of a game and they still continue to play because they are on top or developed a routine of playing. Like I said in my previous response to yours, it depends on the person and their dedication to the game.

i'm not judging them, cause that would be hypocritical of me. I've used metas before, i've said countless times that you're allowed to use whatever team you want, that doesn't affect my day or my way of playing in a negative way. Sometimes it even helps me that people * to the same thing over and over, easier to develop a counter strategy and beat them like peanuts. But there are metas that made people quit, like the mabui tenten meta. I saw that happen, including friends of mine. People need to try different stuff out to be sucessful, they need to earn experience by actually experimenting stuff, which is something that is becoming extint, and that's just too bad because there's an entire world to explore on this game that people just don't seem to notice... I wonder how many people know that shikamaru make out paridise is actually a very good char if used right lol. Probably not too many people know this, because he doesn't show up on any popular youtube video... All i'm doing is warning what might happen with this style of playing, there's always that risk... If they wanna do it? Go for it,

Lol I'm sure there are ton of people not having done "enuff" research or "objective" enuff and started off by putting things together from scratch. Just copying doesn't guarantee results, you still have to play your team to see if that results was up to your told expectations, explore further, do duels and test and maybe tweak it as best you can. Most of the time, not having the right ninja for a famous already meta just means you got to improvise, collect and grind which are all part of the game.

I don't think the forum represents the majority views of what people are doing, merely that the ones who speak up and including veterans are ones that want to find information and it certainly is true that that knowledge can give you better insight if we want to decide what to spend coupons (gamble) on. That's exactly why there is so much fuss, because most don't know how effective our new ninjas gonna be base on hearsay until we test it our firsthand, and we are omitting the experienced players who already know exactly what meta work and what don't because I kept hearing there is a lot of those start over 2nd time players. *shrugs*

yes there are a lot of people that fail in a server and to become number one they go to a new server and use what they already know to their advantage... That's what the constant opening of servers does and there's nothing we can do about that unfortunately.. That is also a factor that makes new players quit early... These already experienced guys go to the new servers already knowing everything and the newer ones will only make mistakes... I can tell that just copying doesn't guarantee results cause i've fought these people that have no idea what they are doing... They go with the popular meta, i already figured out the weak spot of their squad, and by the time i take 1 of their chars out they've already gave up the fight lol and this guy had more ini than me and all, i simply took out one of his chars and he just left didn't even bother putting on auto cause he already messed up the moves he had to do on the first round... These guys are clearly unexperienced, you can tell by the way they play even though they have a kickarse squad. But the better for me! Quicker wins on sage xD

also i'm not english so the way i phrase myself sometimes might not be the most adequate one, but my intention wasn't to judge people, my goal was mainly to warn some people of the consequences that might come by making their entire game taking stuff from a specific youtuber and applying it on their account.. People at some point should at least attempt to be a little unique at least... And those who can make that are usually the most sucessful ones

For that youtube comment, I do agree since there are some people that don't learn and understand why a team works. They just see a team and see a youtuber is doing well and they hope they can be like them if they get that team. I mean look at people asking for lineups even after when they have a good amount of ninjas they can make. This is who you should be targeting at. People who understand why a team works are more likely to create strategies on their own and they won't get bored easier compared to the ones who don't learn.

Ya i've seen some folks with a lot of ninja asking for lineups, i usually try to help them and build a squad that makes sense on the simulator, nothing that's used by everyone but teams that can be highly sucessful. I wonder why don't they just copy in those cases lol, maybe they wanna try something original idk... It's pretty easy to copy nowadays just need to go on space time rankings and voilá everything is there

Hey guys! Let's be nice to one another. This topic is slowly leaning away from the original topic =p

We are a great community! Let's show that in our writing =]

~Jib