Why is ship mates so unfair

Spookovich

The other player has already had 4 or 5 goes of 3 hits before I've started. I'm losing benefits as a result

simplyP

What I noticed about this feature is the time it takes to find you an opponent can be very long. Actually the game is started already but it lags on my end. That happened to me several times. The solution for me is to keep refresh the app by clearing cache. When I do that, I get to be the other player you mentioned.