Want to balance arena and sell more crystals? Lock gear/levels behind stars
April 11, 2017 8:48PM
edited April 2017
My 7* K2SO was doing pretty well in arena. He was my amazing tank and coupled with ig100 it allowed me to take #1 for many weeks in a row. That was before General Kenobi started showing up. Suddenly I was dealing with this 60k prot 30k health 5* monster. Then I unlocked him. Suddenly my droids were back at the top again with retribution, crit avoidance, etc.
That got me thinking, how many times is the 'meta' turned upside down because of a low star character that's immediately viable in arena? I remember unlocking Jawa engineer and immediately getting him to gear 9. The arena was my oyster and it was a struggle to remember to fight those 3 battles every day because I didn't budge from the top for so long. And all because of a 4* fully levelled, fully geared character. The same happened when Biggs and Wedge came out. A 4* Bazzle/Churro combo can wreak havoc for a 7* opponents team and a 3* Sith assassin breaks the entire playing field open for Zaul.
My proposal is this, lock gear and/or level behind stars. As gear is tied to level you may just need to lock that up. Only 5*? Then you can't level past 65. Or gear 9. I know the level cap keeps rising so this formula needs to be worked out. But it basically amounts to players having to work to make their characters usuable.
EA, you'll see people buying shards in the shop and refreshes to farm more. Those packs will be far more valuable if the game requires you to have your character starred up in order to survive. And people will be proud of their 7* characters instead of seeing everyone with the same unlocked 4* toon wreaking havoc on the meta because of their gear 11 protection.
That got me thinking, how many times is the 'meta' turned upside down because of a low star character that's immediately viable in arena? I remember unlocking Jawa engineer and immediately getting him to gear 9. The arena was my oyster and it was a struggle to remember to fight those 3 battles every day because I didn't budge from the top for so long. And all because of a 4* fully levelled, fully geared character. The same happened when Biggs and Wedge came out. A 4* Bazzle/Churro combo can wreak havoc for a 7* opponents team and a 3* Sith assassin breaks the entire playing field open for Zaul.
My proposal is this, lock gear and/or level behind stars. As gear is tied to level you may just need to lock that up. Only 5*? Then you can't level past 65. Or gear 9. I know the level cap keeps rising so this formula needs to be worked out. But it basically amounts to players having to work to make their characters usuable.
EA, you'll see people buying shards in the shop and refreshes to farm more. Those packs will be far more valuable if the game requires you to have your character starred up in order to survive. And people will be proud of their 7* characters instead of seeing everyone with the same unlocked 4* toon wreaking havoc on the meta because of their gear 11 protection.
"When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world will be metal."
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I agree with this, stars a very useless currently.
Stars should help with speed and protection.
Whales have enough advantages already. Some toons being viable sub 7* is healthy.
Spoken like an entitled metababby. You sound like the type of person who complains about the additional chopper tiers because they don't give out some sort of amazing reward every time.
Got killed plz nerf.
To the devs. Don't change a thing. The game is great the way it is.
I've never lost to a team with lower stars than mine.
I actually agree with this statement. Stars are pretty much next to useless as of now unless you want to use the character in a raid. A 3 star toon is pretty much as strong as a 7 star toon at the same level and gear. Stars should be more important than just using them for raids...
Important enough lower Starred toons shouldn't be viable? I can't bring my Krennic, DT, and SHT into raids, that's a big enough handicap already. Plus stars play a huge role for ships, just not as big a role in arena anymore.
Other things that will reduce income from this idea.
- cheap packs like the phoenix ones.
- all the micro transactions of people lvling all the toon to 4*, (like the sith for example )
- gear, why would I buy gear for a toon I can't use this would pace my gear to a point that I could get it for free from arena
There are many changes they could use to increase sales, but most of them involve the lowing of prices to increase quantity.
Your suggestion would make people who might spend not because just like the current price per toon it will price people out but even earlier.
This would also have an unexpected effect on the freemium model which thrives on impulse buys. Mid range spenders wouldn't have pressure to purchase because it's such an all or nothing it's too obvious the vast cost to benefit ratio. And no use unless you go all in.
Stars get you access and health and that's the way it should be.
And that's what the kids call a "no scope"
A slower pace means longer QoL. Here people instantly gear up and get bored of their characters. You can see it in the replies. "Waaah it'll be a paywall, waaah it'll destroy the game, waaah op wants to be #1 again". Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm finally enjoying battling my way into the top 20 again! With my 5* GK I can crush teams I normally couldn't touch with my 7* K2.
I don't struggle because of opponents character star level, rather RNG dodges/stealth/insane TM. I found I can beat a 7* Zaul team just as easy as I can one with less stars. It all depends if B2 can land ability block on Maul or Emperor. That's it. But I SHOULDN'T be able to stay in the 20's with just a 5* GK being the factor. Just like I shouldn't have been able to use JE at Max gear and Max level the moment I unlocked him.
Yeah, instead of being a follower and making a cookie cutter Zaul/GK team I decided to stick to droids and actually feel like I'm accomplishing something when I win a match. I have 60 zetas, Maul waiting to be unlocked, and gear 11 Palp, Vader, Dooku, etc etc. But I follow a different path.