Flash events:What's it going to be from here on out?
Are you going to keep changing how flash events supply/use toons? Are you going to provide toons or make us use our own for all future? Please just tell us what we should be doing. First one it said Jawas were going to be required so you know what people did? Leveled Jawas then were frustrated that we couldn't use our own toons. Next up PS, we all know about that debacle and now here we are, and I'm assuming the majority of all people figured Star requirements and then own toons for bonus tier which is what it has been for the last two. I'm not upset just completely baffled by how you are expecting your player base to respond to how these are run. Can someone please explain the reasoning for changing these up and if they will be continued to change? It's too the point where I just don't even want to deal with them because we don't know what's going to be required.
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This one though? Yeah good luck with gear 7-8. I can barely beat the normal tiers. Better use that raid gear to get some omegas and a few zetas! Nice rewards. /sarcasm
Was the event balanced around using a full ewok squad? Cause guess what, most players only got 4.
I didn't level and gear them up until I knew it was needed...
Most likely the majority used the double drop to increase their star levels but I wouldn't draw conclusions on gearing and leveling
Not the point. The point is the first two flash events have toons to use. This one did not. That's my point. I understand resource management. I too had some credits saved up and there will most likely be a heist before the last day of flash events. What I want is an idea going forward on how exactly flash events will be working. Give us toons or not I don't care just let us know.
Me, for example.. i assume first time reward bonus tier will same like last phoenix event, which is:
- 1 set mk5 cec fusion furnace
- 1 set stun cuff
- 3 zetas
I'm dissapointed bcause this time only 3 zetas. I don't interest in zeta bcause i already have lots of it. But for some people maybe zeta is very useful. I even buy crystal pack to buy credit for leveling up my ewoks.
Only if.. the information is nice, players can choose whether they want to participate or no. To farm or no, to geared/leveled up or no. Like above, who knows that we will use our own chars? who knows the rewards is reduce?
EA/CG.. u're doing it wrong..
Now if I had known I would need him at 4*, I would have spent guild currency on him. Just av little disappointing that I couldn't even participate.
and you want to be told in advance how and when you play this game???
Also you all are so much more optimistic than I am. I was ready for the worst- I thought we would need 5 ewoks at 6* and they would provide teebo. And giving packs for logray and paploo. I was ready to miss the bonus for it. Hope for the best and expect the worst.
I was peeved off cause I focused on Ewok Star Count instead of gear, and now, I'm screwed for these flash events! It's Thrawn all over again
No I want them to be consistant on how they do their events. Either give us toons or not. Don't keep going back and forth. I already had come to the conclusion that I wasn't getting bonus tier done and I knew that so no I don't want every reward but don't tell me the requirements will just be stars because in the past we gave you toons to use and then not do it. Thats not too much to ask. What if nightsisters is the next flash and Everyone farms them up and then they give us toons to use instead. People will be **** that they wasted resources. I don't care about farming I just would like their events to stay consistant throughout the game. Either give us toons or don't but yeah a little heads up before hand would go a long way. "Hey by the way in the previous flash we gave you toons, this time around you will be using your own". Wow one sentence took about 5 seconds they could have blasted that out a week or a day ago just to let people know.
Not only that, you have six more days before the last flash event. So you have plenty of time to get them to G8. If you can't manage that in 6 days, then you've got bigger problems.
You can level/gear them up almost instantly, but you can't undo it. Heck, you don't even need to promote the characters early, either. You may miss the first flash instance if you don't check the forums a few hours ahead to see what players from Aus/NZ, etc. are saying, but you can make sure you level/gear them up if you need/want to before the second flash comes an hour or three later.
And if you decide the rewards aren't worth the investment? Spend them elsewhere.
This is where I think people are letting CG off to easy though. I'm not upset that I will have to gear and level them. I'm not upset that I will have to spend the credits. It's my choice to do that or not. It's easy to say well just level them up. What is annoying is they are changing requirements on events that worked differently in the past without telling their community that they are going to do it and some people just say oh well you can still gear them up. I understand I can still gear them up but what will the requirements be going foreword. Stars or everything. Supply characters or not. That's all I'm asking. As of right now it looks like using own toons going forward but who knows for sure.
Edit-read post above and completly agree. That will be the mo going forward.
Furthermore , the first flash event required you to star the chars to access the tiers, and you needed one char only from YOUR roster to do the bonus tier, the second flash event required you to star the chars to unlock the tiers , BUT , you needed YOUR own five Phoenix members in order to do the bonus tier.
Now, this event , you are required to star YOUR chars to unlock the tiers, and you get to use your chars throughout the event. Small changes from the first to this series for sure, however, getting back to the main point, you need YOUR own chars to do the final tier, so if you were planning on doing it, why is there an issue with not receiving event units? And if you weren't planning on doing it, hen why is there an issue at all?
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I made the mistake also of just farming stars and not gear/levels so I will be sitting this event out which is a shame but it happens, next time I will assume it'l be like this as I believe this flash event is the perfect way to do things going forward and is millions better than using event toons..
I almost never take anything for granted, especially in a game that has a lot of "surprise reveal" elements to it. I do vaguely recall a podcast interview where I believe one of the devs said that they were going to be experimenting with the flash event format, but I can't find that quote anymore, so I may just be remembering it incorrectly.
Regardless, unless I see something repeated in exactly the same way many times over a long period of time, I refuse to assume that it's going to be the same next time around. And if it does happen to ehange after months and months of being the same... well, so be it.
Perhaps I'd feel differently if I were P2P, though, I dunno.
Yeah, it's the one piece of advice that I think should be applied the most and seemingly rarely is. But it can make a big difference.
EA doesn't need to give us any notice about anything ever. Just because they communicate on here does not mean they are required to hold your hand as you play. Take their posts for what they are and have some fun.
If you have grinded ewoks then today you win. Perhaps one day they will do a tuskan event, on that day my squad will fall very short. If that day comes it will be my choices that to work on other characters that will decide that.
Thanks Devs and CGs for all the hard work you put into making this game fun!