Platoon Mission Duplicates
The developers said they made it so that platoon missions won’t have as many duplicate characters starting this TB. My guild has SEVEN Biggs Darklighters needed for the ion cannon mission and three more for the overlook. TEN Biggs total. Did CG even fix the platoons like they said? Are any other guilds experiencing this?
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Expect a move to proper subforum
same here , 10 wedge , 10 hanst and 10 biggs
Seems like more hot air from the devs while claiming they are listening
At least you dont need Wedge after giving up Biggs
We had several identical duplicated platoons today, so there's that. They were shuffled on the screen though.
2x Lobot, STH, Biggs, Wedge, 2x Leiah, Lando, 2x Hera, 3x Chopper, 2x Ezra. Equal for 6 platoons across both territories.
@CG_RyDiggs or @CG_Carrie - is this behavior (3 of the same toon in one platoon squad) normal and should be expected going forward, or still a bug?
Heya @Muaddib
Yes, you should see reduced numbers of required units. There will still be duplicates, because a full guild of 50 is expected to accommodate. However, significantly less duplicates OR conflicting requirements than you saw in TB2.
This is as designed
Cheers!
This is correct. There will be duplicates, just not entire platoon requirements duplicated
Still, my thread on this:
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/134780/platoon-fixes#latest
I think the formula still needs looked at. The % chance to pull rebels needs to be adjusted since each phase now has 6-9 rebels that it can't pull from.
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Hi @CG_RyDiggs and thank you for responding! Not exactly my question though... Am specifically wondering if seeing 3 (or more) of ONE toon/ship in a platoon squad is WAI? Like my example of seeing STHan and Zeb 3x each in 1 squad.
Otherwise yes, the changes you made to platoons are great and much appreciated!
Sorry, I got wordy:
Yes. You can see duplicates of 3 or more of a single toon in a Platoon mission requirement.
WAI.
Cheers!
Thank you for letting us know! Have to say I'm a bit disappointed in that though. But I suppose we'll just have to see how it goes.
We never want to disappoint, but there is definitely still room for optimization.
We're still watching data and seeing how you all manage this feature. I'll rarely say this is our last change
Keep the feedback coming
RT
Mostly I'm just wondering: why the incredible imbalance for some characters? Out of the 43 characters in this phase's pool, 32.5% (14) needed five or more of each.
We're also having a bit of an issue when the characters that are being requested in huge numbers are also characters that are required for combat missions. Phase 2 Ion Cannon area special combat mission with Hoth Rebel Soilder AND Rebels, but only Hoth Rebel Soilder is being counted as the exempt character, even though most of the rebels required for his squad to be complete are the same rebels we're being required dozens of for both upper and lower platoon squads.
Let's take Phase 2 for an example:
There's 90 characters needed for each area's platoon mission (Ion Cannon mission and Overlook mission). There's appx 72 light side characters to pick from to fill those slots. 10 are "unavailable" due to special combat missions (Rogue One and Hoth Rebel Soilder). That leaves, say 60 light side characters to choose from (rounding off for simplicity sake).
So: 180 platoon slots divided by 60 characters = 3 of any given available character.
Given that, there *should* be an average of 3 instances of a specific character being needed to fill both Phase 2's upper and lower platoon squads, we should not be surprised to see some characters being required 5 times, and some bring required once, but an average of 3. Not 12. Not 11. Not even 10. But three...
Even when we get to later phases that have three areas, the platoon squad numbers remain the same since the third area is exclusively ships. We should honestly never see more than 5 or 6 being needed of any single character I feel, or am I just missing something...?
Your feedback is taken for sure. Having varied random challenges is a part of the design and future TBs may shift more.
We did add the new 'reward nodes' for many territories, which increases the available Territory Points available.
I'm not saying it's finished, but we are reading and watching the success and feedback of guilds for sure.
Thanks for the complete and concise feedback!
RT
Ummm... Maybe I am missing something @CG_RyDiggs but the new reward nodes only give Guild event tokens (which is excellent) but no TP. The TP you get for deploying the squad to do that battle you would have gotten anyway for deployment. So the battle additions didn't add anymore gain-able TP's
Just looking at our platoons it seemed unlikely that it is a uniform probability among available characters. DarthBarbie's comments seem to give similar results to ours. (Of course a random distribution will throw up unusual combinations, and those with unusual seeming combinations are more likely to comment so selection bias is an issue. Can't say what is usual without larger samples.)
Modeling the probability distribution could help in developing farming strategy.