Some updates that should be considered.
We’re all because we love Star Wars and have loved this game, but some things recently have really been taxing the player base and need to be changed. There are also somethings that have been done very well and we would like those to continue.
Things done well:
1. Communication has been much better between CG and the player base. A lot of forum posts are responded to.
2. The cadence at which you release New toons has been done very well. There is always something to build for and look forward to.
3. Reworks to factions have been good making the variety of toons very nice.
4. Zeta abilities, while very plentiful, are a nice addition to many of the toons.
5. New Ship Rewards
Things that could be improved:
1. Galactic War needs to be more of a challenge for higher level players and reasonable for the players growing. Broken node 12 serves no purpose.
2. Territory Battles need to be changed. We spend most of the day filling platoons made up of the same toons over and over to fight 3-4 very uninspiring Battles. Do away with platoons as a whole. They’re killing the game mode for the players. Figure out another way to incorporate the bonuses they give. Players are checking out at this point and not even participating. It’s a ton of work for officers and they’re starting to check out. We get the concept, but days of having to micro manage a guild takes its toll and the rewards don’t equal the work put in. Officers in most guilds that I’ve talked to hate it. They hate platoons and their bored with the battles. And frankly, the final battles are unfair to 90% of the player base. When your G11 team of Rebels or Resistance who’s modded exceptionally well doesn’t get a turn in the final phase of a battle, there is something wrong. It doesn’t make you wanna work harder, it makes you wanna quit. And players are doing that. I’ve seen more people quit the game in the past month than I’ve seen in the prior year. Also, add the retreat feature back into the battles. Give people a chance to try different things. This game is about problem solving and TBs is just button mashing. I know that’s not what you were going for.
3. Improve ships. Make a mode where we actually do something instead of the same battle over and over in arena. The challenges, other than the ability mats, are utterly worthless. Training droids are not needed as you get into higher levels. And they don’t payout anywhere close to what they advertise. The drop rates on the ability mats are atrocious. After reworking them, add a third challenge just like the toon challenges.
4. Overhaul the toon daily challenges. The ATC Gear Challenge is utterly worthless and there is no gear in there that’s even needed. The rest have only one or two pieces that are even used. When you have 2000+ pieces of a gear, it’s pointless to do the challenge. They’re a waist of time.
5. We need a new raid. The HAAT and the HPit have become quite easy for anyone who’s played for 6 months. HPit takes 6-10 minutes to do by one person. (I made a video of my team of 4 toons doing it in 7 minutes.) There needs to be some challenge. The new toons are great, but the raids weren’t built to handle them. When I am doing 22 million with 3 teams in an HAAT, that’s saying something and that something is we need a new challenge. May I suggest the Death Star and Endor combined raid? Toons and Ships. It’s a no brainer.
6. Give us the tools to manage our guilds for TBs and beyond. The daily ticket counter has been broken forever. Fix it. You’ve been asked over and over for this.
7. Allow new players to a guild to participate in the next phase of a TB. Why have them sit out for the whole thing? We have players quoting in the middle of TBs right now and we can’t bring anyone in to replace them. We have to sit on players that don’t hit ticket mins or follow rules because it hurts everyone in the guild if we get rid of them. It’s not working.
These are a few things I have noticed and comes up in my conversations. I’m sure people will elaborate and add on. I do hope you guys see this and they don’t fall on deaf ears. We’re losing players right now. I feel sorry for new players getting into this game as it’s not a game you can just pick up and play anymore. Not with TBs. Please, make it fun again.
Matt
Things done well:
1. Communication has been much better between CG and the player base. A lot of forum posts are responded to.
2. The cadence at which you release New toons has been done very well. There is always something to build for and look forward to.
3. Reworks to factions have been good making the variety of toons very nice.
4. Zeta abilities, while very plentiful, are a nice addition to many of the toons.
5. New Ship Rewards
Things that could be improved:
1. Galactic War needs to be more of a challenge for higher level players and reasonable for the players growing. Broken node 12 serves no purpose.
2. Territory Battles need to be changed. We spend most of the day filling platoons made up of the same toons over and over to fight 3-4 very uninspiring Battles. Do away with platoons as a whole. They’re killing the game mode for the players. Figure out another way to incorporate the bonuses they give. Players are checking out at this point and not even participating. It’s a ton of work for officers and they’re starting to check out. We get the concept, but days of having to micro manage a guild takes its toll and the rewards don’t equal the work put in. Officers in most guilds that I’ve talked to hate it. They hate platoons and their bored with the battles. And frankly, the final battles are unfair to 90% of the player base. When your G11 team of Rebels or Resistance who’s modded exceptionally well doesn’t get a turn in the final phase of a battle, there is something wrong. It doesn’t make you wanna work harder, it makes you wanna quit. And players are doing that. I’ve seen more people quit the game in the past month than I’ve seen in the prior year. Also, add the retreat feature back into the battles. Give people a chance to try different things. This game is about problem solving and TBs is just button mashing. I know that’s not what you were going for.
3. Improve ships. Make a mode where we actually do something instead of the same battle over and over in arena. The challenges, other than the ability mats, are utterly worthless. Training droids are not needed as you get into higher levels. And they don’t payout anywhere close to what they advertise. The drop rates on the ability mats are atrocious. After reworking them, add a third challenge just like the toon challenges.
4. Overhaul the toon daily challenges. The ATC Gear Challenge is utterly worthless and there is no gear in there that’s even needed. The rest have only one or two pieces that are even used. When you have 2000+ pieces of a gear, it’s pointless to do the challenge. They’re a waist of time.
5. We need a new raid. The HAAT and the HPit have become quite easy for anyone who’s played for 6 months. HPit takes 6-10 minutes to do by one person. (I made a video of my team of 4 toons doing it in 7 minutes.) There needs to be some challenge. The new toons are great, but the raids weren’t built to handle them. When I am doing 22 million with 3 teams in an HAAT, that’s saying something and that something is we need a new challenge. May I suggest the Death Star and Endor combined raid? Toons and Ships. It’s a no brainer.
6. Give us the tools to manage our guilds for TBs and beyond. The daily ticket counter has been broken forever. Fix it. You’ve been asked over and over for this.
7. Allow new players to a guild to participate in the next phase of a TB. Why have them sit out for the whole thing? We have players quoting in the middle of TBs right now and we can’t bring anyone in to replace them. We have to sit on players that don’t hit ticket mins or follow rules because it hurts everyone in the guild if we get rid of them. It’s not working.
These are a few things I have noticed and comes up in my conversations. I’m sure people will elaborate and add on. I do hope you guys see this and they don’t fall on deaf ears. We’re losing players right now. I feel sorry for new players getting into this game as it’s not a game you can just pick up and play anymore. Not with TBs. Please, make it fun again.
Matt
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FIX the AI, PLEASE! There is no reason that toons or ships that are inferior to yours should ever beat you. I have an all G12 team in arena. If a team of all G11s with worse mods, worse stats from top to bottom, less zeta abilities, and less Omega abilities can beat me, and has the same exact toons can beat mine, there is something not right here. Basically you have a broken game at this point.
9. When a raid starts out everyone on the leaderboard with a 0. Having to make up rules to fix a broken system is just not right.
10. This kind of goes back to your retreat request for TB. Until you (CG) can figure out why the lockups and crashes occur make it so the characters used for that battle are not "consumed" until a victory or defeat occurs just like raids. Your code is broken and is affecting game play.
There are "rebel" only battles every phase. Rebels are some of the best LS that many have
And the majority gets **** into platoons.
Love the game. Detest TB
The platoon feature as a whole is terrible. There’s no strategy. There’s no fun in giving up your toons so you CAN’T actually play with them. It takes hours to get them filled as you have to ask the guild over and over for certain toons. You can’t complete missions, especially in the final phase, until they are done or people will use the toons you need in combat. They require the SAME toons over and over and over. Multiple instances of the same toon continue to persist in the same platoon and phase. Sometimes as many as 10 of the same toon are required for a whole phase. They constantly ask for the toons that people had farmed specifically to use in TBs. I.E. Phoenix Squadron. Platoons as a whole are horrible!
Resistance? I just did 6/6 on p6 with g8 resistance, platoons were filled 2/6... And my mods are far far away from exceptional ..
Fix platoons or remove it entirely. I don't mind sacrificing toons that, while at the right star level, wouldn't get past 3/6 because the gear grind is unrealistically difficult.
Improved drop rates. Across the board. I'm far more likely to buy crystals for energy if I know the cost will be offset by rewards on a semi-regular basis. I rarely buy more than 1 refresh for normal and cantina energy which is just enough to get my 600.
Here's what this game could learn from Pokémon Go: incredibly easy pay-to-play thresholds.
When that game released, people were buy in-game currency like crazy, but at the $0.99 and $4.99 price point and Niantic was raking in money like you wouldn't believe. It was because the cost was offset by reasonable results, making the value for price incredibly worthwhile. This was a net positive for the players and developers.
JH
Suggestions:
1. Show who did battles. Just add it to the stat page. Just like total Tb points show total Tb battles
2. Don’t erase logs until Tb is over.
3. Don’t remove TB map until one hour after it is over.
4. Don’t remove platoon data until after Tb closes
5. Show ships when I look at others inventory
6. Fix ship ai. It is just a dice roll. Just about anybody can beat anybody else.
7. Give darkside a chaze or CLS type character or fix current ones. Jabba and Bibb Fortuna would be a great chaze equivalent. Give palp a zeta where “let the hat flow” recovers protection.
I agree 100%... The novelty has already worn off and it's only the 5th TB... Furthermore what has really ruined the game is the abysmal drop rate on EVERYTHING from gear to shards... I stopped spending any money on the game because it's just not worth spending even a penny when you get 1 shard or piece of gear for every 20 sims... Really losing all interest in the game... It's a shame because this was once a fun game...
That's because these developers are just greedy like there's no tomorrow. Charging $100 for characters packs for events? Lol... Then there's the $20 charge for each character thst were needed to unlock CLS during the event... Lol x 2...