Ships need love
Overall I love the mode, still provides some really interesting battles and the new proper reward system is great.
That said, it's the mode left out in the cold, since guild activities (fair enough!) have taken all the spotlight.
What we need, and soon, before the ship arena becomes unbearably stale:
• Ships to be made farmable quicker, and easier.
When each new ship either needs a premium toon or 2/3 different ones, AND are hard to farm, the gate to trying new ships is enormous. Everyone in my top ten runs the same squad now bar one or two small variations because a) it's the only AVAILABLE meta and b) because it's so impossible to even try anything else really.
• Hardware abilities/upgrades
Whatever these are...be really good if they could come soon and be something more strategic than a static upgrade and/or a single ship mod slot.
• Farmable Ship omegas tied to an interesting challenge
Speak for itself. We've all got high gear pilots by now who can't add their last upgrade unless you've got ship omegas from buying packs.
• Ship PvE beyond a few territory battles.
New challenges? Training and currency are so redundant already given there's such a limited pool of ships to actually train and spend them on. Some kind of proper PvE progression that maybe give ship shards, just like hard battles, hell why not have 'normal' nodes too for a different loadout/source of toon gear.
• new ships
Please. I know there are two new FO ones but...yeah see above. Only the most hardened whales will be shelling out for ships because they're risky and require investing so heavily in the pilot/s too.
• A SHIP RAID
We need a new raid SO BADLY in general. Why not make it a ship raid? It wouldn't be hard. Make it against a big ship with waves of fighters, taking out the shield generators etc, all the standard stuff. It'd tie in nicely with everyone having to invest more in ships recently for TW/TB and vindicate that investment more.
Thoughts?
That said, it's the mode left out in the cold, since guild activities (fair enough!) have taken all the spotlight.
What we need, and soon, before the ship arena becomes unbearably stale:
• Ships to be made farmable quicker, and easier.
When each new ship either needs a premium toon or 2/3 different ones, AND are hard to farm, the gate to trying new ships is enormous. Everyone in my top ten runs the same squad now bar one or two small variations because a) it's the only AVAILABLE meta and b) because it's so impossible to even try anything else really.
• Hardware abilities/upgrades
Whatever these are...be really good if they could come soon and be something more strategic than a static upgrade and/or a single ship mod slot.
• Farmable Ship omegas tied to an interesting challenge
Speak for itself. We've all got high gear pilots by now who can't add their last upgrade unless you've got ship omegas from buying packs.
• Ship PvE beyond a few territory battles.
New challenges? Training and currency are so redundant already given there's such a limited pool of ships to actually train and spend them on. Some kind of proper PvE progression that maybe give ship shards, just like hard battles, hell why not have 'normal' nodes too for a different loadout/source of toon gear.
• new ships
Please. I know there are two new FO ones but...yeah see above. Only the most hardened whales will be shelling out for ships because they're risky and require investing so heavily in the pilot/s too.
• A SHIP RAID
We need a new raid SO BADLY in general. Why not make it a ship raid? It wouldn't be hard. Make it against a big ship with waves of fighters, taking out the shield generators etc, all the standard stuff. It'd tie in nicely with everyone having to invest more in ships recently for TW/TB and vindicate that investment more.
Thoughts?
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But a raid would be sweet. I'd love to see a combined ground-fleet raid, maybe the battle of Endor or something along those lines. Bonuses to Rebels (of course) and Ewoks on the ground vs. an AT-AT or two supported by stormtroopers, then Phase 2 or 3 could be in space with ships, and the final phase could be against Royal Guards and EP. It could be an excuse to rework ol' Palpy. It also passes the "nostalgia" test and could be a good build up to RotJ Luke.
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I don't get the point though about wanting hardware / omegas that will make it more difficult to farm and build ships...but then having concerns about ships / pilots being hard / slow to farm and lack of availability. Would seem that adding criteria making ships more difficult to build and max out serves only to make the usage issue worse as only your built 'meta' ships will get the new materials.
Maybe new content is the way to go for you. Look at character arena. Characters have mods, omegas, purple mats, zetas, and hundreds of characters...yet it's as lame as could be in terms of people running the same squads...not much different from ship arena.
Pretty much this is it for me too.
Unless they become more accessible and farmable in a place where they don't affect the main game (e.g. their own cantina or remove Zetas from ship store and put them somewhere else) and the power of the pilot plays a smaller role in the power of the ship, I'm fine with them being ignored.
A raid is the obvious solution. But @JohnnySteelAlpha I'm not hurting for things to do in the game in general (and I hate the main arena for same reasons as ships + many more), it's the fact that ground-toons can take part in so many different activities that at least there is incentive for deep roster etc etc. With ships it's like, meta-fleet + platoon requirements in TB which only exist to annoy you and force you to build ships you'll never use anywhere else apart from as a ringer in TW most likely.
Make the challenges open for three turns like the toon side of the game.
Develop additional ships for existing pilots. JKA as an example could get any number of Jedi Starfighters. CLS could have Red-5. EP could have a shuttle. GG a ship ( he is not good for much else other that a platoon filler)
Add a separatist capital ship to encourage genosian use.
Do something with the “coming soon” droid function.
Although you improved the rewards for fleet arena, they are no where on par as squad arena. Assume not only does one have to develop a craft but a pilot or crew member too to be competitive. Twice the effort, not even half the pay out. The crews needed are typically not in competitive meta squads.
because he's a rebel... ea hates rebels.