Droid heist
Can someone honestly tell me why we have a droid heist at all? Is there anyone who has credits to upgrade characters but not the training droids? You'd be the first person I've ever played this game with to fall into that scenario. Coupled with the fact they are stretching credit heists out to almost 2 weeks, it feels like a slap in the face to the player base.
1
Replies
http://www.crouchingrancor.com/credit-heist-history/
The actual average is 8 days, ya know because actual numbers.
Resource management is the name of the game.
Agree with Kyno. New players definitely need this
Then you should know that two occurrences is a very small sample size. The overall trend/results is what matters.
Many recent changes of late have been more beneficial to long time players. Simming GW was a huge boon for us and did squat for newer players.
Everything in this game is on a long timeline, all that really matter is the averages and how you manage your resources. 2 our of how many?? Yes it happens but that is by no means a trend or the usual.
Sure, you can see 50 "new players" out of how many? It may be more likely than you realize. Not everyone manages things that well in the early stages and they want people to have the resources to be smart about development, but the numbers they give out early on (and only if you develop BH) are not going to work for everyone.
Droid heists are aimed more at relatively new players, but the top tier includes a little gear useful to older players. However, other events are specifically targeted at older players, like the bounty hunter event, assault battles, heroes' journeys, and mythic events.
You're laser focusing on one of the few events that is more useful to new players than old, ignoring the bigger picture.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. If they eliminate the droid heist, it's not like they're going to increase the number of credit heists. Plus, you occasionally get hyposyringes from the droid heist! If you don't need them, don't do the event. What would you suggest they do in its place? With all the new content we have an event every day.
It's always surprising to me how good newer players have it. I started over 2 years ago and used to run out of droids on the reg.
Yes, I'm flush with training droids. No, I don't have a problem with this event.
And since credits are, for the vast majority of the game, the major restrictive element for leveling characters... Training droids always felt like a "filler" resource, just so they could add in something else to farm.
I understand having ability mats and credits every other day in daily challenges would wind up being excessive, and gear farming is already a thing, but... the needless resource bit always irked me.
I don't train that often though.
Every pilot I use has been at 85 for a long time now. I train toons I use in TW and STR slowly, so at each credit heist I might take my 5 Jawas up five levels each, my RO toons up five levels each, and two STR toons up a few levels. As a result I have a bunch of toons in the 75-82 range right now. Because I don't rush anything to 85 beyond arena, pilots and HAAT toons, I never run out of droids. Credits are the bottleneck because they're also needed to promote and for mods, which I'm farming nearly full-time now.
True, but I think it's a resource crunch leftover from the legacy days. When they launched there were few ways they could create progress barriers. Hence why long-term players or simply those players with mature rosters have an abundance. Even today early stage players that farmed Scoundrels first are definitely going to have a training droid shortage, so this ensures they don't progress too rapidly. It's necessary for a very short window in the player life cycle and so it bugs me too, but I'm not going to complain about the event or that it's there.
You're kinda grasping at straws here. I never asked for more credit heists. I didn't say anything at all about replacing droid heists with credit heists. All I said was that there is an entire event dedicated to throw away resources for a LARGE majority of players. Are you going to argue with me that the TAC challenge is perfect the way it is? Replace the droid heists with something else entirely, that benefits both new and old players. I don't know why people are singling out my idea like I want to stick it to the newer crowd and reap benefits for the veteran players.
Why not do a mod heist. What about a fleet credit heist. There are certainly options for replacing the droid heist with something far more beneficial to all parties.
Because there is a lvl barrier, you'd need to somehow toggle the event to be droid heists and then convert to ship currency heist based on lvl attainment.
The problem people had with your post was its message. Lower level players do need droids as I outlined in my statement. I farmed scoundrels first because I thought they were cool (pre-credit heist). Got lucky, got a ton of credits, ran out of droids quick.
People may respond more favorably if your words weren't dripping with vitriol.
TAC challenge has nothing to do with droid heist.
Have a merry day.