Ships new content, but need too much old content
IMO the ships are new content of course but need too much old content. This is a very big advantage for whales, of course they should deserve an advantage, but they buy crystalls over crystalls for ship-packs etc. and so their ships have more stars than from "normal" players (f2p to -what is it called- "dolphins"?), and from old content they have more of the pilots for the ships (esp. for DS-ships, which are needed for the executrix, which is needed for zetachallenge) and here is the point: They not only own these pilots, they have geared them all, so they all have very good pilots ready. And IMO this is for the start of this new feature too much, because its a double disadvantage for F2P and dolphins. Ships have their own ressources, good. But the pilots need the old ressources and to be competitive you need both ressources. And for ships you need other chars than for your normal play. Ships were not a new start, its old content to play in new ways (because you need the leveled and geared pilot).
My solution would be (of course its too late): You only need the activated pilot, his tactical-/pilot-skill is regardless of his stars or his gearlevel. The tactical-/pilotskill must be trained with ressources from fleetshipments (good pilots dont need to be perfect melee fighters, little Anakin was not leveled or geared as he blown the droidcommandship). Whales are already in possesion of the pilots others have to activate, advantage one, they buy packs for shipblueprints, advantage two, give them a possibility to buy the needed ressources for the tactical-/pilotskill -> advantage three. Whales have the same advantage than now, but F2P and dolphins can play the new ships without using ressources from the oldcontent (except getting enough shards for activating the pilots), which they need to get droids, jawas, jedis, rebells etc. to beat the oldcontent challenges. From my point its a too big spread for most of the players to get new content (esp. zetas) and get ready for oldcontent challenges (esp. TT-Raid).
As a F2P or dolphin you have to focus on something, agreed, but with the limited old ressources (credits, droids, gear) now its nearly impossibly to focus on building teams for raids AND needed ships/pilots for this new challenges.
What do you think?
My solution would be (of course its too late): You only need the activated pilot, his tactical-/pilot-skill is regardless of his stars or his gearlevel. The tactical-/pilotskill must be trained with ressources from fleetshipments (good pilots dont need to be perfect melee fighters, little Anakin was not leveled or geared as he blown the droidcommandship). Whales are already in possesion of the pilots others have to activate, advantage one, they buy packs for shipblueprints, advantage two, give them a possibility to buy the needed ressources for the tactical-/pilotskill -> advantage three. Whales have the same advantage than now, but F2P and dolphins can play the new ships without using ressources from the oldcontent (except getting enough shards for activating the pilots), which they need to get droids, jawas, jedis, rebells etc. to beat the oldcontent challenges. From my point its a too big spread for most of the players to get new content (esp. zetas) and get ready for oldcontent challenges (esp. TT-Raid).
As a F2P or dolphin you have to focus on something, agreed, but with the limited old ressources (credits, droids, gear) now its nearly impossibly to focus on building teams for raids AND needed ships/pilots for this new challenges.
What do you think?
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For the record I agree with what you're saying, this is TOO big of an advantage for the whales but mainly just in terms of the speed at which they will be able to get zeta mats, the devs should not have made the requirements to get to the 3rd tier of the ship ability materials REQUIRE you to have at least 1 p2p toon; for the mats challenge you need 8x 5* ships and a 5* executrix, to get 5* executrix you need 5x 4* DS ships, only 4 of which had f2p pilots BEFORE ships came out so no f2p players had enough pilots ready meaning not only do they have to get the blueprints for the 5 ships but they also HAVE to spend some of their fleet tokens on another pilot too, with the exception of geo spy who is now available in cantina but let's face it he is fecking useless in every area of the game so nobody wants to waste their time and resources getting him.
Even if you do choose geo spy so that you can use other non ship related resources to acquire him, you would still have to be lucky enough to get all of the blueprints to unlock slave 1 through fleet shipments (this is assuming you take only f2p pilots and without spending any ship resources on any pilots, just ships themselves). Let's not even go into how unfair the tournament for vader's ship was, every tournament before it has awarded enough shards to unlock the prized character to the top 100 in each server (so even some of the f2p could have a shot at getting them unlocked in one tournament) whereas this one was only the top 25 so already this prize was only available to 25% of the previous total players from all other tournaments. Tournaments need rethinking again cause we all know by now that it's just a flaming auction using ally points as money, if you have the most points (and no life to spend 2 days straight just endlessly grinding against wiggs teams) then you will get top prize.
All in all it's incredibly biased towards whales, more so than any content for a long time