I currently steamroll thru a ship battle in 30 to 90 seconds on average, as do most in my shard. The new beta footage claims it’ll shorten our time spent on ships. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case in the footage, where each battle took 2-3 min to complete. It clearly appears it’ll lengthen the time for us top players. Am I missing something, or are us top players being punished?!
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This is a safe bet.
No reason to be a debbie downer right off the bat snakes
I am down for putting a little more time into fleets PVE if the rewards get restructuring as well. Right now I am content to hang in the 40s while I finish off a few pilots.
All they need to do to speed things up is share my RNG from today. Lost TFP twice within 3 seconds.
Spread that farce about and battles will be finished in no time. Forfeit, rinse and repeat...
#addmoreships
I agree with the ships PvE.. but to me, the new ship abilities won't do squat(unlike mods/hardware).. I am kind of guessing that top players/youtubers/game changers will release "what works best" and then it will be sams as we have now
I wouldn’t mind seeing 3 vs 3 characters in TW. No reinforcement. Could be a cool way of setting D and playing O.
almost all battles i've been involved in take 1 minute, 1:30 tops... one of the devs on Warrior's interview just stated most battles will now be around 3 minutes... so in essence, you're ADDING 2 minutes to a battle vs. removing 2.5.... geeeeeeeeee thanks. if timing is your intent, shorten to lag between battles to 5 minutes and save us all 1/2 hour at payout.
I run a typical meta team and win most battles in around 1 minute on manual. less on auto. This is mainly due to having 5 ships that hit hard and thrawn able to use a special off the bat. The only time a battle ever takes longer is if both teams get reduced to few ships and we end up waiting for more reinforcements and someone to reach ultimate (sometimes several times).
By reducing the battles to 3 v 3, two things happen. First you have much reduced hitting power, likely meaning you can't take a ship out quickly. Second, every capital will be pulling in a reinforcement instead of thrawn for example, AOE killing or giving offense up to attackers with his first turn.
I also think it's quite possible that due to this tankier ships may become meta (kylo's) which would also result in more time taken per battle.
Not sure if people agree or disagree with my assessment?
Battles will not be 3 v 3.
They will start at 3 v 3.
There's a difference.
I was going to say something similar. If CG is seeing data that indicates people are taking a full 7:30 to do battles, it's because many players use timer manipulation to keep opponents from attacking. Dropping it to 5 minutes is going to negate that strategy.
Not going to form an opinion on this change either way until it actually rolls in.
When they announced that they were going to DECREASE Fleet battle time, previews and guesstimates already show that it’s going to take an average of 3 mins as compared to my current 90s or so. I don’t need it to be rolled out or implemented to know that it is obviously an INCREASE in Fleet battle time.
I would love to see the fleet you’ve assembled that is able to in 30 seconds take out the opposing fleet. Or are you one of the top 3 mafia that just rotated turns so you are only facing a single fighter and Capital Ship at payout time?
But to answer your question: Thrawn, Biggs, Reaper, TFP, FOTF, Vader - scimitar first rein. My shard doesn't pull ships for people to take first, you have to fight for it.
One shouldn't judge time commitment based on carefully selected beta video footage.
Use Bistan instead of Vader, if your TFP goes first and lands a TL, you gain Advantage and TM on another ship and might steamroll the opponent before they even get a single move.
In ships they do. Everyone has the same fleet. Nothing holds on defense.
Not a fan of the changes so far (excluding the PVE table, and I'm reserving my final judgement until it's released, obviously). I was hoping for new ships to spice things up (they want to change things, but with the limited number of ships available, there's not a whole lot you can do).
Here's what's going to happen. They'll re-arrange everything (3 ships to start with, hardware,etc) , people will theory-craft for a week, maybe 2, then we'll be back to the same old stale RNG-fest (stale as in everyone is running the same team, not the gameplay, I enjoy that).
Here's hoping I'm wrong.