"Catching up"
July 21, 2019 7:02AM
edited July 2019
It'd be great & not unfair at all, if the game somehow allowed players to catch up to players that have been with swgoh since 2015-2016 & beyond. Like after completing Daily Quests 365 times, the game could let you Max out any 6 Squads minimum, otherwise it's just a video game that says, "Sorry you weren't with us since or near launch, we don't let people catch up."
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Grand arena matchmaking shouldn’t (hopefully) pit you against anyone who has years of playtime on you.
It’s called a comeback mechanic. When you are behind in Mario kart you get better items to help you push forward, and when you are 1st or 2nd you only get the green shell
Deal massive damage to the strongest enemy, and make your opponent absolutely furious.
RE: OP, "instantly maxing out 6 squads" is definitely way too much, but they really should add some more of the older characters into shops or something. Somebody starting from scratch now would have, like, 2 years of farming just to get all the legendary/hero characters.
In a pod racing game mode.
Why do you need to catch up to them?
The only time a player is pitted against someone that far ahead of them is if they are choosing to be in a guild that is above them, and that's a players choice, and they offer a path for you to make those choices and catch up. $$$.
Nothing about this game has any direct need for a player to catch up to other players, if they played without taking a break. If they took a break, that's their choice and a different conversation.
This game is measured in time, how much you have put in, this "advantage" (not really since we compete with players of the same timeframe) is what veterans get and they shouldnt diminish that.
Why? You’re not competing with us. We don’t face you in Arena, we don’t face you in Grand Arena, we probably don’t face your guild in Territory Wars unless you were brought into a super competitive guild—in which case you don’t need to catch up, congrats you’ve already caught up.
You need to beat your peers, not us.
I like how you added the "minimum" because giving you 6 maxed squads might not be enough.
Have you started a new toon lately? The only way to stay competitive in your shard, of all new players, is to join a strong guild that will carry you because that is what everyone does. If you don't, everyone will slowly but surely pull ahead due to getting more gear from raids, more guild tokens, more GeT, and more Zetas from TW. Even if you keep up farming the current meta, which means you never have time to farm older needed toons, you will still be behind your shard since they will have better geared toons.
If you try and follow the current natural progression of the game, you're setting yourself up for failure in your shard, again those new players you're supposed to be able to compete against. You'll barely get raid han, and the rest will have him as well as GK and Traya.
I personally dont think new players should be handed maxed squads, but something to speed up the earlier grinds is needed. Double shard drops of older toons or move them to multiple low energy hard nodes. Gear up to about level 10 or even 11 (let's be honest, most toons are useless until then) should be halved, ie make a stun gun need 25 salvage and 25 carbs. That or again, increase the drop rates of those gear pieces.
If I understand this correctly, and after rereading it several times I'm still not sure I do, it is a very poor analogy and an even weaker "need" based argument. Can you expand on what you mean by, "don't you think their needs should supercede those of the game"?
Edit for typos (stupid phone)
Where does 27 come from? There are about 170 characters in the game. Divided by 5 you get 34 "squads". This doesn't include ships.
You want 6 full factions?
The Galactic Republic "squad" plus the Rebel "squad" account for around 58 characters out of 170.