Hello Holotable Heroes,
We wanted to inform folks on the cadence of Assault Battles.
Each month, we reheat a set number of Assault Battles.
As we add a new one, an older AB will be rotated out to keep the total number of Assault Battles consistent each month.
Which Assault Battle is rotated out will vary but will likely be an older one.
For example, Forest Moon will return in the month of December.
Capital Games Team
Dear Capital Games,
This is a content creator who reacted to your post above live on stream. I put a poll up on my stream, and they said this post about the new Assault battle Format makes them feel like a prisoner on Geonosis. Now, I do not work in the video game industry, but the last time I checked, you want your fans to be excited, thrilled, and hyped when there is an update or a change in the game. However, this seems to be giving nothing but negative response.
First you put all the crystals into GAC and blame it on "Squad arena mafias, and then you release omicrons, saying it is a way to give old players reworks in specific game modes, which the last one I believe was Cassian, which was over 2 years ago.
Then you add datacrons, which you said would boost lower gear characters, yet you origionally tied it behind relic three, until you brought it down to relic 1, which still isnt very f2p friendly for new players to engage with.
Then you want to squish people out of Kyber and punish people for winning with strategy. Then you ruin fleet arena by trying to disguise a nerf to a f2p counter that the community came up with.
Lastly, and certainly not least, you release an update that takes away resources from newer and mid game players to make the whales happy. An example is where will we get the zetas we are now going to miss out on from the old assault battles being gone? Explain to me how it is bad to have more content and events for your players to do and to instead rotate them out and only keep the newer ones, tied behind heavy paywalls at the time so f2p players r the only ones to suffer.
One of my community members asked a valid question as well. Why can you guys not just add new game modes for the whole community, opposed to try to squeeze resources and making toons that you sell irrelevant after getting a cash grab?
Another Community member asked when are you going to do something about cheating? He has been playing for a while and has been running into cheaters, yet nothing seems to be done, and we have receipts of you bargaining with cheaters on when they get suspended. We know you favor your whales, aka, the people who spend the most money, but we matter too. Also, when will you change Territory wars? You want to do all of these changes and "move the game forward for the years to come", yet you have not changed the model of TW. You have changed Grand Arena, to benefit you so you control the crystal income, and you have changed Territory battles, again, so you control the currency, and you have changed the raid concept, which I will get into next, yet you have not changed anything with territory wars, even after the top guilds went on strike and did not play that game mode for a season. Also, what happened to fun, community engaging raids where we fought to earn a new raid unit. But now instead, you rush a meta that is only viable in a top raid for 6-8 months and then they are cast aside, and you have to then chase the new raid meta, and for what, currency. Bring back raid units. It will bring the hype back, I promise. Lastly, what happened to you engaging with content creators. When you would collab with them and do fun events and kit reveals with them. Meathead has been doing a superb job as community manager, however, i know he could do so much more if he had more freedom. Let him go on content creators streams. I am not even talking about myself or just massive content creators. let them choose who they want to engage with. Also, you are the only game that celebrates their anniversary and thanks there player base by giving them packs to spend more money on.
I have a multitude of ideas of how you can improve community engagement, Again, this is nothing to do with meathead, for he is doing everything right! One thing you could do, that multiple other games do, is a community unit. It is where you let the community vote on a character that gets added to the game. Another one is where you let the community vote on a character that is already in the game to get a rework, let's say once a season, that being fall, spring, winter and summer. AND STOP RUINING GAC AND PUNISHING PEOPLE FOR WINNING WITH STRATEGY AND NOT THERE WALLET!
Now I know you may say I am talking tough because I am hiding behind a screen, yet I am writing this live and a lot of the points in this letter are from my community, aka, your other customers. They vary from people who are endgame. They all basically voted they felt like prisoners on Geonosis with these changes, both whales and f2p. We know you can do good things like gear economy, Galactic Legend tickets not being lost, and announcing fun characters for the game. Have a great day and please listen to your community.
From, The Troopers on Break Community.
if the new assault battles are going to be phased out in the future at some random unknown date I guess there is no point in investing much in the new teams
Just some feedback to take back to the developers:
This is fine, obviously just adding more and more assault battles will saturate the economy with more loot, putting things out of balance.
However, You guys keep putting out newer and newer content which is not really reachable by anyone who's only been playing from 0-12 months. Like, just the R9 components for GL Ahsoka are out of reach for anyone that hasn't played for a looong time and with a good guild. (Brains and Keypads you know!)
It might be worth considering coming up with some new content for new/middle tier players and not just end game. Taking away the things that help newer players get to advanced rosters is not a sustainable way to build the playerbase. It's just going to frustrate people into playing Star Citizen. (lol)
Just want to add that the R9 thing can be a pain even for veteran players if they have other farms going on. Me, for example, I have over 100 Droid Brains and about 60 Keypads saved up and can easily get 2-3 toons to R9 in, let's say, 1-2 months tops. The problem is I already have so many other farms to worry about, mainly trying to get GLAT asap and Baylan when he comes back, that I just don't have enough space or motivation to add "get these toons to R9 for the new AB" on my list, since it's going to take a very long time until I can feel an actual RoI and especially since CG is now going to be rotating ABs.
Otherwise, I agree with what you said.
Ok ok, but Jar Jar wen?
Yeah where is jar jar? Did cg forget about him? I see bo katan mandolore every month it seems, its been over 3 months now with no jar jar event!
So you're punishing new players and mid game players for no reason. Well that's cool... Guess I can say bye to those resources I was needing.
So you guys are actively sabotaging the game from loyal player base in order to satisfy 1%?
"No more signal data for you peasants!"
You already ruined fleets, so could you at least refund people their Sith Assassin R9 mats which were quite literally required for the fleets before the TIE Dagger changes which made her completely irrelevant or is that also just something you guys don't care at all?
You didn't have to R9 assassin, bitdynasty has a video on how to beat Levi mirror (before these disastrous changes). But your point still stands, having a high relic assassin is worthless with the dagger changes, I'd have kept her at R5 if I'd known they were gonna do this.
Your first sentence can also be applied to people who got Piett to R9 specifically for the extra speed in mirrors when Exec was still new, and to some extent to people who applied the omis on QGJ and Traya and then got upset when said omis got nerfed because they were doing too well against GLs (especially since Traya's kit was extremely dangerous against debuff heavy teams and was obviously going to do well against LV).
Otherwise, I agree. I have a R9 SAss as well, and at this point I wouldn't even care if I didn't get a refund on mats, as long as Levi fleets are reworked, and I mean actually reworked, so that mirrors aren't such a coin-flip dependent nightmare. Even with older mirrors - Exec, Prof, Nego, Mal, etc. - if you went second you still had a good chance to turn things around and win or at least kill off one or two key ships. With Levi, even the latter is very difficult if you lose the opening coin toss.
This move is another step in the wrong direction, alongside the squish.
We invest in some characters out of expectations to get a known gain, and you're taking it away.
In the employment world it is known as deteriorating of work conditions.
This is bad. Like, BAD. I do not comment often and do think people have a tendency to overreact to game developer changes, but this is just plain disgusting. Assault battles are a motivation for many, as they are a challenging event that provides good and regular rewards if you manage to finally beat them. By reducing their cadence (with the obvious end goal of facing out all “old” assault battles) you are literally removing a reason people farm different teams - you are removing reasons to play your game.
This change is harmful to all players, removing a challenge, a reason to progress and build different teams, and a source of rewards, but is especially harmful to new players, who are already faced with many hurdles and already feel lightyears behind the end- or even mid-game players. New players that are essential in making sure your game - your source of income, if you haven’t forgotten - doesn’t disappear.
This is wrong headed on several levels, it strains believability that more than one person considered this course of action and thought it was a good idea.
You're adding new AB that require R9 characters to earn max rewards, replacing old AB that could be maxed out by R3-R5 characters. Additionally, the new AB do not offer the same rewards as the old AB, yet you're presenting this rotation as though it won't have any net difference in our rewards. Ridiculous.
The time, effort, energies, crystals, and money investment in getting one character to R9 are huge. Two or three characters to R9 takes more resources than some people have earned in total!
Also, look at the players who've already invested in squads to max out the old AB. Grind, upgrade, fight, win, 3*, hooray! That effort/investment is disrespected by your plan to rotate out old AB. This rotation idea is a very loud signal to the players that you, Devs, do not respect our time, effort, or investment in your game.
Insulting, disrespectful, and utterly wrong headed.
Just a reminder, we never gave you a warning and pulled the rug out from under you again!
On second thought I guess this really is a reminder, of the classic CG rug pull grift. Good grief you all have no shame. Don't expect any $$ spent on Remnants
