Accelerate ship shards

Yeah, couldn't agree more. There is no reason why old ships shouldn't be accelerated at this point. It's already annoying enough for veterans, let alone for newer players. With ships taking so long to farm, it makes it so much harder to catch up. I don't think anyone minds newer ships being slow farms, but 4-5 year old ships have no reason to not be accelerated. This would honestly be one of the best QoL changes, if it were to be implemented. @CG_Tusken_Meathead Would really appreciate if you could relay this information to the devs.

Really we need someone like @CG_Tusken_Meathead to say why this hasn’t yet happened. Maybe they’re concerned there aren’t enough ships in the game and want the shards to stay a bottleneck?

I guess it's because there's not as many ships as there are characters.

I would really like if they give us up to two shards of a ship (older than 1 year). Not a guaranteed two shards like accelerated characters, but having a random chance to get two from time to time.

"VictoriousMaximus;c-2409198" wrote:
I guess it's because there's not as many ships as there are characters.

I would really like if they give us up to two shards of a ship (older than 1 year). Not a guaranteed two shards like accelerated characters, but having a random chance to get two from time to time.

That would be a nice step in the right direction. I guess they could code it so that it was, say, 50% higher drop rate than currently. I’m not saying all accounts should be able to have every ship 7* any time soon, but many of these ships are so old it seems silly they still make us farm them at half the rate of characters released a year ago.

I do think some of the earlier ships should be accelerated

Starter Ships in the very least could be accelerated.

While we’re dreaming…

If they were to accelerate some ships, it would be nice to only pair up accelerated ships with accelerated characters, and non-accelerated ships with non-accelerated characters… it’s always really obnoxious to finish farming a character and then have to spend twice as long on the same node to finish the ship…

I would expect them to take the same approach as with gear and characters when they doubled them, so in store, nodes and game modes rewards would be double what they were before. In almost all cases that would be 8 shards, with the u-wing in cantina going up to 10.

Really we need someone like @CG_Tusken_Meathead to say why this hasn’t yet happened. Maybe they’re concerned there aren’t enough ships in the game

I really do think this is the problem from CG's perspective.

That said, double drops can be done WITHOUT coding and without promising anything for more recent ships.

All CG would have to do is put 2 decent ships on the same node. Sure, they should be older, but they don't have to be the oldest or the worst. They can carefully pick which ships they do this for, and they can make sure that either both ships work in the same fleet or both are shown (from their own data) to be player priorities about the same time in the game.

Voila! No coding needed, no promises to accelerate every ship (which they might not want to do). They don't even have to do this everywhere since most Regular energy nodes already have a character and a ship on the same node.

instead put two older ships on the same Fleet node.

This is by far the easiest method from a programming standpoint. I think they didn't like how complicated double drops of old toons worked out to be when they couldn't figure out how to make Bronziums work for.a while, etc.

But letting you farm 2 ships at once from the same node effectively shortens your farming time for ALL ships even though each ship still takes the same amount of time. But having, for instance, GR Y-Wing + Fives' Umbaran on the same node gets that fleet ready twice as fast without worrying about programming double drops for anything.

Likewise you could double-up ships that are required for specific events. Slave 1 is still harder to get than it should be, IIRC, but you could drop that on the same node with IG-2000 (or, rather, drop IG-2000 on Slave 1's Fleet Battles node) and you move forward much more quickly on the Millennium Falcon event.

Very few Fleet nodes are doubled up yet. I think this is the perfect way to accelerate ships and make better use of fleet nodes. It allows CG to maintain much more control over which ships they want accelerated, but they also don't have to code anything new or unusual.

"MasterSeedy;c-2409277" wrote:

Really we need someone like @CG_Tusken_Meathead to say why this hasn’t yet happened. Maybe they’re concerned there aren’t enough ships in the game

I really do think this is the problem from CG's perspective.

That said, double drops can be done WITHOUT coding and without promising anything for more recent ships.

All CG would have to do is put 2 decent ships on the same node. Sure, they should be older, but they don't have to be the oldest or the worst. They can carefully pick which ships they do this for, and they can make sure that either both ships work in the same fleet or both are shown (from their own data) to be player priorities about the same time in the game.

Voila! No coding needed, no promises to accelerate every ship (which they might not want to do). They don't even have to do this everywhere since most Regular energy nodes already have a character and a ship on the same node.

instead put two older ships on the same Fleet node.

This is by far the easiest method from a programming standpoint. I think they didn't like how complicated double drops of old toons worked out to be when they couldn't figure out how to make Bronziums work for.a while, etc.

But letting you farm 2 ships at once from the same node effectively shortens your farming time for ALL ships even though each ship still takes the same amount of time. But having, for instance, GR Y-Wing + Fives' Umbaran on the same node gets that fleet ready twice as fast without worrying about programming double drops for anything.

Likewise you could double-up ships that are required for specific events. Slave 1 is still harder to get than it should be, IIRC, but you could drop that on the same node with IG-2000 (or, rather, drop IG-2000 on Slave 1's Fleet Battles node) and you move forward much more quickly on the Millennium Falcon event.

Very few Fleet nodes are doubled up yet. I think this is the perfect way to accelerate ships and make better use of fleet nodes. It allows CG to maintain much more control over which ships they want accelerated, but they also don't have to code anything new or unusual.

If I remember correctly, there are 2 Hard Fleet Nodes that don't have any Characters or Ships put on them...yet.