Add more characters in Squad Arena and Galactic War?

After I ninish my current proyects my next GW-Arena char will be Grievous :)

"Khorvog_Karbossa;169968" wrote:

"scuba;169964" wrote:

"CPMP;169855" wrote:

And GW seems exactly the same. Every team has at least 3 of these : Sid, Lumi, JC, Phasma.
Since the GW and SA currency stay the same between whales and f2p, and are restricted to average 800 per day, nothing would be so gamebraking by adding a few more choices instead of the obvious ones.

I am all for adding new charaters in all shipments and hope it happens.

But just to clarify instead of most teams running sid, lumi, jc, phasma you want most teams to run new awesome arena shipment charater that everyone farms and new awesome GW shipment character that everyone farms and at least 3 of Sid, Lumi, JC, or Phasama?

So how does that add diversity?

With a game made up off mostly f2p or low payer players, and the squad arena rank obsession, which also gives out the most free money (crystals), driving the meta/teams of the game you are not going to get much diversity.

Adding another "good" charater to shipments will only add another charater that "everbody" uses.

You won't get diversity with the current setup of the game.

exactly my point above, the problem is conformity, no one wants to think for themselves in the top 200.

Yup. I try to change it up a little but I am in the 300-500 ranks normally.
Have NS team, glass canon team, Jedi team, and working now on an ewok and clone team.

Also in GW if my opponent doesn't have Sid then I won'the use him

"CPMP;169908" wrote:

"Sticare_Courts_0073;169871" wrote:
Adding a second Jedi next to Eeth Koth should be one of the main improvements to Arena Shipments.
Not something groundbreaking, but Kit Fisto would be nice I guess.

I would like to see a Kit Fisto or Anakin. I haven't met either in battle in my 2+ month gametime.

If he was there, I would set a 6 hour timer. ;)

"scuba;169964" wrote:

"CPMP;169855" wrote:

And GW seems exactly the same. Every team has at least 3 of these : Sid, Lumi, JC, Phasma.
Since the GW and SA currency stay the same between whales and f2p, and are restricted to average 800 per day, nothing would be so gamebraking by adding a few more choices instead of the obvious ones.

I am all for adding new charaters in all shipments and hope it happens.

But just to clarify instead of most teams running sid, lumi, jc, phasma you want most teams to run new awesome arena shipment charater that everyone farms and new awesome GW shipment character that everyone farms and at least 3 of Sid, Lumi, JC, or Phasama?

So how does that add diversity?

With a game made up off mostly f2p or low payer players, and the squad arena rank obsession, which also gives out the most free money (crystals), driving the meta/teams of the game you are not going to get much diversity.

It requires 33 days to get a hero from Arena to 7*, assuming you get 800 arena currency from day one. Other than Sidious, there isn't anyone else there for people to see and say "Woah!! That's one of my favorite Star Wars heroes! I'll go farm him as first!"

"scuba;169964" wrote:

Adding another "good" charater to shipments will only add another charater that "everbody" uses.

Greedo is very good. He is much better than Sid actually. Why everyone has Sid and not Greedo? Because you can't compare Greedo and Sid in level of awesomeness. Old players will get him sure, they ll get everyone from Arena shipments eventually, but this won't stop new players to go for Sid as their first char, because he outclasses everyone and offers limited choice.
I linked pics of my shard. I use Sid, Kylo, Vader, Ventress and Dooku. Slow team, without healer and if i get some of my chars stunned, i'm done. But i won't use Lumi and JC even though i have them 7* and 6* because i'm so sick of same teams.

I'd kill/kiss someone to put kit fisto in there ijs

Personally I think it's fine. We have about 75 characters, about 10 farmable in arena, 10 in GW, majority available to shard farm and some chromium exclusives. I think general availability is good and the reason why other heroes that you may not usually used are in arena and GW shops is to get people to use them eventually once you've got the main ones you still have to spend your point and tokens on something right?

At the end of the day it's a business and the business model isn't to give everything away for free. You can see a lot of thought has gone into it to make certain characters harder to obtain than others which isn't a bad thing at all.

"Starjumper;170541" wrote:
Personally I think it's fine. We have about 75 characters, about 10 farmable in arena, 10 in GW, majority available to shard farm and some chromium exclusives. I think general availability is good and the reason why other heroes that you may not usually used are in arena and GW shops is to get people to use them eventually once you've got the main ones you still have to spend your point and tokens on something right?

At the end of the day it's a business and the business model isn't to give everything away for free. You can see a lot of thought has gone into it to make certain characters harder to obtain than others which isn't a bad thing at all.

They don't give anyone for "free". It takes 33 days to get 1 Arena hero to 7* either as f2p or p2p. Arena has 12 heroes considered "free". But in fact, you have to spend 1 year and 1 month non stop in order to have all those. But the problem is that those heroes are never gonna get picked. Most people that have 3-4 heroes form Arena they are hoarding Arena tokens and wait for something new. They don't bother with coruscant police or ugnaught and others. And new players aren't gonna bother with those either.

"VIII;170566" wrote:
I would rather they alternate the heroes so you can't 7* in 3 weeks, for ex. 9 available heroes to choose from that alternate every 3 weeks, so by the time you see your hero again it could take 3-4 months just to 7*, at least this way you would have more heroes to try/test with and see who really is north worth it

That's actually a pretty good idea. Most people now rush a team of 5 heroes to 7* and then no matter how many heroes they get on chromium/bronzium or unlock, they'll never going to use them at lower than 5 stars.

"CPMP;169908" wrote:

"Sticare_Courts_0073;169871" wrote:
Adding a second Jedi next to Eeth Koth should be one of the main improvements to Arena Shipments.
Not something groundbreaking, but Kit Fisto would be nice I guess.

I would like to see a Kit Fisto or Anakin. I haven't met either in battle in my 2+ month gametime.

"Big_Boss;170437" wrote:
Anakin, Fisto or Old Ben either way a second jedi would be the best for arena

Hold your horses, gentlemen. :) Anakin and Ben would be a little too strong for that purpose. Unless I'm missing something and Kit is actually still used somewhere outside of Yoda Event.

I don't suspect Anakin to ever become obtainable in shipments btw. It seems to be the game's policy that a character either gets 1 shipment and 0/1 hard nodes or 0 shipments and 2/3 hard nodes. Very few don't follow this logic. Anakin has 3 hard nodes which is plenty, most players just don't want to try (until recently it seems).

"Sticare_Courts_0073;170652" wrote:

"CPMP;169908" wrote:

"Sticare_Courts_0073;169871" wrote:
Adding a second Jedi next to Eeth Koth should be one of the main improvements to Arena Shipments.
Not something groundbreaking, but Kit Fisto would be nice I guess.

I would like to see a Kit Fisto or Anakin. I haven't met either in battle in my 2+ month gametime.

"Big_Boss;170437" wrote:
Anakin, Fisto or Old Ben either way a second jedi would be the best for arena

Hold your horses, gentlemen. :) Anakin and Ben would be a little too strong for that purpose. Unless I'm missing something and Kit is actually still used somewhere outside of Yoda Event.

I don't suspect Anakin to ever become obtainable in shipments btw. It seems to be the game's policy that a character either gets 1 shipment and 0/1 hard nodes or 0 shipments and 2/3 hard nodes. Very few don't follow this logic. Anakin has 3 hard nodes which is plenty, most players just don't want to try (until recently it seems).

Even if all those were in arena shipments, Anakin, Old Ben, Kit Fisto, Rey, Maul, Aayla, a same time, it would take both f2p and p2p 33x6 7 months to get all of them. Those who want them faster would still have to spend a lot of money on chromium. Low spenders who get Old ben and Maul for example from chromiums at 4* can't even star them and use them.

About Anakin, he has 3 nodes yes, but they are very energy hungry, and 1 of them is pretty hard to 3 star it as dark side. It will take months to get him 7* so he can replace someone like Sid or Phasma and it will make you spend less energy for gear and other heroes. And tbh he isn't that impressive to worth all that effort.

The more i think about it i believe that the game would be better if it had a soft cap at 5* at release, like it had with level. And slowly increase it the star level to 7*. Now everyone rushes the easiest obtainable heroes to 7* in order to be competitive and we see the same teams over and over in GW and Arena.

"CPMP;170709" wrote:

"Sticare_Courts_0073;170652" wrote:

"CPMP;169908" wrote:

"Sticare_Courts_0073;169871" wrote:
Adding a second Jedi next to Eeth Koth should be one of the main improvements to Arena Shipments.
Not something groundbreaking, but Kit Fisto would be nice I guess.

I would like to see a Kit Fisto or Anakin. I haven't met either in battle in my 2+ month gametime.

"Big_Boss;170437" wrote:
Anakin, Fisto or Old Ben either way a second jedi would be the best for arena

Hold your horses, gentlemen. :) Anakin and Ben would be a little too strong for that purpose. Unless I'm missing something and Kit is actually still used somewhere outside of Yoda Event.

I don't suspect Anakin to ever become obtainable in shipments btw. It seems to be the game's policy that a character either gets 1 shipment and 0/1 hard nodes or 0 shipments and 2/3 hard nodes. Very few don't follow this logic. Anakin has 3 hard nodes which is plenty, most players just don't want to try (until recently it seems).

About Anakin, he has 3 nodes yes, but they are very energy hungry, and 1 of them is pretty hard to 3 star it as dark side. It will take months to get him 7* so he can replace someone like Sid or Phasma and it will make you spend less energy for gear and other heroes. And tbh he isn't that impressive to worth all that effort.

The more i think about it i believe that the game would be better if it had a soft cap at 5* at release, like it had with level. And slowly increase it the star level to 7*. Now everyone rushes the easiest obtainable heroes to 7* in order to be competitive and we see the same teams over and over in GW and Arena.

I understand that it's always the same on a newer server, but that's the game, slowly progressing towards endgame while you and your server mature. Certain characters only show after a certain amount of time. :)

This particular idea could be very interesting. Locking the available stars for a certain period of time, depending on player level or server "age" for example. I give this two :+1: .