Cache up things for new players

This is about the worst idea I've heard.

Why that? :D

It literally devalues everything that long term players had to do. So why would new players be handed everything??

They are already doing this. New players have a lot more access to events and rewards that were never available before.

Marquee events are a reward for being an active player at that time, they are not a "farming location", they are a one way street to release.

The game is all about pacing and in almost every aspect of the game you are competing with people at your level, you dont need to catch up to anyone else.

This idea would also devalue $$. You want to get ahead faster there is a solution for that $$.

It would not. They have achieved many things, done great work. It would not make they work wort less, especially, if they enjoyed playing. Other games have cache ups as well, after some time, it is just necessary. Try to imagine, some key players quit the game in your guild, or yor friend just started it, you can fill your guild roster more easilly, or your friend won't quit after some time, because some things are hopelessly far away.
And the top guys, who solo HAAT, and racing for first places in HTST, probably won't care, for JonnyDarksideLol can start raiding HPit some weeks earlier, than they did at the time, they begun playing.

While i don't agree with all these ideas i think you have a very valid point. Marquees should probably be available even if you weren't playing when the char was released, maybe part of the quest structure? New players are at a huge disadvantage compared to long term players. They need sooooo many teams to get mods, fleet, cls, jtr, etc. Long term players have a more natural progression since they didn't have all the characters available at once. I don't think marquees alone would help, but i think it's a reasonable starting place. 50 shards or whatever that they're missing isn't massive until you take into account how many missing those 50 shards and how many are one 1 spot hard nodes

Yes, you got it. Old players had to do new stuff at release, for new guys, it seems, they must do many things at once, and this can be overwhelming.

"DuneFlint;c-1571392" wrote:
While i don't agree with all these ideas i think you have a very valid point. Marquees should probably be available even if you weren't playing when the char was released, maybe part of the quest structure? New players are at a huge disadvantage compared to long term players. They need sooooo many teams to get mods, fleet, cls, jtr, etc. Long term players have a more natural progression since they didn't have all the characters available at once. I don't think marquees alone would help, but i think it's a reasonable starting place. 50 shards or whatever that they're missing isn't massive until you take into account how many missing those 50 shards and how many are one 1 spot hard nodes

What disadvantage?

When are those 2 players put in the same game mode to compete?

Speeding up new players reduces the advantage gained by spending, since the only thing you really buy is time.

Getting a marquee toon is like getting something on sale. Just because someone got an item on sale last month and you walk into the store today, doesnt guarantee you the same discount. He was rewarded for going to the store that day, just like players are rewarded with marquee toons for being in game at that time.

"Goryss;c-1571395" wrote:
Yes, you got it. Old players had to do new stuff at release, for new guys, it seems, they must do many things at once, and this can be overwhelming.

Those may things at once you are talking about, they don’t unlock at the same time it’s never all at the same time, newer players need to focus on a specific target, ignore other characters and build a specific team: phoenix the best faction for newer players that is their plan. You can’t they need to do many things at once because things unlocks progressively.

I am not looking to argue but I don’t agree with you, why would newer players have massive advantages and the start is easier for them?it wouldn’t be a fair game and experience towards long term players and I also agree with kino, newer players don’t have to compare themselves to the top 100 but rather toward players who are the same level, they will become big players anyway one day, depending on how long the game will last (when they stop adding stuff which is almost impossible, SW is so huge)so they will have years in front of them, they are given the same chances to success.

Maybe disadvantage is the wrong word, overwhelming like they said above? Yes you can pay to catch up, I'm just thinking a start to help out. Missing phoenix marquees is almost an entire 7star char someone misses out on. So it's a compounding issue. Sure they can catch up with cash, but if the player quits because they're so overwhelmed with how much they need the game is losing out. Marquees are designed to get you hyped and want that character right? By not letting newbies do the marquees for old stuff they aren't letting them see what the toon can do.