Can I lose any ships to 3 star a Ship Challenge

Ah okay now that makes more sense!

"Thecore;937310" wrote:
Because you need 5* Executerix for zeta challenge.

"JediGhost117;937314" wrote:

"Darkjoe1990;937307" wrote:
So wait why do people always say they need dark side ships at 5* to get Zeta's?

Because you need them to get Tarkin's Ship in order to do the zeta tier

I am pretty sure you only need five 4-star dark side ships to acquire the 5* executrix. Then, you need eight 5-star ships of either LS or DS to do the challenge.

Cool then I am one dark side ship away from being able to attempt it! However my dark side ships are not that leveled and I just have Sun Fac, Tie Advance, Slave 1, and Kylo Ren's Shuttle 4*. Everything else is 2* however my Tie Fighter Pilot is almost 7* so I'll work on his ship.

"JediGhost117;937324" wrote:

"leef;937081" wrote:

"Indominable_J;937077" wrote:
You can't lose any. Which makes reinforcements pointless. Which is poor game design.

not entirely
clearing the battle with help of your reinforcements > not being able to clear the battle at all.
personally i'd rather sim a lower tier than having to battle manually, but that's just me.

Normally, yes, but with this being the only other place to farm zetas in the entire game than the awful exchange rate in the shipments, this is a case of poor game design. If I have to 3* a tier, then I will not ever use reinforcements, so why am I required to use them

you don't have to 3* a tier to get the rewards.

It's not required but the idea is that it should be possible. If you can 3* a challenge with 5 ships it's just more economical for your resources to just focus on 5 ships. Obviously this does nothing for you in the fleet battles though.

If ship battles were balanced with regular battles then you should technically 3* a challenge as long as no more than 3 ships drop. I'm not sure I agree with this but that is the logic here.

I think if you have 5 ships standing at the end of the battle you should get 3*. I mean I know it's possible for your original 5 to beat the ais but as stated above the reinforcements are useless when it comes to getting the 3*. I wish this was something they would look into changing.

"leef;937358" wrote:

"JediGhost117;937324" wrote:

"leef;937081" wrote:

"Indominable_J;937077" wrote:
You can't lose any. Which makes reinforcements pointless. Which is poor game design.

not entirely
clearing the battle with help of your reinforcements > not being able to clear the battle at all.
personally i'd rather sim a lower tier than having to battle manually, but that's just me.

Normally, yes, but with this being the only other place to farm zetas in the entire game than the awful exchange rate in the shipments, this is a case of poor game design. If I have to 3* a tier, then I will not ever use reinforcements, so why am I required to use them

you don't have to 3* a tier to get the rewards.

You do if you want to be efficient. If you have to actually do the battle every single time there's a chance that you will lose and waste an attempt at the already rare Zeta materials.

"JediGhost117;937426" wrote:

"leef;937358" wrote:

"JediGhost117;937324" wrote:

"leef;937081" wrote:

"Indominable_J;937077" wrote:
You can't lose any. Which makes reinforcements pointless. Which is poor game design.

not entirely
clearing the battle with help of your reinforcements > not being able to clear the battle at all.
personally i'd rather sim a lower tier than having to battle manually, but that's just me.

Normally, yes, but with this being the only other place to farm zetas in the entire game than the awful exchange rate in the shipments, this is a case of poor game design. If I have to 3* a tier, then I will not ever use reinforcements, so why am I required to use them

you don't have to 3* a tier to get the rewards.

You do if you want to be efficient. If you have to actually do the battle every single time there's a chance that you will lose and waste an attempt at the already rare Zeta materials.

you won't lose an attempt if you fail.
It should be difficult to get the ships needed to unlock the challenge. It should also be difficult to 3* the challenge once unlocked. It's not bad game design, it's intentional.
You need the 8 ships to unlock the challenge and you'll need 5 good ships to 3* the challenge. It's as simple as that.

"JediGhost117;937426" wrote:

"leef;937358" wrote:

"JediGhost117;937324" wrote:

"leef;937081" wrote:

"Indominable_J;937077" wrote:
You can't lose any. Which makes reinforcements pointless. Which is poor game design.

not entirely
clearing the battle with help of your reinforcements > not being able to clear the battle at all.
personally i'd rather sim a lower tier than having to battle manually, but that's just me.

Normally, yes, but with this being the only other place to farm zetas in the entire game than the awful exchange rate in the shipments, this is a case of poor game design. If I have to 3* a tier, then I will not ever use reinforcements, so why am I required to use them

you don't have to 3* a tier to get the rewards.

You do if you want to be efficient. If you have to actually do the battle every single time there's a chance that you will lose and waste an attempt at the already rare Zeta materials.

You're contradicting your own argument...

If Zeta's are as important as you contend (which they are) and this is the only place you can get them from gameplay rewards (which it is) then any completion - whether it be 1* using reinforcements, 3* without them, or simmed - is a positive step and a god use of time.

All your evidence supports the exact opposite conclusion from the one you made.

You need 8 ships as a requirement to unlock the challenge. It doesn't mean you need 8 ships to complete the challenge.

I honestly don't understand how complicated this is to understand. If they made the requirement only 5 ships, then MORE people will be able to do this challenge. The game wants to make the requirement "longer", "more diffcult", etc to make you grind for more ships and make you "earn" the challenge.