Apologies, I missed the back end of you OP. As a follow up, I actually DO think the intention is to "annoy" - at least to the point of pushing some players to spend on the characters in question. Now, this certainly wouldn't work if they weren't interested at all, but it might be the "nudge" needed for someone on the fence.
I totally agree. I would bet my life that someone in my guild has once had a thought such as "I kinda want to whale out on this one. The toon seems good, plus I can use them in raids and TB if I go to 7*". It makes sense.
That being said, if it does end up being that the new method is "we're going to release new toons/ships and then put them in 6 out of 6 platoons on Phase 4", I would have liked some communication, since that's a drastic change.
