"kevsmart;c-1446131" wrote:
The fact that platoons in TB require brand new characters is terrible and should be changed. We have 2 different scenarios here:
1) Player is excited about a new character and spends money to star and/or gear said character. Character required for a platoon? Player can't actually USE their shiny new character or else hurt their guild. This is not fun.
2) Guild not full of whales to buy everything immediately doesn't fill platoons and can't complete further missions because the platoons need characters that have been out for a week. This is not fun.
Both of these scenarios are especially bad in DS TB right now because of the lack of DS characters in general and the lack of quality DS teams that can actually complete combat missions.
My solution? Make characters required for platoons available for combats in that territory. Players who actually shell out the cash for brand new characters will be able to use them, albeit with a small restriction. Scenario 2 may be helped somewhat if a guild has a few members willing to spend, but entirely F2P guilds shouldn't expect to get 45* either.
This is a game that is supposed to be fun. Forcing people to spend money to be able to fill a platoon and then not even be able to use that character is not fun and is anti-player and should have no place in any game.
I posted that back in February. Still holds true. Platoons are horrible and discouraging and should be changed. Absolutely ridiculous to expect that we should pay money to unlock all these new toons and then not even be allowed to use them. And absolutely ridiculous that a 171M+ guild like mine was only able to fill 6 of 18 squads yesterday and today, and that we can't fill ANY ship squads.
But hey at least CG fixed the problem of combats freezing in TB!! Oh wait....
