You don't have to. You don't have to do anything, it's a game.
But people are saying that we have to release LS Geo TB or we'll have nothing to do. So the question isn't whether we "have to" get full stars on TB. It's whether or not we still have something to do, something to work on, some goal to aim for.
Obviously we still have many goals to aim for. Therefore a new TB is not necessary right now. If the new TB didn't slow progress down, having lots of new content instead of only some new content wouldn't be bad at all. But from all appearances they're going to slow down our ability to gain rewards when we have so many things we need to work on.
Why slow us down? Were we really all progressing through DS Geo TB too quickly? If we weren't, why not give us the option of focussing on one goal (like DS Geo TB) until we're ready to switch? Or just wait to release LS Geo TB?
Moreover, I like playing the game. That's why I'm here. I hate the phase4 battles in DS GeoTB where you get crushed in the very first enounter without accomplishing anything. I have a Relic Grievous, and against p4 enemies in the first encounter, he doesn't even do enough damage that the enemies haven't healed it all before his turn comes again.
What kind of difficulty is that, where a Relic toon can't make any progress at all? There's not even a hope that with desperate strategy and outrageous RNG luck I might finish the first encounter.
Of course, I don't have a full SepDroid squad yet. I have 2x g12 + 2x g8 other than my Grievous, I'm not saying this will always be impossible. But those phase 4 encounters are impossible for me now, and I have 4.8M gp.
So the upshot is... I just don't get to play. There's nothing to do in p4. And it looks like it will be the same in LS TB.
We won't get new content to play. We'll get new content to stare at and wish we could play, while in the meantime our rewards are cut.
Honestly, I wouldn't be nearly so put out if they had 6 encounters and you could at least play the first couple. But nope. Nothing to do. Just an impenetrable wall of death. Yet coming soon is LS TB with an even higher wall of requirements guaranteeing even fewer of the SWGOH fanbase will be able to actually play the combat missions. And our reward for not getting to play? Lesser rewards to make sure it takes even longer before we can start playing the game again.
I don't need to master everything. I can move on to the next cool thing without mastering everything. But we have plenty of current goals to shoot for, and releasing unplayable content with lesser rewards won't help anyone.
And again, I didn't start this thread and we don't know for sure what the difficulty will be, but we have every indication that we're not going to be allowed to play most missions. If those indications are correct and even phase1 battles are impossible to win even the first encounter for more than 99/100 SWGOH players, then we'll have a problem.
I wouldn't have started these threads yet because we don't know for sure, but since people are already discussing it, I think it's fair to say what I think (even if I might have to revise it later after more info comes in).
