Crewless BTL-B Y-wing...

"UnbelieverInME;c-2001414" wrote:
I think the problem could be solved by giving the pilot-less ships "gear"
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Say, 4 slots or so. It gives CG something to monetize and a way to make people invest in them.
Maybe "Stabilizers, Astromech, Engines, Weapons" giving bonus to Dodge, Crit Chance, Speed, and Offense or something similar. Some ships may not even have some of them, but excel in others. (ie: Tie = No AstroMech, but Bonus to stabilizers).

Otherwise I'm unsure how to do it unless they uncouple ships from the pilots. "Wedge's X-Wing" not requiring Wedge, except to unlock maybe.... shrug. Be a waste of my pilots, but...

And we‘d be back to spending resources to gear.

@Nauros
On a superficial level, I‘d agree with you. Yet, level 65 for the Y-wing isn’t really starters anymore. At least not for the game in general. They should have farmed a substantial amount of characters by that time. I just don‘t see how their statement is supposed to make sense? If they‘d had Cody as pilot, many people wouldn‘t have problems farming/gearing, it is an established SW character. A new player will have to farm a myriad of things (without any real "making things easier").

They keep selling us the "resource management game", yet they want to move away from that because ... reasons? Also moving away from collection? (We‘re already getting punished for having a large roster in a collection game... that‘s a different topic though)
So what‘s left besides milking the cow?

The problem is a simple as the problem they seem to have neglected with expose.... (mark my words, it‘s not the last we heard of changes in that regard):
Scaling
What is the incentive to farm a crewless easy to get ship, that pales in comparison with manned ships, which additionally bloats your roster in the end? It just doesn‘t seem to be well thought through...