Do people actually have fun playing Ship battles ?
Personally i never did. I started playing this game in Dec.2016 and tried to have fun playing this content since i unlocked it. But the more i play this game and the less i have fun playing it, for many reasons:
- Duration. This fight often last way too long especially if you have not much fun playing it, i mostly auto-battle now, it's way faster and since only RNG matters i don't feel like wise strategy is that much required in some situations.
- RNG. There's too much RNG, everything is about RNG and became frustrating really fast. There's a huge discrepancy between different fights against the same team. Some day you oneshot his ships, the next day he oneshots yours - Go figure what's going on. Some ships apply debuffs, other rely upon RNG and since there's a huge discrepancy between ships stats you can deal 10k one day, 90k the other. Nothing is barely reliable at best.
- Bugs, camera is still bugged and totally breaks the game. If you can't select the ship you want, how can you desperately try to focus on a strategy when you can use basic tools such as choosing the ship you want ?
- Lack of serious balance. Nothing is properly tuned, some ships are nowhere to be farmed, some are the easiest farm ever. Admirals are all but equal especially when it comes to AI, speed and efficiency. Ships balance is completely out of control, everyone is running the same team since only a few ships are decent enough to fit the role they have to. Some special abilities are completely worthless while others are completely overpowered. Damage balance is even worse.
- Lack of choice. There isn't simply enough ships to build consistent and different enough teams. Each admiral buff one specific faction but there's not enough ships in each faction anyway. Other factions don't have any synergy at all, separatists or Resistance.FO are only there to fill the holes. Only a few ships dispell, taunt or cleanse, everything relies only upon targeting and nothing more. Gameplay is quite poor at the moment.
- Tedious farm. Levelling a pilot is already painful, especially for some and it has never been solved. Ship farm is even worse, i don't even understand why ships are that long to farm since it's only one and only one game mode. Ships ressources shouldn't be shared with other mode ressources, having to rely upon Ship currency to buy zetas is a nonsense. Why do we get only 4 ship tokens instead of 5 or more ? What the point in making ships that hard to be farmed ? No one will have fun farming such things for month for only a few fights per day.
Some ships aren't even farmable, and other are never updated nor reworked even if awfully outdated.
- All pilots aren't available in the Ship shipments. Still you have to buy Grievous in there even if he's quite a terrible toon (for now) and doesn't even have a ship. Go figure !
- Fun factor. Tbh i don't have much fun at all while playing this mode. Fights aren't much tactical and since everyone is using the same ships we're experiencing the same old boring thing every single day. I don't think the arena mechanics is working well either (same with characters arena tbh). I don't mind leaderboards but the way pvp is handled in here isn't helping much.
Does this mode really need competition to bring more fun ? I'd have prefered something like GW or even a shared experience with other guild members way more than another dull arena.
- Duration. This fight often last way too long especially if you have not much fun playing it, i mostly auto-battle now, it's way faster and since only RNG matters i don't feel like wise strategy is that much required in some situations.
- RNG. There's too much RNG, everything is about RNG and became frustrating really fast. There's a huge discrepancy between different fights against the same team. Some day you oneshot his ships, the next day he oneshots yours - Go figure what's going on. Some ships apply debuffs, other rely upon RNG and since there's a huge discrepancy between ships stats you can deal 10k one day, 90k the other. Nothing is barely reliable at best.
- Bugs, camera is still bugged and totally breaks the game. If you can't select the ship you want, how can you desperately try to focus on a strategy when you can use basic tools such as choosing the ship you want ?
- Lack of serious balance. Nothing is properly tuned, some ships are nowhere to be farmed, some are the easiest farm ever. Admirals are all but equal especially when it comes to AI, speed and efficiency. Ships balance is completely out of control, everyone is running the same team since only a few ships are decent enough to fit the role they have to. Some special abilities are completely worthless while others are completely overpowered. Damage balance is even worse.
- Lack of choice. There isn't simply enough ships to build consistent and different enough teams. Each admiral buff one specific faction but there's not enough ships in each faction anyway. Other factions don't have any synergy at all, separatists or Resistance.FO are only there to fill the holes. Only a few ships dispell, taunt or cleanse, everything relies only upon targeting and nothing more. Gameplay is quite poor at the moment.
- Tedious farm. Levelling a pilot is already painful, especially for some and it has never been solved. Ship farm is even worse, i don't even understand why ships are that long to farm since it's only one and only one game mode. Ships ressources shouldn't be shared with other mode ressources, having to rely upon Ship currency to buy zetas is a nonsense. Why do we get only 4 ship tokens instead of 5 or more ? What the point in making ships that hard to be farmed ? No one will have fun farming such things for month for only a few fights per day.
Some ships aren't even farmable, and other are never updated nor reworked even if awfully outdated.
- All pilots aren't available in the Ship shipments. Still you have to buy Grievous in there even if he's quite a terrible toon (for now) and doesn't even have a ship. Go figure !
- Fun factor. Tbh i don't have much fun at all while playing this mode. Fights aren't much tactical and since everyone is using the same ships we're experiencing the same old boring thing every single day. I don't think the arena mechanics is working well either (same with characters arena tbh). I don't mind leaderboards but the way pvp is handled in here isn't helping much.
Does this mode really need competition to bring more fun ? I'd have prefered something like GW or even a shared experience with other guild members way more than another dull arena.
