Endless Krayt raiding is unsustainable

I understand your thinking but surely before the raid changes you would have sith raid running almost everyday, so whats changed ? other than the you spend a bit more time on Dragon raid, i didnt hit our last raid for personal reasons , but i dont care about the "lost" rewards i had stuff to deal with so this game take a back seat to that, just remember this is a game not a job, if you need to miss parts of it , no worries it will still be there when you want to come back to it

I hate krayt. Not so much because it repeats, but because I can have over 150,000 points of rng difference, that comes down to only rng. That's utterly ridiculous. I literally never have any idea whatsoever what my score may wind up being til right at the end. But I have noticed, with some minor character upgrades, I seem to do worse than when the raid first started. I also hate having such a slim sélection of characters, which happen to be almost entirely ones I haven't invested in. I definitely preferred sith. And my guild went back and forth between sith and aat, so we wouldn't burn out.

"Quesovercoatl;c-2431558" wrote:
I understand your thinking but surely before the raid changes you would have sith raid running almost everyday, so whats changed ? other than the you spend a bit more time on Dragon raid, i didnt hit our last raid for personal reasons , but i dont care about the "lost" rewards i had stuff to deal with so this game take a back seat to that, just remember this is a game not a job, if you need to miss parts of it , no worries it will still be there when you want to come back to it

For Sith Raid with the right team you only needed to do 1 run through and you were done. No restarting over and over and over.

Even in CPIT I never needed as many retries as I sometimes now need for Krayt.

I wonder if one of the problems might be that before the raid changes, people only needed to be minimally involved in the raiding process to get their rewards. Now it takes active participation to break even with what many of us were getting before. With STR there were usually a few more ambitious people that would routinely solo it and everyone else just rode their coat tails. Even with CPit you could mostly throw in a few teams on auto and it was a done deal. The rewards were the rewards, regardless of how much time or effort you invested, you were getting paid when the raid was over.

There's no way to (effectively) auto this raid and the rewards are directly proportional to the effort of the guild as a whole so everyone has to pull their wieght. I'm not saying that's a bad thing - but it could easily be contributing to burn out as it's a pressure point that wasn't there before. I wonder if CG is looking at ways to alleviate this. It's been a very long time since I've seen anyone say, "there's not enough to do in this game" - quite the opposite seems to be the more common complaint now - we're on the hook for too much screen time, and where the raid is concerned (though there are ways to combat this), it can be very frustrating screen time.

Double the tickets needed to launch it and then double the rewards.

"Quesovercoatl;c-2431558" wrote:
I understand your thinking but surely before the raid changes you would have sith raid running almost everyday, so whats changed ? other than the you spend a bit more time on Dragon raid, i didnt hit our last raid for personal reasons , but i dont care about the "lost" rewards i had stuff to deal with so this game take a back seat to that, just remember this is a game not a job, if you need to miss parts of it , no worries it will still be there when you want to come back to it

Before the raid changes, if you did not participate in a raid the only person who lost was you. Now that your whole guild stands to lose, sitting out is no longer an option for many players.

The raid is just boring. When you throw in the endless loop of complete and launch it is unbearable. Our guild is actually going backwards on the rewards because no one wants to hit the raid.

It would be nice if there were some sort of "post last score as previous run" option to save time. It is very tedious when you know your team can hit max score for a certain level, but have to run it five or ten times just to repeat what you have done in the past. Overall, the game is getting too bloated with repetitive stuff. The more stuff we can sim, the better.

I agree that the raid is too frequent. It's another example of time demand that is not quality time.

The raid should absolutely run once a week (with scaled rewards). But even then, it would have gotten old by now.

They could add a sim option. Let me get the best score I can get with 5 teams and no restarts and no mod swaps. I should be able to auto-submit that score every raid.

Also, they could make the reward track less coarse. I get the 6.2M personal box and guild gets the 260M box. The next jump for me is over 8M and the next jump for the guild is over 400M. Not much motivation to continue to improve when the next tier is that far away.

I still consider Krayt to be a step in the right direction from the old raid system. But it needs further improvements to be great.