Executor is a beast? [MERGE]

"SerylT2;c-2287357" wrote:

"MasterSeedy;c-2287353" wrote:
I said it when Executor was first announced...

If you force such a high price on a ship where nothing has ever cost anything remotely similar before, then you end up with 2 possible outcomes
1) The ship is a GL of ships in a context where there is no other GL and easily destroys everything thrown against it, on offense and defense, which is terrible for gameplay and for fun.
or
2) The ship is a good ship, no better (or only incrementally better) than other good ships, and is clearly not worth the investment.


When you force your customers to race their Tesla sedans against an Aston Martin Vanquish, no one is happy and your business does not prosper.

When you put an Aston Martin price tag on a Tesla sedan, no one is happy and your business does not prosper.

This was never going to end well, and the only reasonable thing to do was implement jk Luke type pricing to get folks used to the idea of relic pricing for ships while you slowly ramp up the power levels.

This was an entirely foreseeable failure, CG. I do hope you have learned your lesson this time.

This post is the gospel here. My happiness at this ships failing to live up to the hype is mainly due to my despise of its balance wrecking prophesy. The ship comes off as balanced to me and that is a good thing in my mind.

I do sympathize with those who feel misled about being given an "I win" button for a heavy investment. But "I win" buttons are utter game killers. This game was suffering for awhile until they opened the meta back up post Revan.

I'll say it again. You want an "I Win" button.. go play by yourself, and you'll win every time. You want to play with thousands of other people you are going to have to accept you won't come in first place every single time.

Rebels can beat everything
Seps can beat everything
Gr can beat everything

What should I relic meh characters in order to be able to do what I can already do ? That can’t be for diversity of choice, because those having access to r8 already have at least one competitive pvp fleet from the trio above. And if it’s for new players, r8 is harder to access than get1, so they’ll have a male/nego before being able to unlock executor.

It’s not about a ‘I win’ button. It’s about a ‘this fleet is better than the fleets before’ button.

This is meta driven game. Part of the game is trying to have an advantage in battle by chasing the best units. If ‘thousands of other people’ in a shard would have a fleet of equivalent power that can beat reliably all the other fleets, it would change the game drastically.