Executor is a beast? [MERGE]

Well my 7* executor seems to be holding fine. Haven’t been moved for a few hours now. Also r8 bossk r7 mando help. Can’t wait to r7 IG now. FYI I think he’s the mvp people are missing. Call boba or cad as first reinforcement. Mirrors take just over a min on auto. Every other fleet just melts. Great ship
BTY in Cubs video he’s fighting a 7* exec but yet the GP is 443.000 yet we have a 6* in our arena that’s 470000. So not sure what’s up with that video but might be misleading. ??‍♂️

"Nauros;c-2287207" wrote:
I don't get the panic, there's no way they leave it like this. Something is definitely coming, be it a new ship, a kit touch up or some bigger changes to ships as a whole. Although I won't mind if they take their time with that, at least I won't lose too many crystals by not unlocking now.

Betrayal of trust, in my case. I support this game with moderate spending, but decided to go big because this was touted as the meta: If you ain't got it, you're S.o.L. I'm already S.o.L. for arena, so thought this would be a great opportunity to climb and stay high. It wasn't cheap. I'm not going to go homeless, but that was way bigger of an investment than I would like to make in a game.

There was no caveat that you're going to need to also get a few more ships that will be coming down the line. It was almost arrogant how Miller came off that the Executor at 7* was not going to get beaten by anything currently out there once it came out. Two relic 8's / rest relic 5 characters, hard to farm ships as the requirements to even see the event.

Not so much panic as anger. This coming on the heels to the GL counter nerfs. The Google store fiasco, though I understand, was handled oh so poorly. Nerf it and then issue a statement? How about, "Hey, it really isn't fair to Apple people, so we're going to take away the energy. I mean, we could actually give apple people energy in their packs but we don't have souls and we just want to suck out what bllod you all have left in your veins. This will happen next week. in the meantime, we have this 100 energy pack for $99.99 as our way of saying thanks!"

"Vendraen;c-2287085" wrote:

"Kyno;c-2287065" wrote:
Scimitar is an interesting choice for that lineup. Are we sure there is not a better lineup that could work?

Translation: Who that can afford to whale Executor to 7* is dumb enough to put Scimitar as a reinforce? Executor has ZERO Sith synergy.

Yes 25% crit chance when the cc is already very low and then stealthing everyone but HT and giving stealthed ships 25% offense is horrendous. Surprised someone would think of it.

Executor is a beastloop :/

"WD_40;c-2287185" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2287179" wrote:

"WD_40;c-2287102" wrote:

"HumbleMumble;c-2287099" wrote:
Teams that are beasts on offense but poor in defense makes the most “fun” gameplay in my opinion. Now I don’t feel so bad about the delayed conquest costing me a day 1 unlock of the executor.

Agreed! Some of the most satisfying things in the game (IMO) are Imperial Troopers, or SEE, who both are absolutely terrible on defense. CG Miller said that the fleet couldn't just be used to Auto things in his interview with CubsfanHan, that you had to have some knowledge on its kit and make a choice for the "contract" or the Ultimate. The AI in this game is notorious for being bad in general, why should this be different?

If an existing fleet with far lower investment is already able to beat every fleet out there on offense, a new fleet with steeper that is able to do the same thing is useless. I don’t see any reason (except collection) to spend resources on a ship when you could spend less for the same results.

That's absolutely understandable, but I still think there's another bh ship on the horizon, so maybe this isn't the best this fleet can possibly be. Also, if executor makes it even easier to beat Negotiator/Malev, then that could be a reason, make the difficulty of beating those ships drop with higher investment

No issue if a piece is missing to make it really good, as long as it arrives quickly; too bad if it’s a marquee though.
About ‘easier to beat’: at the top of arena, people already beat each other easily.

Have we gotten confirmation this is working as intended from the community manager yet?

"Kyno;c-2287134" wrote:

"Barik_Edo;c-2287100" wrote:
Pointing out Scimitar's lack of synergy with Executor while ignoring that the FO fleet that beat it used GR and Empire reinforcements... lol.

Lol, while ignoring the fact that we do not have a full FO fleet......... just supposed to leave those spots empty?

Missing the point.... The argument is Executor lost because of poor reinforcements. Presumably because it doesn't synergize with the capital ship. Finalizer though, let's overlook it's reinforcements not synergizing with the capital ship because "we do not have a full FO fleet". We don't have a full BH fleet either. The Scimitar bolsters the BHs far more than the Empire ships do and the Empire ships aren't getting you to ultimate faster. If anything, criticize the AI's reinforcement choice prioritizing non-BH ships. Empire ships wouldn't have changed the outcome here.

Executor seems really good. But if people are upset with spending lots of money on something they've never seen in action, then that doesn't seem like a problem for the devs to fix.

"MaricSkywalker;c-2287240" wrote:
Have we gotten confirmation this is working as intended from the community manager yet?

No, and from my understanding they may be looking at things, but waiting on an official statement to that effect. (But I make no promises or anything of any sort of official thing of this statement)

"Old_Ben12345;c-2287243" wrote:
Executor seems really good. But if people are upset with spending lots of money on something they've never seen in action, then that doesn't seem like a problem for the devs to fix.

I’ve never watched an airplane fly at 30,000 feet but I take their word for it that it’s going to work when I spend $200 on a ticket.