Executor is a beast? [MERGE]

Here’s my piett for TW- had to strip his mods so the executor doesn’t go before bam or IG. Thanks CG! Wish I had kept it at 5* now.

Pls tell me this isn’t working as intended.

"Beeblebrox;c-2287552" wrote:
Just for reference when we were being hard sold this ship @CG_Miller said (in actual recorded words out of his mouth) the following things:
"There was a long overdue need for a meta refresh"
"We wanted to shake up the meta"
"This has been planned since Piett came out"
"The team knocked it out of the park on this ship"
"You'll be able to stick it on Defense, it'll hold its own on the defensive side"
"This ship is coming into the top of the meta"
"We wanted to ensure players who were investing in this ship were investing in a top of the meta ship and being rewarded for their investment"
"Spent days thinking about the ultimate and what this ship could do as a top of the meta ship"
"You're really just bringing Empire ships to kinda fill out the rest of the reinforcements"
"Making a top of the meta ship is a lot easier than say something in the top-5"
"This is going to be the top of the meta for a while"
"Existing top of the meta fleets against a 4-star Executor should have a chance...when there are 7-star Executors out there hopefully you'll have yours too!"
"We're requiring pilots are relic levels so If you're getting the Executor your pilots and Piett are something you don't then have to worry about"
"It is a very powerful top of the meta ship"

...So, yeah, ooh wonder why people invested in this requirement-heavy ship expecting it to be able to hold on defense and be worthy of the title of a meta changing investment (...that many of us chose instead of GL Lord Vader since we couldn't afford to do both!)

Well dang. There it is.

Actually bought a couple of vaults for this, sold on the lies.
First time I actually requested my money back from apple, hopefully I’ll get refunded and I’ll feel much better about all this, others should request refunds also.

Fleet arena is a big thing for some, take me for example I hate shards ( would love shards getting randomised every few months )and reluctantly joined one in squad arena a year ago but due to falling out with an egotistical bully with discord rights I now struggle to make top20 as 20 or so people talk on discord to shut me out.
Fleet is my only option to try recoup some crystals and this is very lack lustre, should be a lot more rng to beat it on defence.

People say it obviously needs another ship or 2 but I’ve felt the malevolence has needed the tri fighter since release and yet it has never come.

"MaricSkywalker;c-2287604" wrote:


Here’s my piett for TW- had to strip his mods so the executor doesn’t go before bam or IG. Thanks CG! Wish I had kept it at 5* now.

Pls tell me this isn’t working as intended.

This devs, ever since Zombie 1.0, have said they never want a mechanic that rewards you for investing less.

Right now you want a lower star Executor (or no mods on Piett) for a better opening. No way this can be as intended. Something is missing or broke.

"MaricSkywalker;c-2287604" wrote:


Here’s my piett for TW- had to strip his mods so the executor doesn’t go before bam or IG. Thanks CG! Wish I had kept it at 5* now.

Pls tell me this isn’t working as intended.

How geared is your bam to go before stripped piett ?

My guess is most of the tests were performed with full BH fleet (including upcoming BH ship(s)). That would be understandable. However if that's the case, they should release dengar's ship before executor to assure the latter will dominate from day 1. Most likely someone has decided that they will earn more if the release order is reverted.

"Salv;c-2287674" wrote:
My guess is most of the tests were performed with full BH fleet (including upcoming BH ship(s)). That would be understandable.

CG_Miller himself said they tend to test at max levels.

"Starslayer;c-2287673" wrote:

"MaricSkywalker;c-2287604" wrote:


Here’s my piett for TW- had to strip his mods so the executor doesn’t go before bam or IG. Thanks CG! Wish I had kept it at 5* now.

Pls tell me this isn’t working as intended.

How geared is your bam to go before stripped piett ?

Not sure about BAM, but IG has to be maxed to get them equal, which from my understanding means you "only" need to down grade modes slightly to get it to go first, but that's not the point, obviously.

Any intel on what's going on, Kyno? Are they planning on addressing this with any communication soon at least?

"HokieFiend;c-2287696" wrote:
Any intel on what's going on, Kyno? Are they planning on addressing this with any communication soon at least?

Expect a new galactic chase within the next two weeks that fixes the fleet.

Sell the problem then sell the solution.