Farming teams. ... future exhaustion
If I’m not mistaken, we only have certain spots where we can farm new toons. Hard nodes, Cantina nodes, Guild Event store, guild store, ship battle nodes... now I may be forgetting something. This...
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"BubbaFett;c-1598440" wrote:
You aren't meant to farm them all..... Pick a direction and go with it..... It's really not that complicated....
Forgive me but this is an obtuse answer -- in the context of the whole game, no you are not meant to farm every toon at once -- but that isn't what the OP is pointing out.
In the context of the Solo toons, which were designed as a cohesive synergistic team -- you quite clearly DO need all of those toons to really bring that whole team to its potential. For the incoming KOTOR team and LS Revan (who I speculate will ultimately be the locus of that team) you will also need all of the toons to really make the best use of it.
Why? Because the toons were designed to function together -- just like Phoenix was. Farming just Young Lando for example, will probably be deadweight in terms of utility until you have finished the other members of the team. It doesn't make sense to jam all of the solo toons into farming locations that compete with themselves, because it drastically reduces the incentive to farm one by hooking the benefit of farming the character to a competing farm.
It's a very different value judgment if I look at my options and say "I can farm Sion on this hard fleet node and use him on any Sith team" or I say "I can farm L3 and Lando on two different fleet nodes, which will take me twice as long / twice as many resources, and I won't be able to use either of them efficiently until both are finished". I'm probably not going to pick the longer more expensive farm to do that.
The way the Phoenix farm was structured was very smart, I could farm the entire team concurrently if I wanted. I could also farm them one at a time if that was more prudent to me. What the OP is pointing out is that if you take Arena/GW/Cantina/Fleet stores off the table, then structuring the Solo team or KOTOR team in the same way becomes very prohibitive and doesn't make much sense.
I don't know what CG is planning to do with the two new teams farming-wise, but if they put three toons on a single hard node, two on a single fleet node, and one on a cantina node (as slicing is introduced), I can't help but feel that's a pretty bad mistake in terms of engagement.
