Fleet Meta Stale?

Incorrect. I’ve been owning the “meta” you refer to and cashing out at #1 for nearly a month with my Geos.

My shard is starting to adjust, producing more diversity. I would expect yours will, too.

I absolutely decimate Biggs and company. I’m not saying Geos are the only option, but anyone not paying attention to the changes and adjusting to them (especially reinforcement abilities?) is at fault for their own failure.

Vader is a great example. Anyone not using him as a reinforcement is insane in my book, yet I see him in virtually EVERY starting lineup.

"Pulsehammer;c-1611801" wrote:
I absolutely decimate Biggs and company. I’m not saying Geos are the only option, but anyone not paying attention to the changes and adjusting to them (especially reinforcement abilities?) is at fault for their own failure.

Vader is a great example. Anyone not using him as a reinforcement is insane in my book, yet I see him in virtually EVERY starting lineup.

That's because they like the guaranteed TL with biggs.. on a >2year old shard many in mind have 3+ mil GP, and the top 50 is chimaera with vader, biggs and either FO tie or imperial tie..

"Syrup_Chugger3;c-1611873" wrote:


That's because they like the guaranteed TL with biggs.. on a >2year old shard many in mind have 3+ mil GP, and the top 50 is chimaera with vader, biggs and either FO tie or imperial tie..

Oh, I get the target lock, but it’s just not the most effective use of resources. My ship shard is over two years old, by the way. No idea what the GP of the top fleet performers are, but their fleets are in the high 300k range.

I run Biggs, Vader and TFP and usually finish #1 or #2. Only 1 person in the top of my shard runs Geos and they never get higher than maybe #10. I personally love to fight them whenever I get the chance - other than Sun Fac they aren't that great.

Well I finally beat Executrix 5* so I can stick Vader in the new slot now. That DOT is too handy.

Only trouble is I'm not sure how AI handles reinforcements. Don't think it can be trusted to sub him in at the right time.

I have Phantom on reinforce as well for obvious reasons.

Hell: I do agree with you on not trusting the AI with reinforcements. I may remove consular (whom I never use on attack) for that very reason.

I think reinforcements are getting called by the order you place them. So the first reinforcement chosen gets called first and so on. Never really thought about it though.

Ships 2.0 is going to be a slow moving transition. People are going to farm the ships that have a pilot that is raid or arena viable until they've reached a point that they can focus on ship pilots. Plus, some of the lesser known ships are difficult farms. It was nice that they put Sion with Kylo's Command Shuttle, but now that I'm done with Sion I really don't want to keep farming that node when I need to get Bossk and Holdo to 7*. MilFalcon is paired with Scav Rey, so if you have a 7* Rey, what's the point of farming the ship when you probably have Raid toons you want to focus on?

Basically, until there's another Ship piloted by an arena viable toon, you're not going to see a big shakeup in fleet squads outside of the bigger spenders. I have no desire to gear up Geo Spy when I can get into the top 20 already without him.

"cannonfodder_iv;c-1617582" wrote:
And the triplets can still be beaten with the Chimaera / Biggs team, sometimes more easily than others, but it's still more than possible. Ships 2.0 still leaves a very sour taste in my mouth - and I really don't believe the AI very much - my Tie is routinely out-dodged by their Biggs, and my Biggs out-resisted by their Vader of all ships. It makes little sense. Say confirmation bias if you want, but I've played enough matches where I can call out when the opposing Tie is going to dodge and be right 80% of the time. Just an epic dumpster fire that's served no purpose other than to line EA's pockets and (along with the marquee platoon fiasco) keep TB stars down.

Yeah, the changes to the TB ship battles was the next travesty!