This is the deciding factor for me: I have to have 20 or more r9 toons just to be eligible to play all the battles in the final phase? Not to win, just to have the option of playing. Otherwise you simply don't get to play all the battles that day, and if you don't have 5xr9 you don't get to play any of the battles on day 5 or day 6. It would be ... interesting. Not necessarily good, but interesting... if that required toon chart was the requirements for your mission leader, but once you had a single r9 toon you could attempt the battle with a lesser squad behind your marvellous leader. Very few people have 5xr9 with synergy. They might have 5 or 10 r9 toons, but they'll be prioritizing taking the GL's to r9, so they'll have mutliple strong r9 leaders, but no r9 squads. I honestly can't imagine how many people are even allowed to play a single mission in this TB. It can't be many. I play this game to have fun. Entering an event, even if getting only a single p1 star is enough to get better rewards than 30+ in the Geo TBs, frustrates the entire point. How many times must I say it? This is a game. We play games for fun. Entering an event we're not allowed to play is not fun. On top of this, listing a 200Mgp entrance requirement for this TB is a cruel joke. How many 200Mgp guilds have a single player with a single r9 toon? The player base isn't ready for this, CG. These r8 and r9 requirements are ill-conceived and badly executed.

Cant wait for them to combine all these crying threads.

Cant wait for them to combine all these crying threads.Crying? I don't cry. In game I simply play what's fun and ignore what isn't. In the forums I write what I write to try to get CG to emphasize fun in their game development. I can't say that my opinion of what's fun is universal, but I give my version and let others give theirs. This idea is far ahead of the player base. I didn't expect to necessarily do well in the new TB. I expected the new TB to be a motivator to acquire and gear new toons released down the road once we identify specific battles or phases that crush the current meta. But I expected to be able to go in and look around while they crush me so that I could get ideas about what mike work and start thinking about theory crafting new squads. Then I could use that theory crafting to allow me to prioritize which toons I wanted to gear highest and soonest. But now that won't matter. Once I gear something to r9 to check out the battle and start theory crafting, my toons are already r9, so there's nothing left to do. And if I r9'd the wrong squad, I've cost myself hugely. All the incentives are to sit back and wait, because even if I took squads to r9, it will be like LS GeoTB at release -- meaning the characters you need and abilities you need to actually have success don't even exist yet, so the toons you take to r9 today won't be the toons that end up conquering the new TB. By creating over-the-top requirements, they've made certain that this TB is a wasteland of inactivity for 6-12 months. This is why I say that the player base isn't ready for this TB and that requiring a single toon to be r9 (the leader, obviously) would be a wiser strategy that would allow people to at least participate in the gameplay. Currently we're excluded from game play, and that's neither fun nor good for the game. Having an r9 leader but having your r5 tank get two-shot and your whole squad get demolished in wave 1 would allow the same result -- no TB points for combat mission waves -- BUT it would allow the players to actually have a glimpse at the future. With 5xr9 we don't even get to look around at the new world.

This just made the hole point of relics useless. R6+ teams x6+++ basically not rechargeable for average 95% of base. CG just sucked all the fun out of this new game mode

"Firebrigade;c-2395186" wrote:I just want to know if you’re really going to have to r9 units just to platoon them in p5 and 6? NOTE: Min Requirements are for Combat Missions and Operations but not DeploymentThe game info now has a RelicTier definition for platoons so......

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Shadowscream77
New Spectator
2 years ago
This happened with GeoTBs too….when DS and LS Geo came out we preloaded Phase 1 and 2 as an UPPER end guild……same thing will happen here.
The target back then was to break into P3 bottom and get KAM!!
The target this time will be to consolidate R6s and then R7s to get into P3…..

I honestly wouldn’t worry about P6 ?
Kluge1971
New Spectator
2 years ago
We are the only ones that read thru even a fraction of these threads. You think CG takes the time to objectively assess the feedback that is filtered in and between all these posts? Anybody that believes that is just drinking the KoolAid. CG is completely tone-deaf and it will never change. As a community, we either play the components of the game that interest us and ignore the rest (like so many are doing with datacrons) or you just quit. Convincing CG to adjust anything thru feedback, suggestions, criticisms, is just a waste of time.
winterwolves
Rising Scout
2 years ago
I'm still in the wait and see camp. My current guild pretty much didn't touch phase 4 of light side geonosis anyway, so leaving later phases alone will be nothing new for a lot of guilds.

It's going to depend on the combat points to deploy points balance in the star scoring.

A guild that has a decent amount of r6 teams could concentrate all deployment in one track to get 2 or 3 stars while only fighting the other 2 areas to get close to a star.
Phase 1: Fight and deploy 2 stars dark side. Fight N and L tracks.
Phase 2: Fight and deploy 2 stars N, Fight D and L.
Phase 3: Fight and deploy 2-3 stars L, fight N and D. (I have upto 3 stars here from 2 phases being a lot of prep. Maybe not?).
Phase 4: Back to dark etc...

Over 6 phases that's a 12 star plan with no r7 teams required. It all depends on the points required though. Even with higher point thresholds it could be a 6 star plan.

I just think it's too soon to proclaim the TB dead, or unplayable.
firebrigade9
2 years ago
I just want to know if you’re really going to have to r9 units just to platoon them in p5 and 6?

NOTE: Min Requirements are for Combat Missions and Operations but not Deployment
MasterSeedy
Rising Ace
2 years ago
@TVF
I'll be twice as good, I'm going to run a Fishman solo and a Piett solo.

In LightSide?
tvsfrink
2 years ago
"MasterSeedy;c-2395202" wrote:
@TVF
I'll be twice as good, I'm going to run a Fishman solo and a Piett solo.

In LightSide?

This TB has three alignments.

Also, obviously joking....
MasterSeedy
Rising Ace
2 years ago
I did get the joke. That was a joking reply.
najwa2012
2 years ago
Its cg. That is all.
winterwolves
Rising Scout
2 years ago
"Khodan29;c-2395247" wrote:
"Jimster1;c-2395227" wrote:
I wonder if it's possible to take this new event and create three separate tiers for it. Thee way it is now can be the top tier. But have a normal which is much more reasonable. Maybe make rewards less. Then have an easier mode for lower guilds this way everyone can play it and everyone's needs are met. You want a challenge well select tier 3. You want to play and have fun well select tier 1, at the cost of lesser rewards of course.

By doing something like this we all get to enjoy it. I think the idea of three paths is great but disappointed I can't play it. Allow me to play it at a lesser difficulty for lesser rewards and I'm happy, sure I'd still be disappointed but at least then I can't really complain, because you at least thought of other players. It's like conquest. I wasn't able to play it on the difficulty when it just had 1. But now I can play normal and get the t5 crate. It still a challenge but I enjoy it,( granted I hate the sith team because I struggle WAY too much with them) but at least I am growing and having Fun. Which at the end of the day is the reason I am playing this game to have fun and pass the time. This would be a more Equitable approach to the game, plus I am sure people who are close to a goal would be more likely to spend money to overcome the hurdle in front of them.

They should do it like Conquest - Have an Easy, Normal and Hard mode, with appropriate rewards for each. Guilds can start on Easy and then work their way up. This allows all guilds to participate at whatever level they are at, and as more toons get relicked they can move to the harder content. The way it is now, they are excluding something like 90% of the player base. So, let's just call it Whale Battles, and the majority of us will go in, deploy to Platoons, and be done. All the work that CG put into this, and most of us will get 1 minutes worth of "enjoyment". Why they are excluding "lesser" accounts is beyond me. Very disappointing.

You won't be able to do the platoons.
perfidius44
Rising Newcomer
2 years ago
"Khodan29;c-2395247" wrote:

They should do it like Conquest - Have an Easy, Normal and Hard mode, with appropriate rewards for each. Guilds can start on Easy and then work their way up. This allows all guilds to participate at whatever level they are at, and as more toons get relicked they can move to the harder content. The way it is now, they are excluding something like 90% of the player base. So, let's just call it Whale Battles, and the majority of us will go in, deploy to Platoons, and be done. All the work that CG put into this, and most of us will get 1 minutes worth of "enjoyment". Why they are excluding "lesser" accounts is beyond me. Very disappointing.

Easy is Hoth and Normal is Geonosis.

It doesn't mean I like that every CB is relic gated, because I don't.