3 years ago
How to salvage datacrons concept
Remove them from the game. Replace them with vehicles.
Vehicles will fill the datacron slot. They will provide bonuses as you star up your vehicle. Vehicles will have tags that determine which squads can use them.
Example: chicken walker: tags: dark side, empire, imperial trooper.
1 star: provides allies 10% protection.
2 star: boosts crit chance of allies by 5%.
3 star: imperial troopers that attack out of turn gain 2% offense, stacking, until their next turn.
Etc etc, similar to datacrons.
Differences: control the power boosting, they last forever, parts can be used for multiple vehicles much like datacrons, so you can choose which vehicles to go chase after. They can be used in all game modes.
At 7 stars the vehicles can provide a bonus ability to units who meet the criteria. Example:
7 star chicken walker, any relic 5+ imperial trooper gains the bonus ability: imperial fire power- starts on cd (8 turns), shared between relic 5+ imperial troopers. Inflicts stagger on all enemies. Any enemy that resists is dazed. This daze cannot be resisted. Gain a bonus turn.
Replace the datacron tab with an armory tab where we can visually see the vehicles. This would have made you significantly more investments then datacrons, made people excited, and given similar, but lasting, boosts to different squads.
Vehicles will fill the datacron slot. They will provide bonuses as you star up your vehicle. Vehicles will have tags that determine which squads can use them.
Example: chicken walker: tags: dark side, empire, imperial trooper.
1 star: provides allies 10% protection.
2 star: boosts crit chance of allies by 5%.
3 star: imperial troopers that attack out of turn gain 2% offense, stacking, until their next turn.
Etc etc, similar to datacrons.
Differences: control the power boosting, they last forever, parts can be used for multiple vehicles much like datacrons, so you can choose which vehicles to go chase after. They can be used in all game modes.
At 7 stars the vehicles can provide a bonus ability to units who meet the criteria. Example:
7 star chicken walker, any relic 5+ imperial trooper gains the bonus ability: imperial fire power- starts on cd (8 turns), shared between relic 5+ imperial troopers. Inflicts stagger on all enemies. Any enemy that resists is dazed. This daze cannot be resisted. Gain a bonus turn.
Replace the datacron tab with an armory tab where we can visually see the vehicles. This would have made you significantly more investments then datacrons, made people excited, and given similar, but lasting, boosts to different squads.