I would rather no advice than wrong advice.

The Pirate Era Battle is back, and that's fine. 

The r5 tier was inaccessible to me before, but now it is. That's great. 

I look and it says that you need 3xr5 "for the best chance of success." Well, that's not what I hoped for, but okay. I can just barely get 2 more eligible toons to r5. I have 4 total 7-star toon pirates that are eligible for the event with Silvano already r7, but there's just no way to get enough signal data to r5 the other 3 of them. 

So I take Ithano and SM-33 up to r5 to go with Silvo, who was already r7. 8 hours to spare. That's perfect. 

I get blown out of the water. That's not ideal, but let's throw my best mods on there. 

Trashed again. And again. And again. While I'm never quite one-shot from full health + full protection, the enemy finds it quite easy to take me from 30% protection to dead in one turn or one counter attack. 

Again, I would have been fine if you told me that I can't do it without a strong tank. I would have been fine if you required PK Hondo. I don't really care. But don't say 3 toons gives you the "best chance" when 3 toons are so easily wiped, repeatedly. 

I'm not sure what beats this, but it's not what I got. Ultimately I probably would have brought Ithano up past r5 anyway, so I won't really have wasted more resources than 100 crystals (as I needed 1x200crystal refresh to get the final signal data, and that would have been cheaper if I realized I could wait). In the grand scheme, 100 crystals isn't much. 

But it's still annoying to get advice from the game, follow the advice, and have the advice turn out to be nowhere near correct. I do not have the "best chance" of success. It would be interesting to see what would happen if I had a 7-star/r5 tank. My Quig is 90/100. Could have spent resources rushing him if I had known it mattered. But the in-game advice just said 3 toons. 

So here I am, worse off for trusting the official advice. And it's not that I'm hugely worse off. But no player should be worse off for following the in-game advice. 

Please, just don't offer any advice if the only words you're willing to offer are so far from correct. Give solid advice or just stay silent.