Let's talk about the theory of GCs

"Algech;c-2456039" wrote:

"MasterSeedy;c-2456021" wrote:

"Bradford;c-2456018" wrote:
You can't restrict it just to fleets when OP talks about the missing advantage for the faction of a GC.

No, but if the commenter decides that the problem is exaggerated with fleet GCs then it's totally fair to talk about those.

I am just curious. If you wouldn't have a good FO fleet (maybe a 4* Finalizer and not high relic ships) and you would have won this challenge with a mix too. Would you have opened this thread too? I don't think so. Just saying.

Well it's a good thing you're here to tell me what I'm thinking and feeling and when my personal psychology would cause me to open a thread and when it wouldn't.

For example: Another challenge for ewoks, lets assume you don't have good ewoks. But you could only get good rewards with that ewok faction. I mean that you couldn't even get the two omicrons without them. Is that really what you want?

Yes, actually. That's really what I want.

CG started this thing saying it was a test for the breadth of your roster, and I like that idea. It's boring throwing a GL at tierX for all the feats and then using the favoured faction at a lower tier to complete the 8th or 9th reward crate. There are plenty of times when it's possible to win with the favoured faction, but it's trivially easy with other factions and it requires a large number of tries with the FF. Ewoks are, in fact, one of those factions. My guild leader was just complaining about this when I brought the topic up in the guild Discord. Her ewoks are a mix of r7, r8, and r9, but she generally can't complete the Ewok challenges on tierX without remodding or many, many attempts.

Again, I'm not saying it should be easy, but why should it be trivial with other factions, but frustrating with the FF? I'd like it to be hard -- not trivial -- but amenable to the right toons from the FF used with the right strategy (not just many restarts waiting for RNG to come together) and make it **even harder** for other factions, so however hard CG wants to make it, that's how hard it is for the FF and every other comp makes it harder. Maybe you've got better relic levels on that other group, so maybe you can do it with that group but not the FF. But why should it be trivial for some unrelated faction?

Make the GCs what they said they were going to be, a test of how complete your roster is, not a gift of Box7 for anyone with a GL and then a bump of 1, 2, or 3 almost at random, depending on a combination of whether you even have the FF and how much more difficult the GC weirdly is for FF toons (and whether you really want to spend a lot of time restarting).

The ewok ones are the most frustrating for me as someone who really understands how their kits work. Nearly every challenge with them includes a multikill feat and is typically against a team that is near impossible to multikill. This latest ewok gc was probably the only one where doing it with ewoks to get every feat was actually feasible. The feats should be in line with the goals of a team in the favoured faction not just arbitrarily there.