Losing a battle in conquest should not use your energy

Sounds like the problem isn't the energy, but Overprepared teams at like 9000 speed, without any means for the player to see it before trying the battle. But that's just me.

I agree this is an issue, but disagree with your solution.

I believe the best solution is to allow the user to see the enemy stats beforehand. Then you can see if the enemy team will go before you. It would allow you to more skillfully select a team rather than just picking a team that you hope gets to have a turn. But it would keep the incentive of having a negative consequence for losing.

You lose normal energy for failing a battle. You lose GL tickets if you fail a tier.

Why should Conquest be treated any differently?

Could not disagree anymore with OP…

"DarjeloSalas;c-2368787" wrote:
-1 from me.

There needs to be some incentive to do well. The game mode wouldn’t work properly if there was no cost of failure.

What do you mean? You do well, you progress! You fail, you don't progress. That's a cost of failure.

This idea doesn't affect your incentive to do well at all.

I think for those really struggling, it might be a motivation. However, I'm not sure either way.

The failure is penalised, in that you're not progressing. Which can be frustrating. I feel there's a real lack of empathy with those struggling at times.

On further thought though, I'm kind of against the idea as you could make progress towards feats, then lose and not use energy. That is definitely not right.

"DarjeloSalas;c-2368787" wrote:
-1 from me.

There needs to be some incentive to do well. The game mode wouldn’t work properly if there was no cost of failure.

You must not play other games. Let me educate you then. In many other games, you lose and you get back all your energy except for 1 point of it. Or the first attempt you get it all back, then in subsequent failures you get back all except for 1.

That's perfectly reasonable and encourages 1) continuous play and 2) to theorycraft and tweak teams until you can find the right solution. The current model CG uses encourages....spending crystals. Unless you personally have stock in CG's crystal economy, why do you care?

I suggest you try out Arknights, Dislyte, Artery Gear: Fusion and many, many others who share this energy return upon failure model. Would open up your world.