It seems the consensus on the forums is that tournaments are a boring slog, at best. Saying we don't like them, however, has not generated a response (aside from overloading us with more and more tournaments).For other things, the forums were pretty much in agreement that AAT took too long, Boba Fett and other characters are underpowered, and tournament refreshes costing crystals was ridiculous. All of these things were addressed, within about a month.What's the difference? Specifics. Ideas about how to make something better. So, without further ado, here are my ideas for making the Squad Tournaments better:1. Make the defensive squad matter.Examples:Defenders gain points for each defensive win.Institute a separate ranking with separate rewards for defensive rank.2. Create restrictions in squad building that break up the monotonyExamples:Defensive squad toons cannot be used in offense.Offensive toons must be rebels, while defensive toons must be empire. (or scoundrels/empire, or jedi/separatist, or jawa/droid, etc)3. Throw in extra rules to break up the monotonyExamples:All units, except the squad leader, start the match stealthed.All units start the match with a 4 turn, non-dispellable thermal detonator debuff.Taunt buffs are replaced by offense up buffs.Etc.What are your thoughts?

I'm not sure if there's a posted discussion already on this. What do you guys think and what is your experience for those who have tried and purchased the Shoretrooper pack? How is your drop rate because everybody in my guild is only getting the 10 shards per drop. Is anyone getting anything better and do you guys think it is worth leveling him up with 1,499 per purchase?

I bought a few. Only got 10 shards. I don't think it's worth it.

It *might* be worth it if the other character was not an easy farm. Shoretrooper and Chirrut or Baze would have people opening their wallets left and right. If you have a 3* Shoretrooper, you can probably finish him off for 1-2 vaults - which is about what Aurodium characters went for. You'd have to compare this to current Chromium drop rates although you do know what you are getting with this pack.So, the question becomes is Shoretrooper worth $100-$200? For the same money, you can get 10-20 pieces of high end fully crafted gear - some raid exclusive.Here's what's a far better use of 1 to 2 vaults - 499 crystal Fleet Data Cards. These drop 10-100 blueprints for ships. There's a limited number of ships, and I can tell you from experience that you can get 100 blueprints from a single card.One other thing that I would use crystals for over Shoretrooper is Mod Packs. These are higher risk, but for 599, I usually got at least one decent mod (defined as 3* blue or better with desirable stats). A 3* blue mod goes for about 600 crystals in mod shipments.I'll give you one last alternative - Cantina Refreshes. Let's say that you want to aggressively farm one of the multitude of Cantina Node characters (e.g. TIE Fighter Pilot). You could do 4 refreshes a day for 50 days for two vaults of crystals. For TIE Fighter Pilot that's 48 sims per day. If you get a 33% drop rate, that's 16 shards a day. You would get to 330 in about 21 days - actually less when you factor in the 165 Cantina Energy the game gives you each day. For Lando or SRP, it would be 60 sims per day or 20 shards a day - about 17 days. Finally, Wedge, would be 40 sims a day or 13 shards - about 25 days. You could be miserly with your crystals, and only do 2 refreshes a day and get three times the characters, but in 100 days.You see, there's a lot of ways to spend those crystals. I've done everything that I've listed since I started playing the game, but all of they wind up being spread out over time.What's going to be the most valuable to you?

I assume you only have like a 10% chance to get more than 10 shards per pack. That makes it not worth it to me

I have android so got the free pack. Got 10 shards of the pathfinder and 20 for the trooper. Got lucky cause I needed 15 to unlock him. But I think those packs are so not worth it.

Making Squad Tournaments Interesting and Fun

vCx-Redemption
8 years ago
"EasyRight;804208" wrote:
You guys got some stuff this year too. The Ewok thing gave iOs users a huge advantage back in the summer. I am surprised that they didnt give you all CassianAndor tho. I thought theyd treat it like the FO Trooper/ResistanceTrooper thing last year when Ep.8 released...one for each side. Im sure something is coming & itll trump this K-bot. So far he blows, so youre not missing much

Lollllll once again free shards dosent equal an exclusive toon that the other side can't get especially with a tournament to unlock synergy with that cassian and you know YOUR exclusive toon on top of giving an advantage because of rebels on military might emperors demise and the tourney but you're right we aren't missing much

Man people can't see the big picture
Renshaw84
8 years ago
"Olga;804301" wrote:
How many people are actually going to unlock Cassian in the tournament? And with enough stars to be actually useful?

Doesn't matter because they can get him from packs and have their android exclusive synergy.
Sigrid0905
8 years ago
yeah ios got nothing :)
JStenholt97
8 years ago
Nothing good about the upcoming events...
Tournaments, Omega and events that requires droids, so android got the advantage.. Sometimes i feel like the devs are trolling us :(
emvedebe
8 years ago
I currently only have 4 droids, so i could have used that 5th one for that event.
But it's not like one 7* char is going to influence tournament ranking that much. I also don't think there are alot of players out there that needed K2 as their 5th rebel, most people had 5 or more rebels already.
Lets not make it a bigger issue than it needs to be. (i'm an iOS user in case you were wondering)
Nastynaz91
8 years ago
K2SO is not optimal for Empire Assault
Richisential
8 years ago
"EasyRight;804208" wrote:
You guys got some stuff this year too. The Ewok thing gave iOs users a huge advantage back in the summer.

Huge advantage? That is questionable. The ewok event took place in April, before guilds and the raid. It was not known at this stage that ewoks would be raid MVP's.

The event required minimum 3 ewoks at 2* for tier 1, rising to 4* for tier 2 and 6* for tier 3. I doubt many ios users had the requirements for tier 2, let alone tier 3, when this was released.

There were starter and booster shard packs released to support this event. These both cost money; none were given away free.

And this event occurred after Android had the exclusive 'Droids Fight Back' event in March (albeit this has featured on both platforms now). This had the same team requirements as the ewok event, although droids were easier to star up at the that stage of the game. And I remember droids being a lot more popular than ewoks at the beginning of 2016
JStenholt97
8 years ago
"Richisential;804544" wrote:
"EasyRight;804208" wrote:
You guys got some stuff this year too. The Ewok thing gave iOs users a huge advantage back in the summer.

Huge advantage? That is questionable. The ewok event took place in April, before guilds and the raid. It was not known at this stage that ewoks would be raid MVP's.

The event required minimum 3 ewoks at 2* for tier 1, rising to 4* for tier 2 and 6* for tier 3. I doubt many ios users had the requirements for tier 2, let alone tier 3, when this was released.

There were starter and booster shard packs released to support this event. These both cost money; none were given away free.

And this event occurred after Android had the exclusive 'Droids Fight Back' event in March (albeit this has featured on both platforms now). This had the same team requirements as the ewok event, although droids were easier to star up at the that stage of the game. And I remember droids being a lot more popular than ewoks at the beginning of 2016

This :)
Richisential
8 years ago
"Snork_Solo;804647" wrote:
Wait. How many of those new events are Android only? Or will EA/CG wait until the event launches before informing us lowly iOS players that we can't participate?

I don't think any of the upcoming events are Android only.

The OP was merely point that a free 6*/7* rebel droid character will be really useful for the upcoming events that require rebels, droids or a large pool of toons (mainly 6/7*)

However, I agree with @Leef when he said that one character probably won't make a huge difference to the tournament rankings
Kylieslater
8 years ago
Yes there is a few that really enjoy them (not me). Spacing them out would be better. Looking at the events calander they have a lot of pvp bunched up and then some pve. Mixing them up a bit might help.