Marquee Replacement

Agreed. If the Wicket / Talzin model could be rolled out with a timeline slightly longer than a hard node farm (with 1 daily refresh) it would work well. I really like the events themselves.

I also liked the Chopper roll out. He was the login character and had a daily event all month. Maybe add in the wrinkle that you can refresh his daily event at an escalating cost. That way you could have him at 3 stars for free and anywhere from 3 to 7 stars through Crystal refreshes of the event. Of course, it would have to cost as much to refresh to 7 stars as it would to buy packs to get the new character to 7 stars.

Another idea would be to just throw them onto nodes occasionally. No event. They're just farmable from day 1. Canderous Ordo might be a good candidate for this. A solid looking support character that doesn't seem meta breaking.

You know I wouldn’t really mind marquees so much if they wouldn’t make literally all the characters 2*... I can remember way back when krennic, nihilus, sTrooper and sAssassin were released in marquees. They were 3*. I feel like we haven’t gotten a character that wasn’t 2*, 5*, or 7* in forever. They could’ve made some of the more anticipated releases (like jango, embo, bastilla, Sion, etc.) 3 or 4 Star characters, that way it wouldn’t be so brutal of a farm.

Another idea is to have event like the wicket or talzin events (as stated above) but just tweaked slightly. Maybe the events appear slightly more often, or aren’t so specific on requirements.

They could also add toons as TW rewards, adding a greater incentive to participate in and win the wars. They could even change them out every month or so, then put them in a cantina/hard node after. They could make it to where no matter what, you can unlock the character, but if you win, you’ll get more shards of them.

But it’s like I said, I don’t mind marquees so much, if only they weren’t so expensive (seriously when did 200$ become an acceptable amount of money for just 1 character) and if they gave out more shards. Or if the wait till farmable wasn’t so long.

Current marquee farm allows you to take a toon from 3* to 7* in 6 weeks after it’s F2P on a single hard node. Even quicker if it has multiple farming locations. That’s pretty good if you ask me

MT / Wicket model was the worst and 10 shards a month and some months dev forgot to schedule the events is awful

Even if you made it bi monthly the devs will end up pushing the calendar and when you have a lot of toons there will be tons of complaints of having to log in every day of month to collect toon x then next day for y then z

While they rotate once or twice a month they aren’t in shipments or any other venue other than refresh 900 crystals for another 10 shards

Marquee farm requires patience. The pay to play option is to feed your impatience. The game has longetivity because there are characters to farm and having nothing to farm because the nodes are just gear would be stale and boring and the newer ways will be harder grinds

I don’t mind the release structure and it gives everyone equal time to collect the toons before all of them are needed.

Add one single zeta to final tier of marquee releases. It’s not going to effect $$$ as zetas aren’t purchasable. And if they do 20 marquees a year at least we get one zeta upgrade out of it.

"Georgemi6;c-1696368" wrote:
You know I wouldn’t really mind marquees so much if they wouldn’t make literally all the characters 2*... I can remember way back when krennic, nihilus, sTrooper and sAssassin were released in marquees. They were 3*. I feel like we haven’t gotten a character that wasn’t 2*, 5*, or 7* in forever. They could’ve made some of the more anticipated releases (like jango, embo, bastilla, Sion, etc.) 3 or 4 Star characters, that way it wouldn’t be so brutal of a farm.

I mean...technically it is 3* by the time you finish it. Unless you stop part way through.

"Roope_immortal;c-1696357" wrote:
I like marquees. Free 3* instantly, and can farm it in 1-2 month? Best model ever.

As far as the marquees in themselves, I agree with this sentiment. The problem arises when they do become farmable.
All but one of the Solo, BH and KOTOR marquee characters dropped on one, maybe two, nodes which makes it really difficult to a) get anyone to 7* quickly without crystal refreshes and b) farm more than two at a time. This was obviously intentional for KOTOR characters and Revan, which sucked, but seems a bit pointless for others like bounty hunters (and actually the first wave of KOTOR now that the Revan event is finished). There need to be more options for farming these characters once they go f2p, such as scrapping the policy of not putting new characters in the GW, guild, ship or cantina stores.

"FREEDOMfrom;c-1696704" wrote:

"Georgemi6;c-1696368" wrote:
You know I wouldn’t really mind marquees so much if they wouldn’t make literally all the characters 2*... I can remember way back when krennic, nihilus, sTrooper and sAssassin were released in marquees. They were 3*. I feel like we haven’t gotten a character that wasn’t 2*, 5*, or 7* in forever. They could’ve made some of the more anticipated releases (like jango, embo, bastilla, Sion, etc.) 3 or 4 Star characters, that way it wouldn’t be so brutal of a farm.

I mean...technically it is 3* by the time you finish it. Unless you stop part way through.

Let me rephrase that: krennic, nihilus, and the rest were 3* characters. Marquees always grant you an extra star to your character (at least I remember with krennic they got him up to 4*...). Therefor, if you had a 3 or 4 Star marquee character (meaning they unlock at 3 or 4 stars, requiring 50 and 80 shards respectively) you could start off with them at 4 or 5 stars. This wouldn’t really do much initially, but you’d get to use them in later phases of TB (and get through platoon missions more easily) and it would take some time off of the farm once they’re out in a hard node. Lastly, stars, although they aren’t as important as gear, level, or mods, still factor into the stats of a character, meaning they would be more powerful than if they sat at 3*. I’m not saying they should do this for every character, maybe like 1 in 5 or 1 in 10, but for the significant, highly anticipated releases. Hope I cleared that up.

"Fives5555;c-1696741" wrote:
At least marquees are better than the devs releasing terrible hero journey characters with no heads up with mostly worthless characters

Not one of the jkr characters. Mission and zaalbar can get 4 million phase 2 ( mcmole2) and jolee and bastilla are part of the jedi meta. T3 will be better with droid reworks or releases, he is the first droid healer.

I loved the wicket/Mt style. where CG failed with it was a time line of how often they would run and the payout with them so players just didn't work towards the team.
the average shard rate (without refreshing) a single hard node is about 90 shards a month. this is what the events needed to payout based on the rewards and the run cycle and it didn't. I think player base would have been more receptive to it if it had been that way.

The reason people don't like marques is because of how their incorporated into TB. If they just removed characters from platoons that were not farmable (Especially ships) I think a good majority of the people who don't like marques would change their minds