Marquee Replacement

"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.

I have no problems with marquee events, but here's an alternative for those who want one:

Epic event. You are assigned a team, comprised of event units. One of which is the new character. You must choose a team of characters from your roster to fight with this team. Winning nets you 10 shards, and eliminates every character you used from being used for the rest of the event. Characters you select must be gear 9+, and the star level requirement goes up as your new character Star level goes up.

Theoretically, this rewards both long term players and whales, while leaving newer players not able to achieve much more than 3* without waiting to farm or buying packs. Importantly, both whales and long term players will find it exceedingly difficult to 7* the character from the event, but it is theoretically possible.

"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

"Zaraos;c-1698882" wrote:
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

No. That's not why people are complaining its the length of time from the start of marquee until you can get that character to 7 stars

Although I’m not a fan of panic farming I kinda like prepping for a legendary event rather than a marquee that I’ll have to wait several months to level. One positive to marquees though is at least you have the toon day one and can grind out gear beforehand.

I think its really the hard node farm afterwards that is the problem and what upsets all the foks. The problem is they wont release anything in the cantina/GW/arena shops anymore. So folks r just getting so burnt out. Adding Yolo to the guild shop was at least a step in the right direction. Had they released all of these faction groups like they did Phoenix, then people would be all for it. As is: its Hard Node LS, DS, Fleet, Cantina, or bust.

They need to retract their original comment about never adding anymore toon farms to these shops and just do it. L3, Qi'ra, Vandor Chewie or Range Trooper wouldnt have broke anything had they added them to shops. I get Nest and the Yando/LMF combo in the HNF is fine! But they could have put 3 of those toons in shops and been all the better for it. I get them not doing KOTOR cuz they wanted max $$. But adding 1-2 new toons in each shop, esp faction specific toons, each year, would be the best move CG could do.

~D

"2smooth;c-1696744" wrote:
Replace with credit heist

Yo! That’s a great idea.

5 7* credit heists would be required for the next hero’s journey character.

"Ultra;c-1698887" wrote:

"Zaraos;c-1698882" wrote:
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

No. That's not why people are complaining its the length of time from the start of marquee until you can get that character to 7 stars

which is kinda funny considering before marquee and release cadanece the time to 7* was crazy and before marquee it was unknown when they were going to be obtainable any where outside of chromium.

new characters are going to be in platoons immediately. they have not show any letting up on this. personally I don't care about platoons, think they are dumb any way, however they have are going to have pay walls somewhere and since every marquee is not game breaking arena worthy they have to look somewhere.