[MEGATHREAD] Road Ahead: June 2022 - Datacrons

A few things, first, why are conquest, and territory wars specifically going to be the main source for acquiring datacrons and the material to upgrade them and reroll bonuses/stat values? I hate those game modes, especially the PvP game modes.

Second, out of the sets shown, for dark side factions, only the inquisitorius faction gets any bonuses, and only from just the first set while the other one after only provides bonuses for light side characters. This is not going to convince me to spend money to power up the inquisitors, or any other factions for that matter.

Third, the galactic legends are the characters in the least need of any bonuses to make them even more of a pain to deal with. Why would any of these bonuses, stat, faction, character specific, or otherwise apply to any of them, when they do not need it? If anything, I think there should be a clause that specifically denies galactic legends from getting any sort of bonuses from datacrons.

Fourth, characters need to be relic level 3 for even a level one datacron to apply to that character when it’s still a pain to get characters to gear level 12, newer characters especially, who require a large amount of kyrotech gear pieces, and on top of that, if you have a relic level 7 character, then every other character on the team needs to be at least relic level 5 for that character to be able to get the level 9 character specific datacron bonus.

bull crap, that's all i have to say

CG: The team would love to hear your questions and constructive concerns about Datacrons!

Also CG: *Proceeds to ignore any feedback as usual*

"Dianora;c-2365704" wrote:

"Teron;c-2365703" wrote:
second. all guys, who want more gear for free.. well, you miss a point. this game IS bottleneck. if CG increase amount of gear in ten times(for example) in couple of years almost ALL players will have nothing to gather. just ask yourself: Will u continue to play it after everything is unlocked and when every character is released u can instantly max it and almost every player will be doing the same? well, some guys will continue. most won't. so..yeah they want bottlenecks to be present. yeah, they want u to donate. nothing new here. yeah, they have promised increasing of gear. yeah, nothing is done and it is bad to break a promise. but nothing devastating happened. CG should watch, what they promise (mb that's why there is almost no information about future plans?)))
in less then two years: they gave conquest (u may like it or not, but it is resources. a lot of them), they increased gear amount from challenges, they doubled income of shards for characters, they increased income of crystals for most of the players. it is MUCH easier to develop a character from scratch, then it was before.yeah, when some bottlenecks are removed, then new ones are appearing , because one more time: this game IS bottleneck.

That's not quite how it works. As you keep adding more gear/relic levels you need to make the old stuff easier to obtain so that new players don't see an insurmountable wall and quit immediately. If you look at MSF, Purple gear was very hard to obtain until they added Orange gear and then it became much easier and Orange was the wall. Now Teal is the wall.

The past year has made a lot of purple easier to obtain in general but Kyros are still a huge bottleneck and then there's another painful bottleneck with Circuit Boards and Wiring. There's not even any story in the game (okay, you do feud with the Hutt guy at the fleet table but other than that) so it would be simplicity itself to just add another tier to one or more of the existing tables and toss some Circuit Boards there along with some of the newer characters instead of removing double nodes from JKR requirements for some bizarre reason.

why it isn't how it works?
I tell you this: mk5 stun guns were worse, than kyros for me. they gave me mk5 from challenges -> kyros are problem now. and kyros aren't needed(except for 100 from g12 to g13, which isn't a problem really) for a lot of characters. yeah, they split content a bit, trying to control how new players develop. I don't see any harm here, to be honest. ccb also was never a problem for me, but they gave me conquest, where I can grind g12. now I relic characters faster. now I need more mats. now I have problems with ccb, cos I need more of them. and so on and so forth.

if u remove bottleneck from kyros and low relic mats, than main problem would be mk3 carbanti. what's next? remove it as well? a lot of guys ask for it even now.. remove? than one probably will be able to get character to r5 from scratch within a week, while logging once a day for less then half an hour.honestly, I may be mistaken, but this doesn't sound like a right approach for me.

Interesting concept but I don't think a lot of us have many squads with r3-7 characters that are underutilized outside of GL requirement scrap. And omnicrons have made most of these squads usable.

My biggest concern will be how datacons will interact with GLs.

Why would anyone think the player base needed additional ways to make infrequent battles more difficult to predict. Nobody, simply milking whales. This isn't new content and makes nothing more fun in the game. Adding new player tiers etc. makes battles less predictable, we have no sandbox mode, it needlessly creates a player arms race without any fun enhancements, and it surely doesn't address the rampant cheating in the game. I'm shocked there isn't a class action lawsuite against cg for not addressing cheating or reports of cheating.

The overwhelming feeling I got was the value of my entire roster is now diminished (without these) compared to 30 mins ago before I read this. I’m tired.

"Where's the rest of ya?"

Honestly a really disappointing Road Ahead. Datacrons seems like an interesting idea (although seemingly very complicated), and I think it has good potential to spice up meta's as long as the resources required are easily obtained. The LAST thing we need is another system that requires crunch.

I think the biggest mistake with this post was the lack of recognition of player concerns. Gear crunch is still seriously bad, there are still cheating/hacking issues, lack of new ships, squad arena being useless, and NO COMMUNICATION ABOUT ANY OF IT. No "Hey we hear you" or "We are working on something" just a new system and a Territory Wars character (yay.....).

Also no news of a new GL? No hints?? Nothing?? Been waiting for months for a new post. Not much of a "Road Ahead" considering everything they talked about is happening this month....

Apparently I'm the only one who thinks these sound fun and wants to play GAC again!

Although really CG, you give the strongest characters in the game the datacron abilities? C'mon now. Abilities like Yoda and Ezra look cool and interesting. Galactic Legend datacrons just look ridiculous. Yay, let's use the exact same teams we were using before but let's make the ones that were already OP even crazy stronger!

If you want to give meta toons datacrons, give them something that changes how they can be used. Not necessarily stronger, but simply a different look.

It all looks very complicated in that post, but I think it'll be simpler once I play with it.

Am I right to say that it's basically a mod that applies to the entire squad, but with one bonus that applies only to an alignment, one bonus that applies only to a faction from that month's list, and one bonus that only applies to a character within that faction?