[MEGATHREAD] Road Ahead: June 2022 - Datacrons

1. The bandwagon must be nearly full now?
2. I have a feeling that a lot of people pooing on this, don't fully understand it.
3. I doubt there's anybody who fully understands it yet.
4. Worst thing in the game for me is the jump in the power curve between top legendaries and GLs. I've liked how CG have tried to address this over the last year.
5. This may help let teams punch up to GLs.
6. Oh JMK is getting a datacron in the first batch. :( I guess he really needed it............

I don't fully understand the fuss about gear shortages. As I understood it, CG were going to make changes until they were happy with the balance. I guess they reached that. Personally, I don't overly care about mk3 carbantis and mk5 stun guns anymore. I never have a shortage like I did.

It does annoy me that they created a new gear sticking point with the shock prods though......

So I'm not sure if I don't get carbanti and stun gun shortages because they addressed it enough or collecting shock prods stops me getting short of them. A bit of both I guess.

I really understand that EA does not exist for public welfare and has to generate a good income and that you have to motivate your players to invest some money in the game. But inventing Datacrons will be a dead end that will bring players to quit the game. Why?

The fun of this game was always to work towards a goal you set yourself like beating CPit, getting this GL or join the top 5 of ship arena. You permanently have to learn how new teams/characters behave in differnt situations of the game to develop strategies how to stand against difernt combinations of teams. Sure, this game had always beeing like living organism and things were constantly changing. E.g with eventing Omicrons a so far quite unuseful toon become important for TW od GAC but these changes came toon by toon an were permanently. You were able to learn about the new abilities and develop a new strategy against it.
Datacrons will wash this away. The team you easily beaten last GAC could be an absolute nightmare, now. Not permanently but maybe for 3months. Because all things are steadily changing there is no chance anymore to develop a strategy against something. Fighting in GAC or TW becomes more or less a roulette.

The other point is: This game is very time consuming if you want to play on a half competemptive level. With Datacrons the time you need to invest in the game to do all the research and reorganising will increase that it could overburden people.
I definetly do not want to live in the game.

And last but not least:
Your motivation to use omicrons for a comback of older or not useful teams is quite bullshit. Why?:
If a team is not useful I did not invest resources to bring it up to relic level.
So the datacons will be of no use. And I won't interrupt my carring farming project to invest in a team that will work great with datacrons - for a couple of days.

Wrap up:
NO, I DON'T WANT THIS SHIT

Questions
I'm walking through an unlock in my brain, and have written out the scenario below and questions that came to me:
Level 1 to 2 - upgradeable but cannot be used?
at Level 3 - at this point they become useable and LS or DS specific, for relic 3 toons and up?
Level 4 to 5 - upgradeable, but do only stats from Levels 1-3 apply to relic 3 toons and up, or do relic 5 toons and up get the bonus immediately?
at Level 6 - faction specific bonus unlocks. Do the level 4-5 upgrades now apply? Do they apply to only the unlocked faction, or the alignment, for relic 5 and up?
Level 7 to 8 - upgradeable, but do only stats from Levels 1-6 apply?
at Level 9 - toon specific bonus unlocks. Do bonuses from level 7-8 upgrades now apply? Do the level 7-8 upgrades apply only to the unlocked toon at 9, or the unlocked faction, or the alignment?

Is there a limit to how many datacrons from a set one person can have/apply?

Will I be able to see opponent datacron types/upgrades prior to attack phases?

Will datacrons be part of the squad loadouts section, with a unique/non unique option?

Are the rolls/rerolls weighted in anyway, or is it even chance for X number of options available for that specific roll type?

A video showing these being upgraded and applied to a mixed relic level set of squads would probably be useful.

"harvestmouse;c-2365830" wrote:
1. The bandwagon must be nearly full now?
2. I have a feeling that a lot of people pooing on this, don't fully understand it.
3. I doubt there's anybody who fully understands it yet.
4. Worst thing in the game for me is the jump in the power curve between top legendaries and GLs. I've liked how CG have tried to address this over the last year.
5. This may help let teams punch up to GLs.
6. Oh JMK is getting a datacron in the first batch. :( I guess he really needed it............

I don't fully understand the fuss about gear shortages. As I understood it, CG were going to make changes until they were happy with the balance. I guess they reached that. Personally, I don't overly care about mk3 carbantis and mk5 stun guns anymore. I never have a shortage like I did.

It does annoy me that they created a new gear sticking point with the shock prods though......

So I'm not sure if I don't get carbanti and stun gun shortages because they addressed it enough or collecting shock prods stops me getting short of them. A bit of both I guess.

You say you don’t understand so I’ll just at least address that point. There are 4 phases to this gear fix they were thinking. We are in phase 1 still…. Where is the rest?

You don’t have problems with cabantis and stun guns… I do. And the kyrotechs. Some characters needed if between 100-300 of each. People are annoyed because we’ve had these issues for a couple of years now. And now there is a new system to dedicate our time and resources to for both old and new players, except for new players.

I’ve been relatively quiet on CG and their issues but this new system is complete bull and releasing a good year or two too early.

"Zedstar;c-2365800" wrote:
Maybe the idea is to keep ignoring the players and to keep doing stuff no one wants to get us all to quit and then they can move 100% on to LOTR new game.
I have never known a company to ignore the fans and players so much and just to continually bring out stuff A. No one wants and B. That is going to potentially ruin the playing experience ??‍♂️??‍♂️?

This

I took yesterday off for fishing, came back to the RA and reactions this morning. I have to say out the two, at least the reactions aren't disappointing.
Cg being cg. Milking all they can.
Thanks for zero gear improvements.
Even though I have a solid JMl, JKL and MM squads, NONE of this datacron stuff interests me in the slightest.
Completely tone deaf.

A new set of datacrons each month will keep us on our toes every gac and help keep things fresh. There are enough factions each time so we can try to reroll for a faction we already have geared up. It will prevent us to use our roster exactly the same way gac after gac, which could become boring pretty fast when the only change is a few new units now and then. So it looks promising and should be fun. On top of that we don’t have to choose between datacrons and gearing characters are it uses separate currency and as the flow of datacrons will be limited, it will not be a time sink to manage them.

I’m not opposed to datacrons in concept. The only element I dislike is the dismantling of them after a few seasons. How about instead of dismantling datacrons they become deactivated. Deactivated datacrons can be used in future seasons when those squads or characters are around. This would still give seasonal motivation to grind squads that will give a known ROI in the future. The current system doesn’t motivate me to gear or spend, but I might if I had a character that I knew would be awesome once a GAC every few months. I play this game as a Star Wars fan and collector. I do not like content that is temporary.

bull crap, that's all i have to say

"rangojr;c-2365852" wrote:
I'm convinced CG is trying to shut down the game to focus on LOTR. However, given the money people have spent in game, they can't just shut it down. Instead, they've create a system that nobody can understand and nobody wants. Their goal is to drive people to quit the game in droves so by the time they are done they can close down the game without having to worry about people who spent money on it.

Yeah basically this. It is clear CG has checked out a long long time ago. They don't care about the game or their players anymore. Might as well move on. Those Yacht payments must be rough now days.