Mod swapping in TB

"Matakanasurfer_1;c-1237263" wrote:
Can you continuously deploy your toons though?or do you just get one shot at it.

I was assuming you could keep adding until your units are exhausted. So if you deployed units to two territories already, I was not under the impression that the others have to be deployed to the third. Once you deploy them they're locked, but I assumed undeployed toons were free to go wherever.

Not sure this would be abuse.

Places where you can do this:

• GW
  
• HAAT
  
• pit (if you run more then 1 team)
  

Basically anywhere you run multiple teams you can do this.

You could have done this on the CLS event, since different phases used different toons.

"Kyno;c-1237289" wrote:
Not sure this would be abuse.

Places where you can do this:

• GW
  
• HAAT
  
• pit (if you run more then 1 team)
  

Basically anywhere you run multiple teams you can do this.

You could have done this on the CLS event, since different phases used different toons.

But mod swapping in these instances helps different toons perform better. In deployment, where Galactic power directly affects star count, which directly affects rewards, something seems wrong with that. What's the point in having a Galactic Power total for your roster when that number in practice is actually increased simply by mod swapping? It seems like printing your own money.

"DathomirEscortAgency;c-1237321" wrote:

"crzydroid;c-1237310" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1237289" wrote:
Not sure this would be abuse.

Places where you can do this:

• GW
  
• HAAT
  
• pit (if you run more then 1 team)
  

Basically anywhere you run multiple teams you can do this.

You could have done this on the CLS event, since different phases used different toons.

But mod swapping in these instances helps different toons perform better. In deployment, where Galactic power directly affects star count, which directly affects rewards, something seems wrong with that. What's the point in having a Galactic Power total for your roster when that number in practice is actually increased simply by mod swapping? It seems like printing your own money.

If you have time to swap mods on 100 characters 6 times over the weekend, you have to much time on your hands. Also after enough times it becomes cheaper just to level mods for all your toons.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/128689/update-to-territory-battle-timers-8-25-17-mega-thread
they switched it up its now 24hours not 12

Still takes a helluva lot of time and credits to swap everything 600 times. If this is abuse of any sort it's self-abuse.

"NicWester;c-1237342" wrote:
Still takes a helluva lot of time and credits to swap everything 600 times. If this is abuse of any sort it's self-abuse.

Exactly... organising your mods is like trying to read the entire U.S. tax code in the hour of free time you have... you usually fall asleep in the process of it or wind up killing yourself to end the suffering... it's more torturous than being interrogated by emperor palpatine himself.

"Loose_Lee;c-1237352" wrote:

"NicWester;c-1237342" wrote:
Still takes a helluva lot of time and credits to swap everything 600 times. If this is abuse of any sort it's self-abuse.

Exactly... organising your mods is like trying to read the entire U.S. tax code in the hour of free time you have... you usually fall asleep in the process of it or wind up killing yourself to end the suffering... it's more torturous than being interrogated by emperor palpatine himself.

Well, for me personally, I agree on that front. I finally convinced myself to do it for HAAT, but now I'm in a position where I don't necessarily want to swap them back to the original team.

But I also don't underestimate the lengths some people will actually go to.

All in all, it probably is a very minor issue. My point was more wondering if A.) it were theoretically possible, and B.) the principle of it was unscrupulous.

Actually, I'd be curious about the other side of the question. Which is, if you deploy toons, then switch out their mods (say for a raid) or gear them up or level them up, does your deployed power change? For better or worse?

I guess my question is more "can I accidentally weaken my deployment or intentionally improve it"?

I would suspect that the small amount of GP, full set of six max five dots is 1080 points , will simply move to whichever char they are on. The phase is open until the timer ends, so in theory, since you deployed a char, if you would increase a level, or ability, it will increase the deployed GP rating, however, if you remove the mods, that char will lose the aforementioned 1080 points, Since the phase is open for all battles, all deployment etc until the timer expires, any changes during the active timer will affect the GP score, positively or negatively. Think similar to raids, and once the timer runs out, then whatever values are in place for the various scoring points are calculated.

I don't see the principle being unscrupulous - no more so than moving mods from one team to another for galactic war. Dead men's boots seems to be pretty common theme on battle fields, at least in RPGs, and probably in real life. (Recycling. Just like the ravens.).
The simplest way to implement it would be to apply power when you deploy the unit, so that is probably what they did.
Getting a mod to level 15 costs approx 100 times removal cost. Assuming you had mods enough for half your characters, and did one swap per phase, that would be 5 swaps per territory battle, or after 20 battles (about 5 months) you would have spent enough credits on swapping to have fully upgraded as many mods as you had been swapping around. (Obviously if you use fewer mods, you will have to do swaps at a higher rate, and it won't take as long.)
Since most of the benefit (2/3 of GP, and full secondaries) comes by getting to level 12 on a mod, which costs about 1/3 of full upgrade price, you would have been able to upgrade a bunch of mods to get most of the benefit after a month and a half.

GP benefit and mod update costs taken from spreadsheet in this thread:
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/127995/galactic-power-value-per-credit-mods-vs-character-levels/p1