New FO ships in platoons (merged+dev response)

"Vinny_Vader_Vedi;c-1346424" wrote:

"Lor_San_Teka;c-1346420" wrote:

"Decay;c-1346407" wrote:
if it is an oversight, the the quality control manager for the game needs to be let go - this is the third time this has happened - pure and utter incompetence is the only explanation.

While I won't go so far as to call for someone's job, it is supremely frustrating to have these constant occurrences of things that the devs issue 3/4 client restarts on a constant basis pop up at a minimum monthly, but it seems to be weekly.

Ditto. I can’t pretend I know anything about coding or other technical aspects of games but problems being repeated over and over and over again there’s something wrong somewhere.

I can, it's what I do - write code for web applications... They need a Product Owner who says "Hey, we're introducing X, where does X get used? What's the impact on each area?"

Frankly, if you add new ships, you need to say "We are adding ships. Ships are used in fleet arena, territory battles, platoons. Fleet Arena, no worries. These are dark side ships, so they can't be used in TB fights. The only true impact would be platoons - OK, what's the selection method for ID'ing what ships get used?"

Scenario 1: "Oh, it pulls from the whole pool? We can't have that until it's farmable... But it's an acceptable risk to not push back pushing these ships out." Probably the worst call in the atmosphere after BF2, and the recent QA issues this game has seen...

Scenario 2: "Ships are flagged as platoon eligible via metadata. We need to make sure the flags on the new FO ships are set to false." This clearly didn't get done, or the metadata doesn't exist.

Scenario 3: "KITTEN THEM ALL. If they want Phase 3 to be the same (and avoid a cascading effect through most of the phases), they have to buy at least 2 packs of each!" It would be a first, due to Vet Smuggler Han / Chewie not being in Platoons.

Everything points to a screw-up. However, the fact that they moved this thread rather than actually respond or do something to let people know what's going on... That's concerning, the tone-deafness.

also kenobi

These were just added to the game and are not farmable. I was really hoping that we had finally moved beyond the non farmable toons and ships being required for platoons once they finally addressed the Ewok's, M Falcon, Kylo shuttle and reaper. Even though the ships are brutal to farm. At least we have a chance to farm them.

Putting the new ships in platoons would have been cool after they became farmable. Not immediately. This already makes TB harder again as many won't be able to fill nearly as many platoons.

Yes, same here. If it is not a mistake that means that no matters how hard you farm, If your guild is F2P will never get a full BT

Please don't. Please delete this post and let's all go back to complaining. :D

"Krayt337;d-143847" wrote:
So we got the new first order in our platoon today. I wonder if this is a mistake? Anyone else experience this?

yup same here. Perhaps with a powerful enough guild you can still 2* fleet zones with the farmable ships. I'm not going to worry about it at this point though as I'm still farming F2P ships. By the time I'm done with them in several months odds are the new ships will be farmable too.

"Lor_San_Teka;c-1346444" wrote:

"Vinny_Vader_Vedi;c-1346424" wrote:

"Lor_San_Teka;c-1346420" wrote:

"Decay;c-1346407" wrote:
if it is an oversight, the the quality control manager for the game needs to be let go - this is the third time this has happened - pure and utter incompetence is the only explanation.

While I won't go so far as to call for someone's job, it is supremely frustrating to have these constant occurrences of things that the devs issue 3/4 client restarts on a constant basis pop up at a minimum monthly, but it seems to be weekly.

Ditto. I can’t pretend I know anything about coding or other technical aspects of games but problems being repeated over and over and over again there’s something wrong somewhere.

I can, it's what I do - write code for web applications... They need a Product Owner who says "Hey, we're introducing X, where does X get used? What's the impact on each area?"

Frankly, if you add new ships, you need to say "We are adding ships. Ships are used in fleet arena, territory battles, platoons. Fleet Arena, no worries. These are dark side ships, so they can't be used in TB fights. The only true impact would be platoons - OK, what's the selection method for ID'ing what ships get used?"

Scenario 1: "Oh, it pulls from the whole pool? We can't have that until it's farmable... But it's an acceptable risk to not push back pushing these ships out." Probably the worst call in the atmosphere after BF2, and the recent QA issues this game has seen...

Scenario 2: "Ships are flagged as platoon eligible via metadata. We need to make sure the flags on the new FO ships are set to false." This clearly didn't get done, or the metadata doesn't exist.

Scenario 3: "KITTEN THEM ALL. If they want Phase 3 to be the same (and avoid a cascading effect through most of the phases), they have to buy at least 2 packs of each!" It would be a first, due to Vet Smuggler Han / Chewie not being in Platoons.

Everything points to a screw-up. However, the fact that they moved this thread rather than actually respond or do something to let people know what's going on... That's concerning, the tone-deafness.

Thanks for the insight. I always enjoy dev comments even if they aren’t within this game. Something is def rotten in Denmark. Awaiting words.

quite a shame. This "pay (more) to win" decision, will make more players leave. The recent rythme to stay competitve has already caused some leaving...

"Tno37;c-1346433" wrote:
Lower the crate system money grab in BF2 only to make up the loss in SWGOH toon/ship releases. Such a Jablomie move

No, to compensate for that, they lowered the rate at which you can obtain currency

"Maegor;c-1346457" wrote:

"Tno37;c-1346433" wrote:
Lower the crate system money grab in BF2 only to make up the loss in SWGOH toon/ship releases. Such a Jablomie move

No, to compensate for that, they lowered the rate at which you can obtain currency

+1