Our Feedback to Datacrons

Why would they remove Datacrons at this point?

Removing datacrons don't make sense

Legitmate feedback to improve your experience with them, however, does

"Ultra;c-2369638" wrote:
Removing datacrons don't make sense

Legitmate feedback to improve your experience with them, however, does

Doesn’t make sense?

The current implementation of this stuff is a blatant lie to what CashGrab has written in their „road ahead announcement“. Giving super powers to GLs directly (JMK,Rey) or indirectly (LV…I say only „health steal“) will definitely not be helpful to non-meta teams.



So if you want a pretty frank feedback about Datacrons: Epic Fail !

The best thing would be to get rid of this stuff immediately and whoever had this brilliant idea should be treated just like Mrs. Kennedy by Disney…just get outta here and never come back.

As a mid level player I find datacrons pretty useless. The inability to attach a datacron to a team that isn’t fully relic’d kills it for me. Currently I have 9 relic’d units. In grand arena I need to field 5 full teams for defense and be able to save enough toons to beat another 5 full teams on offense. It usually isn’t very good tactics for me to create a full relic team for offense or defense on Grand arena. With the current system I can’t even use my datacrons. I would appreciate the ability to attach a datacron to a team and have its affects only effect the relic’d units but not even being able to attach it makes it completely useless for me

"Phoenixeon;c-2369647" wrote:
As a scoundrel player, I usually run mix alignments team (and starkiller team), so I dont care about datacron.

Is there still the bug that crashes the game when an opponent attacks SK on defence?
If yes, then it was not because of your DC

I can see how datacrons could be somewhat interesting and fun in the game, but I'm not sure how to solve that without getting into the trouble I believe we have with the current implementation.

As I read CG's intent, they want datacrons to lift unused parts of our roster (or at least underutilised parts) so that we can get more joy from building up all our toons. I like this notion in essence.

The issue I have with datacrons are that right now I see them mainly attached to already meta GL teams to make them even more meta.
E.g. get the LS bonus that you regen 10% health/prot on stun and daze, then get the GR mechanic that for every special you will stun your target opponent and everyone want to slap that on a JMK team and stick it on defense.
Doesn't add anything to less used teams, just buff the meta.

This is the use case I've seen so far and most of the chatter I've seen around datacrons as well, so I suspect that this is the most accepted general use case.

One possibility would be to exclude teams with GLs from datacron bonuses, if CG really want to boost less used teams/factions. I suspect CG don't want to do this, as the current implementation put even more emphasis on getting GL's, which I suspect drive revenue, but it's the only viable path I see to actually spreading out datacron usage.

The other gripe I have is the sheer cost of getting datacrons to a usable level. I have about 15 datacrons at level 0 (actually I don't since, I dismantled most of them for their 1 piece of mkI acumen), and not nearly enough mats to take more than 1-2 to any sort of mild utility.
This might be the intent, and it's fair in that case, however it further emphasise that you will have very few datacrons to play around with and will tend to stick those on your best teams to lift them above the usual counters.
Whaling will of course get your more datacrons, but for all those not shelling out a ton of cash I don't see most having more than 6 higher level datacrons at any given time = one good datacron for each GL team...

The more I play with them, the more I hate them. Most effects are useless and the resources you need to reroll are way to expensive. If you are not lucky and get the desired ability (or even faction), they are completely wasted. Even real money spent just is lost with not the slightest benefit. Just frustrating and toxic game design.

And of course you want the one that buffs you legend.

My feedback is don't have them apply to a team with a GL present. A few of these are way too over powered and it's ruining the game. First time I am considering leaving due to it. I don't mind making B and C teams much better, but some of these bonuses for GLs is too over the top.

To follow up…

Look at this:


Whoever designed this one, and moreover the guy agreeing to the roll-out of something like this, is simply just nuts.
It’s completely rushed without thinking or ignoring what consequences it has. Thus perfectly in line with what we have seen over the last couple of months.

Datacrons are fine. Some of them are a little too broken (like JMK ignoring protection), but they can be balanced later. Biggest issue is lack of materials for upgrading.