I'm playing ships roughly a year. I know they are quite annoying at beginning, but later they become really good. Usually, my battles lasts not more than 2minues and very dynamic. And of course I've invested alot time to my ships and that can be ruined.I don't like the idea of 3v3 in general. I will try to play it, but if it's fail, then....... Probably that's for the best.

How many times have you quit and restarted World of Warcarft because there have been far more horrific changes to that game than the ship revamp?!

I agree. With the exception of the ships table... they just need to leave things alone.

I’m concerned that 3v3 will lead to an even more copycat meta and will make battles so fast that Capital Ships will be redundant. Most will now have to use the first turn to bring in a reinforcement.

"Dreislao;c-1530398" wrote:I’m concerned that 3v3 will lead to an even more copycat meta and will make battles so fast that Capital Ships will be redundant. Most will now have to use the first turn to bring in a reinforcement. This. Someone/some people will figure out the best starting 3+next 2 reinforcements, and it will be the same as we have now.. plus with them changing hardware abilities to the reinforcement bonuses, still be the same thing

It's not 3v3. It starts out as 3v3, with revamped or changed abilities (not all ships, not all abilities), and the reinforcements will have new abilities just for coming into the battle, so it will wind up being 5v5 by the time the battle gets going. But with the changes in abilities (probably about half, plus all get a reinforcement ability), there will be a new dynamic as you have to decide who to use as a reinforcement and WHY you would use them at that time and not the other ship. It will be a totally different way of playing ships, but it will still be 5v5 after a few rounds.

Post here if you like current Ships and don't wan't Ship 2.0

alhallow56
7 years ago
Im willing to try the new ship format, sure. However, if I had a choice, I'd keep ship arena exactly as is. 3v3, to me, sounds dumb. I like how it is currently, 5v5, more intense that way.
hendy_2012
7 years ago
"Jos33680;c-1537519" wrote:
"TVF;c-1537207" wrote:
"Jos33680;c-1537167" wrote:
Please remove ships !!!
Please remove ships !!!
Please remove ships !!!
Please remove ships !!!
Please remove ships !!!

Please don't play them if you don't like them, but you don't get to take content away from me just because you don't like it.

Lol I do what I want :)

They spend time and ressources on this part of the game ... by consequence not on the content I like.

Remove shiiiiiiiiiips :)

Ummm they hadn't spent much time at all on ships since they were released. But your (and other people, not trying to single you out, but will anyways) refusal to play ships forced them to spend more time and resources on it taking away from the areas you do enjoy. Good job @Jos33680
Georgemi6
7 years ago
Alright. So the main complaint about ships was that there weren’t enough good ships and that we were mainly seeing the same lineups. That’s great. Make more ships and make the bad ones viable. No one ever asked for 3v3. Plain and simple. Now stop giving us junk that no one wants and give us mod management. Or grievous rework.
Also, instead of making everyone basically start from scratch, just give us more places to use our ships! As I said in a previous comment, nothing in this game has been handled worse than ships. I stand by my decision.
Jedi_Bane
7 years ago
"TVF;c-1537778" wrote:
They are giving us a PvE table...

I bet this is mostly because they are running out of hard nodes they can put new releases on. Not to say, of course, that i am not excited for them. I just hope it doesnt function like the challenges did, where losing 1 ship locked you out of 3*, despite needing like 8 ships to even attempt it
NicWester
7 years ago
We can talk about how reducing the starting lineup to 3 is an interesting idea with a lot of strategic and lineup ramifications until we're blue in the face--and have--but no one's reading it. They just repeat the same kneejerk reactions and don't bother reading any posts but their own.

Forget it, TVF, it's Chinatown.
WeaponXLV
7 years ago
3v3 is a horrible idea
tvsfrink
7 years ago
"NicWester;c-1538137" wrote:
We can talk about how reducing the starting lineup to 3 is an interesting idea with a lot of strategic and lineup ramifications until we're blue in the face--and have--but no one's reading it. They just repeat the same kneejerk reactions and don't bother reading any posts but their own.

"WeaponXLVII;c-1538336" wrote:
3v3 is a horrible idea

Lol.
3muaddib3
7 years ago
"CoastalJames;c-1537949" wrote:
"Skywalker_Vader1;c-1537695" wrote:
I like 5 against 5. Not really sure why they felt they needed to change it. They need more actual ship options, not 3 against 3

I like to pop on to this thread every now and then just to point out that it still will be 5 v 5.

Seems a thankless task because everyone still thinks it's being changed to 3 v 3. It isn't.

Well... you're wrong. It won't still be 5v5, it will be 3v3... to start. And if your argument is that with reinforcements it'll magically become 5v5... it still won't. Because we were at (when you include reinforcements) 9v9. Now apparently we'll be at 7v7.
Regardless... We keep saying it because the devs themselves said:

Top Hat:
we ended up moving towards the 5 v 5 version that we ultimately launched with..

Parking Instructor (side bar - who now?)
Look at ships, like the 5v5 ship, like as a player, it was really fresh initially, but after a month or two it was just like character combat with the 3v3 and the reinforcement abilities we definitely added another strategic layer to the ship combat.

Mandalorian:
So we're definitely doing more--since the battles are starting with three...

Soooooo.... Yeah, it's 3v3.
TAureliusC
7 years ago
Poor AI is what I see as the problem. In fact they should increase the ship fleet from 5 to 7 if you ask me. Too many people only have 5 good starting ships and lousy reserves, and they are beating opponents with stronger roster all around simply because AI is so bad at playing defense. At the current state reserves are pointless.
TAureliusC
7 years ago
"TVF;c-1538524" wrote:
They claim to be improving the AI as part of this update. We'll see.

If they improve AI then they should have left it at 5 starting. It baffles me that opponents can beat me when some of their ships and toons aren't even maxed out when we have the same exact line up. I now spend 10 minutes on ships per day. I finish 1st 99% of the time but I no longer try to build the perfect fleet because of the AI junk. I log in 15 minutes prior and retake 1st to get my prize and I return 24 hours later to do it again.