QoL suggestions - (Merged Threads)

With the focus on Quality of Life improvements there is one BIG elephant in the room that it being ignored. Yes mod swapping made easier, team presets, bug fixes and guild management as well as being able to play the account on both Android and iOS would all be great. You also have things like gear selling/crafting and easier gear management. However I think highest on most people’s list or right up there is arena payout at the set time. This all applies to both Ships as well as Squad arena as well as any possible future arenas.

There are multiple issues with this first and foremost is the fact of the actual time it is. The 5/6/7 pm at your time zone is very hard. For a lot of people this is right around the time you are trying to drive home, picking up kids from school, or are sitting down having dinner with family. Forcing people to play then is very inconsiderate and a travesty to enjoying and quality of their life. For most people and the way it should be is family first. Now comes the next discussion, what is a good time? Therein lies the problem, everyone has different schedules and a different time will work best for everyone. Also what works during the week might not work at all during the weekend.

So what do we do to change this? The answer that the players like the most would be to do it as highest position of the day. Now won’t this just mean more crystals for everyone decreasing revenue? Not necessarily, people will refresh arena attempts more to get those higher positions minimizing the crystal payouts. Also if people are enjoying the game more and playing in the arena more they will more likely spend crystals because they are having fun. Yes you might be paying out more crystals but that could very well be countered by more refreshes and money to gear/toons because they are enjoying the game more.

Now if there is still large focus from developer side for a set payout time the next best option might be to allow people to pick their payout time. Let all current players change their payout time ONCE and all new players to pick their payout time when they first start in arena. After that you can charge crystals to change your payout time, could even tie free energy into this as well for people working overnight shifts. This allows people to pick a payout that fits their schedule and helps improve their quality of life in the game. This also still would help people that happen to move, change jobs or any other large life event to still play your game as it fits their life, but cannot play at payout time.

All of this would help increase the player base, and as the player base increases so does the chance of them spending money. I know multiple that have quite due to this and I have had multiple friends that have inquired about the game as well. Once I told them about the set payout time for arena and the time that all have immediately decided to not even try the game because of family life. That right there is a lot of lost potential revenue. I hope that the increased payout in crystals has been weighed against all the lost payments of people quitting or not even installing the game in the first place.

Please consider these proposals as it would significantly improve many peoples quality of life in the game and allow them to play the game more in their schedules instead of on yours. The free energy/shop refreshes do a good job of that already and I would not propose changing those as they will keep people logging into the game.


Thanks,
Concerned Player

@CG_TopHat @EA_Jesse @CG_Kozispoon


From Whazn as another potential mix between the two I had:
Just have it lock in your highest rank of the day on a per hour basis. Would let you do arena at whatever hour you choose. Payout would stay the same as there would still be only 24 top spots but it would let you do arena when it woks for you. Say one day it's noon and you battle to #1 and have the top spot when the clock hits noon, the server registers that and at 6pm it pays you out 500 crystals. Next day you take the top spot for the 4pm hour, same thing at 6pm you get paid out 500 crystals. Not sure who the 6pm time actually works for as that's usually commute home/dinner time.

I agree the time associated with payouts is a big issue for me and for many others I know. I dont like being chsined to my phone at a set time. Only people that disagree that this is an issue must have a time that works well for them.

Tell all your friends to set their time zone so that they have an optimal arena payout before they start playing the game!

I don't think paying out based on your highest ranking is feasible, as most servers would just 'collude' to allow everyone to hit 1 at some point. However, I very much agree with your request to allow for payout time change, for all the reasons you list. This would have to be a 1 time option with any future changes requiring a fairly substantial crystal amount to keep people from just changing payouts daily to attempt to avoid sniping.

"Mr_Sausage;911087" wrote:
I think that would still end up costing CG more crystals. The max refresh anyone will do is probably one.

I'm not opposed to the idea, I just don't see it happening.

Hence the other suggestion if they still want to do a set time, allow people to pick the time. You will still get people doing refreshes to stay low just allows people to pick their payout time.

It might on the highest of the day, but it wou

"Huatimus;911112" wrote:
Tell all your friends to set their time zone so that they have an optimal arena payout before they start playing the game!

What happens if that is 9am? Then their free energy is in the middle of the night? Thats not much better of an option.

EA has been silent on this topic, and in this case it is strange, given the demographic of many Star Wars fans with disposable income. We aren't teens and college kids. We are adults with jobs, children and lives. The payout times have always been tone deaf. I always wonder how many people have quit this game because their significant other glares at them every time they pick up their phone to defend in arena at dinner time? I know for me personally this is my current biggest issue with the game and likely why I may have to move on. Domestic Tranquility.

@EA_Jesse - This topic has been raised many times and I have never seen any official comment on it. Has any thought been given to doing anything in the area of payout times (or arena formats)?

Yeeeeeess!!

In my opinion, the OPs suggested change would make this the best game ever. I love this game but having to sit around in 2 payout hours really sucks it out of you... especially when you have others in your same timezone. This means you can't play an hour before your payout and then go out for dinner or you'll get sniped.

Yes, giving rewards based on highest rank for the day would result in more crystals but guess what... these are the same rewards that have been there since I have been playing a year ago. Since then we have many many more toons, higher levels, more gear to craft. We now have ships to buy, gear to buy, more events to refresh, etc. etc.

With all the new content they should really be handing out some more crystals anyway. Like the OP said, people would spend more on refreshes. Right now I know a lot of people who never refresh because they can't play during their payout hour. They therefore just play a few battles during the day and don't care where they come. If they had the option of climbing, they would likely refresh once if not twice.

EDIT: to add, many players are just casual players because they can't make their payout. They therefore just collect and don't worry too much about being competitive and are mostly F2P. This change would allow them the chance to become competitive and would likely promote more spending.

+1

I like the idea of paying out your highest position of the day. But even if that isn't a possibility please please let us change our payout time at least once. Mine is at 5pm for squad and 6pm for ships. Totally inconvenient for my commute time and then making dinner and playing with daughter time. I'd love to be able to set them at like 2pm and 3pm or 3 and 4.

I agree with what you said. I think 6-7pm is not a good payout time for the reasons you just mentioned.
I don't think there is a method to satisfy everyone, but shifting payouts 1-2h later than currently, would help out. It would also put a wrench for all those that changed their payout time by changing mobile timezone. It's unfair towards those that actually want to play on equal footing.