Raid cost for smaller Guilds

Unfortunately there is no such thing as a "smaller guild". Guilds are designed to be and raids are designed around 50 players.

If you want to be in a guild that is not full, that's your choice, but a full guild will generally put in a lot of effort to stay that way, or people will run alt accounts to keep ticket generation at max. This is one of the rewards for that effort, they can raid at "maximum efficiency".

"jpeng;c-2194344" wrote:
do an appropriate cost then but 60,000 tickets for a 5 person guild to do heroic rancor is excessive.

Heroic raids are clearly not designed to be regularly done by 5 person guilds, though.

Just take your guildmates and join a bigger guild with 35-40+ members. It's admirable that you want to keep your guild going, but in the long run you are all just losing out on rewards in every guild related game mode.

"Waqui;c-2194422" wrote:

"jpeng;d-238200" wrote:
it would be nice to have a sliding scale for cost of raids, i’m currently in a 5 man guild and don’t want to be in anything more what is frustrating is that we can complete pit, tank and sith raid but it takes forever to save tickets. it would be nice to have a sliding scale for ticket cost so we could set it to 5 or even 10 participants only and launch just as often as the larger guilds. so 5 players could launch a pit raid 6000 tickets instead of of 60,000 tickets and only be able to have a couple of raids a months. it would also help with getting those character shards that are only available in the guild store not to mention the gear crunch. note:- not asking for better rewards for those 5 players just to be able to raid as frequently as larger guilds. thanks for reading.

Also such a feature could be abused. Imagine having ticket alts in your guild to help generate tickets and then kicking the alts just before launching the raid for 6k tickets.

I dont support catering to 5 man guilds, but I do really wish they would adjust the ticket system so that a full 50/50 every day is not required to get max tickets. Maybe allow each person to earn 625 tickets instead of 600, with a guild cap at 30k still? Or give out a percentage of 30k equal to the percentage of the max tickets your guild earned for the day? You'd probably need a minimum number of players to qualify for the last 1 so you don't have 1 man ticket farming guilds.

"jpeng;c-2194723" wrote:
i’m not sure why people don’t think i’m serious, i play msf on my own and thoroughly enjoy it but parts of the game i’m locked out of also character shards i can’t get either. but with swgoh those raids are viable for the single player or small groups to do thus enabling better progress for those who are currently not catered for and enabling them better access to the selection of characters available.

I don't know what exactly it is you're looking for, but I also tend to like single player games I can do on my own schedule. Since coming back to the game I've told myself I'm going to be a more casual player, and one way I'm doing that is by joining a guild for about 1 event a month. So I can still join a higher guild just for 1 TB, do all the raids for that week, and then go back to guildless for a while. You can control how you do it. I joined a smaller guild in TBs for a bit and merc'd a TW for them. This month I might stay for more than one event. You may try something similar if you're finding being in a guild full time is not for you.

thank you for your reply, that is unfortunate that is the way as it does slow my small group down from progressing faster, people running alt accounts in the higher guilds for additional raiding still goes on and enabling smaller groups this ability for the current raids i can’t see stopping that happening, perhaps improving the programming to stop guild jumping would help such as blocking players returning to the same guild within 7 days. i know for a fact that some players don’t want to or have the commitment to participate in territory battles or be in a larger guild and just want to have fun in a smaller one. it’s a pity you won’t help these players since i think you’re missing an improvement here, us players in these smaller guilds still do need currency for the guild store for those characters shards and want to be competitive in these new events such as galactic challenges that is set for single player gaming.

Yeah, unfortunately, the game seems designed around multiplayer and daily gameplay.

"jpeng;d-238200" wrote:
it would be nice to have a sliding scale for cost of raids, i’m currently in a 5 man guild and don’t want to be in anything more what is frustrating is that we can complete pit, tank and sith raid but it takes forever to save tickets. it would be nice to have a sliding scale for ticket cost so we could set it to 5 or even 10 participants only and launch just as often as the larger guilds. so 5 players could launch a pit raid 6000 tickets instead of of 60,000 tickets and only be able to have a couple of raids a months. it would also help with getting those character shards that are only available in the guild store not to mention the gear crunch. note:- not asking for better rewards for those 5 players just to be able to raid as frequently as larger guilds. thanks for reading.

Your proposal would be you and your 5 friends getting better rewards than people in a 50 person guild. Assuming the dev's granted your request and the raid were 1/10 of the cost of a 50 person guild, you would essentially be getting top 5 rewards as often as as 50 person guild has to split the total rewards which averages to far less than top 5 for everyone. Especially in the sith raid.

The change you propose would create an incentive for players that don't like Tb or tw to create mini guilds rather than having to still be in a group of 50 and share the rewards.

You may not like it but there are reasons. But there are plenty of fairly lax guilds out there to join that will let you skip tb or tw if you want. Though you are complaining about not enough guild currency but are skipping a lot of stuff that rewards that currency. You can't have it both ways. Either the currency is important enough to play the part of the game that rewards it or it's not.

do an appropriate cost then but 60,000 tickets for a 5 person guild to do heroic rancor is excessive. or even give them all rank 11 rewards like the sim does.

guilds that are okay with you skipping territory battles? really? that just seems morally unfair to the other players in that guild. plus the whole point of the post was about not wanting to be in a guild of 50 but just be a guild with a family of 5.

What you’re describing is a really edge case.

You have a small group of players who don’t want to compete in the guild events, which means not staying competitive with arena and other game modes.
But you also want raids more frequently to help with the gear crunch and with earning shards.

Most players fall into one side or the other - competitive or very casual. This is a hybrid situation.

There is nothing wrong with that, however the game is not designed around those very specific parameters. And any time or effort spent developing to meet those parameters would be largely wasted to a majority of the player base.