Ship Challenges large increase in dificulty

I used to be able to achieve two stars on tier II of the ship enhancement droid challenge, however, since ship 2.0, I'm not even able to kill a single enemy, sadly forcing me to go back down to tier I. I just tried the ship ability material challenge today and it has the same problem. The level of difficulty needs to tuned so it is adequately challenging for players who can meet the minimum requirements, rather than being an impossible feat.

"TVF;c-1562098" wrote:
Recommended levels and gear and whatnot have always been way off. Just ignore it.

I've seen consistent gedanken from multiple people that the lower tier challenges have become significantly more difficult, to the extent that many new level 60s are unable to compete any challenges and thus unable to complete their daily activities.

OP: Carrie has taken note of this and is looking into it

well, its good to hear that Carrie is taking a look at it, cause as it stands currently, all ship challenges are pretty much confirmed to be much harder then they ever were.

Hope to see some fixes coming there. Busy trying to get Ackbar's Five star and its such a mess since the 3v3 update. Not even going to try for Mace's.

I mean, I have a six star Jedi Consular in a five star ship geared 9, and its SLOWER then the enemies entire team, let alone their own Jedi Consular Ship.

This going for just five star Ackbar, a "unlock with four star ships" requirement

We should not need seven starred G10 heroes to unlock something this low

"DarkHelmet1138;c-1562268" wrote:
The only ship challenge I have done since the rework is the tier they added to the ability challenge with the ship omegas. It seemed easy enough. 3 stared it first try with no difficulty but I have a pretty deep ship roster so I'm not sure how much difference it is for lower levels. It may be easier to tell when the 7 star capital ship events come around again. They were moderately challenging for my ships before so they may be harder now. But if you're having trouble with ship challenges, you do need to gear pilots to a decent level to be halfway competitive in fleet arena so it isn't a waste to do so. Most of my pilots are gear 9 or more. G10 or g11 for the ones i use most. I don't regret gearing them up since i get in the top 10 or 20 in fleet arena and 100 or more crystals a day from it.

Well, for example, new players hitting 60 are unable to complete the daily challenge anymore, due to needing to complete the ship challenges. The beginning challenges are so hard now that the ships you get to start with, cannot complete any challenge. And what I've said and many others.

Something like yourself which is mostly completed is not really relevant here, we talking five star challenges and lower being harder then they used to be, to the point they went from people being able to three star them, to people not being able to complete them at all.

"DarkHelmet1138;c-1563514" wrote:
It also depends on how quickly you can build a fleet that can beat the challenge. If its a week it's not terrible. If it's several months then that's different. There's no way for me to tell which it is since I have several maxed ships. I have also seen posts complaining that chimeria can't win in arena under the new 3x3 yet i took first today with a similar lineup as before and my top ten is full of chimeras still. So that's to say that I'm a bit skeptic when people say it's impossible. It could be that different shipsbmay work better now or a different strategy is needed but it is still beatable. For example I did notice that the ability mat used to require only ds ships but the new tier at least allows all ships. If the lower tiers are also like this that would likely make it where new players get zetas sooner which would counter balance an increased difficulty.

how do you get ship materials? Challenges, ship ability mats for upgrades? challenges, ect.

If you can't complete the starter challenges with the starter ships they give you, as people have been reporting, it means until you spend a ton of time gearing up characters (and neglecting everything else, I mean at sixty, people don't have seven stars, let alone six stars)... its all a mess.

Unless you pay to start doing them early on, you will forever be behind in ship arena. Hoping they fix that, then again, most lower tiers do need a fixing as they are harder then before.

"DarkHelmet1138;c-1563640" wrote:
You can get ship currency and ship training droids in gw and cantina. I would think that increasing the level of the ships along with gearing your pilots would be enough to get the first tier of the ability challenge.

Unfortunately this is the problem. As far as a fresh level 60 player goes, your only source of materials to upgrade ships comes from GW and Cantina. Before the update we had GW, Cantina, and FIRST TIER ship challenges. Now with only GW and Cantina, it will take weeks if not months just to beat the first tier of ship challenges. Which is fine I guess if thats what they wanted with this update, but then they need to REMOVE the ship challenge requirement from the daily activities because as it stands, a fresh 60 player cannot do their daily anymore.
I made post a few days ago about this same issue. My wife just hit 60 a few days ago and I've tried everything I can think of short of buying ships from the store, and nothing works. First tier ship challenge is way too hard. I geared up her pilots and ships as much as I could with what little materials a fresh 60 has to work with, and its just not possible to win.

@DarkHelmet1138 You sure have a lot to say on a subject you know nothing about and a subject that its already been proven earlier in the thread that you have no relevance with. Are you a new player? no, do you know anything about the ship challenge problems? no. Do you already have a completed team which this thread is not about? Yes.

You are spamming off-topic related things and derailing this thread, can we please keep relevant information here, I was hoping to hear from other newer players about their difficulties in how much harder the "beginning" challenges are. As this is a ship thread buried in the challenges area, its already hard enough to get people here as most are all being merged into the giant thread in general discussions.

Unless this is your way of helping and bumping, then go ahead xD

As a fresh 60 who hasn't been able to complete his dailies the past two days, this sucks and makes me want to put the game down.

The complete all dailies task in particular is a huge source of XP and a ton of other valuable materials that I'm effectively blocked from getting for who knows how long. I've all 60 ships, all gear 6 or better pilots at level 60, the Consular ship is 2 star, I've got a good and realistic fresh 60 compliment... The challenges should be dramatically nerfed, the enemy ships look like they are 4 or 5 star with absurd pilots. My ships can not compete.

Are you suggesting they released the ship update without thoroughly vetting the resulting impacts to all areas of the game impacted by fleet gameplay? Does that really sound like something a group of highly skilled professionals would do?

My top 3 ships: TIE Advanced at 5stars and level 80, Geonosian Solider at 5star at level 80, and TIE Silencer at 5stars and level 80 (2 of the pilots are at 7stars, one 6 stars -- all geared to G8, one G10)... I cannot even destroy one enemy ship.

I cannot complete the daily challenges; I have to SIM the tier 2 ones; I cannot get a 5star Executrix -- thus I cannot get access to the zeta drops.

I am cutoff from making my characters compete with those who have gotten so many zetas. I just returned to the game from a 12 month break -- so I was new to zetas. I am cutoff from advancing