"NicWester;c-1573709" wrote:
"Obi1_son;c-1573680" wrote:
"LiamTheWise;c-1573423" wrote:
Ships were awful before. And they are still awful. Total waste of game play
Nothing was wrong with ships before. They could have cut down the battle time and added in more ships. That would have fixed any staleness in the game mode.
Okay, let's play this out. How do you add more ships? The three best ships in 1.0 are TIE Reaper, First Order TIE, and TIE Fighter. You're going to need to add at least 10 new ships, all of which have to be at, near, or better than the power level of those three ships. Get cracking on that.
Okay, now let's say you do that. You create 10 new ships. Now how do you handle the uproar of people shouting "WHAT A BLATANT CASH GRAB! I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY CREATED TEN NEW MUST HAVE SHIPS!"
So let's say instead of creating new ships, you balance the existing ones. You've got the same problem as before, now you need to take all 20+ ships and boost them to be on par with the overpowered ships. Alternatively, you can boost all of them a bit, then drop the top a little. That's what they went with. Every ship but a handful of the best are better now, and all ships are good on some level. The answer wasn't blatant power inflation or creating new must haves, the answer was to improve what existed and scale back what was overpowered.
It's not a perfect solution. People who had those things are upset because they are actually balanced now. But they got to take those rewards for the past 15 months. We didn't. But at least people aren't forced to farm up a whole new fleet from scratch--they already have the core of the new stuff, and have had months to work on them. I'm not saying they should all be g12.5 omega/zeta already, but they can be used now and can perform well, and it hasn't cost you a dime.
Why should the devs worry if you are gonna cry about a cash grab. The lack of ship releases is the reason ships are where they are.
Dont cry to me that its not fair that others had reaper and you didn't. I dont use that ship and I would wipe it fro. The board before it would have an impact on the battle. A ship is not op if it doesn't exist.
Good for you that you are enjoying ships now since you couldn't compete before.
The fact is that thing change did nothing to improve ships and if you have them all maxed you would realize this.
I still sit in the same arena spot if I care to try. Most times I just dont care to engage in a ruined experience.
Btw. It's not balanced any more than it was before. It's worse than ever with everyone running the same teams and rng deciding who wins.
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