Ships 2.0 Update - 6/7/18 [MEGA]

"CG_Carrie;c-1571561" wrote:

"gufu21;c-1571547" wrote:
Huge numbers of players have said that ships 2.0 is an unbalanced mess that only makes worse what it was meant to correct (e.g., being overdependent on RNG).

After all of that feedback, I have to say that "we will remain vigilant in monitoring balance concerns and re-evaluate as needed" sounds an awful lot like this:

https://i.imgur.com/c4jt321.png

I don't want to undervalue player experience and feedback - that is 100% something we factor into all the decisions we make. But it isn't the complete picture. On the whole ship fighting times have reduced by upwards of 10 seconds across all segments, there are significantly more people engaging in battles, and a number of other metrics we consider healthy.
However, I want to caveat this heavily, that doesn't mean everything is hunky dory OR that the things that we're seeing is indicative of your experience, it just means we need more time and to validate some more things. We also want to see how behavior changes after the release of the table, and once people can upgrade more ships - the likelihood that the meta will start to shift. Ultimately, we want to see a lively and interesting daily ship meta. If we don't see interesting play developing, we will re-evaluate.
-Carrie

Is there still more people doing ship battles? Cause more people say they have given up on ships that hadnt previously. I mean initially I gave it a run (I’m part of the shard split crew). And tried it but have since basically given up besides my once daily attempt. I do appreciate the shard split btw. That made ships feasible for me at least till 2.0 when everything I had geared up was made pointless. But hey that happens with nerfs. As it stands right now ships are even more loathsome then they were before. I mean ship arena, ships in ls Tb suck now. If you don’t mess with ds Tb that will probably be fine. But I’m in the boat of overall not liking the change. I like the idea of a change I just don’t find the changes done to be fun or enjoyable in any way. Well more enjoyable then say sawing my arm off I’ll give ya that I guess.