Splash Screen Observation - Y Wing

"Rmaxtpmx;c-1484257" wrote:

"Viserys;c-1484208" wrote:

"EclecticsScott;c-1484163" wrote:
There’ll be something needed that we don’t have yet. Has to be a panic farm quotient. 3PO maybe.

This. If it's to be a Hero's Journey, something will be conspicuously added three months ahead, that we will obviously need at 7*.

We won't need Hermit, would too greatly restrict possible participants (and therefore, possible spenders)

What do you mean? Everyone in the bigger guilds who have been farming hermit yoda from the start already has him at 7*. No one is alienated. It's your choice if you don't have him by the time of the event. And the last minute character is obviously gonna be force ghost ben, which makes me nauseous just thinking about it. In Luke's journey, he learns Jedi 101 from ben, 201 and 301 from yoda, then 401 from dead ben. Haha. Or something like that.

If it's a HJ style event, and you must have HY at 7* to earn Luke, then anyone who does not have HY at 7* already is defacto excluded from the event. They aren't going to want to restrict possible spenders to only players who already had HY at 7*.

It's not relevant whether "You should have had him by now" what will be relevant to the business decision is how many people actually have him when the event goes live. Anyone who doesn't, won't spend to earn Luke (because they can't get him no matter what in that case).

What will matter to whether you need HY is what the penetration of players who have him when the event goes into final production. If 80% of the player's have him at 7* then yeah, you'll probably need him. If only 5% of the players have him then they're just not going to make him mandatory. These events are meant to motivate spending, and if players can't spend to complete the requirements then it doesn't do that.