Territory Battles: Rebel Assault Platoon Requirements

"Ravens1113;c-1386012" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1386006" wrote:

"Ravens1113;c-1386002" wrote:
Anyone care to explain why the SF tie fighter is in squadrons AGAIN?!
A reasonable person would think that after the nightmare that was DS: TB the next TB would fix this. These toons are not farmable!!!

Ravens1113

The statement they made is that any toon "in the game" is available to the pool of toons drawn from for Platoons. The only issue that came out of DS TB as far as platoons is concerned was required toons being in platoons, thats being fixed.

Kyno
I know that’s what was said. But just because they said that doesn’t mean it’s not a problem nor is unfair. By forcing people to pay for these toons is ridiculous. It takes progress made by guilds and pushes them back and sticks them behind a paywall until a random cadence is met to allow farming these toons.

And the solution that Kozi offered of “recruit people that have them” is quite frankly insulting. Maybe having them in the 6th slice would be more fair because that places a big emphasis on maxing stars for the TB and makes it a true end game achievement and a P2P premium exclusive. From the 4th slice on is not ok.

I understand where you are coming from and just wanted to make sure that the information we currently have on hand is out there when questions like this come up.

on the point of fair, p2p have an advantage, that the way it should be. IMO.

This change doesn't put TB behind a paywall just the quick route. as we all build up we will have enough GP to make up the loss of both the platoon points and the points lost by not being able to 6/6 some of the harder missions. If i remember correctly, i ran the numbers when the first change was made and to make up for the lost points in P6 i think it was 8-12 fully upgraded toons (from scratch). while this sounds like a huge deal, with the new gear availability and what i would think will be an influx of toons from TLJ movie we will be able to make up this gap without too much work.

8-12 characters might make up for the 240k gp missing from completing a platoon squad but it certainly does not make up for 10 x players only being able to complete 5/6 instead of 6/6.

Even if a guild planned their farming path and had a couple of us use our arena income farming the needed characters like we did with paploo and logray, it is just a matter of time before they add a new character behind a paywall and our progress is set back.

Screw this

The frustration was that platoons were first shown to us as a way to utilize our entire roster. Instead it's giving up wedge biggs, leia, lando, baze, chirrut about 30 times and having one jedi consular.

"phatphil3;c-1388974" wrote:
The frustration was that platoons were first shown to us as a way to utilize our entire roster. Instead it's giving up wedge biggs, leia, lando, baze, chirrut about 30 times and having one jedi consular.

Exactly. That’s the irritating thing about platoons. They are not “using” your roster, they are specifically preventing the use of your roster.

I don’t know what the idea behind the platoons is. Is it to make the missions more random and challenging by forcing players to do the missions without certain characters? Is that fun? And if almost everyone doesn’t have the characters in the first place, what does that achieve?

Or is it to give passive advantages in missions for players who spend a lot of money to get a big roster and who do not mind being unable to play with the characters they paid for? I’m not sure I know anybody who thinks like that. Surely you want to use your roster even more if you just paid for it. Certainly in my guild last DS TB players were really unhappy that every one of our 7* Talzins had to be platooned to help the guild. That definitely wasn’t fun.

Platoons, I’m afraid, are just a flawed idea. They detract from the game whichever way you look at it.

"phatphil3;c-1389057" wrote:
Platoons would be much better if they actually required the toons that can be worked towards, JKG, Jawas, Ewok Elder, Ewok Scout, Bistan, Pao, Lobot, or any of the lightside toons that can be farmed.

I agree. It is the only approach for platoons that makes any sense. Unless you don’t mind making the game worse in order to grab a bit more cash from frustrated players. But no games company would act like that, would they?

"evanbio;c-1428121" wrote:
Thanks for putting this together. Can I request that the star requirement be added to the listing as well?

The star requirement is always 1 higher than the phase. Phase 1 = 2*, etc.

Could we have more platoons that require more pay only characters please? It's not at all demoralizing to a guild that's working towards the 45 stars to have such a big bonus taken away for completing squads. I know we're all running to quickly buy the characters to 7* for a bigger loot chest... er oh wait, my sarcasm chip jammed.

We aren't going to buy toons just to fill squads. Knock it off. :P

full dislike too!

5 platoons out of 6 nedded casherships... your tacit change is really disgusting CG

@CG_Kozispoon

"IssacWhitlock;c-1679901" wrote:
Our guild, just 62M GP, will not be able to complete a single fleet platoon on day 4 as they are all locked behind ships you can't farm yet. We have a few spenders (me included) but this is just crazy and completely over the top. Maybe 1 or 2 platoons being inaccessible but all of them!?!

Our guild is 136M and can complete 1 of 6. Equal opportunity shafting :)