The fact that your whole conquest can get screwed by RNG is infuriating

I would think unpopular, and elitist. “Particular” disks don’t just make conquest red crate possible for smaller rosters, they make certain feats a lot more efficient for everyone, when the game is super busy. Something clearly taken into account with the design of many feats. If I had bad datadisk luck on a round I purchase conquest pass plus to be more efficient, I would be frustrated too. Availability of roster already gives varied difficulty levels, why should datadisks vary players experience to such an extent too? Serves no purpose as investing in squads or purchasing conquest pass will not address bad datadisk luck.

Think of it this way, if we didn't have a good disk setup, a lot of our teams would become useless because of how overpowered the enemies are, even in the early sectors. In the later sectors, even 100% stamina GLs with 600+ speed often find themselves waiting for the entire enemy team to go before said GLs can take even just one turn, that's not taking account the Rebel/GR/Sith/etc. modifiers. Without a good setup, a good portion of the feats would become impossible to complete, even for the best rosters. Look at the Sector 3 Geonosian feat this Conquest, I doubt there are that many teams they could beat, let alone survive against, at that stage. And all those "Win the battle with [insert latest toon] surviving". Those of us that don't/can't spend an unholy amount of crystals or money to get the toon instantly to 7* and relics need good disks to have a chance at completing the feat, regardless if it's just 2-3 tickets. Even outside Conquest, anything below G13, or G12 in some cases, is literally useless and probably won't survive one hit from the enemy.

Now, if CG ends up changing Conquest so that there are much more feats like "Gain Y buff 100 times", "Inflict Stagger/DoTs/Stun/Shock 100 times" than there are ones that require a C-tier team to win 14 times in Sector 3-5 or the latest toon to survive, then I would agree with you. But with the current state, I don't know if a lot of people would be happy that they have a great and developed roster but couldn't get any of the final crates because they end up getting trash disks and therefore couldn't complete even half the feats. For the sake of comparison, that would be like CG removing all the player modifiers from the Naboo raid while keeping all the enemy modifiers unchanged and active. Just imagine a Luminara team in the R7 tier. You may have the entire team at R7 with god-tier mods, but that doesn't help a bit because of how strong the enemies are.

that's not my point, of course i will redbox it. what i am saying is that the current setting with disks makes a potential grind fest the worst/sloggiest grindfest in the game if you dont get the right disks. 

Don't understand the obsession with purple discs. I never use them unless required for a feat.

This. I am getting especially tired of seeing the same lousy gray disks in sector 5 of all places. And I agree with the second part, I can't even remember when we last had any actual QoL changes in this game. The only fixes we see are minor kit-related bugs, and it's simply pathetic considering: A) It takes CG an eternity to fix them; B) they often show up after an update that as far as we know has nothing to do with the character (e.g., Starkiller, oFulcrum); or C) it's related to a newly released character almost immediately after said character has already been released.

Seems to me to be pretty crappy programming or ill will against your players to get a 2 nodes of disks to pick from and 4/6 options are the same thing. Even 3/6 is pretty poor.

I agree completely with the first part. Not entirely with the second. Geos, NS, ITs, MM Rebels, and a good deal of other teams just can't compete with the enemies because of all those overtuned stats and modifiers, especially when some toons end up making the team weaker in some regards (e.g., Morgan prevents revives, so MT teams are basically screwed if even just one toon dies). GLs get outsped by a lot of teams in the later modifiers, so what chance do other teams have. Also, there's no way you can get the "Win with [latest toon] surviving" unless you have either good disks or the toon at relic levels, not everyone can or is willing to spend a crapton or money or in-game resources every time a new toon is released.

Just a personal example, and I emphasize personal, since I can't speak for everyone else. I'm at almost 12M GP, I have all 8 current GLs, am farming for Ahsoka when she arrives, 2/3 of my roster is at relic levels. I get red crate each and every Conquest, the only times I haven't been able to unlock the toon right away are when I think buying gear is more important, and even then I always manage to unlock them the following season through the crate rewards. And I am able to get red crate every time mainly because of the disks. Otherwise, I just wouldn't be able to or at least have a very hard time getting, to use the current season as an example, the S3 Geonosian feat, the S3 Acolyte, at least half the mini-boss and boss feats, the S4/5 DTP kills, S5 GeoSpy, and a good amount of other feats (I'm in S3 right now, those are just the ones I can currently see or think of). Like I wrote to Gabe, saying that you shouldn't be able to get the max crate in Conquest if you rely so much on disks is like saying you shouldn't be able to get decent/max scores in the Naboo raid if you have to rely on the player modifiers.

Any which make the feats more possible. For me my best example is X character survive feats. With 2+ AA I can go in with Reva, 2-3 inquisitors and whoever needs to survive and the enemies kill themselves on turn one leaving the required character alive. This works in most datacron nodes until 0% stamina so is very efficient. It may not be the only way, but it’s the best way I have found to multitask and make less grindy.

See, that 2B is the killer. They've spent a small fraction of that on the game itself (including salaries and infrastructure). They could eliminate transactions and be in the black another 5 years. Yet, they feel the need to force spending like never before.

Wait, you "have" 5x Convor's Agility? Or is that just how many you've seen? The difference between "saw VV" and "have 5 duplicates of Convor's" is creating the impression you've actually selected that disk.