The Pay2Play TB Platoons

"ScottyLee;c-1690845" wrote:
Please just say what you would like the situation to be. From your complaint, I would assume you want the game to freeze in time so that no new toons or ships are added so that you can collect the highest rewards possible without having to progress. If that's what you want, sorry, that's not going to happen.

OK, let's do it. I want 2 platoons per territory only filled with toons/ships that have been farmable for at least 4 months. Two platoons per territory should only be filled with toons that were realistically farmable at the moment the TB happens. That would still be a moving goal of course. They can do whatever they want with the other platoons but phase 5 & 6 are becoming really tedious, even with g12 toons, without any of the bonus support so let's make sure medium guilds can at least get minimal help.

Oh. And while I'm at it, unrelated to the quote above, please, enough with the "bu-bu-but... T'was always like this!". That's the point of these kind of threads. We want things to change for the best for everyone.

"ScottyLee;c-1690888" wrote:
So taking that off of the list, what advantage would you concede to paying players? you do agree that a player who pays money into the game should have some advantages over players who choose to play for free? So what should those advantages be limited to?

If you talk about my comment, I only ask two easier to fill platoons. When 160M+ guilds can't fill any platoon at all then there's a major design issue somewhere. There are a lot of paying customers that just can't follow up with the release cadence. There are a lot of non whale paying customers in those 160M guilds and they just don't have any benefit over F2P either. Why?

Anyway, with two easier to fill territories, whale guilds would also benefit from this. First, that would mean 4 hard to fill territories instead of 6. And, of course, they would still benefit from having their platoons maxed out over guilds that can only fill 2 per territory. What's not to like?

It is what it is. We haven't been able to fill a squadron for the last few TB but who cares? We still 3* each ship territory and all members with strong teams still do max waves. Just have your teams strong enough, especially in DS TB most people have 3 strong squads that can do max waves without platoon bonuses.

"dominiQC;c-1690867" wrote:


And yes you can still 3 star ship zones without doing the platoons but hey not my fault you didn't realized the ship platoons completition doesn't give any advantages to ship zones. They help on character zones.

You can 3* character zones without completing platoons and squadron

"ScottyLee;c-1690951" wrote:
not being salty, trying to get you to understand the situation you are in. I'll assume from your lack of direct response that you are in agreement that freemium games have certain modes and features that are set up with intent to give those that pay an advantage over free to play players. That being said, TB platoons is one of those things. Hope you understand now.

I'll never understand why people spend the money they do on phone apps no one else except yourself gives a sh*t about...

"ScottyLee;c-1690934" wrote:
thanks, bud, but there are things in freemium games that are implemented specifically to give paying players an advantage, you are aware of that, yes?

That advantage is the use of a character that almost nobody else has for a short while before everyone has it. It should not mean that people who don't shell out $300 every time there is a marquee are locked out of aspects of the game.

It's all about finding balance, give some advantage to the whales while still providing benefits to the dolphins and tadpoles.

The microtransaction genre comes in two extremes. On one you get a few free things to get hooked into the game and then everything after you have to pay for. On the other extreme are games where you can only pay for cosmetic thing but nothing that gives you an advantage. Neither extreme is very successful. The first nobody can afford and the latter everyone plays but the developers don't make enough money to produce new content so eventually everyone gets bored and quits.

This game tries to split the difference giving advantage to people who pay while also giving free stuff stuff to keep all the rest engaged until they have a little spare cash and they have been quite successful at it.

I don't think it's too much to ask that they code TB better so the biggest bonuses go to those who bought the latest items while still giving the rest some access to the lesser bonuses.

"ScottyLee;c-1690854" wrote:
so you want FTP players to have every advantage that paying players do? Is that what you're saying?

I’ll say this, I’m not f2p by any means, neither are a lot of players in our guild. We have 182mil gp and we couldn’t fill even 1 platoon in ships. Maybe just don’t ask for p2p ships in all 6 sections of platoon? This is ridiculous

"SeanutB;c-1690839" wrote:
That sort of thing is here to stay I believe

They fixed the Revan thing on the light sided one. Well they at least "compensated" for everyone's loss. Said they fixed it but we'll only see this next LTB

Please just say what you would like the situation to be. From your complaint, I would assume you want the game to freeze in time so that no new toons or ships are added so that you can collect the highest rewards possible without having to progress. If that's what you want, sorry, that's not going to happen.

"ScottyLee;c-1690845" wrote:
Please just say what you would like the situation to be. From your complaint, I would assume you want the game to freeze in time so that no new toons or ships are added so that you can collect the highest rewards possible without having to progress. If that's what you want, sorry, that's not going to happen.

It's not progression if the only way to acquire them at this star level is by paying. I tought you were smart enough to understand us F2P players are just asking for some room to maneuver. I guess you probably just overlooked that.