"Naw;751056" wrote:
"Ultra;750869" wrote:
so each pilot has a specific ship (Red II / Red III)
talk about a huge grind if we have to collect and level those individual ships too
Remember that like the tank raid, this is end game content! :)
End game content? I believe it's New Game content. You will have to star, gear and mod each ship just like you do with characters, but you will need the corresponding pilot from the Character Game in order to use it.
The Character Game has been stretched about as far as it can go (barring new and improved 6/7° mods) and the whales are getting restless. New character releases could hold their interest for a while, but there is little revenue generation there unless there are more crystal tournaments, a wildly unpopular move to the small spenders. Level 85 has already been achieved for many. The AAT raid has been solved. It won't be long until the ultra guilds start hitting gXI maximum for their best heroes. 5° Mod farming is all they've got and that has gotten very stale.
The answer? Start a whole new Ship Game. Make them collect a roster full of ships that need to be built from the ground up. Upgrade thrusters, turbolasers, shields, hulls, power systems, and inertial dampeners. There will have to be a new energy type or those still farming characters and mods will abandon the app. Start them off with TIE fighter, TIE bomber, X-wing, and Y-wing. Introduce new achievements that allow you to unlock new ships, like the TIE Advanced, TIE Defender, A-wing, B-wing fighters. Use a similar strategy for capital ships. Should keep them going for another year.
And next year? Ground Assault!
