First of all this game is great. I have been playing since before Christmas and the progression system is very good. Lots of harder events as one progresses which keeps things interesting.There is one challenge however that seems grossly over-tuned. The Home One challenge to get the 6* shards is completely out of the normal progression system. Mace and Tarkin 6*'s, while difficult, are beatable with close to the recommended levels. However the Ackbar one not only seems to require republic ships to pass (which is counter to Ackbar's design), but also requires multiple 7*, g10+ maxed pilots. I have done a great deal of research through reddit threads, videos etc and the old method was "auto 100x until Mace bugs out and doesn't reinforce at all". I have tried this battle 10+ times every time it comes up over the past two months and have not even come close to winning. The Mace bug appears to be fixed as well as he has always reinforced.I believe this should be looked at and tuned down to be in line with the other 6* challenges. I would also appreciate any assistance in strategy or tactics. I have tried Rex first and JC first strategies multiple times. My account on swgoh gg is: https://swgoh.gg/u/glauron/Thanks!UPDATE: So I upgraded the ships a bit and had a great RNG run. Took out Rex - still have 5 ships (ghost phantom JC wiggs). Took out Ahsoka, still 5 ships w good prot. Took out JC, still 5 ships with good health!Next turn - reinforcement - 4 clones now. Exchange fire a bit. Next turn - reinforcement JC. Took out the JC. Next turn - reinforcement, clone. We're back to 5 on 5, with my ships all damaged. This has been the most deflating event in this entire game. If Mace held to a 2 turn cooldown like every other ship I am confident I could have beaten it, even with the HP wall and taunting. Brutal.

It’s hard but once you build the strength in your fleet it is doable!

"Deanolavorto91;c-1505550" wrote:@CG_RyDiggs can this get looked at? There are three Reddit posts on the front page about this as well. It’s ridiculously over geared and RNG dependent. I understand having a difficult challenge just like how Thrawn is. I get that. But to have this be a gate to getting Thrawns ship is over the top. When you basically ave the majority of players say “it’s all RNG dependent just keep doing it until he doesn’t reinforce” then something is broken. I'm sure he'll answer this right after he answers the question about Wicket and Mama T...oh, wait a minute...

"DarthKaffee;c-1505554" wrote:"Deanolavorto91;c-1505550" wrote:@CG_RyDiggs can this get looked at? There are three Reddit posts on the front page about this as well. It’s ridiculously over geared and RNG dependent. I understand having a difficult challenge just like how Thrawn is. I get that. But to have this be a gate to getting Thrawns ship is over the top. When you basically ave the majority of players say “it’s all RNG dependent just keep doing it until he doesn’t reinforce” then something is broken. I'm sure he'll answer this right after he answers the question about Wicket and Mama T...oh, wait a minute... Not expecting much but ya never know.

"KolhammerTime;c-1505551" wrote:I'm now just under 500 attempts at this since I started keeping track. I have never gotten a run where Mace didn't reinforce so I'm guessing that was fixed at some point. This is what I'm running:5* Home One, level 85, 7* Ackbar G9 (all abilities maxed for level)All pilots level 85 - 7* with 5° mods and all ships level 85:Bistan's U-Wing 5* - Bistan/SRP G8Cassian's U-Wing 7* - Cassian/K2SO G8, Jyn G10Phantom 5* - Sabine/Ezra G9, Chopper G10Ghost 6* - Hera G10, Kanan G9, Zeb G10Biggs' X-Wing 7* - Biggs G11Wedge's X-Wing 7* - Wedge G12Ahsoka's Starfighter 7* - AT G8JC Starfighter 7* - JC G8It just seems so ridiculously out of scale with the other two that it's not even funny."KolhammerTime;c-1505551" wrote:I'm now just under 500 attempts at this since I started keeping track. I have never gotten a run where Mace didn't reinforce so I'm guessing that was fixed at some point. This is what I'm running:5* Home One, level 85, 7* Ackbar G9 (all abilities maxed for level)All pilots level 85 - 7* with 5° mods and all ships level 85:Bistan's U-Wing 5* - Bistan/SRP G8Cassian's U-Wing 7* - Cassian/K2SO G8, Jyn G10Phantom 5* - Sabine/Ezra G9, Chopper G10Ghost 6* - Hera G10, Kanan G9, Zeb G10Biggs' X-Wing 7* - Biggs G11Wedge's X-Wing 7* - Wedge G12Ahsoka's Starfighter 7* - AT G8JC Starfighter 7* - JC G8It just seems so ridiculously out of scale with the other two that it's not even funny.That’s what I’m wondering. Right after I kill a ship, Mace immediately reinforces. One after the other after the other. It makes no sense.

Just tried a couple more times. Mace will reinforce with no cooldown.

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firebrigade9
7 years ago
This challenge is really the worst. I mean, do something to bring it in line with the others...tune Endurance down, or tune the ARCs down a bit. The sheer volume of HP when you have multiple ARCs out there plus their recovery capability makes this ridiculous...

Easy fix - AI should have the same restrictions we do, one of each ship. Wouldn’t even need to alter the levels then because it’s really the mass of ARCs that cause the issue.
EZC69
7 years ago
@CG_Kozispoon @CG_Dan @CG_RyDiggs @CG_JohnSalera @CG_CapGaSP is there any direction to fix this challenge? Windu is seemingly calling reinforcements with no cool-down and no limit on the number he can call. Short of level 85 pilots and ships with G11-12 Pilots this challenge literally only comes down to LUCK. That is not the way a strategy game should be played!
Winheit
7 years ago
"EZC69;c-1511241" wrote:
@CG_Kozispoon @CG_Dan @CG_RyDiggs @CG_JohnSalera @CG_CapGaSP is there any direction to fix this challenge? Windu is seemingly calling reinforcements with no cool-down and no limit on the number he can call. Short of level 85 pilots and ships with G11-12 Pilots this challenge literally only comes down to LUCK. That is not the way a strategy game should be played!

Same, Its BS that his fleet is linked to Thrawns ship as well.
EZC69
7 years ago
It’s kind of funny that there is all of this talk about “being more transparent” and then we get nothing on here... There are hundreds of posts like this one where there are many players asking for answers and CG’s idea of being transparent means not being there at all lol.

“Sure, we’ll bring back the Chimaera event! In the mean time, we’ll ramp up the difficulty of the Home One challenge and make it nearly impossible to get a 6 star Home One so that you’ll all spend more money to beat it! There’s only one way to make up for the thousands of players that left last month over our end-of-fiscal-year fiasco, and that’s to make things harder so people will spend more!”

Bunch of geniuses.
CountPookoo
7 years ago
Ok agree - this challenge is just plain impossible. The protection recovery on the ships is ridiculous.

What is the ideal team for this challenge?? I’m running Wedge/Biggs/Phoenix Ships/Cassian/JC/Bistan and getting flawed...serious did they make this harder right before the Thrawn event??
devilock19888
7 years ago
Lvl 85 ships, g10/11 pilots, hundreds of attempts, and I'm not even close.
RefugeASSASSIN
7 years ago
I have been gearing and trying this event for 4 months and ive still yet to come close. Im leveling Umbaran which isnt a bad farm but Rex and Poe shards are hard to come by as I rarely have them pop in the store. I tried to prepare for the return of the Chimaera in advance but looks like I wont even get the 6* let alone the 7*
Winheit
7 years ago
"Jeric;c-1512107" wrote:
I don't think it's broken, I just think it is highly RNG dependent. I was able to finally beat this a few weeks ago, with Mace reinforcing a few times. There is one benefit to this challenge being so difficult, and that is tied to the Chimera. If this challenge was easy, getting Chimera to 7* would be easier as well. Because of the lack of ship diversity Arena parity would lose all viability and one would find themselves in a purely RNG dependent Fleet Arena where the top 300 of any given shard would have the same comps.

I would say they need to add more diversity into Fleet before adjusting the difficulty to the Home One 6* challenge. Doing otherwise would be a poor development decision at this point.

I can see that however a bunch of people got Chimera anyway without even having the right ships as that was a bug. So we are now being puniched twice, once for that and now the ridiculous amount of reinforcements with absolutley no cooldowns
Ikky2win
7 years ago
I have a feeling what happened is that when they fixed the reinforcement bug last time they accidentally broke it in the complete opposite direction. Now it’s way, way, way, overtuned. It’s not even close to the challenges for the other two capital ships. Remember too this is just to get it to six stars, not seven. You shouldn’t need fully maxed ships and g12 pilots for six. For seven maybe but not six. It’s clearly broken now. Anyone who has tried it in the last few weeks can see it.
Neo_GGamer
7 years ago
I beat this event on my first account, I'm guessing around nine months in. I don't recall the specifics, just that I was close and required more seven star ships than I thought I would ever need. I have a second account that is 1.5M GP and is now over a year old, is capable of top 20 in fleet arena using a mix of LS and DS ships (running Mace) and it cannot come close to beating this challenge with 7* Biggs, Wedge, Ghost, Phantom, Fives, Cassian and Ahsoka and a 5* Rex.

The Endurance takes upwards of five turns to every one of mine. There aren't enough dispels and target locks in the LS armada with G8 pilots. I'm confident I did this with many G8 pilots with a smattering of G9 and G10s.

I've never seen so many resists and dodges before. Please make it stop, it sucks the fun out of it.