Happy to have you along for the ride. You can CERTAINLY make Phoenix Squad work. They have two really good ships with Ghost and Phantom and its one of the more common early game fleet squads. My opinion is that you need your initial focus to be limited to 8-10 characters until about level 80 and those characters need to carry you through Galactic War, Squad and Fleet Arena (though squad matters very little now). Phoenix/Empire does give you Ghost, Phantom, Imperial Tie Fighter, and Tie Advanced X1 (Vaders Ship) which is a really solid top 50 team. Its not going to get you top 5 like Geo's will and its going to be tough to unlock Zetas early but its still totally doable.
The other thing to look at is Level 85 is about 100 days give or take, and a GL is about a year. If you aren't happy now do you want to spend a year with that same crew? There are tons of guides out there for Phoenix/Empire starts you can follow and that is certainly the road you are on and really 80% of the people who start out go that way. Its not wrong in any way and you can definitely course correct. Its totally up to you!
I personally play a lot of PC games and I almost always play for a couple hours/days and then start over with a real plan now that I understand the game. One of the reasons I started this F2P journey was to see how a different approach would work with my ideas for early growth. All the guides I saw were Phoenix/Empire to Meta teams like GAS, JKR, DR, Malak or SLKR Rush accounts. I wanted something in the middle that I had some meta teams like Padme, CLS, Bastilla, Geos and also got to SLKR in a good amount of time (hoping for a year or less)
"Nowthisispodracing;c-2324118" wrote:
Lack of sim tickets is so brutal I agree. I’ve heard fleet battles give you a lot which is why I really wanted to get there and partially how I came to find your approach.
I agree with your point about focus. I imagine that a knowledgeable player could take my account where it is and move forward just fine. After all, I’ve invested in PS, I’ve put some effort into Tarkin, I’m sure what I have could be made to work. My problem is I can’t work out what to do with what I have, so I’m stuck either with - trial by fire, or following a guide. Trial by fire is really learn what went wrong when it’s too late to do anything but be permanently behind in your shard.
The funny part is I only started spending a bit because I didn’t want to invest in starting characters only to waste resources and I felt - hey, 7.99 to start PS off makes sense since everyone says start with them. I skipped the hyperdrive bundle because what’s the point of skipping the whole game and jumping up to player level 85? You miss any progression and end up farther along not knowing what to do. Sure, it’s a massive leg up on your shard, but I wanted to learn and soak up the game gradually. Then finding out you don’t even get character shards so you basically waste part of the investment of the bundle if you don’t purchase it as your first action, well, that didn’t sit right with me.
That said, I appreciate the bundle. It’s a reasonably well priced way to, say, bring a friend into the game where they can be part of your guild. But that’s assuming you’re willing to help them and teach them the ropes bit by bit as they go along.
I’ve seen this in other gacha games though. So I’m not surprised. They make a good game for F2P. And if you want to spend $50k+ then you can definitely dominate. But if you’re willing to spend $500-$5000, they basically treat you like garbage. It doesn’t make sense to me, but that’s the approach they take.
I’m super depressed about my account and I just hate the feeling of not being able to work with what I have when if I had the knowledge I would need I would be ok, but by the time I acquire that knowledge it will be too late! It’s very sour grapes of me, but I just have to look at as, I’m not mature enough to enjoy what I have for what it is … and I don’t want to feel terrible and frustrated and depressed when I’m on my downtime trying to enjoy a game. So I’ve just gotta throw in the towel on being able to play myself.
But yeah, Anyways, I appreciate the info you’ve put out. I’m aware it’s “off-meta” and I don’t care at all. Because you explain everything you’re doing very well, your videos are fun and share such insight into how the game works both at a high level for planning, but then showing how to run some abilities and battles as well.
I like what Intimmydation did, but I can’t follow it. It’s just making too many assumptions about someone’s knowledge of the game. It took me forever just to look up lots of his abbreviations as a noob, and then from there even when he tries to explain what he’s doing it’s too advanced for me to follow because he does layout his plans and squads, but doesn’t show how he uses them.
So I will definitely keep following because I like how you explain the game and it’s a lot of fun.
