Accelerated Progression

@TheAntiSnipe @HARPO!

Right now what the game needs desperately is easier access to all ships and items as many players are getting bored with their setup and have no way to try another one without starting from scratch. This is more important than new gamemodes by a landslide. Battle Bay players totally deserve accelerated progression, what with the rapidly shifting meta of the game. It needs to be at least twice as fast.

On the topic of speeding up progression, another thing some people think is too slow is the retraining portion. For an active player it only takes about 1 or 2 days to completely retrain several captains, but many players have said it takes up to a week for them. I think the main issue with retraining taking a long time is the fact that you can't do it while you're training another captain. Retraining and actual training should be separate timers that can overlap (1 training at a time + 1 retraining at a time, not both on the same captain).

- The Saviours

 

Nice Thread Pastel!

- The Saviours

 

Adding this to the poll.

 

I'm a saviour too and I'm going to spam y'all with likes.. again

 

I totally agree. Getting a star chest now just feels pathetic and pointless, I would like a little more *umph* when it comes to prizes.

- The Saviours

 

I've suggested that leveling up 1 ship should level up all. That fixes the biggest matchmaking complaint, by far.

 

That actually might not be so bad. @TheAntiSnipe @PastelPiku What are your thoughts guys?

- The Saviours

 

Please add the "I agree with all ideas" please.

 

Including none?

 

None is already there?

 

I 100% agree to this.. Big thumbs up for bringing up this idea..(^^). Being in Nightmare myself and being an F2P I find getting epics so hard. By at least increasing the chances of getting an epic in star crates would be nice.. Because 0.75% is just stupid.. And I badly need epics to survive in Nightmare

 

You already know I agree to this lol my defender is mk2 and with no incentive to level it up, I never will.

-The Saviours

 

This will also help with guild quests!

 

I think I miss something. When our infamy drop below some threshold depending on our current league, we will not get any stars. Why do many tankers expect easy stars?

 

Great thread dude! I definitely agree with u, and this is what I have been thinking about too!

 

Right now stars are of no use , and the players usually tank just so that they can complete guild quests easily.. So by increasing the value of the star boxes this might stop.. Hope the Developers make the star boxes useful according to the leagues as mentioned above ^_^

 

I can speak from experience. When I used to play exclusively fixer, my infamy was sitting around 3300, so 2500 is where I wouldn't get any stars whatsoever. However, one day I suffered a large drop in infamy (talking 1000+ loss over the course of about 3 days) and it sparked a change where I started playing Shooter, Speeder, and Fixer collectively. My infamy now sits around 2700 and I continue to get stars as low as about 2000. Slowly but surely the penalty moves with your infamy. I don't see this as a bad thing but it definitely makes it possible to hug low infamies and continue to receive rewards.
Also, there are some tankers that never got to high infamy to begin with (they just keep their infamy low perpetually).


Ship Mk-based infamy floors would ensure that new players are seeing ship growth as they grow themselves. When you start out, you'll only ever see Mk1 ships, around maybe 250 you'll start seeing Mk2s. If you manage to upgrade your ship before reaching the infamy floor, you get a warning telling you that your infamy will move up before you upgrade.
This idea would definitely need 1 of 2 things to happen:

1. Upgrade ships together - instead of upgrading 1 ship at a time, you would upgrade all ships together. This should solve the issue of upgrading your ship and increasing the infamy floor without having a ship that cannot be used until upgraded (that would be a bigger problem than currently).
2. Ships have separate infamies - ships still upgrade separately, but their infamy rankings are marked individually. ie I can have a 3000 infamy fixer and have weak red items, and because of this my shooter can sit comfortably at 2200.

This shouldn't cause problems with low-tier ships having overpowered items as their infamy would skyrocket with that kind of power anyway. They simply would not notice the infamy floor (other than the windows where you find less skilled high tier players).

- The Saviours