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PETITION: PLEASE get rid of trainers in the Gauntlet
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It's by far the most offensive thing in the entire game IMO... they are so close to useless you can barely even tell the difference
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Even I have more than enough 🚆 ers. That says it all.......
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It's very similar to when the Gold Border pops up on a Merit Pull, and a 1 🌟 drops.........
New players, for whom trainers might have some value, are unlikely to place well in gauntlet or get long streaks. If DB must have trainers to help out new players, perhaps have them drop only from 3-win streaks. That will satisfy new players while not frustrating established ones.
Also, DB should put in a pity bar like in galaxy events. Your chances of getting the gauntlet legendary increases longer you go playing rounds w/o winning one. It doesn't have to be big, but some incentive to beat the cruel RNG gods.
Yes. 50 gold trainers for 1500 honor?
How about a compromise? Remove trainers from the high tier loot boxes. Then boost the trainers in lower tier loot boxes by a rarity level. Higher level captains can climb their way up to avoid those trainers.
Personally, if it's not a legendary crew, I don't care what gear or trainers I get in gaunlet. Good luck in your crusade. I just hope you don't burn people behind you.
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I see what both of you are saying for sure, and I like the idea someone else posted a lot of making them dramatically cheaper in the honor store (enough that it would be easy for new players to get them, and removing them completely from gauntlet).... a new player who can't afford to train their crew probably can't significantly compete in gauntlet yet anyway, so why not find a better way to throw them trainers than the gauntlet
That last point is super on target. People with mostly 1 🌟 to 3 🌟 Crew are not going to hit many 3/6/9/+ Loot Boxes.
In the thread where someone was reminiscing about the old Cadet Missions, I summarized several comments into two suggestions.
1} Add an "Academy Barracks". Limited to 3 🌟 and below Crew, with a set limited, separate number of Crew Slots. This would allow people to work on new 1 🌟, 2 🌟, and 3 🌟 Crew, without tying up main Crew Slots. And allow people to keep some favorite 3 🌟 and below Crew around.
2} A "gymnasium" or "training" Gauntlet. Limited to 3 🌟 Crew and below. This would give newer players a way to have a competitive Gauntlet experience. Maybe introduce some 4 🌟 Crew unique to that Gauntlet that would help them move up to the main Gauntlet quicker. Let that Gauntlet drop Trainers.
What helped were faction missions and voyages. Therefore I would not remove trainers from voyages. Replicator rations from voyages remained important to me for a long time too, so same here.
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All I can say about Blue Trainers is I try to keep a handful on hand. One Blue Trainer takes a new Crew Member to Level Ten. Four more take them to Level Twenty. I use them for that, if I have already done my train ten times for the day, and I get someone new.
That many Chronitons should have generated a lot of 1/2/3 🌟 Trainers from Away Missions and Space Battles. Just an observation. No offense. Just pointing that out totally in a friendly way!!!!!
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I have not used any crew below 100 for anything in a while so I am not sure though.
Trainers from Tuesday cadet missions, and the gauntlet were too few and far between, and too weak to be of much use. As a beginner player, I did not have the crew to do many streaks per gauntlet, and for the first few weeks/months did not want to waste merits refreshing opponents.
For a beginner player, Chronitons are far more useful.
Yes this, or dare I say, replace trainers in the gauntlet with honor.
I never noticed if they are limited by anything. I seem to get way more than I need every Galaxy/Skirmish.
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I think trainers only drop from missions when you warp them. If you run them regularly you get XP for the crew you use instead.
That might be it. I almost always Warp.........
Oh I suppose you are right. I unlocked a lot and did not warp too much with those chrons... probably therefore I did not aquire too much trainers then.
/edit: I did not realize this correlation back then and deliberately played missions manually to advance the crew. Stupid I suppose.
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I never got any trainers in Gauntlet when I was in short supply of them, my crew wasn't good enough to get loot boxes. Since Voyages weren't around back then, I used Honor to get them.
Checking the voyage of minr that's going on, at 1hr there are 18 3* already. While a beginner may get only short Voyages done, those return quickly with their trainers and can be sent out soon enough again. Several short Trips can gather a nice amount of trainers in a day.