How do you like the Skirmish changes?

Mr. Hobbs

Try the new Skirmish settings out and let people know how you feel. [=

Captain Zlogg

I don't understand the poll but I'm loving the Auto play feature on Skirmishes

Ironagedave

Keep: Intro/outro skip - Change it back: Auto-play, Speed-up

If I read the poll correctly I have gone for keeping the ability to skip the intro and outro

whilst not having the ability to auto speed up nor the autopilot ability.

MiT Sanoa

Keep: eveything as is.

For me it is too early to judge. So far I like it all, would not need the speed-up though. But the ranking and chron consumation will show how good it really is.

Moogie's Favorite

Cange it back: to the way it was.

I’m having trouble with this. What was the whole point of the big macro argument a few months ago? It caused bitter feelings among several for a long time. Now to have it all automated. And the ability to do it three times faster. This is fine for normal arena battles. But I thought the events were something a player actually had to put forth an effort and play the game.

Prime Lorca

Keep: Intro/outro skip, Auto-play - Change it back: Speed-up

Mirror Sanoa wrote: »

For me it is too early to judge. So far I like it all, would not need the speed-up though. But the ranking and chron consumation will show how good it really is.

Too early for me to judge as well. It's interesting though. So far, I like the shiny newness of it and I'm having fun with my Valdore on auto. I never had the patience to do the button order before, but now it's automated.

Haere Lintesereg

Cange it back: to the way it was.

It's more easy this way (at least for me), and you can get many points really fast, but for the same reason, you'll need much more intel (chrons) to get a good rank.

{DD} Smelly

The speed up and auto buttons are still way too close together. It’s difficult to activate them correctly on a small screen.

EnderW

Other (Please explain.)

I want to hold onto my judgement until after the event is done. I'm hurdling through this at Warp 9; at one point I was ranked at 70, and I know I'm not in the top 100 players in the game. So it's amazing to move this quickly, but what is this going to feel like by Sunday morning?

Ivanstone

Old School Way that takes pilot skill:
Tap Locutus, Tap Power Surge, Tap Ardra, Tap Garth, Tap EMP.
This method takes great skill to use. The ship buttons require the use of my left hand thumb AKA "The Devil's Digit". Your soul is in peril but nobody said high level gameplay wasn't without risk.

New School that takes "no" skill:
Tap Skip, Tap Auto Button, Tap Speed-up Twice, Tap Skip again.
All buttons only require the use of one thumb and therefore only half your brain.

*****
Clearly pushing 5 buttons one way and pushing 5 buttons the other way has made the game much, much dumber. At minimum the skip button should be moved to other half of your screen. This would require the use of both thumbs and the entirety of your brain.

Paladin 27

Moogie's Favorite wrote: »

I’m having trouble with this. What was the whole point of the big macro argument a few months ago? It caused bitter feelings among several for a long time. Now to have it all automated. And the ability to do it three times faster. This is fine for normal arena battles. But I thought the events were something a player actually had to put forth an effort and play the game.

Still not sure if I like this or not, but it doesn't change the effort, maybe actually increases it.

As it is now, you have to tap to skip the animation, two taps to go to 3x, 1 tap to auto, 1 tap to skip the animation (5 taps)

Before you had to tap your ship skills and crew (which could be from 4-6 taps normally).

Now instead of spreading out all those taps over 15-20 seconds a battle its compressed into 5.

So you wind up having to do the same amount of tapping each skirmish, just compressed into less than half the time, which might mean you would have to do twice as many taps to top 25 the event.

Fi®3wall

The new Skirmish changes are godly. That is all.

{DD} Smelly

I used to play skirmishes with both hands to save my fingertips. Can’t do that now. I’m only at 250k and my right index finger already hurts. I’m not McLovin’ it.

DScottHewitt

Keep: eveything as is.

It saves time. Since this Skirmish everyone has it, instead of just players on some platforms, it does not give anyone undo advantage. It's also nice for those of us with arthritis and/or carpet tunnel. Less clicking.

Salamander Paris

Keep: eveything as is.

I love the new version. Skirmishes were my least favorite events because they felt like the biggest grind to me. This takes some of the grind out of the game.

[QH] Oxmyx

Keep: eveything as is.

Went from godawful to fricken fantastic. To me it’s like manual versus auto trans. Manual can be fun until you have to drive in traffic and your leg is numb by the time you arrive. Auto takes the pain away, that’s what this update has done and I will be enjoying these events much more and spending which benefits the devs.

Bylo Band

Keep: eveything as is.

I dunno. On one hand it is a lot easier to get through, but on the other hand it seems to have removed the prestige of a strong finish.

Prime Lorca

Keep: Intro/outro skip, Auto-play - Change it back: Speed-up

Bylo Band wrote: »

I dunno. On one hand it is a lot easier to get through, but on the other hand it seems to have removed the prestige of a strong finish.

It kind of seems like galaxy with far superior rewards now, huh?

(HGH)Apollo

Keep: eveything as is.

It is much easier now which is nice. Points will be much higher though. Gonna have to see how many points I need and what rank I get at the end.

[QH] Oxmyx

Keep: eveything as is.

I feel happy for those that win but I’ve never felt any prestige for doing well in any phone game, not just this one. I do applaud the efforts of those that do finish well it’s just something that personally doesn’t mean much. If I finish well, ok, if I don’t then also ok. I don’t need to be number one, I’d much prefer to help others succeed, that’s what gives me the “warm fuzzies”.

DScottHewitt

Keep: eveything as is.

(HGH)Apollo wrote: »

It is much easier now which is nice. Points will be much higher though. Gonna have to see how many points I need and what rank I get at the end.

@Zom[BAD] Squirrel is currently 850,000+ in first place. Stay strong, 🐿️!!!!!






Less than three hours in. I would not be surprised if the top ten are all 7,500,000+ and 10,000,000+ to get first.

It's gonna be a bloodbath & beyond!!!!!

(HGH)Apollo

Keep: eveything as is.

We are going to run through many more chronitons which will be good for TP’s sales of chrons.

Fi®3wall

Do people actually buy chrons?

(HGH)Apollo

Keep: eveything as is.

Fi®3wall [BAD] wrote: »

Do people actually buy chrons?

I am given to believe that some do. Not everyone can run long voyages to accrue chrons or they are whales going for rank and running out. Guess we will see if there is an uptick in sales.

V.

Other (Please explain.)

i can not stand skirmish - so much so i won't play even for characters i want this week. there's something about how long it takes and how much micro-concentration that is a torture to me. Suspiria and done.

Data1001

I imagine some players will be quite happy with the changes, some of whom being those who just want to do thresholds-and-out, since they can get to that point in far less time, and then get on with their weekend.

But while the animation skips are nice, I hope the auto-play and speed-ups are removed from future Skirmish events.

I cleared thresholds faster than pretty much any other event I've played, but the speed doesn't really matter to me.

I think Skirmish events are great because of being able to farm items via space battles while earning back a lot of chrons, and earning Honor, as well. But one other thing I always liked about Skirmishes is that you could play them while doing something else — watching TV, for example. Now, they go by so quickly, that's not really something I'm easily able to do. So those two changes take away a lot of the enjoyment from Skirmish events for me. It's definitely more "grindy" now.

Dirk Gunderson

Other (Please explain.)

I won’t vote yet because I want to experience an entire event with the new features before continuing. From an individual battle standpoint, I find it not just faster but also easier than ever. I can see Data’s point about not being able to play while doing something else but haven’t run into they problem myself just yet.

As for VP increases, that was to be expected. The amount of time any one person can contribute and what ships/crew they have available will still govern their ability to compete...on the flip side, people who are stressed to find time over the weekend to participate will now be better empowered to clear thresholds and everyone else gets to farm even more components, starbase components, and honor. I am leaning towards saying that the added grind is worth this benefit.

Mirror Cartman

The macro argument a while back was because it gave some players an unfair advantage. It is within my programming ability to fully automate skirmishes, but I chose not to.

The skip intro is excellent for me on a slow (transatlantic) connection. Sometimes the game hangs for a few seconds or more when I try and start each battle. The skip intro allows me to put the phone down and wait for the into, then start the fight on my terms. It may not seem much, but it helps when multitasking.

The rest I am undecided about.

Paladin 27 wrote: »

As it is now, you have to tap to skip the animation, two taps to go to 3x, 1 tap to auto, 1 tap to skip the animation (5 taps)

Thankyou. I have only just realised it goes up to 3x, I was thinking it went to 2x, then back to 1x. Fat fingers here puts auto on before speedup, I am only going for thresholds so it won't really matter. I would like the Doctor, but don't have time to put in.

AviTrek

Paladin 27 wrote: »

Moogie's Favorite wrote: »

I’m having trouble with this. What was the whole point of the big macro argument a few months ago? It caused bitter feelings among several for a long time. Now to have it all automated. And the ability to do it three times faster. This is fine for normal arena battles. But I thought the events were something a player actually had to put forth an effort and play the game.

Still not sure if I like this or not, but it doesn't change the effort, maybe actually increases it.

As it is now, you have to tap to skip the animation, two taps to go to 3x, 1 tap to auto, 1 tap to skip the animation (5 taps)

Before you had to tap your ship skills and crew (which could be from 4-6 taps normally).

Now instead of spreading out all those taps over 15-20 seconds a battle its compressed into 5.

So you wind up having to do the same amount of tapping each skirmish, just compressed into less than half the time, which might mean you would have to do twice as many taps to top 25 the event.

Agreed with this. Same amount of tapping. The battles are faster. If you are only clearing threshold this is an improvement. If you are planning to rank well, I suspect this will result in needing to run more battles, clicking more, and spending more chrons, all in the same amount of time as before.

[TUFG] Captain Zlog

Keep: Intro/outro skip - Change it back: Auto-play, Speed-up

On many battles the intro/outro take longer than the battle itself, so I’m all for less waiting around.

The speed-up/autoplay I’m less excited about; at least when we had to activate the abilities ourselves it felt like we played some part in the process, whereas now it feels similar to getting through ads for an ad-warp. Skirmish was never all that engaging or fun but this doesn’t feel like a game at all.

My main concern is that the deciding factor for a high rank is no longer how much time you’re willing to put in, but how many chrons you have. I always save chrons for skirmishes and I regularly place in the top 25 or so with the amount saved from the previous event without having to buy any more. If I skip a skirmish, I can make it into the top 10 on the next one with the chrons saved. That doesn’t seem likely to be possible now, as I would guess that there are more folks willing to buy more chrons than to tap away for days at a time.

Tl;dr - Skirmishes are my favorite event because they’re the easiest one to place highly for an investment of time rather than money - no items needed, no shuttle tokens or boosts to jump up the ranks, and an achievable maximum amount of chrons/intel you could possibly spend in the time allotted. With time no longer much of a factor, I don’t know that that will still be the case.

.•°rÅTT°•.

Other (Please explain.)

Fi®3wall [BAD] wrote: »

Do people actually buy chrons?

Occasionally.. but Rarely.

Can we get bigger buttons on the battle screen? Thanx Much.