No free crew slots, no crew slot cap increase.
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Is this going to be the new trend moving forward?
Gotta say, i dont like it at all.
Big disadvantage for anyone new who starts playing the game today. A lot of us who have played for years have gotten lots of free slots.
5 free slots every 6 months or whatever it was, was hardly an overly generous gift. It basically only served to take the edge off of the 3 or 4 new crew that get released every week.
Please give us our free slots.
Gotta say, i dont like it at all.
Big disadvantage for anyone new who starts playing the game today. A lot of us who have played for years have gotten lots of free slots.
5 free slots every 6 months or whatever it was, was hardly an overly generous gift. It basically only served to take the edge off of the 3 or 4 new crew that get released every week.
Please give us our free slots.
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This time it is a sale only, that does not mean there won't be other times where free crew slots and additional purchasable tiers will be added as well.
New players start with more crew slots than at the beginning of the game (currently 175 instead of the 25 the game started with), and it turns out it is not always beneficial as it can be overwhelming to see many crew needing attention.
I appreciate the reply.
But in my opinion, the crew slots are necessary in order to have any kind of a chance to acquire and immortalize crew as it takes a long time to get all those stars and get to a spot where you can freeze crew.
But, with fbb, not you end up burning a lot of merits to retrieve crew from the freezer to try and unlock nodes. So having more crew slots to keep crew thawed is important for resource management.
So i dont think that this change is a good one. And i dont agree that its somehow a disadvantage to have extra slots for viewing purposes. If nothing else, it just highlights the need for better crew sorting in those windows. And not to be a little brat, but if its not beneficial to see crew needing attention, maybe wrg should address the old bottlenecks for crew development? Like the faction only items, need to replicate items, extremely high cost for super rare, rare, uncommon and common cites, etc.
Please correct me if im wrong, but the crew slot cap was increased with all of the slot sales i am familiar with.
So, call me a brat, but the lack of free slots and the freezing of the cap seems intended to further stress the already existing slot issue with the compounded problems of freezer management (merit use)
And while i remember a few slot sales without free slots, they were the exception, not the norm.
And with the rollout of 15-20 new crew a month, they could give us 5 free slots per month and there would still be plenty of reason (and people) to buy slots.
It's always appreciated (and even preferred) when we get the extra slots, but there is precedent.
This is a good point, even if the genie is out of the bottle a little bit. Maybe some instances of future 'free' crew slots can be tied to captain level/achievement bonuses so that players' rosters grow as they level up. That way newbies are less avalanched and "ELDER" players can just log in and claim their slots.
Nor is this the first time the purchasable cap hasn't been increased. But with the current maximum crew cap at 1010, the only people who would benefit from increasing that are the biggest spenders. If you have 1010 crew slots and are keeping unfrozen hundreds of crew for FBB, then sure you'd like to buy another 5 slots. For all other players, it doesn't make a difference because you're not at that cap anyway. Are you really advocating to make lives easier for the biggest spenders?
If people want to spend their money on this game, are you really advocating that they shouldnt?
I mean, if i spent the money to have every single crew in the game, why is it impossible to have the space to use any of them any time i want. Why am i forced to use cryostasis if i dont want to?
Particularly for mixed captain level spending level fleets, i think it should be encouraged for the whales to be able to help with all fbb difficulties. If they have all crew unthawed isnt that incentive for it? And if we also got wrg to realize the combo nodes should not be restricted to one time only per captain, just limited by valor, then those rich whales would contribute meaningfully to all other captains and the whole fleet benefits.
But this is getting off track now.
I am 99% sure they did not single out any specific person to "slight" or upset by not including free Slots this time.
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Maybe they are out to get you and just neglected to invite you to the planning meeting? 😂
You are correct. And as shan posted, things are subject to change.
So maybe they will try something new and stop giving free slots all together, i wonder how many “awesomes” that post will get.
I've always seen you as "glass half empty" but you're not. You're "glass smashed on the floor, drink staining the carpet". There's no need to be so apocalyptically down the whole time.