Dumb change to shuttle crew selection

Shaw, Liam Shaw

Many players employ the use of shuttles in factions which are "tanked" -- that is, we purposely fail shuttles over and over until we get them down to 30-second shuttles. I myself use these for my dailies, to get them done quickly -- but they also come in very handy for Objective Events which require a bunch of shuttle missions.

So, for instance, when I do my dailies, I'll open up 8 shuttle missions, run 2 to win and 2 to fail, then open 4 more missions, and do another 2 to win and 2 to fail (I always keep a few extra just in case some of my planned fails end up accidentally successful).

To choose crew for shuttle missions you want to fail, you'd scroll all the way down to the bottom of your crew list and pick one of the weakest crew members for that shuttle seat, then do the same with the other seats in that mission.

But NOW, I have noticed that after putting a crew in one of the seats, it goes back up to the top again, forcing you to scroll all the way down for each additional crew you want to use. This is not how it's been -- in the past, once you scrolled down to the bottom, the selection would still be down at the bottom for any additional seats you were filling for that mission.

This is a dumb change. Why must you fix things which weren't broken?? I can't imagine any of the veteran players are happy with this.

NoblemanDK

Not to mention cadet challenges where is used to be at the same difficulty. Now it starts at the easy and you have to repick hardest.

Okay this was written prior to my daily challenges and they are back to what they used to be

eXo | Marks the Spot

I fully agree that changing the position of the scroll bars throughout the UI was an unrequested change and it's a step backwards.

However, if you want to tank shuttles the simplest option (which works regardless of the scroll issue) is to pick a different skill. MED seat? Tap CMD and pick someone without MED like Captain Tribble.

WaldoMag

I have three accounts. I have tanked all my shuttles. Everything worked as before with my iPhone 7 an in my iPad mini 5.

I send my shuttles on my main account, and the ones I intend to fail are all Succeeding. Then I realize on my IPhone SE, that each crew member that I want from the bottom of the list , I have to scroll to bottom again.

Why does WRG keep breaking the game??

Edit: Same thing now happening on my iPad mini 5. I realize the shuttles I ran when it worked normally, were last night. On my iPhone 7 I ran them about a hour ago.

GodzillaKaiju

I agree that this change substantially impacts the functionality of shuttles. I like to keep a number of factions semi-tanked, such that with a purple or two faction rating, I can scroll to a particular place in my crew list and select successful crew that aren't my main voyage crew. In particular, if I pull four transmissions, I can succeed on the two missions with similar target skills, and then fail the two missions with more variable skills.

Now, it takes more time to complete these missions, which I anticipate being a bigger problem when it comes to grind missions for winning factions. I request a reversion to the previous functionality.

DAE

Wether you employ the “tanking” strategy for shuttles or not….
This same issue of scroll, rinse, repeat, is in crew quarters, time portal,
It takes ten times longer to get anything done when you have to re-scroll or re-enter a key word search every single click.