Show Opponent’s Ship and Crew at end of Arena Battle

[SFW] Quick Claude

Instead of an image of Defiant Commander Worf on the enemy side of a ship battle final screen, it would be great if you showed the breakdown of the enemy ship and crew (just like you show my own ship and crew). Once in a while I find myself utterly destroyed and it would be nice to review what crew the opponent had used.

Irial

Nerfball6 wrote: »

Instead of an image of Defiant Commander Worf on the enemy side of a ship battle final screen, it would be great if you showed the breakdown of the enemy ship and crew (just like you show my own ship and crew). Once in a while I find myself utterly destroyed and it would be nice to review what crew the opponent had used.

You can see the opponent's crew (albeit the icons are fairly small in size) before you start an arena battle, and checking these is actually quite important when choosing who to battle. For example, in the Captain division I know to avoid Rura Penthe Reed and Assimilated Tuvok, whereas I pick on poor Captain Klaa all the time.

[SFW] Quick Claude

Irial wrote: »

Nerfball6 wrote: »

Instead of an image of Defiant Commander Worf on the enemy side of a ship battle final screen, it would be great if you showed the breakdown of the enemy ship and crew (just like you show my own ship and crew). Once in a while I find myself utterly destroyed and it would be nice to review what crew the opponent had used.

You can see the opponent's crew (albeit the icons are fairly small in size) before you start an arena battle, and checking these is actually quite important when choosing who to battle. For example, in the Captain division I know to avoid Rura Penthe Reed and Assimilated Tuvok, whereas I pick on poor Captain Klaa all the time.

True, but unless you start writing down each opponent before hand, that doesn't always help. And you are correct, it can be very difficult to see on my iPhone (though I have started to use the zoom feature). I have found myself destroyed by many a crew that had lower numbers than me and I thought for sure I would defeat, but then couldn't recall who the crew was that was used. And I'm sure this suggestion would be far more helpful to players than a picture of Worf.

Irial

Nerfball6 wrote: »

And you are correct, it can be very difficult to see on my iPhone (though I have started to use the zoom feature). I have found myself destroyed by many a crew that had lower numbers than me and I thought for sure I would defeat

Interesting that you mention looking at the numbers -- which of course completely make sense -- but I have found over time I have gotten to the point where I basically stopped looking at the numbers (especially for the first two divisions).

I think this is due to a few reasons, with the first being the relative lack of diversity amongst opponents' crew selections - that is, if everyone is only using the same few characters, then I have learned from experience which faces to avoid, and which ones are (relatively) safe to fight; sorry, I should specify here I am mostly just looking at the red/attack characters (i.e., the ones that can hit me and knock me out).

Another tricky thing with focusing on the numbers shown is you don't see the effect of special abilities, and so for example a new player may not understand why Kang on the Bird of Prey in the Commander division keeps smoking them - eventually they will learn his real attack strength/number becomes 4 higher than what is shown, due to the Cloaking trigger.

Perhaps mostly though, I have gotten used to focusing on faces instead of numbers, precisely because of the size issue, and it is easier to recognize the faces than to read the numbers!!

Ultimately I agree with you that it would be helpful to players to be able to see more details after a battle regarding who beat them up.

Phd

It would be useful to make the opponent crew icons larger anyway, I have a job to actually identify the crew member even on my 12.9" iPad!
Whilst trying to identify them sometimes I miss my own crew activations!
There's no reason they should be the same size as your own crew icons.