Strike Teams - why they matter

I'm sure it's just the RNG gods at play, but it probably took as many failed missions to get my fifth negative trait as it did to get my first 4 combined. 

Watching my third team level up, I think you only get perks on every 5th level, so at max you end up with 5 positive perks.  Earlier in the thread people reported picking up traits from failed missions (like getting Lucky from a failed mission), but after the number of failures I've seen, I suspect that they just happened to level up at 5/10/15/20 from that failed mission and got a perk because of that. 

I do think a third team is pretty useful to have, just because it means you don't need to check the app as often and because you have more shots at retrying failed missions with three teams to knock them all out a day.

Got 3 lvl 20 teams at 20 with +20 items now... one of them with no negatives.. kinda need more strikes to even bother with another teamm

This was purely a USER error on my part.  My tablet was only showing one of the strike teams and I didn't know how to get to the other one. I finally figured out how this works with the app.

Strike team matters and it`s such as nice bonus to both multiplayer and single player modes.

It`s so nice I can do something about it using app anywhere anytime. haha

Haha, well I had started to think that maybe I had capped out after not picking one up from a bunch of failures, but obviously not

Would love to see a screenshot of that!

What level is required for my strike teams for gold missions?

Negative Traits (and Positive for that matter) never wear off.

You can send any level team on any mission. Success Chances get higher with higher level teams, obviously.

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Proof that there is something funky going on with success chances. Here my team Romeo has a 38% success chance on a mission in the morning, and a 44% success chance in the evening. Random spread of chances? Some kind of 'time of day' effect? Who knows?

imgur album: imgur.com/a/VQ5Vb

Maybe for nighttime missions?

I recall seeing that shift once, out of dozens of missions. I thought it might be because that team failed the mission once and so had a retry bonus, but I've not observed that for any other 2nd/3rd try.

My best guess is that Bioware put in a bonus on missions that would complete after they expired and not be available for retry. In other words, a "last chance" bonus. Assuming it's not a bug.

I bought a 3rd strike team a couple of days ago. Seems to be paying off -- I've been able to do all the available missions before they expire.

(I guess there could theoretically have been a mission that spawned and expired while I was sleeping, but I would have no way of knowing that.)

Currently sitting on 335 MF and considering I wasted 100 MF on some useless strike team equipment (Empowered Shields II), that's not too bad. I will buy the Adaptive War Amp when it shows up in the XB1 store.

I can foresee having way more MF than I can ever spend, so... actually spamming Medigel purchases is looking somewhat appealing.

Yeah, I started getting low on rockets because I've quit buying common packs after maxxing all common kits/weapons, so extra MF are going to those for now.  Think I'll probably just always leave 200-250 in reserve so whenever something shows up in the store I can buy it, but otherwise they're going to consumables for now.