Strike Teams - why they matter

Screenshot here.

Even picked up a tenth since I posted that.

Yeah, the short answer is that based on mission success rate and the effects of positive/negative traits is that you're likely looking at 1-2 months in order for one of the top end pieces of gear to pay for itself, and possibly longer.  None of it is consumable, but it does appear that it's locked to the character it's bought for and that it can only be replaced, not traded in or sold.  Just buying another team is far more cost effective. 

Cost benefit analysis though.  I'm now doing all the 10MF missions myself, so just the 5MF missions are for teams.  Gear and bonuses appear to have a reduced effect on Gold, and as they approach higher percentages they have a reduced effect.  And will have little to no effect on Bronze/Silver.  If you buy a condition specific gear, you might get lucky and get that condition once a day.  But, you still likely have a 29-50 percent chance to succeed even without the gear.  So, best case scenario, the gear is going to help you win maybe 1 in 5 more Gold missions than you would have otherwise.  At one per day with the right condition (which I doubt), that's an extra 5MF once every 5 days.  Let's be generous, and say it gets you an extra 5MF every 3 days (this isn't going to happen).  That's 90 days worth of running missions with that team to pay for the gear, before it starts paying any kind of dividend. 

And this doesn't count the fact that you can retry failed missions as long as their overall timer hasn't expired.  So if your team has a 29 percent chance (which is typically what my bad level 20 team has on golds), it's usually pretty easy to take 3 or more shots at that mission.  If you ran the numbers figuring multiple attempts with teams, I honestly think it would push the actual gain from condition specific gear out to giving you an extra 5MF once every 7-8 days. 

I mean, do what you want, I think we're all going to be swimming in thousands MF in just a few more weeks unless you're spending it on consumables.  There's no real harm in gearing out your team.  But there's no real benefit to it in terms of collecting more MF.  If they cut the gear cost by half or more, then it would be a different situation. 

I think 3 teams is ideal. You should be able to do every mission every day.

Strike Team equipment is almost surely not worth the investment as the payback time is very long for a very small benefit. If your existing teams fail a mission, just try again.

20th level teams should have ~95% success chance on Bronze and Silver and anywhere from 38%-65% for a Gold, possibly higher if you luck into a very favorable matchup. With those odds you don't need equipment.

Yeah, as long as you're checking your teams 3-4 times a day, seems pretty straightforward to get everything done with 3 teams.  If you can't, or don't want to, check that often, a 4th team would be handy. 

So that human intelligence is good to have. Thanks for posting that!

SalMasRac, did you hold off on doing missions where they had low chance for success? I am curious how you have no negative traits and since you mention him now being 20 I'm guessing (possibly incorrectly) that you didn't shove him into missions before they had good odds. Is that accurate?

According to the guys on reddit, "Positive traits [normally] come from any mission condition that causes a level up, while negative ones only come from mission failures. It is possible that a team can gain a positive trait without leveling up, even when lower than 20. This seems to be very rare, though."
www.reddit.com/r/MECoOp/comments/620cu8/psa_strike_teams_equipment_and_effectiveness/

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Also:

I finally transcribed all the **Strike Team Equipment**. I continue to believe these are not worth the MF but here you go.


drive.google.com/open?id=1x4-s9-jqZIJ0gWlTSe7YHf2ZtXS-rYmgxQe9kYvi63g

2nd tab, 'strike team equipment'.

Questions to contemplate:

* Why are there two types of equipment that apply when (A) Hostage Situation? [Breaching Charges and Quick Response Vehicle]
* Why do only four of the mission traits get equipment that goes with them? (Hostage Situation, Poor Weather Conditions, We Need a Hero, and Nighttime)
* Why is equipment so horrendously overpriced?

Yeah, I've spent 380 on gear/teams, have 475 currently and have spent....maybe 40 on consumables? When I have more than 2 consumables below 5, I buy a supply pack. But when I just have one below 5, I top it off with MF. So around 895 total MF made so far. That's sending some teams out since Day 1 of the early access, and being pretty efficient with teams since the app launched.

What exactly are you tracking here?  I don't have an Android, so if you're using one to assign Strike Team missions throughout the day, that alone is going to skewer the results.  We can't just say "Person A has accumulated x amount of MF since launch compared to Person B" because playtime and Android access are going to be the primary factors.

I would also inquire as to how many negative traits you have acquired.  So far my tally is 0.

Hey SMR, calm down. We're internet-friends, right? I just like to track stuff.

There are a lot of ways to accumulate MF, you can obsessively check your smartphone app every 2 hours, you can selectively send your teams out in game, you can play the Apex missions yourself. Ultimately it doesn't matter -- there is not enough to spend your MF on anyway.

It's all good.

P.S. I don't have an Android I have an iPhone because I am a tragic hipster.