Strike Teams - why they matter

I support this. My first impression with strike team mechanics is that it's not worth it to equip teams with gear. A few % more chance of success is irrelevant when you can just retry the missions until you succeed. Save your mission funds for the MP store.

Percent success doesn't look to be budging much above 25% for me on golds. My level 18 should be at a higher percent success now. He was at 70% for bronze when I started him at level 1. I think for golds to have a higher % for success we might have to invest in the items, but probably pick the ones that suit the missions like all weather armor for bad weather conditions. Night vision goggles for night time missions (especially for teams with night blindness).

What is problematic is that the cost of the items (even the cheapest ones at  75 mp most expensive but useful specialization 300 mp) well exceeds the MP you gain from any missions so that spending MP might not be justified when we have no idea of how much an item impacts percent for success and how long we will be able to use a team. 5 or 10 mp seems absurdly low when gear costs 75 mp minimum and 300 mp maximum. But it might guarantee you better success on those golds. Right now it doesn't feel balanced at all. Like MP should be higher and investments should be lower unless retiring a team is just such something you don't do until months down the road. Even then, still seems to lack balance which is why so many are choosing not to. More so the gold ones don't seem to offer any more MP which is daft. One would logically think that bronze would offer the least and gold would offer the most and it would be a progressive scale. Bronze 5, silver 10,  gold 15. But there is no difference at all in doing them other than one is 5 and one is 10. 

Also, in my case, with success odds running at 15 to 25% on gold for all my teams, that means that those rarely are successful so that MP is never gained. It feels like they really did not balance this at all and just tossed in a bunch of numbers looking to model the app that Fallout had due to its success while adding some bonus items to buy for MP.

What are the percent success others have for gold at higher levels? Does it go up to some relatively reasonable number at some point?

I keep forgetting there's a limit. I should actually start the campaign too

FYI claiming the rewards can only be done one at a time, unless I missed something. Which if you have a lot of rewards waiting can take a few minutes with the slow ass menus this game has.

I've gotten at high as 66% chance for a gold mission.  Level 20 team with 4 perks and 2 flaws.  I think they had +5+5+10=20 out of a possible 30 positive multiplier and neither of their -10 flaws were relevant to the mission (Careless -10 if "No room for mistakes", Beserker -10 if "Enemies Everywhere).

My take aways so far:

It's good to have at least three strike teams.  They'll all end up with different perks and flaws so there should always be a best choice for any given mission.

The costs of mission failure are very limited.  You can repeat missions 5-10 times depending one mission and access durations.  Let's say you've got a lvl 20 team with 5 flaws and they've got a dismal 25% chance to fail their Gold mission.  Give them five chances and they will success 76% of the time.  That's probably worst case and avoidable if you've got another strike team with different flaws to send out.  And you've got actual MP match options for about 25% of the strike team missions in case you hit that worst case.

Strike team gear is not worth it compared to the benefits of an additional strike team.  It might be if a fair percent of missions were not repeatable.

Related, so far the three strike teams I have are enough to complete the entire mission queue with lots of time to spare. The only reason I'll need four teams is if Bioware doubles the # of missions which I doubt they will do. It's in their interest to limit our access to mission points otherwise the economics of the item store would collapse.

I experienced a notable change in chance of success when my teams got to 19 and then 20.  

I've had a 98% chance on a bronze, hope that helps

Speaking of screenshots here's one of my strike team with 5 positive and 4 negative traits. Looks like there is room for more on the screen. I wonder what the limits are?

I am probably jinxing myself by asking this, but how are you getting so many negative perks? I have 2 teams near 20 and 1 near 10, and there isn't a single negative perk among them.

I send my teams on every mission possible regardless of success chance.

I thought maybe doing golds too soon. Mine started going at very low levels. I think also maybe not paying attention to traits in my case. I might have sent someone on a mission that was not appropriate for their skills and too high for them. I'm not really sure. I had no negative traits until I starting putting them in the golds and they were too low for that - percent success wise and even level probably.