Is there an ETA/idea of how much data you need before this feature is fully implemented? Training these bi-daily seems to costs a small fortune, and the bounty payouts aren't really reflecting the investment we've put into them so far.

I agree completely with Daria.  And then only one or two of the persons in my crew even have named bodyguards. Nor do they train. Ridiculous amount of money I've spent on mine.

Which difficulty is your crew trying them on, Daria, BobaFett?

We're currently doing Extremely Challenging and will probably bump it up further - even still, I imagine I'd have to run multiple weeks of raids without additional training to recoup costs.

I believe once they go fully live, Enkindle had mentioned something about special Perks + completion bonuses, perhaps those would help offset the training costs some. We shall see!

Aye thats why Daria was asking when it goes live, as currently a lot of people investing into their BGs to simply hit a Durden and get a few k back isn't worth the time nor hassle that they are investing into it.

I don't think investing in your bodyguards solely for Durden Raids is the best way to go. However, you do get the defence boost from them being trained, which is the primary reason for having them in the first place.

Looking at my BGs:

Brent - 58 Wins, 63 Losses, $746,200 Earned

KingBenny - 6 Wins, 9 Losses, $83,200 Earned

BigwoodLongdong - 6 Wins, 17 Losses, $83,200 Earned

RabbitKilla666 - 11 Wins, 8 Losses, $150,800 Earned

TesleRSucks - 7 Wins, 6 Losses, $88,400 Earned

BarbaraAmmer - 47 Wins, 54 Losses, $586,200 Earned

I think they've had a decent return on investment, although I haven't actually sat down and worked it out.

Either way, I think it is a nice little feature to waste a little time on. 

Depends what you put into it Lucius. One stat going all the way to level 10 would cost you 550,000. If you choose to max each stat out, you've got a max cost for that 1 BG 2.75 million.

My best BG;

This is after a lot of fights. Not even half the max amount I can pay to train it has been won back. Accounting for days where maybe I didnt do any fights etc, we can still say there is a large shortfall in amount of effort required to re-coup investment currently.

I'm not bothered by this really, as I appreciate the option is still in testing and so im happy to invest into my BG to further use the Raids to test them, but I figured I might as well echoe the sentiment that there is indeed an obvious shortfall in reward for doing so.

I think it largely depends upon what you're killing and the bounty you're earning.

For your 285 wins, you're only averaging a bounty of like $4,000, so you're killing some really weak Durdens.

For my 58 wins, I'm averaging $12,800. If I had done your number of wins at my average, I would be ahead of the game even with a maxed BG at $2.75m.

I have a question about why BG's are being greyed out before their skills are depleted. The object seems to be to kill as many durden BG's as possible, so it seems when I use my skill strategically and spread their skills out for the best over all success, the algorithms you use don't seem to like this. Or is there just something obvious that I am missing? 

P.S. just to be clear, they are being greyed out before their skills are used, not even wounded and certainly not defeated.

ahh, I see. After the 5. Forgive me I had to read the section again. 

Has their been any thoughts on changing that aspect?

I have yet to see my crew finish the raids in the 40 days I've been back.

Raylan_Givens, your CL can change the difficulty level. I was in a crew where only two people were doing it and we were able to beat it every time on the lowest difficulty, even with my poorly trained BGs. We went up difficulties as we trained. But if it's just one person doing it then it's pretty hard to beat. 

ahh, yes. thank you Daniella. And thank you Squishy.

cheers!

Anyone else had a really hard BG added to their list today?

Ive had our crew at the same setting for a while now and today, we got a BG that was stats like;

38 Wack

18 Defence

29 Stealth

18 Info

(or thereabouts. All really high stats)

Just wondered if this was a new change, or an anomaly on our part.

It was just my luck around Slash... But glad the thing was done:

Raid Complete!