Warrior General Games

Without discrimination of what pieces of AEQ are in question, would you prefer to have 2 pieces of AEQ that can be potentially maxed out or would you prefer to have 3 pieces of AEQ that may not be able to be maxed out every upgrade possibility?

Part 2 - again, without discrimination of the AEQ, would you prefer to have AEQ that is all ready in the players tree (which can be upgraded much easier compared to an AEQ that is not in the tree and can, possibly at max, reach level 5 or 6 in the twilight of his career.

I have been dancing around keeping 3 pieces of AEQ but am running into the inevitable "not enough bonus tokens to keep up with all three" dilemma at this point.

I have kept 3 on a couple players, 2 on the others. If you take 3, you pretty much have to settle for getting them all to 48 tokens (maybe a little more toward the end of their career, a little less if you use tokens for SP early on). This works if your priority is just maximizing SA bonuses.

2 I feel is better to optimize the build. You can spend BTs early on to hit caps, shop reasonably easily with 4 slots for only 2 pieces and then boost both pieces up to lvl 64.

I've got 3 on a few of my players though also. The problem is that shopping for the third one is tough as you only have 2 equipment slots left to fill. The main advantage of this though is that your equipment situation, whilst still being pretty decent, is very cheap for your team if you only upgrade the pieces to lvl 40-56. Not all teams have an unlimited flow of money, and to save them a few million $ by choosing equipment a few points off optimal might be more beneficial for your team overall.

You have to decide early on if you're going for 2 or 3. With 2, spend your bonus tokens to hit caps quicker. With 3, hoard all bonus tokens right from the word go. I don't see much point in changing from 2 to 3, or from 3 to 2, later on in a player's life. You just have to ride it out.

tl; dr summary: undecided.

I've got some going with 2 and some going with 3 currently. Even though you can't max 3 pieces, certain teams can't max your eq anyway so it could still = having 2 in some cases which is better.

for part 2 it really depends on the position. Certain positions I prefer to stay in the tree, certain positions I don't mind going outside. I have 2 pieces of SV on a LB....so far I like it.

I wouldn't go for 3 unless you can get an average of +2 Initial Attribute in each piece

I used to be in the 2 pieces camp, but I've come around to the 3 pieces side recently.

A) You save a ton of cash by not having to upgrade multiple pieces of EQ to lvl 64+.
B) If you roll two of the three pieces with +2/+3 to one or two of you primary attributes, you won't be losing anything really.
C) Added benefit of additional +% or +SA.

assuming day -6 to 46 (this season went to 51)

52 days in a season, 104 training tokens

104 training tokens x 11 seasons = 1144

1144/5 = no. of bonus tokens = 228.8

228.8/64 (tokens required for level 56 upgrades, which give you +5 SAs) = 3.575 pieces of AEQ

92 potential shopping tokens


sec, i'm double checking that, doesnt seem right...

makes more sense imo to account for 10 seasons worth of tokens, not 11. 3 pieces, 64 tokens to upgrade, 192 tokens needed. 1040/5 yields 208 potential bonus tokens in 10 seasons. difference is 16 which is 40 shopping trips.

such a downer doing these calculations and realizing we're talking about a year and a half

u also have to factor the year and a half of shop runs to roll a freakin decent aeq (SDC is probably most notorious for anyoen whos ever owned a CB)