Assault Battle Cadence

I agree, this decision impacts heavily on our takeage. We have new characters every 3 weeks or so, and each one needs at least 1 zeta and/or 1 omicron, not too mention all the old characters that still need zetas to complete groups. 

I've been on a tear since 2022, gearing up and leveling characters and I've acquired 193 zetas in 33 months and I'm still miles away from where I need them to be. Mind you, I have 226 zetas, but before that I was casually obtaining them. But after a few arenas where I got trounced, I realized I needed them. And omicrons? I have 65 and  getting new Omi materials is a pain. Compared to Omi drops, zeta mats flow like rivers (and they aren't exactly plentiful). I've spent weeks with zero Omicron drops from cantina and I farm it with 4 refreshes daily, plus any extras. 

This is a fun game, otherwise I wouldn't be here, but you're taking away the tools we use to keep us playing the game.
New assault battles have no zetas, and the omicron drops are too few. Is it 1 per assault battle? The Galactic Challenges offer 1/10th every 3 days, they're slow coming, you need ten to get one omicron. So I can get a zeta every 5-6 days, but omis go to 15-18 days, easy.

We need more events to tide us over, no fewer. We've spent time and effort to get our characters to the level where Assault Battles are good for us because we've painstakingly have unlocked the Challenge Tier III and they're finally paying back our investments.  Heavy, heavy investments.

And now you want to put a cap to them? 

You already did that to our Territory Battles and we lost gear and GE currency. Twice the rewards, for twice the time to reload, while keeping  us away from the tank battle, sith temple and the rancor, which provided us with currency and gear drops that really helped gear up or lowbies.

You guys promised to address the carbanti/kyro drought and you only partially fixed that.

We've had assault battles be impossible to complete and it cost us zeta and high relic materials. Even when you have the right teams at the right levels, sometimes you guys make it impossible to succeed: my R5 Nute, Shaak Ti, Plo Koon, Eeth Koth and Droideka cannot make one point over 130k at LEVEL 0 in the Naboo raid. At R5 they shoul breeze through level 0, maybe even up to level 2, but nope. That's some "somehow Palpatine returned" levels of bullcrap.

Please increase the event's rotations, not substract it. This game already takes a significant amount of time. 

We're running and we're still falling behind and at one point we'll judge this game has stopped being fun and we'll leave.

As a new player who has been working towards these "older assault battles" as a way to get to further content, I'm incredibly disappointed in this decision. It will be a long time before I am able to attempt the newer assault battles. I have spent money on this game in the recent past, but if this decision isn't reversed I have no intentions to support it financially any longer. 

Indeed. Peridea Patrol and Duel of the Fates do not reward zetas. If they added the zetas it would help swallow the pill. And getting to R9 in order to possibly farm the hightst tier for their omicrons?

It'll be expensive as hell and it'll take a months to get...which by the time the Assault Battle might be switched out by another one with fewer rewards. 

Sigh......... 🤦

I regularly follow and check the forums but today the disappointment is so HEAVY that I needed to login and comment.

This is ABSOLUTE DISGRACE!!! The game is increasingly requiring more and more resources (kyro crunch), just add more Assault Battles to at least help A BIT in keeping the pace, instead of removing old AB which are easier to get a team to beat them for new players.

This is an absolutely terrible decision and just shows the disdain that CG feels towards us. 
As a player that does spend, although not huge amounts, it means I will seriously consider if I want to continue to use my available discretionary income on this game in the future. 
Please reverse this decision now. 

Why are you all so surprised? This is exactly what you pay for. CG has finally found a way to get more players to spend more money on new characters. Thanks to tempting new daily rewards in new events for characters and even exclusive datacrons for them. A lot of people fell for it. CG saw this as an opportunity and a way to earn more.

And now don’t be surprised if they put the development of new characters on the production line in order to extract more money from you. It's not profitable for them to fix the game. But it’s easy to rivet new characters by forcing us to upgrade them because of new assaults. 

Honestly, I don't believe CG would even care if every one of us stopped spending. They would just mothball the game and continue doing this same thing to another community. Business practices are something that will go across the entirety of what they do. If they can screw one community, they can screw them all....

CG has proven themselves to be tone deaf to all reactions from the community. They are not going to fix any of this and in a week or two they will put out a change that is even worse than this one. 

So many people here have already pointed out the numerous issues we face on a daily basis.

I just want to point out one more

Remember Kodak? They once developed film and they were the top of the industry. Then SD cards were created......... Kodak......... 

CG is following that same road with this community.... Removing the established income from the established events the base has relied upon and making everything which is new unattainable for new FTP players will in the end lose more revenue for them. This and all decisions which have been made recently starting with the new Raid System is creating more FTP players. 

As others probably have felt in their posting, I can go on and on about this for hours, but CG just created another FTP here in me.  I will spend my money on other things now.

Ouch, I am disappointed  in you @cg,  turn  from the darkside of the force!

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