Duplicates Still DONT give back CREDITS!!!

Thanks @Tillus_Osciliath for posting my question and trydling's answer here in this thread, so people here can follow the progress as well.
It's a bit cumbersome IMHO that we are all forced to follow at least two threads on two different platforms to keep up with the latest news.

Edit: just noticed that Trydling's response to my question was the very last entry in that thread before it got closed. 🤔

Some of the details provided in the other thread were also quite important. For example that you now only need 4 skill points to progress from no card to an epic card, which makes the conversion rate of 40 crafting parts to 1 skill point 6x more valuable when it comes to progressing to epic.

Unfortunately I stumbled over that piece of information AFTER I had spent all my crafting parts in expectation of the upcoming patch and the uselessness of credits (and what I had originally thought also being true for crafting parts) for progression purposes.

In any case, I can report that the Patch yesterday worked insofar that I received 140.000 credits by opening all kinds of weirdly named crates.

I am not sure if that was my full missing amount and I am even less sure if in that calculation was included, that for the missed out credits I would have bought crates which in return would have given me plenty more duplicates which I also missed out on (but would have received 35 or 50 crafting parts each time). I guess they probably didn't and probably also rounded up or down the credits amount because 140.000 is quite an even number.

Now after EA finally has implemented a working fix,

• I am sitting on a load of credits I can't buy anything for.
• I am still lagging far behind other players not affected by the duplicate bug regarding the progression of my star cards
• the answers of the community managers regarding the fact that I am NOT interested in any fancy outfits for my Darth Vader or Assault Trooper and hence consider the credits as nearly worthless for me is again "we're working on it, please be patient"

So two big patches later basically not much has changed for me. ☹️

"Please wait, we will be taking care of your progression disadvantage somehow sometime" is still the current state as it has been when I was first confronted with the bug several months ago.