Additive Drops confusion

"thomssi;c-2445588" wrote:

"herd_nerfer;c-2445553" wrote:

"Xitarus;c-2445547" wrote:

"herd_nerfer;c-2445545" wrote:

"Xitarus;c-2445544" wrote:

Compensate for what? What did you lose?

Well they are selling energy packs in the web store, which I bought this morning assuming the additive shards were in game due to posts that I read yesterday. Shady if you ask me, but nit surprised .

But you can still save that energy and use it tomorrow - in fact you come out better that way. I just don't see how it's anything but a good thing.

Yeah, missed the in-game pop-up warning me otherwise. Energy spent because I don’t want to lose out on energy gains today.

And why am I not surprised that you think that is ok for them to push energy packs before the event is available to most, while being available to some.

They clearly made a mistake here and had to walk it back. I do think they should have put some kind of announcement on the forums about it and I'm not sure why they didn't.

Sorry that you bought the energy pack without knowing that the event wasn't active. That's a mistake I could have made too - but there's nothing currently in the game to lead anyone to believe that the event IS active.




Normally there would be indicators here if there were bonus drops. Also the nodes themselves would be glowing gold.

If you were BRAND NEW to the game and never saw a bonus drop event before, I could see how you wouldn't notice - but I don't think you're that new. CG should have announced it here on the forums after they changed it - but at the end of the day it's on you to make sure you're getting what you think you're getting, right?

I sympathize - same thing could have happened to me - but I wouldn't be expecting compensation for my own oversight.

That isn't the point. People buy energy BEFORE their reset so they effectively get an extra day of buying at the 50/100/200 rates. At that point you would not expect to see the glowing gold, you expect it shortly after when your reset passes. What happened to people effectively costs them a day of the natural accrual of energy as it doesn't happen once past the 144 cap.

If you spent the saved energy before you realized that there were no bonus drops, that's on you. That's the point that I was making - and it was perfectly in context to the person I quoted.

To speak to the point that you are trying to make - the math has been done over and over again that shows that two days of hoarding energy sets you farther ahead than one day - so natural energy regen aside - you still come out better off for having an extra day to save energy. You have to hoard for several days before you reach a threshold where missing out on the natural energy regen drags down the efficiency of buying 3x50 every day and saving it - plus bonus energy collected through the day.

If you went nuts and capped out your energy with 100 and 200 crystal refreshes (or 400s in the case of cantina?) then you clearly weren't too concerned about efficiency anyway and I still don't understand what the gripe is, other than being annoyed at waiting an extra day.

I have yet to see someone make a compelling argument that an extra day of hoarding is somehow something that deserves compensation - if anything most of us should be thanking CG for the extra day. By all means, change my mind - but do it with proof that something was lost. So far I haven't seen that.