An easy fix to the GET1 disaster

"TVF;c-1978859" wrote:
@Jarvind I am new here! Any tips?

May I direct you to my signature, good sir!

"capifico22;c-1978565" wrote:

"APX_919;c-1978339" wrote:

"gflegui;c-1978319" wrote:
It was stated pretty clear that no new toons will be added to that store after Malak, or I just dreamed that!!!

You dreamed it. They said GW store, Fleet store and Arena store would have no new characters ever added. They did not state anything regarding GA store, Guild shop or GET stores.

too many people remember this post to have it be a coincidence

Tell me about it. I am the biggest hoarder ever and would NEVER have spent that stuff unless CG gave the green light.

"raybron99;c-1978866" wrote:

"capifico22;c-1978565" wrote:

"APX_919;c-1978339" wrote:

"gflegui;c-1978319" wrote:
It was stated pretty clear that no new toons will be added to that store after Malak, or I just dreamed that!!!

You dreamed it. They said GW store, Fleet store and Arena store would have no new characters ever added. They did not state anything regarding GA store, Guild shop or GET stores.

too many people remember this post to have it be a coincidence

Tell me about it. I am the biggest hoarder ever and would NEVER have spent that stuff unless CG gave the green light.

They gave the greenlight on the GAC store. They very explicit said characters WOULD continue to show up in the GET store.

GET is simply proof that EA/CG lies.

They said it would decrease the gear crunch and be a source of much-needed and rare G12 salvage. Out of the millions of people playing this game, how many people have had the gear crunch meaningfully reduced?

The negotiator is a 6 month farm if your guild is scoring over 20 stars which takes a pretty high power guild, and GET2 hasn't existed for that long yet. We have no evidence at all that they won't introduce a new, major currency sink in the GET2 store either before or right about the time when people first start 7-starring that ship.

HY and Wampa are long farms for new players that are made longer by reducing GET1 income in Geo battles. Adding Malak made things worse. I'm in a 200m+ gp guild, and I've been saving months already and don't even have half the currency needed to get Malak to 7*.

And then, when I get him there, I'm finally qualified to... donate him to a platoon in Geo TB.

Now we're adding GAS before most of us have finished Malak.

It is obvious that, in direct opposition to everything EA/CG said about it, the GET stores are not for gear. They are for shards.

I don't like being lied to.

They said GET would ease the gear crunch?

I mean, they lied about Kyro easing the gear crunch on carbs, guns, etc., but I remember no statement related to that and GET.

"MasterSeedy;c-1978928" wrote:
GET is simply proof that EA/CG lies.

They said it would decrease the gear crunch and be a source of much-needed and rare G12 salvage. Out of the millions of people playing this game, how many people have had the gear crunch meaningfully reduced?

The negotiator is a 6 month farm if your guild is scoring over 20 stars which takes a pretty high power guild, and GET2 hasn't existed for that long yet. We have no evidence at all that they won't introduce a new, major currency sink in the GET2 store either before or right about the time when people first start 7-starring that ship.

HY and Wampa are long farms for new players that are made longer by reducing GET1 income in Geo battles. Adding Malak made things worse. I'm in a 200m+ gp guild, and I've been saving months already and don't even have half the currency needed to get Malak to 7*.

And then, when I get him there, I'm finally qualified to... donate him to a platoon in Geo TB.

Now we're adding GAS before most of us have finished Malak.

It is obvious that, in direct opposition to everything EA/CG said about it, the GET stores are not for gear. They are for shards.

I don't like being lied to.

The only reason you need to save for shards now is because you previously used the store for gear.

Yep.

In fact, when it was introduced they said the ENTIRE POINT of GET was to purchase g12:

Gear Level XII
Territory Battles also heralds the arrival of Gear Level XII. This new tier of Gear will bring a whole new level of Power to your units.
This time around, the increase in Gear Level will not be related to an increase in Character Level, but rather to Character Star Level. You will need Seven Star characters to use Gear Level XII; Gear Level XII can be purchased in the Guild Event Store. The new gear is a significant increase in the amount of Power from Gear Level XI and also increases your overall Galactic Power with each piece.

That's two years old now, but they've listed GET as a source of G12 during dev interviews and in other sources.

GET2 is also heavily implied to be a source of g12+ pieces:

New Territory Battle Currency: Mk II Guild Event Tokens
Similar to how we added Gear 12+ as an exclusive reward to the Heroic Sith Triumvirate Raid, we’re adding a new store and exclusive currency to the new Geonosis Territory Battle to incentivize guilds to participate in the new content. Geonosis Territory Battle will be a difficult challenge for many Guilds but it's something for Guilds to strive towards over time. The rewards from this store will be very valuable for powering your team and enable your guild to complete older game modes even faster.

Looking back, this seems exceptionally weaselly. They mention G12+, say that the currency is for "powering your team" but never technically says whether you power your team via G12+ or through endlessly spending currency on the next toon or ship required to stay competitive. This one is not a lie, in the sense that they come right out and say the thing that isn't true. Instead it's carefully crafted to make you believe something not true without ever actually saying the not-true thing in so many words.

Now, you might say that this is not as bad as lying. But for me this shows clear consciousness of guilt. Why drop the G12+ reference and go so far out of your way to walk all the way around Lake Gear12 without ever dipping your toe in unless you were fully aware from the beginning that the lake is poison?

If there are transcripts of Dev Q&As I can get you more, but I'm not going to relisten to them all the way through to find specific time stamps in an audio or video file.

I mean.... there were shards in both stores from day 1 so it’s a little hard to claim you were misled into believing those stores were solely for gear.

"Liath;c-1978938" wrote:
I mean.... there were shards in both stores from day 1 so it’s a little hard to claim you were misled into believing those stores were solely for gear.

I might be wrong but I think the comment is stating that the GET store, which we could only obtain Hoda and wompa before g12 was mainly used to farm those toons. When g12 came, they seem to be saying that adding the pieces there would be a good way to get to g12.

And I understand that. After a period of time, when a good number of players had farmed them, it wouldn't put too much of a strain on players. I'm on board.

Then Malak came. A new room to farm.

I kinda had a back and forth with kyno on this, but putting him in the GET store just added on to farm time. And you now have 4 people to farm and no let up on g12+ ...anywhere else.

IThere has been no opening the valve on stuns, cuffs or light bulbs. I don't know their name.

So, here we go a 5th character to farm in GET and no let up or was on g12 or G13.

This stings. Yeah yeah I know. Resource management. Yeah at a snail's pace.

And I'm not totally opposed to all this. Just keep stacking toons in a place we can finish out g12 & 13 is a tough call, that's all I'm saying.

Well, to be fair, they did add g12+ to the shard shop and fleet nodes and the GAC store. So it’s not really accurate to say there has been no let up on it anywhere else.