Approaching galactic conquest as free to play

"Solem_Phyxx;c-2457692" wrote:

"scuba;c-2457606" wrote:

"DeusArt;c-2457478" wrote:
If you ftp - focuse on gold crate. Red crate requires brand new characters or conquest character that are usually gated from ftp(if you not 9+ mill account).
With gold crate 65 x 3 and 25 x 3 you will receive 270 shards.
So, you need to buy 60 more with conquest currancy during the year. Or buy conquest pass to cover this shards.
5-6 month and conquest character is yours.

So because you don't know how to manage your resources you want to give others bad advice?
FTP can absolutly get red crate every time if they have the time to grind out the feats.
I don't buy the pass and have gotten red crate every time even when g12 new charaters are "required"
most of the time you can skip the feat with the new "required" units and still get through

Should only settle for gold if you lack the time to spend going after red.

It's not bad advice at all. Telling somebody going for gold crate still gets you the new unit in 5 months instead of 3 is a good point, especially if the next conquest may be more demanding than this one, looking at the steady increase in feat and/or battle difficulty we saw til now.

I always go for gold crate if I want to unlock the new unit asap, since red crate is just annoying to get and requires, just as DeusArt wrote, most of the new shinies at high levels to comfortably get (not doing 10.000 cheeses with jml)

As a FTP with not that much time I would further advise to choose Which conquest to grind and Which not.
If I want the unit badly, I go for the gold crate. If it's interesting for my roster I go for the 465 crate and see if I have resources to buy crystals. If I don't care at all for the unit I go for the second or third chest.
Helps with keeping the grind in check, so I won't get annoyed with the mode.

It is bad advice to say because you are ftp you should only go for gold crate.
It will be roster dependent (not spending dependent) if you can get red or not and should be evaluated each time, not as a blanket rule.
Yes going gold is not a bad thing, but not going for red just because you are ftp is a horrible suggestion. Heck as I said before, could even be a time constraint.
Aim for red, settle for gold if roster or time doesn't allow for red.