Bronzium conversion rate

They gave a reprieve, and you expect another one?

Or fix Bronzium conversion rates
The full part conversion for both CCB and BW is to low. They should be some multiple of 10 at a minimum

"scuba;c-2454524" wrote:
They gave a reprieve, and you expect another one?

Lol such as? I’m sorry, you can’t seriously look at the conversion rates in the store and Scavenger and says they’ve given us a reprieve ?

"scuba;c-2454529" wrote:
Or fix Bronzium conversion rates
The full part conversion for both CCB and BW is to low. They should be some multiple of 10 at a minimum

Yes…that’s the entire basis of this thread. The bronzium economy is an absolute joke and a motivation killer.

Yes, Bronzium conversion is terrible. The only "reprieve" was removing it from R8 and R9. They doubled the drop rate and then halved the conversion.

"Jerrick_Kharr87;c-2454532" wrote:

"scuba;c-2454524" wrote:
They gave a reprieve, and you expect another one?

Lol such as? I’m sorry, you can’t seriously look at the conversion rates in the store and Scavenger and says they’ve given us a reprieve ?

It was a joke, as was mentioned they removed them from R8 and R9.

Personally CCB is the only salvage pinch point for me. Seems many others have issues with BW also.

"scuba;c-2454594" wrote:

"Jerrick_Kharr87;c-2454532" wrote:

"scuba;c-2454524" wrote:
They gave a reprieve, and you expect another one?

Lol such as? I’m sorry, you can’t seriously look at the conversion rates in the store and Scavenger and says they’ve given us a reprieve ?

It was a joke, as was mentioned they removed them from R8 and R9.

Personally CCB is the only salvage pinch point for me. Seems many others have issues with BW also.

Gotcha. Hard to detect sarcasm on here lol. I’ve just started burning through crystals for them. Guess that’s what CG really wants though.

I have to directly farm CCB conversion gear every once in a while (LS 1C) to stock up again. BW trickles in with LS Kyro farming, but there's not even a good node to go to if you wanted to sacrifice Kyro farming for BWs. Honestly, if there was a node as good for BWs as LS 1C is for CCBs, I wouldn't complain about having to go farm that node for a week every once in a while. But I also wouldn't complain about a few gear pieces getting a better BW conversion rate.

Of course, I'm in a place where I will never hurt for Kyros again, most likely, so that's different from the majority of players who wouldn't be able to benefit much from just adding a BW-specific node in LS or DS battles. I think for most people it would have to be Fleet.

But you know, that might be part of their eventual plan. They clearly want everyone to have tons of r7 toons, not just a few, but tons of them to do Ops missions + LS, DS and Mixed TB battles all on the same day. They've fixed the gear crunch below g12. Things are almost trivial there now. So maybe at some point they plan to take one or two of those nodes in Fleet Battles that don't currently drop gold salvage and add CCBs or BWs directly -- not salvage that converts to them, but just them.

Given how conservative they are with changes like that, I wouldn't expect it to happen for a full 2 years after the new Raid economy went into effect, but since we're a year in on that, it doesn't have to be that far away.

But yeah. A fleet node in 5-Normal or even 5-Hard for farming them directly would be an interesting solution, rather than juggling conversion rates.

The removal from R8/R9 only seemed like a reprieve since they are now demanding R8/R9 for several GLs & Ship events.

The Double/Halving was a net loss since the Double part didn't happen at every single location.
(Daily challenges for example did NOT get doubled)

Some of the things that could be done would be to balance out the Salvage v/s Crafted ratios.
If something is 5 salvage to a combine or mixes in 3 different items & some creds into the costs to combine it, then the fully crafted items shouldn't just be 3x or 5x the value of the shards. It should be 10x or something similar so you get the benefit of those other materials you invest.

Or, if they wanted to do something that was "text/level" based & not have to decide what is a craftable item v/s one that comes fully completed already, they could just increase the conversion rate based on the level inside each group.

So CCW's are Mark 1-2-3.
Well, they could leave the Mark 1's at their current level.
But double the value of all Mark-2 items
And triple the value of all Mark-3 items.
So instead of just 1 or 3 for Salvage v/s Completed, you would have 1-2-3 for each Salvage & then 3-6-9 for each full item.

You could have the same effect with BWs going from 2-6-10 for all Mark-4-5-6 items & change that into
2-6-10 for Mark-4
3-9-15 for Mark-5
4-12-20 for Mark 6

Crazy concept, you could do All of the Above & it might actually relieve some of the crunch.

Hey, just quick question on a related topic:

Has anyone calculated the expected CCBs/crystal (or crystals/CCB) from farming LS 1C and trading in the salvage? I'm curious b/c they've were selling that daily pack with 640 CCBs for 3200 crystals. I generally avoid that stuff as less productive than farming, but that assumes you're only doing 50-crystal refreshes, so there is an advantage in purchasing a few packs now and again so long as the value is equal to or better than 1/2 the number of you would get with 50-crystal refreshes (so that you get the same or better as you would if you did all of your regular farming, then spent 100-crystals refreshes for the extra ).

If 640 CCBs is the same value as, say, what you would get farming with 1800 or 2000 crystals of energy refreshes, then I could just buy that and take the non-CCB part of the package as a bonus. That would allow me to keep farming Kyros & BWs without pausing for a week or two every once in a while for CCB farming.