Maybe the Rancor Challenge Tier? I'm finally at the point where I'm having to seriously farm the things, so if you started this game in 2015/2016 like I did you had a ton of gear stored up to salvage, but it does eventually run dry. We're not anywhere near equilibrium, and getting there requires using far too many refreshes/day. I understand not wanting to give out CCBs as rewards for tasks newer players can accomplish early on with just a bit of development of the right squad or squads, but were in a place of relic'ing about a toon a week, and so we need about 200 CCBs per week to keep up. With new Rancor happening once/week, adding 100 CCBs to the RCT rewards wouldn't be enough to make equilibrium happen, but it would mean that you could get back to spending a reasonable amount of your regular energy per day on them - 200 energy/day just farming salvage for CCBs instead of 400 would be a nice move in the right direction.

Yep. This is by design of course and I've just been using 500 crystals for the 100 pack. I can't even gear a level one toon at the moment after dealing with 2 GLs.

You're "good" in the sense of reaching equilibrium where your supply of salvage for CCBs is neither growing nor shrinking? Or you're "good" in the sense that your dwindling supply of salvage hasn't yet reached zero? I've only spent a couple thousand crystals on CCBs and only recently went to farming CCB salvage with 60 sims/day, but I wasn't "fine" before that. The supply was being exhausted, I just hadn't hit rock bottom yet.

I agree with the suggestion. I've been buying the CCB from the weekly shipments every week, but those things disappear quickly. Farming for a GL makes it even worse

@Dahly_lama4 Yeah, but I'm okay with them being limited there. Again, you don't want people having an effectively infinite supply, like with training droids. Putting them in RCT limits them to guilds that already have a fair number of GLs &other relic toons. And, of course, I don't mind if you have to farm some to maintain equilibrium, but I'm at the point where I'm spending 150 crystals a day to tread water, and that seems excessive, especially when you have to do cantina energy refreshes to keep up with signal data needs. I'm spending 350 crystals / day just to keep up with signal data & CCBs and that doesn't necessarily leave a whole lot for things like Kyros or speed farming new toons. Just providing enough CCBs so that over the course of a month you only need to average 40-50 crystals/day farming CCBs would be a drastic improvement, and would certainly seem to fit the level of need for crystal spending better with the import of the CCBs being farmed. I don't think they're really supposed to consume that much of your income. I mean, maybe they do intend for us to spend 150 crystals/day on CCBs, but I think it's more likely that they thought the system was good enough for when it was created, since they can always adjust the economy later. I don't know how my rate of new relic toons compares to other players' rates, and I don't know how many people have thoroughly exhausted their initial caches of salvage gear, but I'm not that far ahead of the pack. If the time to adjust the economy hasn't come already, then it seems like it should come pretty soon with r8 the new quest and r5s to r7s required all over the place.

Let's hope that they put them in the new mode that lasts a month.

Can we get some Carbonite Circuite Boards added to rewards for...something?

BountyKillerCa
4 years ago
Yep. This is by design of course and I've just been using 500 crystals for the 100 pack. I can't even gear a level one toon at the moment after dealing with 2 GLs.
MasterSeedy
New Ace
4 years ago
You're "good" in the sense of reaching equilibrium where your supply of salvage for CCBs is neither growing nor shrinking? Or you're "good" in the sense that your dwindling supply of salvage hasn't yet reached zero?

I've only spent a couple thousand crystals on CCBs and only recently went to farming CCB salvage with 60 sims/day, but I wasn't "fine" before that. The supply was being exhausted, I just hadn't hit rock bottom yet.
Juli494
4 years ago
I agree with the suggestion. I've been buying the CCB from the weekly shipments every week, but those things disappear quickly. Farming for a GL makes it even worse
MasterSeedy
New Ace
4 years ago
@Dahly_lama4

Yeah, but I'm okay with them being limited there. Again, you don't want people having an effectively infinite supply, like with training droids. Putting them in RCT limits them to guilds that already have a fair number of GLs &other relic toons.

And, of course, I don't mind if you have to farm some to maintain equilibrium, but I'm at the point where I'm spending 150 crystals a day to tread water, and that seems excessive, especially when you have to do cantina energy refreshes to keep up with signal data needs. I'm spending 350 crystals / day just to keep up with signal data & CCBs and that doesn't necessarily leave a whole lot for things like Kyros or speed farming new toons.

Just providing enough CCBs so that over the course of a month you only need to average 40-50 crystals/day farming CCBs would be a drastic improvement, and would certainly seem to fit the level of need for crystal spending better with the import of the CCBs being farmed. I don't think they're really supposed to consume that much of your income.

I mean, maybe they do intend for us to spend 150 crystals/day on CCBs, but I think it's more likely that they thought the system was good enough for when it was created, since they can always adjust the economy later.

I don't know how my rate of new relic toons compares to other players' rates, and I don't know how many people have thoroughly exhausted their initial caches of salvage gear, but I'm not that far ahead of the pack. If the time to adjust the economy hasn't come already, then it seems like it should come pretty soon with r8 the new quest and r5s to r7s required all over the place.
DaarthBrewer
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
Let's hope that they put them in the new mode that lasts a month.
PawG144
4 years ago
"TVF;c-2223803" wrote:
"MetaThumper;c-2223802" wrote:
Yep. This is by design of course and I've just been using 500 crystals for the 100 pack. I can't even gear a level one toon at the moment after dealing with 2 GLs.

I have three and I'm still good.

You have too many GLs. Come back when you’ve only got one GL then you’ll understand the crunch.
MasterSeedy
New Ace
4 years ago
I am extremely picky with what I relic.

Well, you can't be that picky if you have 3 GLs, but good for you.
PawG144
4 years ago
@TVF

Although initially spoken in jest, it actually does stand to reason that one who has played roughly as long as you but only has 1 GL to your 3 probably hasn’t managed resources as perfectly as you. So come back when you’re more average at resource management and you’ll understand the pains of the rest of us mediocre players. ?
tvsfrink
4 years ago
"Calo_Nord;c-2223925" wrote:
"TVF;c-2223909" wrote:
"Calo_Nord;c-2223902" wrote:
"TVF;c-2223803" wrote:
"MetaThumper;c-2223802" wrote:
Yep. This is by design of course and I've just been using 500 crystals for the 100 pack. I can't even gear a level one toon at the moment after dealing with 2 GLs.

I have three and I'm still good.

You have too many GLs. Come back when you’ve only got one GL then you’ll understand the crunch.

Er, what?

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

What you said made zero sense.
jppc2204
4 years ago
"TVF;c-2223803" wrote:
"MetaThumper;c-2223802" wrote:
Yep. This is by design of course and I've just been using 500 crystals for the 100 pack. I can't even gear a level one toon at the moment after dealing with 2 GLs.

I have three and I'm still good.

anecdotel