8 years ago

Cantina characters are premium characters?

What do Hera, Ezra, Chopper, Old Ben, CHS, Hoth rebel scout, FO Officer, Kylo Ren, Deathtrooper, Veteran Smuggler Chewy and Han have in common?

They are all cantina node or cantina store characters and they ALL are required for legendary characters or territory battles.
We are forced to farm them and if we don't we will have to suffer the consequences...

But that's not the real issue, farming a bunch of characters that I don't want to play wouldn't be a huge problem for me, except it is because cantina energy is incredibly hard to get and the devs know it.

The costs of some of these nodes is in my opinion excessive, especially anything past tier 6. This is the perfect ground for panic farming as people will buy thousands of crystals for refreshes but what about F2P?

Has anyone though how long it takes a F2P player to farm a single cantina character? It takes at least 2 months for the cheap ones between cantina 1-3 for the ones placed between 6-9 we are talking about twice that. So you are looking at approximately a year for 3 of them!

This is kind of unreasonable as not only is it hard to get these characters but we are also forced to postpone the cantina characters that we want to have, indefinitely.

Also it prevents us from farming mods which then makes all of our characters useless. So all the grind for gear never pays off since we don't have the required speeds and other stats that we need to utilize our teams.

I don't understand how we are expected to survive in this environment where we are doomed to never have any decent mods because we constantly have to farm a character that is needed for the next legendary character or the one we failed to get the last time.

We are trapped in this indefinite farming of characters and if we decide to spend any energy outside of these chracter nodes we are gonna miss the deadlines for legendary characters who give great potential.

It feels like cantina characters are by no means free to farm and that makes mods also not free to farm. Considering how little cantina energy we get daily and how low the drop rates are we would need decades to farm every single cantina character unless we buy refreshes...

What do you all think?

FierceRevan
8 years ago
I prefer farming cantina nodes to regular ls/ds nodes
- no 50 crystal cost to refresh after 5 attempts
- You get currency for another store

If you're comparing to shipments, then yeah I prefer shipments over node farming
BTHR7
8 years ago
"FierceRevan;c-1361139" wrote:
I prefer farming cantina nodes to regular ls/ds nodes
- no 50 crystal cost to refresh after 5 attempts
- You get currency for another store

Yeah but at least most hard node characters aren't required for legendary events and those that do usually have multiple nodes
Seryasin
8 years ago
Just give everyone max rewards at the end of this DSTB and lets fix the issues and move forward.
Ebbda75
8 years ago
Excellent points! :smile:

I would add to that the need to sim multiple times (being generous here) for a half decent mod worthy of upgrading. Balancing toons and mods with the energy we get is tricky for sure.

Ideal scenario is they double the amount we get to match normal energy. I'm farming Hera and the drop rates have been disappointing. Whilst doing this, mixing in deathtrooper for dstb.

I hope they address the situation soon.
NyKynoe
8 years ago
Moved to correct sub forum.

Welcome to the marathon.
countmitcheous
8 years ago
Just be resourceful. You don't need the meta characters to do well! I find panic farming to be more of a hindrance than a help. Pick an awesome squad and focus on that whole avoiding distractions. Don't plan on being top ten, but you can still do well! Top 50, and even top 20 if you play your cards right! I hope they figure out a way to balance the game with the new CLS takeover, but I try not to lose hope.
BTTripleZero
8 years ago
Right now there’s kind of a big hole in your logic. Deathtrooper isn’t required for anyone as far as I know. Chopper, FOO, and Rebel Scout are just in the store, which you still earn tokens for farming mods. Ezra is in the fleet arena shop. And Han and Chewy aren’t required for anything yet (I strongly suspect they either won’t be needed for anything or the devs will add them to a shop as a “gift” to us...after we’ve all farmed them frantically).

So you are left with 4 characters that must be farmed through Cantina for a total of 6 hero/legendary events. 2 of them are 8 energy nodes and 1 is 10. That’s hardly asking for too much.

Now, if they require us to panic farm Chewy and Han from 16 energy Cantina nodes for Rey, then that is asking for a large Cantina investment. But you won’t find me complaining about that before it happens. Like I said, I still think this is a huge misdirection attempt to get us to farm the vets without ever requiring them.
tvsfrink
8 years ago
"Bulldog1205;c-1361345" wrote:

Now, if they require us to panic farm Chewy and Han from 16 energy Cantina nodes for Rey, then that is asking for a large Cantina investment. But you won’t find me complaining about that before it happens. Like I said, I still think this is a huge misdirection attempt to get us to farm the vets without ever requiring them.

I find this extremely unlikely.
Rmaxtpmx
8 years ago
I get what you're saying, but i refresh cantina energy three times a day, so I don't have the same experience. I'm ftp, but play all the time. I finish top three in fleet arena every day, and am working on breaking 100 in arena, so I receive a few hundred crystals a day for free. I have both zetas on r2d2, and Han Solo's zeta (no his name is not raid Han), with Leia's zeta on the way. Once CLS comes back, I'll drop him right in there nicely. I've been playing for about sixth months, and have 1.2mil gp. I say this to point out that you can compete for free if you play wisely and often. Otherwise, you're a casual player, and shouldn't care about much of anything.Top ten arena might be reserved for whales, but you new that before you downloaded the app, as is the case with every ftp game. It sounds like you need a good guild to help you along. I got lucky on that front.
BTTripleZero
8 years ago
"TVF;c-1361352" wrote:
"Bulldog1205;c-1361345" wrote:

Now, if they require us to panic farm Chewy and Han from 16 energy Cantina nodes for Rey, then that is asking for a large Cantina investment. But you won’t find me complaining about that before it happens. Like I said, I still think this is a huge misdirection attempt to get us to farm the vets without ever requiring them.

I find this extremely unlikely.

We will see. Everything they do is very calculated to make money. Why did they tell us about Rey’s journey? So We would have more time to prepare? That seems unlikely, given they make more money when people are unprepared.