Carbonite CB changes?

It was in the road ahead announced a while ago.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/260057/road-ahead-november-2022#latest

"nomad1988;c-2397538" wrote:
It was in the road ahead announced a while ago.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/260057/road-ahead-november-2022#latest

Ok...read the whole stuff and found it:
Other Changes
Gear Accelerations items will have their Salvager conversion to Relic Materials reduced by 50%
Helps ensure these changes accelerate gear, but remain net-neutral to the Relic system
BUT:
I dont get the "net-neutral" part. As i see it, it is now faster to get to Relic 1...but it becomes twice as long to get to higher relic levels...no?

Or are the RELIC gear TWICE as probable...and so i get double gear and therefore it is worth 50% for Relicing so that progress keeps the same speed...is this it? It does not feel that way...but it may be a perspective thing...

"Ghost666;c-2397635" wrote:

Or are the RELIC gear TWICE as probable...and so i get double gear and therefore it is worth 50% for Relicing so that progress keeps the same speed...is this it? It does not feel that way...but it may be a perspective thing...

This. The challenge gear didn’t double though.

"crzydroid;c-2397734" wrote:

"Ghost666;c-2397635" wrote:

"nomad1988;c-2397538" wrote:
It was in the road ahead announced a while ago.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/260057/road-ahead-november-2022#latest

Ok...read the whole stuff and found it:
Other Changes
Gear Accelerations items will have their Salvager conversion to Relic Materials reduced by 50%
Helps ensure these changes accelerate gear, but remain net-neutral to the Relic system
BUT:
I dont get the "net-neutral" part. As i see it, it is now faster to get to Relic 1...but it becomes twice as long to get to higher relic levels...no?

Or are the RELIC gear TWICE as probable...and so i get double gear and therefore it is worth 50% for Relicing so that progress keeps the same speed...is this it? It does not feel that way...but it may be a perspective thing...

This is it, the gear to get those relic pieces has been doubled, so with the cost halved, it takes the same amount of time. Challenge gear hasn't been doubled again, since they doubled it last year.

Did they double it? Pretty sure they just added missing core gear.

"TVF;c-2397763" wrote:

"crzydroid;c-2397734" wrote:

"Ghost666;c-2397635" wrote:

"nomad1988;c-2397538" wrote:
It was in the road ahead announced a while ago.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/260057/road-ahead-november-2022#latest

Ok...read the whole stuff and found it:
Other Changes
Gear Accelerations items will have their Salvager conversion to Relic Materials reduced by 50%
Helps ensure these changes accelerate gear, but remain net-neutral to the Relic system
BUT:
I dont get the "net-neutral" part. As i see it, it is now faster to get to Relic 1...but it becomes twice as long to get to higher relic levels...no?

Or are the RELIC gear TWICE as probable...and so i get double gear and therefore it is worth 50% for Relicing so that progress keeps the same speed...is this it? It does not feel that way...but it may be a perspective thing...

This is it, the gear to get those relic pieces has been doubled, so with the cost halved, it takes the same amount of time. Challenge gear hasn't been doubled again, since they doubled it last year.

Did they double it? Pretty sure they just added missing core gear.

Pretty sure you're right, as per this post:
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/249886/state-of-the-gear-laxy-september-2021

Salvage for Mk5 Stun Guns, Mk8 BioTech Implant, Mk3 Stun Cuffs, Mk5 Arakyd Droid Callers added to Daily Challenges

I like double drops better than single drops.

A large source of gear exchanges for Carbonite Circuit Boards was out of the daily challenges. This was a major source of gear whose value got halved recently. Although new gear had been added to those challenges, it was never doubled making the switch a net loss for players. This change increased the difficulty of adding lower relic which went against their stated intention of us engaging in relics.

I spend most of my energy and store credits farming kyrotechs as every new character requires at least 300 before g12. Thus, I am not farming gear to exchange it for the Circuit Boards.

"DarjeloSalas;c-2399048" wrote:
Right.

Those pieces currently need 35 salvage per CCB. Before the exchange rate nerf they needed 17.5 salvage per CCB.

I haven’t checked how many of them we get in an average week, but @DarthCha0s13 ’s claim that this is a “large source” of CCB gear seems a little overstated to me.

It's the smaller conversion rate too, so 'large' may be a bit of an overstatement, but it's also a completely passive source that was halved, so CGs claim of net neutral doesn't totally hold up. Maybe a single relic level per month or two (I'm too lazy to math today) but it's not nothing...

Someone on Reddit calculated a loss of 2.3% yearly for CCBs. Not zero, but way less than many people here would have you believe.

Yeah... I think I have a hair outrage trigger when it comes to CG, and this really doesn't bother me. As usual, however, their terrible response when it was brought up got that trigger firing for a minute XD