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Knewonce's avatar
Knewonce
New Traveler
2 months ago

Completing the new Track F2P

Seeing a lot of concern from my F2P brethren about the new track.  It makes sense since it’s day 1 and a lot of the stuff that makes this completable unlocks over the course of the month.  Ultimately you need 250k EC to finish the track.  If you’re F2P this will come from 3 primary sources:

1.) Dailies - Every day you get 7 dailies worth 300 EX each with a 1500 EC bonus for doing them all.  28 days of this nets you 100.8k EC

2.) Episode Quests - Every day a new episode quest opens that’s worth 2000 EC.  You get 8000 EC for doing all 7 in a week.  You’ve got till the end of the month to do them all and it’ll net you 88k EC

3.) Galactic Feats - There will be 2 F2P feats every GC, maxing it out gets you 4550 EC.  With 8 total GCs that’s 72,800 EC available each episode.

Finally there’s about 4k EC worth of stuff you can do with a 3* of the new marquee, but it’s not really gonna move the needle much.

In the end, there appear to be 266,200 EC available if you don’t buy the pass and don’t buy shards of the marquees.  You’re gonna need to do most of it if you want to max out, but the good news is most of it will be pretty easy to do if you were normally getting a red or gold crate.  This will be enough to get pretty much all the rewards we used to get from GCs.  There’s just a lot more opportunity to sell us bonus stuff than there used to be.

18 Replies

  • Knewonce's avatar
    Knewonce
    New Traveler
    2 months ago

    If you could max out 75% of the GCs before, you’ll max out the track.  If you couldn’t, you probably won’t now.  But it does look like you’ll at least get an increase in rewards.

    The minimum reward now for people that do their dailies is 70% or the reward track.  That’s ahead of what you’d have gotten if you’d just been doing the two feats that are now locked behind paywalls.  

    I agree not everyone will max, but most people who play every day will get to the low 40s on the track.  F2P is a big label that covers a wide range of rosters, and you’re right, someone that was only getting the 110 box or less most GCs previously isn’t going to suddenly max.  But they’ll get more rewards than they used to, and folks that could get gold or red boxes previously will max out in the new system.

     F2

  • Knewonce's avatar
    Knewonce
    New Traveler
    2 months ago

    That’s a fair point.  If you weren’t someone that did their dailies every day, this is a much worse change than it is for people that play every day.

  • aim313's avatar
    aim313
    Seasoned Rookie
    2 months ago

    what someone could do in GC before has nothing to do with anything now.  someone could have beat tier 10 in the current GC before... but now might only beat tier 4 because they dont have a built up rebel fighter squad.   right?  cuz you get nothing for beating tier 10 with anything other than rebel fighters.

  • Knewonce's avatar
    Knewonce
    New Traveler
    2 months ago

    We’ve had RF GCs before, and sucked then too.   

  • gjhz6qynwnw7's avatar
    gjhz6qynwnw7
    Seasoned Rookie
    2 months ago

    You’re missing the point entirely. You could still complete the battles with a completely different team. Now you can’t. This is a huge downgrade no matter how you split it, and we’ve seen how the pass is structured now. 

  • Kachuras's avatar
    Kachuras
    Rising Traveler
    2 months ago

    Everything about this new update and UI is designed to push FOMO, buy this pass, buy the conquest pass, buy more shards of this character every two weeks or you won't be able to take part. It's an unsavory experience however the math stacks up and it's not subtle, it's actively tracking and giving you notifications of feats you're completing but won't get rewards for unless...you spend. Really gambling industry, predatory stuff going on here. 

  • Crispy508's avatar
    Crispy508
    Seasoned Adventurer
    2 months ago

    Thanks, this info is helpful.  Hopefully the "make good" they give helps get us closer to the amount needed this time, since I was unable to complete the dailies the first day because when the update came out I had already done challenges, arena, etc

  • infinite64's avatar
    infinite64
    Rising Scout
    2 months ago

    Why do people always calculate gc as if they can do two tasks in a f2p player? Are all teams strong enough to do the last part?