credit crunch

It is entirely intentional to get you to spend money of credits in the shop yourself, I doubt they will change it, it makes them money

The poll does not have appropriate options. The only options are "I have too much money" or "there's a credit crunch"? So either you are filthy rich or stinking poor? Theres no adequate option?

Even though I don't have any spare credits, I picked "no". There's adequate money if you carefully constrain yourself to picking who you want to use. Think of it like a business...you can't hire every employee you find, and sometimes you have to let an employee go when he isn't contributing enough to your business anymore.

Leveling several new character up to 40 or 50 isn't super expensive. If you play with the characters a bit you should start to get a sense of who you like. You then make careful selections about who progresses further. When I was about level 60, I had my main 6 characters all leveled up. I tried several new characters and decided I liked ventress the most of the bunch. So I started leveling her up. By the time I got up to level 63 she was about 3 levels behind. At that point I started liking her enough that I decided to make her one of my core characters. I gave her priority over another one of my core characters (Talia) that wasn't helping as much anymore. A week later and ventress was caught up with everyone else.

When I got to level 70, I decided to de-emphasize sid in my core, so he's not getting leveled up for a while. I'm using the money to try out other characters. There are a lot of good characters I see other people using and wanted to take a shot at them. Dooku and Phasma were 2 biggies I never worked on before. I've got them both around 50 and I seem to like Phasma. I've used some extra money to add a few stars, and now I'm boosting her level up.

Might you make a bad choice? Sure. Although sid is alright, I think I would have been better off with Phasma. I'm learning late. Oh well, lesson learned. Now I'm fixing that. Might things change (character gets buffed/nerfed)? Sure, but that's just how things go. Roll with it.

"ldkronos;368254" wrote:
The poll does not have appropriate options. The only options are "I have too much money" or "there's a credit crunch"? So either you are filthy rich or stinking poor? Theres no adequate option?

blah blah blah.... Roll with it.

respectfully, it's a simple yes or no question. are you struggling to get credits?

1. credit rewards are not scaling appropriately with price increases
2. you are mistaken, if you think you should have to make a choice of 5 characters only. you need to level many more toons than just 5 for arena
-> you need many types of characters for challenges
-> you need a deep bench for GW
-> Raid is obviously designed for 25 character roster
-> need a LS and DS team to complete missions

not to mention that only focusing on 5 characters just makes everyone farm similar teams for arena. we could see more interesting arena fights if people could actually afford to level their rosters

I am not demanding that all my characters are all at max level (even if I can dream of that) but we should be able to level a lot more than currently.

ultimately it gimps the gameplay, and makes aspect of game like GW a lot more frustrating than they should be

just glad the vast majority of players see the light

I didn't have too much of a problem until raids started, but now I need to build up several new teams, many characters from level 1. I can live with it, I'm patient (although in fairness I do complete GW every day) but I'd very much appreciate a slight boost in credit gain

Of course credits should scale with level, its basic game design, but:

A) Why are training droids in the game? They're 100% pointless if you require credits on top of them. Either remove credit requirement to level, or just toss training droids altogether.

B) If EA wants to sell credit packs, there's an easy answer. Rather than frustrate people with low credit income and completely ridiculous crystal prices, just make them reasonably priced in the store. 85 crystals for 62k creds is literally the worst ripoff I've ever seen in a game. If 85 creds got you 12-15x that amount, I guarantee they'd see lots of first time spenders and many people would spend crystals to buy them.

"Look how much easier it is to level characters if you just drop some crystals here!"

Is a much easier sell than:

"Eighty-five crystals? That's worth... One tenth of a portion, peasant."

to be fair, the options arent phrased correctly. You can think the shortage of credits isnt a problem without having too much to spend urself.
That said, i hear alot of ppl who have havent promoted toons because they cant affort it. That shows that the rate you pull shards is not ballanced with the rate you aquire credits. You could argue that they should have focussed on credits instead of shards, but anyone who has ever played "profit mining" would disagree.

scaling up will still require players to make choises on who to lvl/star up. I think "credit management" should still be part of the game, but it would ballance the shard/credit ratio.

Yea, but I have toon ADD and get that gearing 20 raid toons will be a problem

My server shard is new so I generally don't fear my GW..

Yet

"lunarwolf;368274" wrote:
respectfully, it's a simple yes or no question. are you struggling to get credits?

Correct, it is a yes no question, but it's a loaded yes no question. Like: Have you stopped beating your wife?

The worded options are "yes credit crunch" or "no I have too many credits". That leaves no middle ground. I certainly don't have TOO MANY credits (as I'm always able to spend everything I get, and I can always find more ways to spend any extra credits), but I don't feel there's a credit crunch either.

2. you are mistaken, if you think you should have to make a choice of 5 characters only. you need to level many more toons than just 5 for arena

You are right. You need more than 5. And I have more than 5. I'm 73. I've got (5) 73s, (1) 70, (2) 68's, (1) 63, and (2) 60's. That suits me in all placed. Would it be nice to have 25 maxed characters for raids? Sure, but that's something to build up to.

we could see more interesting arena fights if people could actually afford to level their rosters

Lol...yeah, right. So lets assume they double our credit. Now everyone can have 10 guys. You think were going to see more diverse teams? Or is everyone just going to level up the same 5 additional guys? Hint: it's the latter. You can see this in arena all the time. When someone is buffed/nerfed and the meta shifts, shortly after everyone miraculously finds ways to level up the new "in" character. Suddenly I see a bunch of new bens and fives showing up maxed left and right. People that are willing to take chances will take those chances regardless of what they have. Everyone else is just going to play it safe and follow the leader. The only way it's going to be any different is everyone has everyone unlocked and maxed (or just about) and there's no hard, long term decisions to be made. But then that makes it a totally different game.

Honestly I've never spent a penny on the game. I've got 8 toons maxed star, and gear as far as I can take em. 2 more that are very close, and a whole bunch in the middle, and level 1-10. Currently I have 7.56 million in credits. Finish Galaxy war daily since the update, and in an hour give or take. The biggest problem with this game are the players that don't think about how to best plan their toons. And how easy it is for them to complain about it on these forums.

I'm from a late December server, so I had a little time to sit at lvl 70. I feel this is fair, since the older servers were basically beta testers for the game, very limited content, tons of bugs.

When I sat at lvl 70, I decided to build a stable of 6* toons. It costs less to go from 1* to 6* than to go from 6* to 7*. For newer players, you may want to follow the same plan, but stop at 5* instead of 6*. When your bench has sufficient depth, halt leveling and gearing until you have enough credits for the star promotions.

Farm cantina 6 and 7 for the best credit rewards. That's the best plan for maximizing credit usage atm.