Dark Side Currency is just a cash grab

why would you need to spend money to sim nodes? I'm real confused.

"OnyxSkydrifter56;d-255430" wrote:
Does anyone else have a serious problem with light/dark side currency??? I just spent MONTHS building up garbage characters like Tuskan Raider and Embo to Relic 5, only to need to grind out HUNDREDS of other meaningless missions to earn credits and be able to participate in the event I just spent months to unlock??? Why don't you just require a fee and be transparent about your money grabs? I'll apparently be here for the next 6 months grinding dark side missions to finally unlock Lord Vader.

6 months? If you do all the 3x50 refreshes and don't lose any battles you can have both LV and his ultimate unlocked in a month

Farm gear you need for other characters using the Dark Side energy or just farm kyro's which are always needed. Shouldn't be any cash being spent for energy.

Never spent a dime to farm tickets for my GL's. Every day the first thing I farm are characters I don't have at 7*, then pretty much the rest is farming LS7B for kyros. I do the 100 crystal refresh 3x and I generally get 45-50 a day.

The DS/LS token grind is annoying and makes you feel like you've worked months for the privilege of working even more. It's irritating at best, and infuriating at it's worst, but it's not going anywhere. If you're spending money on it, that's your choice. You absolutely do not have to and most people that I know, don't. What's a few more weeks of grinding (for gear that you need anyway) when you just brought 14ish characters to relics?

Embo isn't garbage

Work through a couple GLs, and then do JKL or Starkiller. You’ll appreciate the GL ticket farms. Yes, it is an additional hurdle, but it’s a hurdle that allows you an opportunity to gather all the gear you’ll need to apply to your cool new Galactic Legend the moment you complete their event.

Everything in the game is a cash grab, that’s how businesses work.

"AvatarofCynicism;c-2354546" wrote:
why would you need to spend money to sim nodes? I'm real confused.

Because they don't want to wait 4 weeks to finish it off which is how it takes without dipping deeply into crystals/cash?

From memory:
700 tickets for just the ultimate
140 (i think) for Tier 4-5
180 Tier 3
120 Tier 2
120 Tier 1

1260 tickets after you spend months to unlock the event. If you're lucky, refreshing up until it hits 100 per refresh (stop at the first 100), you get about 50 tickets a day, so 25 days or so at that rate to get those tickets. It's a VERY unnecessary punishment for spending months to unlock an event. And that's exactly what it is, a punishment or an attempt to make people pay to avoid it. No more, no less. There's absolutely not actual game based reason for a such a thing.

You level your 5 toons for a legendary, you can complete the whole thing in a day. Yeah, GLs are a major update, that's why you gotta level 15 of them to higher heights. 22 in the case of JML since most do JKL then go right to JML. That's should be effort enough, no?

"cboath7;c-2355509" wrote:

"AvatarofCynicism;c-2354546" wrote:
why would you need to spend money to sim nodes? I'm real confused.

Because they don't want to wait 4 weeks to finish it off which is how it takes without dipping deeply into crystals/cash?

From memory:
700 tickets for just the ultimate
140 (i think) for Tier 4-5
180 Tier 3
120 Tier 2
120 Tier 1

1260 tickets after you spend months to unlock the event. If you're lucky, refreshing up until it hits 100 per refresh (stop at the first 100), you get about 50 tickets a day, so 25 days or so at that rate to get those tickets. It's a VERY unnecessary punishment for spending months to unlock an event. And that's exactly what it is, a punishment or an attempt to make people pay to avoid it. No more, no less. There's absolutely not actual game based reason for a such a thing.

You level your 5 toons for a legendary, you can complete the whole thing in a day. Yeah, GLs are a major update, that's why you gotta level 15 of them to higher heights. 22 in the case of JML since most do JKL then go right to JML. That's should be effort enough, no?

So someone being impatient and spends crystals to finish it faster is somehow a cash crab by CG? Right.