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Rising Veteran

21 days ago

Datacron Cadence

The new format of how often datacrons come in and out so quickly is not sustainable for many players. To be honest one conquest run is not enough time. Let's say you complete conquest in one week, it only gives you a full week of farming cron materials and then they are gone. On top of that we did not receive any data cache prior to the last set which made it so much harder and was a big limiting factor. It took me a long time to open up and enjoy datacrons, but what you are doing now is just not sustainable for players and going to push more away. I do hope CG is open to change and can look at making adjustments.

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winterwolves
Seasoned Ace
18 days ago
CG are just hoping that people don't realise that datacrons aren't worth it. By "it" I mean anything.
I stopped the 150 crystal per day farming of datacrons during conquest about 3 months ago now. I realised that was costing me 2100 crystals per conquest, and it was not earning me back that amount of crystals from anywhere.
I sit in K2, and I worked out that I'd be better off for crystals if I stopped cron farming and that made me drop to k3. But guess what? I have not dropped out of k2, so it's all good for me.
The other benefit is that I no longer experience "hell week" where you need to: 1. Purchase 3x50 lots of energy every day. 2. Manually play all of that energy to get through conquest asap to 3. Get to farming cron mats. Instead I just play through conquest over the two weeks. I think I spent 200 crystals last time, because I actually wanted to play a bit more! Wanted to play! How many people say that during hell week?
Anyways, I'm saving about 2k crystals every month, and haven't had a drop in GAC crystal income.
I still have crons to set, because I buy the focussed ones in the shipments. I have to use that currency on something. So what mats I do get from dusting and leftover energy when I'm done with conquest just upgrade those a bit.