Crystal income is independent of spending,
No, it's really not. If you spend more on the game, you're more likely to be in the top 50 in both arenas. If you spend less on the game you're less likely.
This statistical correlation is the very opposite of what "independent" looks like.
. Actions to store or save up to have a known number of any currency or energy, is in no way limited to spending. How easy or hard that is depends on how much you spend,
And therefore it makes sense to say that they have ***something*** to do with each other, rather than ***nothing*** to do with each other.
I actually think we perceive the game the same way, but when you describe the same 2 things as being closely related (the difficulty of one depends on the other) and having literally nothing to do with each other, you're contradicting yourself.
I think you're just being very careless with your language such that what you're actually saying includes some wrong but you're not actually intending to say anything wrong.
I shall therefore, having I hope made my point, let it go.