"Kyno;c-2256827" wrote:
I would love to see your math on 25k, considering the poor distribution of crystals in ships, please keep in mind not everyone gets 1 in a shard, no matter how your shard is set up.
I tried to find someone's post about the math but couldn't, so I re-created it. Ships opened 11/22/16 and our shard migration occurred on 5/17/18. That's 540 days. Simply the amount of days to address the issue is what causes the losses to be significant. Due to the pre-migration population, it was impossible to get rank 50 at PO without multiple refreshes as you typically would end up in 200-400 range each day even with the current meta so to try to go for PO at rank #50 for 50 crystals would just be a waste. I used to do 5 battles a day to try and at least hit the 200 mark and get the extra 200 fleet arena tokens (1,200 for #100-200 vs 1,000 for #200-500). Therefore this total loss calculation would only be for getting rank 50 daily and assumes you would be at rank 100-200 pre-migration:
Crystals: 540 days * 50 crystals for rank 50 = 27,000 total
Zetas: 540 days * 100 fleet arena tokens (diff b/w 1,200 at #101-200 and 1,300 at #50) = 54,000 fleet arena tokens or 27 zeta mats.
I was off on the zeta mats in my earlier post but it really depends on what ranks you decide are reachable/comparable. The crystal loss is really shocking as that's simply for reaching rank 50, which seems so easy to reach.
And to continue my argument, it is still extremely difficult to reach rank 50 at PO without doing all 5 battles a day as you often can fall outside 100 overnight due to the activity of the group. This does not include interacting with the top 30 main group and has nothing to do with how the shard is organized. There are too many people trying to climb and reach top 50.
