FTP players...

"LukeDukem8;c-1388696" wrote:

"Apotheosis;c-1388688" wrote:
How To "Power-Game" as a F2P in SWGOH

1. Throw away your first account after playing 2-4 weeks and learning the game mechanics.
2. Start fresh, ideally after having restarted a few times to get an optimal first free chromium toon and after having hoarded some energy & challenge reward items.
3. Through careful choice of toons farmed, be capable of taking top 50 squad arena payout daily. By mid/late game, this should improve to taking top 20 squad arena payout daily. By endgame, this improves to being able to take top 1-2 payout daily. Ditto for fleet.
4. With a daily gem income of 800+, consolidate the power of your squad and fleet arena toons; then expand to gear up Rancor and hAAT squads (to take top guild payouts in those events).
5. Rapidly power up other toons on demand, and enjoy the rest of the game.

I did a **** job at all of the above, but eventually got to top payouts after 10 months of play. (After which, I could buy a full stun gun every 2 days.) Friends and guildmates that optimized their start, were already getting top payouts at the 6 month mark; they're now well over 2M GP.

That's how it can be done.

Perhaps, but those guys must have had really optimal conditions. I had top payout for 2 weeks and was quicly overrun by ptp players. Plus, this scenario probably doesn't represent the majority.

This scenario represents a tiny amount of players. A shard starts with 20000 people. Assuming 10% keep playing and 90% quit. That's 2000 people. To get a decent payout of 150 crystals a day you need to finish top 50. Therefore do the math 50/2000 is 2.5%! That makes top 100 only a 5% and top 200 only a 10%.

Of course anything over 200 rank is not worth playing in my opinion. I would argue that anything over 100 rank is not worth for me personally.

In addition the possibility that in a 2000 people sample you have at least 2.5% who can afford to pay a decent amount of money is too high. Therefore you are competing against p2p for those top 50 spots!

I remember I started a new account about 8 months ago. I spend 5 dollars in crystals to start it out. Played for 2 weeks. I started with a great initial rank, made it to the top 20 but that lasted a couple of days. Soon the shard was filled with 7 star wiggs, 7 star landos, 7 star nihilus, 7 star Chazes. I was pushed to the high 50s. A few days later I was barely hanging in the high 70s. Eventually I had a hard time staying in the top 100s. Until I decided to quit.

As a f2p you will most certainly be pushed to the mid 100s after a couple weeks since high and mid to low spenders will push you out. You need a few months to farm a decent team and start making a comeback by focusing on a solid 5 amn squad at which point you can probably hold a top 100 spot. After playing for over a year you can certaily push for a borderline top 50 rank.