Gear crunch relief

"Mohrashal;d-221598" wrote:
Was this actually addressed and I missed it? I am still scraping the bottom of the peanut butter jar for MK V Stun Guns, Cuffs, ETC.

I took Thrawn from g9 to R2 in a week and a half. It takes that much focus... That's it.

I spend almost all energy on gear farming. Gear crunch sucks and is necessary at the same time. Only focus on certain factions at a time.

Except for the fact that you can now buy Vault-loads of them in the weekly store every week, and they're in each paid gear bundle as well, nope.

The offer for free Stun Guns in where it always has been, or even lower (e.g. out of fleet battle rewards, or GET token no longer realistically spendable on gear)

You know what its not the fact of needing certain bits of gear its the drop mechanics of it all. As a player I find that you can't even focus your grind to an end..be it gear or character shards.

I find myself getting so angry and then discouraged when I'm trying to focus on needs and bits just don't drop..even when you go over the normal boundaries of refresh...its so brutal.

If anything amongst the current setup it'll be the drop mechanics that'll kill the player interest.its so stupid..CG unfortunately caught between players and bosses demanding profits.

CG can fix it...make the drops in hard nodes fixed to 1 piece per spend..hell there are so many toons in the roster that it'll still take forever to up gear anyway but at least players can engage, focus on the collection element, maybe even be open to experiment with teams.. or carry on and watch the game die in standard mobile game rotation.

Not exactly sure what last film recently dropped will give to CG but from what I saw its limited.

"JimmyD;c-2036091" wrote:
You know what its not the fact of needing certain bits of gear its the drop mechanics of it all. As a player I find that you can't even focus your grind to an end..be it gear or character shards.

I find myself getting so angry and then discouraged when I'm trying to focus on needs and bits just don't drop..even when you go over the normal boundaries of refresh...its so brutal.

If anything amongst the current setup it'll be the drop mechanics that'll kill the player interest.its so stupid..CG unfortunately caught between players and bosses demanding profits.

CG can fix it...make the drops in hard nodes fixed to 1 piece per spend..hell there are so many toons in the roster that it'll still take forever to up gear anyway but at least players can engage.. or carry on and watch the game die in standard mobile game rotation

THIS.

If I was designing the game, or fixing this one, one of the issues I'd work on is giving every node the "Zeta Treatment" like they did with Fleet Challenge Ability Mat Zetas.

It changed from 0-2 random to Flat 1.

Now obviously with Nodes being 20-25% drop rate & Hard Nodes having 1/3 character shard rate its going to be a bit more complex.

My thought is remove all "redundant gear". If its in 6 nodes. Make it just 1.

Drop all nodes down to 1-2 pieces of gear & make them 100% drop rate.

Ditto Character Shards. (Training Droids, Ability Mats, etc etc)

Instead of characters being in more than 1 node make it a single node & guaranteed drop.

Put Stun Guns into a single Node but know what if you go there you will get 100% drop rate.

If there are too many pieces & not enough nodes then pair up lower tier ones.
Single Piece of Gold Gear or Non-Challenge Purple 50 count gear in a single node.
Pair up a higher level blue with one of the 20 count Purples, or pair up 1 of those with a Character Shard in a Hard Node.

Make every node a place you Want to go to for a certain item but also KNOW that you will go there & get exactly what you need in that exact # of farms.

Remove the RNG factor from game rewards & people will stick around longer since they won't be so frustrated all the time.

"Schwartzring;c-2036093" wrote:

Remove the RNG factor from game rewards & people will stick around longer since they won't be so frustrated all the time.

Frustration is a motivator in getting players to spend money...

They altered the stun gun crunch by introducing gear with a different name that you need the same/more(?) of. Pray they don’t alter it further

Don't bother, with this last movie..
This game will last until the launch of the DVD and will end ... They don't care about the game but only about the 0.01% of whale that still spend thousands of dollars...
They don't care about dolphins....
They will do anything they can to grab as much money they can from this little part...

"Schwartzring;c-2036093" wrote:

Remove the RNG factor from game rewards & people will stick around longer since they won't be so frustrated all the time.

There are established gaming industry reasons why that won’t be done. I’m honestly shocked they did it with zetas.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-wise/201311/use-unpredictable-rewards-keep-behavior-going?amp

IIRC they said in the last Q and A they did help with the gear crunch. I don't know who they helped but it wasn't me lol