Hermit Yoda

"Ravens1113;c-2199554" wrote:
Nope.
CG feels that even toons from years ago (relevant or not) don’t qualify for an accelerated farm. Arbitrary to say the least but if you’re in a GET farm for him and still doing HOTH TB, you’ll get him sooner than you think.

Is it arbitrary?

The toons not accelerated that fit the timeline all seem to have specific locations, meaning not arbitrary.

"Kyno;c-2199564" wrote:

"Ravens1113;c-2199554" wrote:
Nope.
CG feels that even toons from years ago (relevant or not) don’t qualify for an accelerated farm. Arbitrary to say the least but if you’re in a GET farm for him and still doing HOTH TB, you’ll get him sooner than you think.

Is it arbitrary?

It's in fact the opposite of arbitrary, it's purposeful.

Would be nice to see a new galactic bounties with Hoda as one of the toons, similar to what they did with Wampa. It’d ease the farm a little bit, but those events are also pretty infrequent. I’ve already got both, thinking more about new players

"TVF;c-2199566" wrote:

"Kyno;c-2199564" wrote:

"Ravens1113;c-2199554" wrote:
Nope.
CG feels that even toons from years ago (relevant or not) don’t qualify for an accelerated farm. Arbitrary to say the least but if you’re in a GET farm for him and still doing HOTH TB, you’ll get him sooner than you think.

Is it arbitrary?

It's in fact the opposite of arbitrary, it's purposeful.

I don't know. Quite a lot of things were excluded. All the raid toons, which is fine...but vader, wampa, hoda, malak, GAS (not sure he's been around a year tho), grievous, and i'm sure more.

I'm surprised they never caved to whales on things like this to let them buy GET so they can get those faster.

JKL really really hurts in that respect in that Wampa and Hoda haven't been close to must have's in over two years, if they were prior to that even. Now, for JKL, you need TWO GET only toons and GET isn't that easy to come by. Each is like 90k GET to get to 7*. Malak and GAS are 70K each after unlock.

It's very much a case of if you didn't guess the future right, you're way behind with no hope of catching up until the toons have been exceeded by multiple others.

My young account that only has 3 g13’s almost has wampa already (i’ve not gotten any shards from bh event), I’d already have completed him but for the realisation that it’s be beards before i can gear him.

I went for wampa instead of hoda due to personal preference, but neither of these characters are difficult to get if you knuckle down and farm them from the store.

"Kyno;c-2199697" wrote:

"cboath7;c-2199686" wrote:

"TVF;c-2199566" wrote:

"Kyno;c-2199564" wrote:

"Ravens1113;c-2199554" wrote:
Nope.
CG feels that even toons from years ago (relevant or not) don’t qualify for an accelerated farm. Arbitrary to say the least but if you’re in a GET farm for him and still doing HOTH TB, you’ll get him sooner than you think.

Is it arbitrary?

It's in fact the opposite of arbitrary, it's purposeful.

I don't know. Quite a lot of things were excluded. All the raid toons, which is fine...but vader, wampa, hoda, malak, GAS (not sure he's been around a year tho), grievous, and i'm sure more.

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GAS and Malak are event toons, you need to complete thier respective event to gain them.

Wampa and hoda are from a specific store, that was excluded, yes.

Vader if he pops up in the fleet store is not doubled?

Not sure what's up with GG, that is one of the odd situations that got really bad.

It's still not arbitrary, each toon that has been excluded is from a specific store or event (which they shouldnt double. Because that removes the necessity to finish the event)

Everyone else is fair game. If it were arbitrary there would be no connections between ones excluded (i.e. - accelerate hoda, but not wampa)

I will give you GG, but then again he is a special circumstance just like the GET store.

What event do you get to skip for Hoda? It's shop only.
Same with GAS and Malak, you can't begin the farm until you complete the event. You get him at 5* and have to farm the rest of the way.

You really want to say they're propping up the legitimacy of Galactic Bounties with Wampa?

I mentioned vader because i've seen him pop up at 5 still.

Doubling the payout of those toons would not detract from anything at all 'in game' - it would simply reduce the 16 month time frame to get them for the average player.

As I said, JKL/JML are behind a huge GET wall for the average player and REQUIRE you to be in a guild other wise you cannot obtain them. And not just any guild, but a fairly good one. And, i'm fine in that respect personally being in one, but it is not that easy to get in to a good one. But that's a whole other issue.

"RTS;c-2199678" wrote:

"YetiYeti;c-2199661" wrote:

"Coltc455;d-238685" wrote:
Is there any chance they will put hermit yoda as an accelerated farm. I know he's been around a long time and for me personally, I am stuck behind him for getting both JKL and JML. This is incredibly frustrating, and I know its my fault for not doing him earlier, but will this ever happen? Bc I would love to get JML sooner than 4 months from now

Never going to happen. CG's economy is based on you using GET to buy gear pieces, so they clog it up with characters/ships to derail your ability to obtain the gear necessary to develop your account f2p. Its underhanded, but once again, they talked about how they 'dislike' putting characters in the GET stores because people 'overwhelmingly' go for them when the gear in the store is counted for their economic balancing.

They're a for-profit business, nothing underhanded about it.

That's kind of funny really.

A top tier AAA game retails for 60 bucks.

There are pack here at 100 bucks, regular packs at 50 and 60.

Much more common at 20 and 30 and 40

Much less common at say, 5...

But, yeah, a top tier game retails for 60 bucks - which is something that thousands of man hours went into making. Meanwhile a pack of existing items that took someone 60 minutes to package goes for 100 bucks.

Pharma is a for profit business as well, but that Skrelli guy got hoisted up on charges and arrested shortly after jacking up drug prices at his company to obscene levels 'just because he could'.

I have games i have no problem paying to play. That said, they aren't constantly adding things solely for monetary gain. You pay to play and everyone has a level playing field. You have in game buys for custom/cosmetic stuff and that's it. Not pay to win.

I'll say, it's one thing to put out a new toon and keep the masses from getting it and letting others buy him all the way up. It's quite another when you go in an intentionally set rare mods to get those same people spend even more to gear him up as well. It's that intentional double (or triple) dipping that people think of and refer to as being underhanded. That's what leaves the bad taste in peoples mouths. Saying 'nuh-uh' doesn't change that fact a bit.

"cboath7;c-2199993" wrote:

"RTS;c-2199678" wrote:

"YetiYeti;c-2199661" wrote:

"Coltc455;d-238685" wrote:
Is there any chance they will put hermit yoda as an accelerated farm. I know he's been around a long time and for me personally, I am stuck behind him for getting both JKL and JML. This is incredibly frustrating, and I know its my fault for not doing him earlier, but will this ever happen? Bc I would love to get JML sooner than 4 months from now

Never going to happen. CG's economy is based on you using GET to buy gear pieces, so they clog it up with characters/ships to derail your ability to obtain the gear necessary to develop your account f2p. Its underhanded, but once again, they talked about how they 'dislike' putting characters in the GET stores because people 'overwhelmingly' go for them when the gear in the store is counted for their economic balancing.

They're a for-profit business, nothing underhanded about it.

That's kind of funny really.

A top tier AAA game retails for 60 bucks.

There are pack here at 100 bucks, regular packs at 50 and 60.

Much more common at 20 and 30 and 40

Much less common at say, 5...

But, yeah, a top tier game retails for 60 bucks - which is something that thousands of man hours went into making. Meanwhile a pack of existing items that took someone 60 minutes to package goes for 100 bucks.

Pharma is a for profit business as well, but that Skrelli guy got hoisted up on charges and arrested shortly after jacking up drug prices at his company to obscene levels 'just because he could'.

I have games i have no problem paying to play. That said, they aren't constantly adding things solely for monetary gain. You pay to play and everyone has a level playing field. You have in game buys for custom/cosmetic stuff and that's it. Not pay to win.

I'll say, it's one thing to put out a new toon and keep the masses from getting it and letting others buy him all the way up. It's quite another when you go in an intentionally set rare mods to get those same people spend even more to gear him up as well. It's that intentional double (or triple) dipping that people think of and refer to as being underhanded. That's what leaves the bad taste in peoples mouths. Saying 'nuh-uh' doesn't change that fact a bit.

............Are you seriously comparing the price of optional purchases in a video game to the guy who bought patents to existing medicines and then arbitrarily raised the price of each by 2000%?

"NicWester;c-2199997" wrote:

"cboath7;c-2199993" wrote:

"RTS;c-2199678" wrote:

"YetiYeti;c-2199661" wrote:

"Coltc455;d-238685" wrote:
Is there any chance they will put hermit yoda as an accelerated farm. I know he's been around a long time and for me personally, I am stuck behind him for getting both JKL and JML. This is incredibly frustrating, and I know its my fault for not doing him earlier, but will this ever happen? Bc I would love to get JML sooner than 4 months from now

Never going to happen. CG's economy is based on you using GET to buy gear pieces, so they clog it up with characters/ships to derail your ability to obtain the gear necessary to develop your account f2p. Its underhanded, but once again, they talked about how they 'dislike' putting characters in the GET stores because people 'overwhelmingly' go for them when the gear in the store is counted for their economic balancing.

They're a for-profit business, nothing underhanded about it.

That's kind of funny really.

A top tier AAA game retails for 60 bucks.

There are pack here at 100 bucks, regular packs at 50 and 60.

Much more common at 20 and 30 and 40

Much less common at say, 5...

But, yeah, a top tier game retails for 60 bucks - which is something that thousands of man hours went into making. Meanwhile a pack of existing items that took someone 60 minutes to package goes for 100 bucks.

Pharma is a for profit business as well, but that Skrelli guy got hoisted up on charges and arrested shortly after jacking up drug prices at his company to obscene levels 'just because he could'.

I have games i have no problem paying to play. That said, they aren't constantly adding things solely for monetary gain. You pay to play and everyone has a level playing field. You have in game buys for custom/cosmetic stuff and that's it. Not pay to win.

I'll say, it's one thing to put out a new toon and keep the masses from getting it and letting others buy him all the way up. It's quite another when you go in an intentionally set rare mods to get those same people spend even more to gear him up as well. It's that intentional double (or triple) dipping that people think of and refer to as being underhanded. That's what leaves the bad taste in peoples mouths. Saying 'nuh-uh' doesn't change that fact a bit.

............Are you seriously comparing the price of optional purchases in a video game to the guy who bought patents to existing medicines and then arbitrarily raised the price of each by 2000%?

Welcome to the forums, enjoy your stay.

I'd bet probably not. I don't think he's meant to be a fast-farm toon like with wampa and Malak for example. Makes them some of the few characters you have to hoard GET tokens for and this way they're not really locked behind some sort of p2p wall. Keeps things fair for the future but I'm not sure that really matters at this point seeing as how many people have already got him at 7*.