Ideas to make Datacrons better

Fire the people responsible for inventing them

Just had a thought.

I kinda hate that you can get rid of toons, but the datacron remains. Then I remembered those events with boxes. How about have the datacron be a box we can try to destroy? Adds a bit more strategy to attacking as well.

Delete them entirely, apologize to the players for pissing on years of GL farming and issue 5,000 crystals to everyone for the hassle. Lol

"Dantes_Ghost3;c-2384570" wrote:
Delete them entirely, apologize to the players for **** on years of GL farming and issue 5,000 crystals to everyone for the hassle. Lol

LOOL funny guy. Why the 5000 crystals since y'all dont even invest time into them?

The initial release about datacrons talked about underutilised squads.

The only way they can bring unused squads into play is if all relic requirements are removed.

I'm not going to relic 7 a character (and r5 their team) for the temporary use that datacrons give. But if there was no relic requirement and it made a team useful, that might be fun.

The Aayla datacron for example. R7 needed, and it looked fun to use/a pain to face. But I'm not going to put r7 on her for the 3 months that one lasted, or 4 months now. There are about 230 characters in the game. What are the chances that Aayla will cycle back into a datacron bonus? Seems very unlikely to me. 3 months later and those relic materials sure would have been nice elsewhere.

But with no relic requirements she could have shined brightly for a few months.

So one improvement would be remove requirements to use them.

But even then, I'd just prefer they were gone. I don't need another level of complexity in this game.

First of all, CG should create a philosophy of datacrons. I think it should look like this:

• Temporary tool to lift outsiders power on ~GL level
  
• Save priceless theory-crafting side of the game
  
• Make people care about datacrons and spend money on them
  

Best steps with this perspective I could suggest:

Remove GL and meta squad units from datacrons - dc should be an outsider lifter tool

Remove all bonuses from 1-2, 4-5, 7-8 levels, make them only 3 perk level datacrons - perk focus without % bonuses make them better in theory-crafting

Remove datacrons drop from everywhere, put them in a shop and reveal datacron side-faction-unit from start - give player ability to buy what they needed for dc currency or crystals

Make 3-6 sets available from start and make them available for 6 month in theory-crafting purposes

Make datacrons upgrade cost in this proportions: 9 dc 1st level = 3 dc 2nd level = 1 dc 3rd level