Is F2P dying a slow death?

Not at all, there is currently no use for those toons and anyone farming them should be making plans according to what they believe will happen.

There is more than enough time (as of right now) to make smart choices and plans to help service your future.

The dev team have mad comments that they felt it was better for the community to push out a bunch of toons on the front end, and then line up events for them on the back end of the year. This would be preferable to them releasing toons, having an event where they are needed and then rinse and repeat.

No.

I’m F2P. The HSTR was behind a paywall. Gear 12 Pieces are behind a paywall.. the best Marquee toons are behind a paywall. & now 6• mods will behind a paywall. Each “paywall” expires after 5ish months to make room for the next paywall. Yet F2P can still be competitive. I’m top 5 in ships every day

"JediKnight_MarkRyan;c-1634461" wrote:
I’m F2P. The HSTR was behind a paywall. Gear 12 Pieces are behind a paywall.. the best Marquee toons are behind a paywall. & now 6• mods will behind a paywall. Each “paywall” expires after 5ish months to make room for the next paywall. Yet F2P can still be competitive. I’m top 5 in ships every day

This. You can pretty much kiss any chance of being at the forefront of a meta shift as ftp but if you don't try to chase the meta the whales follow you can do plenty well with the ftp toons available.

If anything more are going F2P. Pay to win is not as popular as it was once.

But the best of these new toons (so far) are useable at 3*. Bast and Nest. I don’t really see anyone running new BH, Solo Scoundrels in arena.

"DuneSeaFarmer;c-1634467" wrote:
If anything more are going F2P. Pay to win is not as popular as it was once.

I feel like that is more an unintended consequence of how much everyone hates sith raid than anything else. Instead of motivating whales in non-hsith guilds (and whales that fail to make top 10) to shell out they spent the last 6 months letting the gap between top 1% of whales and everyone else explode exponentially, convincing the community that if you aren't already at the top there's no point spending trying to get to the top .

At least I very much doubt they intended to convince would be whales that spending money in the game wasn't a good choice because the gap was too large.

We just got out throats cut on new mod table that doesnt even give the opportunity to all the slice mats.

Didn‘t it say something about „legendary“ in the newsletter for Mission and Zaalbarbeing in the Chromiums?

It‘s too bad that you can still only delete newsletter instead of being able to mark them as read like in MArvel Strike Force.

"Vinny_Vader_Vedi;c-1634469" wrote:
But the best of these new toons (so far) are useable at 3*. Bast and Nest. I don’t really see anyone running new BH, Solo Scoundrels in arena.

oh ok, so your ship shard isnt full of 7* g12 double zeta hounds tooths not dying with anything