Just change the name to Galaxy of Datacrons already

I have exactly 30 lvl9 DCs. Don’t have any of the marquee exclusive ones, but I have just about everything else. Don’t spend a dime. DCs are about working hard for it in conquest and knowing how to manage the resources for them. 

That being said, I do that because I have to. I hate them. 

I don't buy crystals for money. What crystals I have come from fleet, GAC, TB and dailies. I have 17 lvl9s for set 16 and so far, 13 lvl9s for set 17. And I am far from the most efficient conquest player. Across the whole event, I typically waste a few refreshes' worth of energy on stupid mistakes. During conquest, I refresh conquest energy for 450 every day (6 refreshes). That means I can't refresh all other energies, but it means I get a bunch of crons, which allow me to punch up in GAC against opponents with all GLs (I have 6/8), higher GP, more omicrons. 

It is a complete myth that you can't have a good amount of good crons without spending money. It's just baffling to me that after what, two years of dcrons so many players remain steadfastly ignorant of the fact that dcrons are the biggest punch-up tool smaller accounts have vs bigger GAC opponents. 

The true currency to build dcrons is time. And I understand not everyone has the time to sink into this game, but let's not confuse things. The timesink of SWGOH is absolutely inflated and it's something that CG most likely won't do anything major to change because it suits their stats to have a timesink game. On the other hand, dcrons aren't exclusive to whales. Although, if more players continue to believe this myth and refuse to build dcrons, that makes for easier GAC matchups for me, so...