So it seems there is a max on Micro Attenuators, even though it doesnt say there is one. Really CG? I can see a max on currency, even if it is dumb, but why on earth would there be a maximum on materials? You put a max on currency (again dumb! )so we are forced to buy mats, shards etc, but if we try and spend currency on materials and there is a max on them, especially if it doesnt say there is, well....its kind of dumb. Yes i say dumb alot, but i cant use the word(s) i reallly am thinking.

They do show a maximum in game. When you go to calibrate a mod, it's shown in the top right of the dialog box.

Because CG doesn't like players to hoard materials or currencies. Players won't spend as much money on the game if they can save resources for an upcoming event, character release, etc. If you've got 6E mods, use them or lose them.

"EtchaSketch;d-264736" wrote:So it seems there is a max on Micro Attenuators, even though it doesnt say there is one. ... Calibrate screen, upper right corner, next to the number showing what you have, what did you think the "/300" was?

I'm not here to say that anyone is wrong about the X/300 info on the calibrate screen, but if you hadn't ever calibrated anything you could easily jus passively accumulate a bunch, not really learning about how to use them strategically and not knowing that it is use them or lose them. When you get them there is no indication that there is a maximum, so if you're the kind of person who thinks the game is a bit overwhelming with so many gear pieces and mats and currencies etc. and you're trying to focus on getting better at one part of the game, it would be **very easy** to hit the max and then lose a lot of these. I'm not complaining, and I'm not intending to join the OP in the complaint. But I know a lot of people who play some parts of the game seriously and some parts casually. If you don't mess with mods much because mods are like paperwork and they're more PITA than fun to you, the mods are going to be one of those parts you play casually. Those players do deserve a better warning system. Frankly, I also think that there should be a better warning system when maxing out Datacron credits. It wouldn't be hard. Just every time you would have gotten one but it is not added to your stash because you are maxed out, the game should display the number you would have gotten and a message saying, "The game declined to give you X credits/attenuators/whatever because you have reached your storage limit for that item". I suppose there would need to be a setting turned on by default but that you could turn off if you really, really don't want to mess with them even though you know there's a maximum. Otherwise the messages would get annoying quickly. But overall, I think that it's a reasonable design choice to set a max (even a relatively low max like 300 attenuators) while I also sympathize with people who want warnings. I don't think that's too much to ask.

Yes, but everyone scrolls through the shipments. Mods are like the paperwork of the game. They are in no way fun. They can do a lot for you, just like having the right paperwork can do a lot for you -- say, prevent you from getting arrested for driving a car -- but that doesn't mean that paperwork (or going to the DMV) is fun. This is a game. By definition it's supposed to be fun. If there is an aspect of the game that is not fun, the people that download SWGOH to have fun playing a game aren't going to be digging through paperwork. Feel free to dunk on the people who say that the information isn't available. Have fun. It is, after all, technically not true and you should definitely feel superior to people who don't know something that you know. That will definitely not ever come back to bite you. That said, there's a more limited request here that is reasonable: giving you some kind of warning when you hit the cap. They already do this with mods. In fact, they're extra friendly about this: if you buy a mod and you don't have room for it, it sends the mod to your inbox where it waits for you to clear room. There is literally no reason that there couldn't be more visual cues in the game about this. Since everyone in the game scrolls through the shipments some times, you could post a "maxed out" image in red superimposed on the location where you can buy calibration mats. You could give a message whenever you are denied new earned or purchased calibration mats. You could even not really deny them, but send them to your inbox until there is room for them. I don't really see this being high priority for CG. And it's certainly not a high priority for me personally. That said, instead of focussing on how best to dunk on the people who didn't realize there was a cap, what if you just said, "Eh, I don't need it, but casual players might benefit and anything that makes the game more player-friendly isn't bad. Might be a good QoL update someday." Seriously. It's not a terrible idea. Even more seriously, if we **support each other** when folks come up with ideas that will positively impact the player base even when we personally don't need a feature, then CG is more willing to listen to us. What's wrong with uniting behind that QoL updates are a good thing even if you personally don't use every feature?

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myaky2negboa
Rising Newcomer
2 years ago
For everyone that said "its in game on the calibrate screen" sorry, but i shouldnt have to click 4 or 5 buttons to see a max number on something. I even put this as a warning to my guildmates and a bunch of them didnt know there was a max either, so its not just me. I mean currencies that have a max amount show it right there without having to click buttons, why not everything else? And i dont "hoard" its just been a busy 2 weeks in real life and i just havent had the time to spend/ update mods.
Not everything has a maximum amount, most of the materials actually do NOT have a max, so for the few things that do, why isnt it easily seen when spending instead of hiding multiple clicks away? And i just did a quick-ish look, are there any other materials that have a max? Gear mats dont, mod mats dont, relic mats dont, nor do conquest or datacron mats. So why would i have assumed these calibration mats have a max? And i could be wrong about other mats, i didnt look at every single material.
iMalevolence
New Traveler
2 years ago
New raid currencies don't specify a cap until you go to the correct screen to spend them.
Screerider
Seasoned Scout
2 years ago
I kinda forgot about Mo Calibration. :shrug
iMalevolence
New Traveler
2 years ago
I'm all for a better warning system or a message popping into the inbox indicating that the currency is filled. Or, better yet, I'm of the belief that attenuators shouldn't be capped. Though I imagine they were capped because they'll play a part in the next mod tier if it ever happens and they didn't want a stockpile if/when that happens.

However, I was merely pointing out where the OP was wrong in his assertion that a cap wasn't shown and explaining that I thought the current locations were consistent across currencies.

Similarly, OP says it was a busy 2 weeks, which is fine. Assuming they have Jabba, that's roughly 2x smuggler's run II events, so 120 attenuators. But the remaining ~180 attenuators to cap would be roughly Math.Ceil(180/0.19) * 16 / 645 ~~ 24 days worth of farming nothing but 9D mod battles using 3x refreshes and collecting all free energy. They could drop it down to ~15 days with 3x 50 cost refreshes, 3x 100 cost refreshes, and getting some free from the webstore, but if you're spending 6 refreshes daily on mods, you should probably be working on them.

0.19 used for the attenuator drop rate on the 16 energy node. My testing over 2,266 sims on that node gave a rate of 0.188, so I added a little extra.

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