[MEGA] Road Ahead: July 2021

@Kyno

But you dont think its jumping the shark to say you would gear tuskens over BB?

If you read me in context, that's not what I'm saying.

What I'm saying is that a new GL is worth spending 2000 kyros, even if some of the required toons are low kyro/gear requirement toons that I don't care much about (like Tuskens).

BB is not worth spending 2000 kyros, particularly as CG seems set on the idea that now that there are sufficient GLs out, that it's time to nerf all nonGL counters to GLs to make it a (near?) requirement to have a GL to beat a GL.

Lord Vader, by having BB required (and there's no reason that the other two BB won't be required), goes from requiring 2k to 2.5k Kyros required to something like 3.5k Kyros required. (More? It depends on future requirements).

I would much rather spend 2k Kyros for GLEE than 3.5k to 4k to get LV. And those are my only GL choices now that GLOW is almost done (just waiting on BKK shards for a couple more weeks).

I just did a big workup of Kyro farming. At the very top end we can expect to see 350, maybe 360/ month Kyros passively farmed. That's it. 3500 kyros is 10 months of passive Kyro farming for the most advanced among us. For anyone less well off, but ready to pursue GLs, it could easily be 14 months of passive farming, and for those persons there may well not be the excess GET2 necessary to seriously farm Kyros actively.

I've been thinking about this, and I almost suggested the other day that it's time for CG to put some Kyros in Fleet battles. It's not crystal efficient to farm Kyros when paying 100 crystals for 120 energy.

So instead of providing extra low cost refreshes, what about just putting a Kyro node on Fleet Battles? This enables more spending on Kyro farming at an affordable rate without changing anything else in the game. It still requires crystal farming. It still requires patience & RNG (so the people who don't farm and prefer to buy Kyros in Shipments will still do that), but now it at least is possible to farm Kyros & Bad Batch shards simultaneously.

After today's announcement, I propose this, which is the same idea, but taken farther, given the ridiculous Kyro requirements in the game now:

Make the final Fleet/Normal node (Fleet Normal 5H) drop 1 kyro of each type. Move the Mark 6 Medpack to Fleet Normal 4B. Delete the Mk9 Electro Binoculars currently awarded on Fleet Normal 4B. Everyone has a surplus of these anyway.

Finally, in addition to double drop events (or alternating with DD events so you have the same number of such events per year), have Kyro events where every node (or every LS node or whatever) has the standard chance to drop a Kyro in addition to everything else it would normally drop. If this is too much, have events where LS battles have a chance to drop 1 of the Kyros, DS has a chance to drop the other Kyro, and Cantina has a chance to drop Impulse Detectors.

I won't be going for Lord Vader until at least Kyros are added to Fleet Battles, even if you don't add Kyro/Impulse Detector events.