[MEGATHREAD] Road Ahead: June 2022 - Datacrons

"Rius;c-2377784" wrote:

"Hal_10000;c-2376842" wrote:
CG giving away more and more datacron material shows they fundamentally misunderstand the problem. It's not the farming that we object to; it's that the datacrons fundamentally change the game. It's no longer about having good strategy and good mods and executing. It's about the RNG of having a killer datacron that can make a team invincible.

RNG like splicing mods….my mod splicing RNG is atrocious but I keep grinding away in the hope of getting something which improves my characters. Some players do not bother too much with mods whilst some have amazing mods they either worked hard achieving or had amazing luck (maybe even mine as well). That’s where I see datacrons. Players will choose to engage or not and they will impact the competitiveness of a roster just like any other way of levelling up: relic level, mods, zeta, omicron, number of characters/ ships.

Mods are forever, datacons are temporary. Omicrons are forever, datacons are temporary. Character levels are forever, datacons are temporary. No matter how much they calm down datacons, they are temporary and make any strategy, any theorycrafting useless. The next team will come out and it'll be "okay, ewoks are going to destroy everyone, but CG is totally NOT trying to get you to relic 7 your ewoks. Nope, not at all!" And three months later they'll lose that datacon because it's temporary. This just looks like CG wanting us to burn through resources more quickly because we're "hoarding" too much again.

The idea might've started, "hey let's make characters and team unique by adding a little difference to them with something, like 100% crit damage, or 100% defense!"

That got turned into (most likely by some extreme sports junky): "got it, okay so add 300% offense to that Rey character, that galactic version I think? Oh and add 800% health steal, oh and make protection absolutely useless against these teams, oh and make the whole team hit harder by like 150%, oh and add abilities for the most powerful characters, oh and add more other stats like 100% tenacity, 100% potency!" "Okay, we can do that, that's a lot of variations for about a dozen datacrons." "no no no! put all that one ONE datacron. It'll be super extreme! Now excuse me, I have to go do my 3 hours of crossfit. Did I tell you I do crossfit yet today? Because I do."

"Oh remember, don't let them use those in PVE stuff, ONLY PVP so they can't gain an unfair advantage against conquest, territory battles, galactic challenges, assault battles, etc. Unfair advantage is only okay against other players!"