Missing cancelled GA rewards

so normally a 1st or 2-4th place finish gets you 95-130 of each of the 6e slicing materials. With double drops using 3x50 refreshes and assuming 3 slicing mats per sim you will get 138 slicing mats per day (285 free energy + 360 from refreshes, 14 energy per sim). so basically we have to spend crystals to even get a little of what we would have received if GA wouldn't not have been cancelled. and 2 days of double drops will get us what 1 1st place rewards would give us. which completely skips over the pulse modulators which don't have a double drop.

For those of you that say CG doesn't need to do anything and we should be happy with double drops, you forget CG already set the precedent by giving us TW and TB rewards when they cancelled events. why should this be any different?

"JasFonz;c-1884388" wrote:
@TVF reading your posts are just about as exciting as reading Edward’s posts ?. I hope it’s worth it’s weight in gold cause being a blatant CG fan boy in just about every thread amassing posts is getting rather boring and a tad annoying.

It’s easy to hit a forum with a self righteous approach but you have to also let the people vent a little.

Then set me on ignore.

Now that’s the smartest thing you’ve said in a lot of posts on this thread. Thanks mate. Really appreciate it ???

@YaeVizsla so let the people be mad then. Hey it’s a free world the last time I checked and everyone has a right to express themselves. Surely one can understand paying clients do get upset whereas a company making millions a month ignore the people who help them make those millions in the first place. That being said that’s the story of capitalism isn’t it? ?

"JasFonz;c-1884405" wrote:
@YaeVizsla so let the people be mad then. Hey it’s a free world the last time I checked and everyone has a right to express themselves. Surely one can understand paying clients do get upset whereas a company making millions a month ignore the people who help them make those millions in the first place. That being said that’s the story of capitalism isn’t it? ?

If you're saying everyone has a right to express themselves, that includes me, and I have a right to express my thoughts on their expression.

Not going to lie I may have got bored of this thread and skipped a few posts. I'm relatively confident I haven't missed anything meaningful at all. Thought I'd share this link though as I found it interesting

https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/bzvzw0/assessing_double_drops_make_good_vs_ga_crystal/

TLDR;

Double drops are a 65% offset of Rank 1 GA rewards, assuming 3 refreshes each of each type of energy, not including zetas

Double drops are a 3 Zeta mat shortfall compared to likely GA rewards for Rank 1

"EduardoCadav;c-1884416" wrote:
Not going to lie I may have got bored of this thread and skipped a few posts. I'm relatively confident I haven't missed anything meaningful at all. Thought I'd share this link though as I found it interesting

https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/bzvzw0/assessing_double_drops_make_good_vs_ga_crystal/

TLDR;

Double drops are a 65% offset of Rank 1 GA rewards, assuming 3 refreshes each of each type of energy, not including zetas

Double drops are a 3 Zeta mat shortfall compared to likely GA rewards for Rank 1

These calculations are JUST (almost, still missing 6 Zetas!) true in one simple case:

if someone is REALLY using 3 refreshes for every energy!

If you are using just one, or like me, at some days none, you will have a mega loss compared to a full month of GA!

"rokota;c-1884427" wrote:
These calculations are JUST (almost, still missing 6 Zetas!) true in one simple case:

if someone is REALLY using 3 refreshes for every energy!

If you are using just one, or like me, at some days none, you will have a mega loss compared to a full month of GA!

You are making bad spending choices in not taking advantage of double drops while they're here. Energy is the most efficient way to spend crystals, and it's doubled right now.

This is not a case that you are not being compensated. You are not bothering to take advantage of the compensation.

These double drops are spread out over the course of two weeks, such that even if you have a very modest crystal income, you can still afford to drop crystals on enough energy to take full advantage.

"EduardoCadav;c-1884416" wrote:
Not going to lie I may have got bored of this thread and skipped a few posts. I'm relatively confident I haven't missed anything meaningful at all. Thought I'd share this link though as I found it interesting

https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/bzvzw0/assessing_double_drops_make_good_vs_ga_crystal/

TLDR;

Double drops are a 65% offset of Rank 1 GA rewards, assuming 3 refreshes each of each type of energy, not including zetas

Double drops are a 3 Zeta mat shortfall compared to likely GA rewards for Rank 1

The problem with this is the assumption of the poster about "normal farming". The difference between GA #1 and GA #2-4 is much less than the difference between Squad Arena top3 and Squad Arena, let's say, top50-100. Not to mention Fleet Arena where nobody outside of top50 gets any crystals. The poster's assumption is only true if someone consistently reach at least top3 in Squad Arena, and at least top20 in Fleet Arena. And, considering shard chats, this is still a small percentage of playerbase compared to the active players.

Not to mention RNG. I believe that the drop rate in overall is 33%, but if someone happens to be really unlucky during double drops (like me, when I refreshed 3 times in Cantina, and got a total of 4 shards*), it isn't even come close to the flat and guaranteed rewards of GA.

*I know, kitten happens, and I've been playing long enough to not be mad about this, and I also believe the devs that they don't alter drop rates at all, but it still doesn't make me feel better.

"Spang;c-1884443" wrote:

"EduardoCadav;c-1884416" wrote:
Not going to lie I may have got bored of this thread and skipped a few posts. I'm relatively confident I haven't missed anything meaningful at all. Thought I'd share this link though as I found it interesting

https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/bzvzw0/assessing_double_drops_make_good_vs_ga_crystal/

TLDR;

Double drops are a 65% offset of Rank 1 GA rewards, assuming 3 refreshes each of each type of energy, not including zetas

Double drops are a 3 Zeta mat shortfall compared to likely GA rewards for Rank 1

The problem with this is the assumption of the poster about "normal farming". The difference between GA #1 and GA #2-4 is much less than the difference between Squad Arena top3 and Squad Arena, let's say, top50-100. Not to mention Fleet Arena where nobody outside of top50 gets any crystals. The poster's assumption is only true if someone consistently reach at least top3 in Squad Arena, and at least top20 in Fleet Arena. And, considering shard chats, this is still a small percentage of playerbase compared to the active players.

Not to mention RNG. I believe that the drop rate in overall is 33%, but if someone happens to be really unlucky during double drops (like me, when I refreshed 3 times in Cantina, and got a total of 4 shards*), it isn't even come close to the flat and guaranteed rewards of GA.

*I know, kitten happens, and I've been playing long enough to not be mad about this, and I also believe the devs that they don't alter drop rates at all, but it still doesn't make me feel better.

congrats on bringing shard chats into it! Nice to have some variation in the moaning ;) been a bit bored with all the forum posts on drop rates are rigged and double drops don't make up for GA rewards (which until yesterday were awful and not worth the effort according to many on the forums). Nice to get back to another staple forum argument topic :)

By the way I'm just messing with you. sorry
P.S. RNG is annoying as all hell. Sorry you had a bad spell during double drops.
P.P.S only posted the link as I found it interesting.