New TB no GET 1?

"MasterSeedy;c-2392525" wrote:
I still run short of Carbs and g11 finishers.

Double lots and/or half cost (same lot size) of those will definitely help me.

As for Kyros, I farm with 50 crystal refreshes every day on 7B (shock prods), purchase computers with GET, and purchase any additional gyros directly for crystals. Between these sources I do fine, getting on average 1 new relic toon/ week. As long as they're releasing fewer than 40 new toons per year, I'll make noticeable progress on my back catalog of toons.

Would it be nice to get some more kyros? Sure. And if I did I'd be growing my crystal collection at a pretty fast clip since my major crystal expense would be gone. If that happened, I'd be free to just buy a couple hundred shards of the latest marquee from shipments.

And if THAT happened, there would be very little difference between myself and the whales.

Would I, personally, love to have a stockpile of 20k kyros of each type? Sure.

Would it be good for the game if I got new toons FtP at the same rate as the whales? No, of course not. Someone has to pay for this game. If everyone spent $20 on their copy to begin playing we might end up at the same amount of money spent as the current system, but people don't do that. That's not the model. And even if it was, that would give CG an incentive to stop supporting this game so that they could make a brand new game and collect your $20 again.

I have my criticisms of the current model of monetization of mobile games, but having the payments roll in over time keeps CG willing to pay the electric bill for the servers. If that means I spend my crystals on Kyros and wait 2.5 months for my new toons to hit 7*, I can live with that.

I never personally said that they should get rid of all bottlenecks as I think the game needs them for many of the reasons you stated.

I simpily pointed out that
1. With the information in the road ahead running the new TB will reduce the flow of a current bottle neck (no GET1 to purchase gear that is needed and is bottlenecked)
2. That the implied goal of speeding up getting to R5+ is not happening by what was released in the RA and with number 1, will actually slow down getting to R5+