Of all the currency types we have in the game regular credits are basically the worst in terms of usefulness. There is literally nothing to spend it on quickly enough to stop yourself from reaching the max limit and even then what we can spend it on isn't really worth it. Would it be too much to ask if we could convert credits into currency for other shops in the game?
You know, I was going to mention mods... however, I think others have this covered. MasterSeedy, I am again reminded how much more knowledge you are at the game... and I am impressed with your ability to communicate your knowledge. It is a good skill.
If you ever spend crystals to refresh mod energy, you're doing mods wrong.
Refreshing the mod store only costs 15c. You only buy the ones showing +5 or +6 speed, but you generated 22 possibilities for those 15 crystals.
Those possibilities are ALSO much more likely to be higher rarity (blue, green, gold).
It is FAR more efficient to farm mods using fewer crystals and more credits, in part bc there's nothing else great to spend your credits on once you reach the endgame. If you have tons of credits, you can even buy rare but powerful combos that don't show speed to see if speed turns up. Things like a Blue Off set or CD set triangle with Crit Damage primary, Off% and CC% as the two visible secondaries. There's great synergy in that mod, so if you have credits to spare, you buy it. Does it always work out? No! Of course not. But farming mods in the challenges almost never works out -- the hit rate is terrible. -- and costs 3.33 times the number of crystals (which you care about) only saving you credits (which you don't).
Doing things this way also means you don't have to clear out your mods as often. If you buy mod energy, you get 7.5 mods per 50 crystal refresh, and they stay in your inventory until you do something about them, even though most of them, maybe all of them, are trash.
Meanwhile for 15 crystals you get 6 mods available with Episode Currency, 7-12 mods available with credits and the remainder available with Ship Credits. Even if you never buy any mod except with regular credits, you're still using 15c to generate as many or more possibilities as the mod challenges which cost you 50c for the energy to get 7.5.
And since you get instant feedback about which ones are worthwhile before you buy, you only add 0-3 (I average ~0.75) mods to your inventory per refresh.
It burns through credits, saves crystals, and reduces the busywork of purging your mod inventory. There's nothing not to like about this.
Events & Simming rarely give you Gold mods that already have 5 speed on them.
I buy those most any chance I can get just to see if a quick Level to 12 will get me 2+ total hits on speed.
I drop 1000 every 6 hours into the Slicer Mat location.
I wish they had more Slicer locations for Mk-1
That location alone along with a few Relic mats keeps me below CAP in Mk1 & then I don't have to buy Credits.
Agreed, nearly every day at some point between the 4 times it refreshes I find some Gold (maybe Purple) mod with 4/5 speed on it that won't cost me anything to take to L12 & see how high I can get it.
Not to mention it costs money to LEVEL the mods too & if you sim Mods even a few times a week that gives you a bunch more.
I've been playing since 2017, 9 years, I still have certain Set/Primary combos that suck w/ only 7-8 speed on them.
I mean, sure, I've got lots of 20+ speed but there are still LOTS of Sub-15 speed mods in my roster.
I check it on occasion as a "what if" moment, but it's so few and far between that i just don't want to deal with the hassle of mod management more than i have to when there are so many other things in this game I'm already spending a lot more time on that I should be.
Link? You know I can't look away from a good car crash.
I generally don't buy mods because I get so tired of managing them
Maybe my brain is wired differently...well OK I know my brain's wired different, but with mods I mean! Why would you give up the opportunity of getting mods that are potentially the best mods you'll ever own? Even if it is very slight. If you have the credits, it's not costing you anything to improve your roster...well time of course, it costs time.
I can understand time constraints, and understand the annoyance of a full mod inventory when you need to remod for an event grrrrrrrrrrrrr. However, tired of the management, can't really be bothered, not worth sifting through 20 for 1 good one, not believing there are any good mods in the shop...none of this sits well with my wiring! I don't understand the way of thinking.
Maybe if I wasn't always between 60-140 million I'd get fed up with the process too. However, I'm forever watching what I can buy like a horse racer watches those love handles...there's never excess.
I buy mods in the mod store daily. My position is that I don't really have enough credits to buy all the mods I would, if I had limitless credits. There are mods that I'm "Can I afford it?" types...let alone the "have potential but unlikely to be good" types.
I generally don't buy mods because I get so tired of managing them and always being near the cap. With all the events that give me mods the mod store just doesn't make sense for me that often. It'd be nice to be able to convert or spend my credits on things, but even then I don't know if there would be much value in the tradeoff.
It's around 2.1B.
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