Omicron Supply Chain

I do have data. Let's unpack this. 

Guaranteed omicron mats per month, the low-hanging fruit:
Episode shipments: 20
Episode track (free): 4
Conquest (603): 2 

This requires that you play every day to max out your episode track loot and aim for conquest red box. If you're getting 603 points in conquest and stopping there instead of pushing for 630... well, you do you. 

Extras (on top of the above):
Episode track (battlepass): +8
Endor Escalation: 1-3
Conquest (battlepass): +2
Peridea Patrol (R9 Zombie bros): chance for 5 
Galactic Legend shipments: up to 3k tokens (with all 10 GLs) which is 5 omicron mats

This is without any whale options. 

Here's what it looks like for me (13.8mln GP):
Episode shipments: 20
Episode track: 12
Endor Escalation: 1
Conquest red box: 2
GL shipments (I currently have 8 GLs): 4
Monthly omis: 39

If I wanted to, I could spend 3750 GET3 once a month to bring it to an even 40: two full omicrons per month. 

SiloAsh wrote:

While I don't have any hard numbers or data, it feels like omicron availability has really dried up.

Posts like yours always bring vibes instead of concrete information, and are always wrong. 

Omicrons were removed from Galactic Challenges and put into the era store instead. Initially, there were slots to buy 4 a week (more or less mirroring what he had before from Challenges) but shortly after they put in another slot to give us the opportunity to buy 5 a week. 

So they've actually been made more available than they were. 

Since Galactic Challenges have been removed, I'm noticing slower progress through the era reward track - if this led to a week where I didn't have enough currency to buy all 5 omicrons in the era shipments, that would be a concern. This hasn't happened to me yet. 

You’re assuming that everyone is getting a great conquest score and lots of the high-level content.

The availability hasn’t dried up, but the accessibility is more stagnant for lower players. There’s nothing about “vibes” when I’m very clearly getting less episode currency than I had on average before the update.

20 mats from episode store are easily available to everyone. Episode currency has been shuffled around but not reduced. So far, I'm where I was last month halfway through an episode, before the Era update. You're not getting less episode currency. That's mathematically not true. So, yeah, vibes. 

You can't red box hard conquest. Ok, missing out on two there. 

4 guaranteed from maxing out the episode pass, which is just playing daily. 

Depending on how many GLs you have, you can be getting between 0 and 8. 5 max from having 10 GLs for pink tokens after conquest, 1-3 from Leia's monthly event. 

At the bare minimum, you have easy access to 24 per month. Get more GLs, red box conquest, and you will have more. What do you want me to say? Smaller rosters with fewer GLs, performing worse in conquest, get fewer omicron materials? Yeah. As you should be. 

OutrunWhistle wrote:

when I’m very clearly getting less episode currency than I had on average before the update

Meathead's post gave us straightforward math about changes to episode points. Math disagrees with you. 

The extremely easy solution to this is to keep a minimum stash of 8k at all times, buy the omicrons first thing when the store refreshes every week and then you don't buy anything else until you get back to the 8k minimum stash. 

You’re assuming that everyone is getting a great conquest score and lots of the high-level content. 

But the new system will have not had any effect on those streamsOutrunWhistle​ . A player will be getting what they got before, regardless of the update. 

20 mats from episode store are easily available to everyone. Episode currency has been shuffled around but not reduced. So far, I'm where I was last month halfway through an episode, before the Era update. You're not getting less episode currency. That's mathematically not true. So, yeah, vibes. 

Hopefully this is trueZanirN7S​, but when my era store refreshed today I did not have enough era currency to buy the 5 omicrons. That’s the first time that’s ever happened to me and I’ve spent none of it on anything else since the new era system launched. Hopefully I’ll earn enough before the next refresh to get the rest of the omicrons. 

“when my era store refreshed today I did not have enough era currency to buy the 5 omicrons.”

As DarjeloSalas said. Maths can’t disagree with my very eyes, my friend. Maths cannot magically change my perception.

You don't have to hope. You can literally calculate it. 

Look at where you are on the track. Look where the next episode currency reward is. Each track level requires 5k points. Daily and weekly feats award set, easily calculated amounts of points. Take 5 minutes and do the math. 

Ok, but you know that you have a week to buy the omicrons before the store refreshes again, right? Is your position that if you can't buy the omicrons the instant the store refreshes, something is wrong?

No - my position is that something is different from how it was before. I know the currency should come in as the feats accumulate, but I don’t know yet if it will happen fast enough. 

As for checking if I knew I had a week before the store refreshed again, I’m a little insulted, but yes I did know that.