Panic Farm?

"Kyno;c-1760264" wrote:
IMO, a panic farm is when you dont know what is going to be needed until shortly before the event.

If the toon has been around a while, it's hard to call it a panic farm. If the characters are known, but the release time is not, it's still not really a panic farm. You know exactly what to focus on, not having time or resources to do so, is not really in the devs control. New players start all the time, they cant hold a release to make sure everyone gets them the second time around.

But that's just me.

But panic farming has nothing to do with devs. It’s a personal experience. When you find yourself in a position where you need to farm a lot of shards in a short time to get what you want, you are in panic farm mode.
The devs, the reasons you got there, whereas the requirements are known or not, have been in the game for a long time or not, all of this is 100% irrelevant to the state of affairs : you need a lot of shards, and it’s going to be a race against the clock.

"Kalano;c-1760216" wrote:

"Lethoiun;c-1760171" wrote:
Some people farmed non stop and still a little behind. I have T3 left, yes i planned at the fastest pace.

How is that possible? I farmed non stop as well and finished at the end of November

RNG. Until the last few weeks I was farming since the first event. I've put at least 100 crystals per day (200 often and 300 occasionally) into Mission/T3 and did both 25 refreshes on Jolee/Z in DS/LS nodes and a 50 refresh plus ran the 8 ship nodes on one of them daily. 48 sims per day for those 2. I had Bastila to 7* at the original event. Well, I still have 17 Z to go and its why I'm really questioning 33% drop rates. I did flip to BH ships the last few days of December through Tuesday this week to get the Falcon to 5* I put at least 40 sims in those 2 nodes daily over that time. Sometimes 48. I started from 3* on both ships with an additional 25 shards combined so I only needed about 160 shards. I've actually quit working on Z now. Giving him a break for a few days. Yesterday was 1 shard in 16 sims. Wed was 2 for 24, Tues 0 of 8, 3 of 8 on Monday and 1 of 8 on Sunday. For the year I'm also at 15% drop rate on zetas from challenges. I've received exactly 6 out of 40 possible.

What this ended up meaning for me was that when they pushed that garbage TW on us it was an easy decision to close my wallet permanently to EA. When things dont drop it's hard to spend money. I'd really prefer something like spend 30 (or 60 for those 20 energy hard nodes) energy here, get a shard.

I'm panic farming for Revan right now and have been for a while. I had to beef up my team for Chewie for a little bit and thus delayed my farming. So yes you can panic farm. Its just a rush farm where you aren't sure you'll be ready by the deadline.

A panic farm would probably be if they release the last 2 OR (Juhani and carth) characters into farmable locations a week before a Darth revan event or something like that.

I agree at this point for regular JKR it's not a panic farm. I think the panic farm moniker is more aptly used for brand new legendary or hero's journey releases that happen shortly after the required characters are released into the general farming population.

"JohnAran;c-1760449" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1760264" wrote:
IMO, a panic farm is when you dont know what is going to be needed until shortly before the event.

If the toon has been around a while, it's hard to call it a panic farm. If the characters are known, but the release time is not, it's still not really a panic farm. You know exactly what to focus on, not having time or resources to do so, is not really in the devs control. New players start all the time, they cant hold a release to make sure everyone gets them the second time around.

But that's just me.

But panic farming has nothing to do with devs. It’s a personal experience. When you find yourself in a position where you need to farm a lot of shards in a short time to get what you want, you are in panic farm mode.
The devs, the reasons you got there, whereas the requirements are known or not, have been in the game for a long time or not, all of this is 100% irrelevant to the state of affairs : you need a lot of shards, and it’s going to be a race against the clock.

If you need shards in a short amount of time, and you choose to panic that doesnt mean it is a panic farm, it means you are panicing because you were not ready. If you are panicing because you had no idea what to set up for and now have something thrown into your face that is a panic farm. It is a subtle difference but it is a difference IMO.

IMO, panic farm is a gaming practice that involves limited information until there is limited time. Anything else is just a personal issue due to when you started playing, or your income of resources that help you progress. Once the details are out there, and an event has passed for the first time, the panic is over, the planning begins.

"Kyno;c-1760488" wrote:

"JohnAran;c-1760449" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1760264" wrote:
IMO, a panic farm is when you dont know what is going to be needed until shortly before the event.

If the toon has been around a while, it's hard to call it a panic farm. If the characters are known, but the release time is not, it's still not really a panic farm. You know exactly what to focus on, not having time or resources to do so, is not really in the devs control. New players start all the time, they cant hold a release to make sure everyone gets them the second time around.

But that's just me.

But panic farming has nothing to do with devs. It’s a personal experience. When you find yourself in a position where you need to farm a lot of shards in a short time to get what you want, you are in panic farm mode.
The devs, the reasons you got there, whereas the requirements are known or not, have been in the game for a long time or not, all of this is 100% irrelevant to the state of affairs : you need a lot of shards, and it’s going to be a race against the clock.

If you need shards in a short amount of time, and you choose to panic that doesnt mean it is a panic farm, it means you are panicing because you were not ready. If you are panicing because you had no idea what to set up for and now have something thrown into your face that is a panic farm. It is a subtle difference but it is a difference IMO.

IMO, panic farm is a gaming practice that involves limited information until there is limited time. Anything else is just a personal issue due to when you started playing, or your income of resources that help you progress. Once the details are out there, and an event has passed for the first time, the panic is over, the planning begins.

Ok well personally i’m really not interested in nitpicking and playing around with words just for the sake of it so i’ll just disagree with op (and you) and have no problem with people talking about panic farming.
I don’t see how pushing for revan now in panic mode after just getting jtr is less of a panic farm than pushing for him the first time around for those who didn’t have anything better to do. It’s the exact same thing that’s happening (counting days, crystals, making guesses and projections...), and the exact same feeling for the people finding themselves in the situation. That’s just my opinion of course.

Just because there is organized panic farming every power creep’s release does not mean it’s the only true panic farming.

panic at the disco>panic farms

"IDinDooNuffin;c-1760302" wrote:

"Lethoiun;c-1760171" wrote:
Some people farmed non stop and still a little behind. I have T3 left, yes i planned at the fastest pace.

You didnt farm non stop then. T3 is a 3 week 3 to 7 star using only refreshes afforded by completing your daily tasks. If youve been farming from the last revan drop til now. Youd be done.

Ive worked on mission and zaalbar together for a while and just finished them a like 2 weeks ago. Now can focus catina on T3. Been doing crystal refresh as much as i can.

Some of us are behind because regardless of what the official drop rate is, some toons drop 5 shards a day. Sometimes toons won't drop 5 shards in a week. Ergo, rage induced panic farm.

I thought I was fine, happy to plug away at the OR thinking of how much fun it'll be when I get Revan. Now after learning Revan's coming back the 31st I'm not so sure. 164 shards to go on Mission, that's doable, right? It'll be a panic farm but it's doable... right?