Hello,I hope a Devs will read this post and i will try to make it as constructive as possible.First of all, thanks a lot for easing the credit crunch. The addition of credits in arena, the revamp of the credit heist, new raid rewards made the game much funnier and we are now able to level toon and level mods.You also made the shards collection grind extremely convenient, where we know more or less the excepted rate of drop (around 1/3) for Cantina and hard node.My issue is with the gear as of now. It takes approximatively one month to completely max a toon in mean. Many players complain that they have excess of gear and are in bottleneck of many of salvage (mostly mk5 stun guns, mk3 stun cuff).Your move about adding gear salavage to fleet shipments is really welcome and I suppose with time player will shift to buy gear instead of Zeta mates (although I doubt about it). However, I think there still a great imbalance between shard availability, credit and gear.What I really want to ask is about communication as well. Can you say some words in next Devs update about the gear grind? If it is WAI? If a Devs post a response in this thread (and if the Devs responsible for the economy as well) I can provide a good overview supported with data and by many other players.

Thanks for your input. My point was more about a balance between shards collection, credit and gear as well as gear allocation. I have 5 toons at 7* level 50 G3 and I probably will have more in the future.Even though Devs are releasing new toons, I am not excited at all, because they will be useless Even at 7*, as I need to gear them if I want them to be anywhere useful.By the way, I would be really glad if newer players had it easier as we have: it will take them months anyways to be at my level (4.6M damage in heroic tank), and this is without considering mod farming which is the worst dimension in farming ;)

They've just added more ways to collect gear (fleet shipments and AAT raid) and still you complain?

"Waqui;855206" wrote:They've just added more ways to collect gear (fleet shipments and AAT raid) and still you complain?So you still insist there is a balance between gear, shards and credits?

I fully understand their need to make money, but the gear/credit crunch is a bit on the ridiculous side, I (and I'm sure there's many like me) prefer to be able to play different characters to change the monotony of the game, but with limited resources you are forced to focus on your arena team while leveling up or you risk falling behind. And no throwing money at the game isn't the answer. I have several characters unlocked that I would like to play, but can't do so in anything but light or dark side battles as they don't have the levels or gear to keep up with anything else. And I'm not asking for everything for free but a drop rate increase for credits/gear/shards would go a long way to to satisfy thousands of players while limiting these posts about it taking too long or costing too much.

Every store should have gear salvage rotating in at least one spot. We should have the choice as to what to spend our currency on. I currently have 50k arena currency and nothing to spend it on.. don't really need more credits right now and and I've bought plenty of Prestige. Why can't a row of gear salvage be added to the arena store (all stores) with a low chance for some bottleneck gear to show up (stun cuffs, holo projectors, laptops, stun guns, etc)? I don't even care how much currency they want for it. It would get some people to spend crystals hitting the refresh button and will just be an otherwise nice addition to somewhat help ease the gear grind.

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Neo2551
8 years ago
Thanks for your input.

My point was more about a balance between shards collection, credit and gear as well as gear allocation. I have 5 toons at 7* level 50 G3 and I probably will have more in the future.

Even though Devs are releasing new toons, I am not excited at all, because they will be useless Even at 7*, as I need to gear them if I want them to be anywhere useful.

By the way, I would be really glad if newer players had it easier as we have: it will take them months anyways to be at my level (4.6M damage in heroic tank), and this is without considering mod farming which is the worst dimension in farming ;)
Waquira
8 years ago
They've just added more ways to collect gear (fleet shipments and AAT raid) and still you complain?
Neo2551
8 years ago
"Waqui;855206" wrote:
They've just added more ways to collect gear (fleet shipments and AAT raid) and still you complain?

So you still insist there is a balance between gear, shards and credits?
swgohplayer
8 years ago
I fully understand their need to make money, but the gear/credit crunch is a bit on the ridiculous side, I (and I'm sure there's many like me) prefer to be able to play different characters to change the monotony of the game, but with limited resources you are forced to focus on your arena team while leveling up or you risk falling behind. And no throwing money at the game isn't the answer. I have several characters unlocked that I would like to play, but can't do so in anything but light or dark side battles as they don't have the levels or gear to keep up with anything else. And I'm not asking for everything for free but a drop rate increase for credits/gear/shards would go a long way to to satisfy thousands of players while limiting these posts about it taking too long or costing too much.
regansnyder
8 years ago
Every store should have gear salvage rotating in at least one spot. We should have the choice as to what to spend our currency on. I currently have 50k arena currency and nothing to spend it on.. don't really need more credits right now and and I've bought plenty of Prestige. Why can't a row of gear salvage be added to the arena store (all stores) with a low chance for some bottleneck gear to show up (stun cuffs, holo projectors, laptops, stun guns, etc)? I don't even care how much currency they want for it. It would get some people to spend crystals hitting the refresh button and will just be an otherwise nice addition to somewhat help ease the gear grind.
Tavanh87
8 years ago
The current bottleneck is so ridiculous that I'm going to puke in my mouth when I see the gear needed for G12 / G13.
phatphil3
8 years ago
"ThunderGun;855254" wrote:
Every store should have gear salvage rotating in at least one spot. We should have the choice as to what to spend our currency on. I currently have 50k arena currency and nothing to spend it on.. don't really need more credits right now and and I've bought plenty of Prestige. Why can't a row of gear salvage be added to the arena store (all stores) with a low chance for some bottleneck gear to show up (stun cuffs, holo projectors, laptops, stun guns, etc)? I don't even care how much currency they want for it. It would get some people to spend crystals hitting the refresh button and will just be an otherwise nice addition to somewhat help ease the gear grind.

+1
I really like this idea, it's not a drastic solution which is great. It wouldn't make everyone have tons of gear because many good toons come from the arena
tuftedpaper85
8 years ago
I understand their model, but would it kill anybody to do double drop on the pve tables once a week or something. Also, we really need something to do with the excess we have. I'd really like something where we can trade purples in to build another purple, even if the drop rate is bad; however, I'll take a simple system where we can trade excess in for credits like we could when I first started playing. It will introduce more strategy in the game by making you think about which pieces to trade in
Waquira
8 years ago
"Neo2551;855215" wrote:
"Waqui;855206" wrote:
They've just added more ways to collect gear (fleet shipments and AAT raid) and still you complain?

So you still insist there is a balance between gear, shards and credits?

Nope. I just claim that you now acquire gear faster than previously. I see no reason to complain about that.
Taintdragons
8 years ago
Okay here is the solution....

MORE RAIDS! NEW RAIDS! SHIP RAIDS! MORE SHIP RAIDS!

This will (following suit of getting coins to do them all with daily activities) allow you to multiple raids and lets say you can each one done in a day and theres 7 total raids thats 7 days of raid rewards each day!

Theres your solution!

Let they devs program the new raids and get them out asap instead of sidetracking them with piddly petty stuff.

I am anxious to do deathstar ship raid and hope a 2nd ship raid is right behind it... can you handle 4 days of raid rewards in a week? I think most will say yes.