Proving Grounds

I would think you’ll only be able to refresh 9 times. 19 times lets you unlock immediately, which seems unlikely.

Also the going rate for crystals is 600 for 5 CAT shards, so a refresh worth 20 could be 2,400. I doubt it’ll cost that much but expect a lot.

"StarSon;c-2353843" wrote:

"24_Tuesdays;c-2353842" wrote:
four a year doesnt seem fast

No, but if you can only pick one each month and you refresh once each time you're looking at 9 months for just one. A new user will never catch up at that rate.

They can just refresh more.

KAM would take a brand new user several years to 7*, so I think 9 months even with just a single refresh isn’t that bad considering a conquest units power level.

"Maul_never_dies;c-2353703" wrote:
330 shards for a character, and AFTER 1 YEAR WAITING CG gives us 20 shards per month.

So, after a toon release, you can play with the character for free in 29 month!
So 2 years and 5 month.

CG, stick your stuff you know where..

During the first 6 months of a conquest characters release,

360 shards are farmable for players

This is excluding the 20+ shards a month players can farm shards using conquest currency from release.

Maybe just get better at conquest? And if ur a new player who cant do conquest then maybe don’t expect to have every single overpowered character handed to you with minimal effort required.

"TargetEadu;c-2353844" wrote:
I would think you’ll only be able to refresh 9 times. 19 times lets you unlock immediately, which seems unlikely.

Also the going rate for crystals is 600 for 5 CAT shards, so a refresh worth 20 could be 2,400. I doubt it’ll cost that much but expect a lot.

Oh, I was going off 80 crystals. Didn't realize hers were more.

"SemiGod;c-2353846" wrote:

"StarSon;c-2353843" wrote:

"24_Tuesdays;c-2353842" wrote:
four a year doesnt seem fast

No, but if you can only pick one each month and you refresh once each time you're looking at 9 months for just one. A new user will never catch up at that rate.

They can just refresh more.

KAM would take a brand new user several years to 7*, so I think 9 months even with just a single refresh isn’t that bad considering a conquest units power level.

Can they refresh more? In a world where they can only pick one each month, maybe they can only refresh once? All speculation at this point.

"Ravens1113;c-2353848" wrote:

"SemiGod;c-2353847" wrote:

"Maul_never_dies;c-2353703" wrote:
330 shards for a character, and AFTER 1 YEAR WAITING CG gives us 20 shards per month.

So, after a toon release, you can play with the character for free in 29 month!
So 2 years and 5 month.

CG, stick your stuff you know where..

During the first 6 months of a conquest characters release,

360 shards are farmable for players

This is excluding the 20+ shards a month players can farm shards using conquest currency from release.

Maybe just get better at conquest? And if ur a new player who cant do conquest then maybe don’t expect to have every single overpowered character handed to you with minimal effort required.

They also set the reqs for the event at R3 which is not easy for people to achieve a full team of in less than a year, especially as F2P.

This is just CG’s way of incentivizing people to try harder at conquest by forcing an 15-24 month farm for a character that’s been out for a year already. It’s either try hard in conquest, or enjoy the long slog farm.

Idk, the refreshes are gonna be high priced. No way it’s less than 999 crystals. No access for people who already have the toons in this event for minimal SSC is just trash.

Yeah I think we just need to find out more details about the event first to be able to better see how difficult / exclusive CG wants to make these characters.

There’s a 100+ comments and I’m obviously not going to be reading any/most of them. But this sounds similar to Galactic Bounties. Why not just release a Galactic Bounties 3, add a relic 3 minimum barrier to entry, and let it evolve as time progresses. Why overcomplicate it with locking players out?

"JarJarRequissa;c-2353854" wrote:

"chpMINIsolo_77;c-2353751" wrote:

"JarJarRequissa;c-2353745" wrote:
for the true F2P that dont use crystals on conquest

Please dont start with this nonsense again

its not nonsense. if you are forced to use crystals to do something it is not F2P. this is the manipulative gambling trying to say something is free but its not. you must spend this to get this is the definition of pay 2 play. sure we get free crystals in the game for rewards but true F2P can never spend crystals on chars if they want to have gear for said chars. Galactic legends are a better more ethical grind than this garbage conquest to proving grounds manipulative system designed to spit on F2P. galactic legends have been nerfed by conquest chars. i got JMK and he isnt worth much without CAT. sure I can do some stuff with him but imo conquest was designed to stop F2P like me who was able to grind a GL from ever being able to use a GL effectively.

err... you must spend what to get what?

"JarJarRequissa;c-2353854" wrote:

"chpMINIsolo_77;c-2353751" wrote:

"JarJarRequissa;c-2353745" wrote:
for the true F2P that dont use crystals on conquest

Please dont start with this nonsense again

its not nonsense. if you are forced to use crystals to do something it is not F2P. this is the manipulative gambling trying to say something is free but its not. you must spend this to get this is the definition of pay 2 play. sure we get free crystals in the game for rewards but true F2P can never spend crystals on chars if they want to have gear for said chars. Galactic legends are a better more ethical grind than this garbage conquest to proving grounds manipulative system designed to spit on F2P. galactic legends have been nerfed by conquest chars. i got JMK and he isnt worth much without CAT. sure I can do some stuff with him but imo conquest was designed to stop F2P like me who was able to grind a GL from ever being able to use a GL effectively.

By that logic any gear you buy with crystals or energy bought with crystals makes you (by your own definition) NOT f2p. It's a matter of resource management. The only way your argument works is if you never, ever spend a single crystal that you receive on anything. Stop trying to make this about f2p vs p2p - that's not what it's about.

If there's a down side here, it's that these characters seemingly won't get an energy node or shipment slot to farm them from - which isn't great imo. Spending crystals isn't required - but if you save them up you CAN use them to accelerate the process, which is consistent with nearly every other resource in the game, barring Omicron materials.

"JarJarRequissa;c-2353854" wrote:

"chpMINIsolo_77;c-2353751" wrote:

"JarJarRequissa;c-2353745" wrote:
for the true F2P that dont use crystals on conquest

Please dont start with this nonsense again

its not nonsense. if you are forced to use crystals to do something it is not F2P. this is the manipulative gambling trying to say something is free but its not. you must spend this to get this is the definition of pay 2 play. sure we get free crystals in the game for rewards but true F2P can never spend crystals on chars if they want to have gear for said chars. Galactic legends are a better more ethical grind than this garbage conquest to proving grounds manipulative system designed to spit on F2P. galactic legends have been nerfed by conquest chars. i got JMK and he isnt worth much without CAT. sure I can do some stuff with him but imo conquest was designed to stop F2P like me who was able to grind a GL from ever being able to use a GL effectively.

Its amazing how wrong this post is. Crystals are a resource, however you choose to use them is what separates players. Using resources earned through gameplay to ease other aspects of the game in no way makes you not f2p, and there is no rational argument to support that. Plus, you are not required to spend crystals to play conquest. To max out hard mode, sure you need to refresh energy some but it is not prohibitive to f2p players.

"JarJarRequissa;c-2353854" wrote:

"chpMINIsolo_77;c-2353751" wrote:

"JarJarRequissa;c-2353745" wrote:
for the true F2P that dont use crystals on conquest

Please dont start with this nonsense again

its not nonsense. if you are forced to use crystals to do something it is not F2P. this is the manipulative gambling trying to say something is free but its not. you must spend this to get this is the definition of pay 2 play. sure we get free crystals in the game for rewards but true F2P can never spend crystals on chars if they want to have gear for said chars. Galactic legends are a better more ethical grind than this garbage conquest to proving grounds manipulative system designed to spit on F2P. galactic legends have been nerfed by conquest chars. i got JMK and he isnt worth much without CAT. sure I can do some stuff with him but imo conquest was designed to stop F2P like me who was able to grind a GL from ever being able to use a GL effectively.

By your own definition you're not even f2p lol. Unless you managed to get JMK without using a single crystal on that path, but good luck trying that