Proving Grounds

"ImaSmakya;c-2362815" wrote:

"NicWester;c-2362810" wrote:
4 million is an unbelievably easy number to hit.

If you want to bloat your roster with garbage I guess.

Bloat isn't a thing. It was barely a thing before, but now that GP isn't used in any MM it really doesn't matter. And the more GP the better, for TB purposes.

"NicWester;c-2362810" wrote:
4 million is an unbelievably easy number to hit.

I don't know

Its like 2 years+ from scratch imo

"StarSon;c-2362819" wrote:

"ImaSmakya;c-2362815" wrote:

"NicWester;c-2362810" wrote:
4 million is an unbelievably easy number to hit.

If you want to bloat your roster with garbage I guess.

Bloat isn't a thing. It was barely a thing before, but now that GP isn't used in any MM it really doesn't matter. And the more GP the better, for TB purposes.

It’s not about MM, it’s about resource management. Putting limited resources on unused characters is bloat with almost zero benefit , particularly for lower level rosters where resources are even more constrained. Aren’t you guys constantly saying this is a resource management game.

As for TB, if my guild is really close to an additional star, then the call goes out to level/gear characters and ships so that we can hit that threshold. Bloating your roster for TB when the next star is 85 million GP away is just silly.

"Rius;c-2362829" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2362820" wrote:

"NicWester;c-2362810" wrote:
4 million is an unbelievably easy number to hit.

I don't know

Its like 2 years+ from scratch imo

I agree it’s about 2 years, I am at 3.5M non F2P at just over 18 months. Maybe if I had hit the fleet shard earlier with more crystals I may have a little more. I tried to level up today but depleting ship resources got me just 70,000. And I had already drained my credits by mod rolling the other day.

Same, could only squeeze out 100,000 gp from 30 mil credits and 15 mil ship building resources, still 300,000 short

"Rius;c-2362827" wrote:

I raised ideas not under illusion they will make a difference or change CG’s decision but to raise there were other options which are more balanced for maintaining exclusivity for higher level players and fairness to lower level players.

Waste of time. CG doesn't care about players, regardless of level. No need to raise awareness of alternatives because everyone knows there are always better ways to implement things CG implements. Hopefully whoever is in charge of the LOTR game cares about players and their experience, but not holding my breath on that.

The amount of shards received and the refresh costs are a joke. I understand wanting to make money since CG isn’t a nonprofit… but come on. This is absurd.

For all those that were hoping to finish out CAT with weekly shipment refresh, and are GP gated due to not being at 4 million. Heres another gift for us.

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"HarrilyFord;c-2362770" wrote:

"ShaggyB;c-2362753" wrote:

"HarrilyFord;c-2362745" wrote:
Super unfair - this is meant to help those players who didn’t have a strong enough roster to earn CAT first go around, and you make the entry requirements basically having a strong enough roster to earn CAT the first time

Just the relentless punishing and astonishing greed of this game.. not asking for the game not to be challenging or take hard work, but for a game about a story of the good guys defeating the Empire, it’s never been lost on me that it feels like we’re playing a game run by the Empire.

This brings up an interesting point that makes 4 mil make more sense.

If you couldnt get it unlocked the first or second time around... because of lack of roster depth, aka not having 4 mil gp, then perhaps thats the bar.

A player must get to the level they could reasonably be expected to have been able to do it in 6 attempts.

Perhaps thats why.

Making it not about an easier time getring CAT, but rather a push to get you to a deep enough roster where you might not need to play the new mode to get the next character.

That’s actually a really fair point, if what they’re trying to do is keep these exclusive and set the minimum entry point to own the character.

I’ve had CAT for a while, but thinking for folks who haven’t had access to her, I at least read the announcement of proving grounds to feel like a reasonable opportunity to them for catch up, and this just feels like moving the carrot.

I agree.

Its not cool for them to announce certain requirements and then add one later.

Thats not right at all

"Solarite;c-2362811" wrote:

"NicWester;c-2362810" wrote:
4 million is an unbelievably easy number to hit.

Like 6 or 8 or 10M. And?

Lol 10 is a slog... that last mil is painful.

You either grind out relics or gear less useful stuff

"ImaSmakya;c-2362815" wrote:

"NicWester;c-2362810" wrote:
4 million is an unbelievably easy number to hit.

If you want to bloat your roster with garbage I guess.

I disagree

With how gac is now and the lack of focus on individual arena... you dont bloat your roster much at all given the need in kyber 1 and 2 league.

9 mil user working on relicing prepaired squad, murder bears and jawas now.

And yes those will make that back row of the gac easier for me to deal with... and in 3v3 it will give way more options