Proving Grounds

"MasterSeedy;c-2362552" wrote:
There's now a slow, free way to get CAT much like there is a slow, free way to get Hermit Yoda. But neither of those options is particularly great, and the crystal-spending option isn't noticeably better than what we have now, so... a big whatevs?

What is the slow way to get Hoda?

"Ultra;c-2362626" wrote:

"JackedJedi;c-2362623" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2362575" wrote:
4 million GP is fine

You get shards in normal conquest too, doing a 1m GP limit would have made more sense if they were copying conquest properly.

i think a Tier 1 with 10 shards for people who qualify for normal conquest would’ve been nice

In the spirit of compromise, what would have have been nice is if the Refresh was limited to those w/ 4 Mil GP, since both the Refresh Option AND the 4Mil were not mentioned in the original post.

Everyone gets their 20 shards, but, if you have a bloated up roster of 4+ mil then you can access the refresh & get 60 shards to "catch up".

"InyakSolomon88;c-2362739" wrote:

"Solarite;c-2362726" wrote:
You have more RC shards in fleet store in a month than proving grounds... for free. Genius.

You find RC shards in fleet store? in both of my accounts i've seen it 4 times since it dropped. 2 in each. Odds certainly not in my favor.

That's got to be the worst drop rate in the game, I'm below 10% & I've still seen it over a dozen times, maybe 20-ish

"Ultra;c-2362809" wrote:

"BobaFettish86;c-2362806" wrote:
Do we even know how many shards it awards? I mean, 2200 crystals per refresh seems steep when you can buy 15 shards in weekly shipments for 1800.

20

Thanks, Ultra.

Not sure I'd bother refreshing if it's staying in weekly shipments as it would only save 100 crystals to do so. Do we know if her shards will stay in crystal shipments when it launches?

Can anyone confirm if CAT is still in the weekly shipments after the weekly reset? Or has she been removed from there as well?

@Uneducated_student is showing screenshots of her no longer being there as well.

"Uneducated_student;c-2362841" wrote:
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.

THANK YOU, to all those that posted about this.

I'd have been soooo pissed on PG Day if I wasn't able to get my last 6 shards because I was waiting for the Free one's & my final store purchase.

"EddieSpaghetti;c-2362878" wrote:
Can anyone confirm if CAT is still in the weekly shipments after the weekly reset? Or has she been removed from there as well?

@Uneducated_student is showing screenshots of her no longer being there as well.

I went ahead & grabbed the ones I needed today thanks to that warning.
I was going to do it on PG day & would have been irate if they were not still in the store.

"Schwartzring;c-2362882" wrote:

"EddieSpaghetti;c-2362878" wrote:
Can anyone confirm if CAT is still in the weekly shipments after the weekly reset? Or has she been removed from there as well?

@Uneducated_student is showing screenshots of her no longer being there as well.

I went ahead & grabbed the ones I needed today thanks to that warning.
I was going to do it on PG day & would have been irate if they were not still in the store.

If they are seriously removing her from weekly shipments too there is absolutely no way to defend this entire PG decision by CG.

I will repeat, the character is now substantially harder to get now, after her one year anniversary, than she was as just a conquest store farm. And this includes for both new and mid game players who do not have her unlocked.

How does this make any sense at all?

"Schwartzring;c-2362880" wrote:

"Uneducated_student;c-2362841" wrote:
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.

THANK YOU, to all those that posted about this.

I'd have been soooo **** on PG Day if I wasn't able to get my last 6 shards because I was waiting for the Free one's & my final store purchase.

Happy to help, I got boned myself, sitting at 271/331, which if my math is right means proving grounds with the refreshes would have unlocked CAT for me, currently at 3 mil gp.

It’s a catch-up mechanic and I think it’s a mistake to have any gp limit. Players retire and need to be replaced whether they are spenders or ftp. The harder you make it to catch up means fewer people try. This isn’t about CAT but about the new player today who cg will need to fill the void of a retiring player two years time from now.

CG keeps making decisions that appear to make the assumption that their acquisition rate of new players will always out pace their losses of existing players. They have the numbers but I doubt this is currently true both for total players and spending done by those players.