Relic Delta destroyed PvP

I still don't understand the reasoning behind Relic Delta.......I couldn't concentrate long enough to read that wall of text that immediately sounded like it came out of a male cattle's behind.

Feels a bit Kenobi and Darth V-like to me.

"You cannot win Darth CG.  Either Relic Delta is massively impacting the environment and annoying players, or it's not having any effect and therefore pointless".

CG went full on yellow eyed Sith with this one.  Pretty much ignored the player-base and went for it anyway.  Introduced relic 10 to make it slightly harder to swallow.  Completely messed around with PvE for zero reason.  Then in PvP it's either is too weak or too strong depending which side of the whip you are.

Just the principle of it though; where good play is countered by size is something that really rubs my fur the wrong way.

The people at CG who are concerned about this aren't allowed to fix it.  The leadership are only concerned about increasing the amount of revenue that players spend on the game.  That's why they're working so hard to bring in new players and ignore older players who have been here for years.  Higher GP roster players aren't spending as much because we don't need to.  At the same time, CG is focusing their priority on new players and getting new players to spend and build their accounts up.  DCs are garbage for everyone, but the hope is new players will spend.  Packs are increasingly becoming expensive garbage, but new players don't know any better.  Most packs are useless to 14-15 mil GP+ accounts.  

Relic Delta helps motivate newer players to build and increase their roster, meaning spend money on it.  Like Darth Vader motivating men on the death star to get it operational.

Gamers aren't running CG anymore, an AI-bot is.

Relic Delta is incredibly helpful. All things being equal, if your characters are at higher Relic then they have an advantage. It is easy to reference, and easy to determine advantages over teams rather than checking Mods and Datacrons. 

Beyond Relic Delta, there isn't much change because Mods, Datacrons, and Team Compensation is more deterministic to match up advantages. 

If you want to take advantage of Relic Delta then get a Galactic Legend Team to Relic 10 and go beat up on its Counters that sit at Relic 4.

TBH Datacrons are much worse for F2P, as if a whale goes in hard on renting an advantage for 3 months, and has Lvl9-15 DCs on all their defensive/half their offense teams, F2P simply can't compete, no matter how focused their roster, good their modding, and high their skill. It's just a numbers/stats game. Doing 1 attack for 10 banners because you cannot win is not fun for either party. That said, I'd prefer the whales fight each other over who has the higher credit limit to keep the servers running compared to other predatory means of monetizing the game. 

Still, them giving F2P only one conquest cycle to farm datacrons which last for less time basically says "don't even bother engaging with these, you poors, this is whale chow," which TBH is fine by me. You whales spend your thousands on rented advantage, I'll chill in K2 and earn a few hundred fewer crystals per month. Still those unwinnable matchups against lazy whales aren't fun.

Checking mods, datacrons, and team abilities is the whole point of a “counter.” It is the whole point of the game mode. Removing that aspect removes the point of PvP.

Sugar daddy credit card accounts should be counterable with normal Relic 5 teams and smart game play because strategic play is the point of PvP.

Yeah, datacrons are still a complete disaster. The only saving grace is when a garbage character they will not bother fixing gets a broken ability and becomes useful. That helps the F2P scene somewhat.