Relic Deltas - A critical look

This is MUCH better logic than what is being proposed.

I'm already going F2P completely over this.  It's like your priest coming up to you and saying, "We're testing stealing by our congregation members for a while to see how it goes."  It might be contrary to the principles that our entire thing is founded upon, but we might move in this direction.  We "might" not do this...."

As if your priest even suggesting such a thing wouldn't matter.  I'm livid that I gave CG hundreds of dollars this year and this is their response.  I bought their game at a higher price than I've ever paid for any discretionary entertainment in my life, and they do this to hundreds of hours of my gameplay?  Unbelievably insulting !

This is so much better thought-out than what the devs proposed. I'm kind of flabbergasted that this wasn't the first thing they thought of: just nudging the mastery scaling slightly so that high levels get better scaling. 

CG boxed themselves into this problem when they decided that the costs for higher relic levels climb exponentially, but the stat gains don't. So of course players aren't going to see as much value in relic 9, except for GLs, their requirements, and AB requirements. 

I do agree with having a better power scaling between the relics is so much better. I also can see a Relic 10 being added(I posted it in a recent post of mine), adding stats based on character's need. Kind of like the Gear 12 + Pieces that added protection to one character and not the other, Tenacity to one and not Potency. I would rather see this growth rate plus a (mini like rework to the whole list of characters), than this relic delta that limits players strategies because they don't have the money to get all their characters up to needed relics. I also can see R10 being the first (20) mastery bump in your updated formula above. To continue on after R10. I also can see us getting 7* mods as well during this time to scale up characters stats without this Relic Delta. They can call R10 Relic Delta, just not add what they have planned to it. 

I think they should scrap the entire delta idea and just tune up the power of R9 (and r10 when it arrives). Reward the spenders by making those uber-expensive relic levels actually super powerful without ruining the game for the 90% of the player base who is either F2P or casual spenders. 

It's fine to reward spending, but why destroy it for everyone else? 

If they keep this update as is, I'm quitting the game. I've spend probably $700 on the game over the years. That's a PS5 and a heap of games... all to enjoy this game and support their efforts. If CG's attitude is, "we only care about the players who spend $10,000 or more", everyone but the uber-whales will leave.

Then, within a few months, all the whales will leave, because they realize there is no skill in victory, just how many more or less r9s do you have? Or, which player has the bigger trust fund?

I think it’s a brilliant idea, but they modify a little bit so that it’s going to a QoL improvement. 

They should give the win to the players that have spent the most money on the game over the last three months. For TW , they should apply the same algorithm. This would enable us to get rid of the PvP content.

For conquest and TB, they should define the max crate also depending on the money spent. 

By doing so we would have to invest way less time with the game and could enjoy real life. 

Note: This idea is just as brain-dead as playing a Levi mirror.

CG boxed themselves into this problem when they decided that the costs for higher relic levels climb exponentially, but the stat gains don't.

You and the OP made this same point. I've made it elsewhere. This is the fundamental issue. No one wants to relic a toon past (some arbitrary relic that makes sense for that person's place in the game, usually r3-r7) that they don't have to because at the top end the gains are simply not proportional to the investment. 

But we can and do drop relic levels on as fast as we can get them bc even though we don't WANT to drop relic levels on for the sake of their stat gains, we do want to in order to use a team at a specific tier in RotE or raids, to qualify a specific toon for a specific Platoon or requirement for unlocking a better toon. 

Supposedly this is to incentivize higher relics, but those are already incentivized. 

What this will actually do is kill creativity by making this a game of brute force in which the details of a kit don't matter in anything like the same way the relic tiers matter. 

The idea that you can smart your way through will be obsolete. 

What they're actually doing is removing player brains from the equation. 

This is, quite literally, the worst SWGOH-related idea CG has ever had. And yes, I'm including the Dodge meta. 

Exactly. All they're doing is punishing strategy, which made the game fun. Now, all of a sudden they want to "protect the investment of r9" and push away a huge chunk of their playerbase all because, what, they weren't making enough money?? It's absolutely ridiculous

I have an entire guild, actively have 50 playing every single day and over 3/4 of us spend at least 20 a month in the game. And right now, I have my entire guild, officers and all, ready to quit the game over this change. 
relics already increase a toon’s overall power and increases it every additional relic. Adding additional scaling is a stupid idea from the floor to the ceiling. Adding a new relic level? Great, but as it is they might as well toss mods out of the window and all interesting counter mechanics are going to be useless compared to “bigger number wins”

I'm with OP.

Hoping CG will step on their pride and backtrack.