I'll join Kraken and talk a little bit about my account. I consider myself an F2P, although I spend Google Rewards to send out about $ 2 every four months (yes that's ridiculous) but that's what I can put in, since the exchange rate is $ 4 for a dollar. Brazil's minimum wage is 1 dollar an hour.
My count time is December 2017, about the same time as the senior producer, except he has 5M PG and me 3.4M.
I own all the journey toons except for Malak. of events is makes the situation an insult.
GAT: It is possible to do the event with all the phoenix g8 and correct mods.
R2-D2 and CLS. I did the R2 event with Imperial Troopers (need to beat 150 GW to simulate) 4 g10 and 1 g9. All CLS toons were g9 when I made the event
Emperor: I didn't even afford to use the phoenix, I did with the CLS g9 team
BB8: My first order is with the same equipment, all g8 and pick-up conditions were none. He is there playing in a corner with 3 stars.
Rey: Farm without end of two completely useless characters in the game who are veteran smugglers, today they are miserable in the smugglers event but it is the two rebels and the nest that do the work.
GMY: It comes as a bonus.
From now on the problem begins:
Chewbacca: I needed 3 g12 characters and two g11 characters. Even with Bossk with the zeta leader it took me 30 minutes to find an RNG.
C3-PO: Elder g11, Logray g10 and other g9 plus one zeta in the chirpa and two days hunting for an RNG.
Falcon: Not 7 stars I released her, but at least I release her on the first day of the third cycle.
JKR: Again I got it only in the third cycle. despite jolee.
Padme Amidala: I decided to farm the Georgian Alpha to justify on the table an investment I had made exclusively for ships. I got it in the second cycle, but because I already had 3 geonosians up by the ship's target.
DR: Heavy investing in a lot of characters, it wasn't that hard but no one less than g10
Malak, it was impossible to catch and will force me to spend 3 zetas and more equipment on characters like Mission, Zaalbar (characters that I have zero empathy for).
And the new goal starts coming in November, most likely doing another event just like Malak's.
According to Swgoh.gg my account needs 123 carbanti mk3 to complete, considering that no new characters are released and I get an average of 4 per challenge, in two years my account will be left with carbanti 3 so I can play at Jawa's furnace.
But wait is 150 stun gun 5. what more than doubles the amount of carbanti mk3 i need to complete just 8 to 11 gear stuff.
In this my Wampa is 70/100, my droid probe 41/100 (as my guild refuses to go to Hoth for the obvious reason that everyone is desperate for the mk2 event coin.
I spent 9k mk2 + coins and over 4k GAC coins to put 1 character in g13.
While all raid prizes increase dramatically, guilds can do both TB and challenges are modified to provide droid controller 5 and stun gun 5, people will still have serious problems having their competitive arena team. We're not even talking about a GAC.
The game has to evolve and be interesting for those at the top but accessibility is getting worse every day.
Except for decreasing the number of Wins to simulate GW from 150 to 50 and lowering the energy cost for veterans from 16 to 12, how easy is it for a person to get into the game? This you need to find out is fast.