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wofcqd14qaa8
Seasoned Novice
4 months ago

Restore Mk3 raid currency for EC/Zin please

You've created a SERIOUS bottleneck by shifting Electrium Conductors and Zinbiddles from MK3 to MK2 raid currency.  As everyone knows, MK2 is THE way to push through G12 into relics - by requiring us to use that ONLY to get the EC/Zin now we have to choose between relicing new people or increasing the relics of people we already have.

The fix is simple - just also allow us to also buy EC/Zin using Mk3 at the previous rates.  Those who don't need to relic anyone can then use the Mk2 effectively, and those who are relicing people can use the Mk3 instead.  This gives everyone a choice depending on where they are in their account progression with later stage players using Mk3 for Aero/Impulse+ and earlier game players using Mk3 for EC/Zin saving their Mk2 for G12 progression.

I'm going to hope that this was done accidentally without thought with the intent of helping the late-game player economy, because for everyone who doesn't have to push anyone through G12 - this is actually a good change.  But...most of us are not so lucky and G12 is our main bottleneck in the game.  It is also possible that you have purposefully done this to force us INTO a bottleneck so that we have to buy more crystals and relic amplifier packs.  I want to believe this isn't the case.  Your message seemed well intended, but perhaps you didn't understand the unintended consequences of what you had done.

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  • By all means, change it back and make things harder for mid game players who aren't constantly gearing for the newest raids...

  • wofcqd14qaa8's avatar
    wofcqd14qaa8
    Seasoned Novice
    4 months ago

    I said leave both as an option...it makes sense for both early/late game players to have EC/zin from Mk2.  But for those who are pumping through G12, it's terrible.

  • I thought the change benefited all players, so I am surprised someone is complaining about economy improvements. Is this really making it worse in your specific situation or do you have difficulty in prioritising? How many characters are you working on at a time to have a conflict of interest. I have a slow stream of characters to gear 12 usually but since the update I have been prioritising relics as I finished off a GL farm just before hand. I don’t see an issue in switching focus and splitting Mk2 as it’s so quick to gear now that I will move on to relic that character immediately, when the economy was much worse I had a number of characters upgrading gear and relic in parallel but now I just focus one character at a time and it seems much faster and efficient. As raids are so frequent my currency often runs out just before the next raid I have not felt much change there. Perhaps it’s time to invest more into the raid to benefit from more Mk2.

  • wofcqd14qaa8's avatar
    wofcqd14qaa8
    Seasoned Novice
    4 months ago

    Well, it certainly doesn't harm anyone to make it available with both currencies.  But...to answer your question:

    - Mk1 I'm usually using for aurodium heat sinks and to get people TO G12
    - Mk2 I'm usually using to get people from G12 to R0
    - Mk3 I'm usually using to relic people above R5

    So the answer is, there is always one character in the pipeline in each category.  The relic person finishes, then the R0 person finishes, then the G12 person finishes...and everyone bumps up one rank to the next tier of being worked on.

    Having EC unavailable with Mk3 disrupts this pipeline because then the R5+ and the G12 to R0 tiers require the same materials whereas they formerly did not.

  • This is the best part of the update and the ONLY thing I was excited for. We only get 1K of MK3 each raid so I use that on the higher relic stuff. (This raid we got 1.25K for the first time) I've been excitedly buying all these Z and Cs up since it changed. I've now got about 250/300 of them. Just stockpiling relics ATM as I decide on my next priority and let the changes play out for a bit.

  • They don't care about gear 1 to gear 12 anymore.  Relic 5 is their new Gear 12.  

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