Seriously?

"Sewpot;c-2199420" wrote:

"Kisakee;c-2199410" wrote:
Ah, the eyeball discussion again. People will always say that you will run out of them which for me never came true right now. I have 2710 salvage which is enough for 45 crafted pieces and right now i have 29 toons that need those on their current gear level at least once. But that's mostly Light Side toons i don't care about, go to the Dark Side and those won't be a problem for a very long time. Don't like my idea? Well, bad for you. Everyone else - welcome.

Haha of course nothing is going to come true of you ignore and don’t consider half your roster ?‍♂️?‍♂️

Fun fact: I still gear the same amount of toons, it's just mostly Dark Side. And i do like having lots of different toons being used in lots of different teams. For Light Side so many teams overlap that you barely can build more than 4 complete teams and eyeballs are still a problem even with not that many different characters. So yes, going Dark Side is ending multiple of those problems.

Whale problems

I think it just depends on where you're at. If you spend on the other component (crystals or money), you are more likely to be l ok w on the challenge gear piece which build up slowly over time.

I personally try not to buy challenge gear unless I really need it and focus my resources on the non challenge gear part when possible or other non challenge gear that I need if I am waiting on the challenge gear since it only takes about a week to get either 50 eye balls or 50 carbontis.

But we can probably all agree that 25k in ally points is a horrible deal for this piece.

And then there's not exactly.
It's situational ... you do it your way, I do it mine. Doing it without acting like you are better than those who did it differently is the real trick, isn't it.

what I understood is that long terme players have no problem with this equipment because it was included in the haat rewards.They can stockpile them.Then they were removed at the request of the community (who complained about have challenge equipment in the haat). But for those like me who started after this period it's really a problem

"DarjeloSalas;c-2199634" wrote:

"Nauros;c-2199632" wrote:
At 6m gp and playing almost since launch, I still have a decent stockpile. So, when exactly do they start to run out?

2nd, 3rd GL might do it. Another 30 or so toons at g11+ might do it too.

There are 2 types of players: those who are experiencing the biotech salvage crunch, and those who aren’t experiencing it yet.

2nd GL would probably do it, it’s doing it for me. I’m probably 85% done with farming for GML, only ones left not relic‘d are Leia, Mothma, and 3Chewie. Leia is 95% there though. I need every piece on Mothma and 3Chewie is still 6*. I hit this bottleneck about a month ago. I have 31 prototypes and 35 salvage. I used to be in the same boat as the non-believers, but after SLKR and GML toons... yep. I’m there.

"KausDebonair;c-2199646" wrote:

"DarjeloSalas;c-2199634" wrote:

"Nauros;c-2199632" wrote:
At 6m gp and playing almost since launch, I still have a decent stockpile. So, when exactly do they start to run out?

2nd, 3rd GL might do it. Another 30 or so toons at g11+ might do it too.

There are 2 types of players: those who are experiencing the biotech salvage crunch, and those who aren’t experiencing it yet.

2nd GL would probably do it, it’s doing it for me. I’m probably 85% done with farming for GML, only ones left not relic‘d are Leia, Mothma, and 3Chewie. Leia is 95% there though. I need every piece on Mothma and 3Chewie is still 6*. I hit this bottleneck about a month ago. I have 31 prototypes and 35 salvage. I used to be in the same boat as the non-believers, but after SLKR and GML toons... yep. I’m there.

That being said... I still wouldn’t buy 5 salvage for 25k ally points. Terrible value.

"Nauros;c-2199632" wrote:
At 6m gp and playing almost since launch, I still have a decent stockpile. So, when exactly do they start to run out?

5m GP, playing about 2.5 years vs your 5 years, acquired every Hero/Legendary and most recently my first GL plus built a strong, balanced GAC/TW/TB roster. They started running out a few months ago.

"DarjeloSalas;c-2199634" wrote:

"Nauros;c-2199632" wrote:
At 6m gp and playing almost since launch, I still have a decent stockpile. So, when exactly do they start to run out?

2nd, 3rd GL might do it. Another 30 or so toons at g11+ might do it too.

There are 2 types of players: those who are experiencing the biotech salvage crunch, and those who aren’t experiencing it yet.

This debate has happened a lot on the forums, but every time there's no consensus. The players experiencing the crunch say everyone else will hit it eventually (although that point seems to keep shifting--now it's having a few GLs?) but everytime there are other players saying they've never hit it. While I don't think long-term players have the thousands they did before it was removed from tank, there are still experienced players on here who have shown that they have more challenge gear than the clear piece.

I think it probably comes down to not only store spending and gearing habits, but also just rng in drops. Some people get lucky in the clear piece, others don't and therefore have enough challenge gear.

Though I still think everyone would be happy if they made the eyeball only need 50 of the challenge piece. AFAIK, it's the only piece you need 60 of to craft something.

"DarjeloSalas;c-2199634" wrote:

"Nauros;c-2199632" wrote:
At 6m gp and playing almost since launch, I still have a decent stockpile. So, when exactly do they start to run out?

2nd, 3rd GL might do it. Another 30 or so toons at g11+ might do it too.

There are 2 types of players: those who are experiencing the biotech salvage crunch, and those who aren’t experiencing it yet.

3rd type is Kisakee