Shard Economy Changes [MEGA]

"Shadowmaster4;c-2190464" wrote:


If you're working on lets say 16 toons (3 scoundrels for the event, 5 seps, 5 phoenix, and three more jedi with Kanan and Ezra), and you have a bunch of them starring up throughout this period, you can only seven star one of them every two weeks (assuming the cadence of Credit Heist remains constant). If you're saying Credit Heist is enough to alleviate that crunch entirely, you're ignoring that with accelerated farming of shards, people will be sitting on 7* capable toons for about 32 weeks at the beginning of the game. And that's just the beginner characters. Even if we account for them leveling up enough to access tier 2 of credit heist, they'd need more scoundrels and near perfect drops every time to remotely ease the credit crunch.

the truly fastest way to get any toon up is to go 1 toon at a time. Phoenix can be spread out, true enough. Zeb is in GW, Hera and Ezra in Cantina. Chopper is cantina tokens. The method you describe though (which is funny since you mock me for doing it) is actually very inefficient. And obviously credit heist isn't enough to completely alleviate it but you seemed to be implying credit heist was inaccessible until lvl 80 for players. That's not true. When you only have 5-12 characters or so, the amount of currency given also isn't horrible.

"Shadowmaster4;c-2190464" wrote:

From the rest of your post, it sounds like you can't speak for the average player anyway, especially any newb that can "use one google search" to find relevant teams. You got BB8 and EP and Thrawn, arguably some of the most useful legendaries in the game, without farming up their teams at all, having no support for them, and then mocking us because you have 154 mil credits? That alone will only level 85 and 7* about 19 characters for you, which is enough to form a resistance squad and an empire/sith squad to go with your legendaries, and more rebels to support uses for R2.

You only have those credits cuz you haven't used them wisely, someone chasing good teams who has made any "google searches" to support their farming would have actual teams involved, and even with the same credit hoard and income as you, they would experience a crunch as soon as they leveled the toons relevant to your roster.

:joy: :joy: :joy: that's hilarious. I lvled them up intending to make teams for them, FYI. But guess what? Other things become priority or happen to change the initial plan. Happens to everyone. If presenting an example is mocking someone I'd suggest calming down and remembering it's just a game and these are just words on a screen. My point is I don't conserve my characters in my alt. And despite that, I still have lots of cash. Relics are the worst to overcome for new players. There are significant gear issues, so credits as any sort of problem vanish when you consider everything else a new player must contend with. You wanna know who sucks at g8-9? Vader. Not only does he hit like a wet noodle even with his new zeta, he dies stupidly easy. The advent of relics have made the game much harder for new players, especially in arena.

I don't even see the point in this argument. more shards for old characters = good. New players can get a 7* toon sooner, cheaper, and find a guild to join to get heroic rewards to earn more gear, credits, etc. JKR, DRevs, Gen Sky are easier to farm = good. Even Rey and SLK are easier to farm. Gear crunch remains (obviously; it's not ever going away). Gear crunch sucks. Currency will not impact anyone more than the gear will and more shards aren't making it worse.