Shard Economy Changes [MEGA]

This whole operation is just smoke in the eyes, if they really want to speed things up they just have to do it under the hood, doubling drop chances and cutting shop prices for specific characters.

I'm not so sure on what they're aiming for, but I'm quite confident there's a downside somewhere I just can't figure out now. As we say around here:"being doubtful about someone is deplorable, but is often the right choice"

As an old player (more than 3 years) I've seen how they keep secret all the hidden changes (gear fragments drop rate was roughly 2 or 3 times the actual one, 2 years ago), or how they removed most wanted gear fragments from any ship energy node in the past, saying they wanted to keep ship energy for high lvl gear (which is true, but no one forced them to remove the stuff on the same node).
And last but not least, how they added the usual "most wanted fragments" at random on any new char (like c3po who require many "attacker" pieces to gear up), and on lvl XIII pieces...