The biggest negative for SWGOH right now, for advanced accounts in top 50 guilds, is the amount of time required. TW, GAC, TB, events, conquest, and now raids will require more time soonish.CG has not taken anything off of our plate, time wise, in quite a while. Simplest way to do this is making something simmable. Making GW, Assault Battles, and raids simmable was a godsend for players.What I am asking for is simple, make treasure nodes in conquest simmable. 20 energy, slide over for battles, get DC materials.What about keycards or stamina you say? Just don't involve either. You use no stamina, but earn no progress toward feats.What is the purpose? It makes it possible to grind Datacton mats without spending an hour a day auto battling vs tuskens. You still need to manual do treasure nodes for feats, but this would encourage more energy refreshes and save players time with minimal coding. Sim already exists in the code, so this is a simple solution to save players time who are farming datacrons.

I can definitely say that after I grab Red Crate I am so done with Conquest. It's such a grind that the last thing I want to do is slog through repetitive battles again and again for Datacrons. I would certainly -- let me repeat that it is 100% certain -- spend more crystals on conquest if they made it possible to sim a DC node without progress towards feats. As it is, I don't think I spent any crystals on Conquest the entire last 3 days of Conquest last time. Maybe even 4, though I couldn't be sure. And because of my work with 50ShardsOfKAM I'm always behind in Conquest by a couple days. I'm sure that for other players this would be more like 5 days of spending.

Sorry, newbie question.What is "treasure node"?The yellow node in conquest?If it is, AFAIK i have never seen any difference in rewards between yellow nodes and blue nodes...But i could be wrong. I have only played 2 or 3 conquests so far...Thanks for the explanation.

In Hard Mode there is an additional node after you defeat the boss for that Sector. This set of 5 nodes drops Datacrons and Datacron upgrade materials. (Each node drops a different collection of items.) Since it is a node within the Sector, you can replay that node over and over to collect Datacron materials and get your Sector feats done at the same time. However... once all your sector feats are done you may still need or want certain Datacron materials. Since by that point you've proven you can beat the node repeatedly AND you've spent a long time on conquest already, the idea is to allow us to sim the node for the same amount of energy as a normal battle and garnering the same "treasure" (Datacrons and their upgrade materials). To prevent this from being abused to gain Red Crate when you can't actually earn it, there would be no feat progress during the sim of such a node (or so goes the proposal made in this thread). In this way (it is hoped) you can do what CG wants you to do -- spend crystals and collect datacrons -- while not being so bored and rustrated you want to throw your device across the room, shatter it against the wall, and then buy another device just so you can log in, sell all your 6-dot mods to prevent you from being tempted to rejoin the game, and then signing out forever. A game is supposed to be fun, but CG pushes these datacrons despite knowing that there is no possible fun in replaying these battles. I have largely stopped upgrading mine since I am not in a TW focussed guild and I'm not a PvP focussed player. Other players, though, are not as lucky and their guilds essentially require them to have a selection of the best datacrons. It is this pressure -- fed by CG -- which causes many (but not all) players to absolutely hate the monotonous Datacron collection/upgrade process. Games are supposed to be fun. This is the opposite of fun. It is the fun-killer. It is the little death before SWGOH receives total hard drive obliteration. I manage by simply tuning out, but I know other people who have quit because they hate the Datacron chase. This is an important step to manage that problem. It would make me more willing to spend crystals on Datacrons (which would make the PvP players in my guild happier and result in a better guild experience for all) and other players less likely to quit. It seems a win-win, but who knows what CG will think.

Honestly, conquest makes me consider quitting the game every time. And one day it will push me over that edge. Horrible game design. They could just crank up the difficulty, cash in crystals on consumables and give red for completing. Tune difficulty to keep current red rate. Or any other non time sponging design. The constant grind over 2 weeks is just rude to spenders and f2p alike.

Two other time saving features that would be nice:A 'collect all' Daily activities button, rather than having to collect each individual activity reward.And a favourite node tab, to save all your node farms on one page instead of having to swap between light side, dark side, normal, hard etc multiple times a day

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MasterSeedy
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
I can definitely say that after I grab Red Crate I am so done with Conquest. It's such a grind that the last thing I want to do is slog through repetitive battles again and again for Datacrons.

I would certainly -- let me repeat that it is 100% certain -- spend more crystals on conquest if they made it possible to sim a DC node without progress towards feats.

As it is, I don't think I spent any crystals on Conquest the entire last 3 days of Conquest last time. Maybe even 4, though I couldn't be sure. And because of my work with 50ShardsOfKAM I'm always behind in Conquest by a couple days. I'm sure that for other players this would be more like 5 days of spending.
GegeGerard24
2 years ago
Sorry, newbie question.

What is "treasure node"?
The yellow node in conquest?

If it is, AFAIK i have never seen any difference in rewards between yellow nodes and blue nodes...

But i could be wrong. I have only played 2 or 3 conquests so far...

Thanks for the explanation.
MasterSeedy
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
In Hard Mode there is an additional node after you defeat the boss for that Sector. This set of 5 nodes drops Datacrons and Datacron upgrade materials. (Each node drops a different collection of items.)

Since it is a node within the Sector, you can replay that node over and over to collect Datacron materials and get your Sector feats done at the same time.

However... once all your sector feats are done you may still need or want certain Datacron materials.

Since by that point you've proven you can beat the node repeatedly AND you've spent a long time on conquest already, the idea is to allow us to sim the node for the same amount of energy as a normal battle and garnering the same "treasure" (Datacrons and their upgrade materials).

To prevent this from being abused to gain Red Crate when you can't actually earn it, there would be no feat progress during the sim of such a node (or so goes the proposal made in this thread).

In this way (it is hoped) you can do what CG wants you to do -- spend crystals and collect datacrons -- while not being so bored and rustrated you want to throw your device across the room, shatter it against the wall, and then buy another device just so you can log in, sell all your 6-dot mods to prevent you from being tempted to rejoin the game, and then signing out forever.

A game is supposed to be fun, but CG pushes these datacrons despite knowing that there is no possible fun in replaying these battles. I have largely stopped upgrading mine since I am not in a TW focussed guild and I'm not a PvP focussed player. Other players, though, are not as lucky and their guilds essentially require them to have a selection of the best datacrons.

It is this pressure -- fed by CG -- which causes many (but not all) players to absolutely hate the monotonous Datacron collection/upgrade process.

Games are supposed to be fun. This is the opposite of fun. It is the fun-killer. It is the little death before SWGOH receives total hard drive obliteration.

I manage by simply tuning out, but I know other people who have quit because they hate the Datacron chase.

This is an important step to manage that problem. It would make me more willing to spend crystals on Datacrons (which would make the PvP players in my guild happier and result in a better guild experience for all) and other players less likely to quit.

It seems a win-win, but who knows what CG will think.
martinarvi776
2 years ago
Honestly, conquest makes me consider quitting the game every time. And one day it will push me over that edge. Horrible game design. They could just crank up the difficulty, cash in crystals on consumables and give red for completing. Tune difficulty to keep current red rate. Or any other non time sponging design. The constant grind over 2 weeks is just rude to spenders and f2p alike.
ROSS2405
2 years ago
Two other time saving features that would be nice:
A 'collect all' Daily activities button, rather than having to collect each individual activity reward.
And a favourite node tab, to save all your node farms on one page instead of having to swap between light side, dark side, normal, hard etc multiple times a day
tvsfrink
2 years ago
"Rossglopio_5;c-2406563" wrote:
Two other time saving features that would be nice:
A 'collect all' Daily activities button, rather than having to collect each individual activity reward.
And a favourite node tab, to save all your node farms on one page instead of having to swap between light side, dark side, normal, hard etc multiple times a day

If you're farming hard nodes just favorite the toons/ships and farm them all from there.
tvsfrink
2 years ago
"KDC99X;c-2406674" wrote:
It still would be a huge timesaver to have an additional tab, where we can just bookmark the nodes directly, and not have to jump through an additional series of screens for every individual node.

"TVF;c-2406646" wrote:
"Rossglopio_5;c-2406563" wrote:
Two other time saving features that would be nice:
A 'collect all' Daily activities button, rather than having to collect each individual activity reward.
And a favourite node tab, to save all your node farms on one page instead of having to swap between light side, dark side, normal, hard etc multiple times a day

If you're farming hard nodes just favorite the toons/ships and farm them all from there.

Ok but for now my way is better because it exists.
KDC99-X
New Rookie
2 years ago
Second this: would be cool to have the option to do to manually for feat progress when desired, or sim under the parameters you mentioned when not.
GegeGerard24
2 years ago
"MasterSeedy;c-2406541" wrote:
In Hard Mode there is an additional node after you defeat the boss for that Sector. This set of 5 nodes drops Datacrons and Datacron upgrade materials. (Each node drops a different collection of items.)

Thanks for having taken the time to explaine.
I am still at easy mode..haha
KDC99-X
New Rookie
2 years ago
It still would be a huge timesaver to have an additional tab, where we can just bookmark the nodes directly, and not have to jump through an additional series of screens for every individual node.

"TVF;c-2406646" wrote:
"Rossglopio_5;c-2406563" wrote:
Two other time saving features that would be nice:
A 'collect all' Daily activities button, rather than having to collect each individual activity reward.
And a favourite node tab, to save all your node farms on one page instead of having to swap between light side, dark side, normal, hard etc multiple times a day

If you're farming hard nodes just favorite the toons/ships and farm them all from there.