Solution to gear crunch:

"Mvnson;884246" wrote:

What you small timers don't understand is that raising the gear level to 11 and soon to be 12 has doubled the gear requirements.

You have 11 G11 characters. The "smalltimer" you're talking to has 9; I think he's pretty aware of what it takes to get to G11.

"Mvnson;884258" wrote:

It's evident by my guild. We have 2x as many raid points as yours.

You appear to be unaware of this, but the raid-points counter resets each month. Swgoh.gg only has the results for the first three days of the month, and given that raid schedules vary, it's not surprising that there is variance in how many points HAAT guilds have after three days. But that being said, if you look at the guild ranking inside the game, you'll see that our guild currently has the same number of guild points as yours does: 700.

Ah. So your actual complaint is that you don't want to spend anymore because the gear you require outstrips the amount you want to spend. If that's the case, either uninstall the game, or open the wallet wider.

But you don't want to quit because you feel as though you've already invested in the game. It's the model EA has setup to get spenders to continuously spend.

"CaptainRex;884126" wrote:

"Olddumper;884051" wrote:

"Jnbentzel81;884044" wrote:
@Olddumper @pchen3082 so you're both declaring that you've got plenty of gear from raids and arena? Hmm I rank top ranks constantly and I'm still hurting for certain items. I want both of your great rng

I don't think there is a gear crunch right now. I think CG has gotten to a point. Where mods gear credits and squads are all pretty balanced. Which is great, now they just need to clean everything up.

Read this post by @benacrow and say that again.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/80260/the-gear-grind-a-problem-of-supply-vs-demand/p1

Lol yes there's a huge credit crunch still.

@Olddumper I've literally had several guildmates quit because they saw no end to the gear crunch. Some of them were even paying customers. It makes sense to put roadblocks here and there, but not when there are 12 roadblocks leading up to a brick wall. We don't need to be gated on dozens of pieces like we currently are, and the 2000s of salvage we have for useless gear isn't helping in any way.

@Olddumper If you live in a democracy, please explain me the result of this poll made on the 25th on January 2017:

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/88901/is-there-a-gear-imbalance-crunch-similar-to-the-previous-credit-crunch/p1

More than 94% of participants thought there was a gear crunch. Maybe he estimated proportion is inflated, but with 305 participants, the sampling size is big enough to safely state a non negligible promotion of players are unsatisfied with the situation.

"Mvnson;884389" wrote:

Read this link and then can come back here and say that you stand by this comment. If you can honestly do that, you win the argument.

OK, I can totally buy that developers like CapGasp—who designs events, and events only—does not know where the bottlenecks are. But they have claimed they have a game economist who analyzes all the data they have available, and it's a decent bet that they are aware of the issue but think the current system is best for their bottom line. I agree that some of the gear shortages are pretty ridiculous, but its in their interests for players to always feel blocked by some/many things, and to always have reasons to believe they can spend their way to the next level.

"Neo2551;884437" wrote:

More than 94% of participants thought there was a gear crunch. Maybe he estimated proportion is inflated, but with 305 participants, the sampling size is big enough to safely state a non negligible promotion of players are unsatisfied with the situation.

It's not the size of the sample that's problematic, but the fact that it's not random. It's like a phone-in poll for viewers of Bill O'Reilly or Rachel Maddow: those participating are likely to have biases that affect the results.

WTF is Zid?

"Scruffy_Looking;884490" wrote:

"Mvnson;884389" wrote:

Read this link and then can come back here and say that you stand by this comment. If you can honestly do that, you win the argument.

OK, I can totally buy that developers like CapGasp—who designs events, and events only—does not know where the bottlenecks are. But they have claimed they have a game economist who analyzes all the data they have available, and it's a decent bet that they are aware of the issue but think the current system is best for their bottom line. I agree that some of the gear shortages are pretty ridiculous, but its in their interests for players to always feel blocked by some/many things, and to always have reasons to believe they can spend their way to the next level.

"Neo2551;884437" wrote:

More than 94% of participants thought there was a gear crunch. Maybe he estimated proportion is inflated, but with 305 participants, the sampling size is big enough to safely state a non negligible promotion of players are unsatisfied with the situation.

It's not the size of the sample that's problematic, but the fact that it's not random. It's like a phone-in poll for viewers of Bill O'Reilly or Rachel Maddow: those participating are likely to have biases that affect the results.

That is what I said with inflating proportion, but the bias can't be over 40%... I would be happy to do a random sampling among players, but I am pretty sure the odds will not be that far away among high level players...

"Nurgle;884639" wrote:
**** is Zid?

Zetas Darth Sidious (=> Zeta Sid -> Zid)

"Neo2551;884647" wrote:

"Nurgle;884639" wrote:
**** is Zid?

Zetas Darth Sidious (=> Zeta Sid -> Zid)

Thanks. Couldn't figure that Zeta out for my life.

The good news is that the new characters are so expensive we won't have to gear them lol