The Increasing Pace of New Character Releases is Becoming Unmanageable

When they introduced the new system, they said it would be a new marquee once or twice per era cycle, each cycle being 4 weeks. 

We've been stuck at twice per cycle for a while, and that does get overwhelming. The ships are going to be a nice break because they use different resources. 

I'd like to see them average 3 toons per 8 weeks instead of 4/8. The extra 2 weeks could be used for a new ship or just skipped, but I do think the pace has been a little extreme. 

That said, this is a resource management game, and having so many things in play that you have to make choices to manage your investments rather than just grabbing literally everything as it comes out isn't bad. 

With the Pirate era we knew Ithano would become farmable first. Choosing not to spend crystals on him then spending more on the toons at the ned of the cycle so that they slow you down less would have been a fine way to time your pirates so that no one pirate slows you down too much in the quest for Hondo, but you're not spending the same resources on every toon when you know some will have more time to farm than others.