The credit crunch is real. Many of us, myself included, are sitting on 6+ characters at level 1 with 300 shards. Not enough credits to level them up. Collection based games are not fun when you can't use half your collection. Looks like the answer is meant to be a new repeating scoundrel event. Here is the conundrum - scoundrels aren't in a great place right now. Most people haven't invested in them. If it takes 15 million credits for me to level up Cad, Greedo, and Nute (have 300 shards for each) how long will it take me to earn those credits back?

Invest in useful scoundrels :D Seriously though, lando and chewy (never thought I would say this) aren't that bad. Maybe the two of them will be good enough to complete the event

"Pindasauskanon;488263" wrote:Invest in useful scoundrels :D Seriously though, lando and chewy (never thought I would say this) aren't that bad. Maybe the two of them will be good enough to complete the eventI have both ready-ish. Chewie is gear 9 6*, Lando is gear 9 7*. No one else is near ready. Have Greedo, Nute, and Cad level 1 with 300 shards. Would cost me around 8 million each to get to level 80 and 7*.

I don't know about the credit crunch, I'm probably just bad at the game because I never have anything to spend them on. Looking at my achievements I've earned 70m total but only spent 52m of it, I started maybe 2-3 months ago so maybe the game has balanced so players gain more than they lose now, but because of backlog early players are suffering from the old system

Without profit mining event everyone will be in the credit crunch. Profit mining adds up quick if you did it. Too many people here are short sighted to realize it.

I don't have a huge problem with credit ATM. But I used to before I reach lvl 80 and do heroic raids. Still I have 0 viable scoundrel toons for the event. The best I have is a 4 star lvl 50ish chewy.

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jsovilj
9 years ago

My bad, for I have expressed myself wrongly. What I've meant to say is if you choose to spend cristals on any of given resource needed (shards for example), then try to balance it with buying credits also. Don't spend all of cristals on energy refreshing. You'll end up with surplus of gear and shards.
rk260395
9 years ago
"Sao;488370" wrote:
Be honest to yourself, credit crunch "experience" is solely p2p players problem. If one is a f2p player, all requirements for progress is balanced (gear, shards, cash, training droids). That being said, why not by cash for cristals also (presuming you have been buying gear pieces as well as shards for cristals)?

I'm FTP and have been in a credit crunch for months. I have 7 or 8 toons that could be 7* that I can not afford and I have about 10 characters I'd like to level up to 80 that I can not.

I have no clue what game you are playing but if you're FTP and have been playing for a few months you're in a huge credit crunch.
TR3Y_66
9 years ago
I seriously hope it only requires 3 scoundrels instead of 5. Who has time to farm up a full team of scoundrels? Also 88 should be a scoundrel :smile:
mikebpiz
9 years ago
"tRRRey;488568" wrote:
I seriously hope it only requires 3 scoundrels instead of 5. Who has time to farm up a full team of scoundrels? Also 88 should be a scoundrel :smile:

Yep, if it takes 5 maxed scoundrels it better pay like crazy
jsovilj
9 years ago
"SlyGambit;488567" wrote:

I'm FTP and have been in a credit crunch for months. I have 7 or 8 toons that could be 7* that I can not afford and I have about 10 characters I'd like to level up to 80 that I can not.

I have no clue what game you are playing but if you're FTP and have been playing for a few months you're in a huge credit crunch.

How many cristals have you spent on gear and shards (via energy refreshes) and how many on buying credits? Balance it.
m4silent
9 years ago
It wont pay like crazy though. There are plenty of examples of CG offering terrible rewards constantly. GW still offers lvl 42 regards at lvl 80 (cool). Credit event was initially way better, months before they made worse (way worse). Daily activities still pay nothing for credits. Cantina and missions haven't improved equal to the cost. All the credit rewards need to be scaled up to the new lvl 80 costs (lvl 90 is coming. Can't imagine how much worse it will be). Plenty more examples of poor rewards throughout the game. I doubt this will be worth it either.

Imagine a 5 man team of scoundrel heroes. Most probably don't have any, aside from a low chewie. So it takes 25-30 million for the team for the event. Event is once per week and pays 1 million. That's 30 weeks to see a return. What if it pays 500k? That's 60 weeks. Even with a 3 man team, that's still 15-18 million. So a 15-18 week or 30-36 week return. Not promising
NicWester
9 years ago
Sao has a point.

The faster you unlock characters and the more characters you unlock, the more credits you need to spend to get them to useful levels. It can become a vicious cycle--you have too many characters so now you need droids and credits, so you buy those but now you need gear, so you need to buy crystals to get the gear. If you go at a slower pace, your credits, droids, and gear tend to stay in line.

You get a couple million spacebucks a week from Galactic War, and can make a good chunk from the later Cantina boards. So just focus on working one person at a time and it gets done pretty fast.
jsovilj
9 years ago
@NicWester, exactly that!
mikebpiz
9 years ago
"C00L_Story;488820" wrote:
Resource management ; P

Did you people think this was just a turn based strategy game?

4 months ago I would agree.

Now? Raid gear is the gate. Raid gear is meant to be the treadmill.

No reason to have a credit treadmill and raid gear one.
EventineElesedi
9 years ago
I'm sure the rewards will include 2 million credits.

If you buy all the refreshes every day and get good drops, you have a chance of getting that many credits, total.