The shard shop 2.0 IS AMAZING [MERGE]

"Nikoms565;c-1279070" wrote:
In general, I am all for calling out CG when they do something that is "anti-player" - but, IMHO, this isn't it. At least not initially. The new shard shop has prices that are much better per piece - and that's assuming that all currency is equal value - but it's not. There are a few reason why:

Fleet currency is capped. Other than dailies and fleet arena, there is no way to increase fleet currency. Shard Shop currency is not truly capped - and there are many more ways to obtain extra shards - bronzium pulls, events that give shards for characters you already have maxed, GW drops, obviously "buying" extra shards in any of the other stores, achievements for Vader shards (or, now, TIE Advanced Shards), packs that drop shards for characters you already have (I DON'T recommend this one). That gives you more options - not less.

Fleet currency "should" be used for Zetas. - and possibly the occasional rare ship that appears - Rex's Arc, Scimitar, TIE Advanced, etc. If you are/were using the fleet store to "buy" gear, then you probably don't have enough characters zeta'd. Honestly, the fleet store is one of the least efficient ways to obtain gear.

Fleet store currency for gear is expensive. As many have already noted, the difference in cost is almost 3 to 1 Fleet to Shard Shop currency. And, as already noted above, Fleet store currency should be being used to buy Zetas.

Fleet Store refreshes less often - and costs more to do so. With the rework, the Shard Shop now refreshes every 6 hours and only costs 25 crystals to refresh (the first two times). The point is you are now much more likely to find gear you actually need more often.

For those of you bothered by the change, I guess it must be nice having all of your heroes fully zeta'd that you can spend fleet currency on gear. Or at least have so much of it that you don't mind spending 3 times as much as you could in the new Shard Shop.

1. It is not cheaper, 36% more.
2. Fleet currency was for everything that was in the shop. We could decide what we need. Now it is limited. No more gear.
3. Gear from shard shop open for trading good idea but very limited for many players. That is all about.
4. If there will be hardware for ships and fleet currency will be used to buy this the same story will come back.
5. Players didnt have to choose beetween farming toons or exchange shards to gear toons, now it is dillemma. The same story as with fleet currency. Doesnt apply to players with full toons from the stores full of tokens.
6. I do play this game and i know how much shards i am getting from bronzium, from events. It was 250 shard currency for 2 or 3 days. Now I need to add this to shard shop currency achieved from fleet store shards to have my 10 pieces of stun cuffs. Not improvment for me.
Cheers