Thoughts on (Rumored) Shard Exchange
I’m a fan of the game and enjoying the balance of gameplay/grind/gambling excitement/star wars characters. Wanted to share some thoughts on the art of the possible on the rumored upcoming shard exch...
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"SolidSnake;23804" wrote:
I'm going to spoil it for you. If this game follow its prototype, shard exchange system will be like this;
There will be a new kind of shop that trade a certain amount of your excess shards (of the same character) for............. wait for it..................... packs!
Most of the content in the forums is around what to do with shards past 7 stars and how to address the frustrations that Nonemo has.
"Nonemo;23772" wrote:
Well I'm sitting on about ~60-70 useless shards now, that is, their heroes are already at 7*. I paid as much for those shards as for all the others.
To Nonemo, I'd say that unless they increase the star cap (which I think its unlikely), the shards are pretty useless. At least with the conversion idea, there is a chance to extract some value out of them. In other words: "you played for new shards and lost (i.e. got old ones). You can either sit on those useless shards or, for a very small fee in crystals when compared to the cost of getting the shards, you can extract some use out of them". I think that's a good trade for all around.
I just hope that the developers don't do the exchange only for shards past 7 stars, because that solves only part of the problem.
The other part of the problem is what to do with all those elite residual shards that you don't have any use for.
Let's say that you bought a pack of chromiums and got 10 shards of an elite, chromium-only character. However, you (a) have no desire to collect that character and (b) are not willing to draw dozens of additional chromiums to get that character to a competitive level, anyways. Those 10 shards on that random (if rare) character are pretty useless to you. I'd pay a few (more) crystals to convert those shards to ones that belong to a character that I actually am interested in. Even if that perceived trade was not very attractive. (i.e. 10 shards of the character I don't want for 5 of the character that I am interested in...) The exchange ratio can be set on a character per character level.
I'd be against the idea of creating a '7-star plus' club that gets you access to exclusive characters...
