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9 years ago

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 exchange. I think it could help paying users, non-paying users and, of course, the house.
The Stem Shard.
What if you could trade-in a certain number of character shards for a Stem Shard. A Stem Shard would be a blank shard where the owner (user) would have the choice for it to be any shard of any character desired.
The different values/rarities of character shards would dictate how many would be needed to exchange for a Stem Shard. So shards from a common character (i.e. Jedi Consular) would have a low trade-in value, let’s say 10-to-1 (i.e. give up 10 Jedi Consular shards in exchange for one Stem Shard). And shards from a rare character (i.e. Lando) will have closer to a 1-to-1 conversion to a Stem Shard.
How does the house profit? Create a transaction tax. Each Stem Shard converted would cost, call it, 10 crystals. There could be different terms if you’re converting shards from a 7-starred character.
Developers could adjust over time the conversion rates depending on rarity/commonality of characters.
A kicker for the house? Create a Stem Shard pack. How much would some users pay for 10 shards of their choice!
The above was in mind for shards of un-activated characters or residual shards of activated characters. But what about the stars of already activated characters? Either, (i) prohibit their conversion (i.e. you’re stuck with that character) or (ii) allow to exchange shards and ‘de-star’, perhaps at a more unfavorable exchange ratio.
A second proposal: full open market with a crystal transaction tax. Where users trade at their discretion with each transaction costing a fixed number of crystals per side. But let’s leave the details on that for another day.
  • "Abyss;23832" wrote:
    Everyone is making this too complicated lol
    Just make a shipment like all the others. It resets when all the others resets and have a big variety to pick from. Shards should exchange 1-1 because when u crack a pak u pay the same ammount weather u draw 1* garbage or 4* goodies.

    You just take any un-needed shards to the shipment and cash them for things u do want.

    I would even argue we should be able to trade in junk toons for shards to then use them at said shipment. I (and many others) have paid good $ for crystals or paks or whatever only to get a pile of junk that just its at lvl 1 and will never get starred or geared.

    Would be nice to change em in for the shards at a shipment essentially. Would feel much better about investing since you'd be able to make sure through your own choices weather you at least get something decent.


    Totally agree
  • I believe it won't be a one to one exchange ratio. I.e. you wont just grab 5 extra Lumi shards from GW to convert them to 5 Leia shards at the shop.

    I think they'll adjust based on rarity/value, which will open the field to debate and discussion. Ideally, they will adjust the ratios based on supply and demand over time.

    A question is whether they do the exhange on the 'buy' side or the 'sell' side. I think that if you follow pattern, all purchases of five shards will cost the same 400 'shard currency'. You'll just get different amounts of shard currency based on which shards you're trading in.

    For example:
    5 Lumi shards get you 40 'shard currency'
    5 Leia shards get you 300 'shard currency'.
    Etc.

    (Actually maybe they do it on a shard per shard basis, not packs of five.)

    As soon as you collect 400 shard currency, you'll be able to buy 5 shards of any character in the shop.



  • lol dude update is not out yet

    unless you're question is to simply start a hypothetical comversation here
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