We need to talk about Kyrotechs

This is a game of resource bottlenecks and has been for 7-odd years, it’s not a bold new discovery. Currently kyros are the bottleneck for most people, signal data for a small group near the very end game.

CG are a business and need to make money - the more they can make players feel that opening their wallets to get a tiny bit more progress is worthwhile, the more they make. I’m glad I’m patient.

Crystals are your most flexible currency. I went through a long time period where most of my Kyros were purchased outright with crystals. But if you spend your TB GET-2 currency on Kyros and if you have 200-300 energy available to farm Kyros each day, you should be able to keep up with new toons. 

Now, that only helps so much if you're also needing to bring up older toons. But that's where you spend your crystals on Kyros. One of the great things about crystal Kyro expenditures is that even though they're expensive, they actually aren't much more expensive than farming. So if you're doing all your 50-crystal refreshes per day and still don't have enough Kyros, purchasing for crystals is better value than 100-crystal refreshes (by a long way) AND it's much faster. 

Be careful with you how you manage your crystal cache, do your daily refreshes on regular energy and Cantina energy, and let those crystals grow. When you hit 10k or 12k in the bank you can buy a large batch of Kyros, then slowly grow things back. Make sure you leave 6k-7k crystals in the bank in case of a galactic chase or double drops or something else where you want to spend a large number of crystals quickly. 

DO NOT purchase the 1300 crystal marquee packs for the new marquee format unless you're well into the 13k+ range with crystals in the bank. Getting characters early does you no good if you can't give them their Kyros, so getting shards cheap and slow and Kyros as quick as possible is probably the best bet for you. 

That said, be of good cheer! There is literally always a resource bottleneck. For me it's signal data trying to get all the r8 and r9 toons that raids and GL Ahsoka demand. But I defeated the Kyro demon. I never buy Kyros outright anymore and always have what I need to take new toons right to g11 (or right to relic if they unlock at 7*)

Eventually if you're consistent about spending GET-2 on Kyros and doing your daily refreshes and keeping some crystals for when you need Kyros in a hurry, you'll get ahead of the Kyro monster. 

Remember when the bottleneck was carbanis? The good old days 

These will be the bottleneck for quite some time.  I'm down to 69 toons not yet to g13, so that is a minimum of 6900 kyros that I need, plus what ever extras for my under g12 toons.  That is quite a few, especially with the rate they are adding toons at this point.  I feel that we have gotten to the point that R5 is the minimum "safe" place for a toon to be.  Just look at the GL Ahsoka requirements released so far:  two R9, one R8, three R7, and two R5.  Hence why R5 has become a minimum place to take a toon to avoid massive panic farming.

Of course, they have increased the cost of the Kyrotech bundle to $6.99, which I refuse to purchase because of the element of luck and the price per each Kyrotech went up (slightly).  I don't mind playing the odds when using crystals (although I don't very often), but I refuse when I'm spending money.   I'm a 10+ million GP player and I'm about done with this money pit of a game.  The good thing is the Kyro bundle was the only thing I spent money on other than when the crystal packs are on sale like May 4th, so I'm saving money.  :)

Some characters require less kyrotechs because they either were added before kyrotechs was a thing or when it was very new. So General Kenobi for instance can be taken to G12 before needing kyrotechs while a new character might only be able to go to G9 before needing kyros since they are newer. There was a time where carbantis was at the same bottleneck as kyrotech was, but as the game progresses new gear/relics will come that will replace that bottleneck and kyrotechs will be easier to get. This game is all about bottlenecks so thats just what it is unfortunately. If you just play every day you will eventually start to "catch up" on stuff like kyrotechs.

It also depends on where your at in the game, Kyros was a massive bottle neck for me. My most common spend was the Kyro packs. But once your Kyro economy improves in later game, it’s not as big an issue even when working on the latest characters with high relic requirements. Now my relic scrap and sigils are more of a bottle neck, and I have not purchased a Kyro pack in months. More likely to spend on conquest pass now.