We need to talk about Kyrotechs
So turns out this game is just about trying to get Kyrotechs then. And spending 4.99 on the little Kyrotech packs. To unlock JK Cal Kestis 2100 Kyrotechs were needed between the 5 characters, then 5...
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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.
It is, but with kyro's they squeezed the thing too tight.
500 kyro's, more or less, to G13 any new character. Yeah, there were bottlenecks before, but you didn't need 500 of them. It was maybe 150-200. It's one thing to have a bottleneck, it's quite another to choke it so tightly.
The game has pulled in a ton of cash over the years, they're well into the black, but greed knows no bounds....clearly. Crank that 500 back to say 200 and you still have a bottleneck, but things can actually flow a bit for those who are burning cash like it's going out of style...
Almost every new marquee since when DR and Malak arrived (in 2019) requires 400 kyros to get to G13. There have been exceptions to the rule, with some marquees taking fewer kyros (IG11 and Kuiil only need 100 each, I think Resistance Heroes are 300 each) and some taking more (Armorer and Saw Gerrera need 500). This is not a new thing. We've all had 4 years to adjust.
You get more kyros thank you think. We have 8 Assault Battles that award 20 kyros, that's 160. You get 3 each day from the daily feats box, that's another 90. Then we have kyro drops from TB end rewards + what you can buy for GET2/3 + Zeffo and Mandalore boxes.
I geared up the 4 gungan marquees from zero to G13 in July to qualify for JJB in August. Thst's 1600 kyros right there. I rarely ever buy kyros for crystals (usually if I have a toon at G12 just waiting for some kyros to hit G13, I'll spend 700 crystals to buy 25 pieces). The majority of my kyros come from events and TB currency and I can usually gear up 3 or 4 post-DR marquees in a month.
Just Zeffo and Mandalore (assuming you get both boxes on each planet in each TB) get you 140 kyros per TB, so 280 a month.
That doesn't account for kyros you can farm up with regular energy. Even if it's 1-3 a day, it adds up over time.
Your problem is bad resource management in a resource management game.Except if you didn't start with 1.0 you likely can't do all the assault battles. Sure, it's a game of management, but it's much easier when you spend and much easier when you started in the beginning. That's a big flaw in this game, start now and you can't really compete for this stuff for over a year. Forget getting to K level in GAC for 2 or 3 years if not more.
Zeffo and Mandalore? please. The elite guilds do that. That's what? 20% of the player base, if that. My comments are in general, not to those fighting it out in K1/K2 at top guilds.
Sure, it's not too bad if you've maxed everything out. The overwhelming majority of people have not. So, they loose quite a bit from that so-called total you've listed.
I stand by the bottom line. Kyro's are much more of a bottleneck than there was before. Much more. Providing more avenues for the elites doesn't remove that restriction for the other 90% of people.
Wise.
