What economy changes?

"MaruMaru;c-2186633" wrote:
They never said they'll cut out the arena crystals or even pondering doing so, that's just what many extrapolated from the statements.

Carrie did say they were considering moving crystals from arena to grand arena.

The Carrie era is, admittedly, over.

Arenas xstals should be kept the way they are know, xstals income is the core of the game. Moving them to such a bad mode like GAC gonna kill the game for a big part of community

A shift in economy might be like in WoW or Hearthstone, a new big expansion makes all previous content much easier to gain and the new content introduce a new bottleneck resource to grind. Or maybe it will be a classic CG compromise where old content will still be a bottleneck with the introduction of an even more expensive bottleneck that make the old one feel less painful by comparison.

There is always a risk when doing bigger economy shifts in games that older whales feel that their previous spending was an investment that the game company should protect instead of understanding that spending money on a game is considered consumption, a sunk cost without any future tangible value beside sentimental.

Kyrotech 2.0

Hopefully, we will see some minor improvements to older content in addition to whatever else they decide to add. Slight improvements could be:

1) Tank Raid simmable with the same requirements as Pit (35 Kenobis/50 Victories)
2) Revamp some of the heist events to improve their usefulness such as Droid Heist for late game players.
3) Carbanti Daily Challenge - Change the MK3 Carbanti drop rate to 4-5 instead of 3-7. Like the change to the zeta daily this increases the overall amount of Carbanti's given out, but gives up the extremely small chance at 7.

What I would like to see added resource wise:
1) Gear Heist and Relic Material Heists using ships. This would give ground credits, training mats, and slicing materials, yet give ships ship reinforcements/omegas, gear, and relic materials. A perfect balance as all things should be.

"Iy4oy4s;c-2187148" wrote:
Hope they add something more to buy with credits....just past 400 mil.

Mods? Shards in weekly for shard shop?

I wish they could streamline a bit the boring repetitive chores that, like dust, slowly but surely, make the game feel messier with time:
- As if farming mods wasn't painful enough, I dread the time where I reach full capacity and have to upgrade them all (by increments of 3 steps on that weird slider of 15), slice a few and sell almost all of them. That's 1-2h of time well spent :/
- Farm nodes, refresh, refill, refarm, repeat, 4 sets of nodes, 3 refreshes, 3 refills every day...
- The full tour of all stores 4 times a day, buy shards, recycle them in tokens, etc...
- Sim GW, sim events, sim raids, sim sim and more sim... Oh and sometimes, no sim and play 5 times 8 battles on auto...

Can't we have all that turned into just 1 daily goodie? 1 mega sim to rule them all?

I have a bad feeling about this...

"Bulldog1205;c-2187311" wrote:
I know it's CG, but just to throw this out there...

What if they are rebalancing the real money cost of gearing characters? Early on in this game it cost about $100 to max gear a character. Now I don't even know the cost, but it's way up there. $500? More? don't even know, but if you are buying the gear from scratch it's insane. The cost for a full stun gun is still $20, even though the value of a single stun gun has dropped tremendously.

I could MAYBE see CG doing something like increasing the amount of crystals we get for real cash and then increasing the amount of crystals it costs for character shards (to keep that cost the same). Maybe even increasing the effective crystal cost of relics since that is end game. Effectively making the cost of gearing characters to G13 significantly cheaper. This character shard cost increase would also make it tougher for F2P hoarders to save crystals to 7 star characters for legendary events.

I was thinking a similar plan is in the works.

but more on the back end.

If they adjust the amount of gear we are getting, then on the back end they will adjust either the number of crystals you get per $ or also increase the amount of gear you get when buying it. It would be very odd to make gearing a toon take 1/3 (as an example) the time, but still cost the same $$ as it did before.

but i fully expect this to happen after any gear adjustments, not necessarily as part of them.

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also, check out what can be turned into relic mats. the first 2 tiers have stun guns, cuffs, and caribanti. They could essentially flood the market on those, erasing most of the pre g13 gear crunch, and still do almost nothing towards the "end game" gear crunch. I will assume this is no accident.