What economy changes?

"StarSon;d-237549" wrote:
The State of the Galaxy post says

We’ve already mentioned some bigger changes coming to the economy

Well, what economy changes? I don't remember any posts about changes to the economy.

Yeah i was confused with this too

It seems like Crumb slipped something from the Road Ahead hopefully?

"biglippedbeast;c-2186630" wrote:
I’m sure whatever the change it is will help everyone’s current gear crunch exponential, just like the last one.

They better do, I was kinda expecting them to fix it back in august with GC's, but not even close

"Dmitry_M81;c-2186687" wrote:
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

Problem with this is the GLs. If they want to keep them all on the similar power lvl, then eventually everyone will have one and would not need to spend or anything to keep competitive in the most important mode of the game (Arena,Fleet). So changing the main source of crystals is basically the only option.

"HumbleMumble;c-2186697" wrote:
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.

This is, at least in part, what I expect.

Characters and shards are the 2 basic economic systems at play. They are likely to make them easier to get for new players (all players really), but how is the question.....

Marquee section of the JG would a commonly suggested idea that would help with shards.

New tiers of events/daily challenges/raids for gear, or rebalancing raid rewards, and maybe others. Not all of these are helpful to new players though....

"HK22;c-2187073" wrote:
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.

#3 I think it might've changed, I got 5x5 carbantis today and when you look at the rewards it only says "7" not "3-7" like it has been.

Hope they add something more to buy with credits....just past 400 mil.

"Nikoms565;c-2187160" wrote:

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

Mods? Shards in weekly for shard shop?

Yup, buy those. Although I only buy mods that show 5 speed.

1 mega sim to rule them all?

And in the darkness bind them!

Seriously though, what you describe as chores represents a fair amount of actual game content. Get rid if that and the game becomes more threadbare than it already is.

Oh boy, I'm betting it's a subscription service to help all the whales out and more packs.

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.