A few things I’ve noticed with the game as of late…To get anywhere, you need to buy. I find myself constantly buying upgrades just to keep up with other players. Even then I feel like I’m miles behind!On the same note… Paying £20-£80 a month for conquest and episode passes is ridiculous. It should be a one time purchase not monthly!The squad arena is also pointless at this stage for me. I’m ranked at like #324 yet every opponent has galactic legends and ridiculous squads making it impossible to actually win anything! I have over 100 relic amplified characters ranging from Relic 3-9 and yet I can do fiddly squat!The new Era content is shocking. I managed to get Luke to 4 star (62/65 shards) and L17. Once you get past first phase in the colosseum, you don’t stand a chance of completing phase 2. I can also only get past the first level of the Era challenge. They took away the ability to earn shards and still waiting for the new Maul to be released. Just throwing money at something with zero progression.Don’t even get me started on sim tokens. You accumulate hundreds of thousands of them and use like 50 a day. Pointless having that level of tokens when you barely use them. You should be able to buy stuff with them or trade them in!Last observation, wouldn’t it be cool if you could trade characters with people or trade characters for light speed tokens?What are your thoughts? Should CG be taking what their loyal cash cows are saying on board and make some decent changes to the game?

Most games that I tried/played that has a "battlepass" gives you a good base when you get it. It's usually a good commitment to help the game to develop while getting a good boost to keep up things, in this game it's not that way, the pass is just a poor people thing.No idea where CG took the idea that bullying people to spend so much money each 15 days was a good plan. It's not required to play the game, but it has a big impact in the new game mode (and it will also have in the following new game modes), so it makes the game feel worse for players that are not willing to spend a crazy amount of game in a mobile game.I think that their focus is in trying to get new players willing to spend some money, even if they don't stay long in the game, the goal is to get money as fast as possible. That's why they have this soft reset of the Era each 3 months where the work done goes to the legacy and the focus will be again in new characters, Era rankings and burning money to get those characters up to rank well to get the currency for R10 or Lightspeed tokens.

Nonsense. You can progress with spending anything. You can progress quicker by spending.All players have a choice: be patient, or spend money.Yes, the era content is poor but your take on spending is down to you, not because the game requires it.

I wouldn’t say it’s nonsense. I’ve been playing the game for 5 years and if I hadn’t bought stuff, I’d probably only have a couple of Relic amplified characters. I know you can still progress without spending money, but it’s snails pace.I don’t buy as much as others because at the end of the day it’s a game, people need to eat 😂 But it’s obvious that those who spend a lot of money on the game are so much further ahead than others and coming up against them in squad/fleet arena or battle arena, you don’t stand a chance once you hit a certain rank…

You tell him DarthRedlinehmf 😂His best character is probably a Lv.13 Old Ben 👀

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15 Replies

stealthk1980
Rising Rookie
5 hours ago
Ignore what everyone else is doing and track your own progress, like going to the gym, if you compare to others youre never gonna feel good if you just started out. Although if you've been playing for 5 years, im not sure how or why youre struggling as thats double the time ive played for and im fairly happy with my progress 😬
Im also not sure where youre getting upto £80 a month from for episode and conquest passes. I see no reason to stretch beyond the 19.99 EP and the 9.99 CP.
The game is designed to be a frustrating slow grind, thats how they get their players to give up their money. There's some great guides kicking about that show the most efficient routes to early power gain, follow those, ignore the marquee stuff and keep slowly grinding it out. The GLs get faster to acquire as you gain more, also dont forget to invest in your fleets
DUNCAN1919
Seasoned Ace
6 hours ago
So busy, you get triggered by a free game making changes and post a diatribe about it.
Get help.
DUNCAN1919
Seasoned Ace
6 hours ago
I’m not upset.

I’m not the one getting annoyed about a game……
MrAleex25
Newcomer
16 hours ago
I can assure you it’s my only account, I don’t hide behind other accounts. I have a busy life and when I do get what little downtime I have, I like to check new things out. You’ve made me feel really welcome though so thank you 🙄
MrAleex25
Newcomer
16 hours ago
It’s called a jokeDUNCAN1919 no need to get so upset 👀
Appreciate the link, just chill a bit 😂
DUNCAN1919
Seasoned Ace
16 hours ago
I dont think the new era stuff is for new players to spend money. As with the previous Marquee content this new stuff is meant for end game accounts. Issue is the new system is a) crap, b) bad in ROI that Whales dislike it. The passes as you say are still worth getting.
For early to mid game players it should just be ignored and get what free stuff they can, and not get too stressed that content not meant for them isn't accessible unless they pay.
After all long term players like myself would have had none of the catch up mechanics like doubling of chacter shard drops etc and also had to content with some content being very hard to get. A lot of that content is now very easy to get, its all relative.

Although really in this case OP saying "I’ve been playing the game for 5 years and if I hadn’t bought stuff, I’d probably only have a couple of Relic amplified characters" is truly doing something wrong if they think they have to pay to get more than a couple of relic toons in 5 years!!
DUNCAN1919
Seasoned Ace
16 hours ago
Truly honoured that your first post was this and you only joined 2 hours ago!
Almost as if its an alt account...
DUNCAN1919
Seasoned Ace
17 hours ago
"His best character is probably a Lv.13 Old Ben 👀"
What an absolute abortion you've had here. Back in your box.
DUNCAN1919
Seasoned Ace
17 hours ago
What? Suggest you check out various creators fully f2p alt account videos. They have Executor which requires multiple high level relic toons within 12 months.

You are absolutely doing it wrong. Follow the playlist here and you'll be doing a LOT better.
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MrAleex25
Newcomer
17 hours ago
Well said! It’s a gold mine for CG. Yes they have to make a wage but based on the number of players and average spend, they’ll be raking it in! It’s not about Star Wars or it being a tactical game anymore, it’s a money pit. They’re basically the Disney of the Star Wars franchise, stick to the classics. If CG were a character, they’d be Jar Jar Binks!