"sneeekypants;c-1280763" wrote:
"Tiggus;c-1280724" wrote:
Here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G7fRR1taw83uBzsh5Ss9LDNqHXplvDK4cHZ6pBQ4jns/
I believe you charted the value % from the farming cost? I did it a bit different, most pieces are cheapest to farm but the energy costs get incrementally more expensive. It's probably ok for a F2P player since they have limited access to crystals. I used shipment's crystal cost as the basis and did comparisons. For example if you look at the cost of cuffs in the TB store vs the non-exclusive gear, they are incredibly cheap. It's only 1.75 TB tokens per crystal vs say MK 6 Dets at 2.89 tokens per crystal.
Also the G11 gold gear, full pieces require two components but one of them are challenge gear so people have thousands already. They really don't need to be factored into the cost. So you can buy the other component for 750 making that the practical cost of the full piece.
@sneeekypants
First, I computed the cheaper price in crystals for each piece (salvage): either based on the cost in shipments (e.g. AAT Raid gear, or gold component pieces), or on their farm cost (with 50ยข refresh cost, e.g. stun cuffs who are just slightly cheaper to obtain that way). That's in the columns AC (crystal cost)-AD (grind cost)-AE (min of these 2)-AF (cost for a full piece, including all parts).
Second, for each location / shop, I collected the price per 1 salvage (e.g. stun cuff = 49 TB$), and based on that item, what's the "exchange rate" of that currency in crystals (the more the better), in this case 43% means 1TB$ is worth 0.43 crystals, since it takes 49 TB$ to buy 1 piece that costs 21 crystals.
Lastly, I paint in green what's worth buying almost without thinking, in orange what's worth buying if you can't wait and need it right now, and in red things that are a ripoff.
If you're taking the official shipments cost as basis of comparison, it won't be that different for most items (e.g. stun cuffs are 28 for you, 21 for me), and we reach the same conclusions (buying from TB, stun cuffs are a better value (43%, would be more than 50% compared to the "official" price of 28 crystals) than the Thermals Mk6 (35%)).
As for challenge gear (Carbantis and gold gear), I've "discounted" their farm price by half to indicate that their value is somewhat less than what you pay for it (since you get some/most for free). The story could be refined a bit since some of them (Carbantis, golden eyes) are in such stellar demand you will need to buy some, whereas the 2 other golden gears you have more than enough with the free stockpile, making their real price = 0.
