Why is Carth Onasi in Ships Hard Nodes?

"Jedibaldy;c-1782482" wrote:

"Intrapidoo;c-1782237" wrote:
Thats the f2p problem currently. People with 30k+ crystals stacked up who say are f2p are full of crap.

Definitely not full of crap here and I am 100% FTP. I only just missed out on Revan first time round with the really short time we had to farm the characters. I could have got him if I had bought the Mission and T3-M4 packs but staying FTP was far more important me, so I waited and got him second time round. Having learnt from this, I stockpiled the crystals I earned in game, only spending on essential gear upgrades and Badstilla, Canderous, Carth and Juhani shards when they appeared in the store. My crystals stockpile grew to about 48k doing this and having spent a load in the shops for the above, I am currently sitting on 20.8k crystals with Badstilla and Canderous @ 7*, Juhani @ 6* (55/100) and Carth @ 5* (45/85). I am just farming the last 2 now up to the 200 crystal refresh point to finish them up.

So it can be done FTP first time around if you are focussed, choose the right characters to farm and finish high in the arena each day. What also set me back also the first time Revan appeared was my gambling on us needing the scoundrels!

How many crystals a day did you earn to stockpile 48k crystals?.

Finishing in the top 20 fleet & top 50 arena is already in the top 1% - which nets me 250 PVP crystals and you get about another 90 from the dailys.

so less say 340 a day. So you saved for 141 days at that rate? - which it's only been 121 days since the first Revan release & you've said that you didn't get him first time around (so likely didn't save crystals then) - also you'd have spent crystals on farming canderous/badstila outside of the 48k stockpile.

Something in your figures doesn't really add up, either your a long term vet who can get 1 in area without needing Revan (not really possible on most shards), have stayed 1 in arena for fleet (despite not spending anything on bounty hunter ships for OG falcon - required for top 10 arena most shards).

Staying in the top end of arena & fleet for half a year without spending any crystals isn't really as viable strategy for 99% of the player-base.