Why it doesn't feel like we are getting more carbs

But to the title of this thread, I am getting plenty of carbs today

"Kokie;c-1887919" wrote:
But to the title of this thread, I am getting plenty of carbs today

That looks delicious

"Kokie;c-1887919" wrote:
But to the title of this thread, I am getting plenty of carbs today

Hoard the rest in deep freeze.

This is a simple question really, but I haven't seen this answer for it (if it's been said then I apologize):
We've gotten more sources of Carbantis available to us... But we've also gotten more characters who need them. It's a synchronised growth. More characters = more Carbantis = more sources = more characters etc etc
The same will happen with the new gear pieces as well. Hopefully

"ottomaddux;c-1887968" wrote:

"Ultra;c-1887338" wrote:
Energy is primarily for gear and shards, and I don't think Cyanide is wrong about increased sources of Carbanti's. We've had 3 weeks of Carbanti's in weekly shipments, which adds to his point

weekly shipments require crystals, which many people don't earn enough of to count as farmable items, they are purchaseable. Thus they do not count towards relieving the gear crunch on carbantis.

3m credits was all you needed, zero crystals.

this is the point that they missed in that post. While they have doubled or tripled the number of carbantis that you can farm, the amount you need has grown exponentially.

I have a 4.6 mil GP so I have a lot of decently geared toons, but I still have 77 toons that need carbanatis, and not just one carbanati, between 4 and 5 each.

I can farm about three full carbanatis a week. By that math I should be able to gear my characters in two years, if they don't release any more toons, or add to gear levels.

that is way too long of a time.

"Globuhl;c-1887988" wrote:
To sum it up, we used to farm characters, now we are farming entire teams at once.

Eh, not really. That's mainly a thing for the Old Republic farms that were basically generating factions from scratch, but other than that?

Yes, you have to build up different teams of different factions, but that's always been the game. Most meta/event teams have been two or three old established characters, two or three new hotness characters.

Going back in time?

Devan, HK, Bast, Malak, Trooper. Three new toons. Two old solid toons.

Padme and a number of lineups, but let's say GK, Ani, Snips, R2. All old, established toons who've been useful for one reason or another at various points. The only toon competing for a spot in Padme's lineup who's new is 3PO.

Kevan, Bast, Jolee, Yoda, GK. Three new, two old.

Current CLS. Slot the new Chewie and 3PO into the old Titans.

Separatist droids. Two new, three old. One of the droids is often displaced by Nute, who is very old and easy to gear.

We've got the upcoming Geonosian team, which is four very old characters, several of them launch characters, three of them pilots who a lot of people have lying around at high gear. Just one new unit to make that work.

Now there's Shaak troopers. One new leader and four old clones.

Hunters for Chewie. Lot of shiny new hunters happened, but you only needed Bossk with four old school hunters to make a good team.

Ewoks for 3PO. All of them had been good and around for a hot minute.

Sith. Nightmare had one new unit in Sion. Traya had two in Sion and Traya herself.

Bastila Jedi. This was one new unit with four old since Jolee hadn't caught on yet.

Qi'ra Scoundrels. New team, but little incentive to actively farm it. Just a couple new units and some stray scoundrels you probably already have was enough for anything you need them for. The rest is a luxury for TW and now GA. A good luxury, but still a luxury. But it was one of the rare cases of a new, full five-person team being added.

JTR. To really get this working in Nightmare, you needed three new units; JTR, BB-8, and Holdo.

Nightsisters. They were pretty trash before the rework other than Asajj, so they were almost from scratch.

Titans. At the time, CLS and Thrawn were pretty new hotness toons, put alongside old staples Han, GK, and moderately established R2.

Phoenix squad was the last time before Revan where we got a full lineup in preparation for an event. Five new toons who went farmable very shortly before Thrawn happened.

That more or less covers major teams of the last two years, and the general trend has been a couple new, a couple old. That hasn't really changed.

"Ironjehoshaphat;c-1888039" wrote:

"No_Try;c-1887379" wrote:
This chart reads very easily. The mark of carbanti inflow has been %50 more one year than the year before it. That's not 3x-4x but the overall economical impact is rather significant.

This chart is ****. They needed to make this chart legible by adding more information. This is just a positive sloped squiggly line. Sure what Cyanides said is “true” but until they tell us what the X and Y axis are then I call ****. Why not just be 100% honest...

They don’t want us to know what the X and Y are because then we would be in an uproar. This is not transparency. This is a vague attempt at quelling apprehensions.

X is time, Y is amount. The amount is not clear. But there are scales on the chart. These are pretty safe assumptions and how any chart presented as such would read. Any reality not fitting these assumptions would be deceitful. And I don't believe it's deceitful. They just don't want to give out an amount which would then cause other types of uproars and future assumptions/demands.

@CG_Cyanides are you able to blink if the axis are such and the chart's bottom indicates zero?

There seems to be a lot honing in on the word “Carbanti” here and I don’t think it has anything to do with OP’s post outside his reference to Cyanide.

Of course, higher gear tiers require a lot more gear (save for certain easy-to-gear saints). Simultaneously, the number of characters we’re expected to have geared has increased to match the difficulty of new content.

There has been an effort to alleviate the gear crunch, but they’ve simply been outpaced.

If you disagree with OP, essentially the argument you’re making is that we aren’t expected to spend gear at a higher rate now than two years ago relative to gear availability.

(^Which is totally valid and possibly correct, though I personally lean towards OP’s opinion)

"Ironjehoshaphat;c-1888039" wrote:

"No_Try;c-1887379" wrote:
This chart reads very easily. The mark of carbanti inflow has been %50 more one year than the year before it. That's not 3x-4x but the overall economical impact is rather significant.

This chart is ****. They needed to make this chart legible by adding more information. This is just a positive sloped squiggly line. Sure what Cyanides said is “true” but until they tell us what the X and Y axis are then I call ****. Why not just be 100% honest...

They don’t want us to know what the X and Y are because then we would be in an uproar. This is not transparency. This is a vague attempt at quelling apprehensions.

Exactly. I skipped thru 5 pages to see the end, but basically, without knowing the axis,we can't say 50-75%. The axis could be skewed and the increase could be 5%, but it's an increase


Supply has not kept up with demand. Without evidence, I can't support that 1-2 years ago, the amount of toons most people need requiring a carbanti was more than current status, then they have done something to allievate the burden. If not, then the inflation of carbanti has not kept up with the inflation of characters.