Why pay money? P2P players are not very much better than F2P players
Nowadays the people who play for free (F2P) have access to the best characters of the game: Dooku, Yoda, GS, Rey, Poe, Poggle, Qui-Gon Jinn, Daka, IG-86, IG-88, HK-47, Resistance Pilot, Luminara, Sidious, Kylo Ren, CT-5555, Ventress, Han, Jawa, Datcha, Phasma, Darth Vader, Barriss Offee, etc.
The only characters that I would like to have are Aayla Secura, Old Ben and Leia, the rest of characters are not useful, is not useful buy a chromium pack and get Darth Maul, get Lando Calrissian, get Nute Gunray, get Plo Koon, get Finn, get Kit Fisto, because are characters not useful, so the only characters that are not available for free and that are useful are Aayla Secura, Old Ben and Leia, not more.
And Old Ben is slow, not very useful, I can use Dooku and stun he, use GS and killl a chracter, use Poe and IG-86 and kill another character, also I can use IG-88 and block Old Ben, or use Kylo Ren and kill more characters, and all of this happens before Old Ben can play, and if Old Ben block the abilities don't matter, because my IG-86, my Poggle, my Poe and my GS don't have any ability to use in the second turn, need wait to the third turn to use it, so is a ability that don't apply any important negative effect, except the 65% chance to remove 60% turn meter, and any damage.
Leia is useful in you control she, but not to defend the rank, because she uses "Rebels Tactics" without inflict any damage, when sometimes is better use the basic attack.
Aayla Secura is useful, but Dooku can stun she and then you can kill she first or one of first characters to kill, or kill at the end, depends of the team, so Aayla is useful but there are more than 5 free characters better than Aayla.
It's nice have all the good characters at the beginning of the game, but with only 12 shards per pack, and with 75 characters, it is a chance of 12% to get the shards of one concrete character for every mega-pack of 2520 crystals, but I think that some good characters have the double of chance, so it is 25% in the best of cases, so you need around 4 mega-packs to get 12 shards of Aayla, for example, it is 10.080 crystals, around 100 dollars. The people who have characters as Aayla with 7 stars are people who have wasted around 2.000 (2K) dollars, it is 240 shards, and if you are lucky with the bonus shards you can get the 7 stars (65+85+100).
It is some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZLhaTQV2Yk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94J4e8lt_78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAU-WqRufwQ
If you are rank #1 in your server everyday, you get 500 free crystals everyday. With 500 crystals you can buy 2 times the Cantina energy (100 and 200 crystals) and 2 times the normal energy (50+50), and save 50 crystals for the Arena, it is 450 crystals per day, and you get 100 extra crystals with daily activities and Galactic War, it's 600 crystals per day, you have 150 extra crystals per day that you can use to rechard hard battles or buy 2 or 3 shards in the shipments, for example shards of Royal Guard.
With 360 Cantina energy per day you can get between 15 and 20 shards per day with Cantina battles and an average of 7 or 8 shards per day in the Cantina shipments, you can get Geonosian Soldier with 7 stars in between 17 and 20 days, and get Poe Dameron 7 stars with around 40 days, or less if you play hard battles where you can get shards of Poe, around 30 days if you play 6 hard battles per day. You can get Poggle and IG-86 in 21 days every one, and get Kylo Ren with another 17 or 20 days, in less than 2 months the people can have a good team that can be the rank #1 everyday.
Soon will be necessary have 5 fast characters, especially have Rey and Qui-Gon Jinn, but you can get QGJ in the Cantina in 40 days, and you can get Rey playing 18 hard battles per day, recharging all the battles by 50 crystals, with a chance of around 30% is 5 or 6 shards per day, so you can get Rey with 5 stars in less than 1 month, around 25 days, get the 6 stars in 2 extra weeks and the 7 stars in 3 extra weeks, you don't need waste money, only use the free crystals.
Meanwhile you get Qui-Gon Jinn, you can get shards of Jedi Consular and Mace Windu or Barriss Offee to get a Yoda of 7 stars, it's supposed that you have 7 stars Luminara, and then get Eeth Koth in the Arena shipments, it is an average of 13,75 shards per day, you need 23 days. With Luminara, JC, Barriss, Mace Windu and Eeth Koth you can get Yoda, or get Ahsoka Tano if you get QGJ early.
Dooku also is available in the Cantina battles.
Then you can have for free GS, Rey, Yoda, Dooku for free.
The faster characters are:
Count Dooku 161
Darth Sidious 153
Princess Leia 152
Grand Master Yoda 151
Geonosian Soldier 149
Nute Gunray 144
Rey 143
Hoth Rebel Scout 143
Qui-Gon Jinn (leader) 160
Dooku = Cantina battles
Sidious = Arena shipments
Yoda = Jedis with Cantina battles, Cantina shipments and Arena shipments
Geonosian Soldier = Cantina battles
Nute Gunray = Arena shipments, but not useful
Rey = Hard battles
Hoth Rebel Scout = Cantina shipments
Qui-Gon Jinn = Cantina shipments
The only character that you can't get for free is Leia, but there are 7 fast interesting characters that you can get for free, so you don't need pay a lot of money to enjoy the game.
I recommend at the beginning buy some crystals to accelerate the process, but not waste 2000 dollars.
For every 600 free crystals you save 5 dollars, it means that every 10 days you save 50 dollars, and every month you save 150 dollars.
It's a game of daily effort, not a game for to spend thousands of dollars.
The mega-pack chromium will be useful when you get all the interesting characters in the Cantina shipments, then you will have 300 extra crystals to save for the mega-packs, every 9 days you can buy a mega-pack, or you can use the crystals for to recharge the attempts of hard battles, 150 for Rey and 100 for Dooku, for example, and when ou have 7 stars in Rey and Dooku you can start to buy mega-packs to get Leia, Old Ben, Aayla or FOTP, but these characters not are very important, the most important characters hard to get are Rey, Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn., GS and Dooku are easy.
Spend 2000 dollars is not funny, is as play with cheat programs, the most funny thing is when you get the things thanks to your daily effort, not thanks to a credit card. I know that EA need money to mantain the game, but one thing is spend 5 or 10 dollars (I have paid 5 dollars, for example), and another and very different thing is spend 2000 dollars.
So I recommend pay at least 5 dollars for be grateful for the game, also 10 or 20 are normal, but not pay 1000 or 2000 dollars, it is too much.
I think that would be better if EA puts a limit of 3 mega-pack chromium per month, a limit of 24 openings per month, that it's the maximum that you can get with the free daily crystals.
It would be better to prevent addictions, people who waste too much money, sometimes money that they need in his life, and to prevent people who is boring the game because he have all characters of the game with 7 stars and his only divertissement of the day is play 5 battles in the arena, and battles without emotion, because he don't need the rewards, he don't need crystals, and the game is boring if you don't have any objective, if your goals are already fulfilled, if you don't have an objective yo get shards, to get gears, to get shipments, to get credits, to get anything, because you have all.
It is if there is a game with football players and you start with players of second division, but you use your credit card to buy Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Iniesta, Bale, Neymar, Luis Suárez, Benzemá, etc., is not funny if you can have all the best players only using a credit card, is better get the players with the own daily effort.
So if you want enjoy the game, don't pay thousands or hundreds of dollars, only pay a symbolic money to render thanks the developers of the game and EA team, but not pay more than this, because, for you, the game will be boring very soon, any game deserve hundreds or thousands of dollars, the maximum is 20 or 50, but not more.
The only characters that I would like to have are Aayla Secura, Old Ben and Leia, the rest of characters are not useful, is not useful buy a chromium pack and get Darth Maul, get Lando Calrissian, get Nute Gunray, get Plo Koon, get Finn, get Kit Fisto, because are characters not useful, so the only characters that are not available for free and that are useful are Aayla Secura, Old Ben and Leia, not more.
And Old Ben is slow, not very useful, I can use Dooku and stun he, use GS and killl a chracter, use Poe and IG-86 and kill another character, also I can use IG-88 and block Old Ben, or use Kylo Ren and kill more characters, and all of this happens before Old Ben can play, and if Old Ben block the abilities don't matter, because my IG-86, my Poggle, my Poe and my GS don't have any ability to use in the second turn, need wait to the third turn to use it, so is a ability that don't apply any important negative effect, except the 65% chance to remove 60% turn meter, and any damage.
Leia is useful in you control she, but not to defend the rank, because she uses "Rebels Tactics" without inflict any damage, when sometimes is better use the basic attack.
Aayla Secura is useful, but Dooku can stun she and then you can kill she first or one of first characters to kill, or kill at the end, depends of the team, so Aayla is useful but there are more than 5 free characters better than Aayla.
It's nice have all the good characters at the beginning of the game, but with only 12 shards per pack, and with 75 characters, it is a chance of 12% to get the shards of one concrete character for every mega-pack of 2520 crystals, but I think that some good characters have the double of chance, so it is 25% in the best of cases, so you need around 4 mega-packs to get 12 shards of Aayla, for example, it is 10.080 crystals, around 100 dollars. The people who have characters as Aayla with 7 stars are people who have wasted around 2.000 (2K) dollars, it is 240 shards, and if you are lucky with the bonus shards you can get the 7 stars (65+85+100).
It is some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZLhaTQV2Yk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94J4e8lt_78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAU-WqRufwQ
If you are rank #1 in your server everyday, you get 500 free crystals everyday. With 500 crystals you can buy 2 times the Cantina energy (100 and 200 crystals) and 2 times the normal energy (50+50), and save 50 crystals for the Arena, it is 450 crystals per day, and you get 100 extra crystals with daily activities and Galactic War, it's 600 crystals per day, you have 150 extra crystals per day that you can use to rechard hard battles or buy 2 or 3 shards in the shipments, for example shards of Royal Guard.
With 360 Cantina energy per day you can get between 15 and 20 shards per day with Cantina battles and an average of 7 or 8 shards per day in the Cantina shipments, you can get Geonosian Soldier with 7 stars in between 17 and 20 days, and get Poe Dameron 7 stars with around 40 days, or less if you play hard battles where you can get shards of Poe, around 30 days if you play 6 hard battles per day. You can get Poggle and IG-86 in 21 days every one, and get Kylo Ren with another 17 or 20 days, in less than 2 months the people can have a good team that can be the rank #1 everyday.
Soon will be necessary have 5 fast characters, especially have Rey and Qui-Gon Jinn, but you can get QGJ in the Cantina in 40 days, and you can get Rey playing 18 hard battles per day, recharging all the battles by 50 crystals, with a chance of around 30% is 5 or 6 shards per day, so you can get Rey with 5 stars in less than 1 month, around 25 days, get the 6 stars in 2 extra weeks and the 7 stars in 3 extra weeks, you don't need waste money, only use the free crystals.
Meanwhile you get Qui-Gon Jinn, you can get shards of Jedi Consular and Mace Windu or Barriss Offee to get a Yoda of 7 stars, it's supposed that you have 7 stars Luminara, and then get Eeth Koth in the Arena shipments, it is an average of 13,75 shards per day, you need 23 days. With Luminara, JC, Barriss, Mace Windu and Eeth Koth you can get Yoda, or get Ahsoka Tano if you get QGJ early.
Dooku also is available in the Cantina battles.
Then you can have for free GS, Rey, Yoda, Dooku for free.
The faster characters are:
Count Dooku 161
Darth Sidious 153
Princess Leia 152
Grand Master Yoda 151
Geonosian Soldier 149
Nute Gunray 144
Rey 143
Hoth Rebel Scout 143
Qui-Gon Jinn (leader) 160
Dooku = Cantina battles
Sidious = Arena shipments
Yoda = Jedis with Cantina battles, Cantina shipments and Arena shipments
Geonosian Soldier = Cantina battles
Nute Gunray = Arena shipments, but not useful
Rey = Hard battles
Hoth Rebel Scout = Cantina shipments
Qui-Gon Jinn = Cantina shipments
The only character that you can't get for free is Leia, but there are 7 fast interesting characters that you can get for free, so you don't need pay a lot of money to enjoy the game.
I recommend at the beginning buy some crystals to accelerate the process, but not waste 2000 dollars.
For every 600 free crystals you save 5 dollars, it means that every 10 days you save 50 dollars, and every month you save 150 dollars.
It's a game of daily effort, not a game for to spend thousands of dollars.
The mega-pack chromium will be useful when you get all the interesting characters in the Cantina shipments, then you will have 300 extra crystals to save for the mega-packs, every 9 days you can buy a mega-pack, or you can use the crystals for to recharge the attempts of hard battles, 150 for Rey and 100 for Dooku, for example, and when ou have 7 stars in Rey and Dooku you can start to buy mega-packs to get Leia, Old Ben, Aayla or FOTP, but these characters not are very important, the most important characters hard to get are Rey, Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn., GS and Dooku are easy.
Spend 2000 dollars is not funny, is as play with cheat programs, the most funny thing is when you get the things thanks to your daily effort, not thanks to a credit card. I know that EA need money to mantain the game, but one thing is spend 5 or 10 dollars (I have paid 5 dollars, for example), and another and very different thing is spend 2000 dollars.
So I recommend pay at least 5 dollars for be grateful for the game, also 10 or 20 are normal, but not pay 1000 or 2000 dollars, it is too much.
I think that would be better if EA puts a limit of 3 mega-pack chromium per month, a limit of 24 openings per month, that it's the maximum that you can get with the free daily crystals.
It would be better to prevent addictions, people who waste too much money, sometimes money that they need in his life, and to prevent people who is boring the game because he have all characters of the game with 7 stars and his only divertissement of the day is play 5 battles in the arena, and battles without emotion, because he don't need the rewards, he don't need crystals, and the game is boring if you don't have any objective, if your goals are already fulfilled, if you don't have an objective yo get shards, to get gears, to get shipments, to get credits, to get anything, because you have all.
It is if there is a game with football players and you start with players of second division, but you use your credit card to buy Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Iniesta, Bale, Neymar, Luis Suárez, Benzemá, etc., is not funny if you can have all the best players only using a credit card, is better get the players with the own daily effort.
So if you want enjoy the game, don't pay thousands or hundreds of dollars, only pay a symbolic money to render thanks the developers of the game and EA team, but not pay more than this, because, for you, the game will be boring very soon, any game deserve hundreds or thousands of dollars, the maximum is 20 or 50, but not more.
