You all overreact

10 year account player here. Coliseum was a big let down at first.  At least now with different loaned units we get to play around a little each day with the rotating boss.  The reward options have gotten a little better with the high end relic mats better but if you don't care about Relic 5 LSTs and the Relic 10 does not really make a noticeable difference (relic delta never really matter after all the drama) then it is still does not feel worth the overall time.  My biggest complaint is every era the road to success changes and with the vast amount of materials introduced I feel like I got burned for spending last era even after they gave some crystals to offset whatever the issue was.  You would think I would know but because CG keeps changing the conditions, I have no idea what a dollar is worth now except 7-stars are still needed at the end and with crystal income from era battles, etc... I just bought the crystal packs again and used the event to earn shards instead of a $30 pack that unlocks a $75 (or whatever it was the first era) pack...  How the heck did they decide on 135 levels now?  I won't be buying in packs for money for that any time soon.

I can sort of see where you're coming from and I have to agree that taking into perspective the account age as relative to progress that takes a big weight off my shoulders. I'm here to enjoy the game not to stress on out (more than I probably should). Having played this game 10 years ago and only got to restarting 3 months ago the progress has literally been lightspeeds faster than I used to.

Also I know it's different game modes I realize they have their roles

You have fleet for crystals which fuel a lot of things
GAC/Conquest/TW to actually use the characters and teams you grind for
Coliseum I can see how they want to make it a theorycrafting play area but placing a HEAVILY sought after resource material for it people are going to only want to play meta or pay into it to get the ranks. But just to remind people, way back when people were happy getting 100 tokens on auto daily saving for 5000 to get an aurodium that's like a month per LST and now play your cards right you get 2-3 per month

I probably went through 32 parsecs all over the place with what I was saying but to summarize it. Maybe stop stressing about fast progression and realize that playing today gets you further than years of grinding a decade ago. Even though new modes like Coliseum force a strict meta because of high-stakes rewards, the baseline payout is still way better than the old days.

On the other hand, we shouldn't also be silent if things don't feel our way, that's how the devs also learn the temperature of the consumer base and enact changes how they see fit, and we see growth not only in the game but also in our experience. 

Let's work together and enjoy the game guys! :D

So you're standing up for CG?  

I love your "on the other hand " paragraph.

The Colosseum is a great theme. It's clear they're working on it and fixing bugs. Conquest, on the other hand, is complete crap.

Not really the point I’m making is **bleep** near everyone on here complains about the mode that progresses your account the fastest and cry about it when it’s a simple mode to do 

the flaw in your argument is that you presume everyone can get their fleets going to supply the coliseum characters. but if everyone did that, you wouldn't be getting all the rewards because it is competition based, and to beat the competition you have to pay more.  if you are newer, you can quickly outpace your competition through more payment compared to being in an older shard where others have built up more over time--if you didn't stay consistent for years, you will have fallen behind.  my guild has more experienced members than me, but i am raking in more crystals than everyone from fleet (squad fuels fleet too btw) because i face easier/newer competition.  

and just like your fleet being based on you paying more than others, the coliseum is the same.  at inception you were pitted against others in a shard and literally would become a payment war going back and forth each round vying for the next reward tier.  they recently mitigated that to a degree by capping how far you can level up... sort of... yet then they added some arbitrary aspect like your allies GP affecting your loaned units levels, so now your allies decide who gets more rewards for the most part--you can still screw up and use poor loaned squads, but you don't really see that at top levels of the paying players.

i would say the new loaned units concept makes it a little better, yet at the same time kinda dumb (ally GP based).  but those earlier complaints were completely justified.  i guess you were fortunate enough not to experience a 3hr coliseum battle of 1dmg attacks until the boss clears.  a guild member reported one that lasted 12+hrs only to alt tab and erase the battle.  and see the last era, if you didn't pay to get all your characters to 5+ stars which meant you had to pay out the max up front early on in the era, you been kinda screwed--cassian journey unavailable, so you will see those who have r10 cassian while you are stuck for months with a r4 cassian, unable to get to higher tier of the event for more rewards... because you didnt pay the max at the start of the era.

Thanks for reading all the way through!