Zeta crunch, does it get easier?

Way to swim in zetas:
1. Don't place until they are needed
2. Buy with currency
3. Do events
4. Spend time relicing characters instead of farming new

And one day you will just run out of characters to place all your zetas on :)

agree with Ratinira.

Just work one character and one team at a time and a lot of your resources will start to pile up. It is painstakingly and frustratingly slow, but it is very effective.

Yes, it does get easier.

I go about gearing up characters a specific way: characters only get geared up when I have everything to relic them in one go and when they have a full modset built for them. Because this generally takes awhile, I can accumulate a lot of zetas without really focusing on getting them.

Like others have said, either work on one character at a time or one specific team at a time. Spreading yourself too thinly early on will just stunt your growth. Also, giving zetas to characters who aren’t get 7 stars or is without a team to use them doesn’t serve much of a purpose

Eventually......may take 6 or 7 years, but eventually, you will run out of toons in the game that you CAN apply zetas. You can earn zetas faster than CG releases toons that needs them.

"Ratinira;c-2412694" wrote:
Way to swim in zetas:
1. Don't place until they are needed
2. Buy with currency
3. Do events
4. Spend time relicing characters instead of farming new

And one day you will just run out of characters to place all your zetas on :)

If I am reading 4 as I think, I disagree.
Unit shards should always be farmed till you have 330 (7*), even if you don't make them 7* right away

"scuba;c-2412860" wrote:

"Ratinira;c-2412694" wrote:
Way to swim in zetas:
1. Don't place until they are needed
2. Buy with currency
3. Do events
4. Spend time relicing characters instead of farming new

And one day you will just run out of characters to place all your zetas on :)

If I am reading 4 as I think, I disagree.
Unit shards should always be farmed till you have 330 (7*), even if you don't make them 7* right away

Shards farming require neither zetas nor any materials at all...

"LendersQuiz;c-2412821" wrote:
Eventually......may take 6 or 7 years, but eventually, you will run out of toons in the game that you CAN apply zetas. You can earn zetas faster than CG releases toons that needs them.

Honestly, CG has done a really good job or reaching equilibrium on this. I hover between 120 and 220 zeta mats and it doesn't go past there really. This is with applying zetas on almost all new characters, having all the GLs and Journey units, and occasionally going back for some zeta I never used before like Stormtrooper Han.

It takes a pretty long time to get there, but it becomes a bit easier. However, with the rate they add 2 or 3 zeta toons, that can make it difficult. I try to keep a stash of 200. Just blew through 120 recently with Jabba so I'm trying to build back up again. I'm looking at Cere, Cal, and Trench so that would be another seven zetas. After that, I'm kind of hitting the bottom of barrel. If my count is right, I would have 55 zetas left to apply after the above seven.

I recently dropped to 360, the lowest I've been in a long time. I'm back above 400 now and will likely earn more than I place for a while. It was an unusual set of circumstances relating to the new TB making a bunch of previously irrelevant characters more relevant and also throwing zetas on the new tuskens. But it does happen that I go through periods of using more than I'm accruing.

Generally I don't drop zetas on a character until g12, though there are exceptions. The Tuskens are a classic example of this b/c their use in Galactic challenges made it much more important to drop a couple zetas on them now, at sub-7* and sub-g12, to meet my GC goals. Or at least to meet them with minimum stress.

Any policy should have some flexibility built into it, but if you don't zeta toons before they hit g12, that will make things much easier for you. It will automatically weed out some toons as "not ready" and thus slow down the excited zeta dropping that can happen when several characters are released close to each other.

As others have said, it's also useful to limit your resources to a single toon or faction that you're developing. This would include zetas -- but even if it didn't, it would include them by accident if you apply my previous suggested policy b/c if you're only spending gear on a particular toon or squad, then you would only have a few toons at a time reaching g12 and thus being considered worthy of a zeta.

I doubt that things will be the same for you as for me. I've been swimming in a couple hundred zetas or more for years now, but if you started the game later than me then you have more previously-released toons to catch up with. And though I've used my g12 test for a long time, with gear acceleration that's more like how a g10 test might have functioned 3 years ago.

But even if things are different and even if I'm not able to tell you exactly when thing will get easier, I can assure you that they do. In fact, with the release of Omicrons, I'm convinced that they're going to allow even more zetas into the economy at some point before the end-of-year, possibly when they release the new Krayt Dragon raid, or possibly in conjunction with some as yet unknown changes to the game.

Be hopeful! The zetas will get easier and then you'll only have to worry about gates on Omicrons, Kyros, Signal Data, and relic mats!

How are you in Fleet Arena? If not placing in the top 10, work on your ships, as fleet currency is a primary source of zetas. Eventually you will have more stockpiled than you can use. For now, I would suggest limiting your use of zetas to critical ones with the most impact, You don't have to unlock every zeta on all of your teams immediately