Zetas Crunch

"Olddumper;c-2448990" wrote:

"Notthatguyfrombefore;c-2448950" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2448906" wrote:

"Olddumper;c-2448875" wrote:
I think there isn’t a zeta crunch. You get about 5 zeta’s a month,

How did you come up with this number ? 6 per week with challenges, so about 25, about 20 per month with fleet money for top 50, about 9 per months with gac, maybe 4 per month from nightsisters/ewoks event, rounding up for a total of 60 mats per month… what am I forgetting to get to 100 zeta mats per month ?

The number you’ll get from GAC is about half that actually. 9 would be the max if you won every possible battle as they only go out in the bracket rewards, so let’s be generous and say it’s 5 as they run slightly more than monthly with the four week cadence. Assault battles, assuming they all ran every month would be an extra 14 monthly. There’s 5 from conquest and a possible 12 if you win all TWs in the top tier. And maybe another 8-10 from raid 3 if you spend all of it on zetas. If there’s another 5 (maybe as an absolute max) in calendars that would take it to about 90 it would seem as a max.

So fair enough CG, and I’ll be adjusting my outlook, maybe the zeta economy is just about right. So far this year there’s been an extra 860 mats worth of zetas added to the game and in that time a player could be earning around 1000. It’s not a big surplus, particularly for newer players who can’t earn as many zetas due to events being locked or their smaller rosters, but the potential is there for a player to get every zeta ftp and catch up, it just might take a while.

Yeah it does feel a little crunchy right now. I think LSB and some conquest toons completing in proving grounds created an influx in need. Unlock 2 conquest toons in proving grounds get the light speed bundles and get Leia and suddenly you need 30 zetas but in 6 months you are probably back to being on track.

It's interesting to note though that the introduction of conquest has made the crunch a little worse overall. Even if there were only two characters per year, each with three zetas, that would be 120 mats needed per year with only 60 on offer for top rewards. It's even worse if you get three in a year. Possibly there would have been another mechanism for new zeta-hungry characters but it's definitely made the economy tighter.