How to work with 200 crystals a day

To answer your question about making low crystal income work for you: Do the refreshes instead of shipments like others have been saying.

Also, try to earn a higher crystal income. Start caring about ships. Manage your resources better--not every character needs to be level 85 if you don't use them. Not every character needs high relics--you have an r7 wampa but don't even have the omicron. Meanwhile, other important characters could have used some relics. Take some time to research and work on mods.

For what it’s worth, the first three refreshes per day is almost always cheaper than directly buying in the long run. Yes, it’s random.

I’ve been running data on Carbanti drops using the 8 energy node, and on average each gear drop costs me less than 15 crystals (14,77 at the moment) when I do the 50 refresh and immediately spend it all on gear farming. Directly buying them costs 280 for ten, or 28 each, about twice as expensive.

Random is annoying, to be sure, but the first three refreshes each day are crystals well spent.

I totally concur with what others are saying: Spend on refreshes first. It doesn't matter if you focus on shars for characters or relic materials from cantina battles. The first level of refreshes are always cheaper in the long run than buying the same materials with crystals. The statistics has been floating around several times in the past few years, and it always comes to the same conclusion.

Also: Focus more on GAC. It will increase your crystal income quite a bit over time as well.

Like the others have said, the math checks out for the node refresh to gear ratio compared to the shipment to gear ratio.

If you want a net “profit” of crystals to bank for emergency farms, do 2 energy refreshes and 2 hard nod refreshes. That’s a total of 175 crystals spent, 25 in pocket for you. If you’re not farming toons and just farming gear, do 3 energy refreshes for a total of 150, leaving 50 in pocket.

Cantina refreshes are more expensive, so if you still want to bank crystal, you’re going to have to do 1 refresh for 100.

And build you’re fleets. Just breaking into top 50 grabs you 50 extra crystals which goes a fairly good way when it comes to refreshes.

(Edited for spelling.)

There’s a player in my fleet shard that makes Top 5 every day with Finaliser (amongst a sea of Executors + scattered Profundity).
This should be your priority 1!!!
You’re also very close to both SEE and JKL —> just relic materials needed I think?

Honestly — ships will improve your GAC income and fleet income significantly.
Priority 2 probably also = ships

Hyena Bomber, Vulture would give you a decent Mal fleet

JKAs ship + YWing = Negotiator good to go

Empire - Emperors shuttle, Tie Bomber to 7 star


Tie Echelon & Finaliser —> “Secondary fleets” above —> SEE —> Executor
And squeeze in JKL **AFTER** getting some progress on fleets.

I can’t see you not increasing in GAC and Fleet arena (more crystals) if you do this.

Also, make sure your maximising your ABattle rewards.

• Your ITs should be capable of CT3 in Forest Moon and Rebel Roundup (Veers, Piett, Starck, Range + Shore will work).
  
• Your Rebels should be capable of CT3 in Military Might
  
• Your NSisters should be capable of CT2 in S&S (although you will need to watch a few guides & be patient)
  
• Your FO should be capable of CT3 in Places of Power
  
• Your Jedi should be capable of CT2 in Ground War and CT3 once you get JKL
  

If you aren’t hitting the above then you aren’t maximising your potential.

"Bladegunner;c-2380365" wrote:

"Larx;c-2380293" wrote:
What is your allycode? Would be nice to know so we can Look through your roster.

And also one question: as a 5+ years Player only one GL? Is there are reason?

Whats about your ships?

This is the point I'd make.

I'm F2P 4 year player with 4 GLs there's no excuse to only have 1 for such a long service player.

"Bladegunner;c-2380365" wrote:

"Larx;c-2380293" wrote:
What is your allycode? Would be nice to know so we can Look through your roster.

And also one question: as a 5+ years Player only one GL? Is there are reason?

Whats about your ships?

This is the point I'd make.

I'm F2P 4 year player with 4 GLs there's no excuse to only have 1 for such a long service player.

Not all players play the game with equal intelligence.

On the topic of gear drop rates, and calling on those who track their drops, I'm wondering whether the rule of "refresh / don't buy" works for:


1. Hard node vs normal node: do you get a better drop rate on hard nodes to justify the double energy spent?

2. Fleet nodes vs LS/DS nodes: I really feel the drop rate is crappy on Fleet nodes and I barely ever get anything. Is it just an impression or is the Fleet drop worse than regular nodes?

3. Is it the same for almost all gear? Thr high end gear seems to have really low drops, and I often calculate that it would be cheaper to buy them than refresh. I'm completely aware that it could be unlucky RNG, but happens often so I'm starting to consider it's a drop rate issue. (Mostly for g12 components). Is that something that you've experienced as well, or is it still worth the refresh even for high end gear?

Thanks for the feedback

Ps: there can some reasons why players dont have GL even though they're long term F2P. I'm a long term player as well but have taken 2 long breaks in the games and just got back a month ago, so I don't have a GL yet and working towards it as fast as I can now :) i completely appreciate that Im behind in GAC because of it.

Oh, the days when GMY was meta... ;)