Returning old player, keep going or restart?
Hey everybody, I am new to these forums mostly to ask this question. I have taken 2-3 years off of this game and just came back recently. I’m still trying to decide how serious I will get into it agai...
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If you've been gone that long, I'd just find a new game, to be honest. I took a break of about a year and a half and catching up was a pain. Restarting isn't a great solution, either.
Starting over used to be a good plan, because you could laser-focus and get to the top of a new shard in Squad and Fleet Arena, thereby securing a strong flow of free crystals.
The issue is that this has become so commonplace, with people either starting over or making "alt" accounts, that nearly everyone else in the shard is doing the same thing as you. Newer shards have Revan teams well into the hundreds, all modded according to the dozen or so guides out there on how to build your roster up from scratch. So you don't get nearly as much of an advantage as you might have a couple years ago.
By contrast, while I don't ever expect to make top 5 in my 2015 squad shard- the mod gap from the time I took off can't be closed by anything but lucky mod rolls or a non-speed-based meta, which I don't ever expect- it's extremely easy for me to lazily place in the top 50, because 95% of the shard burned out ages ago and is either inactive or "casual" players.
Starting over used to be a good plan, because you could laser-focus and get to the top of a new shard in Squad and Fleet Arena, thereby securing a strong flow of free crystals.
The issue is that this has become so commonplace, with people either starting over or making "alt" accounts, that nearly everyone else in the shard is doing the same thing as you. Newer shards have Revan teams well into the hundreds, all modded according to the dozen or so guides out there on how to build your roster up from scratch. So you don't get nearly as much of an advantage as you might have a couple years ago.
By contrast, while I don't ever expect to make top 5 in my 2015 squad shard- the mod gap from the time I took off can't be closed by anything but lucky mod rolls or a non-speed-based meta, which I don't ever expect- it's extremely easy for me to lazily place in the top 50, because 95% of the shard burned out ages ago and is either inactive or "casual" players.
