On February 8th, CG_Carrie posted that "Going forward, you’ll also see them in more traditional farmable locations." It's been 37 days since this post, and not another word since. So my question is WHEN?!?!?!

"ziglet;d-163098" wrote:On February 8th, CG_Carrie posted that "Going forward, you’ll also see them in more traditional farmable locations." It's been 37 days since this post, and not another word since. So my question is WHEN?!?!?!Shipments and chromium packs are a more traditional farming location--every character is there.The original plan was one event a month, and that would be the only place you could get them. People didn't like that, so they put out packs, then put them into packs, then put them into shipments. But their ftp farm location is still the event. (Or crystals, depending on how you feel about those as a free player. I prefer to use mine for gear and refreshes, but I know other folks who use them for characters.)

"NicWester;c-1496121" wrote:Shipments and chromium packs are a more traditional farming location--every character is there.The original plan was one event a month, and that would be the only place you could get them. People didn't like that, so they put out packs, then put them into packs, then put them into shipments. But their ftp farm location is still the event. (Or crystals, depending on how you feel about those as a free player. I prefer to use mine for gear and refreshes, but I know other folks who use them for characters.)Sorry to disagree but if you read Carrie's post it says "We recently made the following Character Shards available in Shipments. Going forward, you’ll also see them in more traditional farmable locations. "So she is stating that they where moved to shipments and going forward they will be more "Traditional Farmable" So when will they be traditionally farmable.

The first day I got into arena I saw the space witches and was instantly turned down. It's a pure p2p team and thry will keep it that way for some time. They are still fresh, they are still good. Most important to me, they are beatable. By a variety of teams in fact.In short, the traditional farming location is the shard shop. Expect them on nodes when we get a level increase. Same for wicket.

"Syrup_Chugger3;c-1496177" wrote:And you have to realize that talzin and wicket weren't intended to be "traditionally farmed" only farmed through their events originally, until that huge storm of backlash I understand that, but when they say that they will be traditionally farmable and over a month has past with no other word. I have to ask WHEN????@CG_Carrie posted back on Feb 8th: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/157819/star-wars-galaxy-of-heroes-the-road-ahead#latest

Talzin, Wicket, and the New NSs, WHEN?!?!?

lachm91
7 years ago
Good to see the new and improved "transparency" from CG is going well
mikebpiz
7 years ago
"Lachm91;c-1496484" wrote:
Good to see the new and improved "transparency" from CG is going well

Customer support here rivals Comcast.
LaksonVell
7 years ago
"EvgeniKessel;c-1496619" wrote:
"slickdealer;c-1496513" wrote:
"Lachm91;c-1496484" wrote:
Good to see the new and improved "transparency" from CG is going well

Customer support here rivals Comcast.

Comcast has gotten MUCH better in the last few years. In my experience anyway. Not a comparison to CG at all, just saying that what once was a laughing stock has significantly improved.

Try Destiny customer "support". Not even eastern europe state clerks can do worse
BrainZEROX
7 years ago
And when they become farmable, it won’t be in the Arena or GW shop...

When are the gw store and arena store going to be updated?

We have no intention to update GW Store and Arena store at this time. Our intention is that these are to be a source of Shard Shop currency for players that have exhausted their offerings.
Shahram1222
7 years ago
Here’s my guess and CG will never admit this:

After they announced that all NS and wicket are gonna be farmable (not just in shipments), a bunch of whales lost it on this forum and reddit, complaining about how their investment didn’t last long enough, etc. CG reads this and wanting to appease the whales, decides to hold off on that plan.

This explains why we can’t get a simple date from them for something they announced they were going to do over a month ago. The whales complained too much.
Singetactile
7 years ago
"CG_RyDiggs;c-1496482" wrote:
"DJphenom;c-1496479" wrote:
@CG_RyDiggs, is there any way you could give clarity on this? Are the Nightsisters going to be in F2P farming locations?

I don't have an answer either way today. I'll see if I can get one Monday, but 'we're not saying' might be that answer, just to be clear.

TTYL!

Hey, so did you get any information?

The world "soon" is starting to frustrate me..
Acidwormss
7 years ago
"Shahram1222;c-1498474" wrote:
Here’s my guess and CG will never admit this:

After they announced that all NS and wicket are gonna be farmable (not just in shipments), a bunch of whales lost it on this forum and reddit, complaining about how their investment didn’t last long enough, etc. CG reads this and wanting to appease the whales, decides to hold off on that plan.

This explains why we can’t get a simple date from them for something they announced they were going to do over a month ago. The whales complained too much.

It's been a long time since they were introduced to the game. I think they were released in October. The whales should quit complaining as many of them would have bought them anyway even if they were marquee characters cause that is what the whales that could afford all those characters do. It's hurting the game for the other 99% as a result if this is the case.
BMDean
7 years ago
"slickdealer;c-1496513" wrote:
"Lachm91;c-1496484" wrote:
Good to see the new and improved "transparency" from CG is going well

Customer support here rivals Comcast.

You can’t expect them to have answers you want to hear for every question. Sometimes, “I can’t say anything yet,” is the only response a game developer can give. It’s better than ignoring the question, as they have sometimes done in the past. An acknowledgement that “we hear you,” is appreciated.

Thanks for the communication @CG_RyDiggs.
Besai
7 years ago
"CG_RyDiggs;c-1496482" wrote:
"DJphenom;c-1496479" wrote:
@CG_RyDiggs, is there any way you could give clarity on this? Are the Nightsisters going to be in F2P farming locations?

I don't have an answer either way today. I'll see if I can get one Monday, but 'we're not saying' might be that answer, just to be clear.

TTYL!

@CG_RyDiggs it is late Tuesday now. I don't think it is asking for too much for you to have made some type of response by now. This is a perfect example of devs not treating customers with the needed respect.

There was a whole live q&a by CG regarding this.

Looking forward to your response.
GladOS-013
Hero+
7 years ago
"Naraic;c-1500200" wrote:

Talzin is in shipments now. I don't know how expensive it is to 7 star through crystals and shipments but it's a lot cheaper than $500 in packs.

My Talzin is 10 shards away from 5 stars, so I am 195 shards away from 7*. Shipments cost 80 crystals per shard, so 195 shards = 15,600 crystals. A Crystal Vault for $100 would give me 15,710. so basically I could spend $100 right now, and have enough crystals to finish her (over the next week or so as her node cycles).

Alternatively, a f2p player who's at the top of both arena and fleet would be getting 950-1000 crystals per day in rewards, so they would need to dedicate all crystals for 2-3 weeks.

The math for a new premium toon: you would need to buy approximately 40 of the 1299 crystal "shard packs" (since most reports I've heard say almost every pack has 7 shards in it). That puts the cost for a new toon at approximately 52k crystals. A toon that you purchase exclusively from shipments costs ~22.5k crystals, so half price.