Challenge gold eyeball deficit

ludwigsangina

Need more challenge eyeballs. Will not spend $$$ for challenge gear (this coming from big time whale with 7star bastillas)

BubbaFett

If you weren't whaling out so much, you would have hundreds of eyeballs like the rest of us..... You paid for everything else..... What do you expect? A complimentary eyeball email to your inbox?....

John_Matrix1985

Not a problem just for whales. Even F2P and low spenders are facing the same issue.

Ps. Nice Bastila but where is Traya on your roster?

ludwigsangina

Challenge eyeballs please.

Semi

Wth..... +2k eyeballs left.....

Zevox

John_Matrix1985 wrote: »

Not a problem just for whales. Even F2P and low spenders are facing the same issue.

Strange but true. I'm a completely free-to-play player and just recently ran out of challenge gold eyeball pieces. Been using a lot of them via spending crystals earned from finishing at the top of arena in shipments.

And it was only after running out of them that I noticed that you only get 3-4 per sim of the challenge. Meaning 15-20 per challenge day, when you need 60 per eyeball. That's worse than carbantis. And you can't even request them as a donation from your guildmates. The fact that we all build such an excess of them speaks to how slow it is to gather the non-challenge half of that gear piece any other way. But for those of us that do run out of them, wow, they suddenly look like a huge roadblock.

NicWester

Running out of the salvage or prototype? I never have enough salvage, but constantly sit on thousands of prototypes.

Sewpot

MK6 medpac x 100000000

Athusk

I have 2k surplus of the challenge one, but I’m constantly running low on the secondary component to make the gold eyeballs though.

NicWester

Athusk wrote: »

I have 2k surplus of the challenge one, but I’m constantly running low on the secondary component to make the gold eyeballs though.

Yeah, I feel like I’m misunderstanding the original question—maybe they’re saying add the salvage bits into challenges.

ludwigsangina

It’s only a problem for people who started playing more recently

ludwigsangina

Day 1 players built up a horde of them cuz they were never being used

ludwigsangina

But it’s a problem nonetheless even if it only affects the newer subset of players.

GhostTruckin

It affects all players, not just newer ones, even day one ish players will run out of the challenge piece,

Bulldog1205

ludwigsangina wrote: »

It’s only a problem for people who started playing more recently

Not true at all. I’ve been playing since a few months after release and I’ve run out.

ludwigsangina

Ok fine so then more of a reason for them to increase them

Ikky2win

Pretty sure it’s that way on purpose to get you to buy them. You either wait or spend.

scuba

If you buy the prototypes in shipments for crystals than you can/will run out of salvage.
If you don't buy the prototypes in shipments for crystals than you will likely not run out of salvage.

Yes ftp can buy the prototypes from shipments. It takes free crystals same as paid crystals.

ludwigsangina

But who wants to buy something they get for free? I want to spend money on things that are exclusive. Buying something like a challenge eyeball just feels like a bad deal. I don’t feel good after I do it.

JacenRoe

ludwigsangina wrote: »

But who wants to buy something they get for free? I want to spend money on things that are exclusive. Buying something like a challenge eyeball just feels like a bad deal. I don’t feel good after I do it.

Well I don't feel good waiting months for the opportunity to start farming Bastilla from a single hard node over the subsequent 6 months. But I accept it. Maybe just pony up, and buy what you need.

Zevox

ludwigsangina wrote: »

But who wants to buy something they get for free? I want to spend money on things that are exclusive. Buying something like a challenge eyeball just feels like a bad deal. I don’t feel good after I do it.

He wasn't saying people buy the challenge gear part of it. He was saying they buy the other half, the one that's otherwise hard to come by, but in shipments you can grab 25 of them for only 375 crystals, which is one of the better deals in shipments.

It's when you do that a lot that you actually get enough of those pieces to run out of the challenge gear.

NicWester

ludwigsangina wrote: »

Day 1 players built up a horde of them cuz they were never being used

Well, Day 365 players, more like. Gear 11 is relatively new, and we didn't start getting gold stuff until it came out. I want to say that was a year ago, but it's hard to remember sometimes.

casper1jr

JacenRoe wrote: »

ludwigsangina wrote: »

But who wants to buy something they get for free? I want to spend money on things that are exclusive. Buying something like a challenge eyeball just feels like a bad deal. I don’t feel good after I do it.

Well I don't feel good waiting months for the opportunity to start farming Bastilla from a single hard node over the subsequent 6 months. But I accept it. Maybe just pony up, and buy what you need.

You picked the wrong game to play if you don't feel like waiting. This game is based off of patience. Once you pay to play you offset the original game play. Advancing in one area will cause other areas to advance even if you don't want them too. I personally took a year and saved up tons of stuff plus over 100 mil credits just so I'd feel better upgrading at times lol. My point is, waiting has to happen no matter if you like it or not. Only other option is to slap some real cash down on the table.

Shaunyvee

I asked this in a different thread but.

Seems like it's the newer players or super whales that are running into this problem.

I have thousands of challenge ones, have been playing since launch and buy the 375 crystals / 25 balls every time I see them.

If it's a super whale / newer players issue I don't think it's a problem

Mookow23

Do a lower Sith Raid Tier like 4 or 5. It is known for dropping only challenge gear.

Rebel_yell

Shaunyvee wrote: »

I asked this in a different thread but.

Seems like it's the newer players or super whales that are running into this problem.

I have thousands of challenge ones, have been playing since launch and buy the 375 crystals / 25 balls every time I see them.

If it's a super whale / newer players issue I don't think it's a problem

Well, it’s not a problem, but it does affect more people than you think. I use crystals exclusively for refreshing energy and buying the salvage gold eyeballs for 375 per 25. I’ve run out of the challenge gear twice. I’ve spent $200 on the game.

My point of it not being a problem is that the game designs gear to slow down max gearing a ton of toons all at once in an attempt to create arena and TW parity. It’s a design feature. Annoying, but not really a “problem” per se. Run into enough characters that require 3 to get to G12 and you’ll run out of the challenge gear real quick.