Is this game just for whales now?
Been playing since Jan of 2017, and ever since Carrie has announced herself as the EP (and I'm not saying she's new or not, I don't know. Just that since I've noticed her presence on the forums) things in the game seemed to have changed.
1) It seems like the new characters are designed to change the meta, and that meta is changing 3 times a year, AND that with the exception of EP, the meta is hinged on a premium character.
2) When they increase drops, like go to double drops, it seems as if the frequency of actually gaining something from these drops goes down.
3) In general, it's much harder to gear. It used to be basically 1:3 rolls for a gear drop you wanted. Now it seems closer to 1:5. In fact, the closer you get to increasing a gear level, the drop rate seems to become more and more rare, as if the game (algorithm that governs drops) knows a player is more likely to buy resets the closer they get.
It's starting to feel pretty shady. You won't be getting any more money from me until things loosen up.
1) It seems like the new characters are designed to change the meta, and that meta is changing 3 times a year, AND that with the exception of EP, the meta is hinged on a premium character.
2) When they increase drops, like go to double drops, it seems as if the frequency of actually gaining something from these drops goes down.
3) In general, it's much harder to gear. It used to be basically 1:3 rolls for a gear drop you wanted. Now it seems closer to 1:5. In fact, the closer you get to increasing a gear level, the drop rate seems to become more and more rare, as if the game (algorithm that governs drops) knows a player is more likely to buy resets the closer they get.
It's starting to feel pretty shady. You won't be getting any more money from me until things loosen up.
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On the brighter side I just got my first ship omega since ships 2.0 from a farmable node!
#Make SWGoH great again?
Explain. On my shard the meta is CLS, JTR, Bastilla, Traya, Palp, and Rex teams. Only Bastila is a premium character and she is viable at 3 stars. Who exactly are these premium characters defining the meta that you don't have access to?
Gearing is designed to be so obnoxious you feel compelled to burn the crystals on stuff like furnaces, droid callers etc. Raids often drop nothing of note. Rancor is the best one. It definitely adjusts itself drop wise, it makes you burn some extra crystals to get the last few pieces, seems strange they immediately drop from a refresh.
Toons keep ending up on hard nodes, again, crystal burners.
New mod setup will be unbearable, new energy, crystal burner again. Not to mention credit crunch will likely hit yawn levels. We asked for management, no profit in just doing that of course so they threw in some other bull hockey along with it.
Those are a few of the highlights. Once we get to MSF levels of greed, I'll be on my way.
2) I would love to see your data on this.
3)Again, I would love to see your data. People have produced data for drops before and shown that it is around the 1/3 you are saying and I think 1 or 2 of them have even shown that in the small sample size they could that there was no appreciable difference at or near star or gear closing.
- the game has always been a grind and that's is a fact. They dont need to slow it down any more than it is, because things already take time.
Well as a player who has seen 3-4*, nihilus, sion, nest, Bastila, and chaze in arena I think that's a good base to start from.
You also have R2, thrawn, traya and GK who could rock out at 5* when they unlock.
Not sure what other premium toons you could be referring too.
Sorry let me clarify, top 10 in a Dec '15 shard.
These are all premium toons and any toon worth their salt in the game is viable at 3*, better at higher stars and more useful at 7*. Non of this excludes F2p, it just delays them.
F2p move at one pace and people who $$ move at a faster one, but we all end up at the same place, and with planning and focus f2p do very well.
He's asking you to name one of these meta changing premium toons you referred to that requires spending money on before they are arena viable. He's named quite a few that are viable without spending a cent.
Also, I wouldn't expect much help from anyone on drop rates that "seem" off. Plenty of folks have analyzed large samples of drop rates and found nothing amiss. I'm sure you can find a few of these threads easily enough.
None of the items you've brought up are new. I hope you find the answers you are looking for.
I’ve never accumulated crystals faster than I am with TB/TW and fleet change to payout top 50
Fleet battles have great drop rates and gear combos on normal nodes.
Almost ever faction has viability in raids and across multiple game modes.
The plethora of new toons in TB has happened before and it will peter out in 3 months once they become farmable. Happens every time they drop a lot of new toons. It’s annoying but it goes away.
Seeming double drop decreases are just in your head
The game has never been in a better place. There are still elements that need tweaking, but for mature players the gear, credit, and shard crunch is at its lightest since I’ve been playing.
TL;DR - I disagree.
You are going to try cry about hero journey chars? Really? Lol wow . . ..
Mebbe you should try reading post that are written, not presuming to catch it at a glance sweetie. No one has said anything about that at all, you are making things up to suit your skewed personal thoughts which are off in left field and I believe that that is quicksand your standing in btw, good luck . . .
So yes, the game can be played without money. If you're smart about it.
The data I've seen has shown variable drop rates for gear. Not individually, but by category. White gear has a much higher drop rate than character shards, and as you get to higher-end gear, the odds do get lower. IIRC, the odds bottomed out at around 22% for gold, which is part of why farming via energy is a terrible primary source for them.
Correct, but it is still shown to be fixed at the level it is for a tier.
I am F2P and have only been playing for 6 months. I have CLS and will be ready for JTR within the next 2 weeks.
There are many many posts here about f2p that got rey the first time (myself included) whitouth spending a cent. And even if they didn't, she wasn't meta defining, there were other options to get top arena at that time. There's always a f2p alternative (I'm looking at you, Rex)
CG created these bottle necks on purpose so people will pay 2k gems for a stun gun or 1400 for a furnace. You guys have made a ton of money and would still make a ton of money if you actually made more the 3/4 of the gear in the game useful. I could screen shot the gear and hwo it shows nobody under it needing it but you already know that. Just like you know 30 to 40 different toons need the EXACT same gear not just for one level but mutlple levels.
You guys are driving this game completely in the ground and you do realize the whales alone cant support this game. Study after study has shown its not the 1000 spending 10k but the million spending 10 to 50 here and there that keep these games afloat. I dont even know why I wasted time or breath om this game from here on out any game that has EA anywhere in the title I can expect it to turn into a money sucking vampire after the player base has been establishrd and the addicts are entrenched.
If you use energy as your primary means of farming high level gear, of course you will take an inordinately long time. Shard store, guild store, guild event store, raids, territory battles, territory wars. Of course gearing rates are going to sound dumb if you ignore most of the vectors for gaining gear, but plenty of free players get multiple units to G12 just fine without spending money.
This game is the fairest to free players I've seen from a freemium model.
If you have 30-40 toons who are your priority right now, you're probably playing this game badly. This is a game about focus, planning, and collecting. It's about prioritizing. If you're spreading yourself too thin, then of course you're going to get frustrated.
Gear crunch is a pacing mechanic. The progression of this game is continuously improving the characters you like. That's the bulk of the game. The actual fighting is showing a payoff for the resource management aspect of the game. If there is no gear crunch to regulate that progression, the end result is you run out of content.
This is a marathon game, not a sprint game. That's not for everybody, and that's fine, but that doesn't make it the evil exploitation of the innocent playerbase by the greedy corporation. It makes it a competently designed game of a type you do not prefer.
But only a small fraction of players spend money. Throughout all the meta changes and character releases I have never heard of a mayor drop in arena ranks. Usually things even out once people get to know about meta counter teams. Before I unlocked Traya I held my average rank of 2-3 in arena using Rex lead, Talzin, DN, CLS, Thrawn. All were F2P at the time or available for a long time.
Actually I think that spending money does not give as big an advantage as many players believe.