My last 450 crystals netted me 5 shards. including the rest of my attempts today, I scored 9 shards, I think. It was terrible. Ugh. I started out above 20% drop (actually it was all the way up at 24%) on a 10 energy node for 24 hours. It was consistently downhill from there. Ended up with barely over 16%. Last two days I couldn't get 15% for the full day.
Well, this Galactic Chase is the absolute worst one by far....I was able to spend crystals to get the past chase ships to 5*.....I still spent that amount and unlocked with 2 extra shards...2. I really hope they reevaluate the drop rates for the next chase. This "Can unlock unless you spend crystals" is not fun.
Maybe my maths is wrong, but I don’t think any Chase ship before this one has been unlockable without spending at least some crystals?
Well, this Galactic Chase is the absolute worst one by far....I was able to spend crystals to get the past chase ships to 5*.....I still spent that amount and unlocked with 2 extra shards...2. I really hope they reevaluate the drop rates for the next chase. This "Can unlock unless you spend crystals" is not fun.
Maybe my maths is wrong, but I don’t think any Chase ship before this one has been unlockable without spending at least some crystals?
correct, unlock always needed some refresh, and the next star was doable within a reasonable cost.
Well, this Galactic Chase is the absolute worst one by far....I was able to spend crystals to get the past chase ships to 5*.....I still spent that amount and unlocked with 2 extra shards...2. I really hope they reevaluate the drop rates for the next chase. This "Can unlock unless you spend crystals" is not fun.
Maybe my maths is wrong, but I don’t think any Chase ship before this one has been unlockable without spending at least some crystals?
correct, unlock always needed some refresh, and the next star was doable within a reasonable cost.
Stand corrected, but some refresh is still way better then all the 50's and 100's just to unlock. When I first heard it was a galactic chase, I was expecting it be like the others....just CG being CG.....
I expected it to be different, but still cost roughly the same. I think we can all agree that the first runs were balanced off how many crystals it would take you to get to "X" mark.
overall I think the drop rate on this event was still cheaper than shards from the store, which is odd, everything is always decreasing cost as they move through the cadence.
Bitter sweet. I was lucky to unlock on the last day spending 450 crystals in fleet each day. I have the y wing fully maxed and running with g11 bistan andg12 falcon under g12 ackbar. Very underwhelming. Both negotiators and malevolence blows is out of the water in 3 turns. My normal rebel fleet of bistan, Biggs, falcon still takes first daily against 6* negotiators but can't with ywing in the lineup.
Its not skewed at all, & to put it like you did at # of Sims is completely inaccurate since each Sim is worth a different # of energy & has a different projected drop rate.
Anyone reading the boards knows that they stated their drop rate was lowered from 4% to 2%.
I averaged 1.72% over 5 days.
Say its "Only" .28 is deflating how much that actually represents when the average is 2.00%
With nearly 300 sims as my data set I was off the average by 14%.
To put that into the normal node 1/3 drop rates..... It would be like saying I pulled 86 / 300.
Which is like saying I pulled an average of 28.66% instead of 33.33%
300 sims isn't the largest sample, but its decent sized & it was clearly not smack in the middle of the bell curve.
But we aren't talking a single day here, it was 5 days w/ 3 full refreshes with all of that being into the data set & not just a single 5 cap sim.
Nor was I complaining. I just stated that is where I ended up.
Complaining is when I point out that CG's little change means to unlock this ship it costs 50% more Crystals than in Previous Galactic Chase's.
And a MUCH bigger jump if you actually want to get it at 5* like people have previously.
Bitter sweet. I was lucky to unlock on the last day spending 450 crystals in fleet each day. I have the y wing fully maxed and running with g11 bistan andg12 falcon under g12 ackbar. Very underwhelming. Both negotiators and malevolence blows is out of the water in 3 turns. My normal rebel fleet of bistan, Biggs, falcon still takes first daily against 6* negotiators but can't with ywing in the lineup.
I'm in a lot younger fleet. Mines only level 65, so 5800gp. I brought it off the bench when the HT was taunting with a bunch of extra protection. Shield disruption worked and they blew him out of the water. Then three basic attacks took out the opponents HT. It was just mop up from there.
Point being, until you can seven star it, bring it off the bench to nueter a tank. It won't last long starting, but can fill a role off the bench for now.
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If I believe they changed the odds, yes.
Maybe my maths is wrong, but I don’t think any Chase ship before this one has been unlockable without spending at least some crystals?
correct, unlock always needed some refresh, and the next star was doable within a reasonable cost.
I expected it to be different, but still cost roughly the same. I think we can all agree that the first runs were balanced off how many crystals it would take you to get to "X" mark.
overall I think the drop rate on this event was still cheaper than shards from the store, which is odd, everything is always decreasing cost as they move through the cadence.
56 Shards
3248 Energy Spent
Drop Rate = 1.72%
Your drop rate was actually:
56/298 = 18.79%
@Vendi1983 for the Galactic Chase events it is based on shards per energy, not attempts.
Anyone reading the boards knows that they stated their drop rate was lowered from 4% to 2%.
I averaged 1.72% over 5 days.
Say its "Only" .28 is deflating how much that actually represents when the average is 2.00%
With nearly 300 sims as my data set I was off the average by 14%.
To put that into the normal node 1/3 drop rates..... It would be like saying I pulled 86 / 300.
Which is like saying I pulled an average of 28.66% instead of 33.33%
300 sims isn't the largest sample, but its decent sized & it was clearly not smack in the middle of the bell curve.
But we aren't talking a single day here, it was 5 days w/ 3 full refreshes with all of that being into the data set & not just a single 5 cap sim.
Nor was I complaining. I just stated that is where I ended up.
Complaining is when I point out that CG's little change means to unlock this ship it costs 50% more Crystals than in Previous Galactic Chase's.
And a MUCH bigger jump if you actually want to get it at 5* like people have previously.
I'm in a lot younger fleet. Mines only level 65, so 5800gp. I brought it off the bench when the HT was taunting with a bunch of extra protection. Shield disruption worked and they blew him out of the water. Then three basic attacks took out the opponents HT. It was just mop up from there.
Point being, until you can seven star it, bring it off the bench to nueter a tank. It won't last long starting, but can fill a role off the bench for now.