What is supposed to be the drop rate on the current Galactic Chase?
Having spent 200 energy on Hard Ship Nodes so far and received 0 shards from the Galactic Chase, I am, now calling in to question the statement in the gamed that "this unit's drop rate has been scaled to Ship Energy". That wording implies some sort of fixed drop rate: X energy gets you 1 shard. But that's clearly not the case.
If it's still "X energy gets you one chance at 30% for 1 shard", then I feel the in game information should be clarified. Because at the moment it's misleading to the point of being wrong.
If it's still "X energy gets you one chance at 30% for 1 shard", then I feel the in game information should be clarified. Because at the moment it's misleading to the point of being wrong.
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I don't think 200 energy is a statistically significant enough data set to raise the alarm regarding the drop rate. That's what, 10 hard node attempts? A run of luck like that isn't unexpected
Edit: I don't think you are ever guaranteed a shard for X amount of energy spent. It has always been, and likely always will be, a % chance based on the amount of energy being spent
On the most recent Galactic Chases, however, people have reported droprates on only about 3%, so if this was nerfed overall, there's a higher chance of getting 0.
Same. this chase is trash.
There has not been anything to farm from hard ships for a long time. Maybe Omega was the last one? And there was a massive gap between Omega and the one before her. So it is likely that many players have nothing to farm from Fleet Hard, and using the energy for shard shop currency is terrible compared to farming g12 salvage.
Then, if you have SoJ already, there is even less reason to do it. So that accounts for another slice of the community.
If it's the same as a galactic chase there has been a statement from CG that it is 2% per energy for a galactic chase on fleet. But that was a long time ago, like the second or third chase ever. It may have changed since then, and if course, this is not a chase, it's bonus drops, so could be whatever.
If you're trying to figure out how much energy you need to spend to finish him off, I wouldn't base the estimate on anything higher than 1%.
So 4 in 860 = 0.47%
I have 4 shards based on 900 energy. So... also just less than 0.5%/energy spent.
No more refreshes on this. Nope. If i could get back the 450 crystals I spent I would do it even if it meant trading away all 4 whole shards.
Also remember the going rate for SoJ shards will probably be 5 for 600 crystals. So this does save you some, unless you can spend Conquest Currency or don’t care about him at all. I’m really just farming him so I can be “caught up” once the next batch rolls around / at least caught up enough to finish Interceptor from just boxes.
For all we know, it can be less than 3%.
Just want to reiterate that this is not a Chase. This is Bonus Drops. CG has never told us what the drop rate for Bonus Drops is, but it has definitely never been even 3%.
So that means that so far I have spent 400 energy and, in an update to my OP, I can now report that I have now reached the grand total, the epic amount ... of 0 shards for Boba.
400 energy, 0 shards. This is stupid.
Got a few shards but not sure it was worth giving up 2 days of G12 farming
Given that with 'Bonus drops' CG confirmed 4%, then actually did 3%, does it really matter any more what they call an event/say about it?
Their words are completely useless. In a way I'm glad they stopped communicating, because that would just be more lies.
Except, as I mentioned, CG has never told us the drop rate for Bonus Drops. You are confusing them with a Galactic Chase. A Chase used to have 4% drop per energy, but now has 3%. Bonus Drops has an unknown, but very low, drop rate.
The point was, even if they told us the drop rates of the Bonus drops, would you believe it?
For Galactic chase, they said 4%, then did 3%.
If they told us today, then yes, no reason not to believe it. When they told us 4% that information was accurate.
Later I reported that I got 0 shards from 200 energy on the second day, too.
Today, on the third day, I got 3 shards from 200 energy.
All told, that's 600 energy and 3 shards
So that now means my grand total of shards for Boba Fett, Scion of Jango.is 208.
Now given that all future shard acquisitions will be in groups of 5 (or even 10) as per every other character you buy with currency, what has effectively happened here is that I've spent 600 energy and have acquired 3 shards that will one day be turned into currency for the shard shop.
What a colossal waste of everryone's time! LOL
this game does the minimal it has to do to keep players playing and this event to me is one that shows the pattern of how ea/cg likes to say they are doing something for community when in fact it is empty promise.
I think the Boba drops are a Bonus Drop, not a Chase. Although I’m not sure if that changes much.