Seriously why have the devs changed the code for credit heists. They used to show up every 7 days now they are 10 - 12 days. Yet these training droid events pop up every Monday with out fail. Change it round and have the credit heist appear on Monday and training droids appear whenever there is full moon for all I care.
Players need credits not traning droids we cant use because we dont have credits!!!
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Yep iits very obvious that they changed the code to try and make the play base spend.
I dont mind spending a few $$$ on this game but I would never plough money into credits as the return is awful
$5 per million?
What would be a good rate?
It might be better if it was just 1.68 mil but seriously with rng you know you are getting less than 700k each time.
Add to that the cost of promoting, leveling, and modding a toon and you are looking at 15-20 mil+ for each toon from lvl 1.
Does that sound like a good use of money/crystals
But if i compare the crystal prices in euro, with the average payout of that pack (1x multiplier, duh), i'm spending between 45 and 60€ to get 6M crystals to push a char from lvl 1 to 85.
Then he needs mods. You probably sink about 800k-1M per 5* Mod to get it to 15, or let's say 600k to get it to 12, before you sell it because the stats suck. Then you need new mods, which either take cantina energy (crystals, cause rng..) or mod packs (crystals and rng..) to get new food for credits, to gamle more rng.
If i was to fund this part with money, i can sink at least 150-200€ per character just to lvl him up and get halfway decent mods.
Then that character is fully useless without being 7*d and geared. Farming the shards will take a lot of energy (hello rng crystals) and gear will add more to it (did somebody mention rng)? At some point you hit G8+ where it comes to raidgear and our friends the stun cuffs / guns / holoprojectors / furnaces. Now, when did we last spend crystals on energy?
So all in all, considering that spending 100€ on credits will only get me to the point where i need to spend a bunch more to make a char useful in the first place, i'd say, i'm better off doing something useful with my money.
And then you realize, there's more than 1 char in this game, so multiply that by 10-20 for the most needed squads.
So long story short, credits alone won't get you anywhere. On the one hand i actually appreciate those costs, as most people have too much common sense to sink that much money in bits and bytes, which in return keeps the f2p players on a somewhat competitive level. On the other hand, i can't grasp the concept of overpricing litereally worthless digitial stuff to a point of madness, if your whole business model relies on exactly those sales. Although i wouldn't be surprised if the 1% whales generate 95% of the income, but i'm fairly sure a much more wallet-friendly pricing would encourage spending for a broader range of players by a lot.
On top of that, the lack of progress you have at some point, will discourage the non-spenders in the long run.
Last but not least, this post is pretty useless, as it will get removed for various reasons.
Enjoy
I dont focus on leveling everything for the sake of leveling everything. However when you hit 85 and need to level your characters up to make 4 teams for tank raid, pilots to stay in top 50 in ship arena, some Mods for other characters and the arena team a credit heist makes it possible to stay competitive with others.
It is monday and we have another training droid event that we all need so much
Yeah sure, focus, but it's not like that's how the game is designed. Focus on your arena team (or the arena team that you would like to use) which likely is not 5 Jawa and a random character, but you need to work on those 5 Jawas for the mods challenge, then your resistance characters, and Jedi, and rebel, and scoundrel, then ships come along and you have a new 4-5 characters to work on because they didn't give qgj/rg/anikin/sthan/emp/Lando a ship yet so you need to work those new characters that weren't your focus before.
Yes, thank you for even having the credit heist, there could just as easily not be one at all. Although w/o some way to improve the credit crunch you would lose players. I play games for fun. Waiting days, or weeks, to use some resource that you have collected in game because of the shortage of another resource gets boring. With all the other games on all the other platforms out there it wouldn't be hard to find something else to play.
People like this game. Whether it's the platform, or subject, or style everyone has their reasons for sticking around. I realize ea/cg aren't in this for charity, and they will do what they can to maximize the potential for income. But when you so often hear about the same issue do something about it. I'm not saying credit heist daily, but maybe if people knew that on a fixed day they would have a chance at a needed resource there wouldn't be so many complaints. I know that thanks to rng I'll likely see 2-5M whenever we see the heist again which does so little that it wouldn't be game breaking to have the heist every 7th day, or 10th day, or whatever. At least with a fixed day people would know when to expect one. No wondering if weekends count, or holidays, or tournament days, or days with a full moon, or days ending in "y". Every X days.
Thanks for the game and your efforts to make it what it is. I do, mostly, enjoy it even if sometimes I am tempted to hurl my device at the nearest wall.
+1 to this
They add new stuff continously, so players need more resources...
If there wasn't the event at all I'm sure many players would have stop the game.....
Its' really annoying to be prepared all week and plan your upgrades using the loot and finally u get a droid event.... It would be much better to say it will run every 10 days instead of expecting it between days 6-12 and never comes before day 10....
2) They weren't as many credit sink before, Mods are swallowing credit like a Sarlacc in which you would have tripped.
Credit heist weren't a "gift from CG gods", they were introduced to replace another way to gain credit while really needed them. They were fine. Making them twice as rare now for no apparent reason is a decent reason to complain.
Any game like this has an artificial economy that is manipulated to make us spend real cash. CG admitted as much when they explained why they were bringing in the credit heist originally.
If you look at the typical payout in credits from a tournament (about c1 million for top 1000, c2 million for top 200) then this pretty much corresponds to the reduced effective payout we have from the reduced frequency credit heists over the past few weeks.
What's interesting is today's tournament only awards ship credits so we will see if they drag out the credit heist as long as possible without giving us squad credits in an alternative way...
They "gave" to us because they admitted they made a mistake in the economy balancing of the game at higher levels. If you don't feel the credit crunch you either can't complete GW (because you've only invested in your arena team and have no roster depth) or have only been playing for 4 months or less. Most players who are levels 80+ are broke. Or you just don't play the game very often - which is fine.
In game guild: TNR Uprising
I beat the REAL T7 Yoda (not the nerfed one) and did so before mods were there to help
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- Once a week on a week day.
- 6 to 12 days in between
This simply cannot work. It should be 3 to 12 days (From Friday to Monday or from Monday to Friday). But then it still would not work (Friday + 12 days = 1 week skipped).
I am not an expert in programming but why does one credit heist needs to be conditioned on the previous one?
Can't the code be like Monday 20% chance, Tuesday 40% chance, etc... If credit heist happened then chance becomes zero. Reset every Monday.
Since all this is very complicated (or so it seems since it was obviously not coded properly), I would join the band wagon of having it fixed any day of the week.
Highly doubt that. This game is designed to make money
They should just run one each week on a fixed day and be done with it. It would stop people like myself who are credit starved from creating posts like this.
Agreed completely with you. It would have least have the merit of tidying up the forum.
That's my thought too. I can't understand why everything in the game has to do with RNG, even the day that an event runs......