If you are like me you have over 2000 of everything from TAC Gear Challenges, over 2000 of everything except Mk6 Chiewab Hypo Syringe Salvage in AGI Gear Challenges but you can use 3 pieces from STR Gear Challenges. It's so incredibly not balanced for what the characters in the game require. I love the fact they can be completed instantly now but I would sacrifice that for something I can actually use, I mean the few credits i get from them are more useful than the gear now.
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You get something for literally no effort other than logging in - although they are called challenges, that’s not a very fitting description..
When it comes to this feature, the balance is heavily favoriting the player without hopes of generating any primary revenue
The point of challenges and challenge gear is to impress upon you that the pieces you are NOT getting are worth buying
The sooner you realize that gear bottlenecks are a necessary part of the progression (and revenue stream) the more you will come to see that the ~25 carbantis, syringes and my IV’s help you tremendously for your effort spent
Challenge (abundance) gears presence in cutting-edge content is a much better debate since it actually devalues player effort (unlucky rng and your effort did not pay off)
Maybe add another tier with more of the stuff we need, but they are not meant to be difficult or provide a great source of any particular thing.
I agree with creating a new tier with new gear or something because it is kind if getting boring. I think that the new tier will come with level 90.
However I always need carbantis and mk VI hyposyringes. So the other two get hammered. Oh and given the constant influx of new toons, mk IV laptops are also always needed along with the droid callers.
The bounty challenge could maybe get a small buff. It's reasonable amount of credits for the work (3 sim tickets).
I wish I could do 5 ability challenges.
Training droids......no idea on those as I have thousands of the lower ones anyway.
An additional level to address the evolving needs may be a good thing. I’m not so naive not to realize these aren’t revenue generating items, but they are almost an insult to seasoned players. So, I’d lump this into the quality of life and player retention category. Why have content that makes the whole community roll their eyes? It’s not a good thing, even if it doesn’t have a direct connection to revenue. It does definitely have an indirect connection.
That said, I do think the Devs here deserve credit for being much better than several other games that I’ve played, and thanks goes out to the customer service team as well. All games have this issue of old/worthless/outdated content, and I’m hopeful this team will step up and clean up the mess.
I also see that I get very little use out of the gear that is provided and I thought that was due to my choice in character progression. However, from what I'm reading on the comments here, it's something that happens to everyone eventually. This is clearly a design problem to me if everyone ends up in the same boat with challenge gear meaning very little to character progression yet being required to complete two for the daily quests.
I don't spend much on shards a few here and there a month as doing more just seems like pay to win and a waste of money. I enjoy the challenge of building characters from the free accessible content and Challenges is one of them.
I also find it odd they are called "Challenges" but once three-starred they are anything but a challenge. To me, a challenge system sounds more like active battle content, where I wouldn't be able to sim it, more like the event system. I think I would enjoy it much more if it was a randomized scaling battle that gives me a challenge and provides all the rewards at once after completion, instead of 5x or 3x repeated instant wins with 2m cooldowns. Or even better, have challenges and rewards both scale to the gear level of the selected team to make them an actual challenge and encourage diversity on challenges to help gear specific characters the player is trying to gear.
Anyways those are my thoughts on the topic, love the open discussion on here about various things. The community here is pretty great.
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