The Rise of the Omega Bottleneck / Weeklies
As the title states, they slowly pulled omegas out of the weekly shipments step by step. I made multiple topics on this where it gets immediately moved to shipments subforum where no eyes will reach it for sure.
We have an omega crisis, weeklies provided a solution temporarily. Now we are back to square one. THIS IS NOT A SHIPMENTS discussion, but one on the state of omega acquirement in general.
We have an omega crisis, weeklies provided a solution temporarily. Now we are back to square one. THIS IS NOT A SHIPMENTS discussion, but one on the state of omega acquirement in general.
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- Does the bottleneck exist at large?
- If it does what solution do you propose?
Goldeyeball salvage - made worse
Credits - worse
Shard shop currency from bronziums-made worse
Stuns pop rate in GET/**** - some reports lower rate (not seen evidence but seems lower last month)
More Purple gear being needed at lower levels (cancerous, who else)
More almost mandatory needed toons than ever needed at once before. ways to get that gear.....
no change. That said i guess GA gives gear but tank rewards being what they are post challenge gear fix worse...
Keeps getting tighter and tighter....
I wonder if this has any correlation to the big 3rd party crystal scandal. Had to be a TON of future Revanue lost in those temp bans handed out... seems like things started getting tighter before all that happened.... but they knew way before they announced it so maybe the tightening is just corporate insuring numbers at least stay the same and do not drop..... that i can believe
Lots of bottlenecks most of them needed we all know that we all accept that..... the making them worse part to offset some lost earnings or just to make some extra here and there is the part i do not like they were bad enough.....
Solutions
Challenge reworks maybe
Go back to heists from a year ago
Stuns appear more often in shops (Ya still gotta have currency for em). No reason for it to be random really oh ...... refreshes $$$$$$$$. Which good reason for em not popping as much
A real solution..... prob not one game needs bottlenecks..... but we had em before NO reason for them to make em worse
When this is 90% of your fleet challenges Every time for months there is zero goodwill towards the RNG junk way they are delivered.... but hey someone getting 3-4 every challenge day so its fair NOT
They tell you your bad and to get gud when their RNG allows them to be better cause for some it never EVER levels off because it never has to
I do however have quite a few abilities that can be omega'd at the moment.
as a side note, i'm seeying multiple players running out of purple matts on discord.
How do they even manage to run out of purples, are they newish players?
most likely, 100+ member discord server, so i don't really know. Saw a couple screenshots and was quite amazed by it, not enough to find their swgoh.gg profile though
In short, try to be a little more mature even as a game player.
I am a FTP, btw.
Ok, I'll try to mature up and be like you. Thanks for your non-contribution.
There was a widespread uncovering of 3rd party crystals sale that's acquired by stolen acc.s, credit cards I think. The accounts that bought these crystals got temporarily banned and now they are back too. No idea how CG is dealing with the suppliers though.
At around 9 months played I still have bottlenecks on purples, omegas and zetas as well as various gear pieces *cough*Carbantis,*cough* I work within these limitations by being selective about what I upgrade and when.
....We get MORE omegas than zetas.
Just ignore that guy. All he does is post pictures of his obviously-whaled account and claim to be FTP. It's a semi original form of trolling at least, I guess.
True, but it's not proportional. You don't get THAT many more omegas than zetas, but omegas are far more commonly needed - even a "generic" 3-ability character needs 15 omegas. Some characters don't need zetas at all, and every zeta ability also requires a big pile of omegas. So while you do get more omegas than zetas, the increased rate at which they're spent means you eventually hit a point where you're sitting on a pile of zetas you can't use because you don't have enough omegas.
I'm constantly out of purples. I played pretty hard back at the start and then didn't play for an extended period before I came back. I've been going hard for about a year now and I still can't hold on to purples. I have to treat 30 of them as my "zero" because if I didn't, I'd never be able to add zeta abilities with how many of them I still need for the various squads I want to build up. Half the time I do mod challenges instead of farming slicing mats just because they cough up a decent amount of purples. Ditto prioritizing the 16-energy cantina farms over the easier ones.
I'm just now finally starting to get to a point where I can sometimes store up 75-100 before a whole bunch go out the window, but it'll still be a while before they become inconsequential like the green and blue mats.
And we need way more of them too.
9 months puts you at a newish player status. After a while you have so much stock of some things that even though they get frequently used, you can hardly deplete them. Mk5 furnaces on rancy are as such for example. They are both needed and given abundantly.
But I think it wouldn’t harm the game if more omegas were made available. It’s tough when it’s only possible to get 3-5 a day, and every character needs 15 of them. I think more should be made available as players reach the endgame, so that they can keep up a little faster.
I’ll trade purples for MK6 med packs one per one all day long lol
Somehow I ran out of purple mats yesterday while leveling up Darth Revan’s abilities. I’ve never been held back by those until now.
Do you have anything g to back this statement up?
Which part? I can provide evidence, just gotta know which portion you're debating.
Keep at it. You eventually get where you want to be. I have all the abilities on my characters upgraded through purple, so now every T3 purple ability mat gets stockpiled until a new character comes out, then I upgrade all their stuff.
Omegas are another matter, but even those you eventually wind up hitting critical mass. My .gg profile is under this name, look at my collection, sort by power—everyone through Farmboy Luke is fully omega’d. That’s about half the characters.
Keep on doing what you’re doing. You aren’t playing wrong unless you’re not having any fun at all—which, ironically, the people telling you that you’re doing it wrong probably aren’t
Have they stated they are not going to put omegas in weekly shipments again?
Lol @NicWester I guess you’re right, I am having fun. I have omega’d about half of my roster as well, but that includes Bodhi Rook. So some quality characters have been left behind. Anyway, thanks for the input, hopefully I’ll get to the stockpile threshold someday!
Probably the part he put in bold ?
You don’t have proof. You’re a conspiracy proponent.