Hoard energy for May the fourth be with you
Starting tomorrow I am going to hoard all energy for May the fourth be with you.
During BLACKOUT there is no point in spending normal and cantina energy for raid tickets.
For arguments sake, if you had unlimited energy what node would you farm and why?
Fleet 3c(saw a video by darth laquer).
Light side 7b,
Mod battles 9c
and Cantina 8g(drop rate is bad).
Just gonna log in every 6 hours and collect mod, cantina, fleet and normal energy.
Busy farming Boushh Leia for Krayt raid and will do one hard node battle without refresh.
I still need 100 shards so it is going to take a long time.
During BLACKOUT there is no point in spending normal and cantina energy for raid tickets.
For arguments sake, if you had unlimited energy what node would you farm and why?
Fleet 3c(saw a video by darth laquer).
Light side 7b,
Mod battles 9c
and Cantina 8g(drop rate is bad).
Just gonna log in every 6 hours and collect mod, cantina, fleet and normal energy.
Busy farming Boushh Leia for Krayt raid and will do one hard node battle without refresh.
I still need 100 shards so it is going to take a long time.
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This is not to mention that in order to hit all of your daily bonuses you will probably want to farm signal data from cantina, which will cost 48/day minimum to get three battles which is more than the 45 bonus earned. If you choose not to do the dailies then you can mitigate that, but then you're losing out in other ways including daily kyros and crystals.
Now, normal regeneration nets you 10 per hour, or 240 a day plus 3x45 for a total of 375. So over the next 20 days, that is 7,500 normal energy. 7500/12 = 625 attempts/3 = 208 shards or 50 more than hoarding. This doesn't even account for everything else you miss out on by not doing your dailies and such.
Isn’t there an exception for bonus energy, for the sake of argument ?
Thank you for this^^
I'm convinced and will continue playing normally.
The cantina hoarding looks promising. I will do that starting 1 may.
I will hoard crystals instead and do 3 refreshes on energy, cantina and mod energy for the duration of the double drop event.
Thank you.
normal node not hard node
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
light side 7b is normal node with kyrotech gear and bronzium wiring scrap gear.
fleet 3c normal not hard node
It was my understanding that even bonus energy won't take you past the 1099 or whatever it is, and that the energy packs were the only way to get around it. But I could be wrong.
I used some lightweight math: if i just hoard during 1 day i lose 240 free regen energy. 3 refresh will grant me 360 energy that will be worth 720 on may 4th, so i ‘gain’ 360 energy by hoarding, for a net gain of 360-240=120 energy per day of hoarding. So you can hoard every energy until you hit energy cap, which should be done in about 3 days. I’ll still do the bare minimum for dailies, so the gain will be a little less.
Now, this light gain might not be worth the trouble and you could just wait until the end of the day on may 3rd to refresh your energy and be done with it (even refreshing an extra 3 times for 100 energy, as it will be like doing an extra 3x50 refresh, which is still the most efficient way to spend your crystals).
Also, if you take a free daily chest in the web store, you might hit cap sooner, making it less efficient to hoard for 3 whole days.
I happen to have done the math. See pictures from a few posts up. Your intuition of starting to hoard at the end of the month is pretty close.
You forgot the bonus energy 3x times a day which will be worth double as well. If you are collecting that you are only -105 energy each day. I always assumed it wasn't really worth the trouble until I made the charts but it certainly is worth saving up energy for at least a couple of days.
I thought bonus energy and packs, including free web store pack, go over the 2000 cap but you are unable to purchase energy the normal way.
Unless it's changed you should be able to go past the 1099 with bonus energy. I started an al account and got around 6000 normal energy and 2000 cantina before going into squad arena
I didn’t quite get your charts tbh. The only thing that seem to matter is ‘when will you hit the cap ?’, because before it’s worth it and after it’s not. So as 2 days of hoarding will net you 240+360x2= 960 energy, you’ll hit the cap with bonus energy, so i will just adjust your ‘at least 2 days’ to ‘2 days’.
Daily Spend is how much energy you should spend each day while mostly saving.
Crystal/Energy gives you an idea of how good of a deal you are getting and can be compared to the usual first 3 daily energy refreshes.
I understood the cap is 2000 for energy and 1000 for mod/ship/cantina energy. If the energy cap is only 1000, 2 days is mostly correct, maybe slightly more to be able to do your dailies.
Same
So have you just been saving the 200 crystals or so you get each day? Cause I… might start doing that. It sounds very clever
It doesn’t, the value does.
Same here- except thankfully i don't have to wait until 11:50. Bonuses will go into effect at normal refresh time, right? Mine is now 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S.), so my plan is to do the above, except at 8:50 (hopefully)
This is how I remember them as well. It was always dependent on the individuals refresh time.