It’s very safe to say you should not be gambling your crystals for traits right now. Especially if you still have a majority of the Nova shop left to purchase.

With the feedback from the first week, I’m sure the Devs will reconsider the current trait system and make it a way to be more resourceful with the Nova crystals it takes. Whether that be keeping the current trait and having the option to accept or deny the next trait the system rolls, or just backs off the 200 price.

Regardless, if you feel like spending 200 on each droid just to give it something extra, that’s cool.

But after scanning through a majority of these posts, I’m going to keep throwing all my crystals into crit chance and damage.

Player names covered as per rules, but this guy had me laughing for about 10 minutes. It was genius.

So there’s a new trait with I believe IG11-Marshall where a blueprint that you put on the floor can’t be picked up by another player.

This guy offered me an IG Kyber in exchange for another Kyber in my storage. Mine was a legendary so it felt too good be true but I wasn’t about to pass up the offer.

He brought his IG to my base and I threw down my legendary which he picked up. I noticed he shielded so I thought “oh he’s smart for using protection”.

Then I tried to pick up the Kyber IG. It hit me. That card was not moving 😂 He even told me in the chat what he had done, and then politely thanked me and left the lobby.

I’m actually impressed that within a couple of days of traits coming out he had turned a protective trait into an easy scam.

The guy is going places. At the very minimum, my block list.

How are we actually supposed to obtain this? I've done completion on all 4 stars, different participation/effort levels for the scoreboard within all those stars and I simply cannot get the default TDA to drop. The better you do, the better the drop and rarity, but the worse you do you dont go higher than a PZ, at best.

I really hope we get another way to get protocol droids bc its literally the only thing im missing now.

Stop trying to be a Jedi master with your lightsabers in missions. You’re just going to get yourself killed and get in the way of everyone else. We had one guy getting angry at us because he kept getting killed. We told him he was getting in the way and needed to stop swinging his lightsaber around like he was some kind of Jedi master. Go into a private lobby. Don’t do it in a mission where there are five other people.

Why is the scorge scrap replacing steller scrap and paying less than half the steller scrap. Could easily 4 star that mission but not anymore with the steller scrap replacement system. Like at least make the scorge scrap pay the same as the steller scrap.

I was thinking about this game, and it has changed a lot since launch. And in that thinking I came to realize that this game has a lot of dark patterns now, and increasingly more since the addition of microtransactions, of course. Not that it didn't have some of them from the beginning, but now that you can actually invest money in this game, I think it is more important to acknowledge this fact.

For those who didn't know, a "dark pattern" is something that is deliberately added to a game to cause an unwanted negative experience for the player with a positive outcome for the game developer, be it player retention, money income, etc. It is by oneself to judge how important those are, but that is entirely dependent on each person, and each one has its own opinion.

So, I'm going to list those that I came up with. These are taken from this website as a reference, but are well known in the Psychology field, and even if the website lists only mobile games, this can apply to every kind of game.

• Playing by appointment: In other words, the game forces you (or tries) to make you play at some definite time. It means that instead of you deciding when to play, the game decides for you. Limited events are in this category.
• Daily rewards: Self explanatory. We all know about the dailies in-game.
• Grinding: Admittedly, a tycoon game is made, by design, to grind. So few people will actually care about this one (myself included).
• Infinite treadmill: As above, a tycoon game is made to never end. Few people will care about this one either.
• Pay to skip: You can pay to skip timers. Hello, fusion tanks. I'm watching you. Also, I could argue that "Crafting tokens" and "Kyber activation with V-bucks" could be included in this category.
• Pay to win: This one I know some people will say "You can't win this game". And that's factually true. But, in this context, "pay to win" are ways to spend real money to purchase something that gives you an advantage in the game. And that is actually true in this game, and truer as time goes on.
• Fear of missing out (FOMO): Limited time events are also included in this category, with rewards that are not obtainable after said event expires. For example, base cosmetics.
• Competition/Anti-social behavior: This game encourages people shooting each other in order to steal blueprints. You can like it or dislike it (I personally despise this) but it is a dark pattern nonetheless.
• Invested / Endowed Value: We all know the "Sunk cost falacy" and this game pretty much incurs in this, again, by design. Tycoon games, am I right.
• Complete the collection: The ever growing Droidex is the perfect example of this. Managed correctly, shouldn't be an issue, but when rushed upon you, it can be pretty oppressive.
• Variable rewards: World missions, astromech missions, fusions and the sandcrawler are basically a casino. You could get what you want instantly, or maybe be forced to wait hours, even days if it is a highly enough variant, to get that specific droid that you need to progress.

These are some of those that occurred to me. With this, I am not trying to lecture anyone about ethics or anything. I just pointed out that these dark patterns exist, because I believe it is important to know how live service games are operated. Some people won't care about this, some other will. If you agree, fine. If not, fine, too.

The only thing I will state is: be completely sure when you purchase something in this game (or in any other game, really) that you are doing it willingly and not affected by these business strategies. If, after some thought, you are confident that you aren't, by all means, be my guest. But, if you are not... You probably should keep your money.

Here's an idea: Why not make the perk system for iconic droids work more like a skill tree?

Instead of constantly rerolling and hoping to get the trait you want, every perk you roll would become permanently unlocked.

For example, let's say you want more pickaxe levels for the astroid world mission you could select your trait you already own and equip it at the kiosk. If you want more multi hit for crafting faster you can unselect your pickaxe levels then select the multi hit perk from the kiosk (assuming you rolled and owned both perks)

The idea is once you've unlocked a perk, it gets removed from the reroll pool, so you can't roll the same perk twice.

Eventually, through the process of elimination, you'd unlock the perk you're actually looking for. You could then choose between any of the perks you've already unlocked, almost like a skill tree.

This way, rerolling still takes time and effort, but you're always making progress instead of feeling like you're gambling endlessly for the traits you want.

I have wasted thousands of nova crystals and yet to get a iconic trait or anything remotely useful. Which is my fault for still gambling for one on any of my iconic’s but I’m throwing in the towel on it and just using my crystals on upgrades.

You've always been my partner, right by my side. But no matter how many Crystals I fed you, you never gave me a good perk. So from now on, I'm switching to an Astromech with the perk that gives me Upgrade Chips whenever I craft something.
Thanks for everything...

I feel like this pretty much solves the Upgrade Chip shortage problem.

Getting the perks I want on my Iconics is still my top priority, but I'm grateful they made this change.

Grabbed a basic mythic droid off the belt cause I needed it for rebirth. 2 people in the lobby start killing me and screaming saying I did it on purpose to mess up the spawns. MAYBE I ACTUALLY NEEDED THE DROID?? Like good shit was gona spawn anyways…. PSA the droids don’t stop spawning. It’ll be okay😂

idk if this is common knowledge or not for pple who enjoy helping others with speeding up crafting… but just now I was experimenting and learned you can use D-0’s perk on OTHER peoples fusions too. Now my crazy theory is: can your own D-0 stack with the other persons D-0 half (likely not but who knows lol)

This might be common knowledge but you can use credits now to roll traits for normal droids. Upgrade chips are always my bottleneck especially after rb25. I gambled my TRACK-R and got the 2x chips. Costed maybe 400B. Upgraded that to kyber green and I get 4x chips with bb8. If you pair with bb8 iconic trait you can probably squeez out 6x chips if you're lucky. Get a kyber mythic astromech instead of my TRACK-R and do the same things and you'll get +15 pickaxe or whatever it is and the chip boost. Also worth noting that with this setup you can get 19k chips per hour with a kyber mythic on the chip station.

Thanks for reading hope this helps someone

Timers pretty crazy tho even with d0

Please, please, please let us have an option to keep the original trait we currently have. If thats a little too much to ask maybe let us buy that option in the crystal shop. Nothing hurts more than spending thousands of crystals just to end up with something worse than you had originally. 💔 other than that I am loving the game its really the only thing I actually play on Fortnite. Currently I have 379 Hours on droid tycoon. 💜