#bring back crystal bonus for shipping in YS

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balmy ingot
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RS has crystal bonus for RS event, bls has crystal bonus for points/ standing. WS has sadly also lost crystal bonus afaik (haven’t played much lately).

Crystal bonus in YS was for those who bothered to ship manually and was a great motivator to ship manually.

Either bring back daily crystal deposits to planets and somehow negate them if relay used, or introduce a scaled, monthly bonus amount that rewards with crystals relative to average shipment bonus achieved over that time period.

Devs seem keen to get people to play different game modes, Crystal rewards are a great motivator.

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Or. Deposit a crystal daily on a planet. If you relay, that crystal gets consumed. If you ship manually it is a reward. If it is removed from the planet / delivered for reward, you can’t use relay.

twilit crescent
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What's with this strange take on punishing players for using relay? Relay is already penalised enough as it is.

And besides, I have always been a relay player and delivered plenty of crystal shipments pre-DN. You just relay first and deliver the crystal shipments that are left...

balmy ingot
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The suggestion wasn’t intended as a punishment for a certain play style, but rather rewarding another. Some people don’t care about bls stnding and just play for daily rewards, some work hard and hone mods to achieve better standing for rewards. I don’t feel I’m being penalised for not engaging in bls to gain leader board atm. Same as RS event. The suggestion was driven more by the devs apparent desire to encourage / reward game play. You’re not obliged to engage. The cash rewards from relay are already pretty good but yes, they cost a lot more in hydro these days.

naive granite
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You mean give us crystals for free like he already does in the daily log in screen? I’m not sure if they add up to be the same as we got before but it seems close to me

balmy ingot
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Do you even know what I’m talking about?

naive granite
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The crystal shipments that would show up on planet randomly in replacement for a normal credit shipment? Yes I’m fully aware. Do you know about the daily log in rewards that give roughly the same amount of crystals over time as those old crystal shipments?

balmy ingot
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Daily login is about 20 crystals per week (either credit, crystal, hydro or artefact daily on rotation). In og hs every planet would generate 1 crystal reward of between 1 and 5 crystals daily. So if on average that amounts to 3 crystals per planet per day you’re looking at 48 crystals per day which is 336 per week. These were lost then replaced if planets filled and they were not delivered. So no, not even close. I actually think this was a little too generous and probably stopped people buying crystals from the store. At one point I think I had amassed over 20,000 crystals which all went on upgrades following update. In any event, I merely suggested a return of a reward (possibly scaled back slightly) to motivate people to try a game mode including module upgrades that the devs clearly want to encourage. Your rather short thrift off hand response (twice) felt equally like trolling to me for a perfectly sensible suggestion.