Demote old legendaries to Super-Rares
We've got piles of older legendaries which are anything but legendary, shouldn't they all be something special? Even fully fused, the obsolete ones are worse than many of the newer Super-Rares we've been getting.
This glut of nearly useless legendaries has many negative impacts on the game:
1) They pollute the legendary pool for beholds so they limit your options of ever fully fusing good legendaries without citations
2) They are almost a burden. Since we are never going to fully fuse the garbage legendaries without burning citations, they will permanently take up a crew slot and probably never get used except the odd FBB node or event shuttle, unless we are brutal and airlock them all. They also occupy many collections which serves no purpose other than trying to force us to invest in expensive, outdated legendaries.
3) It's bad enough when we get garbage legendaries for free, but it's a kick in the nuts when you spend actual money and get one or more of these outdated legendaries, it's like you just threw your money away.
My solution? Let's take a second-look at the massive piles of legendaries that nobody wants except for collection purposes and reevaluate where they belong in the game. If we don't want to rebalance these older cards and boost their stats, then I suggest many of the legendaries released in the first 2-3 years of the game can safely be demoted down to super-rares. Making them super-rares would put them closer to where they currently belong power-wise, and give us something else to do when we're almost maxxed out on 4-stars since for some reason they are actually much fewer in numbers than 5-stars. It should be the other way around!
This glut of nearly useless legendaries has many negative impacts on the game:
1) They pollute the legendary pool for beholds so they limit your options of ever fully fusing good legendaries without citations
2) They are almost a burden. Since we are never going to fully fuse the garbage legendaries without burning citations, they will permanently take up a crew slot and probably never get used except the odd FBB node or event shuttle, unless we are brutal and airlock them all. They also occupy many collections which serves no purpose other than trying to force us to invest in expensive, outdated legendaries.
3) It's bad enough when we get garbage legendaries for free, but it's a kick in the nuts when you spend actual money and get one or more of these outdated legendaries, it's like you just threw your money away.
My solution? Let's take a second-look at the massive piles of legendaries that nobody wants except for collection purposes and reevaluate where they belong in the game. If we don't want to rebalance these older cards and boost their stats, then I suggest many of the legendaries released in the first 2-3 years of the game can safely be demoted down to super-rares. Making them super-rares would put them closer to where they currently belong power-wise, and give us something else to do when we're almost maxxed out on 4-stars since for some reason they are actually much fewer in numbers than 5-stars. It should be the other way around!
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I believe there are something like 800 5*s in the game which means 1/2 of all the cards in the game are "legendary". I think the amount of work involved to reclass the old ones though is far beyond the team's capabilities now.
A possible solution that is achievable without too much work would be to make the 5*s that are say more than 3 or 4 years old available to drop in voyages. The game is coming up on year 8, have a year 1 - 3 5* drop in a voyage is not going to break the game revenue or change the balance of power, but it would make it more enjoyable knowing that after 7 years I might be able to finish off Shinzon
Settle down there Beavis, I airlock Shinzon every time I get him, it was joke