TL DR Summary: Accelerated Characters will now reach 7 Stars twice as quickly for all players. In the future, a Character or Ship moving from Original to Accelerated group will have its exchange rate adjusted accordingly.There is no extra value from saving it up and waiting. As these changes approach, note that Shards remain worth the same вЂњbuying powerвЂќ (relative to store price) no matter when you cash them in.

When these changes are released, we will double all playersвЂ™ Shard Shop Currency.

All Shard Shop Store items will cost twice as much to match this doubled income.

For ships, this doubles such that 1 Shard > 38 SSC.

Original Rate characters have their conversion doubled (1 Shard > 30 SSC).Accelerated-Farm Characters keep their conversion the same (1 Shard > 15 SSC).Under the hood, this means we are doubling all sources of Shard Shop Currency, doubling in-store costs, and then doubling unspent Shard Shop Currency on all accounts when these changes go live. We will explore increasing this rate in a future update.Дue to the resulting variation in between Shards, we are modifying the Shard Shop to keep Shard-to-Purchase ratios unchanged. Does not include Bronzium Data Cards due to a technical issue.Does not include Quests & Achievements.Includes Galactic War and non-Journey Guide Events.Store Shipments provide twice as many Shards for the same amount of currency (ex: 10 for the price of 5 previously).Combat nodes drop 2 Shards instead of 1.(eg The Mandalorian will move to Accelerated in April/May 2021)ДЄs the primary impact of these changes, Accelerated Characters have their Shard distribution doubled in most modes: New Marquee characters will launch as Original Rate characters, and move to the Accelerated list approximately 1 year after their release.Accelerated characters are typically those found on Nodes and in various Stores.Generally, this set includes those characters exclusive to Raids, Journey Guide, Territory Battles, and certain high-value currencies. Original Rate characters are made up of New and Exclusive characters.(See the list below for which characters are in the Accelerated category). To dive into the details - there are now effectively two groups of Character Shards - Original Rate and Accelerated. WeвЂ™re also adjusting conversion rates and prices in the Shard Shop to keep these changes effectively neutral for this store. To that end we will be broadly increasing the Shard drop count for many characters. Our 5th Anniversary is fast approaching and we have some exciting news for this month! Starting with the 5th year celebration, we will be increasing the Shard drop count on most nodes and the currency-to-Shard rate in many stores.Д¬haracter Shards are the first big hurdle that new players hit and itвЂ™s a hurdle thatвЂ™s grown over the last 5 years, from around 60 characters at launch to now over 200 (including ships)! Our intent with this change is to help all players expand their collections faster, and in particular to help new players progress in the game.

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