When Nar Shaddaa Nightlife was mentioned in May's dev stream, I was grousing that they didn't address the one thing I cared about in relation to that event - whether they were finally making the casino chips a legacy-wide currency. And to be honest... I still don't know why they weren't shouting this from the rooftops, but this past week, one day before the event began, they announced that the chips were becoming legacy-bound after all - halfway down the page in a pretty long article.
As it turns out, this change wasn't without hiccups: Immediately after launch, it turned out that acquisition of any new chips was apparently causing all your old chips to be deleted, which led to an emergency server shutdown and quick fix, but once that had been handled, I was excited to log in and cycle through all my characters to get a tally of how many chips I had. It took a while, mostly because once I got to logging through them all, I also felt the need to check their mail, claim the latest set of freebies they'd received etc. but in the end I was left with what I felt was a pretty decent amount.
Fortunately the days when too many free chips would just make me feel anxious are long gone (the max bet machines are a thing now after all), and I've been happy to just do a few spins per day for the Conquest points. I'm pleased that now that the chips are legacy-bound, this is much easier than it used to be, when I'd have to log back and forth between different characters all the time just to find who still had several different kinds of chips left.
There aren't any particular prizes I'm chasing this time around, but that doesn't mean I'm not happy to collect some new mounts and pets on different characters.
The only thing I don't like is how hard is to get Kingpin chips now. I've been doing flashpoints to get the Emperor chips because I spent all mine last year. I've gotten 160+ Emperor chips and 500+ Smuggler chips (500+), but only 22 Kingpin chips. I will probably spend a few million on Kingpin chips just in case I get lucky, but I wish there was an alternative to spending tons of credits.
ReplyDeleteI guess the purpose of this event to be a big credit sink, but I remember the years before when I could get all achievements and items without spending any credits (just a little farming for 100-200 Emperor chips was enough).
As you can see from the screenshot, I'm unlikely to suffer from a shortage of Kingpin chips anytime soon! I also noticed I have 59 of the max bet version in my shared inventory, and I'm not even sure where those came from. The only time I can remember spending credits on chips was during my attempts to get the shades.
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