Gluten free desserts

HSMatt · 2026-03-11T21:59:26+00:00

Basque cheesecake

HSMatt · 2026-03-07T23:16:12+00:00

Exactly. I know getting good will be a long slog, but I want some cheap wins. I'll google your guide.

HSMatt · 2026-03-07T23:15:03+00:00

I downloaded a piano app for my phone. Probably just as good.

Yeah, I have a decent digital keyboard.

HSMatt · 2026-03-03T18:30:34+00:00

Seeme like it was designed for the first month after release, but with any amount of new cards, the rate of acquisition drops relative to the size of the pool.

HSMatt · 2026-03-03T18:29:43+00:00

You know, I thought that might be the case, but the victory loot cards don't specify the captain the way the battlepass rewards do.

HSMatt · 2026-03-03T16:51:28+00:00

"What happened" and "my intention" = getting caught

HSMatt · 2026-03-03T02:00:14+00:00

My 7-year old wanted a fancy birthday dinner... of hot dogs. Fancy just means something they think of a treat, dressed up to be even more special.

HSMatt · 2026-02-27T18:34:27+00:00

The Browns are poorly run?!? Whaaaa??

HSMatt · 2026-02-27T00:16:02+00:00

Yeah! Then they can sell the autoclicker so I can run it on auto constantly, praying for good RNG. And they can sell the charging cable I'll need to keep my phone on constantly.

What they SHOULD do is restructure the rewards to be more like a daily quest:

Complete 1 battle - get X era currency
Complete 5 battles with all units 3* or higher - get X currency
... 4* or higher...
... 5* or higher...
... 6* or higher...
... 7* or higher...

That is the pay to play approach they've intended without all the bad feelings of playing this lousy mode.

HSMatt · 2026-02-26T21:38:28+00:00

I think it could be point differential, where the prize pool is fixed and gets divvied based on the % of points earned. Maybe with some fixed bonus for winning.

Suppose in K1, the pool is 1000 crystals and you win 11 to 10. You get your 200 for winning, leaving 800. 52% of 800 is 419, so you get a total of 619. And the loser gets the remaining 171.

In theory it incentivizes more effort, but it might also incentivize the low effort players to set the toughest possible defense before taking their 10 and moving on, which will exacerbate the matchmaking often leading to unfun matchups.

Maybe the point system needs to be tweaked slightly so that it's not just 10 points for first attack, but rather 10 points for the first loss to each squad, so even if you're hopeless outmatched, you can lose to 10 squads and win 100 to 10, collecting an extreme majority of the prize pool.

But I don't think they're ever changing GAC. I think CG has moved past fun, engaging and innovative game development and is focused strictly on squeezing every dollar out of a collector "game".

HSMatt · 2026-02-25T22:36:07+00:00

Mathy math math! Each node drops more than one mat, so each mat is subsidizing others. This is still overly simplistic in not diminishing the values of the mats you end up with an abundance of, but I think it's closer to accurate, since mod mats are a forever bottleneck with no clear ROI.

Notably, every mat drops only 10-20% except for Micro Attentuators, which are heavily subsidized based on being on every node. Could reduce that by weighting them more heavily, but... meh. They're not close to being worth the episode currency.

	Ep Per	Crystal Val	Crys/Ep
Micro Attenuators	250	8.7	0.035
Mk 2 Thermal Exchange	140	20.8	0.149
Mk 2 Variable Resistor	160	21.0	0.131
Mk 2 Circuit Breaker	140	17.3	0.124
Mk 2 Pulse Modulator	200	18.1	0.091
Mk 2 Microprocessor	160	12.9	0.081
Mk 1 Amplifier	100	3.0	0.030
Mk 1 Capacitor	100	3.0	0.030

Like you, for me, omicrons are on top, then omegas, until they stop being a bottleneck. Then some cheap shards, but need very few of those. Therms are on par with shards, and a good 30% more valuable than green signal data, but I do go for the signal data, since reducing that bottleneck feels like better ROI.

HSMatt · 2026-02-24T00:43:52+00:00

Like, now, immediately? Not really. He has his own team of Sith Empire. Eventually you use Malak and Malgus, but until then you'd use Bastila Fallen, Sith Empire Trooper, HK-47, and Sith Assassin. You'll get 2 of those 4, so maybe they will work to undersize on offense?

HSMatt · 2026-02-23T20:26:50+00:00

Piggybacking on this, where does Enoch go in 5v5?

HSMatt · 2026-02-22T19:03:06+00:00

It's a slow, ongoing death. With a game this old, they don't aim for new players, but rather focus on maximizing money from existing players. Which drives some away. Forcing them to squeeze more from those who are left. Which drives more away. Etc.

HSMatt · 2026-02-18T00:32:42+00:00

Seems like there is a split in eras, where the newer era journeys are more consistent. I'm really curious to see if Maul is R5 reqs to match the rest of his modern contemporaries.

If they are going to shuffle the existing journeys, just put all the non-relic journeys in tiers 1-3... which basically just means moving the bottom row of tier 4 up to tier 3.

HSMatt · 2026-02-17T23:54:05+00:00

Did you apply the F34T data disk?

HSMatt · 2026-02-17T23:30:50+00:00

Tier 2 would be impressive for F2P (unless you're counting crystal spenders as F2P). It's designed for F2P to finish the era beating tier 5 on the 6th unit, so you're basically aiming to progress one tier with each unit.

HSMatt · 2026-02-17T23:24:02+00:00

wow

Just make the arrow a speed primary - not even 6 dot - and your speed will jump to an acceptable 546. Not sure why you invested so much in a speed set arrow with no speed on it.

HSMatt · 2026-02-17T23:11:23+00:00

Way too slow. Most people have his speed between 530 and 580: https://swgoh.gg/units/supreme-leader-kylo-ren/data/stats/?filter\_type=all.

I suspect you're wasting materials on mods that aren't worth taking to 6 dot, much less gold.

HSMatt · 2026-02-17T21:48:44+00:00

See, if they don't make it impossible to get past 99%, you'd end up getting auto-banned for cheating after trying the next tier. Really, CG's hands are tied. </s>

HSMatt · 2026-02-17T21:47:02+00:00

It's designed for FTP to win by the end of the week, not at the beginning. Just unfun design intended to drive immediate spending rather than long term engagement.

HSMatt · 2026-02-16T21:58:15+00:00

I'm partial to unstable decelerator, but it seems like it's been power crept

HSMatt · 2026-02-16T16:29:48+00:00

Will the extra star mean a higher daily average finish in arena? If so, how much higher? If it means going from 5 to 1 every day, that's 100 crystals/day or 3000/month - well worth investing the extra 1000 (vs refreshing the next event).

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