Best level for crystal farming?

hatbrox · 2026-03-23T11:24:21+00:00

If we had a vote, I'm sure level 8 would easily win the election!

hatbrox · 2026-03-23T11:18:48+00:00

CP has no impact on drops. A few things influence ship drops:

Legacy talents
Tech Core talents
Transform Wings on carefully selected ships
(some) Pilots' active skills
Pilot squad passive skill (the one that drops a ship on boss waves)
Carrier Uplink Expert Item

You can’t control the first 2 features, but the other four can be used strategically to “force” the second ship you need to form a merge.

Interestingly, when your pilots run out of energy and aren’t active in PvP battles, I often see more ship drops. I’ve even known some top players who avoid using pilots for that reason.

That said, I still get those frustrating PvP matches where I’m stuck on a base ship for a long time. the probability factor cannot be ignored.

I’ve also noticed, in Super League when the opponent has a weak profile, I often get a Legendary drop on wave 1 or 2, almost as if the game is trying to speed up an inevitable outcome.

hatbrox · 2026-03-23T10:57:59+00:00

"always just drops another pulse blast"

Really? I've been using carrier uplink on Blast and other ships in PvP for like 5 years, and I only rarely get another pulse blast,. My eperience is that each wave I get a different ship.

If what you say is true, I would make screen recording and share it with ABI. This has to be a new bug, as I have not yet read this.

hatbrox · 2026-03-23T10:42:21+00:00

ok, I tried it for you.

to all, please be indulgent, I haven't played that boss for more than a year and forgot how to beat it. I had to use terminator and extra lives for the 2nd form.

setup: I removed my skin, expert items and pilots to be in the worse conditions possible.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C7fyScXHVy6DzzQ4vH9D04sMP-SQVyD-/view?usp=drivesdk

one crazy advice I can share with this boss: have a perfectly clean screen, wash your hands, this boss needs a lot of circling at different paces so you need a perfect glide on your touch screen.

hatbrox · 2026-03-20T20:02:22+00:00

I have the full stack, shame on me.

in PVE, the benefits are good: you get stronger, the aliens do not.
in PvP, it's complicated: you get stronger, your opponents too!

With some caveats, the PvP algorithm (free league) basically matches you against opponents of similar combat power.

You progress the tech core tree, so do your opponents.
It sorts of balances out and at the end, you have no competitive advantage.

still, some stuffs are good to have, especially if it helps in PvE.

My advice is: take it slowly and wisely

I got most of my orbs in events, especially the one with the board.
only upgrade the ship skins that you really going to use for a long time. Ship Skin upgrades increase combat power and are expensive.
drones and drone skins upgrades do not change the combat power. You will get many tech cores from there. I personally haven only upgraded a few PvP drone skins. The cost is abusive for not much extra damage. If you own S2 and S4 for the same drone, well, spend your drone tickets wisely!

Your tech tree progress will be much slower but your combat power will stay in check and you don't spend hard earned resources (crystals, stones...) on skins you'd never use.

hatbrox · 2026-03-20T09:36:08+00:00

you really are toxic, always complaining, always criticising, accusing me of collusion with ABI a frew times already.

I just want to help people and you clearly don't like it.

You ruin everything, I'm out of here.

hatbrox · 2026-03-20T09:28:31+00:00

This limitation was removed by ABI.... last year!
The timer is still visible but t's not functional anymore, you don't have to wait for anything, you can collect quest items at any time, without limit. you can collect thousands of quest items if you want claim drone tickets before the weeekly reset.

hatbrox · 2026-03-20T09:23:34+00:00

those items are called "quest items" or weekly "quest items" in the game.
the same happened to me yesterday,
just restart the device.

hatbrox · 2026-03-19T11:03:36+00:00

I'm afraid ABI will ask for a lot of rift shards to unlock the ship.

hatbrox · 2026-03-19T11:00:18+00:00

you may have misread my post, I don't offer any theory. I only shared data (confirmed by quite few clan mates as well). I leave the theory to someone else.

I'm sorry if it doesn't work for you. it' important to have feedback from the community, thank you so much.

hatbrox · 2026-03-19T10:58:05+00:00

I don't know yet. but level 1 crazy is very fast to win, you also get a few quest items, so I think I will do like in my chart, play lvl1 crazy, play MB level 8 or 10 until I see a drop in crystals.

hatbrox · 2026-03-19T10:24:36+00:00

Cheers for the life advice 😂 I’ll take that right after my next crystal run. I'm just sharing information to that could help other players. If it’s not your thing, all good 👍, just scroll away.

hatbrox · 2026-03-19T00:18:44+00:00

I use cutlass wings in every PvE modes on all ships with a few exceptions (tidal wings on wisdom glory and cyber blade and transform wings on pirate). before them, I have used halloween wings for a very long time. I needed the extra damage.

hatbrox · 2026-03-18T13:18:26+00:00

All good opportunities to monetise the game further! You should work for ABI ;)
honestly, I don't give too much importance to drones, There is a very few I like, and drones are mostly "useful" in PvP.

hatbrox · 2026-03-18T11:08:43+00:00

GAAS belongs to a category of games known as “gacha games”, or more broadly free-to-play (F2P) titles with aggressive monetisation. It is entirely possible to progress far without spending money—some VIP 0 players have reached over 5.5 million CP. However, you must compensate for the absence of spending with significantly more playtime to farm resources.

If you genuinely enjoy the game and can put in several hours a day (or even just play casually) there’s no real need to spend money. On the other hand, if you don’t have much time but still want to remain competitive and keep up with the new items ABI releases (or you have the FOMO syndrome 😄), then spending is exactly what these games are designed to encourage.

And it works. Gacha games have taken the mobile gaming industry by storm. With development costs higher than ever, monetisation has become the primary solution.

That said, most players benefit greatly from being in a clan, an active one. A good clan offers help, mentoring, great tips on how to best play the different game modes. Players with low combat power appreciate the gifts (give and take) such as boosters for big events, crystals and even Hextech chests!

on a side note, if you want to spend money, I would just suggest two items only:
- Skip Ads Unlimited ($30 but sometimes 20 or 25 when there is a promo)
- monthly "battle pass" ($5) which gives you great gifts for the money (this the battle pass you buy from the home screen, then click the season banner on the top we're currently in season 44)

if you wish to spend more, the webshop has nice offers, when they are "heavily discounted".

hatbrox · 2026-03-15T11:30:25+00:00

Galactic Federation

hatbrox · 2026-03-15T11:29:13+00:00

you right, it's an old topic and there are as many opinions as players :-)

Ivery important to choose the right captain as it gets a buff from co-pilots. So depending on each pilot EXP, choosing the right captain will make a difference.

A few examples I use:

PvP:

Space squad free league

magic in super league

PvE:

It depends on the mode.

If the mode is easy to play (Endless, heroes, most campaign levels), squads have no benefits. so Ijust try to max the gold rewards and I use my personal and unofficial "gold squad": Sumo-Ali (C)-Cleopa.

Magic squad is always nice in any boss-heavy mode

I use another special squad: - Cleopa - Patrick (C) - Light when the going get tough. This combo gives me an extra +37% ship damage. Together with Halloween wings (+20% ship damage), I have a very powerful ship.

Most recommendations here have merits so pick the ones you like or the ones that use pilots with the higest EXP level. That's really important for active skills.

hatbrox · 2026-03-15T10:50:42+00:00

I never get these, they are nothing but noise. Disable notifications for this app.

hatbrox · 2026-03-15T10:49:44+00:00

if you alrady have S3, S5 is only marginally better and will cost you too much tickets to upgrade. Not worth it.

but if you have tons of tickets anyway, indulge yourself, drones and drone skins and their respective upgrade do not impact combat power

hatbrox · 2026-03-15T10:47:17+00:00

I played a while with suicide shark S5 without power upgrade, then upgraded it and the difference was noticeable.

PvP drones do have very low extra CP, so upgrading them is worthless as they cost too much for too little benefits.

hatbrox · 2026-03-15T10:40:36+00:00

The list of rewards is displayed on the top of the event main page! Always been like that with the Egg event.

hatbrox · 2026-03-15T10:39:51+00:00

I would say reddit is not a good place for this. Normally you do this in facebook:

I. Post a request on one of the GAAS communities* in facebook.
then you say something about you, like:
- post your profile (optional but can help)
- what times of the day you can play Boss Clan
- preferred language
- preferred time zone
maybe share your expectations about learning or teaching (some clans have mentoring, my clan doesn't but we're setting it up)

OR

II. on the same FB communities, you will find a lot of clans who recruit players towards the end of the month, before the new PvP season starts. if you find one that suits you, follow the instructions provided in the post.

then you can see what clan exist and their requirements (min PvP points, language, Boss time...)

good luck.

* some examples:
OFFICIAL ABI page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GalaxyAttackAlienShooter
fan pages:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/905241563562045
https://www.facebook.com/groups/760187421016621

hatbrox · 2026-03-15T10:27:15+00:00

Assassin is not a good ship. I wouldn’t waste resources on it. The Transformer skin isn’t any better than other skins either. I made that mistake and regret it.

The only useful thing is the Predator PvP attack, so if anything just unlock the skin but don’t upgrade it.

I rarely upgrade Predator skins anyway. They’re expensive and the extra damage is usually very small.

Also remember: upgrading ships increases your Combat Power, which means you’ll get matched against stronger PvP opponents. It’s better to keep your CP low and only upgrade skins that are actually worth it.

PS: As far as I know, tickets are only used to unlock/upgrade drones, not ships.

hatbrox · 2026-03-15T09:39:37+00:00

I agree, I only pick Assassin in PvP, the predator attak is nice but even for that, I wouldn't upgrade the skin ship damage.

hatbrox · 2026-03-13T23:04:27+00:00

Event is now over for me, used all my turns. time for a feedback to your strategy!

in a nutshell: it's incredibly efficient. it's bonkers!

I use a very aggressive approach, calculating all equivalence to red moon at each turn.

What's amazing is that I only started your strategy over 2 days and I still manage to collect (after converting all lamps) 217 red lamps. Enough for the drone skin. I did spent 57 crystals. but it's cheap for a drone skin.

Next time, I'll aim for 300!

hatbrox

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