Draupnir gets progressively more frustrated at the lack of conversion in Tacticus

This video I talk about conversion in tacticus.
This is a topic that is not as exciting as a new character release however, I would argue it is significantly more important for the future of the game.
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[@LuciaFinstra]

A 1:1 conversion ratio within a rarity bracket is absolutely fair, considering how hard it is to acquire orbs, shards, and badges.

[@69Elken]

There could of course be an added blackstone cost to offset theebenfit of being bale to switch

[@Vortenger]

Fair? Yes. Is that what they'll do? ROFL.

[@Enaz0ner]

I believe that this game is the fairest out of the mob games

[@mikaoljakka2013]

I'd be happy for 2:1 ratio, and wouldn't mind throwing in a forge badge as well

[@pedronogueira5267]

I know it is off topic, but I also think tacticus needs some quality of life upgrades. XP books should be able to be consumed in batches, like with a slider. We should be able to sort our characters by way more ways, like by shard amount, which characters have or don't have specific attack types, by level, by active or passive skill level, by rank, by rarity.... List goes on

[@Romeo2008lp]

I’m more on the make the tyrannids easier to get but that works too

[@hopperschmopper9363]

Yes this. All of this, and most importantly, better equipment management. Take Nikke as an example, we should be able to change equipment on units in the battle preparation screen, and equip pieces that are equipped by someone else (ie moving them). This is really *BY FAR* my biggest issue with Tacticus, fr it’s to the point where I’m spending more time moving things around than actually playing the game. As for conversions, idk, sure it would be nice but tbh I’ve never played a game that had them, I’m sure there are good revenue related reasons for that…

[@kaitan4160]

I wanna track Quests. Yeah great that it tells me progress in 3 other quests..... one of those 3 is the one i actually wanna complete. Give me a Tag Option so that one shows up at the top!

[@Marcoos147]

I very much agree with your sentiments here. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the ability to forge badges and orbs, although that is super costly! I’d also love some effective means of trading some of the 18000 raid tokens that I own. I also think SP needs to look at the rewards available for donating within your own guild - the reward vs cost is very unbalanced. But overall, any way of trading for badges would be number 1 priority as I’m out of rare, epic & legendary Xenos and rare & legendary Imperial.

[@SamwellFuqua]

You have different bottlenecks than I do. All orbs that aren’t legendary are useless to me. But I like everything you said about the ability to convert things. The problem is that if they do make those conversions possible, it will be a fierce gouge. The forge badges are so costly to do anything with as it is.

[@Toebump]

After seeing people talking about the exp hard block, I decided to max snappa and snot, purely with the intention of using them in the rogue trader. I'd say it's paid out decently, as I'm pretty active in arena and salvage runs are super important for gold. Both characters are at sliver though, don't really use them, snappa is meh and snot has potential but I like other characters more.

[@ChaosSwarm]

both god in there campaign. Snotfloga is use in guild raids for don't have the other characters fixed and he do 30k+ dmg on silent king+ grots

[@thebraveguy9808]

Snappa is pretty decent once you upgrade him, but Snot pays off in dividends once you have him upgraded. A taunt can be a game changer in Tacticus, and he's a multi taunter. On top of that, his passive along with his beast slayer trait give him a lot of damage against big targets like raid bosses and Tyranid warriors. And every time he attacks, he creates a grot that hits like a truck, as long as you've upgraded it. Snot used to be bad before the rewOrk, but he's sooo much better now that he's gotten his buffs. I highly recommend upgrading him.

[@ChaosSwarm]

@@thebraveguy9808 snotfloga was okay before rework. But got beter. Snapawreka pasive helped me in the elite campaigns ws agresors. When go farm material there he 1 shot the agresors. The warboos is in extrem ned of rework when all other 4 orks do more dmg than him when lower ranks.

[@be1withthewater]

I agree I’ve also asked snowprint directly for something similar a few months back. The short answer was no unfortunately

[@jasonjacoby]

I don't see how this will make more money for Snowprint, but good luck with the dialogue! Oh, I mean, yeah, it would be really nice if there was an actual reason to have Rogue Trader unlocked besides that $100 vanity frame...

[@beqatchilashvili7000]

copy pasted Rivengard wont be remodeled. they are too lazy for it

[@Concept1onLoL]

When Forge Bades were announced I was really positive about it, because I think it was a right step. Then I learned about the gold costs and now I sit on 100 leggy forge badges and 1,5k forge badges in total, because the gold costs are absolutely nuts and completly unnecessary in my opinion... I agree with all the points being made. I have way to many useless ressources lying around, which I would like to exchange... This would also solve the problem of ressource income, because I think in total, even as a p2p player, the overall ressource income is waaay to low right now...

[@haowenjason]

I have no idea how you don’t have ways to spend energy. “I don’t want to level this character”, while a respectable stance based on personal principles, is not going to move SnowPrint, who wants everyone to build as widely as possible

[@pedronogueira5267]

Funny how they even kind of thought of conversions with that god awful forge mechanic, but not even that grew in a significant matter...

[@PHENOMENALPHO]

I agree with your statements, and more things to spend raid tickets on

[@biggee1509]

Hi Draupnir, love the videos - just one thing though. When it comes to badges you can already use forge. Granted it does cost gold and a forge badge, but if you're desperate for imperial legendary badges, you could convert some epic badges.

[@Draupnir_BR]

That is right! Unfortunately there is no way to translate energy to badges which is extremely frustrating.

[@joshualindsey1128]

Gee...it's almost like Snowprint doesn't give a shit about player satisfaction and long term retention because they make significantly more money from new players burst spending than long term players who usually just buy the battle pass. I've been playing around 4 months and cannot see myself even getting one winged diamond character. Getting super sick of the grind already. Progress now is very slow and I really doubt I will find the game rewarding for much longer. I usually end a play session irritated by low drop rates of anything useful (I seem pull 93% common and uncommon equipment from arena chests and about 6% rare, 1% epic and one single time I got a legendary. This is at chapter master league. I'll spend 250+ energy or more (if an event is running I buy up to the 110 refresh.) So I complete 2/3 of a single upgrade slot of which there are six. So more than a week to get one guy up to gold 2? Bullshit. Snowprint seems to know something about weaponising psychology, but they seem unaware of Behavioral Extinction. Simply put, If an organism (human in this case) performs some action (play the game/ spend money on game) and does not get rewarded (satisfaction in playing, new characters, equipment, levels, etc) then the organism will stop the behavior (quit playing). Snowprint is simply relying on sunk cost fallacy to keep people playing. This is when you have done something a lot, and even though you don't really feel rewarded anymore you keep doing it because you dont want to "waste" your invested time. So you invest more time/money which puts more psychic weight on the investment. Don't fall for this. If you aren't having fun I highly encourage you to quit. I'm about there myself.

[@joshualindsey1128]

Draupnir, I want to point out you said you "like the game" which is why you make so many videos. You also said the game frustrates irritates and annoys you. "Liking" the game is not at all the same as actually having fun playing the game or receiving satisfaction from it. I think you are falling into the sunk cost trap. Snowprint do not care, they are here for money. If you're not having fun, why are you playing?

[@Vortenger]

I started a year ago. I just got my first diamond character. I haven't hit the same roadblocks you have but I see where this would be incredibly useful for all levels of play. It would be a way for newer players to focus their growth and allow veteran players to progress when they've hit a wall. If I'm honest I don't see SP doing 2 or 3 to one for conversions. 5 or 10 to one seems to be their method so as to keep you grinding that little bit longer. Even at a 5 to 1 ratio, it would still enable play that otherwise might help keep languishing players from leaving Tacticus for newer pastures. About that moment in the middle of the video... You good, Draupnir?

[@LocoBanana33]

I recently bought a 99$ BS pack to do a couple 10 pulls and restock on BS for a month or two. I have 11 characters on legendary diamond unlocked for rogue trader. 3 ten pulls only got me 115 archeotype. I was a little disappointed. Usually I'm good for getting 1k ish archetype with 3 or 4 ten pulls....useless.

[@eliminat]

An easy one would be a new campaign "level" that scales with the team you are sending, the harder it gets the more Exp you'd get. Instead of a raid or battle button add a third option "challenge" or whatever. Make it so that lightning victory also doubles Exp gain. Now for orbs and lower forge badge, let us do something with them. I have between 200 and 500 of non legendary (3000 orbs or so I'll never get to use!). If you don't allow me to convert them allow me to stop receiving them from requisitions at the very least.

[@DocDiablo13]

I agree that, considering how many different resources and currencies this game has, the game is definitely in desperate need for better conversion. A quick bandaid would be to remove the gold component of the forge, since it’s already limited by another resource (forge badges, scrap, and a high conversion ratio for badges and orbs). The gold requirement is not just limiting, it’s absolutely absurd considering the gold requirement to even use badges is also absurd. I agree about the item conversion for sure

[@themenagerie5622]

as a super casual player, I dread running into this issue eventually

[@heirwolf6929]

I mean you can forge both badges and orbs and also get scrap from items. But I think it should be more reasonably priced and also be able to convert both items, orbs and badges between factions.

[@albertini23able]

I don't hace this problema yet, im just level 51, but i can understand You, they stop your progression with that

[@antoniomachadosilva1261]

Selling items sounds ok, you'll probably get 500 gold for rare item lol. Conversion of orbs and badges sounds scuffed. Forge them and endure late the late game slog.

[@davidwilkinson80]

I think the game gets a lot of longevity from the huge amounts of time it takes to level characters. It's a balancing act and the sweet spot will differ from player to player.

[@Tyrkkl]

The tension of not being able to freely upgrade everyone is one of the things that stops every list becoming vanilla.

[@abeschreier]

I concur, even if I’m nowhere close to your roster. Would be nice to excess transfer legendary xenos orbs or forge badges

[@bryanvingilot863]

I am at the same level as you are and this is my exact situation. Not enough badges and XP books to level my characters. Hope we can convert the badges to Archeotech or other class' badge. Also hoping they will sell badges and XP books in the warshop. I don't need Rotbone, Njal or Deathleaper shards. The legendary mats for D3 are farmable so there is no need for that as well.

[@ChaosSwarm]

its just sped up. some of the Legendary D3 material only have 1 elite campaign still. but ye guild wars shop need more offers, legendary faction material and faction rare materials

[@jamesnorth7318]

Anyone know how to change character loadout? I don't know how to take out the space wolf i unlocked and put in a another character

[@brocfernwood4539]

press on the characters

[@zachshowalter-castorena6130]

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[@MajorBorris]

The producers of tactics are extremely greedy and they would prefer that we spend $300 to upgrade a character to legendary. How that relates I'm not exactly sure but I have a sense that everything they do has to do with profiting from the from players that can see it will take years to get somewhere in this game. Even non whales spend a couple hundred dollars on this game so they can trade progression for money instead of time.

[@DikAlex777]

Solution is simple - a marketplace where players can trade with each other with all in-game resources for gold and possibly BS. To prevent abuse it can have a lower limit on item prices, e.g. equal to in-game shop, and upper limit for a number of transactions, say 5-6 per day, or something.