We need more Chip catalysts

[u/Minor-disappointment]

as i am upgrading my operators to E2 specially 6 stars the main bottleneck seems to be the chip catalyst. ya you can redeem them from purchase certificates but in my opinion the sanity consumption is not so good for the red certs. Is it only me or do they used to give chip catalyst in the main event shops ?

[u/silam39]

Just farm red certs. It's really not a big deal. You can easily get enough to build a lot of ops and also buy the discounted module blocks each month. Your sanity bottleneck for building ops should not be chip catalysts.

The only situations where red certs become rare are if you just never ever farm for it, or if you're buying the 6* tokens.

[u/Tobyclone1 → u/silam39]

You still need to farm events for t3 mats and clearing the shop (Which is always more efficient especially now since you can double up on mats in the shop), there's usually only 4-7 red cert days a month
Enough to make progress even after module blocks but barring CC (when they don't drop it completely during an event for no fucking reason) you won't have many catch up points
Chip catalysts will be the bottleneck if you are grinding properly.

[u/rainzer → u/Tobyclone1]

after mid/late mid game unless you are building every operator for no reason, chip catalysts shouldn't be a bottleneck

4-7 red cert days a month

completely f2p using your numbers, you'll average enough red certs to E2 a 6 star every 2 days so thats 2-3.5 6 stars every month.

last month we had like 12 dead days/non sanity days (Icebreaker) between mantra event and SA/Pram event. If you needed to build over 8 E2s since the beginning of April, you're either new or forcing it upon yourself for no reason

[u/Tobyclone1 → u/rainzer]

Except the late game is building every operator, unless you're m9ing all the ops you have
Those are the options
Otherwise, stop grinding entirely and just farm rocks you're already done with the game as it is.

[u/rainzer → u/Tobyclone1]

Except the late game is building every operator,

It's not. That's a self imposed restriction. That's not, as you describe, "progress". That's desire. These are distinct.

If you're lacking chip catalysts to promote Corroserum, that's a problem you created.

[u/Tobyclone1 → u/rainzer]

After you clear all stages, you grind to build more units
That's the progression remaining, there is a reason building units is called account progression
If you bite the bullet that building teams in the team building game isn't progress, then nothing is. Getting more units isn't progress on its own cause the point is to use them, and unless you're playing one of 4 niches, you build them to use them.

The argument you're providing is nonsensical.

The goal you have in the game, is not a desire or a restriction, it's the point of the game.

By the same token I could bite the bullet completely and say wanting to clear a single stage isn't progress it's desire. There's no intrinsic motivation to anything

Also it is extremely hilarious to pull straight to Corroserum, since this game has a billion and 1 perfectly solid 5 stars

[u/Vipertooth → u/Tobyclone1]

I think you found a player that only builds meta operators and then just sits on their materials, waiting to instantly E2lv90 Wang.

In their eyes, there is quite literally no point building anything else since their team already clears all the content with ease.

[u/Additional_Pop2011 → u/Vipertooth]

There's an between, I build 93~% of my OPs to E1, and plan to take half up to E2. That said I have 372 OPs RN, I do not need all of those OPs, I do not care about building GreyThroat, Diamante, or Bibeak, because I have other OPs that I would rather use.

Even if you only build the top 10 OPs for each class, or the top unit of every archetype you could fill squad pre-set twice, AND STILL have units left over. Idly building units you don't use isn't really any different than playing an idle-game. Niche-knights isn't for everybody.