The currency system currently is built to discourage the player. Once you hit level 100 you receive significantly less rewards and currency and unlike fireteam you can’t try to farm by picking up currency in each match.
I’ve played since beta and witnessed this system change from their starting out ok but not good and getting worse and worse until 1.06 Originally Predator could pick up currency. This is lore breaking yes but it wasn’t a bad mechanic to have, if illfonic wants to sidestep it lorewise just earn the currency of each fireteam kill, if I’m not mistaken they lose their inventory anyway.
Even with the max XP in a match (killing seven fireteam members and a good amount of AI) you get around 10000xp. This means nothing once you’re max level nor does the XP amount seem to translate to the amount of currency you get.
Anyway my biggest complaint is even with this system built against me earning veritanium I was able to from loot crates since all I get are dupes. This was still frustrating and shitty because most of the dupes were blue rarity and you wouldn’t earn back your loot crate. I thought with the updates they would change this instead they made it worse lowering the amount of credits.
Those who have amassed credits did so by never spending on cosmetics, another unlisted thing this game punishes you for.
Overall the loot crate part of this game makes me not want to play it more. There’s no reward. No daily missions, no missions at all to earn past 100 or even daily. Just actual nerfs to the one way to build up currency, getting red dupes.
I haven’t mentioned trophies because they’re so minor but they are a part of the currency system. Trophies are just rare loot crate drops and not trophies obtained from rare achievements or your skill as a Predator.