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Thoughts on the double skillpoint & expertise weekend event!
cymoore
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Whats the point if there isnt a ( Mirror Incursion ) event or replacment?
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It it is not difficult to understand that Cryptic felt the Mirror Event was offering too much bang for the effort - which is why it was removed and has been retooled.
That's understandable.
What's not understandable is why they removed it before it's replacement was ready for release.
Like they've never done that before :rolleyes:
Bit of a meh from here I'm afraid.
Nowadays I actually don't want my lower level toons to level so quickly, so they'll be avoiding that time.
And i think I may have one newer level 50 that could use a little easy xp, tbh two or three fleet alerts would do it.
I'm sure that there'll be some players who will thoroughly enjoy the bonus, but for me it's a meh.
Mirror Event was just fine! It's been in the game for ages. It was a fixture.
Please don't start suggesting people that played and enjoyed it were "doing it wrong" or "exploiters." I'm so sick of how you... "shareholders", always jump in to defend cryptic and imply the playerbase are up to no good.
For many of us, Mirror Event was a large part of this game. It was my preferred method of leveling alts. If it returns to us with lower rewards, and/or missing dilithium, it will be just another ruined thing like crafting that has been touched by the hand of the Overlords.
Hey, if you wanna make things more challenging... Stop the damn power creep that allowed VA's to steam roll it! Why make the average player suffer for the horrible decisions regarding new ships and consoles!?
IF they want me to re run the mission content that takes 30-40 mins each mission and only rewards half the skill points on the rerun that it did the first time through, then they are going to need to offer a lot more then a crappy xp weekend.
Longevity is not the banner of right.
You sure about that? The Mirror Event was added with F2P? I really feel like I used to play that back when I paid a sub. Where can I find the exact date this was added?
edit: Nov, 2011
according to wiki. That's 27 months of Cryptic asking me to play this event! I didn't exploit it in any way.
In fact, on my lower level toons I was only able to do it 4-6 times an hour depending on the caliber of my peers and the need to upgrade / level up.
This.^^^^^
Is MU needed? No. Is it super helpful? Hell yes! And honestly, I can only devote between 1-2 hours to play daily, if that. To all the people saying "you don't need MU", say that after having several characters on T4 all rep, with no expertise on any of them, and trying to advance them in rep. Oh, and only with 1-2 hours to play per day.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
I work full time and real life often takes precedence over weekends.
These changes have basically meant my reputation system projects and advancement through the reputation system has ground to a halt. It just makes me not want to log-in.
The Foundry 3 mission wrapper (for 1330 Dil Ore) and 1-click console missions (which I used too) were in STO for a full year before they were pulled and declared as 'not working as intended'. If anything the fact they left it that way for a full year didn't sit well with upper management; so I'm sure once their metrics indicate something's out of whack, they'll pull it then and there.
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
i have 14 charatcers.
If I tried to progress all of them, at the same time, I'd go quietly mad.
Then noisily mad, then mad, then quiet again, then some gibbering.....well, you get the picture.
The sane thing to do is pick and choose.
for instance, atm, I'm letting my KDF toons have a rest.
Reason being, my Fed fleet is at a point where some concerted effort will get some quick holding tiers.
Out of those 7 Fed toons, I'm only playing two of them beyond doffing.
The doff commendations from the opther five quietly boost the fleet mark pool, while my main grabs fleet marks hand over fist.
Meanwhile, my new 50 sci is working her way up the rep trees.
If you have limited time, then you have to manage that time.
Trying to spin all the plates at the same time leads to gibbering.
I have 14 toons.
I'll have more, by and by.
I'm pretty sure I'm way off being the record holder.
It's not how big your toon list is, but how you use it.
:eek:
Those clickies were not official crytpic content. MU was designed totally by the devs. I played it the way they wanted me to.
What's not to understand? It's because Cryptic. Couldn't be any more elementary, dear Watson.
It's pretty easy to level up in STO. In fact it is too easy. Every story line mission you play you earn enough to level up. I think that it is dis-service to the game itself because it gives you no reason to do anything but the story line missions to advance.
In my opinion Cryptic should make it 4 times harder (maybe even more) to level up, thus forcing you to explore other ways to gain experience. They should probably enforce this by requiring you to be a least a certain level before you can start the next story line mission. I stopped doing the the main story sometime after advancing to LT. Commander and just started to do random stuff to get more out of the game
I think Cryptic is simply pandering to those people who wants instant gratification.
This event does nothing for me since my primary character (Federation) is already a Vice Admiral and I have over 200k expertise points to use on Boffs. As for my KDF character who is only level 17 I suppose all this means is that I can probably advance 2 levels for every completed story line mission. Ummm.... Yay... I think....
Still, I don't expect full wages when I don't put in a full days work, likewise I don't expect a weeks XP when I do the easiest group content in the game.
Well, there is a fair argument that progression is a bit too easy.
you're level 50 way before you run out of story missions.
I believe someone a while back was asking for the ability to actually reduce your xp, in order to level slower.
The lack of unique content you had to repeatedly grind to reach level minimums was far more annoying then getting to 50 and knowing you still have 15 missions to play before you need to start the Rep System.