The Crystalline Cataclysm is our next Featured TFO! Battle for access to Section 31 Mines, and to progress towards a free Tier 6 ship!
We're also granting you the rewards of a great deal of events you might have slotted. Read on for details.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11175833
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There are a few bugs though. Any chance someone could take a look at
https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1249285/mycelial-lightning-from-the-stamets-tilly-field-modifications-set-not-working
https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1247853/major-mine-launcher-bug-zero-damage-after-5-minutes-due-to-despawn-bug
https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1249083/mine-explosion-radius-seems-to-be-broken-both-the-inbuilt-radius-and-radius-mod
Still even with the bugs mines are now in a great state and more then useable. Thanks for all the improvements.
Wasnt the purpose of the t6 ship event to further the discovery story? How is the entity related to anything?
And yeah, not having slotted the old tokens means Im left empty handed but those that have just one token slotted get a full payout without the grind. Thats just messed up.
Its a kick to the balls with charge, hooks and steelcaps.
Why isnt it possible to add an NPC to convert every old token into something useful?
If you have one of those projects slotted, even without a single token in them, they will auto complete. If you didn't slot the project, though, then yes, you're out of luck.
It's not a kick to anything, though. Everyone was given an opportunity to run the event, slot the project, and allocate their tokens. If you completed the main project, then you were given a secondary project to allocate extra tokens to, if you chose to run the event past the initial required number. If you chose not to turn those in, that's on you. You were given an opportunity to get rewarded for those, though.
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Well, duh. Thanks for repeating my comment.
Well, duh. Thanks for explaining the event token system to us.
Thats in no way an explaination why those with tokens not slotted are left with nothing when we did the event more than those that slotted less items who get FULL payout. <- This is the kicking part.
And I repeat my question:
Why isnt it possible to add an NPC to convert every old token into something useful? This way EVERYONE gets exactly the right amount of rewards based on time spent on the events. Like the NPCs on drozana station with old tokens.
I wouldn't say it's "impossible." I think they just don't want to spend the time doing it. No worries on my end though.
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But lets reward those that hoarded them in the slots.
HYPOCRITE!
What? There was always a reason to slot the project, even if you had no tokens for it. You could potentially finish it the next time the event came around. That's what I did usually. Sometimes I have time and energy to do the events on multiple characters, sometimes I don't. This way there is always a chance I can grab a bit extra Dilithium this way.
Hence, I get a lot of auto-completed projects waiting for me when this goes live.
Of course, I'll also lose a bunch of stockpiled tokens:
Across 20 characters: 92 Shards, 14 Mirror Tokens and 37 Breach Tokens, if my OneNote book-keeping is to be trusted.
You hoarded them and get the full reward.
I hoarded them and get nothing.
You want me to use crayons to make the unfair treatment more obvious??
There's a difference between slotted projects and hoarded tokens.
And I am one who rarely did these three-week events, so I'm out of luck in getting any old rewards.
How much simpler all would be if in the official game blog of the event, and in the tooltips of such currency in game, it would state that such unspent currency may be obsoleted and erased from you altogether.
Like I said. Hypocrites!
Clearing out inventory of defunct TFO thing-a-ma-jiggers? The better to open up my cluttered inventory, without having to manually doing that
Having universal TFO thing-a-ma-jiggers that I can use for future TFO events without having to remember which character had the most of them? Most excellent
Crystalline Cataclysm, Mirror Invasion and Into the Breach returned multiple times. Below is every instance and the items they featured.
Crystalline Cataclysm's dates
-11 April - 2 May 2013, Crystalline Shard non-combat space pet
- 20 September - 21 October 2013, Mariah Kilara Marr
- 21 August - 11 September 2014, Emergency Conn Hologram
- 5 March - 26 March 2015, Crystalline Energy Torpedo Launcher
- 13 August - 3 September 2015, Universal Kit Module - Crystalline Spike
- 19 May - June 9 2016, Console - Universal - Crystalline Absorption Matrix
- 3 November - 24 November 2016, Crystal Radiation Projector
- 16 August - 6 September 2018, Antiproton Matter Conversion Dual Heavy Cannons and Beam Array
Mirror Invasion's dates
- 13 March - 3 April 2014, Hakeev duty officer
- 30 October - 20 November 2014, Zefram Cochrane Shotgun
- 5 November - 26 November 2015, Mirror Universe Agony Field Rifle
- 25 August - 15 September 2016, I.S.S. Stadi admiralty card
- 18 May - 8 June 2017, Console - Universal - Interphasic Instability Device
- 9 November - 30 November 2017, Mirror Universe Phaser Dual Pistols
- 10 May - 31 May 2018, Agony Phaser Energy Torpedo Launcher
Into the Breach's dates
- 3 March - 24 March 2016, V.S.S. Tanius Admiralty card
- 2 March - 24 March 2017, Furiadon Fangs Mk XIII [CrtD]
- 8 March - 29 March 2018, Console - Universal - Voth Phase Decoy
- 6 September - 27 September 2018, Bio-Engineered Furiadon combat pet
The thing is, there is no way of them honestly knowing what they are going to drop at any given time, except when they decide to do it.
Like for example,when they started doing the Featured TFOs, they were probably having discussions about what to do about the old events once the new TFOs proved to be more of a success since you only needed 1 currency.
You have to ask yourself why the option to convert all the old currencies into the new currency wasnt an option.
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In the past when they stopped with the non-Unique yearly 'Tokens' for the Summer, Winter, and Anniversary Events, they had a buyback. In the case of these 14-day Event Tokens, they were UBIQUITOUS, meaning they could be used for any FUTURE Event of that type. Instead of converting those 'Tokens' into TFO Commendations they are just throwing them away (which requires an effort on Cryptics part). So all this talk about not having time to come up with a conversion method is just blather.
Side note. I have 41 TFO Commendations on my Discovery Character.
You will note that they pulled back on the Weekend Event 'conversions' until later this Summer instead of doing it this week. You will also note that for this it was announced one week and will be implemented the week after. All to rush into another TFO Event. They must really want to push those C-Store Bundles.
Also you will note that they have absolutely no consistency in the use of the various 'Stores' they use for Account Unlocks. Instead of using the Event Store 'Account Unlock Rewards' Tab, they are putting this into the Dilitium Store (which can be used for Character Claim Unlocks as well as Account Claim Unlocks). Sometime in the future you will see this Dilitium Store Claims Tab also be deprecated with stuff moving to the Phoenix Store except those Account Unlocks.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Those that slotted the PROJECT will get rewarded regardless of whether they spent or even earned a token or not. If this is you, congratulations. Those that hoarded tokens but didn't slot projects will be the unfortunate ones, though. If this is you, my condolences.
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Stop using the word hoarding. Does everyone forget Aesop's Fable 373, 'The Ant and the Grasshopper'?
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
I have unfinished projects on some characters and it'll be great to get those cleared off those characters.
I also have a small stockpile of 4 Shards on one character and it'll be a shame to see these 'souvenirs' vanish even if I cannot use them in future.
Still, overall, this is a good thing for everyone...
This doesn't erase the weekend (5 day) tokens that can be used in that rep store right?
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I know they will be upset at not having the tokens on hand anymore. I can see that...
Yeah, I said QUEUE. Because that's what it is, a fracking LINE to get into an instance.