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supergirl1611
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Fleet Admirals need to have the ability set a fleet wide limit on how much someone can contribute to a project. Its great that there are people out there who give a whole host of stuff to these projects. But you have some instances where these people fill up the projects solo and leave nothing but scrapes for the others.
Example today a project became live. Before i could contribute dilithium or expertise to boost my earnings it was filled. Now i could grind fleet marks but contributing just 2000 of the 18000 dil the project offered would have pushed me to the 200k mark to test out a tier 5 ship.
I now have 2 options spend the next 3-5 hrs grinding for 550 fleet marks to hit the target today or try my luck again tomorrow.
Yes it is a moan however if you have 20 people contributing to the fleet and 1 person is tanking all the projects where does that leave the other 19 people ? feeding off scrapes as i mentioned before. Plus time zones come into factor. The time it became live was 10:30 uk time. Any one of our U.S members wanting to put into that project would have to do so around 4-5am in the morning
Example today a project became live. Before i could contribute dilithium or expertise to boost my earnings it was filled. Now i could grind fleet marks but contributing just 2000 of the 18000 dil the project offered would have pushed me to the 200k mark to test out a tier 5 ship.
I now have 2 options spend the next 3-5 hrs grinding for 550 fleet marks to hit the target today or try my luck again tomorrow.
Yes it is a moan however if you have 20 people contributing to the fleet and 1 person is tanking all the projects where does that leave the other 19 people ? feeding off scrapes as i mentioned before. Plus time zones come into factor. The time it became live was 10:30 uk time. Any one of our U.S members wanting to put into that project would have to do so around 4-5am in the morning
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"What are his rights in this century? Will there be a trial or shall I execute him?" - Worf
otherwise you wind up with the "top ranks" having control
Id like to see no one able to contribute more than 20% of any given project in 24 hours
as an Absolute restriction
so 1 person can do 100% but over 5 days
then wut?
i am the leader of my fleet and i plan to let my members go first
it still will be first come first serve but i will wait to get mine
join date: Jan. 2012
Simple solution - the people in charge have word with the person in question, letting them know they need to share the wealth, so to speak. If its a further issue, then put them in a rank that is set to not contribute, for a short period of time. Either they will agree to let others contribute, or get pissed off and leave - a win/win in my books.
Seriously, I dont understand why you all feel that the devs need to monitor and maintain this - its your fleet, maintain it accordingly.
LOL @ this.
Ya, but....they ARE in control - or at least they SHOULD be.
Judging by your posts, it sounds like you might be in a fleet where everyone is out for themselves and nobody is helping anybody else out - or at least your fleet leaders arent.
Sad if true, but nobody is stopping you from leaving and finding a better, more accomodating fleet.
and we are not having any trouble at all (except getting enough security officers)
but fleets with a "leader group" who are the only people getting benefits will be going down
I don't like the idea of restrictions for contributions set by fleet leaders. I like the idea of scaling contributions rewards in a category. Like if 20,000 dil is needed after you donate 10000 dil you wouldn't get any more fleet credits for donating more dil for that project during the next 20 hours. The donation system is in a way luck because you may always be the one who finishes the projects or when you are online playing the new projects may have just arrived. I personally thing the fleet contribution system should be changed. Like for example a player could tell the system to set aside a certain amount of resources and expertise needed for the fleet project that will be available in 5 hours. And for every player that did that all of the resources needed would be pulled from all of the players in equal proportions until the limit the player set up for themselves. So they would get fleet marks. So therefore all players would be able to get fleet marks and would not have to worry about having there fleet window open as soon as a new project came available because the would have already donated the items. This could be done for the expertise and the dil because those fill up quickly. Or the devs could raise the expertise and dil needed for the projects with relation to number of people in a fleet. The size of the fleet would be measured on a random day every other week so there wouldn't be a mass leaving and joining of the fleet before and after the measure.
Also another option the devs can do is put in a contribution point system per hour like 1 fleet mark is equal to 0 point. And they could set points where once you reached like 100 points you coludnt contribute for an hour. They could make one dil two points. fleet marks = 0 points and commodities = 1 point. 1 expertise=1 point. Duty officers and turrets= 2 points.
This after all is just an idea to stop the huge range in the leader board where 4 fleet members have over 70000 points and the next higest has 20000 points.
After all, if you look at it a certain way, the problem is caused by the fact that only so much can be contributed at any given time.
A better solution, to my mind, would be allowing personal projects; which everybody in the fleet can have and are done solo. Then everybody has an opportunity to make their contributions uncontested.
The fast 30 min special states it is for large fleets, so people can get to contribute and get Fleet Credits to spend later. If some people in the large fleets feel they don't get a chance, then how about making a alliance with a smaller fleet?
I have a fleet of ONE, yes, I have my own fleet, only my alts and my accounts are on it. So far the slowest Grind will be Fleet Marks, so I would welcome any one to come in and contribute so they can get fleet credits if they wanted to. I read when Season 6 came out, people were offering new fleets to pay for the window view, 200,000 Dilithium just to get the Fleet Credits.
So definitely this has to be a option for leaders to enable, and not force upon us.
For one, not everyone in a fleet contributes, so its usually left to a few dedicated people to give say, 250 photon torpedo launchers, or 600 fleet marks. I like that its first come first serve. With the addition of special projects which only take 30 minutes, people always have a chance to fill something. If you have a member in your fleet thats a dilithium grinder or tycoon, why not let them contribute it?
I think its fine the way it is. The only thing that I would change is add a slider to the materials contribution screen.