Fleet Action Dailies

darthwoo

I know this is occasionally addressed, but this week has made it rather prevalent again. Can something please be done to add more variety to doing Fleet Action Dailies for both the Feds and KDF? I believe that as of today on the Fed side, Big Dig has been the daily for 5 or 6 days in a row. For the most part, Big Dig seems to end up being the daily 3 out of every 4 days in the long run. The stretch of KSF-Gorn Minefield-KSF about a week ago was the longest stretch of non-Big Dig I'd seen in forever.

It's even worse for the KDF. While it's not Big Dig as often, the alternative is Breaking the Planet. It's either Big Dig or Breaking the Planet probably 9 out of every 10 days, if not more. I haven't seen Fed Minefield show up in almost two weeks. Of course, given the KDF's generally lower population at any given time, and the presumably lower popularity of ground actions, actually trying to get into a 20-player fleet ground action is typically futile, even when it's the daily. I just don't have an hour to wait around for a queue to fill up while not doing anything else on the off chance it does actually fill and I have to stop my previous activity.

Could we maybe get a Fleet Action Daily mission that then gives us the option between two of the three available Daily-eligible missions? Alternatively, could there be more new Fleet Actions added that could then be added to the rotation? At the very least, could Big Dig stop being so bloody frequent?

stevedudeman

darthwoo wrote: »

I know this is occasionally addressed, but this week has made it rather prevalent again. Can something please be done to add more variety to doing Fleet Action Dailies for both the Feds and KDF? I believe that as of today on the Fed side, Big Dig has been the daily for 5 or 6 days in a row. For the most part, Big Dig seems to end up being the daily 3 out of every 4 days in the long run. The stretch of KSF-Gorn Minefield-KSF about a week ago was the longest stretch of non-Big Dig I'd seen in forever.

It's even worse for the KDF. While it's not Big Dig as often, the alternative is Breaking the Planet. It's either Big Dig or Breaking the Planet probably 9 out of every 10 days, if not more. I haven't seen Fed Minefield show up in almost two weeks. Of course, given the KDF's generally lower population at any given time, and the presumably lower popularity of ground actions, actually trying to get into a 20-player fleet ground action is typically futile, even when it's the daily. I just don't have an hour to wait around for a queue to fill up while not doing anything else on the off chance it does actually fill and I have to stop my previous activity.

Could we maybe get a Fleet Action Daily mission that then gives us the option between two of the three available Daily-eligible missions? Alternatively, could there be more new Fleet Actions added that could then be added to the rotation? At the very least, could Big Dig stop being so bloody frequent?

+1 for this. Love having the dailies to do. Don't love doing Big Dig every day...

darthwoo

The worst thing is that I don't even dislike Big Dig that much, but having it be the daily so often just makes it so tiresome and boring. Sometimes I'm just tempted to stand around the rally point after the plants are done and let everyone else do the work.

Of course, speaking of boring, don't get me started on KSF and the broken enemy spawn timers. If the raider and cruiser stages actually spawned enough ships without the artificially inflated timers, the whole action could be over inside 10 minutes, just as GM and BD can be.

o1derfull1

Big Dig has been the daily for 5 or 6 days in a row. For the most part, Big Dig seems to end up being the daily 3 out of every 4 days in the long run. The stretch of KSF-Gorn Minefield-KSF about a week ago was the longest stretch of non-Big Dig I'd seen in forever.

So so true.

lower popularity of ground actions, actually trying to get into a 20-player fleet ground action is typically futile, even when it's the daily. I just don't have an hour to wait around for a queue to fill up while not doing anything else on the off chance it does actually fill and I have to stop my previous activity.

Even more true.

Of course, speaking of boring, don't get me started on KSF and the broken enemy spawn timers. If the raider and cruiser stages actually spawned enough ships without the artificially inflated timers, the whole action could be over inside 10 minutes, just as GM and BD can be.

Yes! God. It's like the thought seems to be, if we're giving away dil and fleet marks, we're going to make it as painful as possible, by making take at least 30-40 from queue to reward.

Either by making it a ground mission with a high min player requirement so it takes long to pop, OR a space mission which will get faster queue times, so we need to reduce the spawn rate of enemies so it will take longer to complete.

sonnikku

The purpose of a daily should be to encourage you to run content you ordinarily pass on. Just making it the big dig every day kind of falls flat.

darthwoo

And here we go again. After a delightfully uncommon run of two Gorn Minefields and a KSF, we're going on four Big Digs in a row again. I haven't checked my KDF alts yet, but at least as of yesterday, Fed Minefield hadn't been seen in weeks.