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Bonus Dyson Mark Weekend [Now Ended]
pwebranflakes
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We are currently running a special weekend event where you can earn bonus Dyson Marks by playing Season 8 content! This event runs until Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 10AM PST.
During the event, bonus Dyson Marks will be provided for the following content:
We hope you enjoy this special event and we'll see you in-game!
During the event, bonus Dyson Marks will be provided for the following content:
- Solanae Dyson Sphere Adventure Zone*:
- 100% Bonus Dyson Marks
- (Extra bonus!) Added Dilithium Rewards
- Solanae Dyson Sphere Battlezone:
- 50% Bonus Dyson Marks
- PvE Event: The Breach (Normal or Elite)
- 50% Bonus Dyson Marks
- PvE Event: Storming the Spire (Normal or Elite)
- 50% Bonus Dyson Marks
* Includes "found," "area," and "event" missions. Duty Officer assignments that offer Dyson Marks as a reward (found via the interaction buttons towards the lower-right of your screen while flying around the zone) offer 50% Bonus Dyson Marks.
We hope you enjoy this special event and we'll see you in-game!
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Still, looking forward to it. The space zone might actually be worth it, if only for a short time on the weekends.
Actually the Dyson Adventure Zone has the found missions which would give 6 marks and the area missions picked up from contacts which would give 10.
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Loss of FM bonuses in the current bonus mark event is what will hurt many smaller fleets.
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...Need for Fleet Marks? You DO realize it's easy to pick up, like, 2-300 in an hour, right? If there's a set of marks that do need this, it's the Romulans.
I take it the zone is not as well trafficked as you'd like since you nerfed it?
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So when they say you'll get 100% more marks and the reward is 10 marks, you'll actually get 15 marks instead of 20. Or maybe less. I'm not sure how their math works but it's pretty messed up in my opinion.
Example: something that says you get a 100% reduction to transwarp cooldown doesn't make your transwarp recharge instantly, it cuts it in half (from 14 minutes to 7 minutes). I can't recall what would reduce transwarp by 100% but I'm sure I've seen it somewhere. A warp core perhaps?
So basically going by Cryptic's weird math, this bonus event isn't going to give us much, unless Crtypic finally realized that 100%=100%.
Smaller fleets need all the help they can get when you have fewer people collecting for the massive amounts in the upper tier fleet holdings etc.
and where are you picking them up at those numbers? ... Crystalline is the only one I know of that can do that and it has a cooldown. Always looking for other FM sources worth something.
And I agree with you on the Romulan marks.
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1 question though:
Like myself, those players who keep getting disconnected from the server may not get a chance to play for bonus Voth marks.
Any idea if this will be fixed in the next update so that everyone will get a chance to earn Voth marks?
Now that you mention this bit ... I realize I don't play in the sphere adventure zones that much because the work vs reward just doesn't seem enough.
Love the ground zone ... It feels more balanced.
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However, fleet marks wont work like this for small fleets.
We'd need something like a daily that doubles fleet marks for an hour or something.
Funny story. Last night someone in my fleet said they knew someone who use to log into 9 accounts and farm the Defera invasion zone every morning.
Remember when the hourly events went down and didn't work for a couple weeks recently? There was someone on the forums screaming about "losing" hundreds (or thousands) of marks every day because of it.
My best guess how they do it: multiple accounts logged in at the same time with all the alt accounts auto-following the main account and all of them set to auto-fire on anything that moves in the Defera invasion zone.
That's all I can think of. I don't see how it's possible to make that many marks on a single account, or multiple accounts logged in 1 at a time, in a single hourly event.
Not like we told you nerfing it would kill it or anything.
No kidding. When they changed how the daily worked in the Dyson Sphere space zones, players demanded answers about the dilithium reward, which was removed with the change. Now I see why Cryptic stayed silent on it: they were planning on making the dil reward a limited time event.
But some players just stopped doing the daily there because they felt the removal of the dilithium reward made it not worth the effort of doing the daily.
Unless the dilithium reward remains, players will abandon the Dyson Sphere space zones, again, after the event ends.
Bonus Marks Time runs (ran) for 3 hours at a stretch. I know people who would run a seemingly unending list of alts through Defera, simply because they would pop up every 15 minutes or so on KDFDefera with a new prefix to build out their team for the next run. You don't need multiple accounts (though I imagine you could do that too). You just need one account, lots of level 50s, and to be relentless.
Occasionally I'd notice someone two-boxing on a Defera hard team though.
Once we've reached T5 reputation, why would we bother with Dyson Marks anymore when the Dyson space sets are subpar?
Yup agreed. sometimes I think they just do knee jerk decisions without even a second thought to how it actually affects the game.
This is what happens when they only concentrate on metrics.
Was not the first time and wont be the last sadly..
Crystalline Elite gives you 60+5, Fleet Alert gives you, I think, 50, if you decide to stay the whole round, and Starbase Defense (if you have people who know what they're doing) can get you up to 120. That right there is 235 Fleet Marks without the Bonus Marks event. Yes, all three have cooldown timers, but if you time it right, you can cycle around.
while i like the bonus weekends, i don't like that bonus being limited since we're losing the hourly events. I could use fleetmarks more than others, or i could use the borg or voth implants just for use of dilithium, but if i'm stuck to no bonus' except that one weekend, than i might as well just pass on the rep grind.
I haven't returned to the Dyson Space zone since the change. There's no point at all... and this bonus event doesn't entice me to return either. I honestly would have kept doing the space daily even after I was finished with my rep just for the dilithium and dyson mark reward, but meh I honestly don't give a hoot about this at all. Also annoyed with the hourly bonus events going away. If it's just going to be some weekend events going forward I guess I will just stop playing all together during the week.
So if we would get say 80 marks for the breach elite during the bonus 3 hour window - during the special event we will get 120?? Or something around that?
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wow...so these are the people that also hate ARC?