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Season 8 Dev Blog #41
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Lead Content Designer Charles Gray shares details about the upcoming revamp of the events system in this entry of the Season 8 News Dev Blog series.
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Oh darn, haven't read it yet...
Edit: Read it!
Edit2: Giving a response is OP, so I nerfed it.
I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
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It's a large portion of the playerbases favourite way to level up alts, a weekend event of mirror would be amazing as we could have a levelling weekend - but turning it into a standard event with a 1h cooldown would make it completely useless and kill it off.
I really hope you go for the former!
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Dilithium mining bonus up all the time with the daily? A dilithum mining weekend event is stupid.
Mirror invasion up at all times and remove the dilithum rewards?? Wondering how I will level alts. The missions are great but not after your 5th character.
We need to be able to have a link where we can click like we do for normal PVE events and have some kind of slot that reads (HORLY EVENT click here). The the events needs to give us the opportunity to click something that will warped us there so we don't spend 3 hours running through the galaxy trying to find out where the heck is XY22
It isn't even the leveling. VAs are doing it for the expertise. The amount needed after you get to 50 to do all the reps and then purchase rep items is high.
just wait for bonus mark weekend once a month and stock up...just kidding...?
Beat me to it.
And again cryptic is "fixing" something thats not broken...
Also in regards to the events. Not everyone can be on during the weekend. You should have events on the weekends but also have events that go on during the week.
All these blog posts lately have been very heavy on fluff and light on the details. With a numbers guy taking the helm as EP I hope we can get more details as opposed to the fluff we keep getting.
I can say now that if you have to wait three or four weeks for a bonus fleet mark weekend that it is going to suck royally. I'm just glad that I ground out the epohhs at the winter event to have all the marks I need to complete the reps on my 14 toons. we just need to hope that mirror invasion isn't taking a nerf to once a day.
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Another thing is that the difference in space and ground for expertise isn't balanced you get like a ratio of around 1k to 1 expertise between space and ground. Is like for me I have an assembly line of marauders so all these tour of the galaxy and academy and such I don't bother with them because I have a system that doesn't involve them to get my dilithium so thats why I don't care much for most of those hourly events.
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Problem is that some of us can't always play through the weekend :eek:
I personally think that their new weekend events idea is a fantastic one. However I also do not believe that it should replace the hourly events entirely. I think that weekend events should be in addition to hourly events to promote a overall good experience over a diversified playerbase. For instance some people partake in religious activities on Sunday and their ability to play is fairly limited, other people may work primarily on weekends. The possibilities are numerous.
I do however believe that the hourly events need a serious looking at with regards to modern functionality. For example the academy events have a fairly light turn out from what I have seen while at SFA. The crafting event is most likely all but obsolete due to the fact that crafting in its essence is dead and dated. I can't imagine that the Vault Shuttle Event gets a high turn out either due to the fact that it is a shuttle queue and the majority of players don't like shuttle gameplay when faced with other options. I am unable to gauge the turn out of the multiphasic event, however since the data samples and particle traces that you get are primarily used in crafting, and like I said earlier it is a dated concept.
There are a couple events that I would think would have a medium turn out/participation. These would be Tour the Universe and Officer Reports. Tour the Universe used to have a much higher turn out than it currently does due to the fact that its rewards were severely limited in terms of earning potential. I think that if this were somehow fixed to make it so players could once again use this as viable way of producing income, that it would benefit once more from a higher turn out. Officer Reports is a foundry based event which gives some extra dilithium to players who complete missions during the allotted time. Personally I think this is a good idea as it helps promote foundry missions and authors. However I think that the rewards that it could give could be increased to help provide some incentive. Perhaps a scaling marks reward based on the length of the mission while completed during this hour could do wonders to increase the turn out of the mission.
Then there are the major turn out events which give good rewards for time spent, Bonus Marks Hours, Dilithium Mining Event, and Mirror Universe Incursion. Bonus Marks events should stay as an hourly event as well as a potential weekend event in my opinion, however an hourly event on a weekend event shouldn't result in bonus bonus marks, the effect should be applied only once. The dilithium mining event is nice for new players to easily get some dilithium, plus they can get a free transwarp there so it really is time efficient for them. My one and only gripe with the dilithium mining event is its discrimination against players who only mine vip mining claims. The 50% more dilithium earned bonus is only applied to normal miners, instead of vip. This is almost insulting, these claims are solely obtainable via lockbox opening, I would understand not the full 50% but at least give us something for helping support your revenue by opening boxes, I think 25% would be fair. Mirror Universe is one of my favorite events, it always has a huge turn out across the levels. I would like to see it become a permanent queue with a nerfed dilithium reward for queues completed outside of the event hour, runs completed inside the event hour would be rewarded normally.
Some events that I would like to see overall whether or not in the form of hourly events or weekend events would be bonus cxp, bonus sp, bonus exp, and the like. I think that they would be overall well accepted by the playerbase.
I am looking forward, albeit a bit nervous to see what kind of changes Cryptic has in store for us.
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Unfortunately that is what I am thinking as well.
Effectively they want to prevent active players to get multiple bonus rewards per day.
Is it not a good thing to take away sweet spots? That way you get a more steady queue pop vs only seeing certain queues pop at only bonus hour.
I suspect this will increase overall volume of people ACTUALLY PLAYING THE GAME.
Just saying.
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I have to agree with this. The hourly event has been what has allowed the small fleet I'm in to actually grind those marks to get us where we are.
Toss in that XP is needed for both REP and fleet advancement. So, when I'm starting to run low .... Mirror was great for this as the missions we normally are forced to grind ... DON'T GIVE GOOD XP .... and frankly, DOFFing is NOT my bag of things I like to do in this game.
Most of what I enjoy gives low XP ... except for mirror event.
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I don't really like the idea of the removal of the hourly's but its hard to be fair with the sparse details. Once I've got rep t5 on all my toons (which won't be long) whats the point to logging in for a rep marks weekend, etc.? or once there are no daily hourly's, for the entire week?
Even with huge dil bonuses there is only so much I am going to play on the weekend and overall would probably play less with the details so far. Maybe not such a bad thing anyway.
I don't like the idea of a Fleet Mark bonus weekend, because it's an overall reduction of daily intake for the sake of a small boost for a few hours during the weekend when this officer is in play. It would be better if they revised the Fleet system so projects are based off fleet size. Because right now Fleet Mark queues are dead, especially on the Klingon side and to reduce incentive is just going to hurt fleets progress.
I think we will see fewer people logging in daily and logging in more often for weekend events. As it is now the events are random and scattered throughout the day causing me to log in multiple times a day. Depending on the changes I will most likely log in for those times the things I need to do are available.
I hope it keeps people in more often as you say but I don't think that will be the case. I think there are too many queues as it is with fewer missions getting all the attention. I don't know the answer to solve that problem but I think lowering rewards for most of the week isn't the answer.
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