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Lessons from the Dill - event
vocmcp
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For future repetitions here are some take aways that seem important to me:
- Great event! People really enjoyed it!
- One event per month would be nice.
- Rework minimum level requirements for mining. E.g. KDF needs to be lvl 24 atm.
- Great event! People really enjoyed it!
- One event per month would be nice.
- Rework minimum level requirements for mining. E.g. KDF needs to be lvl 24 atm.
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That said, I don't really care one way or another if there's a bonus mining event. It was only needed in the beginning of DIL, and now it seems a trifle outdated. There are so many ways to max out DIL several times over...I had to quit collecting the stuff for a while. I'm down to around 400,000 unrefined, so I guess I should get back on it eventually.
Cool idea for noobs who need it, but it'll get tiresome even for them. In principle I agree with it. But I also think it's a bit overkill.
Well some of us are lucky to have 10k dilithium, some of us like this dilithium bonus
Rest assured, eventually Cryptic shall address that. It has happened before, and will happen again.
I'm just not going to plan my entire weekend around a game, whereas with the hourly events i could easily plan or decide that this or that hour I can play, or simply just take whatevers going on when i'm online.
This is why hourly events were more appealing. At least there was something for everyone that way.
Oh, and better yet, all those rep projects and fleet projects taken care of so, yes, again, we can just play the game.
And Dilithium economy be damned! Seriously. Let's just play the game.
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for the STFs it's exactly what they where awarding before the nerf of the rep system happened that nuked dil rewards
not every player is as hard-core as you....
I gather just enough to cap each day and log off. there is still plenty of stuff for me to get. though its nice that it takes a bit less time.
one dill weekend like this per month feels nice
the difference between you and me: you play so much you get more dill than you can refine, I log in to gather until i reach the cap.
to me this feels like a nice bonus while you need a cap increase to accommodate your play style. it has nothing to do whit people being noobs...
I prefer a event every weekend but a different kind of event every time. next weekend has no event that's really sad. featured episode rerun weekend event get lobi for completing the first featured episode on your account that day would be nice. PvP weekend? not my preference but a possibility. just entice me to play different content every weekend to keep things fresh.
so exited to get my nakura marks around 22nd of February. those take way to long to grind without a boost. plus not one of those missions is fun....
First of all it's not even a crafting system! It's just a dumb game system that's nothing more than a glorified slots machine.
second the "special items" you hope will be the saving the saving grace are messed up to.
Yeah, I know it's coming. I've been thinking maybe I should grind it out while I can. Only a matter of time.
weekends always have the most people online if you want to give your community something you got to give it to the largest group. may suck but that's how it works. the length is just fine imho.
you aren't going to play all weekend long. you know what event will run that weekend so you'll log in when it suits you. whit the hourly events you could log in and find you just missed the event you wanted to do most and have the next one be between 3 and 4 at night when you want to be in bed. whit a weekend event you can log in and benefit from it at any time it pleases you. this is better! it's much more flexible for players.
the best thing they could have done whit that system was giving it the axe and start weekend or week-long events as long as they do them every week.
First of all it's not even a crafting system! It's just a dumb game system that's nothing more than a glorified slots machine.
second the "special items" you hope will be the saving the saving grace are messed up to.
I only play on weekends, and I don't have a stock pile of Dil. So this was well worth me spending time to farm Dil.
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I'm greatly sleep deprived collecting Dilithium on all my characters that I'm staying up all night just to accomplish it. Barely getting any sleep. If this was a week long event, I likely collapse from sleep exhaustion. So be nice if these events were for accounts than per character.
I far as I am concerned the hourly events were a total waste of time, more often as not when I would check to see what event was up I found that anything that was of use to me was either passed or not till much later when I could not play, it had got to the stage where I wasn't even bothering to look anymore.
so in my opinion its much better to have at least a good few hours once in a while then 1 hour once in a blue moon if you were lucky.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
The new leader of the STO team mentioned in a podcast that he doesn't want to penalize people for spending money and time in the game, but but that is what the current "rich dilithium claim" does ... in a way.
You have to open a lock box (usually many lock boxes) to get a rich dilithium claim and then the way it works is that you have X number of seconds to mine for 5000 dilithium (or 10,000 during the recent weekend event) per day.
The catch is, the mining "mini game" will max out after you reach more than 700 points. Meaning that you get 5000 dilithium if you get more than 700 points in the mining mini game. However, players can keep playing the game until the timer runs out and a good player might get more than 1000 points in the mining mini game before the timer hits zero.
I would like to see the 5000 (or 10000) dilithium cap removed. The "cap" is the fact that the mining mini game is on a timer and you can only turn in one rich claim a day! You can't just mine all day with rich claims, so why not reward players who show their mining skills by letting them continue stacking up dilithium ore until the mini game timer runs out?
The other thing to keep in mind is, we can only refine a VERY limited amount of dilithium ore each day ... so why not let people who open up lock boxes to get rich claims mine until the mini game timer runs out?
Don't believe the lies in this forum. I am NOT an ARC user. I play STO on Steam or not at all.
On a side note, I absolutely LOVE your ideas of Andoria in your signature. My friends and I actually had almost the exact same thoughts last year when we visited Andoria in the game.
I really wish the devs finished Andoria and made it a cool place to go (no pun intended). I'd also love to see an ice lake on Andoria where players who earned the ice shoes from the winter event can go ice skating when the winter event isn't happening.
Don't believe the lies in this forum. I am NOT an ARC user. I play STO on Steam or not at all.
I completely agree.
Let's spend less time worrying about whether we have enough dilithium. People complained that this game was a grind before, they change that by adding events that give us more, people complain that it's too easy. Shutup and play LOL
The real question is: is such an event better than the daily bonus hours? I say not.
In this case, cuz it was Dilithium -- and *everyone* can use Dilithium, if only to convert to Zen -- I guess it was a good event for me. I traded over 600 BNPs, and what not, and got a good deal out of those.
But what if it's, say, another Dyson event, and I get to chase around inside the Sphere, aligning craters for a whole weekend? No thank you!
Honestly, I really just rather have my hourlies back.
And the veteran extra 1000 is laughable as it takes days to finish.
I'd like to see the limit increased during events, to support the overflow.
One event per month would be ridiculous. One event per weekend would be more like it. But yes, KDF should be reworked to be able to mine at the same level as Feds.
By and large, I can't call it successful, because A.) I wasn't playing any more than I already was, and I certainly wasn't doing anything specific to increase my Dil intake, and B.) You're still gated by the Cap so it's a largely irrellevant boost. All it means is now it takes two days to refine what I got from mining rather than one.
As it is now, we have nothing to look forward to during the weeks. The hourly events gave some (though not all) something t keep them signed in during the week. Now we have 9 days between the events.
To be honest, I would prefer that they keep big events on every other weekend like now, but also give us the hourly events like the did when we had the bonus Dyson grind weekend. This will keep players from getting burned out on weekend grind events.
I understand that these events are meant to bring the community together. However, if the only thing being done are grind event weekends, with nothing else rewarding to give a break, it is boring.
Running every other week appears like we are expected to see them like an oasis in the desert that is refreshing. However, there are a lot of people that will not make it to the oasis without a little help between. So, the games activity will die during the week, encouraging gamers to look else where for entertainment during the week.
As this happens, they may find games that are different, but to them are just as good. For a while, the events every other weekend might bring them back. But not all will keep coming back with nothing during the week to entertain them.
This, of course, is just my thoughts on it.
This said, I appreciate the opportunity to pick up extra dil, thanks Cryptic.
Don't think those are 'lessons'. More like feedback and requests.