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kantazo1
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Why instead of having a weekend for all the marks, don't you create a weekend of Marks for Dyson, another for Omega etc etc etc
That way all those missions on those particular area will be full of players.
That way all those missions on those particular area will be full of players.
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I assume the reason for allowing many different Mark Missions is due to variety - trying to let every player each do their favorite things rather then only those who love Dyson playing this weekend.
This about sums up what I think of this.
It's bad enough that the Anniversary was a time-gated, "grind when we want you to grind" kind of grind, but now you're suggesting Cryptic should dictate when I grind a particular Reputation mark? Not to mention that this increases the number of weekend events by three or four, increasing the time that certain events take to roll around again.
So yeah. See the link, and learn from it. By and large, we want to encourage these weekend events less to the point that they give us back hourly events which were much better.
So if STO creates an incentive to run those hated areas all those players who are not maxed out could benefit.
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A Nukara weekend isn't going to suddenly make me want to play that content. Likewise, people who stay out of fleets aren't going to be interested in a Fleet Mark Weekend. Same story with people who are intimidated by STFs for an Omega Mark weekend.
By having a 'Marks' weekend, more people will be tempted to log in and play their content grind of choice.
The outside areas of the Nukara groundzone are very easy. You can pick up a couple of hundred marks within an hour playing solo even without a boost.
I dont think the problem is a lack of players. Ironically STO has a really big community and a massive ammount of players. Well, i lie, yes, the problem is, people is just leaving the game one by one. The problem is, we need weekend and hourly events. Thats the problem. People who spent from monday to friday working 10 hours a day, sometimes they dont want to spent the weekend inside their homes. They want to go out, and relax and honestly it is what i do sometimes (i need to go out of my city or i become mr. hyde..
I said the very moment cryptic announced the weekend events and the elimination of the hourly ones, it was a really bad idea. The weekend event is great, but what you cant do is to remove the hourly ones. That is a no - no.
But i dont TRIBBLE cryptic cares about worker people. I think they only care about people who spent 24/7 playing the game. As always.
Probably because they're playing CEE for their Nuk marks.
See: Any number of posts by me regarding how Ground needs a massive buff to rewards to draw more players to it.
What they could do, to supplement the weekend events, are Theme Days.
Each day of the week could be its' own separate theme and grant rewards appropriately.
The following is meant only to illustrate the idea, not to make a specific proposal:
Monday -> Omega; Omega mark bonus, Bonus XP for defeating Borg
Tuesday -> Romulan; Romulan mark bonus, Bonus XP for defeating Tal-Shiar/Reman resistance
Wednesday -> Nukara; Nukara mark bonus, Bonus XP for defeating Tholian/MU
Thursday -> Fleet; Fleet mark bonus (Cumulative on Mark Event weekends?)
Friday -> Foundry; Bonus XP for enemies defeated in Foundry missions
Saturday -> PvP; Bonus dilithium rewards for PvP (?)
Sunday -> DOFF; Bonus commendation XP rewards for DOFF assignments
Yes, I know that this could potentially shut some players out of Theme days when they can't play. But so can Event weekends. I say this while knowing that my own availability Monday thru Thursday is almost non-existent.
The point is to give players a regular, predictable schedule for earning what they need while playing the content they want to play.
IMO, the hourly schedule mainly failed because it was necessarily a shifting schedule to be fair to international players. A daily theme bonus wouldn't have the same problem. It's the same reason why "Tour the Universe" became a Daily.
They could even change the order of themes from week to week, but that would introduce more uncertainty and defeat the purpose.
There's a lot of value in being able to say, "I need Omega marks... I need to play on Mondays for awhile..."
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I always have been able to accept when someone has a better idea and your idea is like mine instead of weeks yours is days, I like that
You can easily get 60 Romulan marks/day just doing the Tau Dewa patrol. You can repeat systems, so if you want, you can just hit Nequencia to trade 5 times if you don't want to fight anything. (And if you feel like going all out for marks, there's plenty to do on New Romulus, besides Epohh farming.)
But why go "all or nothing?" Why not have these semi-abominable weekends, along with theme days, and even then- wait for it- still run the hourly calendar, stocked with revamped hourlies?
I grok the issue that only having the rotating hourlies didn't work well for some things, but why trash the entire concept? Find some things that can work within that framework, and get it going again- because what it was great for was avoiding burnout and boredom. Load it with things that aren't typically ground hard for, but that can give you something to do when you hit that thumb-twiddling "I don't feel like [grinding Nukara/grinding Fleet Marks/doing that same eSTF I've done 9 times a day for the last week]" stage.
Still think the best solution is to junk the weekends and move to a wrapper kind of idea.
Have a mission wrapper that gives 50% extra marks for an hour. Another that does the same for dilithium.
Give it a 20 hour cooldown. Everyone's happy.
The other stuff from the old hourlies can either be safely forgotten or turned into a daily mission, ala Tour the Galaxy and, apparently, MU incursion.
Another possibility is to have a daily mission with 50% extra mark drop for each of the typical marks, you know, have a mission that you can do it once a day and get a 50% reward for each kind of mark.
You could do it that way, but if its uni-marks then its more flexible for players.
I'd make it so that both wrappers could be run at once.
Would mean that, for those people whose fleets can only get get together for an hour at 4am PST on a tuesday, they can still get a bonus run.
As it would be daily and at player discretion when to run it, they'd give everyone the ability to get a bonus run on their schedule.
Cryptic would lose out because their GREAT GOD METRIC WHO MUST BE OBEYED tells them that players epnd more when forced to sit down at their machines in tightly enforced time periods.
However, they're just wrong. This way would get more players sticking around and, crucially, spending money.
Because sometimes, just sometimes, psychology trumps statistics.