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solidshatnersolidshatner Member Posts: 390 Arc User
April 5th is coming soon and was wondering if STO was doing anything special for it again? Its usually a bear of a time for me at work, so I dont even remember what the events/prizes were in the past - I never had time. This year may be different, so I was wondering if anyone has heard anything?
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Probably the same as last year. Log on, go to special map, meet and talk with crew of the Enterprise/Bortasqu', get a special item. Feds get a Phoenix ship vanity pet. Klingons get a rare bat'leth.

    Really hoping Cryptic would do one for the Romulans too. Who knows.
  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I'd love a mirror first contact day......hehehehehe
  • chalpenchalpen Member Posts: 2,207 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    hypl wrote: »
    Probably the same as last year. Log on, go to special map, meet and talk with crew of the Enterprise/Bortasqu', get a special item. Feds get a Phoenix ship vanity pet. Klingons get a rare bat'leth.

    Really hoping Cryptic would do one for the Romulans too. Who knows.

    I think it is the same day as the romulan "Our world and way of life was disintegrated" day.
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  • tucker84tucker84 Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I hope we get a romulan version of this.
  • jumpingjsjumpingjs Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Same old, same old. :) Still good though.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    jumpingjs wrote: »
    Same old, same old. :) Still good though.
    It's been reworked to be better each time.
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,558 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    rinkster wrote: »
    I'd love a mirror first contact day......hehehehehe
    With a commemorative sawed-off shotgun?
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  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    jonsills wrote: »
    With a commemorative sawed-off shotgun?

    Only after the fourteenth run through.

    Each time before that you get a cheap bottle of booze....
  • isthisscienceisthisscience Member Posts: 863 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    chalpen wrote: »
    I think it is the same day as the romulan "Our world and way of life was disintegrated" day.

    Ooo I like it, you could get a chunk of rock a-la Berlin Wall. Here, have a charred remnant of your home world, have a happy day! Then you find out that your rock is actually from some generic asteroid that a Ferengi has burnt slightly to look like it is from Romulus but you keep it on your shelf and tell yourself it is from Romulus in the hope you can return to your blissful ignorance of it forming a conversation piece at parties while not inviting again that annoying person who told you it was fake in the first place.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Ooo I like it, you could get a chunk of rock a-la Berlin Wall. Here, have a charred remnant of your home world, have a happy day! Then you find out that your rock is actually from some generic asteroid that a Ferengi has burnt slightly to look like it is from Romulus but you keep it on your shelf and tell yourself it is from Romulus in the hope you can return to your blissful ignorance of it forming a conversation piece at parties while not inviting again that annoying person who told you it was fake in the first place.
    Meh, one chunk of nova irradiated Basalt is pretty much the same as any other chunk of Nova irradiated Basalt.
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  • sekritagentsekritagent Member Posts: 510 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Let's have the Romulan Republic characters meet Tiaru Jarok and the crew of the Lleiset this year! If you hover over them in "A Step Between Stars" you'll see some interesting names. Would love to understand that backstory.

    Would also like to see the Lleiset added to the list of potential helpers in Tau Dewa Sector Patrol missions (like the Enterprise or Bortasqu).

    The other thing that might be interesting would be to see some backstory on how the Romulans and Klingons made contact...not sure we can trust Cryptic's storywriters not to mess that up though.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Let's have the Romulan Republic characters meet Tiaru Jarok and the crew of the Lleiset this year! If you hover over them in "A Step Between Stars" you'll see some interesting names. Would love to understand that backstory.

    Would also like to see the Lleiset added to the list of potential helpers in Tau Dewa Sector Patrol missions (like the Enterprise or Bortasqu).

    The other thing that might be interesting would be to see some backstory on how the Romulans and Klingons made contact...not sure we can trust Cryptic's storywriters not to mess that up though.
    I'm actually expecting to see Jarok this year. It makes sense, just like how we got to see Koren last time.
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  • sonnikkusonnikku Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I will celebrate by shooting the first vulcan I see with a shotgun, then taking his stuff. As is our way in this universe.
  • giannicampanellagiannicampanella Member Posts: 424 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    rinkster wrote: »
    I'd love a mirror first contact day......hehehehehe

    Yes, and the reward really should be Zefram Cochrane's shotgun.
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  • chalpenchalpen Member Posts: 2,207 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Meh, one chunk of nova irradiated Basalt is pretty much the same as any other chunk of Nova irradiated Basalt.

    So you have to watch out for fakes.
    I wonder how many ebay auctions there will be "authentic" pieces of Romulus.
    Should I start posting again after all this time?
  • raifin1701raifin1701 Member Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I hope that they do something for the Romulans, and perhaps they could have something about the Romulan people on the day when they broke away from the Vulcans?

    Also, they could flesh out when we first came to New Romulus, the NPCs talked about when the Romulan people first came to New Romulus before they had to leave. Perhaps they could reveal more of that history, which would be cool.

    I look forward to visiting all of those places again anyway, even though they didn't have additional rewards for those who had already gotten them last time....

    I hope they still do the event for a full week.

    I also hope one of the Devs takes the time to fix the USS Enterprise-F that is outside the SOL system, as we have been reporting it as a bug each year, and it never seems to get fixed. (Which blows my mind every year.)

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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    raifin1701 wrote: »
    I hope that they do something for the Romulans, and perhaps they could have something about the Romulan people on the day when they broke away from the Vulcans?

    Also, they could flesh out when we first came to New Romulus, the NPCs talked about when the Romulan people first came to New Romulus before they had to leave. Perhaps they could reveal more of that history, which would be cool.

    I look forward to visiting all of those places again anyway, even though they didn't have additional rewards for those who had already gotten them last time....

    I hope they still do the event for a full week.

    I also hope one of the Devs takes the time to fix the USS Enterprise-F that is outside the SOL system, as we have been reporting it as a bug each year, and it never seems to get fixed. (Which blows my mind every year.)

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  • mewmaster101mewmaster101 Member Posts: 1,239 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    What's wrong with it?

    IT says U.S.S Odyssey, which is the Prototype of that class, instead of the name U.S.S. Enterprise.
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited March 2014
    What's wrong with it?

    It sais Oddy on its hull, not Ent.
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  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,535 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    jonsills wrote: »
    With a commemorative sawed-off shotgun?

    you have to enter the next church raffle to win that.

    see below....

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gun-worshiper-wins-gun-church-raffle-article-1.1731578

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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,708 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    April 5th is coming soon and was wondering if STO was doing anything special for it again? Its usually a bear of a time for me at work, so I dont even remember what the events/prizes were in the past - I never had time. This year may be different, so I was wondering if anyone has heard anything?

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  • eldarion79eldarion79 Member Posts: 1,679 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Please no more grinds for everything blasted Trek event. Pretty soon we will have to a warp core engineering grind just to leave a sector space.
  • risingstar2009risingstar2009 Member Posts: 329 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Wasn't a Grind last year. Just had to head to a certain spot, talk to someone, collect your prize, and away you went.
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  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Yes, and the reward really should be Zefram Cochrane's shotgun.

    Check post 9 of this thread for the details.

    Remember, its not grind, its goal oriented gameplay.
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    rinkster wrote: »
    I'd love a mirror first contact day......hehehehehe

    Shoot a Vulcan...?

    I'm in.
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  • eldarion79eldarion79 Member Posts: 1,679 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Wasn't a Grind last year. Just had to head to a certain spot, talk to someone, collect your prize, and away you went.

    Before March, so was the Mirror Universe event and before summer of last year, so was the Crystalline Entity.
  • icsairgunsicsairguns Member Posts: 1,504 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Wasn't a Grind last year. Just had to head to a certain spot, talk to someone, collect your prize, and away you went.

    Anniversary ships were not a grind in the past either, wasn't until this year. so your statement is not reassuring.
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  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    icsairguns wrote: »
    Anniversary ships were not a grind in the past either, wasn't until this year. so your statement is not reassuring.

    There is no grind, only goal oriented play.
  • xsupersnailxxsupersnailx Member Posts: 180 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Lol lets take note of what happened for this year's anniversery, I predict a similar event for First Contact day
    grindfest
  • cyckathcyckath Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    It'll either be a simple repeat (nothing new) or a grind to justify the expense of tweaking it.
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