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An end to Mark Hoarding?
bendalek
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Just looking at the Release Notes for 14th August ...
So does this mean we can't "save" our Mark boxes in anticipation of a Bonus weekend any more?
- All Mark rewardpacks now unpack upon pick up.
- These can no longer be stacked in the player’s inventory.
- Currently, this does not apply Mark Boxes which allow a choice of Marks upon opening the box.
So does this mean we can't "save" our Mark boxes in anticipation of a Bonus weekend any more?
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Lol guess not.
What bugs me is that this change is kinda...well, petty. I am REALLY trying to see where we have been given something (outside of lame ships and costumes no one is buying) and I come up with nothing. But Things that have been taken away and/or nerfed? Plenty. :mad:
Make it just annoying enough, and you'll spend real cash to speed things up. That's the principal behind all of it ...
It's not a Pay 2 Win or Pay to Play scenario, as you can play and 'win' without spending a single dollar ... It's the "PFC" game mechanic ... Pay For Convenience ...
Except that you can't pay your way to more reputation marks, at least not yet.
What was wrong with marks hoarding I don't really understand. Especially now that we only have marks weekend once every two months, and if you miss one due to rl circumstances then it's every 4 months waiting. For something that usually happened every 3 hours.
Let's see if X2 doesn't bring in a Rep Boost Token to the C-Store, after all, the Rep stuff will also be obsolete with X2, so does that mean that all reps will get a new T6 level?
If that happens, they'll have to assuage all the screaming, whining, moaning, and crying about how "butz, uv all wedy maxed ma Repz" on the forums, so they introduce this new Token you can buy ... Nah, Cryptic would never do something like that!
I totally agree! Spend half an hour in the Dyson BZ, and your inventory fills with the darn things, then you have to spend ten minutes double clicking them all ... I love the idea, but I know there will be complaints ... Probably from "taggers" and 'campers"
And if you annoy me enough times I'll just wash my hands of it and leave the game. The official FTP launch (S6?) really irked me and it wasn't 'til the following featured series came out that I decided to play again. It wasn't much of a haitus - only three months - but after close to four years of playing the same-ol' same-ol' grinding content the game is getting a little long in tooth for me and it wouldn't take much to push the next haitus to permanency.
I wasn't a mark box hoarder 'til I started saving my crafting boxes (hey, why not? - the boxes are rewarded at the same time so why not put 'em in the same place 'til they're most useful?), so this isn't really an annoyance to me, but I do see some things in the pipe that'll could put me there (<shiver>ARC</shiver>).
I'm a lifer with a stipend and I can tell you that there has been nothing that Cryptic has done in the last 3 years that I'd be willing to spend extra cash on. Sure I've enjoyed things in game, but everytime I used to think about supporting Cryptic with a little extra cash they pulled yet another bone headed move (the latest being the DOff UI) that I just couldn't support in good conscience. I've even given up of entertaining the notion of supporting Cryptic with cash any longer. I'm more of a Pay-for-Content type of guy than Pay-for-Convencience. So in principal if Cryptic wanted to target my cash...
But than again, I never got why the boxes were even necessary with events that give only 1 type of rewards. Just reward the marks to begin with!
Marks can be converted for dilithium.
I won't insult you by trying to draw out how Mark hoarding helps towards that goal.
Dilithium ore, meh... Three characters that I play for about 3 hours a day total and I've never had an issue getting 9k ore each in that play time when combined with some extra during the weekend (without converting marks even).
But fleet marks!!! (not convertable to ore) Two of those characters are soloing their own shared, year-old starbase. That was the reason I figured I'd start storing those mark boxes along with the crafting boxes. Anything and everything to cut down *that* grind!
Yeah, yeah I knew what I was getting into and I don't expect any pity. Saving boxes wasn't a short cut that I was planning on doing either 'til the crafting boxes and the crafting event came in to being.
I know 50 marks can be used to get 500 dilithium but still not seeing the big deal, 500 is nothing. Can earn more than that from foundry missions and the mine.
Money is money, and money's not funny...
Other than the mark events, there was really no value to giving us this stuff in boxes that clutter the inventory. And it seems to defeat the purpose of the mark event a bit if people don't log in to play the game with others, but instead just to open all those mark boxes.
The events exist to get people to play the game, and ideally engage in activities together with other players (The F2P/MMO principle: Players are content). But the mark box rewards can easily exceed the activity rewards, so it risks being very counter-productive for the actual goal.
Well lets put it this way, I spent the entire duration of the last dil event, turning marks and other related to materials into dil. On my main it netted me over 3mil in ore and across another 6 toons they got on average 300k so work that out in zen, then you'll get an idea of how much cryptic would be losing in zen sales. Then is dawns on people why they would revert to the old way of doing it and why they adjusted the rewards for Borg STF's in the first place
Must I take from this that you normally buy Zen to purchase Dilithium? Because that is the only scenario here where Cryptic would lose Zen sales. If you actually sell Dilithium for Zen, or don't use the Exchange, then you having more Dilithium will not negatively impact Zen sales.
Would you really miss out on the chance to turn one fo those daily 55 mark boxes into 83 Mark boxes with hourly events?
It seems it would make hoarding even more attractive, since you only need to hoard the winnings of a day - much faster turn-around, no problem with a full inventory.
So, now which boxes are they referring to about this?
Because the only boxes, I myself not seeing auto opening, are lock boxes/gear boxes/traits/etc., and crafting material boxes.
Otherwise, any box that contains any form of marks, auto opens!
So, again which mark boxes are they referring to?
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Obviously those you get from winter eppohs, monkeys, birds, mirror event and crystall event. Those have one box with multiple choice. All pve-stuff is mutliple choice for a box.
Which current mission rewards them I'm unsure of as I'm pretty much stuck grinding fleet marks. The last box that I can remember that was a multple choice after opening instead of a the multiple choice prior to opening was the CC event.
That's just it, even when I do the CE event, it offers either nukara marks, or fleet marks, and which ever I choose, still opens automatically.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
It is these projects which reward a multiple choice mark box. NOT the CCE mission itself.
Yes, but they keep removing it, keeping it as a special event like others.
If it was a true regular mission, it would obviously be changed to marks only rewarded, which would most likely automatically open them.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
You asked which boxes were being referred to and got a reply. Now that the CC event is running again we will find out if Cryptic is going to automatically open the event box or not. And just to be clear, I'm talking about the event box that you get by turning in shards (all marks available, not just Nukara or Fleet) and *not* the box that comes after just destroying the CE.
Shhhhh, don't go giving them ideas now, because they will change it!
They will undoubtedly make it, to once you pick the marks reward you want, it will automatically unpack that too!
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!