I have a suggestion on how to SOLVE the problem with the STF's being played or not being played.
RANDOM QUEUES
Ok, let me explain.
I am sure that there are many people that want to the STF's needed to get items or marks, but have to wait for HOURS for people to enter the queues to play the missions because no one wants to run those missions. I think that there should be an option that lets everyone choose if they want to queue for ground or space STF's RANDOMLY. This way you can still get the Rare gases you need for the R&D or the marks you are trying to get for that project.
As for the rewards for this type of STF queues, I think that they should be an increased - like 25% more - amount of reward items, like rep marks, R&D Packs, EC, or Dilithium given for the Random queues.
This would let everyone play all of the STF's, of which there are 34 different STF's (Just the Names of the STF's not the difficultly lvls)
Now, I am not saying or even suggesting that the current queue system needs be done away with. I am just want to offer a way to make more people play all of the content that was worked on so hard by the DEVs to be more enjoyable.
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Honestly, the materials are there to get us into different queues... they just aren't worth the trouble anymore thanks to using the lowest possible rewards as the baseline to balance out the rewards for the queues as a whole. Just call out a team request in your Fleet or a PvE channel if you want the Very Rare materials, you'll have better luck filling a group to get that crate with a chance of getting the materials you want.
Besides, if getting the harder to find materials is your goal, you can bet the RNG will consistently queue you into ISA every time.
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Honestly, the materials are there to get us into different queues... they just aren't worth the trouble anymore thanks to using the lowest possible rewards as the baseline to balance out the rewards for the queues as a whole. Just call out a team request in your Fleet or a PvE channel if you want the Very Rare materials, you'll have better luck filling a group to get that crate with a chance of getting the materials you want.
Besides, if getting the harder to find materials is your goal, you can bet the RNG will consistently queue you into ISA every time.