another one I won't really be taken my time on. If it involved all story mssions I would have been all over it but not replaying missions that I have already spent my time on.
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On the bright side, since quest rewards are affected by the bonus, Tour the Galaxy is giving out some very generous EC. Even if you can't complete it, it's something like 40k per system visited.
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Have to ask again ... but is Dil-Weekend any different from Dil-Week ... :
- is the 50/100/150% Bonus for everything
- is there a differene between Mining Claims like during Dil-WE ? (50 vs 100%)
- is there anything excluded during Dil-Week i.E. Contraband Turn-In's
Would appreciate some response, because I've no idea if/how i should turn in Dil-Mining-Claims & Contraband ... Am i going to "miss" something during Dil-Week if I'd choose to ignore Dil-WE ... ???!???
PS : Since most of the EC Sources are excluded from the current EC-Week ...
ever heard the saying "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" well this surely applies here.
dilithium WE is surely a bird in the hand and the 50% bonus is guaranteed, you know when you turn in your Dil-Mining-Claims & Contraband you will get the 50% bonus for doing so.
the delta recruit dilithium week is an unknown so is surely two in the bush, the bonus could be anything from 0% to 150%.
the question you need to ask yourself is how many players will be wanting to replay any of the story missions so soon after playing them through levelling up their delta.
what is the likelihood that you will end up better off by holding over your Dil-Mining-Claims & Contraband in the vain hope that the reward will get to 100% or 150%.
at best I will be surprised to see even tier 1 completed so if this is the case you would only get the 50% bonus the same as dil WE in any case that's if it even gets to that I would not be shocked to see 0% bonus.
maybe I should be saying "you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?"
(to quote clint eastwood`s dirty harry)
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.
Perhaps, in the spirit of 'growth', it's a better idea (like previously mentioned) to reduce project times, or to give increased Reputation/XP on projects? Because this... well, it's utterly useless.
This is getting so weak that it isn't funny! If you would have made the new content to go with your season 10 launch we wouldn't have to play the same old stuff we have all played many times. My wife and I both play and we both have 6 toons each so it isn't to hard to figure how many time we have already played the same missions.
If you do all the content that is in season 10 at this point it takes around 2hrs to do, the 3 pves & the 2 new story missions, please tell me I missed something so I can go back and play something new.
Btw shouldn't we have Mirror Universe and Shard of Possibilities coming up soon?
You already timed it just right so our new Delta Recruits missed out on getting the free Kobali ships with the awesome regen console to them that would've completed the set for the command ships consoles. Would've been nice to at least be able to buy the ship somewhere.
We really care about this game and are very saddened to see the direction in which it seems to be going. We used to have fun playing everyday but now with all the gameplay issues such as lag & dcs it seems more like work than fun Live Long & Prosper
it made me laugh when I see the line in the blog "you have the opportunity to go back and replay an old favorite for nostalgia".
now I don't know about you but nostalgia only effects me for things I have experienced long ago like a year ago minimum if not longer.
I cant see how they think I would get nostalgic over something I did in the last few weeks.
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.
that works out at 16 hours to get 1%, OH dear! by the end of this challenge we should be at 10% of tier 1, that's if those that have chosen to try can keep up the effort.
looks like you might have dropped the ball on this one cryptic.
perhaps you can think up a more popular challenge for next week.
No point in complaining about it - they're not going to change anything now this 'event' has started.
There is nothing we can do about it, so just let it fail and move on.
not complaining, I just think its hilarious, I shall be looking at the challenge meter all week and having a little chuckle each time.
especially when I think of those who have said they will give this dil weekend a miss in favour of the dil bonus we will get from this challenge.
sorry I have a warped sense of humour.
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.
Ya, this one has been a big bust. 24 Hours have past and still only at 1%. The rewards for replay are just not worth it with 1) everyone trying to get Iconian Rep Marks; 2) basic rewards from the actual replay isn't really worth my time; 3) Dil weekend before a Dil week? really? and 4) I get more rewards/incentive by creating more delta recruits (fleet marks, dil, and EC) than messing around with replays.
The incentive for replay is being overshadowed by everything else going on. NOW, if they added an incentive to the replays like they did in the past then I would be all over this. Like the 15 lobi/mission replay/day. I'm tired of getting 5 lobi per 2mil+ EC master key and there are a lot of things I would like to get from the lobi store.
Come on Cryptic! You have been doing so well with this Delta Recruit stuff. What happened? You run the show. You have the power to modify this weekly "challenge". Make it worth our effort to do the replays on top of everything else going on.
Well damn, here I thought I'd be able to get my delta toons a shard or the Kobali outfit... Oh well, back to logging in just to check doff missions. Need a week off anyways after grinding those missions, and now they want us to grind them...again. /wave
I'm still attempting - in vain ,I might add- to play the breen arc for the first time on my delta recruits ( as are many other recruits) ,never mnd "replays of "old favorites "
James Cameron set the bar on this so high that even he cannot reach it.
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especially when I think of those who have said they will give this dil weekend a miss in favour of the dil bonus we will get from this challenge.
sorry I have a warped sense of humour.
Yeah sorry ... nodody said anything like that ... and "those people" probably figured out, that Dil-Week is probably not gonna happen after the first 4-6h without any progress ...
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Another issue with this event is that I finished my first (KDF) delta recruit to 50 and then deleted him to start a Romulan, who I plan to delete to start a Fed who I will keep after the event, so right now I don't a lot of missions to replay (nor do I have desire to, but that's a different issue)
My main Delta Recruit has not made it all the way through the Cardassian Arc. And then I have the Breen and Borg Arc before I would try to redo any content.
Dil prices were insane before but are you guys seriosuly trying to set a new record for all time high dil prices on the exchange??
Why do you think Dill exchange is high? Questionite, on Champs has been around 450 for more than a year. D was 128 back in January. Now I realize that's it's currently 222, and that seems high when you compare it to 128, but it ain't no 450. :: shrug ::
I got my DR to 60......not going to redo the missions again!!!! Just got done with the Delta grind....not going to do that again anytime soon, either!!! Sorry to say..I will not be contributing to the bar this week.
If this had coincided with a FE rerun event, I may have slogged through some replays to get the unique rewards. But it doesn't, and I already just ran three new Delta Recruits through as much of the content as I could to get them up to level cap and get the Delta Recruit rewards... There's no part of me even remotely tempted to do reruns of episodes I've played at least three times in the past three weeks already.
Though good shout on linking this to the Dilithium reward week, should have guessed it'd be tied to something nobody in their right mind would want to do.
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
My main Delta Recruit has not made it all the way through the Cardassian Arc. And then I have the Breen and Borg Arc before I would try to redo any content.
Exactly my situation! GEEZZZZZ guys a lot of your players have REAL REAL LIFE........couldn't you wait a month or two (OR 5) for this? Also My main has a huge pile of dilithium ore due to the processing gate. TOTALLY USELESS! Now if you had said something about a crafting point boost of 10% or maybe a free Crafting Materials Boost Box per mission...........
I have been watching the event counter too, looks like a full grinding roadrash face plant.......or another bug on an event that is designed to attract new players or bring old ones back.......who originally left or put off sampling because of now apocryphal and epic and documented QUASLITY FAILURE!
You guys are about as effective and professional as a certain vacationing empty chair leader I know of.
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I think the choose of a unappealing event plus a superhigh requirement was deliberate. They don't want the event to hit tier 3.
They already nerfed the dilithium weekend event several times to keep dilithium earnings low so don't want a week long reward that is better then the weekend one to succeed.
Is it me or this event not really popular until now.
With the other event the bar jumped from onset, but with this mission replay event its going so slow right now I'll be surprised if T1 is made.
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I smell something fishy with this event and how it's started. If you haven't done it already, put on your tin foil hats, it's conspiracy time.
Yesterday at 11am Pacific we were sitting at 1% of tier 1 completed after the event had been live for more or less 24 hours.
1%. 24 hours.
So today I log in and see we're at 25% of tier 1. 24 hours later and we made close to 25%? I call BS, someone over there saw how poorly this was going and is manipulating things behind the scenes.
Now, could it have been a reporting error? I suppose it could have been, but if that were the case, someone from Cryptic should have said something was amiss and they were going to fix it.
Could there have been a mistake made with just how many missions needed to be completed to make progress? Again, possibly. However, we run into the same problem, someone should have said as much. There is no incentive for rerunning aside from the gear. Rerun SP sucks which is why a lot of folks don't bother.
Cryptic didn't want this part of the event to be looked on as a complete failure so they are probably either lowering the amount needed without saying, or artificially bumping it up so we get at least something for our efforts.
If it turns out that day 1 was the fluke and "everybody" decided to make an effort and get the bar moving, fine, I can live with that. I just have a hard time believing it because everybody I see talking about this is basically saying the same thing. They aren't rerunning anything considering they just ran it once not so long ago and that they aren't going to bother doing it again.
Cryptic just needs to remove the Skill Point penalty for replays, period. Leave the lower Dilithium earned on replay as it is, but give us full Skill Points. Put a longer time gate on replays if you want, just drop the stupid penalty.
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ever heard the saying "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" well this surely applies here.
dilithium WE is surely a bird in the hand and the 50% bonus is guaranteed, you know when you turn in your Dil-Mining-Claims & Contraband you will get the 50% bonus for doing so.
the delta recruit dilithium week is an unknown so is surely two in the bush, the bonus could be anything from 0% to 150%.
the question you need to ask yourself is how many players will be wanting to replay any of the story missions so soon after playing them through levelling up their delta.
what is the likelihood that you will end up better off by holding over your Dil-Mining-Claims & Contraband in the vain hope that the reward will get to 100% or 150%.
at best I will be surprised to see even tier 1 completed so if this is the case you would only get the 50% bonus the same as dil WE in any case that's if it even gets to that I would not be shocked to see 0% bonus.
maybe I should be saying "you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?"
(to quote clint eastwood`s dirty harry)
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.
Over 13 hours later and the Global Delta Progress is still at ZERO%
If you do all the content that is in season 10 at this point it takes around 2hrs to do, the 3 pves & the 2 new story missions, please tell me I missed something so I can go back and play something new.
Btw shouldn't we have Mirror Universe and Shard of Possibilities coming up soon?
You already timed it just right so our new Delta Recruits missed out on getting the free Kobali ships with the awesome regen console to them that would've completed the set for the command ships consoles. Would've been nice to at least be able to buy the ship somewhere.
We really care about this game and are very saddened to see the direction in which it seems to be going. We used to have fun playing everyday but now with all the gameplay issues such as lag & dcs it seems more like work than fun
now I don't know about you but nostalgia only effects me for things I have experienced long ago like a year ago minimum if not longer.
I cant see how they think I would get nostalgic over something I did in the last few weeks.
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.
We just made it to 1% -> HOORAY PARTY
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Indeed. I've had my rant, so will now go do something else
and this one at 01:20 AM
that works out at 16 hours to get 1%, OH dear! by the end of this challenge we should be at 10% of tier 1, that's if those that have chosen to try can keep up the effort.
looks like you might have dropped the ball on this one cryptic.
perhaps you can think up a more popular challenge for next week.
not complaining, I just think its hilarious, I shall be looking at the challenge meter all week and having a little chuckle each time.
especially when I think of those who have said they will give this dil weekend a miss in favour of the dil bonus we will get from this challenge.
sorry I have a warped sense of humour.
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 incentive for replay is being overshadowed by everything else going on. NOW, if they added an incentive to the replays like they did in the past then I would be all over this. Like the 15 lobi/mission replay/day. I'm tired of getting 5 lobi per 2mil+ EC master key and there are a lot of things I would like to get from the lobi store.
Come on Cryptic! You have been doing so well with this Delta Recruit stuff. What happened? You run the show. You have the power to modify this weekly "challenge". Make it worth our effort to do the replays on top of everything else going on.
I agree, this is one to be enjoyed, not complained about.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
Yeah sorry ... nodody said anything like that ... and "those people" probably figured out, that Dil-Week is probably not gonna happen after the first 4-6h without any progress ...
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Why do you think Dill exchange is high? Questionite, on Champs has been around 450 for more than a year. D was 128 back in January. Now I realize that's it's currently 222, and that seems high when you compare it to 128, but it ain't no 450. :: shrug ::
I'm just repeating what Marty Feldmen once said. "It could be worse."
:: wiggles eyebrow above bulging eyes as storm clouds roll in ::
"Breaking news: Allied forces ran out of dilithium, delta recruits layed down their weapons and surrendered. War over sooner than expected."
Though good shout on linking this to the Dilithium reward week, should have guessed it'd be tied to something nobody in their right mind would want to do.
Exactly my situation! GEEZZZZZ guys a lot of your players have REAL REAL LIFE........couldn't you wait a month or two (OR 5) for this? Also My main has a huge pile of dilithium ore due to the processing gate. TOTALLY USELESS! Now if you had said something about a crafting point boost of 10% or maybe a free Crafting Materials Boost Box per mission...........
I have been watching the event counter too, looks like a full grinding roadrash face plant.......or another bug on an event that is designed to attract new players or bring old ones back.......who originally left or put off sampling because of now apocryphal and epic and documented QUASLITY FAILURE!
You guys are about as effective and professional as a certain vacationing empty chair leader I know of.
Were at what 1.4 % ?
Its Friday 4 pm almost and not a single word as in were sorry you didn't like this idea, were turning on the FE rewards right now, or well anything.
Guess someone found out the players are in charge.
Exactly!! It's only Friday. Cryptic has time to save this challenge by changing it, but they need to do it very soon.
They already nerfed the dilithium weekend event several times to keep dilithium earnings low so don't want a week long reward that is better then the weekend one to succeed.
With the other event the bar jumped from onset, but with this mission replay event its going so slow right now I'll be surprised if T1 is made.
Yesterday at 11am Pacific we were sitting at 1% of tier 1 completed after the event had been live for more or less 24 hours.
1%. 24 hours.
So today I log in and see we're at 25% of tier 1. 24 hours later and we made close to 25%? I call BS, someone over there saw how poorly this was going and is manipulating things behind the scenes.
Now, could it have been a reporting error? I suppose it could have been, but if that were the case, someone from Cryptic should have said something was amiss and they were going to fix it.
Could there have been a mistake made with just how many missions needed to be completed to make progress? Again, possibly. However, we run into the same problem, someone should have said as much. There is no incentive for rerunning aside from the gear. Rerun SP sucks which is why a lot of folks don't bother.
Cryptic didn't want this part of the event to be looked on as a complete failure so they are probably either lowering the amount needed without saying, or artificially bumping it up so we get at least something for our efforts.
If it turns out that day 1 was the fluke and "everybody" decided to make an effort and get the bar moving, fine, I can live with that. I just have a hard time believing it because everybody I see talking about this is basically saying the same thing. They aren't rerunning anything considering they just ran it once not so long ago and that they aren't going to bother doing it again.
Cryptic just needs to remove the Skill Point penalty for replays, period. Leave the lower Dilithium earned on replay as it is, but give us full Skill Points. Put a longer time gate on replays if you want, just drop the stupid penalty.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.