Just consider this one ... they EXTENDED the summer event to last 42 days ... at the launch date , it was programmed for a shorter time, and therefore more prone to problems if for some reason a player could not log in and fly for a few days during the run of the event....
Cryptic has done a grind reduction on previous events, where by playing a featured episode you would gain a big starter lump of the event items to kickstart it. This was a very nice thing for that.
It's a shame the most profitable and efficient grinds in STO are also very boring. It's also a shame that if a player in STO deliberately avoids the boring grinds and only does "fun" grinds, they are almost certainly in for a life of space poverty (unless someone takes pity on them and gives them a hand out, or they wallet their way out).
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Cryptic has done a grind reduction on previous events, where by playing a featured episode you would gain a big starter lump of the event items to kickstart it. This was a very nice thing for that.