The hourlies happened at a different time every day. If you missed one one day, it was likely to pop up at a different time the next day. All you had to do was wait a day or two and then you could do your preferred hourly. Which was better than weekend events - where you can only do them on weekends and during weekdays can't do bonus events at all.
We have less events under the new system. I just can't understand people who like weekend events better. It illogical. Doesn't make any sense.
I would prefer the hourly events reinstated in addition to the current weekend specials
Some people can play every day. Some people can play hours every day. Some people can play weekends. Some people can only play weekdays. This last group is the one that is being crunched without hourly or daily events. Many people in the service industry have their busiest times outside of 9 to 5 Monday through Friday.
With this, I believe there should be hourly (or periodic maybe lasting for 4 hours), daily, weekly, and weekend. Adjust the rewards accordingly with ones that may repeat many times a week giving less per event cycle than those weekend ones that happen weeks or months apart. It should be fairly simple to normalize rewards based on the number obtained in the current "every so often weekend events."
putting the third vote choice in this poll to have both hourly events and weekend events was a waste of a vote for anyone who used it, surly you realise that's never going to happen and it ruins the end results of this poll that should have been a strait choice between hourlys and weekend events.
I thought long and hard before adding that third option and to some extent I agree with you, however if a poll is about public choice then the option for both must be proffered. If the result is in favour of a change, which it is beginning to become apparent, then the devs will know what kind of change people were asking for and perhaps meet halfway if not go the whole hog and give us what we want. After all, what they want is players logged in, and what we want is a reason to login, the two go hand in hand and taking the cynical approach is, in my opinion, ultimately self defeating.
but you also need to work within the framework of what you know cryptic would implement and you must be aware that cryptic would never do hourlys and weekend events at the same time they would only do one or the other.
with this knowledge in mind you should see that this poll as it stands is a wasted opportunity as most players given the choice would obviously have both but it will never happen.
But I don't know that and frankly neither do you. You may say that asking for both is unrealistic but if asking for both brings about a combination of both then I feel sure many people would be appreciative of that approach. However restricting yourself to options you 'think' you are more likely to get may in fact close doors that you yourself didn't expect to ever open.
You can think positively or negatively, with optimism or cynicism, my choice is clear as is yours. Now, I have explained why I worded the poll as I did, if you think it is a wasted opportunity then please start your own and then you will be able to word it how you see fit.
its just a case of knowing from past experience what cryptic are likely, unlikely and extremely unlikely to do, for example I know from past experience that cryptic are likely to leave things as they are, are unlikely to give you back hourly events and are extremely unlikely to give you both.
if they did take any notice of this poll now given that cryptic are extremely unlikely to give you both and will probably ignore votes for that they would go with the highest voted of the other two and as that is currently to stay with the weekend events that's what they would go with, had you left out the third option the result could have been in favour of the hourlys so I guess you have shot yourself in the foot with this poll.
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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.
I prefer the current system of occasional weekends
I prefer the current system.
Have the time to take a relaxed pace on the longer events (for example Risa and the current Crystalline Cataclysm...can skip up to a week and still get the prize).
Weekend events I can do any time from Thursday after patches until early Monday morning. There is enough time to run it on ALL 8 of my characters....with time to spare to do other things...like in real life.
Not try to squeeze it into a small 2-3 hour "window"....if that "window" was during a time I could play.
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I'd much rather see the hourly events put back in. Then I can at last play the game on my own terms and not feel like I'm missing out. Additionally, it would increase my in-game time since I'd be more likely to do more per sitting. As it is now I log in do whatever is required for the event and log off. I don't participate in qs anymore and basically just do the storyline missions as they get added and these events. It seems counter productive for an mmo environment which is suppose to be about team play.
Neither. Game-wide, all-content reward boosts are boring and meaningless. They don't give players anything new or interesting to do, just same old same old, with a company-dictated schedule. They should be replaced with events players actually have to play. Events specific to certain content (preferably rotating so all content gets its turn) so players have incentive to try something different for a change.
I prefer the current system of occasional weekends
Let's see... I never seem to be on when the hourly bonus I want is active AND I work every weekend. So guess I'm screwed no matter what. How about an occasional weekday event?
Sometimes I think I play STO just to have something to complain about on the forums.
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Sadly Geko said 'no' .
And he said that on P1 of all places .
To simply put, certain Devs either hate certain pieces of this game or they have a metric showing that the weekend events bring the boys to the yard .
Thinking back at one of Zero's Tweets , Im betting it's both .
Oh well, we can still dream I guess.
We have less events under the new system. I just can't understand people who like weekend events better. It illogical. Doesn't make any sense.
That would also be nice.
I like the daily bonus reward system and the weekend events. I never ever cared about hourlies.
With this, I believe there should be hourly (or periodic maybe lasting for 4 hours), daily, weekly, and weekend. Adjust the rewards accordingly with ones that may repeat many times a week giving less per event cycle than those weekend ones that happen weeks or months apart. It should be fairly simple to normalize rewards based on the number obtained in the current "every so often weekend events."
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its just a case of knowing from past experience what cryptic are likely, unlikely and extremely unlikely to do, for example I know from past experience that cryptic are likely to leave things as they are, are unlikely to give you back hourly events and are extremely unlikely to give you both.
if they did take any notice of this poll now given that cryptic are extremely unlikely to give you both and will probably ignore votes for that they would go with the highest voted of the other two and as that is currently to stay with the weekend events that's what they would go with, had you left out the third option the result could have been in favour of the hourlys so I guess you have shot yourself in the foot with this poll.
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.
Have the time to take a relaxed pace on the longer events (for example Risa and the current Crystalline Cataclysm...can skip up to a week and still get the prize).
Weekend events I can do any time from Thursday after patches until early Monday morning. There is enough time to run it on ALL 8 of my characters....with time to spare to do other things...like in real life.
Not try to squeeze it into a small 2-3 hour "window"....if that "window" was during a time I could play.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -- Benjamin Franklin
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