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Should the Delta Recruit Event be offered again in the future?
thunderfoot
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The Delta Recruit Event was a way for newer players to "close the gap" between their inventories and skills and those of long time players. Somewhat. It was also a way for older players to revisit parts of this game they have not been to in a very long time. The preceding are opinions and should not be mistaken for facts.
I prefer playing KDF or Rommie but when Delta Recruit started I decided to roll up a Fed Science char. I did not intend originally to play him every day or work exclusively on bringing hiim up to par with my other chars. Mostly, I just wanted to keep my hand in on the Blue Side. In case it got interesting again. The rewards offerd for doing so were a good return on the time I would have to invest. To my surprise, I found myself really enjoying playing my "Delta Retread". Hadn't played some of the Fed missions in years and a lot of them were different from what I recalled. I had fun playing STO again. Something which does not occur nearly enough for my taste.
It was never impiied or inferred during the Event nor the adverts leading up to it the Delta Recruit Event was a one time event. It also was never implied or inferred it would occur again. I understand the idea of always leaving the audience wanting more. So I can see where Cryptic might want us to be unsure about it. Do you think they should run this Event again? And should they do so multiple times in the future? I'm thinking running it every other year is a good idea.
tl;dr version:
I had fun with my Delta Recruit. Cryptic never said one way or the other they would run such again. Do you think they ought to?
I prefer playing KDF or Rommie but when Delta Recruit started I decided to roll up a Fed Science char. I did not intend originally to play him every day or work exclusively on bringing hiim up to par with my other chars. Mostly, I just wanted to keep my hand in on the Blue Side. In case it got interesting again. The rewards offerd for doing so were a good return on the time I would have to invest. To my surprise, I found myself really enjoying playing my "Delta Retread". Hadn't played some of the Fed missions in years and a lot of them were different from what I recalled. I had fun playing STO again. Something which does not occur nearly enough for my taste.
It was never impiied or inferred during the Event nor the adverts leading up to it the Delta Recruit Event was a one time event. It also was never implied or inferred it would occur again. I understand the idea of always leaving the audience wanting more. So I can see where Cryptic might want us to be unsure about it. Do you think they should run this Event again? And should they do so multiple times in the future? I'm thinking running it every other year is a good idea.
tl;dr version:
I had fun with my Delta Recruit. Cryptic never said one way or the other they would run such again. Do you think they ought to?
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I expect them to change up the rewards offered if they decide to run it again. It would be foolish for them to not do so.
Maybe they should make a special Romulan/Klingon recruit event, for example. But this time benefiting already existing characters, too, perhaps? (And with rewards carefully selected so this isn't a boost for KDF Contrabanding Alts, but for actively played characters.) Something to drive some population to the lesser played factions. (If it works out, it will also pay off for Cryptic, since that means more people buying Romulan and KDF ships in the C-Store.)
It's not the fact that i lack ideas or concepts for new characters, it's the fact that bringing a new toon from lvl 1 to 60, with decent gear and spec points, is a time-consuming process that i don't want to start if i don't have a good reason for that.
Season 11 is imho a perfect time to start one of those events : Starfleet / KDF / Romulan personnel has been decimated by the Iconian War, and in the same time new exploration expeditions are planned. The Alliance has greater need than never before of fresh recruits.
I personally enjoyed the event and would love to see something similar in the future but I wouldn't blame them for avoiding it.
I think the question was- did it look like the event was a success and had many participants? I think it did.
I can certainly see another recruitment event happening as it was a success for old and new players. Anyone that disagrees really shouldn't be playing. Despite the few negatives the usual players throw out on these forums, it's what's happening in-game that matters. I have 2 Delta Recruits, and all my other 4 toons benefitted, I even made a new character last week and that still gets the benefit of the Recruit event!
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Then again, I can barely keep my now dozen guys'n'gals under control, getting it up to 15 would be hard. And I like them all too much to drop 'em...
On a similar vein, I like all the events, featured episodes and stuff that is thrown at us. At the same time I would love a couple of weeks just to get some more episodes done on the toons that are less advanced in the sory...
I made a new character during the Delta Event, and if they ran a similar promotion again, I would make another one.
The only time I remember that in connection with the Delta event was during the 'replay old episodes' part which came two weeks after we had done them the first time, so obviously people weren't too keen on doing them all over again. Otherwise the whining in the forum were no worse than during any other event, so by that logic Cryptic should never run any event ever again. Don't know about you, but I don't really see that happening.
Honestly, I hope they plan something similar next year. It's the 50th anniversary of Star Trek and the next movie is hitting the theaters, those things could get this game a lot of new players. Having an intro event a la Delta Recruit would be a nice thing for them. At least I'm hoping they're doing something for the anniversary.
You mean like they said the pre-order items would be exclusive?
That only sticks until they see they can make money off them again.
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They've already established <Copy/Paste> is their game development technique of choice, even when they have the talent and manhours to do better. So, ringing in a variation on this theme should be obvious to even a blind man.
But I come to praise the Delta Recruit Event, not to drown it under a sea of seething nerd rage. I'd say this is an idea which has all sorts of possibilities left within it. And it should be easier to do successfully the second time around.
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A dev interview did say that because the Delta Recruit event was such a success, they'll consider events like it to be done in the future(like a "Gamma Recruit" event), but there will only be one Delta Recruit event.
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Maybe they should add a new race in with the new season and have some kind of recruitment going for the new mini-faction, like a Cardassian political/military party joining the Alliance out of necessity.
Granted, after Iconian's - there isn't a real big threat to warrant that decision now. But who knows what the Mirror Universe will throw at us that could possible surpass the Iconion threat. I'm thinking of a temporal war of sorts, in which the very Federation [creation thereof] will be threatened.
A Suliban would be nice as a race option for whomever they are suited for, I presuming Romulan.
The Dominion joining in on the fight, maybe against their own Mirror Universe counterparts - perhaps they are actually very nice on their end. Many possibilities there to add a new event similar to the Delta Recruit event.
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I would like it again, but, its a business decision. They just need to look at how much it costs against the increase in customer spending increase of visibility. Then that'll tell them what to do.
Like the man says, its all about the money all of the time. So goes business.