Galactic Development Campaign

pwgegnre

Join the Galactic Development Campaign! Critical supplies, medicine are materials all need to get to the right places and fast!

We're ready to make it happen - are you?

risian4

It would be nice if we could have promo events such as these, but for completing ground queues.

ISA and CCA will be played anyway. Additional rewards for completing those are nice and appreciated as I´m sure we can use the skill bonus, but perhaps you could consider using these events to stimulate activity in less populated queues.

Just a suggestion

jodarkrider

I'd suggest something completelly different for next time. We have plenty of Foundry authors out there, and the Foundry could use some love. Why not give progress for completing the Foundry missions? It could be that only those, which qualify for standard Foundry rewards would count towards it, as we had it with 'Investigate Officer Reports' to avoid people playing some 2 minute grinder.

digitalaaron

what do we need to do? PVE?

salacnar070890

jodarkrider wrote: »

I'd suggest something completelly different for next time. We have plenty of Foundry authors out there, and the Foundry could use some love. Why not give progress for completing the Foundry missions? It could be that only those, which qualify for standard Foundry rewards would count towards it, as we had it with 'Investigate Officer Reports' to avoid people playing some 2 minute grinder.

i second this motion​​

daveyny

As a somewhat casual player, I have as of yet to benefit in any substantial way from any of these type of events.
So, meh...

davefenestrator

jodarkrider wrote: »

I'd suggest something completely different for next time. We have plenty of Foundry authors out there, and the Foundry could use some love. Why not give progress for completing the Foundry missions? It could be that only those, which qualify for standard Foundry rewards would count towards it, as we had it with 'Investigate Officer Reports' to avoid people playing some 2 minute grinder.

That's a great idea. I keep meaning to start playing foundry missions then get distracted by shiny objects (or Omega particles).

Also, did Trendy leave for a company that offered more bacon? (Arms wide: NoooooOOOOooooOOOOooo ... )

storules

I will make sure NOT to log in during that time >>>No substantial benefits that I can see from previous events like this.

I agree Foundry or even PvPs would be much better off.​​

arabatur

Bonus xp eh? Meh.

xscrawlerx

Uhm, i don't quite see the connection between

"Repairing the tremendous damage to the infrastructure of numerous vital star systems will require a dedicated effort. Critical supplies, medicine, and material all need to get to the right places, and fast.
We’re ready to make it happen – are you?"

and farming CCA and/or ISA. Sounds like "By defeating the Borg 17x, the poor hungry children on XY will get the food they need!"
Would be nice to have... dunno.. some kind of mission (or even a DOFF-Assignment) that in some way connects to Campaign instead of ... this "event"..

rahmkota19

So the Borg assimilated the foods and other supplies of those poor outlying colonies?

Anyway, my reaction to seeing this event again:

Yay.......... I guess?

neos472

jodarkrider wrote: »

I'd suggest something completelly different for next time. We have plenty of Foundry authors out there, and the Foundry could use some love. Why not give progress for completing the Foundry missions? It could be that only those, which qualify for standard Foundry rewards would count towards it, as we had it with 'Investigate Officer Reports' to avoid people playing some 2 minute grinder.

i second the motion as well

sgtfloydpepper

I'd rather see another Delta Recruit type of event. THAT was worth doing.

captainhunter1

jodarkrider wrote: »

I'd suggest something completelly different for next time. We have plenty of Foundry authors out there, and the Foundry could use some love. Why not give progress for completing the Foundry missions? It could be that only those, which qualify for standard Foundry rewards would count towards it, as we had it with 'Investigate Officer Reports' to avoid people playing some 2 minute grinder.

Great idea!

But it would be nice if we finally got the search UI fixed for the Foundry so people could actually find missions they like to play as opposed to having to stumble on a limited list (3) in space or the stagnant top 50 that haven't changed in YEARS now. *see sig below*

gilion

Is this an attempt to distract us so you dont have to admit there's no new episode tomorrow? >.>

xscrawlerx

sgtfloydpepper#7911 wrote: »

I'd rather see another Delta Recruit type of event. THAT was worth doing.

Yup. I still need a KDF-Delta. But anyways, the Delta-event was fun indeed.

ktyrrell

this again?
Sorry, but somehow it feels like its always the same (or is it simply the same?)
Why no Missions that have something to do with actual rebuilding? Like delivering supplies (Colonists, Refugees, etc) from one point to another?

jorantomalak

jodarkrider wrote: »

I'd suggest something completelly different for next time. We have plenty of Foundry authors out there, and the Foundry could use some love. Why not give progress for completing the Foundry missions? It could be that only those, which qualify for standard Foundry rewards would count towards it, as we had it with 'Investigate Officer Reports' to avoid people playing some 2 minute grinder.

Brilliant idea as you say foundry needs a little love.

+1

davefenestrator wrote: »

Also, did Trendy leave for a company that offered more bacon? (Arms wide: NoooooOOOOooooOOOOooo ... )

Huh?! did trendy girl leave without telling us good bye?

SOMEONE GET THE EMERGENCY BACON RATIONS FAST!!!!

qziqza

if miss trendy has moved on, best of luck to her, I'm always happy to see nice people progress away from such places before it sucks them dry, even if that leaving takes away some of the shiny shiny.. and bacon.

tmassx

xscrawlerx wrote: »

Uhm, i don't quite see the connection between

"Repairing the tremendous damage to the infrastructure of numerous vital star systems will require a dedicated effort. Critical supplies, medicine, and material all need to get to the right places, and fast.
We’re ready to make it happen – are you?"

and farming CCA and/or ISA. Sounds like "By defeating the Borg 17x, the poor hungry children on XY will get the food they need!"
Would be nice to have... dunno.. some kind of mission (or even a DOFF-Assignment) that in some way connects to Campaign instead of ... this "event"..

The borg and tholians are the reason why there are poor hungry children , maybe?

nyx219

I appreciate the sentiment of these events, but the structure/execution of them is very uninspiring. We're basically playing pretend here (not that we aren't already) a la "Ok, folks! Pretend you're helping NPCs rebuild the galaxy by doing the queues!" That's definitely not an inspiration to login more often.

What we really need to make this more engaging is a new queue specific to the idea, i.e ACTUALLY doing something humanitarian as the queue goal(s). Short of that, a special DOFF assignment works in it's place. If we can have them specific to WW or the SE, we can certainly have a GDC assignment.

nepsthen

jodarkrider wrote: »

I'd suggest something completelly different for next time. We have plenty of Foundry authors out there, and the Foundry could use some love. Why not give progress for completing the Foundry missions? It could be that only those, which qualify for standard Foundry rewards would count towards it, as we had it with 'Investigate Officer Reports' to avoid people playing some 2 minute grinder.

Agreed. Maybe once they make the foundry more searchable. There's what, 90k+ missions in there? Kind of hard to dig through it all, though the mission database in the forums does help.

captaincelestial

daveyny wrote: »

As a somewhat casual player, I have as of yet to benefit in any substantial way from any of these type of events.
So, meh...

Well, as a casual player, it'd be harder to contribute in any substantial way help everyone, as well as myself, to get the larger XP bonus.

captaincelestial

tmassx wrote: »

xscrawlerx wrote: »

Uhm, i don't quite see the connection between

"Repairing the tremendous damage to the infrastructure of numerous vital star systems will require a dedicated effort. Critical supplies, medicine, and material all need to get to the right places, and fast.
We’re ready to make it happen – are you?"

and farming CCA and/or ISA. Sounds like "By defeating the Borg 17x, the poor hungry children on XY will get the food they need!"
Would be nice to have... dunno.. some kind of mission (or even a DOFF-Assignment) that in some way connects to Campaign instead of ... this "event"..

The borg and tholians are the reason why there are poor hungry children , maybe?

Could be the StarDonald's franchises that's the real reason there are poor, hungry children....

pweistheworst

As others have said, it feels like STO is getting long in the tooth if we're always repeating the same "uninspired" grinds. That said, I realize it takes a lot of work (too much for a small team) to always pump out new content.

If I may put forward a suggestion: Why not offer a weekend event where players can choose to complete one "limited time fast-track event" to claim a unique gear reward that is no longer available in the game?

I'm not suggesting that players be able to claim more free ships ... but I'm suggesting a fast-track (i.e., something we can complete in a weekend) event to claim a SINGLE item that was originally only available for a limited time.

For example, maybe you really want to get the Kobali outfit for your character but you missed your chance, now you get a second opportunity to claim that unique uniform. Maybe you had a real-life emergency and you couldn't play STO during the one and only Crystalline Entity event when the Crystalline Energy Torpedo Launcher was available ... now you can.

That kind of event would be "relatively" easy to code since the assets are already in the game ... and I'm sure just about every player wishes they had the chance to claim some unique item that was only available for a limited time.

farmallm

Pass again as usual. I rather keep on Rep work and doing missions.

talasivari

Well, it's an abstraction, but a useful one.

gilion wrote: »

Is this an attempt to distract us so you dont have to admit there's no new episode tomorrow?

>.>

OOOOOOHHHH, busted.

carydon

These events are boring and the "rewards" aren't really worth caring about. Did the last one even make it past Tier 2?

Perhaps if some of the social maps, or ANY map really, actually looked like there had been damage from the Iconians players might take more of an interest. Off screen "damage and casualties" just don't cut it.

daciaeterna

In this game XP is always useful. Its a great chance to finish those new toons and mastery on all the new ships and get the spec points faster. Doing PvE is a new and nice idea imo (compared with the donate to fleet like crazy in a 6-7 days limited time). We already do PvEs and now we only need to do a bit more. I only hope the devs don't go crazy with the requirements like last time, not reaching tier 2 after alot of grind its kinda of a big letdown.
To keep it short, as long as the requirements are decent having a full week of XP its absolutely great imo. Me and some of my fleet mates can't wait for this. Thank you.

mcscarypants

Following several weeks of omega grind and dead(er than usual) PvE queues, I can only imagine that this "event" will be finished before Monday morning.