I don't think there will be any finishing of old projects going forward or any buyback store. I'll go 95% on that - so worth keeping in the bank if you have em. I didn't bother to stockpile because it seems pretty clear.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: "We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, it's all ancient history. Then - before you can blink an eye - suddenly it threatens to start all over again."
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I did not stockpile either. Now the special items from the lesser Event Queues (Mirror, Breach, Crystalline) are good for older and newer projects.
I did have some extra Anniversary Tokens on a few characters that ran the Featured Episode and got the 400 but couldn't get rid of them fast enough as you had to wait for the Main Unlock on the Character grinding for the ship before getting the mini projects.
There will be no further buyback Stores either.
'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
Judge Dan Haywood
'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
The only thing that would 'prove beyond the shadow of a doubt' that the projects will be useless is coming in a couple of months - as zarato4218 said, the coming summer event will quite unambiguously show Cryptic's stance.
Until then, both the ones that are telling you to keep it and the ones that are telling you to delete it are speculating on different, but equally accurate pieces of information. And, again, it's easier to keep it and cancel it later if you can't finish it, than to cancel it now and finish it later if you can finish it, so... I'd err on the side of caution, even if I were 100% convinced that I wouldn't be able to finish the project.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
The only thing that would 'prove beyond the shadow of a doubt' that the projects will be useless is coming in a couple of months - as zarato4218 said, the coming summer event will quite unambiguously show Cryptic's stance.
Until then, both the ones that are telling you to keep it and the ones that are telling you to delete it are speculating on different, but equally accurate pieces of information. And, again, it's easier to keep it and cancel it later if you can't finish it, than to cancel it now and finish it later if you can finish it, so... I'd err on the side of caution, even if I were 100% convinced that I wouldn't be able to finish the project.
I know I said I would not comment on this further but your words "both the ones that are telling you to keep it and the ones that are telling you to delete it are speculating on different, but equally accurate pieces of information." are really beyond belief.
here is a scenario for example, a far away land has life in prison as the only penalty for a guilty verdict of murder then one day the government of the land choose to make the only penalty for murder death by hanging, now mr man is on trial for murder he is sure to be found guilty as he did indeed commit the crime but he says to his lawyer "no problem if I am found guilty, after all from past experience of other murders i know of those found guilty only got life in prison therefore I will only get life in prison" he vainly holds onto this notion despite the fact that the lawyer shows him proof that a guilty verdict carries the death penalty.
now I ask you who is speculating on inaccurate information, and who is making a sound observation of the evidence at hand.
players holding onto these half filled event ship projects and unused vouchers are speculating wrongly on inaccurate information because although this was allowed before cryptic made a new rule that "All in-progress Anniversary Reputation projects will be removed before the subsequent year arrives." and "Vouchers are only usable during each year's Anniversary Event, thus making it only valid to earn that specific year's starship" so "the ones that are telling you to delete" are making a sound observation of the evidence at hand.
besides which I have never advised anyone to delete either the vouchers or the Reputation projects, I am only preparing them for the inevitable truth that these projects will be deleted by cryptic and they will not be able to use the saved vouchers for anything.
and that even if by some forgotten act the Reputation projects are not deleted you would still not be able to complete them with next years vouchers.
the two views are not based on "different, but equally accurate pieces of information" at all.
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 think these analogies are getting a bit over the top.
Bobby - something is only inevitable if you have 100% irrefutable proof that these vouchers are going to be deleted/useless. (As it happens, I happen to agree with you that its most likely, but not inevitable - the devs may well have a change of heart (as unlikely as that may seem).
I'm not sure why you've taken on the mantle of 'preparing' people for whatever happens with these vouchers, if it makes them happy to hold on to even a grain of hope that they may somehow be useful, then why not let them do that?
I think these analogies are getting a bit over the top.
To the point that they no longer have anything in common with the topic. The closest thing to 'two countries' would be 'two games', and we're both talking about the same game. 'Mr. Man' and the 'lawyer' are both in the dark, and both speculating on the former's sentence.
Bobby - something is only inevitable if you have 100% irrefutable proof that these vouchers are going to be deleted/useless. (As it happens, I happen to agree with you that its most likely, but not inevitable - the devs may well have a change of heart (as unlikely as that may seem).
Indeed. Personally, I think the quotes were taken out of context (they've been here since the 2015 summer event, where the devs said that the pre-2015 projects would disappear at the end of the 2015 event, and said that the 2015 vouchers would only be usable during the 2015 event), but even if I'm wrong on this... As you have said, 'most likely' definitely does not equal 'inevitable', nor should it be presented as such.
Barring a change of heart between the next several events, we'll see the pattern during the coming summer event. That is all that can be said with any degree of certainty.
I'm not sure why you've taken on the mantle of 'preparing' people for whatever happens with these vouchers, if it makes them happy to hold on to even a grain of hope that they may somehow be useful, then why not let them do that?
Aaaand... this. People will react to the discovery (whatever that discovery may be!) as they will react, regardless of how much you try to change that. Besides, like I said before - it's better to hold on to the projects/vouchers and lose them, than to discard them and find out that you could have used them. (The rhyme is purely accidental. )
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I did have some extra Anniversary Tokens on a few characters that ran the Featured Episode and got the 400 but couldn't get rid of them fast enough as you had to wait for the Main Unlock on the Character grinding for the ship before getting the mini projects.
There will be no further buyback Stores either.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Until then, both the ones that are telling you to keep it and the ones that are telling you to delete it are speculating on different, but equally accurate pieces of information. And, again, it's easier to keep it and cancel it later if you can't finish it, than to cancel it now and finish it later if you can finish it, so... I'd err on the side of caution, even if I were 100% convinced that I wouldn't be able to finish the project.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
I know I said I would not comment on this further but your words "both the ones that are telling you to keep it and the ones that are telling you to delete it are speculating on different, but equally accurate pieces of information." are really beyond belief.
here is a scenario for example, a far away land has life in prison as the only penalty for a guilty verdict of murder then one day the government of the land choose to make the only penalty for murder death by hanging, now mr man is on trial for murder he is sure to be found guilty as he did indeed commit the crime but he says to his lawyer "no problem if I am found guilty, after all from past experience of other murders i know of those found guilty only got life in prison therefore I will only get life in prison" he vainly holds onto this notion despite the fact that the lawyer shows him proof that a guilty verdict carries the death penalty.
now I ask you who is speculating on inaccurate information, and who is making a sound observation of the evidence at hand.
players holding onto these half filled event ship projects and unused vouchers are speculating wrongly on inaccurate information because although this was allowed before cryptic made a new rule that "All in-progress Anniversary Reputation projects will be removed before the subsequent year arrives." and "Vouchers are only usable during each year's Anniversary Event, thus making it only valid to earn that specific year's starship" so "the ones that are telling you to delete" are making a sound observation of the evidence at hand.
besides which I have never advised anyone to delete either the vouchers or the Reputation projects, I am only preparing them for the inevitable truth that these projects will be deleted by cryptic and they will not be able to use the saved vouchers for anything.
and that even if by some forgotten act the Reputation projects are not deleted you would still not be able to complete them with next years vouchers.
the two views are not based on "different, but equally accurate pieces of information" at all.
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.
Bobby - something is only inevitable if you have 100% irrefutable proof that these vouchers are going to be deleted/useless. (As it happens, I happen to agree with you that its most likely, but not inevitable - the devs may well have a change of heart (as unlikely as that may seem).
I'm not sure why you've taken on the mantle of 'preparing' people for whatever happens with these vouchers, if it makes them happy to hold on to even a grain of hope that they may somehow be useful, then why not let them do that?
To the point that they no longer have anything in common with the topic. The closest thing to 'two countries' would be 'two games', and we're both talking about the same game. 'Mr. Man' and the 'lawyer' are both in the dark, and both speculating on the former's sentence.
Indeed. Personally, I think the quotes were taken out of context (they've been here since the 2015 summer event, where the devs said that the pre-2015 projects would disappear at the end of the 2015 event, and said that the 2015 vouchers would only be usable during the 2015 event), but even if I'm wrong on this... As you have said, 'most likely' definitely does not equal 'inevitable', nor should it be presented as such.
Barring a change of heart between the next several events, we'll see the pattern during the coming summer event. That is all that can be said with any degree of certainty.
Aaaand... this. People will react to the discovery (whatever that discovery may be!) as they will react, regardless of how much you try to change that. Besides, like I said before - it's better to hold on to the projects/vouchers and lose them, than to discard them and find out that you could have used them. (The rhyme is purely accidental.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
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