test content
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc

Featured Episode Rerun listed on Ingame Calendar

claudiusdkclaudiusdk Member Posts: 561 Arc User
Anyone else noticed that there is a Featured Episodes Rerun event listed on the ingame calendar from June 30 to July 14? (GMT+1 here btw, incase it shows a day early or later for others)
Why is there no mention of it anywhere else? Its only 6 day away. Unless they are gonna announce it just before it starts.

However the event info only lists the 4 old featured episode reward items as reappearing. No of the newer limited time rewards there was when newer missions was featured. So no idea if this also gives a chance to get the Kobali Uniform and other featured rewards again.
Still.. Its a chance again to get the Ophidian Cane, Reman Bridge Officer, Shard of Possibilities, and Breen Bridge Officer for Delta Reruits, AoY Agents(if they hurry leveling up), and other new characters made after the last event ran.
"Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons."
Spock to Kirk, as Kirk is about to hug him.
Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier"
«1

Comments

  • tessaravejgantessaravejgan Member Posts: 276
    It has been noticed a while ago and there have been a couple of threads about it. They will announce it sometime next week, shortly before it begins.
  • claudiusdkclaudiusdk Member Posts: 561 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    It has been noticed a while ago and there have been a couple of threads about it. They will announce it sometime next week, shortly before it begins.

    Guess my forum-search-fu must have failed me. heh
    Still a little more warning about the event would have been lovely. Oh well, nice they are finally bringing the event back after 2-3 years.
    "Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons."
    Spock to Kirk, as Kirk is about to hug him.
    Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier"
  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,534 Arc User
    i am still waiting to see if it pays out the bonus lobi like usual.

    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.

  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    I expect them to announce it the day it starts, or the day before. No sooner.
    FaW%20meme_zpsbkzfjonz.jpg
    Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,918 Arc User
    Yeah, this was noticed awhile back. No mention of lobi, but I'm glad they're bringing those BOFFs back. I only have them on one of my toons and want to get them on the others.
    Now a LTS and loving it.
    Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
    I have come to the conclusion that I have a memory like Etch-A-Sketch. I shake my head and forget everything. :D
  • swamarianswamarian Member Posts: 1,506 Arc User
    i am still waiting to see if it pays out the bonus lobi like usual.

    Almost certainly not. They've said that they're not doing bonus lobi anymore.
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    Maybe instead of the Lobi, which they are loath to give away, something similar to the weekly FE Rewards per day - a Spec Point or Tech Upgrade.
    '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.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,534 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    Maybe instead of the Lobi, which they are loath to give away, something similar to the weekly FE Rewards per day - a Spec Point or Tech Upgrade.

    they would be an acceptable alternative.

    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.

  • dragnridrdragnridr Member Posts: 671 Arc User
    swamarian wrote: »
    i am still waiting to see if it pays out the bonus lobi like usual.

    Almost certainly not. They've said that they're not doing bonus lobi anymore.

    If they loath giving out Lobi, but randomly give out spec points, and/or dil free upgrades, why not just do away with lobi. I hate lobi with a passion because it's a currency that is harder to get than zen when you don't make much money.
    latest?cb=20141230104800&path-prefix=en
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    Maybe instead of the Lobi, which they are loath to give away, something similar to the weekly FE Rewards per day - a Spec Point or Tech Upgrade.

    I don't think they hate giving it away. They put a lot of it in lockboxes and R&D Promos. But they try to give out not too much for free. Just enough to give people a taste for them.
    Star Trek Online Advancement: You start with lowbie gear, you end with Lobi gear.
  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,918 Arc User
    Yeah, lockboxes spit out 2-4 lobi per box. Would need a lot of keys to get any significant amount of it. Not sure what the R&D boxes give out as I don't buy those.
    Now a LTS and loving it.
    Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
    I have come to the conclusion that I have a memory like Etch-A-Sketch. I shake my head and forget everything. :D
  • nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    The lock boxes spit out a minimum of four with a very strong averaging towards 5 over any reasonable sample size. The 'ooo, I got 25!' is supposed to be thrilling, but if you buy in any volume you quickly find out what to expect.

    Lobi is the 'highest' currency of the game. The polar opposite of that mud-coin dilithium. Giving it out at all is absolutely intended to be taste of the good life.
  • claudiusdkclaudiusdk Member Posts: 561 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    Cause Lobis are kinda connected to a real world currency.
    There is always money involved when it comes to zen and lobi stuff, even if you didn't pay for it yourself.
    You can only get lobi from lockboxes which you have to use keys on opening, and the keys can only be gotten if someone spend Zen.
    Now someone will say they never spend money keys, that they got them from exchange. That just means someone else spend money on zen to get them.
    "Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons."
    Spock to Kirk, as Kirk is about to hug him.
    Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier"
  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,918 Arc User
    Yeah, exactly. Just like you can say you never spend money on zen because you trade dilithium for it, but that zen you traded for was paid for with real money by the person who put it on the exchange. Even the stipend that LTS people use was paid for at one time by them buying the LTS. But it's closer to saying they don't spend money on it cause they get it every month.

    Still, every zen and lobi are gotten with real money in one way or another. Me, I refuse to trade my dilithium for what the exchange is going for right now. I'd rather wait and see if it comes down to something more reasonable. If it doesn't. I suppose they won't miss my dilithium that I won't be trading.
    Now a LTS and loving it.
    Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
    I have come to the conclusion that I have a memory like Etch-A-Sketch. I shake my head and forget everything. :D
  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    FCT. :|
  • vegeta50024vegeta50024 Member Posts: 2,336 Arc User
    FCT. :|

    What's supposed to be a FCT? this thread?

    TSC_Signature_Gen_4_-_Vegeta_Small.png
  • kamuii2kamuii2 Member Posts: 231 Arc User
    Ya know if you click on the event it tells ypou what it gives. Run spectres for the ophidian cane, cloaked intentions for a reman bridge officer, the 2800 for the shard of possibilities, and cold war for a breen bridge officer.
  • johnnyray14#4257 johnnyray14 Member Posts: 188 Arc User
    How do the rewards work? Do you have to play all the missions in an episode, or just the last one? What if you haven't played the episode yet---will the final missions be available anyway? Just trying to predict how much time it will take to get the rewards on several toons, thanks :).
  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    How do the rewards work? Do you have to play all the missions in an episode, or just the last one? What if you haven't played the episode yet---will the final missions be available anyway? Just trying to predict how much time it will take to get the rewards on several toons, thanks :).


    assuming they haven't changed it just do the mission the reward is on and you should be able to get the reward. or at least thats how I remember it working it's been a while.


    if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
  • vegeta50024vegeta50024 Member Posts: 2,336 Arc User
    claudiusdk wrote: »
    Anyone else noticed that there is a Featured Episodes Rerun event listed on the ingame calendar from June 30 to July 14? (GMT+1 here btw, incase it shows a day early or later for others)
    Why is there no mention of it anywhere else? Its only 6 day away. Unless they are gonna announce it just before it starts.

    However the event info only lists the 4 old featured episode reward items as reappearing. No of the newer limited time rewards there was when newer missions was featured. So no idea if this also gives a chance to get the Kobali Uniform and other featured rewards again.
    Still.. Its a chance again to get the Ophidian Cane, Reman Bridge Officer, Shard of Possibilities, and Breen Bridge Officer for Delta Reruits, AoY Agents(if they hurry leveling up), and other new characters made after the last event ran.

    FYI, since no one addressed to you why this doesn't include the Kobali uniform, I'll state why.

    During the game's first 2-3 years of operation, the Devs came up with the idea of doing a series of 5 episodes (a Featured Series) that told an overall storyline that ended with the player being able to get a limited time reward from it. The idea was that they were planning on bringing these out every few months which would give players something to do weekly. However, by the time they got to the 2800 series, it became clear that it could be more cost effective if they focused their efforts on making one big mission than 5 little ones that could be played a couple of times and people wouldn't have much fun with since they've experience them already (especially on multiple characters). So, The 2800 was the last Featured Series they did.

    So when they do a Featured Episode rerun, it's referring to the Featured Series that have since been added to the story as the Breen Invasion for all factions, Romulan Mystery (Federation and Klingons)/Freedom (Romulan), Cardassian Struggle episode Second Wave, and Spectres (for Klingon/Romulans).

    The Kobali Uniform was a limited time reward for the anniversary and likely due to wanting it to be exclusive to 2015, like the Kobali Samsar Cruiser & the console the ship came with, will likely remain unobtainable.

    TSC_Signature_Gen_4_-_Vegeta_Small.png
  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,534 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    claudiusdk wrote: »
    Cause Lobis are kinda connected to a real world currency.
    There is always money involved when it comes to zen and lobi stuff, even if you didn't pay for it yourself.
    You can only get lobi from lockboxes which you have to use keys on opening, and the keys can only be gotten if someone spend Zen.
    Now someone will say they never spend money keys, that they got them from exchange. That just means someone else spend money on zen to get them.

    I realise that lobi are normally only distributed via lockboxs and R&D Promos but the one other thing I know for sure is I have 587 lobi in the bank the vast majority of which come from doing episode rerun events, I would have had more but I spent some a few years ago to buy extra signed picks during a winter event.
    @swamarian says they have announced they're not doing bonus lobi anymore, cant say I see that notice myself but I am willing to except it as accurate for now.
    so although what you say may be true now it hasn't always been that way.

    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.

  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    Vegeta50024 said:
    "What's supposed to be a FCT? this thread?"

    Pardon me, i should have said Duplicate Thread :|
    I forgot there are two different meanings.
  • johnnyray14#4257 johnnyray14 Member Posts: 188 Arc User
    Is the final mission in a feature rerun episode available even if you haven't done the previous missions in that episode? It's been like that for *new* featured episodes, but these will be the first reruns since I started playing.
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    Generally for each Series, if you do the first Clearing Mission, which is unrepeatable, you can Skip, Skip, Skip to get to the Episode you want. For the 2800, you have to clear the Cardassian start Mission. These Start Missions are not much of a Mission and is frequently just go somewhere and click. The Breen Arc does not have one.

    My understanding from Tribble is they are going to move that Arc before the Borg. Not sure though.

    The two Delta Recruits that didn't do all Missions, I had them 'clear the decks' two weeks ago to prepare.
    '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.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    About the Kobali Uniform, the 'Dust to Dust' Blog NEVER said a word about it being a limited time Reward. That only came out from Cryptic in a post in the middle of a rather lengthy Thread about the FE.

    Not cool. Since then, they started to specifically make clear in the 'sunlight' that the Special Reward will remain available 'forever' in the Mission.
    '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.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
  • xyquarzexyquarze Member Posts: 2,120 Arc User
    In general, later similar "exotic" rewards tend to be not time bound so there'd be no real reason to include them in an event like this. And yeah, there's the "that was then" exotic stuff which I don't like.

    Though I am happy to get a shot at the boffs finally. Will try to take the items, too, but let's see how it works on 12 toons and 4 series...
    My mother was an epohh and my father smelled of tulaberries
  • This content has been removed.
  • claudiusdkclaudiusdk Member Posts: 561 Arc User
    Hey they figured out how to rerun these! Cool!

    It's been like a year and a half I think since they last did one of these, it gives the shard of possiblities and the ophidian cane.

    think last run was in 2014
    "Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons."
    Spock to Kirk, as Kirk is about to hug him.
    Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier"
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    And that was a pathetic run compared to the one before that. The one before that ran about 30 days and awarded 15 Lobi a day, so around 450 (you know about the price of two Consoles and a Ground Weapon, or the complete Mirror/Terran Outfit plus two Ground Weapons, or for the ultimate irony, unlocking two Jem'hadar Outfits and one Jem'hadar Weapon).

    The 2014 run was for an extended weekend or (not sure) about 60 - 90 Lobi.

    Unrefined Dilithium falls from the sky now, but getting Lobi from other than Lockboxes and Special Promotion! R&D or Delta Doff Packs is like waiting for the creation of Elite PVE Queues that will never come.
    '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.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
  • claudiusdkclaudiusdk Member Posts: 561 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    Unrefined Dilithium falls from the sky now
    And it better be. With everything that is costing dil. ^_^
    "Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons."
    Spock to Kirk, as Kirk is about to hug him.
    Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier"
Sign In or Register to comment.