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Did they Nerf Admiralty?
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I know someone was asking for it. I have now gone through 20+ missions in the KDF arc without the next tour mission showing up. Don't remember it taking that many between parts?
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Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Admiralty: Gold-Pressed Latinum rewards from Ferengi Admiralty assignments have been reduced by around 80%.
In place of these reduced rewards, these assignments now also reward Energy Credits proportionate to the amount of GPL that has been removed.
So instead of giving GPL a purpose they're just gonna reduce the amount we get.
Was it overperforming more than what Cryptic liked within the data?
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
I'm still hoping that GPL will be given a purpose and that Cryptic's change is just to put the rewards in line with the only other main source of GPL (Dabo) so that the Ferengi Admiralty isn't the only way to purchase any new vendor items. My GPL has increased by several orders of magnitude since the new campaign, amounts that I never would have been able to accomplish by Dabo (or Smog).
Like others have said, I have had this happen myself, sometimes RNG just isn't kind. Admiralty has been functioning normally for me, I have seen no change at all. There was nothing in the notes either, but it doesn't seem like a 'stealth nerf' took place.
Thanks for answering. I know that it was just a community request. But i suppose it could happen in the future, either as a stealth nerf or posted one. Still no luck on kdf, will switch to Ferengi
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I guess because I don't use it daily(or often since s13 - I had not noticed this rng trend before. I was mistaken to believe that they came fairly regularly.
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There's a maximum? I'm curious to know what that is and would appreciate it if someone could enlighten me. I think I've been up to 299, but since I use my 1x cards pretty heavily on the tours of duty I've never gone beyond that.
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l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
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And it definitely worked. I kept track of all of my characters during Ferengi Admiralty campaign, since it was a nice baseline of all of them starting at 0 on the same day, and over a couple of cycles, they averaged a complete tour done in about 13 days, with the maximum being 16 days. That was doing just 8 assignments per day. To compare, some of those did not finish the Romulan Tour during the entire ~22 days that it took to get to level 10 in that campaign.
Tour assignments pop up randomly. That means with every new assignment in the hopper there's a certain probability that it will be what you need to advance through the tier. You can calculate the probability of going 20+ assignments without a tour as a binomial probability. Without empirical data or the odds Cryptic used it's impossible to come up with an exact number, but the crux of this question is simply that the probability is not zero. Even if it's very, very, very unlikely; someone, somewhere is going to see a long drought in their admiralty assignments.
You appear to be that person now. Don't sweat it, just keep rolling that dice and it'll eventually produce results. Exactly when no one can say, and it's worth keeping in mind with independent probabilities that you are no more likely to find the assignment now as when you first started. Going another 20 is unlikely, but don't freak out if it happens (going 40+ in total is a non-zero probability too.)\
[And from my point of view, there has been no apparent change in the frequency of tour assignments. Admiralty is something I run frequently on multiple characters, no issues to report.]
Edit: one thing you can do, scroll down through your entire in-progress assignment queue. Make sure you don't have an unclaimed tour assignment waiting at the bottom (and just out of normal view). That *would* prevent you from progressing.
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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.'
Still I wished they too would have added a few extra new items since the Ferengi always said GPL was important to profit. Remember Romulan's can't even display Trophies on their ships 10 forward or dare I say even the wall trophies in Captain's Ready Room.
Surely there has to be a few new cool off duty Hat's they could offer on Risa perhaps expand the Sunglasses they have. Maybe even include an alternate Shirt, Shorts or Pants while perhaps not as great as the summer ones that are different with a little more style than the single off duty shirt and pants new players get on Risa.
But surely there is something they can come up with for GPL. Holograms are nice Novelty items but surely there has to be a few new Club outfits, even Ferengi 'inspired' off duty Fashion, or perhaps some consumable devices or perhaps something else?
Something... anything...
Of course, nerfing GPL rewards may just be the precursor for them to put stuff in the GPL Store. Don't want to make it too easy to pick up stuff there.
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.'
Crytpic had plans but they weren't ready in time for season 13.5. Now they're collecting data on GPL activity, making sure that when they add content it'll be priced accordingly (ie. taking some effort to earn.) They haven't talked about the current status of new GPL items (naturally so, rule 1 is that they don't talk about unannounced content in any detail) but they have some ideas. (source: Ten Forward Weekly)
That said, because GPL isn't directly connected to a monetized resource we do have to view a GPL store update as a nice thing. It would be nice but nothing in fact hinges on the successful implementation of an updated GPL store. Nice things tend to be pushed back in development for higher priority content (ex. things players will log in for, things Cryptic can sell for money and thus keep the game going) so there's some chance that season 14 will also ship without new GPL items (part of the reason why rule 1.)
Hopefully, Cryptic will do something with GPL in the near future (they want to) but we'll have to see how the process of development plays out.
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Thank you for the math answer. I did get my KDF to pop on the 30th assignment. Hoping it does not happen again. I will monitor the progress.
I find Ferengi Admiralty is very useful to continuously run in combination with KDF Admiralty. Once you hit a 20 hour tour assignment, that campaign is effectively locked off from further progress. You can continue doing assignments for their individual payouts, but still it's not terribly productive. Running another campaign at the same time gets around that. If you need spec points or upgrades that can be ROM or FED, but for dilithium doubling up Ferengi/KDF (for the repeated T10 payouts) can be more productive than sticking to KDF alone.
Plus the mass of GPL provides a little financial security for any updates to the GPL store Cryptic eventually makes. It's not a bad thing to have by any means.
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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.'
I'd be interested to know that as well. I don't often use the 1x use cards, so my characters are all sitting on between 371 and 468 cards and counting.
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And that's why everyone's nervous. Sometimes they forget what's in the blogs
To weigh in on the OP's comment, I have gone long stretches without hitting a tour mission. But they pop up eventually for me.