test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
No First Contact Day event this year?
stormstryke2
Member Posts: 255 Arc User
So no First Contact Day event on calendar through April. So not having one this year?
0
Comments
May be this. But First Contact Day is more important than Valentine's Day. And before anyone says differently because of the wife -- or should say the master -- unless they game too, they'd rather you not be playing a game at that time and don't care about the week before that as much. lol
Last year the announcement blog came on March 27th.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10439813-first-contact-day-celebration!
That makes today the most likely day for an announcement by precedent, though Cryptic is in no way obligated to follow that. I'd give it another week before wondering if there's something amiss.
PS. the calendar never depicts major updates and events prior to their announcement. I would not expect First Contact day to be listed.
Notable missions: Apex [AEI], Gemini [SSF], Trident [AEI], Evolution's Smile [SSF], Transcendence
Looking for something new to play? I've started building Foundry missions again in visual novel form!
So last year they announced it on Monday morning and it went live that Thursday ending on April 6th. So if it's like last year, then announcement would have been this morning. But will wait and see if anything is said today.
I honestly hope to see the new queue again, even without new rewards, but the actual day falling on a Thursday makes it tricky. I'll be a little bit sad if we don't see it.
Or if it's anything to do with First Contact day. ^_^
While it's true that they announce most calendar events within a day or two of their start here on the forums, the whole thing about the calendar being chronically wrong is more than a bit overblown. There are a lot of last-minute additions, but the number of times that something that was actually put on the calendar that eventually changed or didn't happen have been very few since the change from Hourly to Weekend Events. People make a lot of hay about 4 or 5 times in over 4 years.
I doubt an event would cause a 3 gig download. I got no such download anyhow.
Most likely Season 14.5. It was about 6 gigs for me.
normal text = me speaking as fellow formite
colored text = mod mode
Because as we know, the STO in-game calendar is 100% correct at all times, and is kept up to date by the hour.
What's strange about it is that the event is a week long, and those usually begin on Thursdays, and in the case of a week-long one, also would end on a Thursday. That would mean that it would only run for about half of the actual First Contact Day, at least in the U.S. Starting it that day would at least be reasonable, since the U.S. and Western Europe would actually be able to play the event on the day that it was commemorating. Ending it on that day would mean that most people in either place wouldn't be able to play it on actual First Contact Day.
Wednesday, or any other day of the week would be far more convenient, since those aren't typically patch days, and it could be active for the whole day all around the globe. First Contact Day was on a Wednesday last year, the last full day of the event, and that worked out just fine.
Personally I'm not expecting 14.5 to land until last half of april at the earliest, maybe early to mid may so they keep the interest building rather than going in early with ingame stuff and relying purely on blogs that a lot of folk might not see.
Just because it's not on the calendar doesn't meant nothing is happening, and just because it's on the calendar in the future, it doesn't mean it will. The calendar is not the be all and end all. Check the news feed!
Well that and all the "ads" for it so far say Summer 2018, and it is hardly Summer, still Spring.
We come in peace, SHOOT TO KILL!