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Breach Live Tomorrow, Crystal Still in Progress - Event Fatigue
lapprenticel
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Just signed in to STO and saw Breach is starting tomorrow at 8:00AM PST. The Bio-Engineered Furiadon Combat Pet looks and sounds cool, and dilithium is always nice, but another event grind immediately after finishing Crystal? At least Crystal is relatively quick - say 4 minutes per toon. Breach is what, 15 minutes a run, meaning it'll take 3 hours of sheer grind if you have a dozen toons. Wouldn't it be wiser to run Breach in say October so as to avoid event fatigue? My fleet's colony world coffers are starting to run low so I'd been hoping that we'd have a chance to grind for resources, but I guess that won't be possible now, unless Cryptic are open to posting a correction and making Breach next month instead of this? 
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Then just do it once per day.
That's all you need to get the combat pet, you only need to run it with multiples if you want the Dilithium for all of them. If that's the case then you're getting something for your effort.
Budget your time according to what's most fun for you and what you consider worth the reward. No one is forcing you to do anything.
Truer event words were never spoken.
It would also seem that Cryptic even offers a buy-out-option to events for the first time. Four times breach the next three weeks should be doable OP, eh?
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The buyout option is interesting, I am wondering how many people will go this route.
Normally, I would say that it's a bad option, it feels to me like paying 1k Zen to not play the game.. such a thing just seems crazy to me. I like that they include the ultimate upgrade, but I don't know if that makes it worth 1k Zen.
Still, it's an interesting option. I am going to skip it myself.. I'm cool doing the event once per day.
Yea mate no idea on what to do here as well. They offer it for the first weekend for 800 Zen and the only thing really worth getting out of it would be the ultimate upgrader for me.
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just a suggestion for what it is worth? put a few weeks between events to allow some processing and recovery so the playerbase doesn't burn out.
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Truer event words were never spoken.
Not sure I'm a huge fan of the buy-out option per se, but if you want to go the easy route, Cryptic will now let you.
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Me? I'm only running on my two mains on my two accts. No running it on the other family this time, as I've never seen a prize I thought was worth running for, until I saw it was a combat pet. That grabbed me into thinking about trying it.
Using events for marks is certainly an option but doesn't address the timing and we need to know details of what the 5-6 gap will require.
Breach isn't really as quick and dirty like CC so for me it'll be twice a day (LTS&F2P) and log off.
Remains to be seen how many will still be running after a couple of days due to the booster for zen. Is 2k zen really worth it for a combat pet you'll stick on a boff in the hopes they meld into a better ai and a couple of tech upgrades when there's no content that requires mk15 epic.
The 1k zen time saver also lets you get more bonus dil and marks for subsequent completions.
im not much on math but thats a lot more dil and marks than wed have otherwise.
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.'
Since you only need 14 tokens for the project, many people finished a week ago. I did more on that one character for the 135 marks, but that was optional and I only did it since that's double a Red Alert.
If you feel like you're grinding too much and have event fatigue then STOP GRINDING SO MUCH (problem solved!). The sun will come out tomorrow, tomorrow is another day and the first day of the rest of your life, stop and smell the roses, etc. etc. etc.
So I disagree, back to back events (where really there was a week gap) are only a problem if you're a self-inflicted overgrinder. Stop hitting yourself in the face.
Disagree. Back to back Event runs erode the specialness of Events in general. They should put at least a week between them.
And no, "Just don't do them" is not a very good argument, as ppl WANT to do them: just not back to back.
(Does not actually advocate doing this.)
You kinda ARE getting yourself a week break, now....with 800Z.
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If you started Crystal on day one and wait for day 7 for Breach, you'd have a 2 week gap between them if you just the the 14 days for each. Anything beyond that is voluntary overgrinding.
This ^
See how easy that is.
If people want the reward, they should have no problem doing the event. Especially one that takes 10 minutes once per day.
The Crystaline Event was 3 weeks long and required 14 shards. The same is true of the Breech Event, there is a week during each event that are totally optional. If someone has been doing the Crystaline Event every single day even after unlocking the reward then that's their choice, but otherwise there already is a week between events.