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Winter Event 2019 Feedback
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Since the Galactic News Network does not have an official page for Winter event 2019. Here's a few notes from my perspective:
PROS
-Every year this is the event (besides summer) that brings me back to STO and kudos for keeping it running them year after year.
-The free ship is AWESOME. Thank you for keeping up with the times and improving the free rewards.
-Event Interface - Again great improvement so that we can do more than just one event to get the free ship. I welcome the great interface.
CONS:
-Communications: very lackluster. Sorry but there is not even an official page to give some official feedback in the matter. Not sure what is going on in the background but years past we had official communications, blogs or announcements on this great event.
-Winter Event time frame - is shorter than previous years. Any reason why? There is lots of speculation out there but not real word from devs or community manager. Would be nice to have some communications.
-Not a single NEW event. It has been over 2 years since something new came about in terms of events. Summer has been basically a copy/paste. I know there is lots of work that need to be done to get new events incorporated. Let me put it this way. It feels like a child unwrapping a present full of excitement and just finds out an empty box with very "nice wrapping" around it.
It would be great if something NEW is being prepped for next summer/winter 2020 and perhaps communicated as a road map. Just a wish list and my own feedback on the matter.
Thank you for any Devs listening.
PROS
-Every year this is the event (besides summer) that brings me back to STO and kudos for keeping it running them year after year.
-The free ship is AWESOME. Thank you for keeping up with the times and improving the free rewards.
-Event Interface - Again great improvement so that we can do more than just one event to get the free ship. I welcome the great interface.
CONS:
-Communications: very lackluster. Sorry but there is not even an official page to give some official feedback in the matter. Not sure what is going on in the background but years past we had official communications, blogs or announcements on this great event.
-Winter Event time frame - is shorter than previous years. Any reason why? There is lots of speculation out there but not real word from devs or community manager. Would be nice to have some communications.
-Not a single NEW event. It has been over 2 years since something new came about in terms of events. Summer has been basically a copy/paste. I know there is lots of work that need to be done to get new events incorporated. Let me put it this way. It feels like a child unwrapping a present full of excitement and just finds out an empty box with very "nice wrapping" around it.
It would be great if something NEW is being prepped for next summer/winter 2020 and perhaps communicated as a road map. Just a wish list and my own feedback on the matter.
Thank you for any Devs listening.
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I, for one, don't want any new activities added to either until they can figure out a way to run multiple activities at once and let us choose which we can do. Any new activities will likely pay less rewards for the time spent on them, and they will make the ones that actually reward well less regular. It's somewhat less of a problem with Winter Wonderland than it is with Risa, but it's something that really should be addressed rather than pushing the events that work well from 90 minute intervals to 2 hour intervals.
There is still around 10 days of reserve if someone misses some days.
Cryptic is on Pacific time so GNN forum posts often do not appear until around 10 AM Pacific. If there is no post within an hour or so I'll agree with you.
In terms of feedback I do agree the events are lackluster since nothing new to do. Same copy/paste as last year except for some new items and the ship. However, no new content in terms of new stuff to do.
wasn't there some way to get a free crate of ornaments last year?
is the breen costume account wide?
My character Tsin'xing
The Dev's don't really like communicating on these forums, even the community manager prefers reddit. So you're best bet for the latest word from them, would be there.
You're right, I was thinking of the duty missions
Thank you and Good idea. Not sure why these forums supposed to be "official".
EDIT: And you can be assured I didn't say 'TRIBBLE'. Grrr.
the "mission" where we fish, should spawn more often.
Molor does NOT approve of this suggestion. Gre'thor will be paved with your ashes!
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> EDIT: And you can be assured I didn't say 'TRIBBLE'. Grrr.
Substitute an * for one letter. No TRIBBLE.
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 understand, but it IS a boat of the dead.
What would be extra spiffy is if certain vanity shields could change the color of the flames, like a Reman shield changing to green flame, or Fed-aligned Aegis (because I can't think of other blue ones) changing to blue flames. It would need to change the other flame effects and the Lost Souls too though.
Aegis shields works for that, if you don't like the flames.
With the Breen ships, the ship traits can all synergize together with the Breen ships, from Plesh Tral, to Rezreth. Same with the Vorgon trio. The Fek'ihri hot rod ship has a trait that can work with the Fek'ihri angry Warhammer 40k puffer fish, but the trait from said angry puffer fish is completely worthless for the Fek'ihri hot rod ship. Narrow Sensor Bands is a Miracle Worker ability, and last I checked, the Fek'ihri warship doesn't have any hangar bays either, which means yet another source of fire damage denied(along with the Phlogiston experimental fire weapon from the Maquis raider).
I bought the Festive Odyssey sweater for my main (Fed Andorian) today and received the Festive Enterprise.
Then, as an experiment, I bought the Festive Enterprise and received the Festive Odyssey sweater.
So, in the market, they are swapped...
Also, the Festive Odyssey is NOT customizable. It's stuck in pink and green...
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Thanks for the heads up! I hope they will fix this. I just bought one and will not open till I hear something from Devs.
Original STO beta tester.
The events do continue to be boring and not much to do if you have been around in STO for years past. Done that and checkmarked already. I hope next year they do come up with something better that just same copy paste job.
Yes, I see that and definitely it is so much easier to do than in previous years due to the other events you can do that counts towards the daily.
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.'
That isn't a cooldown, the event has a fixed runtime length, but the big snowman is set by number of normal ones killed, not by time, and people plow through them faster than intended. What would be ideal would be to have it like the fishing event and when the big snowman is killed the small ones start up again until the time runs out. It could even be a bragging rights challenge to get the big one to spawn a second time if they did that.
My character Tsin'xing
I wouldn't mind if they actually removed some events, or made some of them only occur in certain instances and others in other ones (if that's possible).
It's brought down from 25 to 20 runs. The event is still 30 days I think? Previously it was something like 40-45 IIRC and you needed 25 of them. Comparatively speaking that's about the same so it should not seriously affect too many players.
I also agree that it's great that we get some choice as to what mission we want to play to earn the ship. Even though I've only done the race for the tokens until now