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Proof read your blogs before putting them out

bughunter357bughunter357 Member Posts: 588 Arc User
edited August 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
the one thing that I face palm about more than anything about Cryptic is the NOT proof reading there blogs before putting them out on the web site. Today is no exception the red alert blog on PC I guess a week is now 14 days and not 7 like in real life. "From November 4th at 8am PT (17:00 CEST) – November 18th at 10am PT (19:00 CEST) on PC" this is not the first time but does the person that puts them out proof read them before NO most of us would get fired from a job if we did not proof read the stuff that goes out. all i ask is proof read stuff and make sure it is correct before putting it on the website.
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,664 Arc User
    We also do NOT get "an additional reward: an Experimental Ship Upgrade Token!" reward for the one-week version.
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,664 Arc User
    edited October 2021
    keepcalmchiveon wrote: »
    bughunter357 wrote: »
    the one thing that I face palm about more than anything about Cryptic is the NOT proof reading there blogs before putting them out on the web site. Today is no exception the red alert blog on PC I guess a week is now 14 days and not 7 like in real life. "From November 4th at 8am PT (17:00 CEST) – November 18th at 10am PT (19:00 CEST) on PC" this is not the first time but does the person that puts them out proof read them before NO most of us would get fired from a job if we did not proof read the stuff that goes out. all i ask is proof read stuff and make sure it is correct before putting it on the website.

    i must say i am confused to the post and what your complaint is about. the 4th to the 18th is 2 weeks...
    the 3rd to the 10th on console is a week.

    The blog mixes together the 14-day and 7-day versions: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/index

    ...just like the last time it ran as a 7-day. Some innocent folks believed they would be getting a ship token. Narrator: they did not get a ship token.
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,664 Arc User
    corinthalas wrote: »
    It depends on what information is or isn't correct. If the dates are correct, then it's the two-week version and will award an experimental token. If the dates are wrong, then it's the one-week version and will not award an experimental token.

    This is what happens when the information being relayed to players is so consistently inaccurate -- nobody knows what's right or wrong.

    Yep, we can guess that it is 1 week on console (NO ship token) and 2 weeks on PC (ship token) but the first sentence contradicts that and after close to 100% of recent even blogs including copy-paste errors who knows if that's right.
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  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    I wonder how long it'll take for them to give us overlapping grinds (like a 3-week-one, a 2-week other starting after the first week of the first, then a 1-week one happening during the last week of the second) and thus more potential for bad copy pastes.
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  • captainkoltarcaptainkoltar Member Posts: 939 Arc User
    I don't see the problem.

    The dates clearly say that it's two weeks for PC and one week for Console.

    The bullet list of rewards only has two items on it. Clearly both PC and Console get these.

    The line underneath the bullet list says that the PC gets an extra reward.

    I don't see how this is unclear?

    K
  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    corinthalas wrote: »
    saurializard wrote: »
    I wonder how long it'll take for them to give us overlapping grinds (like a 3-week-one, a 2-week other starting after the first week of the first, then a 1-week one happening during the last week of the second) and thus more potential for bad copy pastes.

    It happens every now and then, usually before or after major seasonal events that are 30 days long.
    You mean the "copy paste" part I hope?

    Because I don't remember the game having THREE grind events occur at the same time for one week, the event campaign excluded since that's its whole point.
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  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    captainkoltar wrote: »
    I don't see the problem.

    The dates clearly say that it's two weeks for PC and one week for Console.

    The bullet list of rewards only has two items on it. Clearly both PC and Console get these.

    The line underneath the bullet list says that the PC gets an extra reward.

    I don't see how this is unclear?

    K
    Literally the very first line:
    The entire Galaxy is going to Red Alert! We’re launching a one week version of the Galactic Red Alert, with an additional reward: an Experimental Ship Upgrade Token!

    Especially since the following line is
    From November 4th at 8am PT (17:00 CEST) – November 18th at 10am PT (19:00 CEST)

    They do elaborate (a bit) better afterwards, but that's an awkward introduction.
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  • captainkoltarcaptainkoltar Member Posts: 939 Arc User
    Ah ok. I see how that might be confusing.

    But there's a responsibility on the reader to read the entire article too.

    K
  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    captainkoltar wrote: »
    Ah ok. I see how that might be confusing.

    But there's a responsibility on the reader to read the entire article too.

    K
    But which info is the correct one, then?
    Is the event one-week for all platforms or does it have a 2-week version on PC for some reason, especially since apparently the number of days needed is the same while PC players get a more valuable reward for some reason?
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  • qultuqqultuq Member Posts: 989 Arc User
    A “one-week” version is also a compound modifier and should be hyphenated. But if the writers can’t even get points of fact right—there is no point in talking about grammar.
  • bughunter357bughunter357 Member Posts: 588 Arc User
    and again todays patch notes were not check the date on them is 1/2/21 when it should say 11/2/21
  • bughunter357bughunter357 Member Posts: 588 Arc User
    keepcalmchiveon wrote: »
    bughunter357 wrote: »
    the one thing that I face palm about more than anything about Cryptic is the NOT proof reading there blogs before putting them out on the web site. Today is no exception the red alert blog on PC I guess a week is now 14 days and not 7 like in real life. "From November 4th at 8am PT (17:00 CEST) – November 18th at 10am PT (19:00 CEST) on PC" this is not the first time but does the person that puts them out proof read them before NO most of us would get fired from a job if we did not proof read the stuff that goes out. all i ask is proof read stuff and make sure it is correct before putting it on the website.

    i must say i am confused to the post and what your complaint is about. the 4th to the 18th is 2 weeks...
    the 3rd to the 10th on console is a week.

    ~facepalm~ yes the red alert is only a week now do you get my complaint.
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  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    Well, in the end, 10 days it is for the PC version.
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