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The summer and winter events used to be longer

frtoasterfrtoaster Member Posts: 3,354 Arc User
edited September 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I decided to look this up after a chat I had in-game.

Summer Event
Start Date     End Date       Number of Days
27-Jun-2013    19-Aug-2013          54
05-Jun-2014    17-Jul-2014          43
04-Jun-2015    16-Jul-2015          43
09-Jun-2016    21-Jul-2016          43
08-Jun-2017    20-Jul-2017          43
03-Jul-2018    16-Aug-2018          45
02-Jul-2019    15-Aug-2019          45
04-Aug-2020    03-Sep-2020          31
01-Jul-2021    31-Jul-2021          31
30-Jun-2022    30-Jul-2022          31
28-Jun-2023    28-Jul-2023          31

Winter Event
Start Date     End Date       Number of Days
06-Dec-2012    14-Jan-2013          40
05-Dec-2013    16-Jan-2014          43
04-Dec-2014    15-Jan-2015          43
03-Dec-2015    15-Jan-2016          44
01-Dec-2016    12-Jan-2017          43
07-Dec-2017    18-Jan-2018          43
04-Dec-2018    17-Jan-2019          45
03-Dec-2019    02-Jan-2020          31
24-Apr-2020    04-May-2020          11         *Winter in April
08-Dec-2020    07-Jan-2021          31
07-Dec-2021    06-Jan-2022          31
06-Dec-2022    05-Jan-2023          31

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Comments

  • protoneousprotoneous Member Posts: 3,169 Arc User
    In the past there wasn't ten events per calendar year. Perhaps the summer and winter events are shorter now to make room for the other events?
  • foxman00foxman00 Member Posts: 1,518 Arc User
    protoneous wrote: »
    In the past there wasn't ten events per calendar year. Perhaps the summer and winter events are shorter now to make room for the other events?

    Essentially this. With more events, something had to give.

    Plus honesty, having the winter event go into the middle of January didnt ever feel right to me. After a few days after New Years it really doesnt feel right. New year, winter (christmas) is over, time to look to the new year.
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,689 Arc User
    It does take 5 less days to complete the event now (20 vs 25), and it's an account-wide unlock for the ship instead of per-character, so there's less need for a longer event.

    Plus those 10 events per year to fit in.
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,504 Arc User
    I don't see a reason for why they shortened it. 'To fit other events in' doesn't wash. The event dailies take all of 2-10 minutes each and don't really impact on game time.....and I love QWW's! :lol: They run events concurrently already, so there's no excuse not to keep seasonal events running longer for those that enjoy their R&R.
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,472 Arc User
    leemwatson wrote: »
    I don't see a reason for why they shortened it.
    Because it doesn't need to be that long any more. They used to be that long because the event item was a per-character unlock, so if you wanted, say, the Summer ship on three toons, all three toons had to do all the summer events. (It also used to be possible to fail the Floater Race - the timer was a lot shorter - so you might not be able to get your markers every day.)

    Today the event ships are unlocked account-wide, and the things you have to do during the event aren't as difficult as they used to be, so the event doesn't have to sprawl across quite as much of the calendar as it used to.
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  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,504 Arc User
    jonsills wrote: »
    leemwatson wrote: »
    I don't see a reason for why they shortened it.
    Because it doesn't need to be that long any more. They used to be that long because the event item was a per-character unlock, so if you wanted, say, the Summer ship on three toons, all three toons had to do all the summer events. (It also used to be possible to fail the Floater Race - the timer was a lot shorter - so you might not be able to get your markers every day.)

    Today the event ships are unlocked account-wide, and the things you have to do during the event aren't as difficult as they used to be, so the event doesn't have to sprawl across quite as much of the calendar as it used to.

    Yes, I know the reasons they were long, I took part in them back then, however, there's still no good reason to not have them run just as long as they used if the maps still draw people in.
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,472 Arc User
    If it's just the maps, Risa for one is open year-round. It's just that the summer events only happen during the Summer Event. You can go lounge on the beach any time you feel like it, though.
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  • thunderfoot#5163 thunderfoot
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    I think the Events are okay just as they are now. Most players go to them every day. Until they earn the ship. At which point attendance drops off. So why have extra days whenever most players are done with the Event?
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,667 Community Moderator
    Probably as a buffer in case some miss a few days.
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    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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  • thunderfoot#5163 thunderfoot
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    rattler2 wrote: »
    Probably as a buffer in case some miss a few days.

    This is a given isn't it? I'm speaking of the days after the normal seven day extension given to cover for days when a player cannot access the Event.

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  • josephphlanxjosephphlanx Member Posts: 27 Arc User
    They might be running shorter now because of the stacking dilithium reward. 5 extra completions after earning the Main Prize nets you 8+9+10+11+12=50 thousand dilithium. 10 extra completions is 8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17=125 thousand dilithium. And as someone said that's for only 10ish minutes a day.
  • avoozuulavoozuul Member Posts: 3,215 Arc User
    edited July 2023
    Under the new system anniversary event requires more days to get the reward than it used to.

    As for Summer however, while I agree that it was longer than it needed to be I still think they shortened it a little more than it needed to be.
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  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,504 Arc User
    jonsills wrote: »
    If it's just the maps, Risa for one is open year-round. It's just that the summer events only happen during the Summer Event. You can go lounge on the beach any time you feel like it, though.

    True, Risa is, but I prefer the cold and QWW!! :lol:
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    IN STED OF USING TITLE SUMMER EVENT IT SHOULD SAY SUMMER EVENTS BUT I DO THINK RISA SHOLD GO ON FOR COMPLETE SUMMER / IM PART BLIND NEED CAPS ON TO READ ALL TEXT SOME 1 HELP ME POST HERE
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,667 Community Moderator
    Using caps to answer:

    @sec31#4104 HAVE YOU TRIED INCREASING THE SIZE OF EVERYTHING IN YOUR BROWSER USING CTRL +
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    edited August 2023
    It's the Dilithium extra +1k escalation per day. However, that being said, they have yet to update the Winter Event to use the new Bonus Dilithium paridigm (start at 8k and increase by 1k per day. Instead of starting at 2.5k and increasing by 2.5k per day to max 25k). I assume that they initially didn't change it to the new paridigm starting between the Winter 2020 Event and the 'Winter in May' COVID Extention, and didn't want ro change during the Extention. As to why it hasn't changed since, I assume lack of priority.
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  • annemarie30annemarie30 Member Posts: 2,698 Arc User
    jonsills wrote: »
    If it's just the maps, Risa for one is open year-round. It's just that the summer events only happen during the Summer Event. You can go lounge on the beach any time you feel like it, though.

    would be nice if the monkey and bird vendors were year round
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