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Participate in the Delete Alt Control event to unlock an Epic Phoenix Prize Token, and a powerful new torpedo and distress call!
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11569124
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11569124
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A word of caution to everyone:
Do NOT discharge your chosen ship!
Unlike the Event Reclaim store, once you discharge it, you'll need another Epic token to get a new one from the Phoenix Store.
This is where it would be better for us to get a one-time "Choice Pack - Epic-Tier Phoenix Ship Account Unlock" as it unlocks a Phoenix Ship in the Event Reclaim, meaning we can discharge and reclaim as we please.
The disadvantages here would be the lack of choice for each character on the account, and the token would be useless if we already have access to all the ships from previous events.
The option being awarded still has some use for those of us who already have access to all the ships as we can downgrade the tokens to Ultra Rare and grab two things from there.
Like an Epic token for each toon is nice and all, but with the current state of the Phoenix store they'll probably end up being used for upgrades.
You realize you just handed me 20 ship upgrade tokens when the next Phoenix event rolls around, right? Because those are ALL getting downgraded to UR tokens.
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Till ARC News feed is updated I personally will not chase around for news, I will be forced to go without till its fixed or someone tells us its no longer being used.
Not sure what the problem you're having is, because I see the News updates and Twitter feed on the website myself.
The Epic Phoenix Tokens cannot be broken down.
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Yes, but they aren't showing on the RSS feed, meaning anyone following the feed to get the latest game news isn't seeing new news items. Here's a screenshot of what my browser shows when manually visiting the RSS feed URL:
https://i.imgur.com/tUTTQ3I.png
The RSS feed is lacking anything published after Tuesday, May 21st, 2024.
In case you're not familiar with RSS and Atom feeds, they allow me to get all of the game's news in a centralized place where I can see everything else I follow (tech news, security news, AI news, game news, Steam news, new videos from my favorite YouTubers, new updates to my favorite Github projects, etc). This is vastly superior to trying to follow news on Twitter, and much easier than trying to visit every website I'm interested in to see the latest news. Here's a screenshot to show what it looks like:
https://i.imgur.com/rANYm2H.png
RSS is a feature of the Arc Games website (presumably due to it being a feature of the CMS). That feature seems to be broken at the moment.
@baddmoonrizin The problem with the former Gearbox website is that it hurts the eyes of those who are photosensitive including me. Since May 21st, all the recent posts instead of being migrated to both the Arcgames website, Arc client, and the former Gearbox one are instead going to the Arc client and the former Gearbox one only. Others have captured the links for both the Captain Alteration Token and this recent post. Those links are on Reddit, are taken from the launcher, and I already posted them in the forum posts. I also commented about this in the threads for Bonus Marks Weekend, 20% Ship Sale, Change Your Captain's Gender or Species, and now Delete Alt Control. I personally don't use the RSS feeds but there are many who do.
Here is the Arcgames link: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11569124
Understandable, but also a shame. That makes it useless for me, because I already have all the epic ships from the events.
However, I realise that I'm seriously in the minority here, and it wasn't really designed for people like me.
I love ship summon devices though, so I'm looking forward to that.
-K
There is talk about this situation going on. I'm also in the same boat as you. What will come from the talk I don't know, but there is talk.
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Yeah I'd be happy to give one away too. I don't think there's a mechanism for trading stuff but not making it available on the Exchange at the moment though, right?
And that wouldn't stop private trades, even if there was.
K
This would likely keep us all happy and removes the possibility of exploiting the claim on temporary characters.
Disappointing, as I have all the ships listed. Any chance for more stuff to be added? At least re-add the T5s like mentioned above, so at least the T5 Voth Dreadnought and T5 Bugship (that unlocks bugship hangars) would be open to those that have the listed T6 account unlocks already.
Event Progress
Participating in this event grants daily progress towards a Grand Prize that consists of a bundle of different items:
Epic Prize Token – Phoenix Prize Pack
Reclaimable ONCE for each character on your account!
can we get clarification that EVERY toon can claim it? because when you claim, say the crystal set, it's grayed out after you do.
I get suspicious when the verbiage is not the same
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There's still the exploit of short-changing the dilithium market. 10 phoenix upgrades for each character is a moderate chunk of dil not spent. And that's coming at a time where we're back to a huge dilex backlog on PC. There probably wouldn't be many players in this situation, but I'd try to find something other than a consumable (ex. add a fancy prize to gold tier that's never been available. Ex. Q's hat) to create a fallback to the gold tier phoenix ships. They could also expand that T6 event ship roster to minimize the probability that someone owns everything from event participation (as the number of players with 100% completion depreciates every year as inevitably players cycle out of the game's active population in exchange for newbies).
Personally, I'm fine with the token being presently useless. There's plenty else in the event to grind for (ex. 500 lobi) and Cryptic doesn't need to do a thing here to buff my participation. Maybe someday Cryptic adds more to the gold tier that I might make use of (cue motivation for actually updating phoenix boxes again given a generated demographic with an interest in more gold tier content). The tokens will be there for that.
In the meantime, keep it simple and have a rethink about the general problem of owning everything in gold tier rather than rushing a stopgap now (as even under normal circumstances, the trade down isn't an equivalent prize to those who need a ship. Just 10 phoenix upgrade for 1 gold prize is a very long way from solving that.)
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What happened to my earlier replies? Did they get deleted?
Anyway, the Arc games website has an RSS feed for game news. The one for Star Trek Online is no longer updating when new news is posted. The last time it updated was on May 21st. Please fix this so that I can get the latest Star Trek Online news in my feed reader again.
Yes, but they aren't showing on the RSS feed, meaning anyone following the feed to get the latest game news isn't seeing new news items. Here's a screenshot of what my browser shows when manually visiting the RSS feed URL:
https://i.imgur.com/tUTTQ3I.png
The RSS feed is lacking anything published after Tuesday, May 21st, 2024.
In case you're not familiar with RSS and Atom feeds, they allow me to get all of the game's news in a centralized place where I can see everything else I follow (tech news, security news, AI news, game news, Steam news, new videos from my favorite YouTubers, new updates to my favorite Github projects, etc). This is vastly superior to trying to follow news on Twitter, and much easier than trying to visit every website I'm interested in to see the latest news. Here's a screenshot to show what it looks like:
https://i.imgur.com/rANYm2H.png
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Ok, so you're talking about some function you use outside of the website?
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That is lamentable, because I need all the Phoenix Upgrade Tokens I can get.
No, I'm talking about a function of the Arc Games website. Have you never wondered what the orange "Subscribe" button to the right of news articles on the Arc Games website was for? That's the RSS feed for your game's news. It's not been working properly since May 21st, and someone needs to fix it.
https://i.imgur.com/fBH7CVK.png
I might for argument sake pick Arc Star Trek Online RSS, The main Official Star Trek Website RSS feed, some sports and Finance RSS and have all that news into 1 location. Any time one of the selected RSS feeds makes a new post like a new Star Trek Online blog it appears at the top of the RSS reader in a central location.
In short you pick the new sources you want to see and only that news appears in your feed. Only want to see game blog news only pick game RSS feeds.
If you delete the set, you'll be able to reclaim it.
If you really want a second set, put it on a ship that isn't your active one and you'll be able to grab a second copy.
The phrase "Reclaimable ONCE for each character on your account!" is very clear that we will be able to claim the token just the once.
If you reclaim it once, delete it and then try to reclaim it again, you'll find you won't be able to.
That's good to hear. We'll see what happens. An easy solution that'd keep me content would be to add an X-Upgrade token (or two?) at Gold tier. But given that this is claimable on all characters, that might end up being way too many tokens in distribution, so I'm not sure that'd work.
-K
Initially it was meant to save time and (especially important to students) money on the old slow and often metered connections, along with reducing the avalanche of irrelevant information (like red-herring ads that have pages and pages of keywords to trick search engines into including them but have nothing to do with the query), and whatnot, while avoiding the kind of bias and misinterpretation that plague news digest sites since they are a text-only version of the original article automatically distributed by the site's content management system.
It is still relevant today despite generally faster and less expensive connections because of its inherent hassle-reduction and the ability to target specific feeds of known quality and bearing on the subject(s) of interest. Unfortunately, it is falling out of favor because it does not support things like push ads and cuts through most of the other boardwalk-huckster style nonsense the internet is choked with nowadays, and that hyper-commercial/political sector is doing all they can to get it deprecated so it is usually not on by default anymore, and fewer admins are jumping through the hoops to turn it on.
I suspect that it may only be active on the ARC website itself and not the others as STO swings around the branches of the corporate tree like a monkey the way it has been doing of late, and as sthe91 pointed out earlier in the thread it has gotten rather spotty when it comes to news updates, with the Gearbox site and a few others carrying the news but the ARC site often missing it like the updater is broken or something.
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It does seem to be the case that only the Arc website appears to have RSS feeds for game news, which is weird since Wordpress and many other CMS and blog solutions have RSS and/or Atom feed support built right in. Hopefully at some point someone will turn on RSS feeds for the main Star Trek Online website so we can subscribe to that instead of the Arc website's feeds.