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Good Time to Die event needs a few more Days
starmanj
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I will make it, but the time frame is really tight on this event.
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Agreed. Remember the days when events only ran for the intended number of days, then the servers couldn't handle things so events were increased by an extra week to allow for issues. Three weeks is more than enough time to complete a two week event.
I've been playing STO since the invention of the wheel and Events have always had days spare for completion.
There was a time where the server was messing up and they had keep to extending events by 24 hours, this happened quite a few times. We are going back a while here when Brandon was CM and even Trevor (Smirk). If I remember correctly it was Al Riviera that made the announcement that they would extend events to cover incase things went awry. This was 10 or 12 years ago.
Events ran as they currently do with three weeks for 14 days of progress.
Back then, Events were rare as Featured Episode runs were the main thing.
right. and there was no grind. you ran the episode/tfo you got the ship/toy. but then you had to do it for every alt.. there were a lot of people who blew sighs of relief when they changed to the grind we have now, because they STILL are saving time because they have so many alts
I remember the days of character unlock only.
Having to do the event multiple times a day, once per character...
The second Account Unlock came out was a massive relief.
The Featured Episode method only kept players logging in once per week, so I can understand the change to the Events we currently have.
There is a bigger grind nowadays, leading to STO-burnout - in other words, I often do the Event for the 14 days, and then take a week off & even skip a Red Alert just so I can get a break from the grind.
Anyone remember when we just actually played the game?
It was probably back when we still had monthly subs. I've been playing events only for the past ten years.
If you miss the announcement and complete the Risa event, then there are only 14 days left for the Good Time to Die event.
In my opinion unnecessary because now we are in a Red alert event of a week that could have been skipped. This would have prevented an overlap.
How can you miss it?? It is literally shown in the same Event UI as the Summer event, the same UI you need to go into to check on your progress, and not to mention the 'Welcome' UI every time you log in to the game. The overlap is no issue, because it's just an extra 5-10 minutes to add on to the 5 minutes of whichever Risa activity you do.
And, indeed, missions like To hell with honour can be completed real fast, just like the Risa stuff. The fact that there was overlap between the summer and GTtD events, is no good reason why any event should be prolonged.
In fact, I'd argue that it's great that there was overlap, as it means you could work on two events at the same time (or rather, on the same day).
I'd actually welcome more overlap between events, as it means there would be more missions that many people queue up for (i.e., there's more content that will launch quickly and thus a greater variety of content that can be played fast) and it also could allow for longer breaks between them.
I'm glad it's not just me. It seems to happen really frequently with instanced maps, or ones where I'm the first one in (like a fleet holding for example).