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Contraband debuffed?

buddha1369buddha1369 Member Posts: 386 Arc User
edited July 2012 in Duty Officer System and R&D
From the wiki on "Turn Over Confiscated Contraband":

NOTE: In Season 6, this assignment will become a 4-hour assignment requiring 5 [Contraband] for the same amount of Dilithium.

Twice the time, almost TWICE the Contraband required, and THE SAME dilithium reward? WTH?
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  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Was on Tribble for some time, and planned several months ago...

    Yeah, that's how it is, sadly
    Was named Trek17.

    Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
  • adufauxadufaux Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Hmm, bummer. I just bought the Tuffli for my main Klingon on the exchange. I wonder if it affects the call security transport which has a 2 hour cooldown for tribble, contraband turn-ins.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Disappointed but not at all surprised. So easy to exploit with almost no work and stock up huge amounts of dilithium with, particularly with Klingon characters.
  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Disappointed but not at all surprised. So easy to exploit with almost no work and stock up huge amounts of dilithium with, particularly with Klingon characters.

    My thoughts exactly.
  • twg042370twg042370 Member Posts: 2,312 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Disappointed but not at all surprised. So easy to exploit with almost no work and stock up huge amounts of dilithium with, particularly with Klingon characters.

    Farming dilithium / contraband was the only reason to have a Klingon toon. I wish I could use that slot for a Feddy character now.
    <3
  • patrick748patrick748 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    It's infuriating isn't it.

    I was so annoyed when I logged on this morning only to find that now 5 Contraband was needed. And before anyone jumps on me - I know it's been on Tribble - I just hadn't been on Tribble for a long time.

    To be honest, I do feel that effort had to involved - if you wanted to accumulate dilithium that way then you had to accumulate the EC to pay for the Contraband off the exchange (and therefore had to earn it somehow) or else use DOFF missions (hardly efficient at 1 Contraband per mission) - it still immersed you in the game.

    I had intended to try and collect enough to pay for a ship via the CP to Dil Exchange. Unfortunately that was already hard - and now almost impossible.

    Obviously, this will impact (and depend on) game economics - but we'll see if the ZEN:Dil rate changes or whether Contraband does come down on the exchange.

    But I do think it's just another way of encouraging people to spent nearly ?18 on one ship and limiting their non-monetary options...
  • zerobangzerobang Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    you know... this change wouldn't be so bad if the new Fleet Missions that we all will have to do a lot also gave some amount of Dilithium instead of just Fleetmarks.

    i really have a hard time figuring out how to manage a daily DOff, STF and Fleetmission grind...

    less Dil from doffing
    and
    no Dil from Fleet stuff = even more need to play STFs...

    ( and no 2880 dil will get me back to play B'Tran dailies ! )
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • mikewendellmikewendell Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    adufaux wrote: »
    Hmm, bummer. I just bought the Tuffli for my main Klingon on the exchange. I wonder if it affects the call security transport which has a 2 hour cooldown for tribble, contraband turn-ins.

    Appears to be a no to that. I just started the contraband assignment, left K-7 and had one of these in orbit. It was still grayed out.
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