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texasdaddy1701
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So, my team of doffs whom I have been customizing to maximize Children's Toys Purple MK12 console production, have suddenly become incompetent.
Prior to S6 I was hitting purple mk12 consoles about 35% of the time. Blue consoles were about 42% with greens making up the difference.
Since S6 I have been unable to craft anything but green consoles using the EXACT same team (11 consoles so far). I even received a mk11 green on one attempt.
With S6 Obamanating the economy and the exchange it is cost prohibitive to even attempt to craft a console. This chain was put in place to provide a means of obtaining mk12 purple consoles, but all it is accomplishing now is chewing up energy credits.
Yet another undocumented change? I am not going to run 30 consoles to see if this is "just a string of bad luck". The recent batch combined with the plethora of other undocumented changes is enough to tell me it's not worth the time anymore.
Three cheers for S6....... not
Prior to S6 I was hitting purple mk12 consoles about 35% of the time. Blue consoles were about 42% with greens making up the difference.
Since S6 I have been unable to craft anything but green consoles using the EXACT same team (11 consoles so far). I even received a mk11 green on one attempt.
With S6 Obamanating the economy and the exchange it is cost prohibitive to even attempt to craft a console. This chain was put in place to provide a means of obtaining mk12 purple consoles, but all it is accomplishing now is chewing up energy credits.
Yet another undocumented change? I am not going to run 30 consoles to see if this is "just a string of bad luck". The recent batch combined with the plethora of other undocumented changes is enough to tell me it's not worth the time anymore.
Three cheers for S6....... not
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I picked up the chain day before yesterday, and out of 7 guys I got
1 green, 1 purple and 5 blue consoles.
I've got a full 5 man purple team of Eng, no positive traits, but no neg either.
My second run since S6 launched and what I got is about what I avg.
If I get 2 purples out of 7 I'm overjoyed.
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As in a lower percentage of them happening.
I used to be able to average at least two Crit's with every 10-15 missions set up...,
Now I'm lucky if I get One, with the same amount of missions.
My DOffs haven't changed for the worse during this time period... if anything they've gotten slightly better...
So why would the averages suddenly drop so drastically, unless They adjusted them.
I have no proof other than my own observations over the last few days...
I have set up at least 6 new missions each day and since last Thursday I've only hit a Critical Success Once...
That's over 30 missions with one Crit. using mostly Blue & Purple Doffs.
Even my luck isn't that bad.
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You got a MK11 green? Man, that sucks. I guess all your luck flowed through the inter tubes and landed in my Engineering section cause out of my last 5 attempts I have got 3 MKX12 Very Rare consoles, a an MK12 Ultra Rare Phaser Relay and a MK13 Very Rare Field Generator.
@DevolvedOne
Um...Mk 13...?
Typo?
Didn't think Mk XIII even exsisted.
KBF CO
We are the Dead
join date Aug 2008
Nah, I was lying. My point being that me getting MK13 or Ultra Rare is as likely as the OP getting MK11. As in, it's not possible at all.
Honestly though, I've just started doing the prototype console fabrication. I've crafted 3 so far with 2 purples and 1 green. I'm using all purple doffs, each with a critical trait, but no engineers.
@DevolvedOne
I am NOT lying. Receiving MK11 consoles from CT was the core reason for this post. It is NOT suppose to occur, but it did. So obviously an undocumented nerf occurred.
It's already ridiculous the investment you must make to receive a random console. But to now see 200k in materials, plus the cost of "productive" doffs, turn out an utterly useless and valueless item is a real slap in the face.
At least isolate the productivity. For example, if I use science doffs to craft the console, I should get a science console, etc.
So far I've crafted 7 consoles and got 3 greens, 3 purples, and 1 blue. Nothing particularly spectacular for the actual types, but I'm sure I will hit some good ones if I keep at it.
@DevolvedOne
You sure that didn't come from the "Experimental Console Upgrades" assignment from your engineering department head? That one gives you MK XIs
Where are you looking?
Sometimes it's hard to find but usually it's not. (IF you keep track of the CD)
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Rolor Nebula, Zenas Expanse, Betreka Nebula.
Personal experience:
I used to go to Zenas Expanse like clockwork but it changed, an so far the only place i haven't picked it up is Alfa Trianguli.
And If I don't see it I wait until sector update and do the sweep again.
Don't forget the 3 day cooldown. So keep track of when you pick them up.
I have noticed that if you know where you picked it up last time and keeping track of the cooldown, you almost certainly see it in the same place.
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Ever since they started coming in the packs the chances of a purple went straight down, this is known.
Please address this matter... and on a final note... the people posting on these forums pay your companies salaries... so maybe you should take note to what they are saying
If it is a small sample, then it would be really hard to draw any conclusions from. It is random, after all.
5 purple doffs with a crit trait will give you 24% purple console chance, so there's no way you could expect 55% purple to actually be sustainable. That you've had bad luck since S6 started doesn't prove anything, especially considering how small your sample size is.
I'm pretty sure the complaints in this thread are basically people who don't understand statistics.
4 hours later I had a MK XII Field Gen (purple) and 2 TRIBBLE greens that I had no right complaining about. Another 4 hours and I had 39 million ECs from its sale... and ANOTHER Mk XII purple field gen, which sold by this morning. Lucky run? Yes, but still a point to be made.
I've got 78 million ECs and 15 cloned Tholian slaves that say the OP got frustrated after a bad run and needed someone to blame. Tribble poo, if you ask me.
Ninja nerfs like this are making it hard to keep playing this game. I'm fighting, but with all the work, and fleet TRIBBLE, I need as much EC as I can make.
Cryptic, my interest is fading, get your TRIBBLE together, and stop messing with stuff. Return this console mission back to the way it was, it was never broken, there was no need to try and fix it.
The sad thing is in the old days, a dev would poke their head into the forum on occasion. Now, not so much, so there's no way of knowing.
They don't poke their heads in when all the latest 'evidence' is anecdotal at best. Rememeber: "Random Number Generator is Random.":)
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Random number when theres a marked % that is not correctly marked and set for more low ql rewards. Any assignment with 50 dilithium as a reward fails half the time and ones like the new mine assignment that rewards allot more dilithium fails 9 times out of 10 which is when I gave up running it because the time it takes to go to the mine to run it was more valuable than the 10% chance of success with all purple doffs with crit attributes.
Anyway this is a necro thread and the nerf is old.
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What? Any assignment with 50 dil as a reward fails half the time? You can guarantee 100% on most of them with ease. I can't speak for the new mine missions as I haven't ran many.