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Due to the recent events (S7). Has anyone else had/noticed a drop in activity?
:eek:
If not, why not?
If so, why?
My reasons are as follows:
1) I look back and see I do not have much to log in for, every 2 days or so on 1 or 2 toons is all I can handle.
2) There is no reason for me to log now, I did grind 25-30 toons thru the daily Investigate's for the dil and marks to work on fleet stuff ..... not now.
3) What the game was for me is gone, all that is left is 'content'. Or crippled attempts to do what was being done over a year ago. "Just bad foundary grinds on SOME new maps".
*Can STO recover?
What would it take? (to get the stats from 30 days ago, consultant fee pending)
a) try a bad attempt at recovering via make it like it was to appease
b) get/put them back, those who were doing 14 months ago and fix what is broken
c) FIRST have a 'wanna work here?' with staff house cleansing.
d) *REALLY, I DO NOT KNOW.
FYI,
This is from my (and others I know, not speaking for them) view ON STO recovering in my mind TO ME and FOR ME.
A recovery is needed for me to regain INTREST again.:(
How are things now? I have not logged on for awhile......
:eek:
If not, why not?
If so, why?
My reasons are as follows:
1) I look back and see I do not have much to log in for, every 2 days or so on 1 or 2 toons is all I can handle.
2) There is no reason for me to log now, I did grind 25-30 toons thru the daily Investigate's for the dil and marks to work on fleet stuff ..... not now.
3) What the game was for me is gone, all that is left is 'content'. Or crippled attempts to do what was being done over a year ago. "Just bad foundary grinds on SOME new maps".
*Can STO recover?
What would it take? (to get the stats from 30 days ago, consultant fee pending)
a) try a bad attempt at recovering via make it like it was to appease
b) get/put them back, those who were doing 14 months ago and fix what is broken
c) FIRST have a 'wanna work here?' with staff house cleansing.
d) *REALLY, I DO NOT KNOW.
FYI,
This is from my (and others I know, not speaking for them) view ON STO recovering in my mind TO ME and FOR ME.
A recovery is needed for me to regain INTREST again.:(
How are things now? I have not logged on for awhile......
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How's that lookin in your metrics, Dan ?
:P
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
I'm not really a doom and gloom guy, but since S7 launched the drop in user activity among 3 active (and one particularly large global channel) has really dropped.
To be honest, I find I barely have the will to do anything in this game at the moment.
Clicking inputs for Doff system, Romulan Rep system, Omega Rep system, Starbase system, Embassy system...this is really not the game I signed up or shelled out money for.
I don't want to play some farmville click-fest, there are already a ton of browser games where you can waste your time on these things.
The other alternative is the "content" that we got in S7 - open "adventure zones" or 'zerg zones' as I like to think of them. You run around at L50 as an admiral doing things that should be relegated to L1.
Enemies apparently wander without direction for you to kill.
There's some mini-game for pet breeding.
Pet breeding...
Tau Dewa patrols are mind numbingly static and repetitive, running around on New Romulus as an Admiral collecting water samples...these are not even in the same ballpark of what I want out of an MMO game.
I really hope the future of this game isn't an endless parade click input systems and different versions of "go kill rats" at L50.
Stop thinking "Grind"
The biggest problems are Fleet marks (everyone is pressed to earn them)
and Dilithium
we need to do away with BOTH being sources of presure
It would also help if we could explosively decompress the borg once and for all
there is nothing more BORING than Borg
I want a cutscene too!
I think you meant this for the transporter officer thread. :P
I haven't been logging on myself all that much, though, but that's for reasons not connected to the game.
the number of ACTIVE Va's is down however
Today is typical for me since S7 launch. I planned on spending 8 or so hours playing. Instead I played for 2 and spent the rest of the doing other things instead.
Before Season 7 I had 5 characters maxing dilithium daily by logging in before work and after work. Today I earned around 2000 dilithium in total. The grind needed across all the characters was such that the "can't be bothered" option actually seemed like a plan.
Sollvax has hit it on the head, get rid of the pressure points on FM's and for me i'll start playing a lot more again. FM's = SB upgrades which need EC, Dil, DoFF = activety. Restricted flow for FM's mean upgrades stall, so no need for EC, Dil, DoFF = find something else outside of game to do.
Right now UK time the normal patch is 18 hours or so away...I am actually contemplating not bothering logging in till then to see if it addresses the major issues for me (Gorn minefield daily impossible to complete for example)
S7 is a slog. It's work.
Work for that dill slave WORK! Whoosh crack whip! AHhAHh!
That little bit of dill you get isnt a reward. Its payment for a lot of grind.
A digital chain gang off to grind those marks.
Its NOT fun. I play STO to escape work. S7 is work. Not fun.
Take the pressure away. Bring the entertainment and fun back.
One is not amused.
The 'adventure zone' doesn't feel all that adventurey - I'm an Admiral and I don't want to collect water samples or tag eppohs. That's what ensigns are for. I've killed the Borg Queen twice over and this is what you're having me do? And you! Omega Force. You so fickle. Lauding me for my elite accolades, but not giving me any recognition or established standing.
So.. yeah. Log in, click, enjoy what little I can that's left of STO, log out for a few days.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
God, lvl 60 CW. 17k.
Sad that the game that got me spending more than I did on any other MMO in S6 has basically lost me as a customer in such a short space of time.
#2311#2700#2316#2500
and now im being told "Generate marks"
well thats nearly impossible
I play to play a starship captain
not an overworked security guard (incursion)
And these embassys ??????
so now we need double the dilith
great
im a subscriber but at this rate I may not stay one much longer
They need to give us back the stuff we had.ASAP be cause one the stuff they have now is runing the game.Ever since they whent to F2P it has been going down hill from there.
To me this is it. I do not hate this S7 change but, there is alot about it I am not pleased with.
My fleet has also noticed a drop in overall members playing. How long they play for when they do log on and what they spend thier time doing has drastically changed. Its not a change in a good way either, lots of complaining in our Teamspeak server about this or that.
The Game has become way to much of a grind fest. Investigate Officer Reports daily (used to be a nice way to get a few Fleet Mark) is a damned joke now. Especially when you run a mission that qualifies and initially did take about 15-20minues but now you have done it enough that you can do it in like 10 minutes and oh noes enough others have done this too and it no longer counts. Which you find out AFTER you do the damned thing.
I have 12 characters, 6 of which were only to gain some extra fleet marks and a few thousand dilithium a day and nothing else, so not really to hurt about them. I do however have 6 that I used to play regularly.
I have 2 mains (one on each side) 2 main alts (played almost as much as the mains) and 2 secondary alts (played at least once a day for stfs and other things).
Now, its my almost just my 2 mains, but even my KDF main is not played as much as before S7. It has basically made my other 4 characters be put into mothball mode. One gets played about once every other day for an STF and/or Tae Dewa sector patrol, but thats it.
It is like yakumosmith said, "can't be bothered". Logging in now seems like a job, the game has lost alot of its fun. Which is unfortunate as this is my favorite MMO and I used to have lots of fun playing and played quite a bit.
Hopefully they fix the bugs soon and I really hope they get some of the fun back in the game.
Twilight, Particle Physicist that stole the ship.
Original Signup date: August 4, 2008
LTS since Pre-Order
Compare that to all the latest content. STFs no longer drop loot bags with sweet purple Mk XIIs instead you get a single green TRIBBLE drop from the end boss.
Fleet Mark content always sucked reward wise the only reason we put up with it was because it was a very minor part of your daily activity usually.
The Romulan Mark content gives what, ten or twenty marks and a single digit fleet mark reward. Doff missions have better payout.
The old Fleet Actions I think are the most lively queue events and the reason is simple, decent rewards.
A grind is all well and good but a player needs that instant gratification reward AND needs to feel like they are making progress not trending water. Right now the mentality is we need to keep up with the time gates and let the rest burn at best. I'm not going to sit here and bludgeon the time gate with the 'really stupid idea' dead horse stick instead I'll focus on rewards.
- EVERY SINGLE QUEUE EVENT NEEDS TO HAVE A PURPLE ROCK REWARD NO MATTER WHAT. We like purple rocks.
- Fleet Marks need to be easier to earn.
- Every event needs an 'instant gratification' reward loot bag. I don't care if it is tied to an optional or even if the loot is flavored. Would anyone complain if a loot bag of say 1-3 white doffs dropped for each player in a Fleet Mark event? Or even a bag with 20k EC worth of commodities? WE LIKE RANDOM PRIZES
Bold and caps the important bits. And cryptic, hire a Sociologist or Psychologist be the best freaking move you ever made. Even a captainoblivous would see that as a good idea
I've done 8 per day for the last week for 56 space stfs total (not touching ground now that there is no need to do it for the ground tech) and out of those 56, 54 were trolled. The rest of the players seemed to be inexperienced judging by their rainbow builds. Chat in PVE has pretty much died. In those 56 stfs 12 had any kind of chat other than me saying things like "Negh up" or "5 W". No heals flying round (as I predicted would happen when I heard of the incremental timer being introduced all those months ago)
It's like almost every single one of the old hands simply stopped playing stfs. All my friends have basically stopped playing them completely. In PESTF I've seen little activity, in ESTF channel I've seen even less activity. Ground has certainly died imo due to the lack of reason to do it. The loot is the same, so why waste time and effort when space stfs *could* take half the time and give the same rewards? Maybe we might be able to revitalize them by bringing back specific drops, stuff like your xii weapon tech in CGE that you could then hand in as a project via rep. The drop would be kind of a "win the lottery" thing that rarely happens, but still happens just enough to entice people with the chance of getting the gear early. Maybe.
Ladies and gentlemen, STF is dead.
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I agree with bareel, although as a sociology student I would suggest go with the sociologist :P
I can totally understand why larger fleets are seeing an increase in members. The smaller fleets are finally realizing the big picture and calling it quits. There is so much grind to be done that small fleets are going to be a thing of the past.
I have held off spending any more money until I see how it all turns out. Give them a chance to make a few changes here and there. Dilithium was at 133 per Zen earlier today, not far from the 100 I predict it will be at unless they do something. So it is just a wait and see game for me right now.
Absolutely perfect..
That should be the theme song for Sn 7 ..
^ and that attitude is one of the reasons why large fleets suck tribble.
ISE , the single easiest way to get Omega Marks.. can't fail, and can get optional with a short team.. and still waiting ..
EliteSTF has had 1 team request, in the last 1/2 hour ..
Yes, definitely business as usual..
sorry, but chasing Epohh, and gathering rock samples is ... not my cup of tea..
Holding my breath for a change in the requirements of this "grinder".