Winter epohh tags

persephone513 · December 2013

Since you have removed rewards from the snow piles and the 2 new events are supposed to make up for that, it would be nice if you added epohh tags to the reward table for those events with the same probability that existed in the piles. RL interferes and we can't always log on at the 16, 23,46 and 53 minute times to race, but finding time to pie eat or do the WI is much more convenient.

dirlettia · December 2013

I think the race was meant to just make it so you just couldnt set a macro to get lots of tags and therefore had to be active to get tags. That said the means of getting tags is somewhat lacking.

It pains me to say it but even if they shoved Tags in a store for 80 dilithium each, for the reward of a single daily you can get enough tags to start an Epohh off. This in itself would surely be a better option than only being available through the race which is so picky on its disqualify points.

jeffel82 · December 2013

I dunno, even assuming you come in dead last every time you run the race, it would only take three races to get the 6 tags you need in a day. That's less than an hour of time logged in.

To me, it doesn't get much simpler than that without ceasing to become a "game" at all.

seannewboy · December 2013

It would still be nice to get possible epohh tags from the invasion and snowman fights, possibly even the photo race or the doff missions.

seniorkafei · December 2013

I say put 'em in the pie-eating contest, no one really does that very much and this would offer some (extra) incentive.

Thanks for at least putting the uncommons in there, Cryptic.

alexvio1 · December 2013

jeffel82 wrote: »

I dunno, even assuming you come in dead last every time you run the race, it would only take three races to get the 6 tags you need in a day. That's less than an hour of time logged in.

Multiply those numbers by 14 because I have 14 toons.

mimey2 · December 2013

alexvio1 wrote: »

Multiply those numbers by 14 because I have 14 toons.

I think this is the real issue.

It isn't really so much being able to run the race to get tags, it's more a case of running the race enough on more than one toon.

Which isn't easy.

Even if you say have...1 character per faction, for a total of 3, that means (presuming you came in 'last' as in, only 2 tags a time) you would have to race 9 times over the course of roughly 3 hours.

If you don't miss any races, and never managed to place.

And if you want marks on more than one toon. Or heck, just epohhs because you like pets, good luck keeping up on so many at once.

robdmc · December 2013

How about making the epohhs account bound instead of character bound. then you would not have to do the mission on each toon to be able to exchange for marks. I have a feeling they don't want us to run it on all our toons due to the high rewards. this will give us the same amount of marks but as least we can choose where we want them.

arcjet · December 2013

alexvio1 wrote: »

Multiply those numbers by 14 because I have 14 toons.

Is that a complain?
If yes, did it ever occur to you that having 14 too.. characters could be some kind of a challenge?
Why is the game supposed to meet your expenses?

All I'm saying is that, probably, most game mechanics and content is aimed at the 'standard' 3-5 characters.
It would be very difficult to scale effort and challenge in a way that making 10+ chars easy to handle wouldn't make 1-3 chars laughably easy and trivial.

fathom3 · December 2013

Since you have removed rewards from the snow piles and the 2 new events are supposed to make up for that, it would be nice if you added epohh tags to the reward table for those events with the same probability that existed in the piles. RL interferes and we can't always log on at the 16, 23,46 and 53 minute times to race, but finding time to pie eat or do the WI is much more convenient.

It would make it easier, that's for sure. But you watch, probably nobody would be running the races after that and we would have 30 players crowded around that lousy table trying to farm tags.

ursusmorologus · December 2013

Its fine the way it is. If you dont have time to farm marks this way, you wont have time to farm them through normal gameplay mechanisms either. Too many toons, not enough time, abandon some toons or get more time.

tiriusavaro · December 2013

I also don't have any issues with the current setup, and I am by no means a very ehm, succesful, racer.

If you want the Epohh for marks, there is no issue as they all have plenty of other sources. If any, you're hampered more by only being able to breed one Epohh a day than by the amount of tags. If you want them as pets, you'll only need to collect them once during the entire event. Even if you have 10 toons and want all 3 versions on each one, that?s 30 Epohh x 6 tags = 180 tags. Worst case, if you never place, that's 90 races, and with 4 races per hour, 23 hours worth of play time. I'll not advocate it, but this is thus doable in a single day.

For myself, I have 3 toons that I each want to have one Epohh for as a pet, with a different one for each. I've already attained 2/3 through very casual play. After that, I'll likely continue to race just for fun, and grind the remaining ones down for marks.

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