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Re: Hourly event change mentioned in Season 8.5 overview blog
lexusk19
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If hourly things are going away, what will happen to Mirror Invasion?!? That is pretty much the only way I make expertise for the huge amount of reputation grinding...
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That will probably get switched to the PvE queue. Which for MI is not a bad thing.
I'm far more worried about losing mark happy hour.
Small fleets in particular use it a lot to make fleet marks.
Yeah, basically the devil will be in the details.
Thought strikes me though.
Remember a while back Q was giving away CXP boosts.
You had to go see him and then the boost would be applied for a set amount of time.
Something similar might work for this.
A daily mission wrapper. You pick it up, all your makrs are doubled for the next 60 minutes.
That actually would work better than the current system. Way more flexible.
Lovely. Because the daily format works SO well for fleet actions lately.
And I like that you can do some of the hourly events multiple times in a day if you're around for them.
No, not getting rid of them, they are restructuring how the calendar will work. Some of the hourly things will be made into daily events, and others will be made into weekend events.
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Which will be daily or weekend? I bet the good ones like MI. The ones with 20 hour cooldown are fine as daily instead like mining, and actually I'd prefer it as daily any time I want.
I personally think that their new weekend events idea is a fantastic one. However I also do not believe that it should replace the hourly events entirely. I think that weekend events should be in addition to hourly events to promote a overall good experience over a diversified playerbase. For instance some people partake in religious activities on Sunday and their ability to play is fairly limited, other people may work primarily on weekends. The possibilities are numerous.
I do however believe that the hourly events need a serious looking at with regards to modern functionality. For example the academy events have a fairly light turn out from what I have seen while at SFA. The crafting event is most likely all but obsolete due to the fact that crafting in its essence is dead and dated. I can't imagine that the Vault Shuttle Event gets a high turn out either due to the fact that it is a shuttle queue and the majority of players don't like shuttle gameplay when faced with other options. I am unable to gauge the turn out of the multiphasic event, however since the data samples and particle traces that you get are primarily used in crafting, and like I said earlier it is a dated concept.
There are a couple events that I would think would have a medium turn out/participation. These would be Tour the Universe and Officer Reports. Tour the Universe used to have a much higher turn out than it currently does due to the fact that its rewards were severely limited in terms of earning potential. I think that if this were somehow fixed to make it so players could once again use this as viable way of producing income, that it would benefit once more from a higher turn out. Officer Reports is a foundry based event which gives some extra dilithium to players who complete missions during the allotted time. Personally I think this is a good idea as it helps promote foundry missions and authors. However I think that the rewards that it could give could be increased to help provide some incentive. Perhaps a scaling marks reward based on the length of the mission while completed during this hour could do wonders to increase the turn out of the mission.
Then there are the major turn out events which give good rewards for time spent, Bonus Marks Hours, Dilithium Mining Event, and Mirror Universe Incursion. Bonus Marks events should stay as an hourly event as well as a potential weekend event in my opinion, however an hourly event on a weekend event shouldn't result in bonus bonus marks, the effect should be applied only once. The dilithium mining event is nice for new players to easily get some dilithium, plus they can get a free transwarp there so it really is time efficient for them. My one and only gripe with the dilithium mining event is its discrimination against players who only mine vip mining claims. The 50% more dilithium earned bonus is only applied to normal miners, instead of vip. This is almost insulting, these claims are solely obtainable via lockbox opening, I would understand not the full 50% but at least give us something for helping support your revenue by opening boxes, I think 25% would be fair. Mirror Universe is one of my favorite events, it always has a huge turn out across the levels. I would like to see it become a permanent queue with a nerfed dilithium reward for queues completed outside of the event hour, runs completed inside the event hour would be rewarded normally.
Some events that I would like to see overall whether or not in the form of hourly events or weekend events would be bonus cxp, bonus sp, bonus exp, and the like. I think that they would be overall well accepted by the playerbase.
I am looking forward, albeit a bit nervous to see what kind of changes Cryptic has in store for us.
This of course also screws up people who can't log in during the weekend and reduces the window for bonus marks. You will probably only be able to get bonus marks for 1 particular rep each weekend (if it runs every weekend) and will have your rep progression slowed.
Don't really see the improvement here but I do see a bunch of downsides.
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The Academy event was also a good one, as long as there weren't too many people there at once.
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Hopefully they actually DO put these changes on Tribble first.
I'm in agreement here. I have my reservations about any changes to the calendar.
Especially when the devs make claims of said changes being "better". "The Great Dyson Space Nerf" of December 2013 has soured me on such claims.
Well when i mentioned it to Branflakes he was the one who said they would be looking for feedback when it was up on Tribble.
And it really works, too. I went solo on the ground and racked up, between dailies, running the various zones and saving all three silos, a good 300 marks. Running The Sphere (Elite) nets you about 112 Dyson Marks for a perfect run. If you wanna complete Dyson Sphere reputation, this would be a good way to do so.
I don't see this going over well, from the player's enjoyment perspective, nor from the company's RoI perspective. Adding weekend-long bonuses is a great idea. Subtracting the "hourly" bonuses is a horrible idea.
I believe the main reason they're getting rid of the hourly events is so that players can do anything they want without worry about needing to do an hourly event at a certain time. For reference, these are the following events right now on the hourly event calender:
Bonus Marks
Bonus reputation
Time to Craft! (20% reduction in costs for materials)
Tour of the Universe
Academy event
Officer reports
path to 2409 (extra data chip)
Multiphasic event (extra data samples)
Vault shuttle event
dilithium mining
Mirror Incursion
Out of all of these, I see the Academy event, multiphasic event, time to craft, mirror incursion, tour the universe and the dilithium mining all becoming some sort of daily thing, since you're not likely to see more than one at any given time. The Vault might be retired or changed into a regular PvE queue. I expect they would do the same to the mirror universe, seeing as it shows up in the pve queue.
Keep in mind that Defera used to be a 3 hour timed event, but got moved to be a permanent adventure zone and the first of the many we've seen.
The Bonus marks and reputation obviously will be going towards the weekend events.
you have to be on at the right time. if you miss it, you possibly have to wait a day to get it again, if you are able to be on. having them convert to dailies means people can get the reward when they want.
having weekend long rewards gets people in for long periods of time, and again gives people some freedom in when they log in.
and how many of those dailies were being played? did the academy one need a whole hour? was anyone playing the foundry one? the crafting one?
Tour the Universe is a good candidate to be reworked as a weekend event, preferably with changing route requirements and a direct player competition element.
Dilithium Mining would also work better as a high reward weekly mission. It's too much of a mindless grind for a daily. It would also benefit from a competitive element, like racing other players to stake the best claim.
Lastly, I'm sure everyone appreciates the Bonus Mark event, but it doesn't really change how most people play. It'd be better if it was reputation- or even mission-specific. Maybe then I could talk someone into playing something other than Infected Space, Khitomer Space and Crystalline. Those 3 should never get bonus marks. It's the missions that grinders have deemed inefficient that need incentives to play. The pve queues will tell you if you've overcorrected.
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