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Re: Hourly Event Change/ Weekend Events

rustiswordzrustiswordz Member Posts: 824 Arc User
edited February 2014 in Feature Episodes, Events and PvE Content
These changes in the Thursday patch relese notes. Cryptic has vbeen very 'cryptic' about the changes.

What missons will the removal of hourly events affect.

Is it STF's will this mean that we can no longer get bonus marks twice a day for running these events from the Pve queue.

Will this mean that we can't get get the Mirror Invasions anymore for bonus skill points.

to STO: Not everyone is free at weekends you know. :rolleyes: if weekends are the only times now to get bonuses. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Can some one clear this up please.
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  • mikeflmikefl Member Posts: 861 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Hourly events are those in the calendar section like bonus marks, mirror invasion, dilithium mining, etc. These will be no more except for special weekend events and I guess some are becoming dailies... mirror invasion is impacted.

    The queued missions like STFs, Fleet Alert, etc. will still be there but the bonus marks event reward will change... queued events are still like normal except I think for the vault shuttle event and Mirror Invasion
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I'm only concerned about mirror incursion, but it might get moved to the PvE queue. I've never been able to schedule my play time around bonus marks hour. Thus I do stuff for marks at whatever time playing the mission is convenient for me.

    I barely even notice the current 20% bonus as-is...
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  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Hourly events
    Hourly events have been removed.
    These will be replaced by weekend events.

    So now what no bonus nothing anymore except weekends? :mad:
    Seems pretty lame to cut back on bonuses for player's who can still/need them. :mad:
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  • gogereavergogereaver Member Posts: 166 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    with so much stuff giving dilithum as a reward there is no need for those events. daily's mining both solo and fleet stf and foundry btw featured foundry gives alot. if your not way over your 8k a day doing these things your doing something wrong.
  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    gogereaver wrote: »
    with so much stuff giving dilithum as a reward there is no need for those events. daily's mining both solo and fleet stf and foundry btw featured foundry gives alot. if your not way over your 8k a day doing these things your doing something wrong.

    We are not just talking about dilithium, what about the bonus marks/reputation? Those are now no longer a daily? No more mirror event? No more mining event? No more academy event? Just on the weekends, when some people might not even be able to play (not I myself, but others I am sure).

    So why was this such a good idea? Remind me again! :mad:
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  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    No real reason why they couln't have run parallel...srsly!
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  • gogereavergogereaver Member Posts: 166 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    i noticed i was getting 80 marks without the event. it seems a random reward now.
  • gogereavergogereaver Member Posts: 166 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    seems they where also converted into daily's. so lok at your missions available.
  • admiraltrappittadmiraltrappitt Member Posts: 444 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I was wondering if I could get a responce on wha tis a daily event, and what is weekendly.

    So far I know
    Daily:
    Tour The Galaxy.
    Weekendly:
    Dilitihum weekend
    Rep marks weekend

    What about think like )and especially) MUI?
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  • sirboulevardsirboulevard Member Posts: 722 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    They confirmed in interview that MUI is getting revamped and turning into a weekend event.
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  • xalexkxxalexkx Member Posts: 193 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    seriously, playing without them sucks. we need them back
    i mean, 3 hour long mark event enough to grind the reputation, not a weekend event once in a while
    it will become even more boring than it currently is.
    i want back the hourly events
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  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I'd wanna see daily events. Daily as in they go on for 24 hours, rather than a once-off mission. Something like:

    Sunday: Mirror Invasion weekend
    Monday: Omega mark day
    Tuesday: Romulan mark day
    Wednesday: Dilithium day
    Thursday: Nukara mark day
    Friday: Dyson mark day
    Saturday: Mirror Invasion weekend
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  • kimmymkimmym Member Posts: 1,317 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I think they should have kept the hourly events but ditched the crappy ones.

    I always would hit the good ones, but too many hours of the day were filled with double gathering, officer reports, Vault shuttles, or that mind numbing academy event...

    If they had just put Fleet marks, mirror event, and tour the universe on rotation, then they would have had plenty of room to flesh it out, and I would start running out of time in the day hehe.
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  • ackeheceackehece Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    god no..


    most events were never done and those that were, were done badly.
    maybe daily like the next person suggested but they want to revamp them entirely and make the rewards much! better for them
  • sonnikkusonnikku Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    What? You mean you would rather have a chance to get bonus marks 6 hours out of a day every day as opposed to two days out of a whole month? :P
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  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited January 2014
    I agree with the daily event suggestion. Put in daily bonuses for things people actually like doing in game. Getting rid of the calendar altogether was a bad idea, people complained about it, and yet the change went in.
  • eazzieeazzie Member Posts: 4,226 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    They have only been gone 24 hours. Until the first weekend event kicks in, how can we made a rational judgement that getting rid of the hourly events was a bad idea.

    If the weekend ones fall flat, then yes getting rid of the hourlys was a bad idea. But let's wait to see if the weekend ones live upto expectation first.
  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I rather like the new way. If I logged on when there wasn't an event I wanted, then I would just log off and go do something else. Which resulted in me not playing 80% of the time. This would let me plan ahead.


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  • gonaliusgonalius Member Posts: 893 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    kimmym wrote: »
    I think they should have kept the hourly events but ditched the crappy ones.

    I always would hit the good ones, but too many hours of the day were filled with double gathering, officer reports, Vault shuttles, or that mind numbing academy event...


    But I liked the academy event. Not every time, but as a change from slaughtering aliens in their thousands, it was nice. I also liked Officer Reports, and would try and run a foundry mission whilst that was on (Though I never understood if you've got to start it within that hour, finish it, or if the whole thing had to be done then). The metaphasic was also very nice when I was starting out.

    Vault Shuttle... I never ran. Not once. I probably should have just to try it, but alas...

    As I said in another thread yesterday, most Rep Marks are stunningly easy to get hold of via the ground zones anyway. The only exception being Omega marks, which is a pain.
  • mikeflmikefl Member Posts: 861 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I like the dailies idea... I also liked the calendar as it was except for the events that were unpopular which then could have been made dailies for those that wanted to do them.

    I have since quit doing reputation since there is no way to earn extra XP easily like mirror event... It takes 45k XP daily to complete reps on one person and the average story mission replay or Nukara missions only award about 4k per mission so you would need to run 12 missions to get enough XP for one character each day. I have 8 characters to do so I decided no more for now.
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  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    Sunday: Mirror Invasion weekend

    MU Event is coming back as a CE-esque event. It's also being totally revamped. This is, presumably, the CE-like event that D'Angelo mentioned in a recent interview.

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  • thedoctorblueboxthedoctorbluebox Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    My question is, is every weekend going to be a bonus "whatever" weekend. Cause if they only do it say once a month, then that is not acceptable. Since they have taken away the hourly events, IMO, every weekend needs to be themed for the bonus weekend. They cannot let one weekend slide with no bonus marks or whatever.
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  • saedeithsaedeith Member Posts: 628 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    thedoctorbluebox wrote: »
    My question is, is every weekend going to be a bonus "whatever" weekend. Cause if they only do it say once a month, then that is not acceptable. Since they have taken away the hourly events, IMO, every weekend needs to be themed for the bonus weekend. They cannot let one weekend slide with no bonus marks or whatever.

    It looks like it's going to be an every other weekend deal.
  • thedoctorblueboxthedoctorbluebox Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    saedeith wrote: »
    It looks like it's going to be an every other weekend deal.

    IMO that is not frequent enough. Since it use to be very single day, at the very least, it should now be every single weekend. 2 times a month, with random changing themes, is not enough. This could mean potentially if you want let's say Bonus Marks, that may only come around once every month, or 2 months. That is NOT frequent enough.
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  • xiaoping88xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Weekend is not enough.
    What's next? Are you shutting down the servers on weekdays?
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  • gonaliusgonalius Member Posts: 893 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    xiaoping88 wrote: »
    Weekend is not enough.
    What's next? Are you shutting down the servers on weekdays?
    I want more freedom in my play style, not less.

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  • wilbor2wilbor2 Member Posts: 1,684 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Lets see there removing the events though the week n giving us some dailys then at week ends there not giving us a choice in the missions we do hmm this does not seem to be very democratic to me.
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  • arcanum70arcanum70 Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    wilbor2 wrote: »
    Lets see there removing the events though the week n giving us some dailys then at week ends there not giving us a choice in the missions we do hmm this does not seem to be very democratic to me.

    Last time I checked, Cryptic and 99.99% of every other corporation on the planet were not Democracy's (the worst form of government that there is...it's mob rule).

    With that being said, this weekend TRIBBLE is just asinine. Between this and Arc they are going to lose a HUGE chunk of their core players. It's not like there was a ton of end game stuff to do to begin with, so these events were at least something to do when logging on.
  • xalexkxxalexkx Member Posts: 193 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    still, i dont see the god damn point in removing the hourly events and replacing them with weekend events.
    those will result in much harder grinds
    another good job done by cryptic
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  • kahless2001kahless2001 Member Posts: 130 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Expertise is by far my biggest concern.

    I'm a bit of an alt-oholic and with the introduction of the sponsorship tokens I have been heavily grinding on all of my toons (12 currently and I'm not rolling another until I'm done grinding!) for the 4 reputation systems.

    This means I heavily rely on the availability of the components that go into these systems and the hardest to come-by is Expertise.

    The MI event was rarely at a time suited to me so I'd need to stay up late into the night but there was really no other way to earn meaningful amounts needed for a day by day progression system.

    I really want this particular event available asap and on a very regular basis. If it goes into the PvE queue as a permanent feature then I'll be happy.
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