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johnthomas00
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Now I know that normally it's not nice to compare different MMO's and games against each other since they are different, but I think that compareing features can sometimes help. Cryptic's other MMO Neverwinter also has dailies and weeky quests and missions for the players to do BUT unlike STO the timers are set to renew not based on 20 hour limits on when the player completed/started the mission but instead they renew each day around 8am est with weekies resetting on Monday. This makes doing dailies SSSOOOO much easier then doing them in STO. You don't have to think about what time of day you did the mission last to remember about when you can do it again, just that it resets at 8 am est (or whatever that is in your timezone). I really wish STO would convert the daily timers we have to that system. It would make life so much easier.
I know that has probably been brought up before, but I hadn't seen it so please no ( oh not this dead horse thing again) please.
I know that has probably been brought up before, but I hadn't seen it so please no ( oh not this dead horse thing again) please.
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Still, Cryptic is good at demonstrating that common sense is uncommon.
If remembering when you last did a mission is difficult, one might decide to make note of when they did it - or - perhaps start a DOFF assignment with a similar duration. Perhaps one could put forth the argument to have countdowns for all such 20 hour limits rather than just some of them. That would make it easier to keep track (even though there are so many ways to keep track already) for some...without removing the ability for those that are interested, motivated, and capable of keeping track of time from being able to complete various things faster.
Of course STO is a world wide game with a single server for everyone so your fixed reset would end up being at the worse possible time of the day for thousands other people but really, who care about that? certainly not Mr OP who didn't think about anyone but his own petty self by making this selfish whine thread.
As for the first answer, oh man Darramouss1 is not selfish oh no he is not, he is just incredibly clueless , how could anyone make a statement as TRIBBLE as " 24 hour cooldown makes more sense than 20 hours cooldown" and not realize the absolutly enormous level of stupidity contained in that claim, It's just hard to believe.
I mean seriously a 10 year old could figure out why a 20 hour cooldown makes a tons more sens than a 24 hour one, but i'll be nice and explain:
THE COOLDOWN IS 20 HOURS AND NOT 24 HOURS SO THAT DOING YOUR DAILYS LATE ONE DAY DOESN'T FORCE YOU TO DO THEM LATE EVERYDAY THEREAFTER OR SKIP ONE DAY TO GET BACK ON SCHEDULE!!!!!!!!!
grraaawwww people!!! this is basic commun sense, this design was never chosen to allow no life adicted gamers a chance to do their daily event once every 20 hours exactly and get their grind ship in 21 day instead of the normal 25 that's just a side effect. The 20 hours cooldown was put in for adult with a job and a familly who can't always do their daily at the exact same time every day.
Just chose a 4 hour window, say betwen 8 PM and midnight and as long as you do you daily during that time window you can maintain that shedule ad vitam eternam, how bllody hard a concept is that to grasp?
thank god the devs of this game have more foresight than these forumite
I think you need to take a deep breath or you're going to have blood pressure issues.
Yes, there are benfits to a 20 hour system, but I note that you conveniently neglect to mention any form of benefit to a true daily system. Such as:
- I usually play at night time but I'm out to dinner with my wife and friends and won't be able to tonight. I know, I'll quickly do that before I go to work. I'm able to do that because I'm not restricted by a 20 hour system.
- I'm on night shift this week and today (Sunday) I have sports commitments when I usually play. As a result I'll be doing my dailies later in the day. Lucky it's a true daily system as a 20 hour system would have prevented me from doing it before my sports commitment and it would have counted down when I was at work on Monday night, meaning I miss out.
Example like this and many others I can think of show that a true daily system is not a detriment to people with families. In fact, I would put it to you that it's even more family friendly. It allows you to do your tasks earlier in a day to accommodate a family, not force you to do it later and later and later if you're going to be busy with family commitments when the 20 hour timer runs down.
In regards to when the daily clock starts and when it finishes, I'm sure Cryptic would be able to detect where you're playing and make your timer reset at midnight in your timezone. If they couldn't , well, then I think they should look for new careers.
For example, every day at midnight GMT, everyone daily CD are reset. Even if you did the daily 5minutes before.
And yes, I agree, it's so much better than what we currently have. Unless for a small minority that will wake up very late/soon in the night just to do a daily in STO, and try to "earn" a day by doing them exactly 20h later every day.
/ten chars
Now that my eardrums are busted.
You mean like the Epohh missions which stupidly run on the 24 hour cycle?
Dilithium refining resets every day at 5 PM PDT.
Lord of the Rings Online resets their daily timers at 2 AM EDT.
I guess there must be plethora of lazy idiots in this world.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
If you want it then you are probably an idiot. With the current system I can do things often than 1 time per 24h. Do you want to nerf it?
Please include me on your idiot list. With the current system, I lose an occasional day since I have real-world obligations that don't allow for the flexible schedule that I had as a college student. With a standard reset time, I could run a daily at my convenience.
I support this "nerf"!
These things get later and later every day because with a life I find it impossible to log in at exactly the same time each day to run these.
If they could be switch to 20 hours like all the other daily quests then I for one would be a very very happy captain.
I am hardly an idiot. With the current system if I do it at night than I can't do it say, in the morning. What happens if I can't do it the next night? I miss until the following day because it completely locks me out for 20 hours. Now as I said BEFORE if the BULK of the players like the 20 hour timer than that's cool, but do not assume I am a idiot or a fool. There are GOOD reasons for a 24-hour daily reset system that other games use as well. Such as the ones that people have laid out.
I didn't think people would become so... let's say "zealous" over this and I was again curious about people's ideas and not trying to start a flaming war with people slinging insults at each other so freely.