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Any benefits to higher scores? Always seem to get a single trace, no matter what score.
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I'd be happy it worked right and registered for the daily. I thought that was the point of last night's patch, it's still not registering in some places.
Like the Dyson Battlezone, if you are supposed to take two areas in the City and you do the Park instead and complete two areas there, you DO NOT get the mission completion credit. You earn stuff but what you did was not the assigned objectives.
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.'
Thanks, any ballpark what kind of score would be needed for a chance at better than white traces? So far my best was 840ish I think.
I can confirm that the Sol system particle doesn't advance the quest, other locations have worked so far but this one is dead, Jim.
my best so far has been 1400.
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Hehe, I got a fragment of a score of 2800 last night. That was awesome
2800? I've done perfect runs a few times and topped out at 2600 each time.
So far for me it seems like if I break 2000 I have a better than even chance of getting a sliver, with a small (~10%) chance of a shard and a very small (~5%?) chance of a fragment.
I call schenanigans because I can perfect the game consistently and can tell you the max score is 2600.
Incidentally, a score of 2400 give me a sliver most of the time (70-80%), a shard at times (10%), rarely a fragment (2%), and any other time it ends early or gives me a trace.
Impressive considering the highest score you can get is 2600.
Do not know about anyone else, but I would have preferred a STF type mission to earn the Commendations, like what was done with the Crystaline Entity onetime.
But Noooooo it had to be this mini game, I have to wonder to the game Admin(content creators) ever consider that some of the content they put out should not have been put up!
Collecting Particles is sooooo boring, the Featured episode was a little frustrating but better than collecting particles to make a stable Omega.
It is a shame you can only collect Commendations for the Featured Episode only ONCE, as despite the annoying maze part I would do it again for more Commendations.
So now my main char has put in 400 Commendations for the Kobali Cruiser, but that is how it will remain as I will not be going back to do the Omega mini game, then again my main char is Tactical so getting a Cruiser is not really important to me.
Still the particle collection mini game sucks and is so boring I would rather watch some ice melting over time.
Had my rant feel better now.
Whoops, misremembered
But despite that, and the occasional bugs, it's quite fun. It is great getting everyone out into these zones we don't usually visit. Makes you think about how it would be great to get out to them more often. Perhaps less things in the UI and at ESD and more things spread out across the planets (Andorran doffs, boffs and weapons only available at Andoria for instance).
Loving Q's little comments as we go around - I hope next year we have his voice. Would be amazing.
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Would be nice if there was some kind of guaranteed base that the weights could be added on top of.
Getting a trace for a score > 2000 is kind frustrating, when one could have done nothing at all and gotten the same thing.
Oh man... I really suk at this game then, the best I've done so far is 700.
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The lowest scores I had when I received Omega Silvers were 900 and 920, but I had plenty of scores over 1,000 that only gave me commons.
I suppose that is the crux of the matter. When your high score repeatedly gets the same result as if you just leave it running without moving the arrow (indeed, most bug crashes on it also give trace) then what is the point in playing? I think it is the combo of the impossible-to-fail plus extreme-rare-higher-reward makes the game not as rewarding as it could be. For me, the main fun is being sent on a galaxy-wide chase and seeing normally empty maps brimming with players.
5, 5, 5, 5, 5
10, 10, 10, 10, 10
15... etc...
Enh... I don't know the exact specifics though. It might start at 10 each and go up every fifth one. Although, my math suggests that if that is true the minigame has 65 particles to catch.
EDIT: I don't think that's it since the last particle is worth either 100 or 50 points, and the way I did the math would require it to be 70. But it's the same principle, with different numbers.
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