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Delta Recruit went Downhill Fast.
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Seemed so cool at first, all the account wide unlocks, the tech upgrades, the awesome 50% extra bonus on top of the 2x XP week.
I know for my part, i was enthusiastic and worked hard to get everything finished on my recruit as fast as possible.
Turns out a lot of the delight was going to become disappointment. Tech upgrades suddenly stuck on a toon that doesnt need them. Account wide dil and stuff locked into level benchmarks, no good for low level alts. And worse of all, the crown jewel of the whole thing, them choosing not to give us the t3 50% bonus xp.
The worst part is, their goal was only off by 6% overall. You'd think with the bugs they had, the issues with people logging in, the emergency maintenance, and all that, that it might just be enough to account for the 6%. It would have made up for the problems at the launch, thats for sure.
Such a shame.
I know for my part, i was enthusiastic and worked hard to get everything finished on my recruit as fast as possible.
Turns out a lot of the delight was going to become disappointment. Tech upgrades suddenly stuck on a toon that doesnt need them. Account wide dil and stuff locked into level benchmarks, no good for low level alts. And worse of all, the crown jewel of the whole thing, them choosing not to give us the t3 50% bonus xp.
The worst part is, their goal was only off by 6% overall. You'd think with the bugs they had, the issues with people logging in, the emergency maintenance, and all that, that it might just be enough to account for the 6%. It would have made up for the problems at the launch, thats for sure.
Such a shame.
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I think that is the least they could do.
And about not getting t3. Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. Sometimes you loose big, sometimes you loose close. Take it as a man.
We're allowed to complain. That's what the forum is for, among other things.
You don't have the right to make personal attacks just because you don't agree. That's petty and childish.
You can always not reply, if you have nothing constructive to add.
(If you didn't throw in that comment, your reply would have been fine.)
Note: I'm on my second character now and I'm blocked from progression because of a bug.
So I'd say I'm within my rights to complain and if you don't like it, tough. Nobody said you had to agree with everything.
My hat is off to you sir for reading my mind.
+1
Seems like it to me.
"We missed the target for the reward, but can we have the stuff anyway?"
Ok let me simplify it for you.
People whined about the vanguard tech upgrades being account bound. Which caused the devs to look at it and change it to character bound. If people didnt whine bout it the devs wouldn't have changed it.
This is what I find funny how people think they are entitled to stuff in this game. The Players missed it by 6%. Keyword: Players. There is no reason for the devs to give us that 6% when we are the ones that failed.
If you're already done with your Delta Recruit, then I'd say the event was a resounding success!
"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."
Replaying the revamped storylines, i now understand why things happen in sto. ^^ until now the whole undine thing attack earth thing for example, came out of nowhere for me because i never played the revamped fluidic dynamics....
I count this event as a win for me personally.
I'm just having fun leveling my DR alt, and enjoying the bonuses I've unlocked like the VR kit modules at 10 and 20. Plus piles of dil, over 10K just from playing story missions and doing a bit of doffing.
To me the point is they've made leveling up an alt easier than ever, and added a little variety to the story episodes by adding the Iconian bits. The extra rewards are a bonus, not something I'm grinding for.
The part about devs "chosing" not to give us the tier 3 is just lol
Allso in my opinion the Delta Recruitment is a great succes I`m still going to make 3 more chars for it
Am I doing it right?
Besides that we didn't learn anything new.
My only gripe is that the Aegis doff is character bound. I've got another toon completely leveled in R&D and I can't move the doff to him.
It's like you read my mind. I have millions in energy credits, a pile of Dilithium, and some awesome gear. All from three delta recruits. The xp bonus would a been nice. But even without it I'm leveling quickly.
The degree of entitlement is strong with this one. Again..
The Doffchat channel had people wanting others to stop playing missions to prove a conspiracy idea that the progress counter was a sham and that Tier3 was a given. So if I was wanting to blame someone I would point at the conspiracy theorists who didn't level and expected rewards anyway.
That's not entirely true. I have been working ten day stretches and long hours at work otherwise would've leveled my character further. I'm sure many other people have similar life demands that are outside of cryptic's scope. As for the rewards being harder to achieve, that's a positive to me since it pushes people.
Sorry but I know cryptic has screwed up with Dr and the grindy anniversary events but I'm having a blast with recruits and some of y'all just seem whinny.
How many people had the week off in the UK but barely got any mission done due to bugs like in Manhunt that happen early on in the mission chain but will not complate?
Yesterday my recruit, Klingon KDF, hit 50 doing the Second Wave arc, just before Boldly they Rode. I did all the missions and I could complete everything, nothing bugged on me.
So what are players doing? Rushing through content, skipping parts? That may cause that you cannot finish a mission.
Treasure Trading Station had the bugged map transfer which had an easy workaround, that got fixed at next opportunity and could have been skipped for the moment.
I heard about the last Breen episode being bugged which was a non issue for the vast majority of players who didn't get anywhere near that one before it was fixed, me included.
other than that? Haven't heard of any bugged missions at all.
Let the stupid suffer
The players are never to blame unless they break EULA or otherwise misuse a product.
In this case, Cryptic had unrealistic expectations of how the player base would react to the offered rewards. There is no other cause or explanation although there is a lot to be done to see where, when, and how the break occurred.