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Suddenly failing a lot of Doff assignments
shuvool
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My level 56 admiral is suddenly failing a lot of Doff assignments. Before today, I would maybe get one or two failures a week. Today, I got 3 in the first hour or so, and they were assignments that had a blue or green (or both) doff assigned to them...you know, like those treat a bone fracture or confiscate contraband ones. Maybe it's just an unlucky roll, but it's something I noticed. Anyone else seeing similar increased rates of doff failures?
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Fixing the bug exposed your doffs for the failures they really are
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Something is completely off here!
I had all 4 of my characters fail the 'Confiscate Contraband' mission and probably at least 20-30% of my DoFF missions overall failed. That's MUCH higher then normal, especially for my main who has all Blue or better DoFFs.
I'm going to see if it continues, but I think something is definitely up. The fail rate of Duty Officer Missions is much higher since the patch.
Have to agree here, something's not quite right, I usually never fail confiscate missions which I make sure I do every time one is available on 19 characters, yet last night I failed almost every single one.
I never worry about selecting specific doffs for missions I set the option for enable first officer recommendations and just go with whatever pops up, it speeds up the possess tremendously and I don't see any difference in fail/success crit rates as the next guy, more often or not I only experience one or two fails and seem to get my fair share of crit success.
as far as I can see the fail/success crit difference in going with FO recommendations and taking the extra time to select your own doffs is so small its vastly outweighed by the time you save in starting the missions.
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The vast majority of my DOFF crew, 300+ and growing are Very Rare. I have a smattering of Rare Security Officers, but try to keep them off of the assignments. Also have a handful of Ultra Rare and one or two Epic DOFFs. Keeps the failures to a minimum.
Pretty interesting how that confiscate mission close to never failed inspite its quite bad odds even with purple doffs. Maybe they fixed a bit more than listed...
My 3 characters had a normal fail rate yesterday at least.
I noticed this as well. It's not even just assignments which are considered "high risk " or are rare but very routine assignments are failing ( think the 30 minute doctor-department assignments ) . And this is a recent nerf , it wasn't the case a few weeks ago .So this is in addition to the "xp-rebalance " thing which we debated .
I don't think that's it. I have a "full rack" of purple doffs so all my missions are run with them. The purple guys are noticably weaker, only slightly, but it's noticeable. It seemed to happen around the time of the map change. I assumed it is because they want us to buy ultra-rare doffs from future lockboxes and bundles.
and, I suppose that's possible
One thing I have noticed over the long term is that the RNG in STO has a tendency to be, for lack of a better term, streaky. I do sometimes notice that ridiculously improbable failures often come in groups, or are more common at one time than another.
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this ... when you do have failures on routine assignments they come in "groups " ,i.e. : it's a whole bunch of them .There's zero logic to it though, I have had it happen on purple ,green ,white doffs , in short : of any variety .Its seems to be completely random .
Getting four or five outcomes in a row that each have (e.g.) a
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My usual is anything from 0-2 .
This week I remember seeing one toon with about 5-6 injured Doffs .
... if that counts for anything ...
Interesting read. I had not realized perceptions were SO far off base in so many people. But then, I have been familiar with statistics for many years so I guess my perceptions are not the norm across groups that did not take the classes I did. That said, I would think that education in these areas would help people to understand. Not everyone went to a high school that offered Stats as a full-fledged course or needed it for their college degree. But I am sure a lot of people would get it very quickly if shown.
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Yeah, in reality true randomness often results in clustered results. http://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like/
What you are describing is correct - when people see clusters they tend to see a pattern where none exists because they are looking at a small group. They think random but what they really want to see is uniformly distributed.
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So while it's possible that there is some new failure-bug, I suspect 90% of this feeling is from people suddenly seeing their failures.
Obviously, not really proof of anything, but I do consider it odd.
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Me too, still failing a very high number of Contraband Missions no matter what DoFFs I use.
Part of me is suspecting a stealth nerf here, I hope I'm wrong. I can tell you though, it's not my imagination, I used to fail this mission once or twice a week across 4 characters, now I have about a 50% failure rate overall.
The failure rate of Contraband missions is MUCH higher then it was before the patch.
This is with 9% chance of Failure, 2% chance of Disaster.
Same thing on both characters. Again, not really proof of anything -- but very odd considering just how often I succeed with this mission.