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Feedback to Cryptic: Suggestions for next Winter/Summer event
trekpuppy
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Since this year's Winter Event is coming to an end I thought Cryptic might appreciate some constructive feedback from us. I take it upon myself to thank Cryptic for their efforts on behalf of the community. To anyone posting in this thread, keep it civil and Cryptic is more likely to actually read your feedback.
Personally I will only add one suggestion. There's been some concern over the years over the mechanism of the PvP races, both in the Winter and Summer events, and I won't repeat those concerns here. I will only suggest one simple solution:
* Make all PvP tags unbound and tradable.
This will allow the PvP content to remain unchanged. It will allow people who enjoy the races to do more of them and earn something from their extra tags and it will give less motivated people an alternative way to obtain tags. The metrics will probably show that less people do the PvP content but the total number of races is assumed to be the same or even larger with the added benefit of removing frustration from customers who feel forced to do the races to earn tags. The game economy will have yet another way to grow and a growing economy is good for the game as is also true in the real world. Please consider this change at your earliest convenience unless there are some major caveats that my ignorance make me blissfully unaware of.
Personally I will only add one suggestion. There's been some concern over the years over the mechanism of the PvP races, both in the Winter and Summer events, and I won't repeat those concerns here. I will only suggest one simple solution:
* Make all PvP tags unbound and tradable.
This will allow the PvP content to remain unchanged. It will allow people who enjoy the races to do more of them and earn something from their extra tags and it will give less motivated people an alternative way to obtain tags. The metrics will probably show that less people do the PvP content but the total number of races is assumed to be the same or even larger with the added benefit of removing frustration from customers who feel forced to do the races to earn tags. The game economy will have yet another way to grow and a growing economy is good for the game as is also true in the real world. Please consider this change at your earliest convenience unless there are some major caveats that my ignorance make me blissfully unaware of.
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the sale of tags would only encourage players to charge grossly unfair and extortionate prices for what amounts to the buyers gaining a random and unknowable reward.
this smacks to me as gambling maybe gambling for only EC but still gambling none the less.
this is only accentuated by the fact that some EC might have been gained by the sale of items that were bought using zen and hence real money.
don't you think that there is enough things in the game that are akin to gambling without adding more to the mix.
if players want epohh enough theres nothing stopping them doing the races even if they only come last they can still easily get the number of tags required to buy the 1 epohh/monkey a day you can start raising anyway.
perhaps if you have more tags then you need you could just lay off the race's and give the not so good racers a chance instead and then they might be more willing to give it a go.
if they dont want to race they cant be all that bothered about getting an epohh/monkey anyway IMO.
why not make it so players can sell their epohh/monkey instead, at least that way the buyer knows exactly what they are getting but if you want to make a killing on the exchange there are many items in the winter and summer event that are saleable anyway so if you have enough tags to last you why not go and do something else instead.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
My suggestion above allows the amount of gambling to remain at a constant level (or even increase for the sake of Cryptic's metrics) but be skewed towards the players who either have better abilities for it or have a higher motivation to do it. Unbinding and monetizing the tags will increase motivation for many players as well as giving an alternative way of acquiring them for people who are less motivated.
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2. Increase rewards for Fishing.
like I said, if you don't need the tags just go and do something else instead.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
With the release of STO-console, I'm sure they'll need something T6 Risian so it can be subsequently retired into the awesome new event choice box.
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How does Cryptic profit from players NOT selling tags on the exchange?
Or you get zero marks because your inventory is filled with Cherry and Extreme Lime Epohhs. I have a characters that hasn't been able to turn in an Epohh in a week despite burning six tags every day. If they need room in the store, delete the pup options.
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1. Out of the gate, jump the rocks.
2. Drift right, roll when you are lined up with the next rocks.
3. Run with the rocks, they'll act like a rail, keeping you on track.
4. Drift left until you are lined up with the bump and the jump, roll.
5. Jump bump, jump jump.
6. Drift left until you are lined up with the gap between all the rocks, roll & run straight.
7. Drift right at the corner, roll toward the gap in the rocks.
8. Run run run. Grab a flag.
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My suggestion for the next winter event is the same as alwasy:
More stuff with ice-skating
Next time you sit on a dev lap (
See, if they actually look at it, you may find that next year the only thing to do is a "Snowman Staring Contest."
-Ice dancing contest (similar to dancing contest to summer)
-Snowball fight PvP...NOT boring PvE
-Fight snow mugatos rather than snowman..like the cave mugato but more expanded.
-Give out Feenguis ships rather than Breen. Not enough Breen around to make a 6th or 7th go around.
WTH is a Feenguis?
Perhaps it's a type of mushroom.
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during the winter event the most you can get for 6 tags is an end result of 100 marks, 200 marks or a winter epohh pet I would put the price of 1 tag at around 20EC or 6 tags for 120EC, anything above 25EC per tag or 150EC for 6 tags would be a grossly unfair and extortionate price IMO.
the return value of marks or pet you are gaining for your EC expenditure simply does not warrant any more then this amount, whats the betting that the EC price for tags far out measures this amount if selling tags was allowed.
the mere fact that some players might not realise they are being fleeced does not give any merit to the comment you have just made.
its not like tags are a particularly rare or hard to get item after all, or for that matter takes any great amount of time for the better players to earn in great quantities.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
my value is calculated on the number of marks cryptic puts on the pets themselves.
you cannot possibly justify paying any more then the maximum price I quoted for a measly 100 or 200 marks value or the pet that cryptic have placed this value on.
I placed the price of 25EC as the maximum as the results are unpredictable but if we work out that 6 tags is valued at an average of 150 marks by cryptic then you cant surely believe that 150 marks is worth any more then 150EC or 1EC per mark if you like.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
Of course, the actual market price would depend on how much people would farm them to sell. Still, seeing as the most likely payout of the race is just 2 tags, I can't see a lot of people bothering to race for under 25k a tag. That's like what, one or two pieces of vendor trash off a random space battle.
You seem to think EC is worth a lot more than it is.
1. Fix the cherry epohh redemption.( I am sure this will be done, but since they didn't manage to get it done during the event it needs to be said)
2. I would like to see the pets removed from both the winter/summer races. If you enter a race, your pets disappear and cannot be re-spawned until you finish. Players have the whole zone to run around with pets out, they don't need to be in the races as well.(this will make more sense after my next point)
3. In the spirit of all things Q, I would love a bit of mayhem and make the winter race a random animal/creature race like the ones that Q transforms you into.( this is why no pets- what a mess that would be trying to keep straight).
Plus, it would be a nice change from all the macro-pounding, bunny-hopping goofs.
Or just make us all flopping gummy fish, and have us try to make it over the first cliff.That would be funny.
Building sand-snowmen on Risa and watching Q wear singlasses while drinking from a coconut sounds like a fun way to mix things up
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a good place would be at the gazeebo or closer to the entrance of the gingebread village
Have to agree the ice fishing was a riot enjoyed it alot and look forward to doing it again next year
It would be awesome.
what other pets sell for is of no consequence as they cannot be bought for tags that cryptic have placed a value of 0EC on and other pets cannot be exchanged for marks, besides this is not the pets you are selling anyway only the tags you require to start raising the pets and as gaining the tags is the quick and easy part and raising them to whatever level you require takes some days I feel its hardly fair or justified to compare winter epohh or summer monkeys with any other types of pets in the game to judge a value, far better to judge their value or the marks they are worth as I did in my last comment.
still if you do not feel guilty in selling them for more and other players are gullible enough to pay it that between the two of you, I am just stating my estimation of the value of tags based on game dynamics.
if you think it justified that a player that buys 6 of your tags for 150k EC will spend a week raising it and probably walk away with 100 marks that's your lookout and I pity anyone who buys from you.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
OMG! That would be the coolest thing (no pun intended)! Risa covered in snow. Freeze the ocean. The PVP race could become a rocket sled race around the powerboard track. Enable shooting while flying the floaters to make the snowball fight more interesting.
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