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Cherry Epohh Fiasco
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I can not believe the cherry epohh fiasco is still going on. It's been over a month since they discovered they were not awarding cherry epohhs. Then they "Fixed it" and now everyone is drowning in Cherry epohhs they cannot redeem for marks. Don't they have a QA department to stop things like this for happening? They must subscribe to the Microsoft school of software development. Distribute a large TRIBBLE pile of software and fix it later. Or hope no one notices. I suppose we really have to wait a year to solve this problem. Well I'm done venting now. I suppose all you trolls will tear me apart now. Go for it.
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Best guess, they are critically understaffed and don't have time to do any of it correctly before they have to rush for the next 'event'. Once or twice per year they'll grab a bunch of low hanging fruit to fix, fixes that may or may not hold just to say they try. And that will be it.
There's no point in being surprised. And no point in hoping it will get better.
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This is not gonna break your game. At worst, you lose out on 200 marks. Bad, but not killing you. Still some ways to go:
- keep it as a pet, looks good
- keep it until next year, hoping it'll be tradeable then
- count your losses, discard and move on
But keep things in perspective. One lost way of gaining marks, but you can still play everything else in the game. You don't even have to rearrange stuff like with the loadout bug a year plus ago. Keep calm and STO. Or GTFO.
Can I Haz Ur Stuffs?
Perhaps a delicious dessert? Waiter, I'd like a Cherry Eppoh Fiasco with extra whipped cream, please.
(This is not semantically equivalent to "tell me everything you know about Epohhs." If I wanted to know about Epohhs, I would have invested the time. I don't, so I haven't, and I won't. Now, if there was some sort of activity which involved phasering the little pests for fun and profit, I might be interested.)
Dear Cryptic,
Make it so.
Yours,
Jack Bergins
BCW
What would be nice, of course, is some indication that it's on the devs' radar, somewhere, and will get fixed sometime, when they get around to it, when they have programmer-hours to spare for a minor annoyance to some people. It does worry me that communication is so poor, here... I mean, according to the patch notes, there are currently two "known issues" ("Some maps with reflections from windows may have visual issues" and "Klingon Captains cannot wear some of the winter scarves"), and we all know there are more issues than that, and the devs know it too, and they know we know, so why not come right out and say so?
So while a solution is not going to solve world peace or help those poor souls in Syria, in terms of this game, it is indeed a Fiasco. If anyone wants to weirdly equate the two with the OP, can I suggest you stop playing this and all other games and get on a plane to a troubled hot spot and help out.
Two new rewards were added, which we did not need or ask for, one of which did not appear for another week, and then no one checked to see if these new rewards could be handed in?!? That is indeed a fiasco.
Unless Cherry Epohhs are the "Joker Card" of Epohhs, the implementation was not thought through, in a really "ludicrous or humiliating way."
I really can not believe not one of the developers did not pick this up. The Epohh mechanics have been with us since New Romulus. You grow them and trade them in, keeping the odd one for a pet.
Personally, I have on average 5-6 Cherry and Lime Epohhs per character. I played every day but two over the Winter event. I have at least 55 of these useless critters hogging space in my inventory, and they represent 55 character days worth of useless rewards. I would like to get rid of them at some stage. Please Cryptic!
200 per or the inventory slot(s) that goes towards hanging onto them until and if they finally fix it. Remember, so people got more than one of this things. I have one character with five of them. Plus add in the Extreme Lime- Rares too, same problem.
No, not game breaking. As long as I can fly my promo Connie in sector space and do DOFF and Admiralty- the game isn't broken for me even if suddenly everything else failed. I play this game because I have very low requirements.
That said, a game company offers a service. Part of this service is a implied best effort to actually make their events work, and the promised rewards available. Cryptic consistently fails at this, and consistently fails to patch those mistakes in a reasonable period of time. I don't mind the former so much, but the latter is very disappointing.
Inventory space is at a premium. Bank space is at a premium. And, I need marks.
I entered a ticket about it just a few days ago. The response I got was that it was an "Unreported bug". OMG LoL. I have 10 elder cherry epohhs and two extreme lime on one character. Between my four, that number is close to 30 total.
I simply choose not to get all worked up about the functionality (or lack thereof) of a non-canon, completely optional part of the game experience. I hope that whichever game designed came up with that horrid mess is now on the streets making less than minimum wage driving for Uber. (It wouldn't be punishment enough, but it would be something.)
During Q's Winter Wonderland, I would have gladly killed, multiple times daily, that idiot female raving over Epohhs. No, they're not cute. No, I don't want one. Alas, the game designers did not deign to make her killable--as she so richly deserved. Adding insult to injury, that.
So self-centered.
What is optional and what's not optional in a game as wide ranging as this is up to each individual. For me, the winter and summer events are actually one of only two reasons to play (the other being Doffing and Admiralty).
The rest? Boring.
You don't get to decide what's important for others. And cryptic for their part- should work to make sure that all components of their offering are working as planned. They offered this entertainment, what they offer should work and if it doesn't it should have timely fixes. That it doesn't reflect badly on them, and they should be called on it.
Initially.. nobody was getting the Cherry Epohhs. I'm not even sure if people were complained about it, but a few folks made the observation that they weren't getting them. This "issue" was fairly quickly remedied in a patch. Why wouldn't they fix the issue that their fix created.
We were much better off before they added them.
Based upon first-hand experience, I'm not sure "honor" is the appropriate word, but they sure as hell do teach you not to whine and snivel.
it should be served flambé
Cherry Epoh Jell-o dessert, yum yum...
Nope. It is not "a complete failure". There's nothing "complete" about it. Some parts of some system on the far side of the game do not work here. They weren't extremely advertised, nor central to the game, not even central to the event.
200 marks is, depending on how you get your marks otherwise, setting you back maybe 2-3 days for this particular mark type you're coveting. Unless you're on some kind of deadline, three days may be annoying, yes, but they're not that big of a deal in a game like this. If you have 5 cherrys on a toon, bad luck (pure chance says you shouldn't get that many), but it's still only half a month. And everything else apart from these marks isn't affected.
"or inventory space" - if the marks are more valuable to you than inventory space, keep the epohhs, probably it will get solved next year. You haven't lost anything when it gets solved (okay, you had the inconvenience of one less inventory slot). If inventory space is more valuable to you than the marks, delete the epohhs, you now have lost the marks but no effect on your inventory. I'll stand by "at most you lost 200 marks" (the "per" is a correct addition though). Hanging on may mitigate, then you lost less. If it doesn't, you won't lose more.
I like it! A little brandy in it, and they light it up at the table. Like Bananas Foster, only with decorative antlers.
Sadly, I know it's not 100%. Cause you know they've stopped caring about fixing it the instant this year's WW ended.
I didn't decide anything about what's important for others. I indicated what I was (and am) doing.
More to the point--since I am a software engineer and architect of 35 years professional experience, I understand that issues are prioritized and worked according to several factors, and I see no reason to question the heuristics that Cryptic applies when deciding to fix one bug or another. Unless one of us happens to be on the management team or the actual product owner (as in Agile Scrum), then we can have all the opinions in the world about what ought to be done next and how things ought to be prioritized--but those carry no weight in the real world.
So please, argue with me some more. I enjoy it.