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If it weren't for the carrot on the end of the stick, would you still play the queues over and over?
archer01
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I am curious if people play the queues over and over primarily for the rewards, or if the rewards are just a bonus and people actually enjoy running the same missions over and over. I realize it's not always a black or white answer so I'd like to hear some thoughts on the matter.
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You mean the new breach? I did it like 2 times; once for curiosity and once when I got asked to accompany a mate. So... no; even with carrot I don't.
I do think that because of the carrot I do it even less. Its not interesting enough to live by Cryptics clock but interesting enough to get slightly annoyed to look at 2-5 marks to delete at the end of the... event.
Neverwinter does have weekly version for reps currencies and some are soloables.
Also when your sitting on a pile of purple ore and trying to shove it through an 8K a day + 1k doff refinement hole you do get tired of adding to the ore pile after a while when you are flying "generic".
Some STFs and Red Alerts are a decent fight, but after the 10th time through you are basically just looking at completing it efficiently for the currencies. There isn't enough variety in the AI responses or map elements to make any of the 'set piece' content consistently interesting.
For fun, I do the episodes, or Foundries, or put a new ship build together and test it in a Starbase 24 run, that sort of thing. (To a certain extent, the battlezones also, they're sort of a blend of do it for fun/for rewards.)
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The only rare ones are those from the wrong era; Constitution (T6) & Universe; the NX kind of, but far easier then the other as a lobi ship. All other major canon ships are easily available in c-store and fleet yards at T6.
If you have multiple chars sitting on multiple piles; meaning 8k+ * x chars with any other effort but to click (or not even that if sub/lifer) should net you enough weekly zen to get any hot potato when it gets released (unless you are not selective and classify every ship released as hot potato).
Too bad non-event queues don't drop anything but boring numerics.
* Constitution
* D-7
* T'liss
I'm quite old school when it comes to Star Trek. Also it's not a matter of "the click" it's a matter of how much that click does which hasn't changed since this game launched from what I understand.
Ouchy. Yeah, need deep pockets for these oldies. Have you tried Paladin with Ranger Skin? While not a Show ship it looks really nice and can deliver some mean weapon damage.
Kind of; game had completely different systems and no dil; that came about 2-3y after release IIRC. But then it was 8k. The +1k for vet came a tad later I think.
I enjoy replaying the STF's regardless of the rewards. Unfortunately rather than emphasising a great experience, Cryptic keep making things easier, so in essence, they made STO 'Farmville'. I live by the creedo 'you get what you're given', whilst alot of people demand 'more free stuff'.
More often than not, because of work and family, I am only able to play on the weekends. You know how long it would take to complete a rep for the first time playing only 2 days a week? 20 weeks, or 140 days, or 4.66 months depending on how you want to look at it. I've got better things to do, and games with FAR better gearing systems to play, so I'll stick to only playing STO when a new mission drops.
But Cryptic has ridden this Reputation thing to death. The Dev Team has become one trick ponies whose creativity has either atrophied or is being stifled. The Tzenkethi storyline mission is well done and very enjoyable. It is fun to play and obviously hints at more to come. The "New! Improved!" Tzenkethi STFs are boring copy/paste jobs of content previously released. I am being generous by calling them content. Stopped playing the Reps at all after the Iconian one came out. Didn't finish it either. Rewards not worth it. Same old same old.
For the Tzenkethi queues, I found them to be fairly equal in terms of time/reward; but from Gravity having a queue time of -- obviously not many others did! I kinda prefer Gravity over Front. Just run and fetch! Have a EP2Engines and you're golden! Seen too many morons in Front making the STF last 30mins and netting minimum marks.
For me PvE queued maps are the perfect mix of entertaining activity and accumulation of rewards for my character’s progression. Both are interdependent.
So if your question is “do you still keep on playing Iconian maps even though you have the Iconian set complete” I’d answer “sure I do as I can use the dil and the ec that I get because of it”.
If the question however is “would you still play those map even if they would not pay out anything” then my answer would be “no thanks”.
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The unique reward is why I do the special events, but only if the queue is fun..
With that said, I seem to be the few that liked the Mirror Invasion because I thought it was fun. You fly and just shoot stuff - regular ships. Nothing fancy, no things to avoid, no tricks. Just shoot 'em up, like a slightly longer Deep Space Encounter.
I wish there was more stuff like that in the game. Or there were higher level DSEs. The only ones that ever show up in the Delta Quadrant are the borg ones, which I dislike
Yeah I've been using those ships but that doesn't help my KDF or Romulan characters. Doesn't matter much, I spend more time and money over in SWTOR since STO isn't giving me a better game compared to other generations of the show which have ships all over the three factions.
on the bright side - you can now do it in chunks whenever you need a bit of extra purple rock, instead of having to wait for a specific weekend...and then turning it ALL in during that weekend
and close to 200K would take literal HOURS, even after they added those higher denomination projects, so that = early carpal tunnel
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