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This announcement sounds awesome for players.
Link to announcement details: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10655784
Again, I really like this idea & implementation. Well done, Cryptic.
Link to announcement details: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10655784
Again, I really like this idea & implementation. Well done, Cryptic.
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*hint hint @ambassadorkael#6946 *
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Most people didn't do that for weekend events, and that's all that's covered by this. Weekend event rewards were also already account-wide, so your alts would always be able to get anything that you had earned in older ones. It does benefit those who start playing in the future, or who missed an event.
There have been a few news items recently that never got a discussion thread in GNN. Both of the queues for Season 14 and the announcement of the release date for Season 14 are also on this list. You would think that we might want to discuss those things, but apparently not.
A great change for once, now they just need to listen to all the other complaints (HINT -> The queue UI !!!!!!)
What I'd like to see them do is do that to the 3 week events, but still have the dilithium award be per character. So people who just want the new item can do it on one character, but those that want dilithium can do it on all their alts
Only since Arena of Sompek (I think) happened, there's a lot of previous stuff that's been unavailable before that.
If this change is not just for weekend events but ALL of these types of "Run mission (X) (Y) times to get (Z) token to fill the rep" type events, then this is incredible news!
If it's literally just for the weekend events, it's still good news as those folks who have missed previous ones will now eventually be able to catch up.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
the last sompek item was per character
BUT, if we think of the bigger picture this is a JOKE. Players still wait for rewards from old events to be make aviable, after years allready passed. And someone decides that that we need a retro store for some events that literally just been implemented ?.
Yes they may be people that missed this but there are a TON of more players that missed the olders ones ...
Before this we neaded updated pheonix and posibility of a re-roll of recruitment events imo.
And ... using words "popular demand" ... the hundreats of players asking for a fix of the que UI is not considered "popular demand" also ?
Otherwise good stuff.
First Contact Day wasn't a weekend event, so it probably will not be included in this. It ran for a full week.
There have only been the 2 weekend events that used the reputation project unlock method so far, the 1st runs of Arena of Sompek and Kobayashi Maru. Nothing else fits the criteria for this store, but it does look like they plan to do more of these after the 2nd Kobayashi Maru this weekend, so more will be added to it over time.
Agreed 100%. The only 21-day event I'd consider doing at this point is Crystaline Entity because of how quick the queue is.
If this implementation was moved to the new Sompek, the Mirror Invasion, and The Breach (event version), I'd be more likely to give them multiple runs as I'd only need one per day but could run more for Marks I need on alts (rather than feeling I need to run it on everyone and getting burned out just at the thought of running it X times just for the reputation reward).
And have you noticed, we haven't had a Crystalline Entity event in a LONG time.
*SPECULATION*
I believe the reason for that is because the Devs are redesigning it. Again. They just don't want their 3 week events to be completed so easily, which is why we get timers and cut scenes that can't be skipped. They won't rerun the Crystalline event until they've decided just exactly what they want to do with it. And that redesign may be close to seeing the light of day.
/speculation
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
There is always another side to an story. In other MMOs they don't allow to get "past" event stuff. What's the use of doing them? these should be a "one time" rewards only for compensating those who truly were here at a specific time when it was originally run. Heck, either that or open everything else it was ever given away like Shard of Possibilities, the EMH doctor, the golden NAGUS ship or Leeta.
Original STO beta tester.
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I'm missing something. How does Cryptic allowing other players that missed some previous event earn a reward or some new players that were not playing during that previous event earn a reward negate or hinder you? What other positive(s) is there for "one time" rewards besides showing-off & caressing fragile egos? Heck, October is next month & I think Cryptic allows that "Hearts & Minds" episode to rerun anytime there's a Fri. the 13th & Halloween. If you already have that DOFF how does it hurt you if others are allowed to earn it?
Your examples seem mixed too in validity if I'm not mistaken. Isn't the Shard of Possibilities still earned whenever they have those limited-time Episode Reruns? The EMH doctor if you are referring to the DOFF is rewarded from the "All That Glitters" episode isn't it? The golden Nagus ship &/or Leeta seemed like they were special deliveries for whatever reasons to certain players &/or that Leeta might've been that promotional charity donation I had read about.
Just like the Infinity Boxes & the Red Matter Capacitors it seems Cryptic has somewhat adapted to a at first exclusiveness then later down the road open it up for inclusiveness sometimes with limitations.
And really, what's the point of this store? We still have to wait for weekend events to roll around, still only get the 3 days to do them, only now we get to choose from things that were already available in the past? What's the point? Who does this help?
...and while we're on it, I'd still like to see some of the obscure prepurchase incentives added in. Chromodynamic armor, phaser satellite turret console, neodymium deflector dish...
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> It helps people missed the previous ones.
But then what? Won't they still be behind on items? Are we going to have events that don't have any new items introduced so we can catch up? What about the people who already have anything? Are they just going to end up with extra vouchers they can't use?
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
They run for 96 hours, so you could easily get 4, and push it to 5 if you have the freedom in your schedule. Right now, there are only 2 things that for certain will be in there, so anyone who didn't get those and started now could be all caught up in as few as 3 events, or up to 6 events. That's assuming the old things and the new things will all cost 3 vouchers.
This is how the big seasonal events used to work, except account-wide. It's very good system.