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Will cryptic do a rerun of the gamma recruit anytime soon?
i did create a jhemadar toon did all the intro and all tath and stop before i joined a faction right when we had this gamma recruit thing going on then i am learning the hard way when i came back to play this toon tath we had to choose a faction to get the reward...
i asked to get the recruit thing in a ticket and they answered me they cant to wait for a rerun and its been since august... so i guess i learned the hard way to read the little text more carfully next time cryptic offer us a reward... my bad....
but now i really would like to see a rerun of the gamma recruit...
any of you got any idea when it could happen if you make the math with the last 2 recruit delta and temporal?
i would really like to see it happen ....
i did create a jhemadar toon did all the intro and all tath and stop before i joined a faction right when we had this gamma recruit thing going on then i am learning the hard way when i came back to play this toon tath we had to choose a faction to get the reward...
i asked to get the recruit thing in a ticket and they answered me they cant to wait for a rerun and its been since august... so i guess i learned the hard way to read the little text more carfully next time cryptic offer us a reward... my bad....
but now i really would like to see a rerun of the gamma recruit...
any of you got any idea when it could happen if you make the math with the last 2 recruit delta and temporal?
i would really like to see it happen ....
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why would they told me tath if it wasnt true?
It is true.
But there is nothing scheduled, nothing announced. They are saying you have to wait, but no one knows if it will be months, years or decades.
Petitions are not allowed in the forums, so don't do that here.
Cryptic has many events planned for 2019. We have no idea when there might be a place in their calendar where they could add a recruitment event. Even if there are places where it might fit, they could re-run the Temporal event instead.
So far, they have only re-run the 2015 Delta Recruitment once, in 2018. The 2016 Temporal Agent has not been re-run yet.
Maybe they will re-run Temporal some time this year, then Gamma next year or in 2021.
There is nothing one can do to "make it happen." Cryptic is well aware that the recruitment events are popular. Delta Recruits was re-run not too long ago, so it is reasonable to assume that it, along with the others, will re-run again. When, though, will be determined by Cryptic, using internal data, and to, as the name says, recruit new players, not because it was requested by players who are already playing the game. The only advice I can give is be patient. Eventually it should come around again.
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It's none of your business why they do or do not make things happen.
You are owed zero explanation, they need not defend it to you.
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.'
Delta event:
Original: 4/2015
Rerun: 4/2018
= 3yrs
So based purely on conjecture the earliest I would expect to see a rerun of other events is three years after the previous one.
Temporal event:
Original: 7/2016
A pure guess on a rerun: 7/2019
Gamma event:
Original: 6/2018
A pure guess on a rerun: 6/2021
Except for the Master Mind puzzle - the puzzle itself was okay, but the interface just wasn't made for this. (Oh, and the z-axis=0 one in Operation Gamma, took me literally hours to find)
Apart from that, I wouldn't mind both a new recruitment event and a rerun, but wouldn't be too excited about a rerun plus with one or two new gadgets. The problem with the latter is probably that it is more work than just "press the button to activate it" due to relaunched missions and some parts taken out of normal arc progression.
I was happy to see it some back as I had mistakenly deleted my Rom Delta toon having never completed all the tasks. They brought it back, I created a new Rom Delta toon and thanked my lucky starts that they were actually nice enough to bring it back.
Although I have not made that mistake again, so I still have all my Temporal and Gamma toons, I would love to see them bring them both back. Whether new players, or old players that missed the event (or accidentally deleted the wrong toon) really should get the chance to play catch up, and those of us that don't need to play catch up don't deserve, or need, anything special if/when they do bring them back.
To avoid one of the huge gripes, if/when they bring them back, maybe add right into the event announcement that no, they are not going to add any more free character slots as every account that exists has already been given those free slots. I remember when I first started, just before DR, only having (I believe) 3 free character slots. Starting with DR, and with every recruitment event since then, they have added more free slots so that now a brand new players gets 6 or more.
People complain about everything. If that were a reason not to do something, we wouldn't have a game at all.
So rerun them all you want, devs, and ignore the naysayers.
I cannot really say the same about Gamma.
The problem is that there really is not a functional Dominion faction, only the one-dimensional Jem'Hadar race who start at endgame and really do not develop in any significant way. That means that almost all of the Transponder goals have nothing to do with the main game but rather all the boring sideline dren like Admiralty, the glacially slow to advance Doff/Commendation stuff and the like. There are only a few missions that have anything to do with the transponder, and it takes forever to get enough specialization points to progress very far on that track unless the Gamma is your main or at least a very often used toon (mine I only use for space farming and R&D any more, I just cannot connect to a J'H character at all and the game is a drag without that connection, though the bug ship is nice for TFOs).
With the rushed and unfinished feel the whole Dominion/ViL thing had, despite a few memorable scenarios (the prevalent theory was that they had to clear the decks for AoD), there is the faint hope that they might go back and finish the Dominion faction which would be a good time to run a modified Gamma Recruit event with actual start-at-the-beginning characters and more in-game stuff to do in the transponder. I just do not think it is at all likely.
Yes, that is what they have said, but the rushed and incomplete feeling is still very prevalent which casts some doubts. Besides, whether that is the reason or just very poor planning, it still could use a lot of improvement if they do not want it to give the impression that AoD caused them to rush ViL, and it is that impression that spawned the theory that it did.
Yes, they would probably have to start at the end of the Iconinan war (since I doubt they would want to do a full Romulan style mini-campaign in Gamma quadrant to move the beginning to an earlier point), but that does not in itself require all Dominion characters to start at endgame levels. That only makes sense for bioconstructs like the Jem'Hadar who are programmed with skills instead of having to learn from experience.
Nor does it mean Dominion characters cannot play earlier scenarios using the same "simulation" schtick the game uses to allow modern characters to play DSC content. In fact, the Jem'Hadar already use a similar justification to play earlier-in-the-timeline content already.
That is irrelevant since Jem'Hadar are the absolute bottom of the barrel, lower when it comes to independent action than the Dosi, Wadi, Karemma, Yaderans, etc.
In the context of DS9 they are nothing but expendable grunts ALWAYS under the command of others (usually a Vorta). In fact, realistically sticking to established canon there is no way anything but a Vorta could be a Dominion military captain, and therefor an STO player-character. But for some reason they chose the Jem'Hadar instead and came up with the schtick about Odo applying Federation style classless rules in his faction, and that same schtick makes all the other races potentially viable as PCs as well (especially the Vorta/Kurilli).
If you take a step back and look at the Dominion from a scripting/plotting point of view Dominion society and modus operandi are completely based on deception. Nothing, especially the Vorta, are what they seem or claim to be. Vorta are the real aggressive action and enforcement arm of the Dominion, the Jem'Hadar are just their meat shields and totally expendable shock troops to bludgeon and distract the enemy while the Vorta do the real work from the shadows. In fact, Jeffery Combs, who pretty much defined the Vorta in DS9, called them "very gentile and pleasant cobras" in reference to their actual role in the Dominion.
It would definitely give new Gamma recruits something to do besides admiralty and the other sideline dreck and little else that the current, very limited Dominion setup sticks them with.
These days you can even start the Gamma story arc first if you want.
Is Gamma directly accesible? Because if you skip to it, you'd have to do some (minor) missions of the "meet Admiral Nevertobeseenagain on Starbase 666" first. But yeah, no actual gameplay needed.
You should be able to make a Feddy/Klink, skip the tutorial and start Gamma right away. I haven't tried if it actually works, though.
EDIT: And I just noticed that patch note has a hilariously wrong date on it.
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.'