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OMEGA GRIND NOW A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME!!!
bubblegirl2015
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Completing the minigame will always score you a single Omega Trace at the very least. The better you score, the greater your chance to win Omega Slivers, Shards, or even Fragments. Beginning with this year’s update, all Omega materials will be changed to Bind-to-Account-on-Pickup, rather than being tradeable with other players
Why nerfing the traditional Omega grind to bind on pick up really? This was one of the reasons why some of us year after year kept coming to STO. I know many will disagree but just stating this is the WRONG turn for this MMO.
Completing the minigame will always score you a single Omega Trace at the very least. The better you score, the greater your chance to win Omega Slivers, Shards, or even Fragments. Beginning with this year’s update, all Omega materials will be changed to Bind-to-Account-on-Pickup, rather than being tradeable with other players
Why nerfing the traditional Omega grind to bind on pick up really? This was one of the reasons why some of us year after year kept coming to STO. I know many will disagree but just stating this is the WRONG turn for this MMO.
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Pretty much killed any interest I had in doing it outside of the daily.
Paying out more at lower scores is fine, but that doesn't make up for the loss of tradeability, nor can we know how meaningful this increase even is until we see it in action. Not to mention, said increase doesn't really help people who already did consistently well (when the game doesn't bug out and end early, anyway). So while I don't share OP's all-caps fervor over this, I do agree it's a bad decision.
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People do it in every mmo. Hell, I spent a better part of a year just logging in to play the exchange.
To be fair - you could make a decent amount of EC selling Omega stuff on the Exchange. making it all BTA takes that aspect out of the equation going forward.
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And as someone already said, we don't know how much the increase will actually be, so we have no way of comparing anything.
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
A nice quality of life change might be being able to craft the "quality" variant so we can more easily get gear to Epic.
Honestly it just means said Bot Farmers will farm a different commodity.
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I want some of them for the 4X quality boost, maybe even higher with the new crafting option. That's very useful for things like Mark II lock box weapons.
For "everyday upgrading" yes Phoenix is the way to go. Getting piles of dil is much less work than grinding 81 omega bits.
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While having the Phoenix always available is a good thing, they cannot compare to that particular boost.
And to say that Omegas are not worth it is just a straight up lie.
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
What's worth more? Winter gubbins that are 90% cosmetic or only usable in Q's Winter Wonderland or crafting mats that make really good tech upgrades that don't require Dilithium?
And again... what's worth more? Summer Gubbins that are pretty much all cosmetic or crafting mats that make really good tech upgrades that don't require Dilithium?
The "Stopping the bot farmers" theory is sound as it could be that the farmers are making dozens of alt accounts to spam the nodes, increasing the load on the server. Hence players complaining about spikes disrupting their collection.
The TRUTH of the matter is we don't have the data Cryptic has access to. So we can only speculate. I admit I mostly did the daily, and every once in a while got extra to post on the Exchange for an EC boost. But for me I really don't see a reason to cry DOOOOOOM over this. Will I miss the extra ECs? A little bit yea. But its not the end of the world. I don't get on STO just to farm Omega Traces to make ECs. My ADD would kick in and I would probably go bananas from sitting in one spot playing Catch a Particle all day.
Those of us who have the TIME to put into the game, but not the MONEY to do so, found that the Omega event used to be a great equalizer. This decision will not affect the Whales of the game at all, who can convert Cash to Zen to Keys to EC. It will, however, greatly affect those of us who actually play the game to make our Energy Credits. Apparently, you have made a business decision to only cater to the Whales.
Please do not say that it can easily be made up for by converting Dilithium to Zen. With the cap limiting the amount of refined Dilithium you can make per day staying at 8K/day, and the needs for Dilithium in the game ever increasing, this is not an option. At the current exchange rate, it takes 7 days of refining to make enough dilithium to sell one key on the exchange for 5.4 Million EC, or a rate of only 771,000 EC per day, if you do not use your dilithium for anything else, EVER.
I don’t see any point wasting time grinding Omega. Why waste all those extra hours doing something completely boring for no worthwhile advantage?
An hour of earning Phoenix will upgrade more items with more quality then an hour of earning Omega. When you could buy Omega off the exchange they where worth while but now there are a waste of time for me. EDIT: Very, very, quick napkin math and earning Phoenix is approx x10 better then Omega. In that I will get 10 Phoenix for every 1 Omega.
For credit farming:
- Endeavors
- Admiralty
- Free Doff Recruitment missions
- Sell loot drops
- Exchange PVP
Also, people keep starting threads to complain about server lag, and getting rid of the bots and super-grinders is one way to help with that.
I do all of that, and more, and I can unequivocally state that the daily amount of EC that you get from doing all of the above pales in comparison to what you could make farming Omegas to sell on the exchange.
I am not exaggerating in the least when I stated that it was my it was my primary source of Energy Credits for the entire following year. Also, I had spent down most of my EC from the previous year in anticipation of this years Omega Event to build it back up again. Because this was announced only a week prior to the event, I was unable to change my spending habits for the entire previous year.