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What does everyone think of recycling this event? Personally, I'd much rather now fight the Battle near Xahea, the same battle where the Dot-7 drone being offered as a prize was actually introduced.
The altering of the dil reward merits attention as well, increasing the initial reward but decreasing the amount by which it's incremented daily. Before, it started at 2,500 and was incremented by that much, daily up to a maximum of 25,000. Now, it starts at 8,000 and goes up by 1,000 with no end cap.
I've been running the numbers, and this is what I've come up with: for the first 8 days, the new system comes out slightly ahead in the total of dilithium ore awarded. Days 9-12, the previous system comes out on top in terms of the total amount of ore awarded, but because the previous system maxes out at 25,000 per day, from day 13 onwards the new system resumes the lead. So even though you won't reach the 25,000 per day mark until day 18, you're still getting more overall unless you finish 9-12 days after collecting the reward.
The altering of the dil reward merits attention as well, increasing the initial reward but decreasing the amount by which it's incremented daily. Before, it started at 2,500 and was incremented by that much, daily up to a maximum of 25,000. Now, it starts at 8,000 and goes up by 1,000 with no end cap.
I've been running the numbers, and this is what I've come up with: for the first 8 days, the new system comes out slightly ahead in the total of dilithium ore awarded. Days 9-12, the previous system comes out on top in terms of the total amount of ore awarded, but because the previous system maxes out at 25,000 per day, from day 13 onwards the new system resumes the lead. So even though you won't reach the 25,000 per day mark until day 18, you're still getting more overall unless you finish 9-12 days after collecting the reward.
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Recycling: Cryptic can only create so much new content a year. A new TFO would've been nice, but we just had one along with the two-part story episode so I'm fine with it.
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Still, playing it over five accts (my two + three family members [gotta get them a free ship token too
It also locks out fleet support, which is "fun" when I do run a character with the command spec trait and realize I'm actually only running 3 traits in that battle. I'm not sure but I think it may also prevent the ship from the section 31 trait from showing up too, which would actually be absurd.
Sounds like to me they need a bigger team, stop running on a skeleton crew
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It's helping me get Disco marks on my alts that haven't done it yet, though.
Though to be honest here, I think regardless what queue they made use of for the event, after 14 days of it, I would be complaining about the repetitive nature of it anyway. Now, if it were opened to ANY of the Disco queues and we got to pick, I could at least break the monotony by not running the same one day after day. Unsure why they didn't do that this time around.
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too many events kill the events.
Feels like closer to 20, but yeah.
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And this is from the same people that said that players just hated rerunning a Featured Episode twice more for the rest of a Set.
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yeah, I was like wtf what happened to my SHIP
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On the upshot, there's no longer any denying Cryptic could add a ship-visual slot for our existing ships, if they wanted to. Obviously there are no technical impediments for it, whatsoever.
Yes, there are no technical impediments, but there is still possibly a fair amount of work.
Right now they have code to switch all player ships to one specific skin, which they've used since Night of the Comet. They also have the code to let specific ships take on other specific skins that are unlocked for it.
They'd still need to expand the tailor logic to allow every skin for every ship you own (with some limitations, like not using T1 Connie with other T5U+ unless you own a T6 Connie), plus create a matrix of what parts can be mixed and matched across different ship skins.
I'd really like to be able to use any ship skin with any ship. I hate the look of recent KDF ships like the squished Qugh and the double-sausage from Discovery, but if I could use a classic KDF ship skin I could fly them.
Yes, it must be absolutely arduous to put together these space TFOs that have the cookie-cutter scripted complexity of a beginner's Foundry mission. At the rate new content is produced they must have about 5 people, two of which just fetch coffee and give shoulder rubs.
some vanity shields and normal rep shields are not hidden (terran shield for example).
(And yes, I know I could skip it, but yeah, I want the reward of the 4 part Event, and the only way to do that it do the Events as presented - and no, I don't want to waste Zen on a buyout.)
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