For the love of all that is good and holy...JUST IGNORE SOM ALREADY. We all know he is a sycophant of all things Cryptic and will say the sky is green if they told him it was. You know it, I know, we all know it at this point. Just steer new people away from him and the forum will be a much better place.
Personally I don't mind Som, is he annoying and puts down most of my brilliant ideas, why yes, but you need people with opposing view points in order to hold an intellectual conversation, otherwise you'll end up with a hive mind of yes men and that gets boring pretty quickly, his insight is a unique counter balance to my own, I'm not doing a very good job of defending him, but if Som pisses someone off don't try to get the Mods, they have enough on their plate and they don't deserve the extra work.
You just keep missing the exceedingly simple, glaringly obvious point:
And he always will. The best thing you can do to foster an actual conversation is ignore him. I don't even read his replies to me, I suggest you do the same. Once you learn that lesson, the forums become much more tollerable. Keep offering your suggestions, just don't let him catch you up in his game. He always twists things to fit his narrative, and he always will. You can't change that.
I know I was there, I offered my suggestions around the time this whole Dil Ex mess started, sure they messed up big time by taking away something that was free and giving it a price, the fact that barely anyone used it even when it was free makes it worthless Dil sink, but if the Devs want to stop receiving death theats I highly suggest avoiding that Internet cesspool they call Twitter, it's literally the worst place on the Internet trust me I'm usually on the weird half of the Internet you know the kind that requires brain bleach, just don't look at my browser history, Twitter is full of cancel culture, doxxing, death threats, hurling insults, Sometimes I wonder if they're actually grown adults or immature children, like who throws tantrums over other people's posts, sorry I'm getting off topic, anyways, Space barbie is the endgame so my Idea of building a permanent Dil Sink around Space barbie would work perfectly, might have to move some Zen items over to the Dil Store, what do people like dressing up their toons, flying the best ships, pets everyone loves pets, console is currently doing exchange lobi for the freedom class frigate, why not do something similar but with Dil instead of Lobi, I rarely get angry, most of the time it's disappointment.
First, let me just say that's the single greatest run on sentence I have ever seen.. well done.
Of course, I kid.. I pretty much agree with everything you said. I avoid Twitter for all the reasons you just said.. it's definitely not the place for me. I find it just as toxic as you do.
So...they are gonna communicate less than not at all somehow? The threat of we will cut off communication only work if there WAS ANY TO BEGIN WITH. Yeah, physical threats or stalking is a no no (this is a game...seriously don't do that)...but if you can't handle some people saying some mean words hire a CM. Like a REAL one...not Kael. An ACTUAL CM who has interacted with this community at all instead of hanging out in twitch while creating an echo chamber by censoring anyone who disagree with you would have been able to tell you how badly this would have gone down. Hell, Bort as a dev should know how badly creating a problem to sell solutions is accepted in gaming. Yeah, the money is good...which is why you do it...but NO PLAYERS in this history of gaming went...oh you know what I REALLY want from a game? For it to play badly so I can buy the solution for it.
The answer is never. Never in the history of gaming has taking something away so it can be sold back gone over well. Which says a lot of unflattering things about whoever suggested this change and all the people who didn't call that person out for being a dumb***.
Do a search for World of Warships at the moment,they have done something similar and the house is on fire over there.
23 Community Contributors have quit the program there ( so far ),players are getting stuck into Wargaming over the issue,the gaming media is getting onto it and some outside media as well.
All of the examples you mentioned things people actually want and are willing to spend dilithium on.
Are you suggesting people don't want the ability to skip over admiralty projects, or endeavor missions, they don't want, and wouldn't spend diltihum on them if they had to, like the above examples?
Talking about twisting reality when you can't even remain consistent in your own argument.
You just keep missing the exceedingly simple, glaringly obvious point:
None of your examples are them taking away things that people already got for free.
That is the entire point. That is the entire reason people are upset about this. That is the thing you just keep missing.
That is precisely what is wrong. Due to this change I lost over 200 tokens that I spent many, many hours earning. Now I am expected to pay something like 500k+ Dilithium to buyback those tokens that I had already spent hours earning.
The problem isn't allowing us to buy tokens for Dilithium that is great. The problem is removing the tokens and making us buy them. It wouldn't even of been as bad if they only got rid of new tokens it was removing old earned tokens that is flat out wrong. Although I guess some people would still be upset about new tokens for valid reasons.
All of the examples you mentioned things people actually want and are willing to spend dilithium on.
Are you suggesting people don't want the ability to skip over admiralty projects, or endeavor missions, they don't want, and wouldn't spend diltihum on them if they had to, like the above examples?
Talking about twisting reality when you can't even remain consistent in your own argument.
You just keep missing the exceedingly simple, glaringly obvious point:
None of your examples are them taking away things that people already got for free.
That is the entire point. That is the entire reason people are upset about this. That is the thing you just keep missing.
That is precisely what is wrong. Due to this change I lost over 200 tokens that I spent many, many hours earning. Now I am expected to pay something like 500k+ Dilithium to buyback those tokens that I had already spent hours earning.
The problem isn't allowing us to buy tokens for Dilithium that is great. The problem is removing the tokens and making us buy them. It wouldn't even of been as bad if they only got rid of new tokens it was removing old earned tokens that is flat out wrong. Although I guess some people would still be upset about new tokens for valid reasons.
Wait, they got removed from existing, saved-up boxes too? Très uncool.
All of the examples you mentioned things people actually want and are willing to spend dilithium on.
Are you suggesting people don't want the ability to skip over admiralty projects, or endeavor missions, they don't want, and wouldn't spend diltihum on them if they had to, like the above examples?
Talking about twisting reality when you can't even remain consistent in your own argument.
You just keep missing the exceedingly simple, glaringly obvious point:
None of your examples are them taking away things that people already got for free.
That is the entire point. That is the entire reason people are upset about this. That is the thing you just keep missing.
That is precisely what is wrong. Due to this change I lost over 200 tokens that I spent many, many hours earning. Now I am expected to pay something like 500k+ Dilithium to buyback those tokens that I had already spent hours earning.
The problem isn't allowing us to buy tokens for Dilithium that is great. The problem is removing the tokens and making us buy them. It wouldn't even of been as bad if they only got rid of new tokens it was removing old earned tokens that is flat out wrong. Although I guess some people would still be upset about new tokens for valid reasons.
Wait, they got removed from existing, saved-up boxes too? Très uncool.
That's what they said it has been removed from the loot table so existing box's lose them. Which is why so many players are upset.
Look, I am a hoarder. And this game is nothing compared to LOTRO for hoarding. But hoarding those boxes?? I can't wrap my head around that one. I guess you all did way more endeavors than I would. I've always used rerolls and just skip green entirely - and often blue. Having hundreds of those boxes is really just I don't know. Let's say... no comment.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: "We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, it's all ancient history. Then - before you can blink an eye - suddenly it threatens to start all over again."
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
All of the examples you mentioned things people actually want and are willing to spend dilithium on.
Are you suggesting people don't want the ability to skip over admiralty projects, or endeavor missions, they don't want, and wouldn't spend diltihum on them if they had to, like the above examples?
Talking about twisting reality when you can't even remain consistent in your own argument.
You just keep missing the exceedingly simple, glaringly obvious point:
None of your examples are them taking away things that people already got for free.
That is the entire point. That is the entire reason people are upset about this. That is the thing you just keep missing.
That is precisely what is wrong. Due to this change I lost over 200 tokens that I spent many, many hours earning. Now I am expected to pay something like 500k+ Dilithium to buyback those tokens that I had already spent hours earning.
The problem isn't allowing us to buy tokens for Dilithium that is great. The problem is removing the tokens and making us buy them. It wouldn't even of been as bad if they only got rid of new tokens it was removing old earned tokens that is flat out wrong. Although I guess some people would still be upset about new tokens for valid reasons.
Wait, they got removed from existing, saved-up boxes too? Très uncool.
That's what they said it has been removed from the loot table so existing box's lose them. Which is why so many players are upset.
well, if you havent opened them by now, obviously you didnt need/want whats inside.
well, if you havent opened them by now, obviously you didnt need/want whats inside.
The tokens have a cap, they can't be kept safe anywhere, and if you get one after reaching the cap it disappears, hence why the boxes weren't opened yet.
The tokens have a cap, they can't be kept safe anywhere, and if you get one after reaching the cap it disappears, hence why the boxes weren't opened yet.
This would make sense,,, if tokens weren't so commonplace that its neigh impossible to drop below 40 without actively trying to.
That has not been my experience. Just for the record. I seldom had more than one or two at a time.
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The problem is that you can't guarantee what is in the boxes. You can't say "I saved up x amount of tokens" because its all RNG. Yea you COULD have that many, or you could have 1 in there and a bunch of ECs. So realistically... you can't say you "lost x amount of tokens" from hoarded boxes because... you just don't know whats in said boxes until they are opened.
So I'm sorry but I can't agree with that statement on the simple fact of the RNG nature of said boxes.
I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
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The problem is that you can't guarantee what is in the boxes. You can't say "I saved up x amount of tokens" because its all RNG. Yea you COULD have that many, or you could have 1 in there and a bunch of ECs. So realistically... you can't say you "lost x amount of tokens" from hoarded boxes because... you just don't know whats in said boxes until they are opened.
So I'm sorry but I can't agree with that statement on the simple fact of the RNG nature of said boxes.
What? Of course you can estimate within a reasonable factor. There was a pretty good drop rate and on average with large sample size you pretty much always got the same amount of tokens within a reasonable variance. RNG does allow you to say with this many box's on average you will get this many tokens with a variance of x tokens.
All of the examples you mentioned things people actually want and are willing to spend dilithium on.
Are you suggesting people don't want the ability to skip over admiralty projects, or endeavor missions, they don't want, and wouldn't spend diltihum on them if they had to, like the above examples?
Talking about twisting reality when you can't even remain consistent in your own argument.
You just keep missing the exceedingly simple, glaringly obvious point:
None of your examples are them taking away things that people already got for free.
That is the entire point. That is the entire reason people are upset about this. That is the thing you just keep missing.
That is precisely what is wrong. Due to this change I lost over 200 tokens that I spent many, many hours earning. Now I am expected to pay something like 500k+ Dilithium to buyback those tokens that I had already spent hours earning.
The problem isn't allowing us to buy tokens for Dilithium that is great. The problem is removing the tokens and making us buy them. It wouldn't even of been as bad if they only got rid of new tokens it was removing old earned tokens that is flat out wrong. Although I guess some people would still be upset about new tokens for valid reasons.
Wait, they got removed from existing, saved-up boxes too? Très uncool.
That's what they said it has been removed from the loot table so existing box's lose them. Which is why so many players are upset.
well, if you havent opened them by now, obviously you didnt need/want whats inside.
That's correct I didn't want anything in them apart from the tokens so I only opened them when I needed more tokens. Just like many other players. I had put my time in and earned those tokens and now those tokens have been taken away from us after we have earned them. That is the problem. Not the change in the buying new tokens, its taking away the already owned tokens that is wrong.
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rattler2Member, Star Trek Online ModeratorPosts: 58,730Community Moderator
What? Of course you can estimate within a reasonable factor. There was a pretty good drop rate and on average with large sample size you pretty much always got the same amount of tokens within a reasonable variance. RNG does allow you to say with this many box's on average you will get this many tokens with a variance of x tokens.
But you cannot guarantee it. You cannot say for an absolute fact that you have that many. While yes by the law of averages you can estimate an amount if you know the numbers, but again... the nature of RNG still makes it random because it is a dice roll on each and every box. So you actually do have a chance of either getting more, less, or the highly unlikely non at all.
The only fact with those boxes is that you have x number of boxes. What is in those boxes is still up to RNG upon opening said boxes.
And as someone with terrible E rank luck... I know that RNG can be a PITA.
I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
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The tokens have a cap, they can't be kept safe anywhere, and if you get one after reaching the cap it disappears, hence why the boxes weren't opened yet.
This would make sense,,, if tokens weren't so commonplace that its neigh impossible to drop below 40 without actively trying to.
That has not been my experience. Just for the record. I seldom had more than one or two at a time.
You are correct players playing perfectly normally without trying to run low often had few tokens. Like you I rarely had more then 1 or 2 tokens. I tended to use a lot more up in the week then weekends when I had more time to do the longer ones.
All of the examples you mentioned things people actually want and are willing to spend dilithium on.
Are you suggesting people don't want the ability to skip over admiralty projects, or endeavor missions, they don't want, and wouldn't spend diltihum on them if they had to, like the above examples?
Talking about twisting reality when you can't even remain consistent in your own argument.
You just keep missing the exceedingly simple, glaringly obvious point:
None of your examples are them taking away things that people already got for free.
That is the entire point. That is the entire reason people are upset about this. That is the thing you just keep missing.
That is precisely what is wrong. Due to this change I lost over 200 tokens that I spent many, many hours earning. Now I am expected to pay something like 500k+ Dilithium to buyback those tokens that I had already spent hours earning.
The problem isn't allowing us to buy tokens for Dilithium that is great. The problem is removing the tokens and making us buy them. It wouldn't even of been as bad if they only got rid of new tokens it was removing old earned tokens that is flat out wrong. Although I guess some people would still be upset about new tokens for valid reasons.
Wait, they got removed from existing, saved-up boxes too? Très uncool.
That's what they said it has been removed from the loot table so existing box's lose them. Which is why so many players are upset.
well, if you havent opened them by now, obviously you didnt need/want whats inside.
You don't believe in savings accounts then, do you? Prudent ppl tend ro put stuff aside for a rainy day.
1) Nobody minds them having introduced the ability to buy Endeavor token with Diliithium;
2) Everybody minds having the free tokens being taken away.
3) Peeps were looking for a fun way to spend Dilithium as a sink;
4) Bort thought "A sink is where I nerf everyone's ability to earn/spend/stockpile Dilithium."
All of the examples you mentioned things people actually want and are willing to spend dilithium on.
Are you suggesting people don't want the ability to skip over admiralty projects, or endeavor missions, they don't want, and wouldn't spend diltihum on them if they had to, like the above examples?
Talking about twisting reality when you can't even remain consistent in your own argument.
You just keep missing the exceedingly simple, glaringly obvious point:
None of your examples are them taking away things that people already got for free.
That is the entire point. That is the entire reason people are upset about this. That is the thing you just keep missing.
That is precisely what is wrong. Due to this change I lost over 200 tokens that I spent many, many hours earning. Now I am expected to pay something like 500k+ Dilithium to buyback those tokens that I had already spent hours earning.
The problem isn't allowing us to buy tokens for Dilithium that is great. The problem is removing the tokens and making us buy them. It wouldn't even of been as bad if they only got rid of new tokens it was removing old earned tokens that is flat out wrong. Although I guess some people would still be upset about new tokens for valid reasons.
Wait, they got removed from existing, saved-up boxes too? Très uncool.
That's what they said it has been removed from the loot table so existing box's lose them. Which is why so many players are upset.
well, if you havent opened them by now, obviously you didnt need/want whats inside.
You don't believe in savings accounts then, do you? Prudent ppl tend ro put stuff aside for a rainy day.
That bank comparison would only be valid if your ready total always hovered close to 50 and you needed a pad to keep it from going over and losing the excess. Storing the boxes when you only have a few (like the total of 2 tokens mentioned earlier) in the ready count is something entirely different.
What? Of course you can estimate within a reasonable factor. There was a pretty good drop rate and on average with large sample size you pretty much always got the same amount of tokens within a reasonable variance. RNG does allow you to say with this many box's on average you will get this many tokens with a variance of x tokens.
But you cannot guarantee it. You cannot say for an absolute fact that you have that many. While yes by the law of averages you can estimate an amount if you know the numbers, but again... the nature of RNG still makes it random because it is a dice roll on each and every box. So you actually do have a chance of either getting more, less, or the highly unlikely non at all.
The only fact with those boxes is that you have x number of boxes. What is in those boxes is still up to RNG upon opening said boxes.
And as someone with terrible E rank luck... I know that RNG can be a PITA.
The nature of RNG makes it random within a set variance. One cannot guarantee the precise number of tokens you will get but one can be 99% sure they will normally get x amount of tokens within a set variance out of Y amount of box's. I am not saying I lost precisely x amount of tokens. I am saying x amount of tokens is within the typical random variance of the amount of tokens you get out of the amount of box's I opened. Bar some once in a muti life time anomaly there is no way I would have got under 50 or even under 100 tokens given the amount of box's I opened.
What? Of course you can estimate within a reasonable factor. There was a pretty good drop rate and on average with large sample size you pretty much always got the same amount of tokens within a reasonable variance. RNG does allow you to say with this many box's on average you will get this many tokens with a variance of x tokens.
But you cannot guarantee it. You cannot say for an absolute fact that you have that many. While yes by the law of averages you can estimate an amount if you know the numbers, but again... the nature of RNG still makes it random because it is a dice roll on each and every box. So you actually do have a chance of either getting more, less, or the highly unlikely non at all.
The only fact with those boxes is that you have x number of boxes. What is in those boxes is still up to RNG upon opening said boxes.
And as someone with terrible E rank luck... I know that RNG can be a PITA.
The nature of RNG makes it random within a set variance. One cannot guarantee the precise number of tokens you will get but one can be 99% sure they will normally get x amount of tokens within a set variance out of Y amount of box's. I am not saying I lost precisely x amount of tokens. I am saying x amount of tokens is within the typical random variance of the amount of tokens you get out of the amount of box's I opened. Bar some once in a muti life time anomaly there is no way I would have got under 50 or even under 100 tokens given the amount of box's I opened.
your saying one cant guarantee a precise number, yet you are 99% sure you would have gotten over 50 to 100 tokens.
Bort himself spelled out the odds: "1 in 4 chance to get a Token from an Endeavor Box."
That's how statistics work: you can't be certain you will have always thrown a 6, after rolling the dice only 6 times, but the chance to get a specific number is always, 100%, 1:6.
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Personally I don't mind Som, is he annoying and puts down most of my brilliant ideas, why yes, but you need people with opposing view points in order to hold an intellectual conversation, otherwise you'll end up with a hive mind of yes men and that gets boring pretty quickly, his insight is a unique counter balance to my own, I'm not doing a very good job of defending him, but if Som pisses someone off don't try to get the Mods, they have enough on their plate and they don't deserve the extra work.
And he always will. The best thing you can do to foster an actual conversation is ignore him. I don't even read his replies to me, I suggest you do the same. Once you learn that lesson, the forums become much more tollerable. Keep offering your suggestions, just don't let him catch you up in his game. He always twists things to fit his narrative, and he always will. You can't change that.
First, let me just say that's the single greatest run on sentence I have ever seen.. well done.
Of course, I kid.. I pretty much agree with everything you said. I avoid Twitter for all the reasons you just said.. it's definitely not the place for me. I find it just as toxic as you do.
Do a search for World of Warships at the moment,they have done something similar and the house is on fire over there.
23 Community Contributors have quit the program there ( so far ),players are getting stuck into Wargaming over the issue,the gaming media is getting onto it and some outside media as well.
Push hard enough and people start taking notice.
The problem isn't allowing us to buy tokens for Dilithium that is great. The problem is removing the tokens and making us buy them. It wouldn't even of been as bad if they only got rid of new tokens it was removing old earned tokens that is flat out wrong. Although I guess some people would still be upset about new tokens for valid reasons.
Wait, they got removed from existing, saved-up boxes too? Très uncool.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
What an absolutely ridiculous thing to say.
That has not been my experience. Just for the record. I seldom had more than one or two at a time.
So I'm sorry but I can't agree with that statement on the simple fact of the RNG nature of said boxes.
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But you cannot guarantee it. You cannot say for an absolute fact that you have that many. While yes by the law of averages you can estimate an amount if you know the numbers, but again... the nature of RNG still makes it random because it is a dice roll on each and every box. So you actually do have a chance of either getting more, less, or the highly unlikely non at all.
The only fact with those boxes is that you have x number of boxes. What is in those boxes is still up to RNG upon opening said boxes.
And as someone with terrible E rank luck... I know that RNG can be a PITA.
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You don't believe in savings accounts then, do you? Prudent ppl tend ro put stuff aside for a rainy day.
In TL;DR (slightly apodictic) form:
1) Nobody minds them having introduced the ability to buy Endeavor token with Diliithium;
2) Everybody minds having the free tokens being taken away.
3) Peeps were looking for a fun way to spend Dilithium as a sink;
4) Bort thought "A sink is where I nerf everyone's ability to earn/spend/stockpile Dilithium."
That bank comparison would only be valid if your ready total always hovered close to 50 and you needed a pad to keep it from going over and losing the excess. Storing the boxes when you only have a few (like the total of 2 tokens mentioned earlier) in the ready count is something entirely different.
Bort himself spelled out the odds: "1 in 4 chance to get a Token from an Endeavor Box."
That's how statistics work: you can't be certain you will have always thrown a 6, after rolling the dice only 6 times, but the chance to get a specific number is always, 100%, 1:6.