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The Galaxy Goes to Red Alert

qultuqqultuq Member Posts: 988 Arc User
edited July 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I assume the dates are wrong because it probably starts on the 6th but here is the official announcement not linked on the forum:

The entire Galaxy is going to Red Alert! We’re launching a two-week version of the Galactic Red Alert, with an additional reward: an Experimental Ship Upgrade Token! From January 11th at 8am PT (17:00 CET) – January 25th at 10am PT (19:00 CET), all of our Red Alert events will be returning at once on PC, as the Final Frontier is caught in a massive invasion on all sides. During this event, you’ll be able to play the following content:

Borg Red Alert
Elachi Red Alert
Tholian Red Alert
Tzenkethi Red Alert*
Nakuhl Red Alert


*Please note: As the only Red Alert with a fail condition, the Tzenkethi Red Alert will not grant daily bonus progress if you fail the TFO. The fail condition will likely be removed in future runs of this event.

In addition to their usual rewards, these Task Force Operations will also grant daily bonus progress. You’ll receive one Daily Progress each day for completing one Red Alert – doesn’t matter which one – on any character on your account. After you receive five daily progress, you’ll be rewarded with a package containing the following, once per account:

An Ultimate Tech Upgrade
A Specialization Point
An Experimental Ship Upgrade token


You can also purchase this Grand Prize on the events page, if you’d prefer. The price will be prorated as you earn Daily Progress, becoming cheaper the more you play.

If you earn, or purchase, the event’s Grand Prize, you can still complete Red Alerts to earn Bonus Progress. Completing a Red Alert TFO each day will grant a bonus amount of Dilithium Ore, beginning at 8,000 and increasing by 1,000 for each completion thereafter.

Red Alert Task Force Operations are available to Captains of level 50 or higher. Head out and defend the Galaxy, Captains! Go to Red Alert!

Source:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11505293-the-galaxy-goes-to-red-alert!
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    qultuqqultuq Member Posts: 988 Arc User
    edited January 2022
    (self-censored)
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    protoneousprotoneous Member Posts: 2,985 Arc User
    A two week event with only five days needed to get the rewards. This is either very generous or a typo.
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    mirrorterranmirrorterran Member Posts: 423 Arc User
    This is great n all, but I've literally completed 4 characters since the last upgrade event.......
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    sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    I'm assuming it's the 2 week version with the ship token. If so I will do it. It's good to have a ton of those. As to when it starts... hmm... It would be shocking to have a week with no events. But at the same time the anniversary probably starts on the 25th. So those dates might be right.
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    echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,914 Arc User
    I agree with Sheldon, this must be the two-week event.

    I'll likely go for it myself as I don't get very many ultimate upgrades.
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    phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    edited January 2022
    The X-upgrade is the most interesting part of the rewards from my point of view, but it is a good spread of prizes for only about fifteen minutes work total if you just do the minimum since the faster RAs only last for a minute or two (sometimes even less if the map change takes longer than usual). Personally, I tend to do the RAs a lot when I have the time instead of just the one per day though, especially when I have ships that need some tinkering with.
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    diocletian#7546 diocletian
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    I am looking forward to this one. Easy enough to do, I find all the rewards very useful, and it is a good way to get fleet and reputation marks. I like to do each one of the five Red Alerts each day of the event. My favorite is the Tholian Red alert. Sometimes I do that one multiple times each day just for the fun of it.
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    davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,512 Arc User
    It's apparently the 1-week version with no ship token, since a new event begins 1-13 on console: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/xbox/star-trek-online/news/detail/11505313-the-battle-for-qo'nos!
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    sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    It's apparently the 1-week version with no ship token, since a new event begins 1-13 on console: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/xbox/star-trek-online/news/detail/11505313-the-battle-for-qo'nos!

    but their anniversary is much later than PC.
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    davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,512 Arc User
    edited January 2022
    Huh, now I don't see the red alert at all on console, it's now a dilithium week. We've always been at war with Eastasia.

    So: 2-week red alert on PC, no alert on console?
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    legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    As Kael mentioned in the news update thread, there was an error in the blog and consoles were supposed to get a dil weekend this week and PC won't get it until next week.

    Presumably, PC still gets the Red Alert event this week, though. When it will show up on console is anyone's guess.​​
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    leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,344 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    Huh, now I don't see the red alert at all on console, it's now a dilithium week. We've always been at war with Eastasia.

    So: 2-week red alert on PC, no alert on console?

    Played it earlier today on XB.
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    cylus566cylus566 Member Posts: 84 Arc User
    Been awhile since the last time they had a red alert nice rewards too
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    davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,512 Arc User
    edited January 2022
    Wow, they really are running the one-week version on Xbox even though they removed the NEWS tab post for xbox and are only showing the dilithium even there. And they're possibly running the two-week version on PC, unless it's really the one-week version.

    I give up...they're running something, for some number of days, and will give some kind of reward or other?



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