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Dear Cryptic Devs,
Can you please remove the cooldown from Infected Space Elite? As you know, this is used by DPS chasers to parse DPS. Removing the cooldown would be a huge Quality of Life improvement to this popular endgame pass time. I do not see how this could abused or otherwise hurt the game. It would also allow people running this TFO for DPS to play longer and more often. I have to imagine this group of players always invests tons of money into the game to have all the latest and best items.
Thank you!
Can you please remove the cooldown from Infected Space Elite? As you know, this is used by DPS chasers to parse DPS. Removing the cooldown would be a huge Quality of Life improvement to this popular endgame pass time. I do not see how this could abused or otherwise hurt the game. It would also allow people running this TFO for DPS to play longer and more often. I have to imagine this group of players always invests tons of money into the game to have all the latest and best items.
Thank you!
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If someone wants to play ISE all day long, that should be their choice and theirs only. I like Tzenkethi front a lot and I dislike having to wait for that mission half an hour for example.
The last thing we need is more dil farming methods.
Agreed
This.
Normal people would be cast aside while the Deepies constantly shoot up with those big numbers. The exciting choice of ISE, ISE or ISE with maybe a Korfez would likely grate a little.
I love Tzenkethi front. I could play that all day =/ though I do love most of the Borg missions too.
Zactly. I believe it's a passive-aggressive remnant from Dilithium Rising, where it was alleged ppl were going 17x faster than elsewhere. Because, OMG, if ppl are doing something fast, it must mean they then stop playing the game. /sarcasm
Stop sabotaging your own players. If someone wants to play ISE all day long, that should be their choice and theirs only. And if Cryptic wants them to do other things too, make a more interesting portfolio, instead of artificially locking ppl out of content they wish to do. Tl;dr: make other things ppl want to play.
Good point. Someone working on their eleventy hundred random queues for Klingon Recruitment does not want to get the same 3 queues 10 times in a row.
I was just thinking about the same thing.
It may be that the random and chosen TFO's follow different rules though. I've had it happen that I played a certain mission and then joined a random TFO immediately after and I'd end up in the same one.
If that is indeed the case, then it should be possible to mark the player as already having played a certain mission as part of the random rotation without excluding the possibility to queue up for it the regular way.
I honestly don't care about the marks and dilithium. I just want to play the missions I enjoy playing.
Since I hardly ever join a pre-made (I do PUGs 99.9999etc% of the time), with each mission it's a surprise who you're playing with and how well/fast everything happens. Sometimes enemies are killed too fast, sometimes you end up in a mission where you have to carry the team. For these reasons, I sometimes would like to play a mission multiple times.
Seriously though, I doubt abuse would be a serious issue. Sure, you might get a lot of rewards by playing CCA or ISA fast, but I doubt there are many players who can do it 1) fast enough so they can complete like ten runs in half an hour AND 2) who really enjoy doing that.
The drawbacks of removing cooldowns are limited - and their impact may even be countered altogether. The benefits would be significant in that they give players much more freedom.
At least that is my understanding of how the random queue works. Selecting from all queues (Or at least the ones on the random list because some are excluded) and filling in players in active queues.
Yes. 'Rotation' doesn't cover it. But the point remains: I believe they can differentiate between player-selected missions and RTFO's.
You underestimate the lengths some will go for easy reward. Not only that, scaling down rewards... I don't think any game can do that on repeat runs. And with how old STO is... I wouldn't want to try because it could break something else to even TRY to attempt that. I mean there was a time where they'd fix something random, and the Borg would break. Once we had spheres with SUPER Emergency to Engines. They popped that, they practically went to warp and rocketed across the map.
On top of that its punishing players for running content. What if they're working on rep projects and need the marks and dilithium for that? Even if they've run everything they can and come up short, they'd have to re-run things.
I'm sorry but I just don't see that as a viable solution because of the punishment factor. In this case... the current status quo is probably the most viable solution because... we're all used to it and it doesn't punish. And with how quickly any level of Infected can be completed... the current status quo doesn't allow for back to back grinding like you would get by removing the cooldown.
Now... if we had a way to safely leave a TFO without incurring the lockout in cases of bugged runs... then maybe. Problem is identifying legit bugged runs vs just being a jerk or "protesting" team composition and performance...
Gold farmers would probably multibox and farm 24x7 unless the rewards are nerfed for multiple runs.
But not everyone likes having to assemble a team.
I am absolutely sure they could do it, and for proof I submit the fact that STO already does this exact thing.
The first time you run a Patrol daily, you get 1k Dilithium and a daily mark box. Running additional patrols grants you only a small amount of Dilithium and minimal marks. TFO's already work this way as well, the game can already keep track of your daily rewards, this idea is simply altering some of those numbers and using the existing system that's already in place.
STO already has the ability to issue higher rewards for your first run with altered rewards on subsequent runs. The infrastructure is already in place and active in the current build.
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That doesn't scale with each repeat however. Its just a simple checkbox. First run full reward. Check. Next run reduced reward. It doesn't change after that.
And that's with a map editor that is specifically designed to create user content. Not whatever Cryptic works with.
And to be fair I always found SC1's map editor complex and couldn't really make it work very well. Then again I wasn't that good at making decent maps dating back to frickin' Dark Reign and WarCraft 2.
It doesn't need to. Just give people the TFO rewards for the first, remove the cooldowns and remove the rewards. That way people can run them over and over if they want. There is no need to over complicate it, set some minimum reward level for repeat runs and have that apply to all runs for the next 24 hours. That makes the cooldown no longer needed.