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toddmillhouse
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Why is it a year after it was said that Re-engineering was going to be addressed. We are still dealing with the Slot Machine mechanic NO ONE likes and does nothing but waste our resources. Want a X mod to cost X materials, fine, but don't make me waste 10 times that amount of stuff to get the mod I want. This needs fixed ASAP. And yes I would gladly skip a content drop with new missions or TFO's to get some fixes in the game especially this one. It's time Cryptic either focuses on fixes alone, or brings on a team to do nothing but fixes. One or the other but SOMETHING needs to be done.
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I'd rather they fixed the gear that can't be re-engineered at all before they deal with the slot machine.
Also, I apparently missed the livestream or whatever where they said they would change the slot machine mechanic. Can someone with better search skills than mine find it?
It's all about money now. Might as well be EA or Activision/Blizzard running this game.
I also remember 2012 crafting where nothing could be upgraded. Upgrades didn't arrive until 2014 with Delta Rising. I think all gear was bound to character back then too, not just the old TFO gear.
You know I've heard people say that alot over the years, but when a patch rolls around that's nothing but bug fixes and no new content for awhile, they still end up complaining about it. If you truly mean what you say, you would be the first.
As for the re-engineering thing, I've wanted to see some changes made to it for awhile along with the crafting system itself. Be glad the initial version of it never made it to holodeck from tribble. It used to be on tribble that you could try to roll an acc mod off your weapon only for the system to still give you an acc mod, thus the roll essentially eating your resources and giving you nothing new. That's why initially they upped the costs slightly but made it so that you can't get the mod you just rolled off. So rolling off an acc means you can't get acc again for that roll.
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As they appear to be on a relentless mission to reduce the dilithium ore available to earn and getting players to spend what refined dil they've amassed, sadly I doubt changing the re-engineering costs in favour of the player is high on their list of priorities.
If you disliked all of those changes it might help to realize that there is a horde of F2P players asking Cryptic to fix the dil exchange so they can trade dil for zen. Since this is a dil oversupply issue, removing sources and hopefully adding sinks is how those players' request can be granted.
YES! And they were double length because the the Space and Ground portions were a single mission. For a while it was even longer because the Red Alert was added to beginning; that was back when the Red Alert was actually hard and very failable.
I ran that grind for both the Space and Ground MK XII Sets that gave the full visuals.
that is exactly correct. redue the AMOUNT of dil being introduced is a requirement to balancing the dilex. just look aout the window. the US cut way back on oil production, and gas prices went up.. supply and demand. same with Dilithium. reduce how much can be earned, the value goes up. Sadly, it's still incredibly easy to max out a daily refining quota
Its working as intended as far as I understand. It is supposed to be a Dill sink. No offense but if anything they should increase the dill cost per roll. Its one of the few non fleet sinks we have that works. Its not supposed to be cheap to roll your perfect mod gear. Re rolling mods is hardly required... its a vanity/min max option that is supposed to cost you Dill.
Be very careful what you wish for. If it was up to me I would remove the gambling and just make it a set 50k dill per mod. That really is what Cryptic SHOULD do. In fact they have been looking for easy fixes... if any mods read this do me a favor and make sure someone there sees it cause its a good idea. Remove the gamble... let people select mods 50k per individual mod change. The DPS chasers will pay... the casuals that get upset at the gamble mechanic when the RNGuddha hatest them. Complainers on the forum will have nothing to be upset about, they can pay or ignore.
They could find a number. But its going to be more then the people complaining about the gamble mechanic are going to like.
Perhaps 50k is too much. On the other hand... Mod changing was never supposed to be the norm. We played this game for almost a decade where mods where fixed. Gear drops had value cause you might get the perfect mod bit of gear drop... some reputation bits that perhaps didn't have a great set where still great options cause they had a good mod mix. People would craft multiple weapons looking for good mod parts to upgrade... then get frustrated upgrading them when they would get one Meh mod. haha
50k ya that might be too steep. If they do remove the RNG though have no doubt its going to be north of 10k per mod, and perhaps 50% more for the gold mod or something. I mean 10k per standard mod and 15k for double mods... might actually be a good number. I don't know Cryptic has the metrics. They should probably just look now see what the "average" dill cost is for people doing RNG upgrades... take that average number round it off, and add 25% more.