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So when the current Tholian event ends, we hit April 4th, so nicely in time for First Contact Day, April 5th. However apart from an announcement of a bonus marks thing, there's no upcoming event details. Are we having a gap? Or are even posts and such getting caught up in the Cryptic to DECA transition?
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They rarely give an 'early' update details because people will complain if it then doesn't arrive on time or as expected. It is normal to get details 24 hours beforehand.
Well, we're within the 24 hours beforehand, at least for what would normally be the start date for First Contact Day, and it's still crickets. Got a single patch note, and that's it. Cryptic is being unusually, well, cryptic this time.
Far as I am aware the changeover is going to take a year or two.
Pretty much this.
Well to give an example, the current Tholian event, which started 13th March, was announced via blog post on 8th March - https://playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11565413
https://playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11564663 - Red alert posted 1st March for start 7th March
https://playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11563353 - Pahvo event announced 8th Feb, started 15th Feb
And so on and so forth.
We are also within 24 hours and nothing except for a single patch note.
@rattler2 Tagging you too as you also mentioned the 24 hour thing. That isn't normally the case and we've had no announcement of anything.
If we haven't heard anything about a major event, I imagine its probably going to be another Red Alert coming up. We usually have those as buffers between major events.
Change in leadership/companies, or something else causing that to be cancelled this year?
Ah, Okay ^_^
It kinda stems from a time when we didn't have constant events and players complained about having nothing to do. So we got more events to fill in the empty spaces between seasonals.
Admittedly it can be a bit of a grind, but STO doesn't have the wide options of much larger games like FF14 that has side quests and stuff that players can do between Main Scenario Quests and the seasonals.
Do what you can with what you got, ya know?
I don't think this is normal, though. Leaving aside the fact that they've never delayed First Contact Day like this before, they also haven't said a word about this Red Alert through any official--or, as far as I can tell, unofficial--channels. It just popped up in-game with no comment anywhere. I've long thought Cryptic was a bit too fond of living up to their name, but this is very unusual even for them.
I mean, I get that something probably happened behind the scenes, but some communication on the matter would be nice.
From what was said back when they first took it down, it was actually part of the remote collaboration software they didn't really need when everyone worked in the same office but which they had to return to its original purpose when COVID measures came into play and everyone who could worked at home. Apparently, there was no reliable way to have it automatically generate two separate calendars, the one to keep all the devs in sync remotely and a limited version for players that did not contain unintended spoilers.
Also, I doubt it would have helped this time because the sudden delay feels more like something went wrong somewhere and they need extra time to hammer the kinks out, and that calendar never reflected last minute changes when they had it (which caused quite a howl in this forum every time it happened).
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I like your optimism, but bug checking and fixing isn't their current strong suit.
To avoid overlaping events, we usually have a buffer in the form of a Red Alert Event.
Based on in game evidence, I'm predicting next Tuesday is when FC Day event will start.
Next Thursday.
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> I don't think this is normal, though. Leaving aside the fact that they've never delayed First Contact Day like this before, they also haven't said a word about this Red Alert through any official--or, as far as I can tell, unofficial--channels. It just popped up in-game with no comment anywhere. I've long thought Cryptic was a bit too fond of living up to their name, but this is very unusual even for them.
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> I mean, I get that something probably happened behind the scenes, but some communication on the matter would be nice.
It was delayed last year too so it could launch on all the platforms.
It get's installed Tuesday Thursday
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