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STT Community wrote: »

How can we help you? We can't answer quick questions such as "How much honor" or specific amounts of rewards since that decision comes from our Product Team. All our notes are always welcome for game changes. Let us know in here which questions you want answer for and we will try our best. LLAP

This is not your fault but you have to understand our frustration; the person who had your job before you could and did answer those questions for us, often within an hour. It was not your decision to replace Shan, I understand that (hopefully most of the rest of us understand that too) and I am sorry that the "Product Team" does not empower you the same way they empowered Shan, but it is important for you to hear from us that these should not be considered hard questions.

Think of this place as a restaurant, one that has been successful for a long time. Think of us as the "regulars". For years we knew the menu, the waitstaff, the prices, and the atmosphere. Then one day we come in and see a sign that says "Under New Ownership!", some menu options are different, we have a new waitstaff, and the menu descriptions are now vague and potentially misleading, when we the customers ask you a simple question such as, "How many tacos comes with this new combo plate," this is not question that should be hard to answer. With the old owner we never had to ask because they told us on the menu, and if we did ask the old waitstaff she would tell us or find out right away if she did not know.

We are not asking for the recipe for the carne asada marinade, we just want to know how many tacos come with the combo plate. If the menu lists "market price" for the tacos instead of a standard price, we expect to be told what the market price is. It is that simple.

That all makes sense as far as trying to get us to spend to finish a rare crew. The irony is that I would probably drop the $25 to double the crew if I got it, but because the probability is so low they aren’t getting that money from me. I don’t see a huge benefit to spending dil to retrieve a voyage early. Maybe a way to get us to spend more would be the option to speed up a leg of the voyage with dil, to get to the dilemmas faster. At least it would feel like there was something more we could do to get these characters.

With gauntlet you can use dil to really grind through and increase the odds of getting those exclusives. All you can really do on voyages is have good luck. From a business sense I’m not sure how that helps profits.

Bylo Band wrote: »

Checking the recent additions to this thread was amusing and educational because until I saw the most recent screenshot posted in here I had completely forgotten about Simon van Gelder, which should tell you how successful I have been thus far in securing a copy

Having spent some time reflecting on the meta subject of making really good cards and then hiding them behind an RNG wall with extremely poor odds, and then on the fact that we have had ample time and a wave of negative feedback and there has been no change, I am forced to conclude that we as a group underestimated the vision the developers had for this entire concept and when I zoom out a bit more it seems to me that the plan is actually working.

They have set this up to where even the most seasoned players cannot get these cards reliably, and also created (most - Admiral Black excluded) the cards to only be good at 5/5 fusion, and then set the RNG to a point where they technically can drop to keep people trying but not high enough to count on them. This was clearly done intentionally to drive sales not in dilithium for extending voyages, but in 5* citations and DYC offers, the premise being to capitalize on that moment of maximum leverage by dangling the really good card in front of the player after they have tried for months and encouraging them to cite the card up because the player knows the second copy is not coming for months.

So you're saying a freemium game designed a feature to entice players to spend money?

The Buried Years Choice B. Six hours in.

Only Grady currently missing now.

We're in the last week of this campaign, which means the next campaign is about to begin. Just so everyone is aware of past campaign history, the timing of this campaign has generally been either a May Asian & Pacific Islanders theme or a June LGBTIQA+ theme. So here are the existing cards you shouldn't re-use: Jett Reno, Temporally Detained Jett Reno, Professor Sato, Lenara Kahn, Pah-wraith Keiko, Desert Philippa Georgiou, Lieutenant Ogawa, EDF Adira, or Tribble Sulu. The player base stands ready to assist.

DScottHewitt wrote: »

It's bad enough that there are fewer Med Nodes. Then, you run into a Med Node that doesn't even drop Med stuff.....

That **tsk tsk** so much.

DScottHewitt wrote: »

It's bad enough that there are fewer Med Nodes. Then, you run into a Med Node that doesn't even drop Med stuff.....

That isn’t cool.