Changes to schedule for releasing event information
Shan
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Hello, Captains,
Earlier this year, we let you know that we were committing to sharing key information about events a week before they are scheduled to run. The primary intent was to give you time to prepare crew for the next event. We wanted to give you the best chance of excelling in Timelines and help to grow the relationship between us, the developers, and you, our players.
As you may have seen the past few weeks, we bit off more than we can chew. There were a few instances of Incorrect information going out, and we’ve been inconsistent about when we deliver information about events and updates. We want to do a better job providing you with a polished experience, and that means we need to take more time doing our due diligence.
This means that going forward, this will be the new schedule for sharing event information:
• Friday morning: Event title, type, and Featured Crew (new characters) are announced.
• Tuesday afternoon: Additional information on bonus crew (such as all Augments, or all versions of Worf) is released.
We know this means you won’t have as much time to level up new crew or remove immortalized crew from the Cryostasis Vault in preparation for an upcoming event. We were faced with the choice of continuing to try and deliver information as we have been (this choice would be prone to inaccuracies) or to develop a more rigorous production process which would result in more limited information (but which will be more reliable).
Will changing to this schedule mean there won’t be any bugs? No, but it’s one of the many steps we’re taking to ensure stability and earn your confidence going forward. Game development is a process that involves many moving parts and rapid updates. We want to have a higher level of confidence in regards to event information before we share it with you. This will be an ongoing process, our intent is to get better at it over time.
Live long and prosper,
The STAR TREK TIMELINES Team
Earlier this year, we let you know that we were committing to sharing key information about events a week before they are scheduled to run. The primary intent was to give you time to prepare crew for the next event. We wanted to give you the best chance of excelling in Timelines and help to grow the relationship between us, the developers, and you, our players.
As you may have seen the past few weeks, we bit off more than we can chew. There were a few instances of Incorrect information going out, and we’ve been inconsistent about when we deliver information about events and updates. We want to do a better job providing you with a polished experience, and that means we need to take more time doing our due diligence.
This means that going forward, this will be the new schedule for sharing event information:
• Friday morning: Event title, type, and Featured Crew (new characters) are announced.
• Tuesday afternoon: Additional information on bonus crew (such as all Augments, or all versions of Worf) is released.
We know this means you won’t have as much time to level up new crew or remove immortalized crew from the Cryostasis Vault in preparation for an upcoming event. We were faced with the choice of continuing to try and deliver information as we have been (this choice would be prone to inaccuracies) or to develop a more rigorous production process which would result in more limited information (but which will be more reliable).
Will changing to this schedule mean there won’t be any bugs? No, but it’s one of the many steps we’re taking to ensure stability and earn your confidence going forward. Game development is a process that involves many moving parts and rapid updates. We want to have a higher level of confidence in regards to event information before we share it with you. This will be an ongoing process, our intent is to get better at it over time.
Live long and prosper,
The STAR TREK TIMELINES Team
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Does that mean:
1) If an existing crew is featured it will not be announced on Friday but on Tuesday when bonus crew is announced?
2) If an existing crew is featured it WILL be announced on Friday?
3) Are you anticipating a change where not all versions of featured crew are considered bonus, or are you speaking to what other characters other than the alternates to featured crew will be considered bonus that will be on the Tuesday announcement?
Please clarify.
Given the loss of two days for unfreezing event/bonus crew, it would be greatly appreciated if DB would again readjust the merits required to unfreeze. Ideally, DB would eliminate any cost for unfreezing an immortalized crew. However, should elimination of the merit-cost not be an option, I think it would be all-around-fair to the player base if the cost structure were readjusted to something along the lines of how Dabo is set up
[- 1st unfreeze of 24h period: free
- 2nd unfreeze of 24h period: 10 merits
- 3rd unfreeze of 24h period: 30 merits
- 4th unfreeze of 24h period: 50 merits
- 5th unfreeze of 24h period: 100 merits
- 6th unfreeze of 24h period: 200 merits
- 7th unfreeze of 24h period: 400 merits
/list]
Thank you for the consideration,
Drunk "Jim" Shimoda
Fleet: Guardians of Tomorrow
GoT Chief Communications Officer
Since it seems like every (DB and the players) need more time. Maybe it's beneficial to change the event schedule as well. Maybe an event every 2 weeks instead of every week. Or shorter events that start on Friday and end on Monday?
The delays of the past couple weeks are completely backwards from what you're saying here. In the past few weeks, it's been the bonus crew we know in advance, then the feature crew were given later. How is announcing the other way around supposed to help?
A much simpler answer: take a week or two to "pause," (either don't run an event, or run an exact duplicate of a previous one), and use that time to work ahead.
Not that you'll listen to common sense...
Let's see how this works for everyone involved. It does not mean there will not be improvements to the process down the line.
This would allow us to fuse up some existing characters as well.
Jim
If the timetable is to be so short and only include Wednesday chronitons cadet challenge for getting ready, there will need to be some adjustments to how events are handled. Voyages will help, but more Merit based unfreezing from cryostasis should be made available. Perhaps the gauntlets on Tuesday & Wednesday should have a higher chance of dropping chronitons.
I would urge that DB try to make this the temporary plan and aim for a better timetable in the future.
Put a couple of events "in the can" ready to go.
We the players would value any chance to add stars to existing Crew and it would give you time to get back on track.
Alternatively
Do an event with out crew being a prize.
Do a Galaxy (yes, even I the hater of Galaxy's)
Where... All Klingons are bonus and honor is the prizes in various quantity.
You won't need any story other then "we are Klingons! We fight for honor! ". That's your whole story right there.
Them we can beat each other's brains in trying to win all the honor we can and you can catch up.
Maybe theres another reason that just came to my mind.
Until now, ppl knew before event start, what crew(except Discovery crew this month) and what kind of event the nxt week isl so they had the chance to say, well i planned buying event packs this week but now i safe up for nxt week, cause this event even has crew i am more eager to have. Now the event is already running before info goes live, and ppl that wanted to buy prob did buy the event packs. So if nxt week has great crew as well, high chance they will buy again and spend more, while with advanced info they might had passed to buy event packs for the previous event.
I actually think this is a good idea. At any rate, there is a lot of noise saying take a week off and catch up. Especially if this is true: Then just a single week should get back on track. The fact is, the announcement timeline change and repeated errors like wrong event crew, wrong stats for galaxy, wrong shuttles for event crew, etc, really makes it quite hard for us to believe things are "tightly planned" nor much in advance, as were claimed for normal events in the past.
It doesn't work!! There needs to be vast improvements. Actually this **tsk tsk**!! I don't understand the reasoning behind it, but I'm sure it has something to do with money.
Sadly, this is a cop out answer.
DB knows what needs to be done. Changing the announcement schedule shouldn't be the answer. You should know weeks in advance what crew are planned for an event.
If you believe their previous comments they do have them planned in advance. Yet...actions suggest otherwise.
Come join the Star Trek Timelines Discord Community!
Invitation code: https://discord.gg/8Du7ZtJ
Jim
DB: Details are not finalized and we cannot release it yet.
Customer: We would all like to request (insert change here) to the event.
DB: NO! Events are planned out weeks ahead of time and we cannot change it!
Seems legit lol
So now, you don't want us to excel??
Shan, I appreciate the quick response as to why, but do you have the information requested regarding clarification of how this is going to go directly below your post? Specifically on repeat characters and if you are changing if other versions of a character will now not automatically be eligible for bonus? Or are you waiting to hear back from above on those details?
1) Timezone(s) as we have several. I believe 4 or 5 depending on how you look at it.
2) He was stating it was penalizing "non-US" so you are making comments about someone who was sticking up for your interests.
I am waiting for more information.
There is no change to variants, and how they would provide a bonus for the event.
Where it is sometimes more tricky is when non variants are added, to give more choices to players.