Skirmish Changes

[Deleted User]

Just had an in-game email saying that Skirmishes are changing again. This in my opinion puts them back to how they were (which was declared a bug by DB).
Good move. Thanks for listening DB.

[DCC] bebe has Badgey

Now it's the way it should be, I like it.

Booyah {RED SQUAD [Ontario, Canada]}

Thumbs up - thanks DB!

Hungry Dog DDM

My guess: They couldn't fix the "bug" so it remained a feature, and they just feigned listening to us for once. I still think the bonuses should stack.

DavideBooks

I think they could fix the "bug". I think they 1. Didn't want more blow-back after recent issues and 2. Couldn't fix the crew selection interface.

Peachtree Rex

DavideBooks wrote: »

I think they could fix the "bug". I think they 1. Didn't want more blow-back after recent issues and 2. Couldn't fix the crew selection interface.

To be fair, "fixing" the crew selection interface is a much more difficult/time intensive effort than rolling back how trait bonuses get applied.

{R•PHX}Captain Stupid

My question now is, are the new ship abilities applied to skirmishes or is it just for arena?
Hope DB IS still working on the UI to improve crew selection as the current really blows.
Remember DB programmers- highest bonus listed first then medium and so on. Also, make crew selection like in the other events. Thx.

Captain_Who

Before we had only two tiers of bonuses, +50%, and +100%. Even though I thought the original communique made it sound like we'd have 3. Shan specifically says 3 tiers of bonuses again (small, medium, large). Which is it? And do they apply (we assume, but don't have confirmation) to the after battle Bonus Rewards too?

The good news, we get a new round of bug shooting and figuring out the rules.
The bad news, we get a new round of bug shooting and figuring out the rules.

{R•PHX}Captain Stupid

Captain_Who wrote: »

Before we had only two tiers of bonuses, +50%, and +100%. Even though I thought the original communique made it sound like we'd have 3. Shan specifically says 3 tiers of bonuses again (small, medium, large). Which is it? And do they apply (we assume, but don't have confirmation) to the after battle Bonus Rewards too?

The good news, we get a new round of bug shooting and figuring out the rules.
The bad news, we get a new round of bug shooting and figuring out the rules.

It would be nice if DB made another video like they did the first time to demonstrate how the event was going to play out since that video was taken down during the Rufeegate. A clear, concise demonstration of how skirmish bonuses teirs do work would be more helpful to clear the air of confusion. But the UI really needs serious improvement. That in itself would be very helpful.
I've wrote Shan about this, she said "No new video at this time."😔

Miles "Coffins for Cardies" O'Brien

Normally I'd just run a bounty with event crew (in this case it'll be kal-if-fee spock) in the first slot, undercover o'brien, mirror phlox and chaotica right the way through the event for max bonus points.

If I'm reading these changes right I dont think I'll be able to do that anymore will I?

[SSR] GTMET

Miles "Coffins for Cardies" O'Brien wrote: »

Normally I'd just run a bounty with event crew (in this case it'll be kal-if-fee spock) in the first slot, undercover o'brien, mirror phlox and chaotica right the way through the event for max bonus points.

If I'm reading these changes right I dont think I'll be able to do that anymore will I?

actually, what you are reading is that you can exactly do that.