New threshold rewards
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From Starfleet Communications:
Threshold rewards changes for Faction events, and hybrid Faction/Galaxy events.
Starting with the upcoming faction event "Peldor Joi" we were making the following changes to threshold rewards with the following additions:
VP 12,500 - added 1 Requisition Shuttle token
VP 52,000 - added 1 Requisition Shuttle token
VP 180,000 - 2 Requisition Shuttle tokens, 2 Legendary 2x Reward Multiplier
VP 210,000 - 150,000 Credits
VP 215,000 - 1,500 Honor
VP 300,000 - 1 Voyage Revival token
Vp 350,000 - 1 10x Premium Pull
As with any changes of this type we will assess how they perform and make additional changes as needed. Likewise we are also planning on some similar changes for other types of events. Ranked rewards changes for the top 1000 players have not been forgotten, they will be part of a future update.
Comments?
Threshold rewards changes for Faction events, and hybrid Faction/Galaxy events.
Starting with the upcoming faction event "Peldor Joi" we were making the following changes to threshold rewards with the following additions:
VP 12,500 - added 1 Requisition Shuttle token
VP 52,000 - added 1 Requisition Shuttle token
VP 180,000 - 2 Requisition Shuttle tokens, 2 Legendary 2x Reward Multiplier
VP 210,000 - 150,000 Credits
VP 215,000 - 1,500 Honor
VP 300,000 - 1 Voyage Revival token
Vp 350,000 - 1 10x Premium Pull
As with any changes of this type we will assess how they perform and make additional changes as needed. Likewise we are also planning on some similar changes for other types of events. Ranked rewards changes for the top 1000 players have not been forgotten, they will be part of a future update.
Comments?
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This are just for faction and hybrids.
For now, but they also mentioned that changes to the reward structures for other event types are also in the works.
They said that the reward structure for all events types will be updated, but all events that don't have at least a faction portion won't need shuttle tokens included as threshold rewards.
I really feel they should have gone all the way and put a 5* in there at 350..
(325 For the 10x if ya want but I'd be just as good losing it in favor of.. last week's, this week's or next week's 5*)
I know she said they haven't forgotten the rank rewards issue and they'd look at it in the future.. but I'm honestly tired of the most popular game request being put off again in favor of a feature that exactly 2 people may have actually asked for.
Especially when your making the stick pointy AND heavy.
If we're going to be beaten with a pointy heavy stick we really need a bit more of a carrot then tokens for an unwanted feature and a 10x that will rarely drop something useful (rarely that is for players who have been here long enough to know that the $33 dollar ship offer when you first get past the tutorial is a Horrendous deal)
Look ! We've made it harder !
But if you push thru you can get a small number of objects that will torture other players too ! Make then suffer like you do now !
Lol.
1500 honor..
Only about compensates the honor lost from not being able to send your "A team " out in Voyages during the events.
If this were really to be rewarding..
At least 5,000 should be considered.
It's a step.
A really really small step.
But a step in the right direction.
.. ok maybe it's not a step but at least you've rotated towards the direction we'd like you to take a step towards.
Yay !
= 22 successes a day (over 4 days)
= minimum of 5.5 batches of 4 shuttles sent out each day during the event.
I was happy to get the chance to win a pack (boy do I need every chance I can get to add stars to my crew) ... but a couple of minutes later reality set in ... ah well.
But ... I really like the addition of extra rewards (Voyage revival token and Honor especially).
Yes, but you can use time reducers and 2* rewards and you get some extra tokens in the event. Sure, it will be difficult but completing tresholds should be difficult.
If you didn't rank 350k VP, then there is no difference.
Still, it's a positive change that's been asked for (in some form) for a long time. Steps in the right direction.
Do we know if voyage tokens are saveable now or use is forced still?
https://forum.disruptorbeam.com/stt/discussion/5023/qh-the-oldest-fleet-in-timelines-l91-starbase-daily-targets-met
Technically it isn't free as you need a lot of time reducers to get there.
Should be pretty easy doing the bare minimum kickstart (ie: 11 x 3* speed boosts), assuming you're able to login every 3 hours thereafter, for the next 4 days. Sleep is the biggest cost during faction events! lol
Speed boosts are much more plentiful now, if you use the double-up adwarp for all 6 cadet missions on Thursdays, giving you 12 of the 10x boost packs every week. With the amount of galaxy/hybrid/skirmish events we've had recently, my shuttle boost inventory is at record levels!
Some people always act like it's a crime to look at a change critically. If it weren't for the vocal critical players these changes would never happen and we'd still be playing a game with half the crew slots, no honor and and no immortalizing characters. You'd have the fun of building them and spacing them forever when a better character weighs come among.
Simply unbelievable ! :O
And tank an event.. ?
(That I don't have to play ya know !)
((Oh wait, I do because of the way ranked rewards are !))
We've asked for improved thresholds for nearly as long as we've asked for improved rank rewards. They didn't just -happen- to decide to improve them because of our long standing request, they did it to go with additional monetization which I don't begrudge them at all for, but.. if you want me to chase the carrot, it dam well better be worth the run.. (and consequently more of our money.) - this stuff isn't free. Bashir this morning was free and I value him.
So let's look at the "value" they've added.
Exclude the shuttle requests because they're part of the problem.
Just look at the other stuff.
150,000 credits
1,500 honor
1 Voyage reviver
1x10 Standard non event premium portal
Is that worth the extra money / effort to reach 350,000 points ?
I donno.
Like I said, it may not even be a step in the right direction.. but they may at least be pointing in the right direction now.
(And that's.. possibly a start. I hope it is)
Can’t see myself making it to 350k for the premiums, but extra honor and credits is always welcome (and a voyage revival token is basically 100dil)
That’s my only concern. All of this is definitely a step in the right direction. However, if the voyage tokens can’t be saved and used when you want to use them instead of being forced to use them, they really aren’t that useful. Other than that, this is all good news
In order to rank 1k or better, you would have needed much more VP than 250k (that was the top treshold in faction/hybrid events). So you would still have to send out shuttles and spend money/time/resources in order to rank 1k or better to get the yellow crew. What has changed now is that you would actually get some more rewards that you previously didn't get. How can you even say that it can be a negative thing? But let's just assume that you don't care about the extra rewards and still just do 250k like prior to this change, then you would still get 150k credits and 1.5k honor for free. Is that a bad thing? When there is a legitimate problem, then complaining is sometimes necessary. But way to strawman there, you just claim that the game would not improve without complaining.
I need to see what what my faction scores are, but as a low spender, that Voyage revive token and premium 10x is worth using extra boosts even if I was already getting the 5* crew. I'll sit on those tokens until I can do the all dilemma run to get the voyage exclusive crew. And getting an extra 10x premium is always appreciated.
I agree with your numbers, but I still realize that there is something missing or not taken into account by you and I don't know what it is.
Last Hybrid event, when the faction part ended I had almost 200k points, just playing missions almost normally except for the Kickstart..