We need "unfreeze crew tokens"
Etienne
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With the new rewards and extra shuttles, we need a way other then merits to unfreeze our guys...it getting kind of costly to unfreeze enough crew. (either that.... or the cost of unfreezing needs to be reduced) But it would be sort of cool if we could earn a few unfreezes from the previous event.
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You do realize that they have taken the 1000 merits out of the threshold awards.....but maybe you are a whale and get 1000's from buying packs or something?
You do realize packs don't reward merits...but maybe you are making ad homenim attacks that don't relate to your own post that you're trying to derail?
Have a nice day...…
I am disappointed that DB has removed the 1000 Merit threshold reward.
Of course, I always spend it on the Merit 3xPull which is worse than a Premium 10 Pack that I now get from Threshold rewards.
Personally I never have trouble finding the merits to thaw out crew. Speaking of which... its time to thaw out some Dominion crew so I can get my Spock.
Treat it like dabo: first thawing essentially free, progressively more expensive for second, third, etc, ad watch to get a second one for free.
I would gladly watch an ad to unfreeze a character.
I understand why they don't allow us to have unlimited slots, possibly to a degree, cause maybe it takes up game resources especially multiplied by how many players there are? but Im not a programmer so that is just a guess.
However, I see no reason to charge us to freeze or unfreeze, and I think the cost should be eliminated.
That's pretty much what we have with escalating costs.
What I've always wanted is a 7d timeout after freezing a crew. If you want to unfreeze within that week you pay something(maybe first for merits and then dil). After 7 days, you can unfreeze the crew for free.
Yes, that would be great but it doesn't address the merit problem (if there is one) I run out of merits all the time to unfreeze crew as well as to buy enough shuttle missions to do a Faction Event. Now with less merits in the game, it's going to get all that much harder. From the time todays event was announced to now, I haven't even been able to unfreeze all the Dominion and Andorran crew I have ( dread a mirror crew event) it's cool that we are getting all these shuttle tokens but if we can't crew our extra shuttles then they aren't worth much.
And unless it's a Faction event with a gazillion crew, you can thaw out a couple of a day for, what, 250 merits total?
I'm all for a rejigging of the costs and process of thawing out crew, but I don't think we need to add yet another currency.
If losing 1000 merits every two or three weeks breaks your personal merit spending plan, you may have a deeper problem. Reducing spending in faction stores and on Gauntlet re-rolls, plus staggering your unfreezing process over the course of several days, will help greatly.
This right here.
I’m with you on this and I don’t understand some of the hostility/frustration in response to your posts.
In general, If you’re not running all of your different currencies down to a set limit, then you’re wasting them. Some obvious exceptions apply, for example if you’re saving chrons for use in a galaxy event.
Excess merits can be used on the 3 crew pull, converting them to honor or if you’re really lucky a crew member you actually need.
The removal of the merits from event rewards stings a little bit and having to play the freezer shuffle is frustrating. Cryo was always an awkward solution to a technical problem with the game that with better forethought should never have existed. I don’t think it’s fair to tell people just to farm them better, they may already be doing this.
And maybe the problem isn’t felt so much with the bigger spenders. We should all remember that just because a particular resource issue might not be a problem for us, it doesn’t mean it’s not a legitimate issue for newer players or those with lower VIP levels.
+1
I, like many others, always run the same 4 best missions over and over, so i leave all other missions always open, cause once i collect 1 shuttle, the exact same mission opens again. Saves some time, but requires a lot of add. merits.
And if u then run ur shuttles all 3hs or even 90 minutes, well.... i havn t done the total math how many merits i need for a single faction event(cause i am too scared to see the total), but for me its a lot. And the extra 1000 merits made things a lil easier.
Not to forget that for this event alone i needed soo many merits to defreeze like 10+ Andorian and Dominion bonus crew.
Yes, i can still farm merits via gauntlet, by doing no refreshes and ranking lower. But still, i will miss the 1000 thresholds Merits.
So i total support the idea for either new „unfreeze tokens“ that are added as event rewards and in thresholds, or in general make unfreezing crew „free“.
Do you remember the times before the cryovault? Strategy was far more important then. I will take the merit cost over the old way of airlocking subpar crew any day.
There’s no such thing as ‘spare’ or excess/undeeded merits. After carefully defrosting crew I need, any extra are used in the crew pulls. Keeping enough in stock for transmissions and gauntlet refreshes.
I think DB could do away with cryo altogether and just let everyone have unlimited slots. That’d be a nice Xmas present (hint hint!). I’d rather that than another currency and they’ve had plenty of time to work on a solution to the technical resources issue.
The crew cap is universal. It applies to everyone, regardless of spending. A player can choose to spend to increase that cap if they desire. Having an increased cap is a benefit of choosing to spend. If we were allowed to have every single available crew there would be even more demonizing of "whales" causing more contention.
It really boils down to resource management--money, crew, dilitium, credits, merits, crew slots, equipment, time ...they are all resources.