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  • DavideBooksDavideBooks ✭✭✭✭✭
    They definitely need better communications. For instance, how hard is it to say, "The next mega will be in January," or, "The next mega is soon, but we regretfully delayed the announcement"?
  • I do hope you'll come back, Bylo, you'll be missed here on the forums.

    Nudge to our friends at DB who might in good faith not have seen this one coming - in 20/20 hindsight a little outreach here on the forums might have helped buffer against this little firestorm:

    "We're still tuning changes to the threshold rewards and have a couple of additional changes during this re-run event - let us know what you think. And we're still working carefully on the changes to threshold rewards we told you about ... hopefully when all are in place the overall event experience will be more fun, challenging and rewarding for everyone. We hope to have it all adjusted and settled over the next couple of months. Please hang with us as we adjust and keep your valuable feedback coming!"

    Based on some of the positive changes and additions we've seen alongside the "groan" changes, I do believe they monitor the ideas here. The disgruntled may legitimately differ in that impression, but I'm a "kanar bottle half full" sort of person. :-)

    DB should hire you on the spot. That statement is exactly what was needed here. I don't think any of us (okay, very few of us) want to hate what DB does. We just want to feel that there is a plan and there is some consistency in the decision making, and to have some transparency from an official source when it is clear things are unexpectedly changing. When that transparency is lacking, even if DB thinks there are very good reasons to stay silent, it makes the most passionate parts of the player base, the ones that go to the trouble of joining a forum dedicated to a mobile game and regularly contribute to it and a wiki, think DB does not care and is only trying to sap every dollar they can out of them. It's such an avoidable thing.
  • I will say this: They are a company, you can write whatever you want here. If you are not happy with the direction of the game then there is a very easy way to show them by voting with our wallets.
  • ByloBand wrote: »
    Trying to equip and level up Apollo and Kirk has completely killed what little hope/happiness I had managed to restore since this afternoon. I see no reason to even try on this event. I paid money to buy packs for this event to try and enjoy it, and then they need so many ancient films, science experiments, etc that I cannot get them above level 50 before the event starts. I mean seriously, what is the point?! By the time I get either of them up to 100 the event will be half over. And of course none of the items needed are available from either of the factions featured in this event! I see no reason to participate, and if I'm not participating in this event, what is the point of any of this? I gave myself permission to stop playing this game this afternoon; I was expecting that to sting but all I felt was relief. I'm not sure I can put that toothpaste back in the tube.

    On hiatus, possibly forever.

    Greedy DB possibly just lost a friendly, helpful and very active player who spent real money on the game.
    This is really frustrating.
    Do any DB staff actually play this game?
  • My feedback would be to suggest threshold rewards are too high for general event play. While they shouldn't be easy to achieve, they are actually rather difficult and an even bigger problem is that I they risk pushing up the ranked level up way beyond what's reasonable play. It's a bit of a disincentive, unless you plan to go hard. I dunno, I've never been fond of faction events but we'll see where I end up after an easy weekend.
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  • WebberoniWebberoni ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don’t understand the pitchforks. It’s a re-run, guys. Not that big a deal. Yes, putting Goddess Troi at 400k VPs puts her out of reach of a lot more players than if they’d put her at 100k, but is that really worth such anger?

    I mostly think you're not wrong about this. However, I think the primary issue is that it appears to most players that this is a reversal (betrayal?) of what appeared to be a new and well-received approach to re-run events. And it definitely denies an opportunity to newer players for adding a 5* character (no matter her strengths/weaknesses). Which brings us back to an oft-repeated complaint - lack of communication. Why the change?

    As I noted earlier, I don't have GoE Troi and was hoping to add her in a timely way so that she'd be useful in-event. Since I am also hoping to get Spock, I'll probably get Troi just by competing for top 1000, but now I won't be leveling her in-event and that creates more opportunity for me to airlock her. Sure, that's my problem, but is that what DB was hoping to achieve with this change? I suspect not, but then who knows?

    I have no issue with the free 5* crew being a little harder to achieve than it was in some previous re-runs (ie: maybe 300k or even 350k).

    I think this change, as well as the changes introduced in the previous faction event, are all to drive increased participation in faction events. By making more people put more effort into the events for a longer period of time (ie: no more threshold-and-out within the first half of the event), it makes the event more competitive for the ranked rewards (ie: top-25, top-1000), which in turn could lead to more people spending money to purchase event-specific packs (ie: boost packs for faction events, chron packs for galaxy/skirmish events).

    It's all about a push to encourage more in-game purchases, with extra threshold rewards (ie: 10x premium pull & old 1/5* crew) as the initial carrot, and the new 5* crew as the eventual carrot.
  • I don’t understand the pitchforks. It’s a re-run, guys. Not that big a deal.

    Yes, putting Goddess Troi at 400k VPs puts her out of reach of a lot more players than if they’d put her at 100k, but is that really worth such anger? I don’t have her either, and will be working to get her, but let’s be honest: her stats at one or two stars are unimpressive, even for most players who could get to 100k VPs. So, for most of us, if we get her, she’ll be taking up a crew slot with far worse stats that other Troi versions, like Mintakan (that far more of us were able to fully fuse). Some might be tempted even to airlock her. Not a huge loss.

    I'm mostly with you. I don't like the change, but I am pushing for SpocketMan either way, so it really won't affect my approach to the event.
  • (HGH)Apollo(HGH)Apollo ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only two factions and only eight missions for each faction. A bit stingy db. Seems like you would give us lots lf missions so we would buy those extra shuttles.
    Let’s fly!
  • Like, how am I supposed to be able to kickstart when I can only open 16 shuttles at a time???
  • The playerbase for this game seems to be completely demoralized on a frequent basis.

    It's what they keep doing
  • PolPol ✭✭✭
    Aaagh I used an overnight boost instead of a time boost on one of the 1200 shuttles

    I feel for you... happened to me in the Captain Spock event

  • I ended up pulling an event pack and got Apollo, so I’ll work to the other three and take what I get. Not going to press too hard in this one. Whatever extra rewards I get over threshold, I get, but I’m not going to use any doublers or time boosts unless it might get me another item right at the end.
  • YateballYateball ✭✭✭✭✭
    Like, how am I supposed to be able to kickstart when I can only open 16 shuttles at a time???

    It doesn't matter how many total you're allowed to open the kickstart is always open max, run 11, open 11 run with boosts, run the rest. Done.
  • Yateball wrote: »
    Like, how am I supposed to be able to kickstart when I can only open 16 shuttles at a time???

    It doesn't matter how many total you're allowed to open the kickstart is always open max, run 11, open 11 run with boosts, run the rest. Done.

    Yeah but when you can open 24 at the start, the kickstart gets you to 3500 VP instead of 2250.

    I feel like I've definitely had more than 36 shuttle successes and yet my VP is still stuck on 2750.
  • Zetterbeard Zetterbeard ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yateball wrote: »
    Like, how am I supposed to be able to kickstart when I can only open 16 shuttles at a time???

    It doesn't matter how many total you're allowed to open the kickstart is always open max, run 11, open 11 run with boosts, run the rest. Done.

    Yep. That's what I do as well.
  • Average GuyAverage Guy ✭✭✭✭
    Have they officially nerfed faction events?
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