The recent fifteen 10x pull offer was too good to pass up. But now I'm full. I can't justify spending now. There's no room to put the new crew. I've frozen everyone I can with just a couple slots to rotate event bonus crew.
So no crew slot sale has happened over the holiday season. What are your thoughts on when it will finally happen? Maybe with the next mega?
Next best chance would be In 6 days for convergence day.
I hope we get free slots & a slot sale for Convergence Day. *fingers crossed*
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Man I hope the slot sale is in a few days. If not I do no think we are getting one. Our fleet already lost a player or 2 as they quit until a sale drops, and many orhers halted spending. Our fleet cannot be the only ones in this situation.
Man I hope the slot sale is in a few days. If not I do no think we are getting one. Our fleet already lost a player or 2 as they quit until a sale drops, and many orhers halted spending. Our fleet cannot be the only ones in this situation.
Since we now can warp Cadet Challenges, hence freeze our Cadets that is even better than a sale. If some in your fleet are still struggling with space despite that who knows - maybe they will still do one in addition to that next week.
Man I hope the slot sale is in a few days. If not I do no think we are getting one. Our fleet already lost a player or 2 as they quit until a sale drops, and many orhers halted spending. Our fleet cannot be the only ones in this situation.
Since we now can warp Cadet Challenges, hence freeze our Cadets that is even better than a sale. If some in your fleet are still struggling with space despite that who knows - maybe they will still do one in addition to that next week.
The cadet warp is a temporary bandage. Every single week at least 2 new crew are created, plus a timed claim of a new Seven. At most people can freeze 10, probably average of 7 or 8. Therefore that staves off roster slaughter by 3 weeks maybe 4. I highly doubt that will encourage someone to buy packs or open hoarded packs because you will rapidly hit the wall again.
The cadet warp is a temporary bandage. Every single week at least 2 new crew are created, plus a timed claim of a new Seven. At most people can freeze 10, probably average of 6 or 7. Therefore that staves off roster slaughter by 3 weeks. I highly doubt that will encourage someone to buy packs or open hoarded packs because you will rapidly hit the wall again.
But you don´t need all the crew they create. Unless someone should play STT Pokemon style of course. Also peeps who play longer can easily send nearly anyone up to 4* to the freezer in a heartbeat.
Independent of that and also the reasons DB gave for limiting crew space (strain on the server etc.): In a game about collecting crew and, as you say, with so many new cards coming out all the time crew space should not be limited at all in the first place. Hence I prefer this temporary bandage as you call it over a sale. For me personally it will up my free slots to 32 and that will last a long time.
Man I hope the slot sale is in a few days. If not I do no think we are getting one. Our fleet already lost a player or 2 as they quit until a sale drops, and many orhers halted spending. Our fleet cannot be the only ones in this situation.
Since we now can warp Cadet Challenges, hence freeze our Cadets that is even better than a sale. If some in your fleet are still struggling with space despite that who knows - maybe they will still do one in addition to that next week.
The cadet warp is a temporary bandage. Every single week at least 2 new crew are created, plus a timed claim of a new Seven. At most people can freeze 10, probably average of 7 or 8. Therefore that staves off roster slaughter by 3 weeks maybe 4. I highly doubt that will encourage someone to buy packs or open hoarded packs because you will rapidly hit the wall again.
All true, but a crew slot sale is a bandage too. With sale people will buy 5, 10, maybe 15 slots? That doesn't create much more space than the cadet change. Personally I'm hoping for 5 free slots for convergence day and a crew slot sale on top of that. All bandages, but enough bandages to maybe buy us a couple months instead of weeks.
Man I hope the slot sale is in a few days. If not I do no think we are getting one. Our fleet already lost a player or 2 as they quit until a sale drops, and many orhers halted spending. Our fleet cannot be the only ones in this situation.
Since we now can warp Cadet Challenges, hence freeze our Cadets that is even better than a sale. If some in your fleet are still struggling with space despite that who knows - maybe they will still do one in addition to that next week.
The cadet warp is a temporary bandage. Every single week at least 2 new crew are created, plus a timed claim of a new Seven. At most people can freeze 10, probably average of 7 or 8. Therefore that staves off roster slaughter by 3 weeks maybe 4. I highly doubt that will encourage someone to buy packs or open hoarded packs because you will rapidly hit the wall again.
All true, but a crew slot sale is a bandage too. With sale people will buy 5, 10, maybe 15 slots? That doesn't create much more space than the cadet change. Personally I'm hoping for 5 free slots for convergence day and a crew slot sale on top of that. All bandages, but enough bandages to maybe buy us a couple months instead of weeks.
I have 22k crystals, so 70 for me plus hopefully the 5 freebies. Luckily for me i had a big backlog of commons through rares to freeze then a lot of 4*, but alas i hit a point where i needed to freeze crew i didn't really want to. Been at that point anout 2 months now. Also i don't really have a lot of 1/5s clogging my roster, but do have around 80 non FF purples. Being a collector i loathe airlocking those, but of course could jettison the weak ones. Since this game has so darn many 4*s, the odds of getting the right drops for newer accounts is poor, something that established rosters don't have to worry about as much as I doubt many have that many unfused 4* like I do to bog down and can just freeze some random ones at will.
Indeed thanks DB for the QOL addition, but many still badly need the sale. Will open my roster up and with that, my wallet.
For me Warp on cadet will free up a total of 14 crew. I kept crew to allow me to do any cadet mission on epic. I probably could have froze some of those cadets already because I do only one mission, except on MWF.
I actually am not having a slot problem, except for pulling crew out for events.
I have no problem freezing any of my SR. I have gotten close to freezing them all.
But, I prefer to keep my slots full. This puts all voyage crew drops in excess. That way I know which crew are new pickups and can make my mind up whether to airlock them or make room for them.
However, in my main account I have 320 crew slots. And, my second account I have 285 crew slots.
That amount of crew slots means I do not have to airlock legendaries. I can keep them all. It will be a while before I ever have 285 legendaries.
That amount of crew slots means I do not have to airlock legendaries. I can keep them all. It will be a while before I ever have 285 legendaries.
Wish I was there. Can get a lot closer to your 2nd account with a sale, should put me at 220 or so. I do the same as you where I keep my roster full to easily jettison copies off voyages, at least I used to before I got full full.
for the 3rd aniversary if is not free crew slot is going to be a sale but whit the cadet chalenge is warp abale maybe none because just the free space to put in freezer all 2* and maybe keep 2x3* is going to give me 8 free crew slot only freeing me me 2* star active for cadet
Man I hope the slot sale is in a few days. If not I do no think we are getting one. Our fleet already lost a player or 2 as they quit until a sale drops, and many orhers halted spending. Our fleet cannot be the only ones in this situation.
Since we now can warp Cadet Challenges, hence freeze our Cadets that is even better than a sale. If some in your fleet are still struggling with space despite that who knows - maybe they will still do one in addition to that next week.
I'm one of Thorozar's fleetmates who quit due to lack of slot space. By the time I quit I had already frozen my cadets along with every other crew I had immortalized, including legendary powerhouses like Leonardo. Being able to warp cadet missions is awesome, but it doesn't substitute for a slot sale. With 15k dilithium, a slot sale means I could buy 25 extra slots (relative to their full price).
I want to be clear that I don't begrudge DB for not offering a slot sale, but as a consequence the game just isn't fun to play. All my best people are frozen, so my event, shuttle, and voyage performance were suffering, and at the time I couldn't even get the daily rewards because I couldn't run cadet missions (obviously that's no longer a factor, but it was when I quit). I also acknowledge that I wouldn't be in this position if I were more ruthless with my use of the airlock, but I find it more fun to play as a collector, and it's a little painful to straight-up delete people that I either paid money or spent time to collect. Again, I don't blame DB for my own choice to play this way, it just means that when I ran out of space the game ceased being enjoyable for me.
Finally I know someone is going to say "you have 15k dil, just buy slots at full price." Yeah, if I do that then there will be a slot sale the next day. Actually maybe I should take one for the team and just go ahead and do that so that everyone else can benefit!
I also acknowledge that I wouldn't be in this position if I were more ruthless with my use of the airlock, but I find it more fun to play as a collector, and it's a little painful to straight-up delete people that I either paid money or spent time to collect.
Just do it. You can get it back later. I accidentally deleted my ECH sometime last year. He's since been immortalized and tucked into the vault. I mostly only buy monthly cards and not consistently at that.
Turfing a 5* can be a little painful but missing out on the occasional random weak 5* won't hurt you.
No reason to quit instead of airlocking weaker/non bridge crew purples. You WILL get them again in events and/or voyages. People don't think about the sheer volume of voyages we run constantly, even though they don't drop SR's every time. Prioritize the main cast crew first, airlock/freeze the weaker ones, even freeze some stronger ones to free up slots for events (like borg this weekend).
Eventually legendaries will do 80% of your daily usage anyways, and freezing a strong SR temporarily might cost you 5-10 minutes on a voyage or 5% success odds on a single faction shuttle slot for a few days by using a slightly weaker legendary. These are not significant temporary sacrifices. In fact, SR crew are really only a meat grinder of rotating event crew for me. They only make small differences in some voyages/shuttles, and gauntlet is only a merit farm with VERY rarely useful rewards. I have 200 slots and 61 legendaries (only 8 FF) and have not felt a really bad slot squeeze in months.
No reason to quit instead of airlocking weaker/non bridge crew purples. You WILL get them again in events and/or voyages. People don't think about the sheer volume of voyages we run constantly, even though they don't drop SR's every time. Prioritize the main cast crew first, airlock/freeze the weaker ones, even freeze some stronger ones to free up slots for events (like borg this weekend).
Eventually legendaries will do 80% of your daily usage anyways, and freezing a strong SR temporarily might cost you 5-10 minutes on a voyage or 5% success odds on a single faction shuttle slot for a few days by using a slightly weaker legendary. These are not significant temporary sacrifices. In fact, SR crew are really only a meat grinder of rotating event crew for me. They only make small differences in some voyages/shuttles, and gauntlet is only a merit farm with VERY rarely useful rewards. I have 200 slots and 61 legendaries (only 8 FF) and have not felt a really bad slot squeeze in months.
This is where I’m at as well. Purples offer depth for events and shuttles when my legendaries are busy on voyages. The only purples that iampicard has sent on voyages in the last month or two for me have been Vulcan Wedding T’Pol (DIP/SCI), Doc Crusher (MED/SCI), and Commander Thelin (COM/SCI). Even ENG/MED voyages didn’t get any purples, and I had been keeping Dr. La Forge around just in case I got one of those while my usual suspects were busy with a Faction event. And even the purples that are event crew get cycled in and out of the freezer...it means I’m at 168/205 slots even with that single Commander Sisko achievement reward, Kang and Smiley for the arena, and all of my bonus crew for tomorrow’s event.
When I airlocked crew like Rianna Mayweather to make room, I felt bad. Looking back, now that I have her in the freezer, I didn’t really miss out on much.
The only purples that iampicard has sent on voyages in the last month or two for me have been Vulcan Wedding T’Pol (DIP/SCI), Doc Crusher (MED/SCI), and Commander Thelin (COM/SCI). Even ENG/MED voyages didn’t get any purples, and I had been keeping Dr. La Forge around just in case I got one of those while my usual suspects were busy with a Faction event.
I'm tempted to keep a list of recently used Voyage purples. That list will be pretty small I think. Presently I have Mirror Mayweather out on a SEC/ENG Voyage. He has a matching trait.
The only purples that iampicard has sent on voyages in the last month or two for me have been Vulcan Wedding T’Pol (DIP/SCI), Doc Crusher (MED/SCI), and Commander Thelin (COM/SCI). Even ENG/MED voyages didn’t get any purples, and I had been keeping Dr. La Forge around just in case I got one of those while my usual suspects were busy with a Faction event.
I'm tempted to keep a list of recently used Voyage purples. That list will be pretty small I think. Presently I have Mirror Mayweather out on a SEC/ENG Voyage. He has a matching trait.
For my main account, the last purple who went on a voyage for me was Mirror Phlox for a MED/SEC voyage, and that was a number of months ago.
For my VIP0, all of my good immortal purples are in the freezer because I don't have enough slots (only 85 at least until the next sale), and I still manage to enjoy the game playing with mostly unfused purples and golds.
The only purples that iampicard has sent on voyages in the last month or two for me have been Vulcan Wedding T’Pol (DIP/SCI), Doc Crusher (MED/SCI), and Commander Thelin (COM/SCI). Even ENG/MED voyages didn’t get any purples, and I had been keeping Dr. La Forge around just in case I got one of those while my usual suspects were busy with a Faction event.
I'm tempted to keep a list of recently used Voyage purples. That list will be pretty small I think. Presently I have Mirror Mayweather out on a SEC/ENG Voyage. He has a matching trait.
I go through each skill and look for crew that I haven’t seen in a while. If I don’t remember seeing them, to the freezer they go. A spreadsheet or something would be more rigorous, of course.
I do refuse to freeze a couple of personal favorites, however. Professor Scott hasn’t gone on a voyage in many months, I don’t think Tommy Gun Dixon went on a voyage since the first month they were released, and Lieutenant Tarah has only gone on a tiny handful of shuttles during Faction events when other crew are busy on voyages. And I don’t care.
This is a problem! I quit playing daily. I want to collect but i can't justify $34 for 5 crew slots. I would have bought premium pack deals but not gonna just throw away new crew.
Alright we got to freeze all the cadets...will this end the crying for "free slots"? NOPE. I see post where people say they have 57 1/4 crew. This shouldn't happen. Don't let your crew situation get this bad. Make a couple hard choices here and there. You don't need Cyrus Redblock fffe RIGHT NOW. MANAGE YOUR CREW people. If you don't have space, don't pick up a 1/4 crew. Can't collect them all RIGHT NOW, collect them all LATER. Why the need for complete instant gratification? I've spent almost 3 years collecting MOST of the crew. I don't have the space for ALL. And I'm OK with that. I promise it'll be OK not having all the characters in your crews.
Alright we got to freeze all the cadets...will this end the crying for "free slots"? NOPE. I see post where people say they have 57 1/4 crew. This shouldn't happen. Don't let your crew situation get this bad. Make a couple hard choices here and there. You don't need Cyrus Redblock fffe RIGHT NOW. MANAGE YOUR CREW people. If you don't have space, don't pick up a 1/4 crew. Can't collect them all RIGHT NOW, collect them all LATER. Why the need for complete instant gratification? I've spent almost 3 years collecting MOST of the crew. I don't have the space for ALL. And I'm OK with that. I promise it'll be OK not having all the characters in your crews.
Yes you just want newer players to not compete with you we get it. No new player can open packs at some point, that is what you want. Move along.
Alright we got to freeze all the cadets...will this end the crying for "free slots"? NOPE. I see post where people say they have 57 1/4 crew. This shouldn't happen. Don't let your crew situation get this bad. Make a couple hard choices here and there. You don't need Cyrus Redblock fffe RIGHT NOW. MANAGE YOUR CREW people. If you don't have space, don't pick up a 1/4 crew. Can't collect them all RIGHT NOW, collect them all LATER. Why the need for complete instant gratification? I've spent almost 3 years collecting MOST of the crew. I don't have the space for ALL. And I'm OK with that. I promise it'll be OK not having all the characters in your crews.
Yes you just want newer players to not compete with you we get it. No new player can open packs at some point, that is what you want. Move along.
We were all in the same situation at one point or another, and yet we all made it through. We are PROOF that you don't need all the crew slots. You know how many 1,2,3, and 4* crew I have in my crew quarters right now? 27.
Alright we got to freeze all the cadets...will this end the crying for "free slots"? NOPE. I see post where people say they have 57 1/4 crew. This shouldn't happen. Don't let your crew situation get this bad. Make a couple hard choices here and there. You don't need Cyrus Redblock fffe RIGHT NOW. MANAGE YOUR CREW people. If you don't have space, don't pick up a 1/4 crew. Can't collect them all RIGHT NOW, collect them all LATER. Why the need for complete instant gratification? I've spent almost 3 years collecting MOST of the crew. I don't have the space for ALL. And I'm OK with that. I promise it'll be OK not having all the characters in your crews.
Yes you just want newer players to not compete with you we get it. No new player can open packs at some point, that is what you want. Move along.
We were all in the same situation at one point or another, and yet we all made it through. We are PROOF that you don't need all the crew slots. You know how many 1,2,3, and 4* crew I have in my crew quarters right now? 27.
And back then there were FAR less crew, so every drop you had much higher chances to get a needed star vs a new 1/4 or whatever. I'm sorry you can't see that.
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Next best chance would be In 6 days for convergence day.
(Also because event packs aren't posted yet.
I hope we get free slots & a slot sale for Convergence Day. *fingers crossed*
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Since we now can warp Cadet Challenges, hence freeze our Cadets that is even better than a sale. If some in your fleet are still struggling with space despite that who knows - maybe they will still do one in addition to that next week.
The cadet warp is a temporary bandage. Every single week at least 2 new crew are created, plus a timed claim of a new Seven. At most people can freeze 10, probably average of 7 or 8. Therefore that staves off roster slaughter by 3 weeks maybe 4. I highly doubt that will encourage someone to buy packs or open hoarded packs because you will rapidly hit the wall again.
But you don´t need all the crew they create. Unless someone should play STT Pokemon style of course. Also peeps who play longer can easily send nearly anyone up to 4* to the freezer in a heartbeat.
Independent of that and also the reasons DB gave for limiting crew space (strain on the server etc.): In a game about collecting crew and, as you say, with so many new cards coming out all the time crew space should not be limited at all in the first place. Hence I prefer this temporary bandage as you call it over a sale. For me personally it will up my free slots to 32 and that will last a long time.
All true, but a crew slot sale is a bandage too. With sale people will buy 5, 10, maybe 15 slots? That doesn't create much more space than the cadet change. Personally I'm hoping for 5 free slots for convergence day and a crew slot sale on top of that. All bandages, but enough bandages to maybe buy us a couple months instead of weeks.
I have 22k crystals, so 70 for me plus hopefully the 5 freebies. Luckily for me i had a big backlog of commons through rares to freeze then a lot of 4*, but alas i hit a point where i needed to freeze crew i didn't really want to. Been at that point anout 2 months now. Also i don't really have a lot of 1/5s clogging my roster, but do have around 80 non FF purples. Being a collector i loathe airlocking those, but of course could jettison the weak ones. Since this game has so darn many 4*s, the odds of getting the right drops for newer accounts is poor, something that established rosters don't have to worry about as much as I doubt many have that many unfused 4* like I do to bog down and can just freeze some random ones at will.
Indeed thanks DB for the QOL addition, but many still badly need the sale. Will open my roster up and with that, my wallet.
I actually am not having a slot problem, except for pulling crew out for events.
I have no problem freezing any of my SR. I have gotten close to freezing them all.
But, I prefer to keep my slots full. This puts all voyage crew drops in excess. That way I know which crew are new pickups and can make my mind up whether to airlock them or make room for them.
However, in my main account I have 320 crew slots. And, my second account I have 285 crew slots.
That amount of crew slots means I do not have to airlock legendaries. I can keep them all. It will be a while before I ever have 285 legendaries.
Wish I was there. Can get a lot closer to your 2nd account with a sale, should put me at 220 or so. I do the same as you where I keep my roster full to easily jettison copies off voyages, at least I used to before I got full full.
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I'm one of Thorozar's fleetmates who quit due to lack of slot space. By the time I quit I had already frozen my cadets along with every other crew I had immortalized, including legendary powerhouses like Leonardo. Being able to warp cadet missions is awesome, but it doesn't substitute for a slot sale. With 15k dilithium, a slot sale means I could buy 25 extra slots (relative to their full price).
I want to be clear that I don't begrudge DB for not offering a slot sale, but as a consequence the game just isn't fun to play. All my best people are frozen, so my event, shuttle, and voyage performance were suffering, and at the time I couldn't even get the daily rewards because I couldn't run cadet missions (obviously that's no longer a factor, but it was when I quit). I also acknowledge that I wouldn't be in this position if I were more ruthless with my use of the airlock, but I find it more fun to play as a collector, and it's a little painful to straight-up delete people that I either paid money or spent time to collect. Again, I don't blame DB for my own choice to play this way, it just means that when I ran out of space the game ceased being enjoyable for me.
Finally I know someone is going to say "you have 15k dil, just buy slots at full price." Yeah, if I do that then there will be a slot sale the next day.
Just do it. You can get it back later. I accidentally deleted my ECH sometime last year. He's since been immortalized and tucked into the vault. I mostly only buy monthly cards and not consistently at that.
Turfing a 5* can be a little painful but missing out on the occasional random weak 5* won't hurt you.
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Eventually legendaries will do 80% of your daily usage anyways, and freezing a strong SR temporarily might cost you 5-10 minutes on a voyage or 5% success odds on a single faction shuttle slot for a few days by using a slightly weaker legendary. These are not significant temporary sacrifices. In fact, SR crew are really only a meat grinder of rotating event crew for me. They only make small differences in some voyages/shuttles, and gauntlet is only a merit farm with VERY rarely useful rewards. I have 200 slots and 61 legendaries (only 8 FF) and have not felt a really bad slot squeeze in months.
This is where I’m at as well. Purples offer depth for events and shuttles when my legendaries are busy on voyages. The only purples that iampicard has sent on voyages in the last month or two for me have been Vulcan Wedding T’Pol (DIP/SCI), Doc Crusher (MED/SCI), and Commander Thelin (COM/SCI). Even ENG/MED voyages didn’t get any purples, and I had been keeping Dr. La Forge around just in case I got one of those while my usual suspects were busy with a Faction event. And even the purples that are event crew get cycled in and out of the freezer...it means I’m at 168/205 slots even with that single Commander Sisko achievement reward, Kang and Smiley for the arena, and all of my bonus crew for tomorrow’s event.
When I airlocked crew like Rianna Mayweather to make room, I felt bad. Looking back, now that I have her in the freezer, I didn’t really miss out on much.
I'm tempted to keep a list of recently used Voyage purples. That list will be pretty small I think. Presently I have Mirror Mayweather out on a SEC/ENG Voyage. He has a matching trait.
For my main account, the last purple who went on a voyage for me was Mirror Phlox for a MED/SEC voyage, and that was a number of months ago.
For my VIP0, all of my good immortal purples are in the freezer because I don't have enough slots (only 85 at least until the next sale), and I still manage to enjoy the game playing with mostly unfused purples and golds.
I go through each skill and look for crew that I haven’t seen in a while. If I don’t remember seeing them, to the freezer they go. A spreadsheet or something would be more rigorous, of course.
I do refuse to freeze a couple of personal favorites, however. Professor Scott hasn’t gone on a voyage in many months, I don’t think Tommy Gun Dixon went on a voyage since the first month they were released, and Lieutenant Tarah has only gone on a tiny handful of shuttles during Faction events when other crew are busy on voyages. And I don’t care.
That’s said, slots should be nowhere near as expensive as they are.
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10 for 10? No idea where to put the new crew.
Yes you just want newer players to not compete with you we get it. No new player can open packs at some point, that is what you want. Move along.
We were all in the same situation at one point or another, and yet we all made it through. We are PROOF that you don't need all the crew slots. You know how many 1,2,3, and 4* crew I have in my crew quarters right now? 27.
And back then there were FAR less crew, so every drop you had much higher chances to get a needed star vs a new 1/4 or whatever. I'm sorry you can't see that.