How will Expedition Tickets behave on the event?

[AR-UNI] General Abre

There are such tickets at 8750 VP, 21000 VP, and 40000 VP, those tickets last for one day on the Expedition event so if we cash them the very first day, what will happen with them?

Shan

Expedition tickets claimed from event rewards will need to be used before the day resets otherwise they will be lost.

Shan

Sorry it took so long!
We did some testing on our end and tickets claimed before the start of the Expedition phase should be available once the phase starts.

We will of course keep an eye on this at the phase change.

Captain_Who

DScottHewitt wrote: »

Shan wrote: »

Sorry it took so long!
We did some testing on our end and tickets claimed before the start of the Expedition phase should be available once the phase starts.

We will of course keep an eye on this at the phase change.

Thanx for checking for us!!!!!!

The Cynic in me says bouncing the server to make this work is the cause of the outage.

V.

ah - you got me - good question. my best guess is that they will be added to your expedition day 1 total. otherwise it's a brutal mistake.

Captain_Who

Best guess, with history as a guide, they'll get reset at midnight if not used. Until we get confirmation of behavior, I suggest your best bet is not to claim even the first until the expedition phase starts and you're ready to use it.

No offense, but I'm not going to be the test dummy to draw them early. I have BO Troi and Etana Jol, I don't need event crew for max skirmish bonuses.

[AR-UNI] General Abre

Captain_Who wrote: »

Best guess, with history as a guide, they'll get reset at midnight if not used. Until we get confirmation of behavior, I suggest your best bet is not to claim even the first until the expedition phase starts and you're ready to use it.

No offense, but I'm not going to be the test dummy to draw them early. I have BO Troi and Etana Jol, I don't need event crew for max skirmish bonuses.

As a matter of Fact, on Skirmish events, Legendary Mega Event crew does not count as Event crew, so sometimes you will not get full bonus!
Secondly, not cashing the prize makes us hold on levelling Demora Sulu! And believe having her all levelled up will mean a great difference!
@Shan and @JazzRiker, can anyone of you shed some light onto this subject?

[7TW] UnkieB

[AR-UNI] General Abre wrote: »

There are such tickets at 8750 VP, 21000 VP, and 40000 VP, those tickets last for one day on the Expedition event so if we cash them the very first day, what will happen with them?

To the best of my knowledge if you claim them before skirmish filps over to expedition you'd start with 6 tickets instead of three. You'd just have to make sure to get them used right away before the reset. Would be nice for Shan or Riker to jump in and confirm this though.

SSR Barkley

it's going to be a "it depends".

the entire game runs on entitlements, like when you see free single pulls or 10 packs, from things like dailies. The game remembers these things. That's why in the past, the game remembers if you had extra expedition tickets from prior events.

when the event starts, if the back end thinks you are at 3/3 expedition tickets , and you claim the thresholds, you'll be sitting at 6/3 at the phase change. If the last time an expedition ran, you used all your tickets, and it doesn't refresh itself until phase 2 starts, it'll be 0/3, and claiming the expedition tickets would bring you to 3/3 ..... in which case, you would NOT receive the free 3 when the phase changes on Saturday.

so yes, it would help if Shan or JazzRiker confirmed this, but as has been the case, half the information the dev team provides them has been wrong in the past.

Captain_Who

[AR-UNI] General Abre wrote: »

Captain_Who wrote: »

Best guess, with history as a guide, they'll get reset at midnight if not used. Until we get confirmation of behavior, I suggest your best bet is not to claim even the first until the expedition phase starts and you're ready to use it.

No offense, but I'm not going to be the test dummy to draw them early. I have BO Troi and Etana Jol, I don't need event crew for max skirmish bonuses.

As a matter of Fact, on Skirmish events, Legendary Mega Event crew does not count as Event crew, so sometimes you will not get full bonus!
Secondly, not cashing the prize makes us hold on levelling Demora Sulu! And believe having her all levelled up will mean a great difference!
@Shan and @JazzRiker, can anyone of you shed some light onto this subject?

Actually we've gone back to recurring crew counting as full event crew in skirmishes. After the big mess when they didn't and we were told it was that way from the beginning, and that it was malfunctioning from the beginning. But, I've already got a smelly Troi, so she would work. And there's a Sulu mansister at 6500 VP in thresholds, so just grab rewards between there and 8600.
Then dont collect further threshold rewards until after the expedition starts, and you're at 0/3 tickets and you're ready to start another ticket.

But yes, clarification on both of these points, before the event starts, would be gladly appreciated. Will all event crew count as event crew this time, and what happens to expedition tickets claimed before the expedition starts?

DavideBooks

@Captain_Who
It took me a second. "Smelly Troi" = BO Troi = Bridge Officer Troi. I like it. I'm going to start calling her Smelly.

Captain_Who

DavideBooks wrote: »

@Captain_Who
It took me a second. "Smelly Troi" = BO Troi = Bridge Officer Troi. I like it. I'm going to start calling her Smelly.

Hahah! Thanks. Wish I could take credit for it, but I stole it from somebody else in the forums. Took me that same little bit to make the leap, and now I can't think anything else.

Bluebeard1

"How will Expedition Tickets behave on the event?"

They will be very naughty and Santa will be upset. He will only bring them a lump of coal on Christmas day.

Data1001

Bluebeard1 wrote: »

"How will Expedition Tickets behave on the event?"

They will be very naughty and Santa will be upset. He will only bring them a lump of coal on Christmas day.

Dirk Gunderson

Captain_Who wrote: »

DavideBooks wrote: »

@Captain_Who
It took me a second. "Smelly Troi" = BO Troi = Bridge Officer Troi. I like it. I'm going to start calling her Smelly.

Hahah! Thanks. Wish I could take credit for it, but I stole it from somebody else in the forums. Took me that same little bit to make the leap, and now I can't think anything else.

I was going to post a GIF of the scene where Malcolm was having that dream about T’Pol but couldn’t find one on the Internet and can’t make it easily on my phone.

[AR-UNI] General Abre

My guess, what I think they should do is: let them accumulate without any cap and without losing them at reset time, like they do with Intels, they just accumulate over time, so when the event starts you already have 3 plus whatever the event has already for everyone starting, and every 6/12/18/24 hours you accumulate X more

guest_7456

based on past implementations....
it'll be screwed up no matter what you do. as punishment/compensation everyone will get 20 tickets by mail.

but in all seriousness, better safe than sorry since leveling and *s basically has no impact on the skirmish phase.

guest_1050435023319042

[AR-UNI] General Abre wrote: »

My guess, what I think they should do is: let them accumulate without any cap and without losing them at reset time, like they do with Intels, they just accumulate over time, so when the event starts you already have 3 plus whatever the event has already for everyone starting, and every 6/12/18/24 hours you accumulate X more

Well said

Odo Marmarosa

Still no official word? At this point I guess I'll wait to claim thresholds and tell my fleet to do the same

Captain_Who

I'm guessing DB know's how they intend for them to work, but are also as uncertain as we are about how they will actually work, so are just staying silent to keep from giving the wrong answer about what does happen, and having to run a change or correction.

V.

no matter what please oh pretty please do not give additional tickets as compensation..

Cmdr Worf's Head

Why is this thread marked as answered?

Legendary Spaceman

Shan wrote: »

Expedition tickets claimed from event rewards will need to be used before the day resets otherwise they will be lost.[/quotSo based on this, it sounds like we can't collect rewards until the expedition phase starts or else we will lose the tickets from the threshold rewards. Is that correct?

Legendary Spaceman

Sorry, messed up the last post, not sure how to fix it.

[ISA] Raven

Shan wrote: »

Expedition tickets claimed from event rewards will need to be used before the day resets otherwise they will be lost.

what about "Claimed before the phase starts" i think that is the crux of this string..

if i claim the rewards during phase 1.... what happens to those tickets "tonight" or tomorrow night when the reset happens.. or do they "show up" on phase 2 start.. and then expire 12 hrs later at the reset?

Cmdr Worf's Head

I'm starting to think they haven't considered this.

Elim

The answer to this is simple. Just don't collect them until the second part of the event

[7TW] UnkieB

Shan wrote: »

Expedition tickets claimed from event rewards will need to be used before the day resets otherwise they will be lost.

Not really what folks were asking.

Captain_Who

[7TW] UnkieB wrote: »

Shan wrote: »

Expedition tickets claimed from event rewards will need to be used before the day resets otherwise they will be lost.

Not really what folks were asking.

Yeah, this was already pretty well established. Kind of a non-answer that confirms my supposition.

Travis S McClain

Shan wrote: »

Expedition tickets claimed from event rewards will need to be used before the day resets otherwise they will be lost.

Uh, used where, exactly? It's not like we can start running the Expedition today. Or tomorrow. Or the first half of Saturday.

Shan

Sorry, I missed the part about claiming prior to the Expedition phase start, I will inquire!

Cmdr Worf's Head

I accidentally claimed them Just after warning my fleetmates not to.

Captain_Who

Cmdr Worf's Head wrote: »

I accidentally claimed them Just after warning my fleetmates not to.