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I love factions, they are my favorite event in the game. But omg five in a row? Full faction or hybrid, I mean it is just too much i think.
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Protecting the Galaxy's Future from itself
But if you wanna see a truly brutal event calendar, I refer you to a run that started three years ago:
09-15-2016 Triple Threat 1 Galaxy
09-22-2016 Ribbon of Joy Expedition
09-29-2016 Second Act 1 Faction
10-06-2016 Holograms Are Forever Expedition
10-13-2016 Blood and Circuses 2 Faction
10-27-2016 Ghost in the Machine 1 Faction
11-04-2016 Dictators, Unite! Faction
11-12-2016 The Game's Afoot 2 Expedition
11-17-2016 The Prime Directive 1 Galaxy
I doubt that saving manpower is the reasoning behind this faction-flood. I rather believe that they try to get more people into buying boosts as most stocks are rather depleted by now.
Wouldn't that be the year of hell.
This. If you start counting from Falcon Falls (2) just before the Q Mega through next week's event (8 weeks), we will have had 5 events with a galaxy component. Even in the era of plentiful chronitons, some players might consider that to be excessive. Also, as is noted often on these forums, some players passionately hate galaxy events, so for them, this stretch is pretty awful too.
To be fair, over that same time period, there will have been 6 events with a faction component. In a game with only 3 event types (sorry Expedition, you just can't be counted here), I suppose there's only so much variety to go around.
As I noted in the event thread, if the event starting Sep 26th isn't a skirmish, DB will have broken new ground in the interval between skirmishes. Here's hoping that Gladiator Kirk has a good ship ability.
Note: some of my numbers are sheer inner hyperbole, and I’m not in need of any of our beautiful, number crunching friends in the STT community (Always love what you guys do, because I can’t and it’s so much fun to read!) to correct me, I know I can get a smidgen bit dramatic, but the sentiment is the important part in my book.
As someone who has immortalized all but nine of the 4* crew (two of which are voyage-only and five others that are not in the portal yet), Galaxy events don’t really get better. Having extra crew helps get you more VP, sure, but the sticking point (at least for me) is the amount of mindless tapping with nothing to show for it but some starbase components and whatever rank you make at the end of the event.
Yep, so many chrons used in full galaxies I prefer hybrids. Plus if it is hybrid faction you can share a crewmember or recieve one which helps.
Of course, maybe someone is kicking themselves for not choosing a skirmish for the flashback . . . but then, there are only two options:
Fixed Variables? Not sure if a chance to grab more Capt. Janeways is a plus or minus.
Barren Heat? It's only two months old, and already featured a repeat legendary ship.
The rest are all in Megas.
Starport
Huh, I started playing just before those events. Triple Threat 1 was my first full event.
I don't think so. For the past year or so, new faction events had the same shuttle slots copied and pasted between factions. Each faction had exactly the same shuttles, just different names and descriptions. The current faction event has shuttles that are unique to each faction. That means at least a little bit more work went into this event.
Nothing to show for it? Fascinating!
Cause of your "magical" Gary Seven experience ask yourself this:
What would you prefer?
3 or 4 copies of a legendary you really want like you did with Gary Seven for some effort (in case of course that card can be gained in a Galaxy or Galaxy hybrid which Gary was not)? Or some 100 bucks gone for none?
Also keeping in mind that you can watch a movie or Star Trek episodes while clicking. Listen to music or whatever rides your boat while playing.
For the higher spots determination and willpower is needed, yes, but nothing to show for it is nonsense when you are really keen for multiple copies of certain legendaries in an honor and cash saving way....
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Then you came in at the end of a run of four consecutive Faction events:
08-18-2016 The Genesis Wave 1 Faction
08-26-2016 Unlikely Heroes Faction
09-01-2016 The Second Battle of New York 1 Faction
09-08-2016 The Trouble with Klingons 2 Faction
Older players will remember the debacle that was Prime Directive, which prompted a replacement Faction event to be written literally overnight, Unlikely Heroes. Its title may have been an allusion to those writers, and if so, it was well earned. There should be an entire Wiki page devoted to the trouble Prime Directive caused for literal months, though.
Proud Former Officer of The Gluten Empire
Retired 12-14-20. So long, and thanks for all the cat pics!
First of all, I salute your excellent memory. To answer your question, I’m going to go to a more recent crew member: Dr. Pollard. Her skill set was something I was in pretty desperate need of when On The Backs of Giants came around (it’s still a need, just not so desperate) and I went into the event intending on grinding to secure rank. By the time I had cleared the 130k threshold and looked at what I had left to do to make sure I got her, I decided I would rather just try to land her in the next week’s event pack instead, knowing the chances of it working out even given the great drop rate in event packs.
That being said, that event was a little odd thanks to the silly amount of competition going on. I did push for rank to get both Resilient Tuvok and Saboteur Garak. Maybe I had more free time those weekends, maybe the competition wasn’t quite as nuts. Or maybe the grind during Skirmishes is much more fulfilling, even despite the lack of a community reward...the fountain of honor, holoemitters, and items farmed from ship battles during Skirmish events apparently is worth more to me than a thousand or so honor and a fourth star on the new 4* crew.
That is the benefit of a hybrid event. You can get more rewards.
I like skirmishes too, though. Even if you’re not going for a top place, it’s nice to actually get stuff for your chrons, unlike galaxy events.
The wiki says Honored Owosekun was added July 10. Maybe you were just out of town/on vacation?