What will make you stop playing Star Trek Timeline?

VioletBlue

There are always bug and that's normal in 99.99% of apps - so I won't list that in the option.
But there are things in the game that just cause frustration to people and they seem never got addressed even though we have many threads discussing it.

People have different level of tolerance of handling certain things and definitely have different goal of playing this game. Also depending whether you are F2P or VIP players.... So I would like to know what people think and I hope this can be something that DB can use to focus on improving this game.

Also I make it anonymous so hopefully we get more participation without the fear of public judgment

(CSF) Jesus Is Lord [••••]

I dont really want people to know...but for me its all these things, the game is to expensive, doing tons of missions to not even get an item with a 5/5 drop rate, gauntlet is kinda mean (but okay at the moment), honor values need to be redone dramatically, credits are in to low of a supply to get stuff done so i gotta spend dil (back to the to expensive point), i have been ripped off a few times with event pulls (got 50 dollars in packs and didnt even get the legendary i wanted, but in the other hand i have gotten many legendaries for 1x premium pulls and 1st pull event packs).

Cpt. Caveman

It's been 11 days since I have been able to log in. On Oct 31 the Customer Support thread was edited, and now it says:

"The current response time is: could be as long as 4 weeks."

Yep, this might do it.

HanSulu

i started 6 months ago. still going strong, logging in every day. but i think at one point i’ll get bored ... so boredom, staleness for me.

Burnham, Michelle

I'll get busy doing something productive.. and I'll just forget to play. At the moment I am frustrated with shuttles and the Gauntlet. I enjoy voyages, though I'm not extending them for a few weeks to buy my fourth shuttle so right now they aren't really very exciting or productive.

My voyages are bringing me new 4* crew which rapidly fill up space, very slow to level, but have great potential. I am busy trying to get fully fused 4* crew immortalized and the mega event sent heaps my way so I have a backlog to deal with and new crew every weekend. I cannot sit out of events owing to some obsessive need to compete and do as well as I can even if the rewards are minimal. It's an illness I've had forever. Maybe Timelines can break it for me?

Jim Steele

For me it's all of the above, diminishing returns from packs means that I only buy the occasional pack now. Really no point spending money on the game when the majority of pulls just go in the airlock.

Not going to flush anymore money down the toilet for very little gain.

Jim

Astrometrics

None of that is even an even remotely good reason for me.

I'll leave when I'm bored.

[SoCo] Dr. Acular

This stupid forum posts will !

[DB:LOL] eXo | Kurrostanza

Cpt. Caveman wrote: »

It's been 11 days since I have been able to log in. On Oct 31 the Customer Support thread was edited, and now it says:

"The current response time is: could be as long as 4 weeks."

Yep, this might do it.

Yeah, that would be the breaking point for me. I've mercifully dodged any bugs that require a support ticket lately, but last time I had a bug, it took over a week to resolve.

I can't even imagine a month, I feel real bad for you.

Kaitee

Can't really think of anything much TBH. I mean, stop paying, sure, maybe - I'm no space whale, but I pull out my wallet now and then, usually for the double 4* deal at the end of events, to round off the superrares and have a shot at finding the legendary that week. If I don't want the crew, that's easy to walk away from, but I don't expect that to ever be the nail in the coffin - DB would have to try pretty hard to come up with three characters per week every week I really have no affection for, I'm an easy lay kind of fan (I even like Neelix now and then). But if, say, crew space became impossible to handle, like they changed the balance of chroniton accumulation versus difficulty of equipping crew such that I simply couldn't cryo people in time to make room, well, I'm not paying for a character I like if I have to delete another character I like as well just to make room.

Stop playing though? Honestly as the game stands now, I don't see why I would. Even if I went F4P, there's still plenty I can do - voyages even without spending any dilithium give me plenty of chrons to make good progress on levelling and equipping, and while the ranking rewards would be out of my league, I'd still be able to make it a fair way up the threshold ladder to get new crew to work on. Buying gets me more crew, and more at 4/4 so I don't have to use honour for 4* citations to finish them, but the basic activity of the game would still be there, and I enjoy it. To make me walk away, there'd need to be a new mechanic that undermined that - based on experience with other games, if, say, other more powerful players (whether they'd paid for that power, or just got it by playing better than me) could attack me and actually wipe out those things I'd put effort into, that would tick me off royally. Before this I played, what was it, Alien Domain? The one where you're stuck in fluidic space for no reason, you have to build a RTS-style base for no reason, you build ships and send them off to fight Klingons for no reason... it was pretty shoddy to begin with, but I muddled along for a bit, until some time I wasn't watching for five minutes my entire fleet got wiped out in transit. Screw that. Timelines though? I've been playing for a while now, I feel like I understand the basic gameplay pretty well, and it's a good time for me. So long as that remains true, I'll keep playing.

Mordack

I am not convinced, at least not at the moment, that Star Trek Timelines is a priority for DB, and that it's getting the attention and the manpower that it deserves. If that doesn't change, it will certainly sap my enthusiasm to play.

Xanathar

For me, it's simple: I'll stop when I get bored of it, or when I no longer have sufficient time to devote to it (as in, other things start taking more of my time - which is kinda the same as getting bored of it in a way).

We all know the game isn't perfect, and there are many issues that need to be addressed, but it's just a game at the end of the day; something to do in your spare time. And in that respect, it does the job fine.

Darth Grandpa

I'm nowhere near boredom or frustration. But when the game wouldn't run on my Ipad 2 anymore without crashing every few minutes, that would be the time to stop for me.

Odo Marmarosa

Xanathar wrote: »

For me, it's simple: I'll stop when I get bored of it, or when I no longer have sufficient time to devote to it (as in, other things start taking more of my time - which is kinda the same as getting bored of it in a way).

We all know the game isn't perfect, and there are many issues that need to be addressed, but it's just a game at the end of the day; something to do in your spare time. And in that respect, it does the job fine.

My sentiments exactly. Some of those "reasons" apply to me, most of them do not. None of the ones that do are strong enough to ruin the whole experience.

Travis S McClain

I voted Other and my answer is simply, "When it stays boring." I've been at a point for awhile now where I'm able to keep up with incoming crew easily. Twice in the last two weeks, I've had at least three days where I had no one remaining to equip or level. During those stretches, it's been painfully obvious to me how little there is to do when not trying to clear the backlog of crew. It was, frankly, boring. I picked up some new crew members eventually, even just some 1* or 2* cadets for the sake of padding my stats, and that at least broke the boredom.

My primary objective these days is participating in events. I do like being part of my squadron and even though the rewards we earn are negligible, it's still neat to work together like that.

Ivanstone

The game gets excessively buggy. I don't really have any big bug problems right now.

General McDuck

Simply state - all of the above. All of these issues bother me. Some are more tolerable, but the fact that all of these issues still remain - it is evidence to me of the disconnect between DB and the player base.

cannabination

I'm with Kaitee. I'll keep playing until they turn the servers off. I have already significantly reduced my *paying* though, and that trend will likely continue. Until DB falls more in line with the way other slot machine games handle their pack sales it just isn't worth spending on this game. Most games make it abundantly clear that they appreciate your money by making packs and special offers extremely rewarding. In STT, getting 1 thing in ten that you don't immediately airlock is rare. Given how unrewarding airlocking is, they've kinda stacked the deck against themselves.

Magisse

As with many above, when it becomes overly boring. I play games until they become more of a chore than fun. Doing ok with it for now though.

blobly

Until once day something new comes out and you kinda have to choose which one to spend your time on

Banjo1012

I’m dedicated to the game. I put too much time and money into it to let go. I’m all about events and new event crew. I don’t always care for the event crew but that’s good cuz then I can coast through, get the thresholds, and save my bullets for when there is event crew I seek. Discovery crew had me pushing hard all month long. To me that was a full month of keeping me fully engaged

VioletBlue

Cpt. Caveman wrote: »

It's been 11 days since I have been able to log in. On Oct 31 the Customer Support thread was edited, and now it says:

"The current response time is: could be as long as 4 weeks."

Yep, this might do it.

That's strange... I submitted 2 tickets just last week and I got respond within a day for both of them.

For your login problem, maybe you can try use the steam/facebook or other devices to check if it is isolated to your current device or not. (Yes, I am not DB CS )

Cpt. Caveman

Thanks Edrehashaivar, I have a thread in the Engineer Room. I started the account on Facebook, but have been playing through Steam, linked to Facebook, since that option was put into place. It just stopped working one day. No Steam, Facebook, or Facebook Gameroom. I "reset" the account on Steam to play a FTP account at level 1, and it works fine. But, when I try to link my VIP account, it pops up an error message at load in screen.

I love the game, I even played that FTP account a week and got my crew back up to level 60's, and lasting long enough to get the 2h dilemma on voyages. But, when trying to switch to Firefox to see if that worked, linking that account to facebook I lost that FTP account, and had to reset to level 1 again. I have not played since.

Just waiting to see what DB does to fix it, and make me a happy customer.

Data1001

I voted "Other". I tend to get obsessive about certain things, only to get burned out months later, and just walk away. The only difference here is, STT will be tougher for me to do that with, since I've dumped a fair amount of real world coin into this game. To stave off that eventuality, I try to make it a point to "pace myself", as it were, choosing my moments when I want to go all-in, and other times (like the upcoming weekend's event), where I plan on just doing enough to cross a few thresholds, and also qualify for the community reward. Otherwise I know my "fire" will burn very hot and very brightly but will also burn out its fuel too quickly.

Banjo1012

Data1001 wrote: »

I voted "Other". I tend to get obsessive about certain things, only to get burned out months later, and just walk away. The only difference here is, STT will be tougher for me to do that with, since I've dumped a fair amount of real world coin into this game. To stave off that eventuality, I try to make it a point to "pace myself", as it were, choosing my moments when I want to go all-in, and other times (like the upcoming weekend's event), where I plan on just doing enough to cross a few thresholds, and also qualify for the community reward. Otherwise I know my "fire" will burn very hot and very brightly but will also burn out its fuel too quickly.

Exactly. I have every crew member fully equipped. Right now I’m doing Voyages, gauntlet, collecting daily things, but otherwise I’m stagnant. I don’t keep crew for stats, I go strictly as a fan of characters. My only real focus now is events but if I don’t care for the crew, which I don’t this weekend, I’m just in it for the thresholds. Bring on Amanda Rogers, Michael Burnham, Daniels, Sylvia Gomez, Mirror Mayweather, so I can feel STT alive again!

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Lady Gaghgagh

It'll probably just die out for me over time. I have however decided that I will be highly limiting my spending on this game to just the monthly card for the most part.

Jhamel

The introduction of new crew is indeed a problem. There should be only one new crew per week, but generally a well-known one from the wishlist (not so many unkown ones nobody was asking for).

Also, the event length bugs me. Four days event, three days no event ... why not two days event, five days no event? Events should be something special in my opinion, not the regular.

WWIII Flying Ace Rimmer

I've been playing for a little over a year now and while I have enjoyed the game and new features, it has become stale. Two new types of events are long overdue as well as a new episode at least quarterly. It doesn't have to be a mind blowing storyline, just keep adding to the game. I also think that an every other week event would add anticipation and slow down the staleness that even newer players are experiencing.

C-Note

I can give a real example. Back in March, after five months of daily play, I got bored with the grind, and left until July. An email from DB pulled me back in, and I've been back since then at full speed. The issue that has frustrated me most is bad luck with RNG with faction events. Hasn't been as much of an issue lately, as my crew is now strong and deep enough to run with the bulls. As for the other aspects that frustrate others, I can live with them, and tailor my game around them.

Speckles the Destroyer of Worlds

Seeing comments from the staff saying things like "we are happy with the honor value of airlocked crew and don't intend to change it (paraphrasing)" made me stop buying monthly cards and packs, at least until that attitude changes. Right now, it feels like I have about a 95% chance of anything I buy not giving me anything I can use, and that's my punishment for spending so much on the game.

Spending money here should ALWAYS give me SOMETHING of value, it is BS to blow $10-20 and get nothing but a miniscule fraction of a future character and some garbage schematics that will never be touched. I'd do better by dropping my money into an actual slot machine or lotto tickets every week where I have a much better chance at getting something of value back.

But I'll still play for free until I get sick of the grind. I have too much invested to stop at the moment.