Gauntlet is super frustrating to play. Even when I am rank 50-100, the opponents' skills I am presented with typically don't match mine. Causing unnecessary refresh and waste of merits.
I understand DB would like players with lower stats gauntlet crew to have a shot in winning matches.
But when I tried the opposite myself, battling the opponent with higher stats/crits, I lost most of the time. Either way, players always lose...
So this point, this is more like DB trying to scam players to waste dil on gauntlet (but which idiot do it these days)?
Nowadays my longest streak is 3-8 win at most. Typically I lost the 3rd matches like 3rd, 6th, 9th match even though I have better stats/crits. It's like a sucker punch everytime.
At the end, I try to lower my expectation when playing gauntlet.
But you know what happens when you play something that don't excite you? It feels like chores, grinding, and eventually you hate it
At the end, I try to lower my expectation when playing gauntlet.
Stick with this policy. Laugh out loud when you lose a match you really should win. Seriously. I was so sick of Gauntlet, but I just started laughing (even fake laughs can release endorphins?) when I lost matches ~80% in my favour. I realised it's just a game. And the rewards are free. And entry is free.
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 **** 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.
I’m on board with you here. My gripe is that legendary crew does not really drop at all. I have bought offers with 30 pulls and receivednot one legendary. Two pulls, all beholds, no legendaries. Because of this, special offer, NO PULLS, NO $50!!
I’m on board with you here. My gripe is that legendary crew does not really drop at all. I have bought offers with 30 pulls and receivednot one legendary. Two pulls, all beholds, no legendaries. Because of this, special offer, NO PULLS, NO $50!!
That **tsk tsk**! Mine was like 13 streak of 10x various packs with no legendary pull.
Also I got a lot of duplicate purples that went straight to airlock.
CS told me that it is normal to not have legendary pull like that. And also they don't consider what crews we already have with these packs, so it is normal to see duplicates too.
Imagine if we actually get duplicate of yellow crew and we have to airlock them for that little honour points
I’m on board with you here. My gripe is that legendary crew does not really drop at all. I have bought offers with 30 pulls and receivednot one legendary. Two pulls, all beholds, no legendaries. Because of this, special offer, NO PULLS, NO $50!!
That ****! Mine was like 13 streak of 10x various packs with no legendary pull.
Also I got a lot of duplicate purples that went straight to airlock.
CS told me that it is normal to not have legendary pull like that. And also they don't consider what crews we already have with these packs, so it is normal to see duplicates too.
Imagine if we actually get duplicate of yellow crew and we have to airlock them for that little honour points
Considering how rarely they drop? That would REALLY ****ing su**! I have three immortalized legendaries. I would not be surprised if the next behold I miraculously become graced with contained these exact three characters
Too many new characters and horrible drop rates make the game less appealing by the week. 25 dollar offer should be converted to a guaranteed gold. Who is buying those to fully fuse the 4 star honestly?
I’ll buy the $25 event pack if it’s s character I really want and it’s a galaxy event. I just can’t do those. Such a grind and you need like 50k chrons if it’s a 4 day galaxy. Honestly though a new character or two every week is what keeps me going. I have all the older crew I want and I have 52 open crew slots. But I do realize I am way in the minority on that sentiment.
Despite the momentary frustrations and the spawn of Satan that is the Gauntlet RNG, I will quit playing when it is no longer fun.
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At the end, I try to lower my expectation when playing gauntlet.
Stick with this policy. Laugh out loud when you lose a match you really should win. Seriously. I was so sick of Gauntlet, but I just started laughing (even fake laughs can release endorphins?) when I lost matches ~80% in my favour. I realised it's just a game. And the rewards are free. And entry is free.
I don't know, other than the game dying. For me "quitting" would be going FTP.
If they switch all packs to "best chance of" packs, then I'd probably go FTP XD.
If every single event was changed to Expedition I might quit though. (not that this is likely) I don't mind one of these every few months, but it's too difficult to be competitive unless you want to do the same thing thousands of times.
I don't know, other than the game dying. For me "quitting" would be going FTP.
If they switch all packs to "best chance of" packs, then I'd probably go FTP XD.
If every single event was changed to Expedition I might quit though. (not that this is likely) I don't mind one of these every few months, but it's too difficult to be competitive unless you want to do the same thing thousands of times.
Kinda like making the same recipes over and over huh?
It's mostly between the RNG circus side-show (and the fact that we cannot trust the numbers displayed to us) mixed with all of the other wonderful bugs this game has that aren't getting attention.
I don't know, other than the game dying. For me "quitting" would be going FTP.
If they switch all packs to "best chance of" packs, then I'd probably go FTP XD.
If every single event was changed to Expedition I might quit though. (not that this is likely) I don't mind one of these every few months, but it's too difficult to be competitive unless you want to do the same thing thousands of times.
Kinda like making the same recipes over and over huh?
Warp and warp 10 makes that much more tolerable than expeditions. For galaxy events, yeah there's a lot of repetition if you saved a ton of chrons and use a kit, but that's only one extended period, where expeditions have 3-4 of those a day.
I don't know, other than the game dying. For me "quitting" would be going FTP.
If they switch all packs to "best chance of" packs, then I'd probably go FTP XD.
If every single event was changed to Expedition I might quit though. (not that this is likely) I don't mind one of these every few months, but it's too difficult to be competitive unless you want to do the same thing thousands of times.
Kinda like making the same recipes over and over huh?
Warp and warp 10 makes that much more tolerable than expeditions. For galaxy events, yeah there's a lot of repetition if you saved a ton of chrons and use a kit, but that's only one extended period, where expeditions have 3-4 of those a day.
or several a day when you get chrons built up and when your voyage comes back etc. Its the same to me.
i'd say lack of actual gameplay and poor customer service response time. Every game has bugs but when your game has so many and you request help to be told it could take 2 weeks for you to get assistance or your money/dilthium returned, that will turn me off.
i'd say lack of actual gameplay and poor customer service response time. Every game has bugs but when your game has so many and you request help to be told it could take 2 weeks for you to get assistance or your money/dilthium returned, that will turn me off.
The response time is actually much faster than that. Typically I get response within few days.
i'd say lack of actual gameplay and poor customer service response time. Every game has bugs but when your game has so many and you request help to be told it could take 2 weeks for you to get assistance or your money/dilthium returned, that will turn me off.
The response time is actually much faster than that. Typically I get response within few days.
i'd say lack of actual gameplay and poor customer service response time. Every game has bugs but when your game has so many and you request help to be told it could take 2 weeks for you to get assistance or your money/dilthium returned, that will turn me off.
The response time is actually much faster than that. Typically I get response within few days.
consider yourself the fortunate few.
Can confirm, going on three weeks without even an acknowledgement of my ticket.
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I'd quit cause of fatigue. Events are becoming boring and last too long.
I'm fine with crew slots now, get by with monthly card with dilithium to spare, item farming is fine, I enjoy gauntlet though it could use fresh stars, have enough credits.
Packs are disappointing and beholds with all 3 immortalized crew are something that's pushing me towards the edge...
Grinding missions for hard to get items! If basic item is hard to get, it shouldn't be basic, yes?
This is where they lose me most of the time. If I see a zero star item that I need 50 of to make one piece of equipment. I do a 10 pull, and I get one to none of them, this is absolutely frustrating to me. I shouldn't have to replicate things just because I want to avoid getting a "common" item.
That would make me quit the game just because I'm simply tired of searching for items that I should have a million of after playing the game for two years. The RNG is just wrong on so many levels.
What makes me stop spending money on the game is the simple fact that premium pulls do not filter out crew that I already have immortalized. That's BS. I'll still play the game, but spending money on this game is over until that change is implemented. Which will never happen so, Guess I'm stopping at VIP8.
I hear ya. Basic Science Experiments... I have a character that needs what feels like 16 of them for one piece of gear. I burned through 500+ chrons and only got 4. Then I managed to get one more to drop from cadet missions. Yay, that was fun.
I would much rather have gear like science experiments just take 20 chrons to farm, with a 100% chance of dropping. I would save so much sanity that way.
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 would do it for me.
But my vote was for not stopping. I might stop buying the monthly card at some point.
I suppose if they stopped putting out new characters or events and had no other new content I might bow out. But I doubt they'll take that away anytime soon.
I'm probably in it for the long haul. To the edge of the Delta quadrant and back.
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Cost will be it for me. I started playing this when I quit WoW so it was easy to justify ~$15/mo for this game. Now I'm at a point where I don't want to spend because its MAYBE 1 useful crew and 9 wasted drops every time I do a portal pull. The special portals seem to always have mostly new crew I want but almost always have one I have fully fused so I don't want to waste it on those. So I sit on my monthly card dilithium until one of those magical portals comes up with crew I don't have.
If DB put out a special portal pull that was tailored to ME that ONLY dropped crew *I* needed I would be more eager to spend on that.
I would also like more replicator uses for less credits, it really is brutal how much they cost.
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I understand DB would like players with lower stats gauntlet crew to have a shot in winning matches.
But when I tried the opposite myself, battling the opponent with higher stats/crits, I lost most of the time. Either way, players always lose...
So this point, this is more like DB trying to scam players to waste dil on gauntlet (but which idiot do it these days)?
Nowadays my longest streak is 3-8 win at most. Typically I lost the 3rd matches like 3rd, 6th, 9th match even though I have better stats/crits. It's like a sucker punch everytime.
At the end, I try to lower my expectation when playing gauntlet.
But you know what happens when you play something that don't excite you? It feels like chores, grinding, and eventually you hate it
Stick with this policy. Laugh out loud when you lose a match you really should win. Seriously. I was so sick of Gauntlet, but I just started laughing (even fake laughs can release endorphins?) when I lost matches ~80% in my favour. I realised it's just a game. And the rewards are free. And entry is free.
It's win/win... except when you lose
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I’m on board with you here. My gripe is that legendary crew does not really drop at all. I have bought offers with 30 pulls and receivednot one legendary. Two pulls, all beholds, no legendaries. Because of this, special offer, NO PULLS, NO $50!!
That **tsk tsk**! Mine was like 13 streak of 10x various packs with no legendary pull.
Also I got a lot of duplicate purples that went straight to airlock.
CS told me that it is normal to not have legendary pull like that. And also they don't consider what crews we already have with these packs, so it is normal to see duplicates too.
Imagine if we actually get duplicate of yellow crew and we have to airlock them for that little honour points
Considering how rarely they drop? That would REALLY ****ing su**! I have three immortalized legendaries. I would not be surprised if the next behold I miraculously become graced with contained these exact three characters
It's not your fingers you need to worry about falling off
so you lose, how does it a win/win
If they switch all packs to "best chance of" packs, then I'd probably go FTP XD.
If every single event was changed to Expedition I might quit though. (not that this is likely) I don't mind one of these every few months, but it's too difficult to be competitive unless you want to do the same thing thousands of times.
Kinda like making the same recipes over and over huh?
Warp and warp 10 makes that much more tolerable than expeditions. For galaxy events, yeah there's a lot of repetition if you saved a ton of chrons and use a kit, but that's only one extended period, where expeditions have 3-4 of those a day.
or several a day when you get chrons built up and when your voyage comes back etc. Its the same to me.
The response time is actually much faster than that. Typically I get response within few days.
Can confirm, going on three weeks without even an acknowledgement of my ticket.
I'm fine with crew slots now, get by with monthly card with dilithium to spare, item farming is fine, I enjoy gauntlet though it could use fresh stars, have enough credits.
Packs are disappointing and beholds with all 3 immortalized crew are something that's pushing me towards the edge...
This is where they lose me most of the time. If I see a zero star item that I need 50 of to make one piece of equipment. I do a 10 pull, and I get one to none of them, this is absolutely frustrating to me. I shouldn't have to replicate things just because I want to avoid getting a "common" item.
That would make me quit the game just because I'm simply tired of searching for items that I should have a million of after playing the game for two years. The RNG is just wrong on so many levels.
What makes me stop spending money on the game is the simple fact that premium pulls do not filter out crew that I already have immortalized. That's BS. I'll still play the game, but spending money on this game is over until that change is implemented. Which will never happen so, Guess I'm stopping at VIP8.
I would much rather have gear like science experiments just take 20 chrons to farm, with a 100% chance of dropping. I would save so much sanity that way.
That would do it for me.
But my vote was for not stopping. I might stop buying the monthly card at some point.
I suppose if they stopped putting out new characters or events and had no other new content I might bow out. But I doubt they'll take that away anytime soon.
I'm probably in it for the long haul. To the edge of the Delta quadrant and back.
PM for details.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
If DB put out a special portal pull that was tailored to ME that ONLY dropped crew *I* needed I would be more eager to spend on that.
I would also like more replicator uses for less credits, it really is brutal how much they cost.
And if it is most of the above, we prob won't see the people voting in this forum