Do they really think fewer would give better quality? Seems like you would have fewer megas and no better quality or not enough better quality to justify fewer. Currently if there is a bad mega at the end of it you just have to wait a month for a new one. If instead you only had two megas and one was bad you would not have another for five months.
There's also quality of experience.
The Borg Mega was like when the Borg first appeared in TNG, exciting and well earning the dramatic music.
Mega's are now like the Borg were in VOY - rote, and easier to digest than Neelix's attempt at Taco Tuesday.
Somewhere in Make It So is a thread I started last year suggesting that every first run, non-mega event include an expanded threshold with a legacy 5* à la Replays. That would help circulate those crew, and inject a little more life into events that have otherwise become kinda rote for a lot of older players. There are literally hundreds of such crew and we'd be looking at 24-26 of them selected in an entire year. I don't think it's going to jeopardize the game's viability if I snag a single star for Chancellor Gorkon in the course of actively participating in one of the game's weekly events.
I think fewer is better ... there are some other options they could do instead:
- They do some extra reruns instead (help us add stars to the older crew, bla bla bla) ...
- Old mega-events could be re-run from start to finish (alongside 4 new ones in a year).
- There could be short 2-parters like the Borg event we had a while back ... January 2019 (A New Lease & To Prove One's Self timed with the general release of Seven in Silver) ... with a new kind of reward system to make the 2-parter stand out from the ordinary.
I mean, yes, the past mega-event 5* crew have all been heavily used by me, and many/most still are ... they are cornerstones to most captain's crews who are average strength players ... but I remember the excitment of some of the early ones, and that's just not there anymore ... and that's not only down to these event types becoming the "norm" ... there seems to be less and less cohesion between the events, with this mega being a prime example ...
So, if a little extra time to work on a mega-event would translate into a higher quality event (not necessarily better quality crew involved, but I mean more cohesion) that is a memorable experience, then I'm all for it.
A mega re-run followed by a 2nd part new mega event the following month...that could be pretty cool. You could even condence it to a 2 week mini mega re-run with each phase changing after 3/4 days in the lead up to the new one
The one that comes to mind there is the Borg one..it ends on "we will be back". Part 2 could pick up that, while introducing an idea I've posted on the Make it so forum.
Granted not ALL mega events need to be re-run, only the ones which push the story on further.
Voted 6, but like the idea of 4 new and 2 re-runs.
It's intriguing, for sure. I don't know if I would prefer 4 and 2 or 5 and 1. It would depend if they made a new legendary and how far back they went. If they went all the way back, then added it to their annual survey of which mega to re-run for the year in question... that would be kind of cool. Or do one player choice and one dev choice. There's certainly some interesting possibilities with the mega event re-run idea.
4 per year should be enough.
Reason: In the meantime between the megas you need the time to collect 50k Honor to immortalize the 4/5 one.
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Taking the honor/minute from Bylo's thread. A season player should be able to earn 870+ honor a day from one 8 hour voyage, one basic 10x pull, completing the daily missions and the basic track on campaigns, or 26,100+ honor in a 30 day month.
By seasoned I mean a play who is airlocking all crew from the voyage and basic pull.
That is enough honor to get 50k honor every two months.
A veteran play doing the above, but with one 10 hour voyage a day will get 1035+ honor a day, or 31k honor in a 30 day month.
Players hitting all threshold awards each event will get an additional 6000 honor every 28 days. Players in a fleet hitting all fleet daily rewards will get 17k in 30 days from this.
That is easily enough for one 5* cite a month.
There are also other sources of honor, 500 a month from airlocking all daily rewards. Seven 10 pull of premium packs will get about 4-5k a month. 4 packs from threshold rewards, 2 from community awards, and 1 from the campaign.
I think mega events are incredibly necessary for new and mid tier players. To that end, I do believe they need to be every other month.
That said, I also remember when a rerun was a rare occurrence. Then it was once every other month. Then DB added flashbacks and it was twice every other month. I get it, they need the extra time to build the game; that's great. However, it also means we only get 2, maybe 3, weeks of unique single events.
I purpose that TP also include rerun/flashback megas; maybe two times a year. Do a full month of a mega rerun, then do a full month of unique single events.
Also, if they were to do this, I think they should just start at the first mega and work up from there.
I think maintaining the status quo is fine for now. Although personally, and this is perhaps a progressional perspective, I could survive with slightly fewer, but that's because of the roster I have so it's clearly not going to be preferable for other players.
Any increase in megas would put pressure imo for players to part with honor to cite, and not cite other cards I have a bunch of interesting non megas I'd like to cite up, but also when/if the honor sales return at some later point then you will have less honor saved up, potentially. I could easily see an increase on the 30k and out mentalitly for megas, why would you compete for rank for a 1/5 legendary if you could get more 4/5s, that most likely undermine the ranked reward in any case.
I think another consideration is the format schedule (event type structure) for these megas. For example, what has peaked my fancy in this mega is two skirmishes. I think this type of thing is more going to be of interest for players because some prefer skirmishes some prefer faction not sure if people like galaxy any more, hybrids and let us not forget expeditions (KTF). If we reduce the number of megas then we reduce the number of event schedules for these megas. Ok, so it could still work if it was spread over a yearly cycle but that would be a long time to wait for your preferred format of a mega. That will surely increase burnout or disinterest in the game after all we do "play" a game as well.
inserts hashtag #agameisforlifenotjustlegandaries.
Reruns are good for completing cards or obtaining cards you didn't snap up first time round, i'm not going to argue with the obvious here. I think what changed this however was the introduction of flashbacks where instead you have to compete for rank in a prior event - perhaps the two should be more merged that way you could potentially add two stars to a 1/5 or 2/5 if you got lucky on the event pull pack when seeking to complete the purple card etc. therefore you are turning that card into a usfulish 3/5 or 4/5 card and perhaps tempting enough to cite/take a punt of extra packs for a completionist sake. Campaigns for instance I like this new campaign because I have Maxwell 1/5 so yeah buying into the campaign is a no brainer really.
Either way I think there needs to be greater consideration on how you earn/obtain older legendaries in general and this discussion (the OP and I know so well) there have been many sugestions and still the static continues...
EDIT - BIG DARN EDIT PLEASE READ THIS MIGHT BE THE TLDR SECTION!
What there could be that I don't think has been raised is a mega "OF" reruns so it's a mash up of single event reruns melded into a "Mega Event."
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Looks like DB hit the sweet spot at every 2 months. Of course, there's the old psychology question of where we would want every 3 months if DB had started there.
There are some pretty interesting alternatives involving re-runs. Thanks to everyone who voted and offered ideas!
I think maintaining the status quo is fine for now. Although personally, and this is perhaps a progressional perspective, I could survive with slightly fewer, but that's because of the roster I have so it's clearly not going to be preferable for other players.
Any increase in megas would put pressure imo for players to part with honor to cite, and not cite other cards I have a bunch of interesting non megas I'd like to cite up, but also when/if the honor sales return at some later point then you either. I could easily see an increase on the 30k and out mentalitly for megas, why would you compete for rank 1/5 if you could get more 4/5s that most likely undermine the ranked reward.
I think another consideration is the format schedule (event type structure) for these megas. For example, what has peaked my fancy in this mega is two skirmishes. I think this type of thing is more going to be of interest for players because some prefer skirmishes some prefer faction not sure if people like galaxy any more, hybrids and let us not forget expeditions (KTF). If we reduce the number of megas then we reduce the number of event schedules for these megas. Ok, so it could still work if it was spread over a yearly cycle but that would be a long time to wait for your preferred format of a mega. That will surely increase burnout or disinterest in the game after all we do "play" a game as well.
inserts hashtag #agameisforlifenotjustlegandaries.
Reruns are good for completing cards or obtaining cards you didn't snap up first time round, i'm not going to argue with the obvious here. I think what changed this however was the introduction of flashbacks where instead you have to compete for rank in a prior event - perhaps the two should be more merged that way you could potentially add two stars to a 1/5 or 2/5 if you got lucky on the event pull pack when seeking to complete the purple card etc. therefore you are turning that card into a usfulish 3/5 or 4/5 card and perhaps tempting enough to cite/take a punt of extra packs for a completionist sake. Campaigns for instance I like this new campaign because I have Maxwell 1/5 so yeah buying into the campaign is a no brainer really.
Either way I think there needs to be greater consideration on how you earn/obtain older legendaries in general and this discussion (the OP and I know so well) there have been many sugestions and still the static continues...
EDIT - BIG DARN EDIT PLEASE READ THIS MIGHT BE THE TLDR SECTION!
What there could be that I don't think has been raised is a mega "OF" reruns so it's a mash up of single event reruns melded into a "Mega Event."
I came here just now for the very purpose of suggesting a mega-event of reruns! There'd have to be some inserted segue screens, but I think there's a mechanism for that. If there was a new recurring legendary (I think we could all live with them being inserted into the thresholds of a replay), and put them in a debate with Q, our default narrator. It goes something like this:
New Legendary: Where am I? What's going on?
Q: I could just tell you, but where would be the fun in that? I'll show you, instead...
If there's no recurring legendary and we just get a crack at the original run's 5*, Q would just have a one-way conversation with us directly.
Another thought I had was to make it a Choose Your Own Adventure type thing, where each event is selected from one that the previous week's winning faction won the first time. We would know ahead of time what the possible specific possible replays would be, but we wouldn't know until Monday at noon when event it would be, so to compensate, thawing would be free for that month. Players may not think about which faction's shuttles they want to run the following week with a post-event bonus, but we'll damn sure give thought to which event we want to replay.
The new intertitles with the new legendary and Q would be generic enough that it wouldn't matter what events won. It'd just be a matter of popping the new legendary into the threshold table and making it go live on Thursday. (I know jack about coding so this may be impossible altogether.)
I am okay with one or two rerun megas a year if it is with a new event recurring legendary and we get to vote on which ones rerun. But if they redo the mirror TNG one and give everyone another mirror Picard I will lose it.
I am okay with one or two rerun megas a year if it is with a new event recurring legendary and we get to vote on which ones rerun. But if they redo the mirror TNG one and give everyone another mirror Picard I will lose it.
And since that response seems both justified AND since you warned us in advance, I'd gladly serve as your body guard during your meltdown
I am okay with one or two rerun megas a year if it is with a new event recurring legendary and we get to vote on which ones rerun. But if they redo the mirror TNG one and give everyone another mirror Picard I will lose it.
And since that response seems both justified AND since you warned us in advance, I'd gladly serve as your body guard during your meltdown
Haha thx. I think my meltdown would just be a series of disappointed trek character gifs but to not do the obvious Picard facepalm I would do something else.
What if the mega rerun had a begold for a recurring? The original recurring would be an option each week. The other two choices would be two of the four gold's in the mega. Each of those options would be a choice two of the four weeks. That should make new and established players happy. And if established players cleared the 400k thresholds, they could add two stars to each of 4 cards. I bet enough would be then tempted to spend to immo some of them. So TP should be happy too.
What if the mega rerun had a begold for a recurring? The original recurring would be an option each week. The other two choices would be two of the four gold's in the mega. Each of those options would be a choice two of the four weeks. That should make new and established players happy. And if established players cleared the 400k thresholds, they could add two stars to each of 4 cards. I bet enough would be then tempted to spend to immo some of them. So TP should be happy too.
I am okay with one or two rerun megas a year if it is with a new event recurring legendary and we get to vote on which ones rerun. But if they redo the mirror TNG one and give everyone another mirror Picard I will lose it.
And since that response seems both justified AND since you warned us in advance, I'd gladly serve as your body guard during your meltdown
Haha thx. I think my meltdown would just be a series of disappointed trek character gifs but to not do the obvious Picard facepalm I would do something else.
Although I thankfully don’t need it, I keep this in my back pocket for the real bad stuff:
I am okay with one or two rerun megas a year if it is with a new event recurring legendary and we get to vote on which ones rerun. But if they redo the mirror TNG one and give everyone another mirror Picard I will lose it.
And since that response seems both justified AND since you warned us in advance, I'd gladly serve as your body guard during your meltdown
Haha thx. I think my meltdown would just be a series of disappointed trek character gifs but to not do the obvious Picard facepalm I would do something else.
Although I thankfully don’t need it, I keep this in my back pocket for the real bad stuff:
I am okay with one or two rerun megas a year if it is with a new event recurring legendary and we get to vote on which ones rerun. But if they redo the mirror TNG one and give everyone another mirror Picard I will lose it.
And since that response seems both justified AND since you warned us in advance, I'd gladly serve as your body guard during your meltdown
Haha thx. I think my meltdown would just be a series of disappointed trek character gifs but to not do the obvious Picard facepalm I would do something else.
Although I thankfully don’t need it, I keep this in my back pocket for the real bad stuff:
I hope they all immediately washed their hands.
Especially Spock before he puts his hand on someone’s face to mind meld.
Hmmm I changed my mind from 12 per year. I would like
Mega - Rerun - new single event - Rerun - Mega
Reruns should include random Mega events, the Mega character in the threshold replaced with the legendary event crew (maybe rearranged at 400k).
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Let's compile the major complaints about megas over the past 2-3 years that I've heard on a repeated basis:
The recurring character was terrible. I'd never cite them.
We were told we're getting one type of story, only to get something different (Romulan/Dominion mega? April Picard mega?
It was a "MEH-ga"
The story narrative stinks
There were TWO faction events in ONE mega!
We're getting horrible characters as the weekly golds
Yet people want MORE of these megas?
Mega events used to be something people got excited about because they were interesting. I can't describe how much people looked forward to the very first mega event, the Borg mega. It was something new and different and well thought out.
Now things are just routine, they're ordinary, they're poorly planned and results are extremely lackluster.
How many mega events in the past year were genuinely good? Maybe the ToS Mega in December, from top to bottom was a solid event. Almost every other mega event had major gripes.
I'd gladly take 3-4 megas a year, not 6, if that meant more thought could be put into them and new, fresh ideas could come into fruition and be implemented in these events.
I like the current Mega event schedule. They are special and worth waiting for. I think the event schedule is already compact if anything I would like less events, but I guess they are the money earners for DB so hey.
Let's compile the major complaints about megas over the past 2-3 years that I've heard on a repeated basis:
The recurring character was terrible. I'd never cite them.
We were told we're getting one type of story, only to get something different (Romulan/Dominion mega? April Picard mega?
It was a "MEH-ga"
The story narrative stinks
There were TWO faction events in ONE mega!
We're getting horrible characters as the weekly golds
Yet people want MORE of these megas?
Mega events used to be something people got excited about because they were interesting. I can't describe how much people looked forward to the very first mega event, the Borg mega. It was something new and different and well thought out.
Now things are just routine, they're ordinary, they're poorly planned and results are extremely lackluster.
How many mega events in the past year were genuinely good? Maybe the ToS Mega in December, from top to bottom was a solid event. Almost every other mega event had major gripes.
I'd gladly take 3-4 megas a year, not 6, if that meant more thought could be put into them and new, fresh ideas could come into fruition and be implemented in these events.
Make MEGA events MEGA again.
What boggles the mind for me is the support for re-runs of mega events. They’re not all going to be like the Borg, TOS, or Survivalist mega’s where the stories were good and crew were great. Re-runs mean we get another Minuet, Thrax, or T’Kuvma too...as helpful as they may have been for newer players during their initial runs, new crew with new stories can do exactly the same thing while not giving TP/WRG the opportunity to start mailing it in for nearly two months at a time (including the usual Flashback/Re-Run events before and after megas).
And really how much engagement should we expect from veterans in a full month-long re-run? There might be a few recurring legendaries worth doubling up on (I wouldn’t, but my crew is pretty deep right now) and there are certainly some featured event 5* crew worth going for, but I really wonder how many would threshold-and-out all month long...or how many would save their resources and skip the month entirely. If I were TP, I wouldn’t want to play the game of Complacency Chicken that is sure to result from players being bored for an entire month.
What boggles the mind for me is the support for re-runs of mega events. They’re not all going to be like the Borg, TOS, or Survivalist mega’s where the stories were good and crew were great. Re-runs mean we get another Minuet, Thrax, or T’Kuvma too...as helpful as they may have been for newer players during their initial runs, new crew with new stories can do exactly the same thing while not giving TP/WRG the opportunity to start mailing it in for nearly two months at a time (including the usual Flashback/Re-Run events before and after megas).
And really how much engagement should we expect from veterans in a full month-long re-run? There might be a few recurring legendaries worth doubling up on (I wouldn’t, but my crew is pretty deep right now) and there are certainly some featured event 5* crew worth going for, but I really wonder how many would threshold-and-out all month long...or how many would save their resources and skip the month entirely. If I were TP, I wouldn’t want to play the game of Complacency Chicken that is sure to result from players being bored for an entire month.
Fair point. What if they just started doing reruns of individual weeks from a mega?
Call me crazy but here is my reasoning...
-An extra 4/5 every month? Sign me up
-Most faction events have been so bloated on bonus crew it might as well be a Mega
-Which leads me to at least if it were a whole month, I would get some use out of unfreezing crew rather than putting a revolving door on the freezer
-I ran through the comments quickly but saw a few people comment on re-runs and flashbacks being the casualty. Wouldn't the new 4/5 for virtually all players more than make up for the chance to add 1 star to an older card that most people aren't even going to have anyway? Especially with re-runs, getting the threshold usually happens way too late to make a difference so it is a star that will only get to be used somewhere down the line as a small bonus crew. And for flashbacks only 1,500 players have a chance at the gold (packs buyers excluded) so not many people get to actually participate.
-I don't know if a "new" recurring would be necessary every month. It would be interesting if they through in some cards that are either very good and/or not many people have.
All that said, it was nice to give this as an option but I don't really see more fresh content along these lines in the cards. We went from one re-run a month to up to two to adding flashbacks to reduce the 'load' on the team
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Edit forgot to add that Megas also lead to things like Recap packs and weekly trait packs on sale for those that do want to try to spend on crew they missed or fusing.
You know what workplaces, governments and in this case, mobile game companies do to divert your attention from glaring issues? they throw "free" stuff at you and hope you don't notice the garbage stinking up the joint.
Are 4/5's good? sure. Is it worth the inane grind of poor mega after poor mega every other month? Not to me.
You know what workplaces, governments and in this case, mobile game companies do to divert your attention from glaring issues? they throw "free" stuff at you and hope you don't notice the garbage stinking up the joint.
Are 4/5's good? sure. Is it worth the inane grind of poor mega after poor mega every other month? Not to me.
Is it really that bad to play to 25k vp each event?
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There's also quality of experience.
The Borg Mega was like when the Borg first appeared in TNG, exciting and well earning the dramatic music.
Mega's are now like the Borg were in VOY - rote, and easier to digest than Neelix's attempt at Taco Tuesday.
- They do some extra reruns instead (help us add stars to the older crew, bla bla bla) ...
- Old mega-events could be re-run from start to finish (alongside 4 new ones in a year).
- There could be short 2-parters like the Borg event we had a while back ... January 2019 (A New Lease & To Prove One's Self timed with the general release of Seven in Silver) ... with a new kind of reward system to make the 2-parter stand out from the ordinary.
I mean, yes, the past mega-event 5* crew have all been heavily used by me, and many/most still are ... they are cornerstones to most captain's crews who are average strength players ... but I remember the excitment of some of the early ones, and that's just not there anymore ... and that's not only down to these event types becoming the "norm" ... there seems to be less and less cohesion between the events, with this mega being a prime example ...
So, if a little extra time to work on a mega-event would translate into a higher quality event (not necessarily better quality crew involved, but I mean more cohesion) that is a memorable experience, then I'm all for it.
A mega re-run followed by a 2nd part new mega event the following month...that could be pretty cool. You could even condence it to a 2 week mini mega re-run with each phase changing after 3/4 days in the lead up to the new one
The one that comes to mind there is the Borg one..it ends on "we will be back". Part 2 could pick up that, while introducing an idea I've posted on the Make it so forum.
Granted not ALL mega events need to be re-run, only the ones which push the story on further.
It's intriguing, for sure. I don't know if I would prefer 4 and 2 or 5 and 1. It would depend if they made a new legendary and how far back they went. If they went all the way back, then added it to their annual survey of which mega to re-run for the year in question... that would be kind of cool. Or do one player choice and one dev choice. There's certainly some interesting possibilities with the mega event re-run idea.
Taking the honor/minute from Bylo's thread. A season player should be able to earn 870+ honor a day from one 8 hour voyage, one basic 10x pull, completing the daily missions and the basic track on campaigns, or 26,100+ honor in a 30 day month.
By seasoned I mean a play who is airlocking all crew from the voyage and basic pull.
That is enough honor to get 50k honor every two months.
A veteran play doing the above, but with one 10 hour voyage a day will get 1035+ honor a day, or 31k honor in a 30 day month.
Players hitting all threshold awards each event will get an additional 6000 honor every 28 days. Players in a fleet hitting all fleet daily rewards will get 17k in 30 days from this.
That is easily enough for one 5* cite a month.
There are also other sources of honor, 500 a month from airlocking all daily rewards. Seven 10 pull of premium packs will get about 4-5k a month. 4 packs from threshold rewards, 2 from community awards, and 1 from the campaign.
That said, I also remember when a rerun was a rare occurrence. Then it was once every other month. Then DB added flashbacks and it was twice every other month. I get it, they need the extra time to build the game; that's great. However, it also means we only get 2, maybe 3, weeks of unique single events.
I purpose that TP also include rerun/flashback megas; maybe two times a year. Do a full month of a mega rerun, then do a full month of unique single events.
Also, if they were to do this, I think they should just start at the first mega and work up from there.
+1 on this
Any increase in megas would put pressure imo for players to part with honor to cite, and not cite other cards I have a bunch of interesting non megas I'd like to cite up, but also when/if the honor sales return at some later point then you will have less honor saved up, potentially. I could easily see an increase on the 30k and out mentalitly for megas, why would you compete for rank for a 1/5 legendary if you could get more 4/5s, that most likely undermine the ranked reward in any case.
I think another consideration is the format schedule (event type structure) for these megas. For example, what has peaked my fancy in this mega is two skirmishes. I think this type of thing is more going to be of interest for players because some prefer skirmishes some prefer faction not sure if people like galaxy any more, hybrids and let us not forget expeditions (KTF). If we reduce the number of megas then we reduce the number of event schedules for these megas. Ok, so it could still work if it was spread over a yearly cycle but that would be a long time to wait for your preferred format of a mega. That will surely increase burnout or disinterest in the game after all we do "play" a game as well.
inserts hashtag #agameisforlifenotjustlegandaries.
Reruns are good for completing cards or obtaining cards you didn't snap up first time round, i'm not going to argue with the obvious here. I think what changed this however was the introduction of flashbacks where instead you have to compete for rank in a prior event - perhaps the two should be more merged that way you could potentially add two stars to a 1/5 or 2/5 if you got lucky on the event pull pack when seeking to complete the purple card etc. therefore you are turning that card into a usfulish 3/5 or 4/5 card and perhaps tempting enough to cite/take a punt of extra packs for a completionist sake. Campaigns for instance I like this new campaign because I have Maxwell 1/5 so yeah buying into the campaign is a no brainer really.
Either way I think there needs to be greater consideration on how you earn/obtain older legendaries in general and this discussion (the OP and I know so well) there have been many sugestions and still the static continues...
EDIT - BIG DARN EDIT PLEASE READ THIS MIGHT BE THE TLDR SECTION!
What there could be that I don't think has been raised is a mega "OF" reruns so it's a mash up of single event reruns melded into a "Mega Event."
There are some pretty interesting alternatives involving re-runs. Thanks to everyone who voted and offered ideas!
I came here just now for the very purpose of suggesting a mega-event of reruns! There'd have to be some inserted segue screens, but I think there's a mechanism for that. If there was a new recurring legendary (I think we could all live with them being inserted into the thresholds of a replay), and put them in a debate with Q, our default narrator. It goes something like this:
New Legendary: Where am I? What's going on?
Q: I could just tell you, but where would be the fun in that? I'll show you, instead...
If there's no recurring legendary and we just get a crack at the original run's 5*, Q would just have a one-way conversation with us directly.
Another thought I had was to make it a Choose Your Own Adventure type thing, where each event is selected from one that the previous week's winning faction won the first time. We would know ahead of time what the possible specific possible replays would be, but we wouldn't know until Monday at noon when event it would be, so to compensate, thawing would be free for that month. Players may not think about which faction's shuttles they want to run the following week with a post-event bonus, but we'll damn sure give thought to which event we want to replay.
The new intertitles with the new legendary and Q would be generic enough that it wouldn't matter what events won. It'd just be a matter of popping the new legendary into the threshold table and making it go live on Thursday. (I know jack about coding so this may be impossible altogether.)
And since that response seems both justified AND since you warned us in advance, I'd gladly serve as your body guard during your meltdown
Haha thx. I think my meltdown would just be a series of disappointed trek character gifs but to not do the obvious Picard facepalm I would do something else.
Wow.. I really like this idea; a lot. [=
Although I thankfully don’t need it, I keep this in my back pocket for the real bad stuff:
I hope they all immediately washed their hands.
Especially Spock before he puts his hand on someone’s face to mind meld.
Mega - Rerun - new single event - Rerun - Mega
Reruns should include random Mega events, the Mega character in the threshold replaced with the legendary event crew (maybe rearranged at 400k).
Yet people want MORE of these megas?
Mega events used to be something people got excited about because they were interesting. I can't describe how much people looked forward to the very first mega event, the Borg mega. It was something new and different and well thought out.
Now things are just routine, they're ordinary, they're poorly planned and results are extremely lackluster.
How many mega events in the past year were genuinely good? Maybe the ToS Mega in December, from top to bottom was a solid event. Almost every other mega event had major gripes.
I'd gladly take 3-4 megas a year, not 6, if that meant more thought could be put into them and new, fresh ideas could come into fruition and be implemented in these events.
Make MEGA events MEGA again.
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What boggles the mind for me is the support for re-runs of mega events. They’re not all going to be like the Borg, TOS, or Survivalist mega’s where the stories were good and crew were great. Re-runs mean we get another Minuet, Thrax, or T’Kuvma too...as helpful as they may have been for newer players during their initial runs, new crew with new stories can do exactly the same thing while not giving TP/WRG the opportunity to start mailing it in for nearly two months at a time (including the usual Flashback/Re-Run events before and after megas).
And really how much engagement should we expect from veterans in a full month-long re-run? There might be a few recurring legendaries worth doubling up on (I wouldn’t, but my crew is pretty deep right now) and there are certainly some featured event 5* crew worth going for, but I really wonder how many would threshold-and-out all month long...or how many would save their resources and skip the month entirely. If I were TP, I wouldn’t want to play the game of Complacency Chicken that is sure to result from players being bored for an entire month.
Fair point. What if they just started doing reruns of individual weeks from a mega?
-An extra 4/5 every month? Sign me up
-Most faction events have been so bloated on bonus crew it might as well be a Mega
-Which leads me to at least if it were a whole month, I would get some use out of unfreezing crew rather than putting a revolving door on the freezer
-I ran through the comments quickly but saw a few people comment on re-runs and flashbacks being the casualty. Wouldn't the new 4/5 for virtually all players more than make up for the chance to add 1 star to an older card that most people aren't even going to have anyway? Especially with re-runs, getting the threshold usually happens way too late to make a difference so it is a star that will only get to be used somewhere down the line as a small bonus crew. And for flashbacks only 1,500 players have a chance at the gold (packs buyers excluded) so not many people get to actually participate.
-I don't know if a "new" recurring would be necessary every month. It would be interesting if they through in some cards that are either very good and/or not many people have.
All that said, it was nice to give this as an option but I don't really see more fresh content along these lines in the cards. We went from one re-run a month to up to two to adding flashbacks to reduce the 'load' on the team
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Edit forgot to add that Megas also lead to things like Recap packs and weekly trait packs on sale for those that do want to try to spend on crew they missed or fusing.
You know what workplaces, governments and in this case, mobile game companies do to divert your attention from glaring issues? they throw "free" stuff at you and hope you don't notice the garbage stinking up the joint.
Are 4/5's good? sure. Is it worth the inane grind of poor mega after poor mega every other month? Not to me.
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