First time I’m not buying campaign. I feel bad about it.
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Help me out guys. I don’t know why I feel guilty about deciding not to buy the premium tier this month.
I mean, I guess it boils down to this:
1) I don’t care to own Lenara Kahn.
2) Premium pulls are pretty much always just honor for me.
3) I really don’t find myself lacking in merits, honor or other bonuses.
4) I have more than enough honor for a legendary citation if I need one. Or four.
I just feel like this is the best deal in the game, and the fact that I’m not just makes me sad.
What are your thoughts?
I mean, I guess it boils down to this:
1) I don’t care to own Lenara Kahn.
2) Premium pulls are pretty much always just honor for me.
3) I really don’t find myself lacking in merits, honor or other bonuses.
4) I have more than enough honor for a legendary citation if I need one. Or four.
I just feel like this is the best deal in the game, and the fact that I’m not just makes me sad.
What are your thoughts?
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True, the premium pulls and the other stuff is just icing on the cake, but you really don't have to buy them all.
Playing since June 14th, 2019
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One thing that would have made a sub-standard Legendary crew choice much more acceptable is if they were main cast, then at least they'd have event potential (aside from the limited assistance the Bashirs are providing this mega, which wasn't even known at the time they were offered).
Many of the other things offered in the premium track are things I personally do find helpful, but even with that, the notion of purchasing that track the past 2 months felt a little like this...
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
I'm sorry for bringing this back up, but I also do not support the game pushing an agenda. It's a good cause and all, but once you start, you can't stop. For instance, there was nothing for black history month in February. Not a campaign, Tuesday pack, or anything. That's the kind of thing that gets a #ThisYou? on Twitter. They made a statement about standing with peaceful protesters and the black community, but it comes across as meaningless lip service when it is done too late, not to mention the fact that they are championing some causes, but not others. Times are tense. Many of us come here for time away from that. I sure do. I don't want this to become a platform for the cause of the day. That's what social media is for. I just want the game to exist outside that sphere altogether so I can relax and enjoy it.
Those are two major reasons that I won't do the campaign this month. I don't want to encourage bringing agendas to the game or two-skill, non-main cast, bottom tier legendaries to campaigns. I fully support anyone who skips this particular campaign. Hopefully we get a decent legendary and a Star Trek theme next month.
Plus, and more important to me personally, is that I choose to spend money to support the game that I love for the entertainment value I get in return. Part of that money goes to keeping these forums up & running, which are often even more entertaining than the game itself. 🖖
That second paragraph is why I've done every previous campaign and hope to resume next month.
semantics aside, I have skipped buying 2 premium tracks, the first somewhat in protest since it was Mirror Picard (FF/FE), and the second was another gold I already had FF/FE and didn't really want a second copy.
Other than those two, I enjoy the premium rewards to keep my shuttle boosts high and the extra dils and rest of the goodies are always helpful in some way.
In support of the argument for buying it despite any misgivings about the card... forget the card. It’s 2200 honor, not Lenara Kahn. Buy it for the dilithium and the citation - those 2 things alone are a good value. Personally, I don’t think there is such a thing as “too much honor”. There are always ways to spend honor. I’ve spent most of 2020 trying to max out my collection legends, and I was starting to see the light in the tunnel until the two big expansions occurred. Now I need a lot more honor, so any source for it (e.g., portal pulls) is fine by me.
Then again, this bad campaign legendary lines up with a change in my honor spending strategy - I don’t feel the need to continuously improve my crew any longer (an approach I will maintain is useful for newer players) thanks to being able to hit long voyages fairly consistently with the crew I have. Even citing powerful crew like Prophet Sarah Sisko or Dahar Master Koloth no longer feels as important to me as having flexibility to react to getting a really unique or collectible crew and immortalizing them right away. If I get Mountain Climber Mayweather or Dark Empath Troi in a surprise behold, or if future events finally give us the likes of Dr. M’Benga, Kirok, or Marooned Geordi, it would be great to start using them as soon as possible.
It’d be nice to start stockpiling citations as well as honor right away, but I think that pursuit is worth putting on hold for a month to remind TP to be thoughtful about the value we receive in campaigns.
The company's job is to get you to open your wallet. If you're not excited to do so, that's their failure, not yours.
Personally, I'm happy that they did this one and I regret that I got annoyed by how they dealt with the discussion arising from it. Given how things are going everywhere, every kind of support we can get, wherever it comes from, is probably a good thing, especially for people in some countries.
I know that most players in this community are probably indifferent or neutral to these issues, but indifferent people make up the majority of the population too and they'll probably get to decide whether or not we'll live in some sort of dystopian nightmare sometime over the next few decades. Their acceptance is even more important than it was 20 years ago.
I also think that this will probably mean a lot to newer players who are part of the LGBT community. One of my first run-ins with this player community was opening UC to ask a question and finding a very popular user bragging about how he would kill his children if they turned out to be gay. And everyone discussing the topic as if it was the trolley dilemma.
That didn't make me want to interact with the community at all and if it wasn't for my fleet, I might have never even talked to anyone here.
If something like this pride campaign had happened back then, I would have probably joined the forums and started to spend money on the game much earlier. And felt better about it.
So I appreciate that they did it and I'm considering buying it just because of that.
But to go back to the main topic, there are lots of valid reasons to buy a campaign or not to buy it and if you feel like you don't need any of the things in the premium track, then there's no reason to feel bad about skipping it.
I think the cards are rubbish, the premium pulls have become useless and again...im not keen on the whole push the agenda thing.
I dont know why i did buy this, i think it was due to 10 seconds of madness . The interesting thing is, despite the premium "perks", i feel deep regret and a touch of "self shame" for actually buying it after telling myself I wouldnt. Each time i claim a reward i think "why did i get this? I didnt want this, why?! Why am I wasting my money on this crud?"
Sufice to say the last thought has also started to effect my desire to keep playing this game in the long run too
I skipped last month because my first two Disability checks had to go for stuff for the apartment, such as cleaning supplies, and clothing and food for Scott. Clothes were getting worn out and threadbare. {I'm not going to mention things like Fruit of the Loom choices came down to things like which pair that is clean has the smallest holes.} And Scott has developed a bad habit of eating several times a day.
I was going to skip this month, because of how it seemed that the concerns over the Legendary choice being pandering and misinformed kind of looked to be dismissed out of hand and then the thread locked. But, may look at her as Honour, and just use the other stuff, as you suggest.
Even without the Legendary, the other 95 drops include some useful stuff. One month I got four purple items I had use for immediately from one hat box....
If finances are tight, then I recommend holding on to your $10. I say this knowing full well that WRG might just try to prove me wrong (please don't) but here it goes: next month's legendary couldn't possibly be worse. Save your $10 for next month. Set it aside and use it to get a better premium campaign.
Things are much better now. And somewhere some day I will be getting the first chunk of my Disability backpay. Which I will have to "spend down" some of any way. Can only have so much money on hand, or they suspend your Disability for several months.
Imho, a two skill that will just take space in the freezer (I think I haven’t frozen maybe one or two such characters) is a poor choice for a campaign reward.
1- My roster isn't too deep and a 4/5 in any skill combo makes a big difference.
2- Considering the promo for Disco 3, am I the only one betting we get an event with the Trill trait? I think Honey Bare Jadzia is my only other 5* Trill. Waitress Ezri is immortalized and a couple 4* Jadzia's are close, but I won't say no to a gold.
3- People complain about two skill crew, but her maxed would either fill another shuttle seat or fill the one Picard and Number One fill and leave him for a voyage.
4- The other goodies are a great deal. I love the equipment crates. They are lifesavers at times. I wish they came other ways too.
If I was strong enough to resist the purchase I would not feel bad at all. Unfortunately I am not.