Language, Please.
eXo | Ramza
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Hi, I’m Ramza or Ryoma or something.
I forgot my forum name.
Doesn’t matter, I’ve been around since Launch Day.
But I’m also one of those people who wishes TP (nee DB) would DoBetter.
Yes, we’re celebrating Star Trek, but I’m going to have to bring something up.
Do you see it?
The subtle difference in language?
‘Complete Shuttle Missions’ vs. ‘Start Faction Missions’.
Gee whiz, what could I ever complain about?
The problem is that it’s mechanically different in the game (duh).
Technically, ‘Start’ is easier than ‘Complete’, since in theory you can start 70 shuttles and get the achievement in 5 minutes.
But because of that, the expectations of the event is totally different.
Please, please be more careful with accuracy of the language in your announcements TP.
Even a half-not playing corpse pays attention when free things fall from the sky.
Your forever Stockholm syndrome’d friend who had 30 shuttles ready to complete,
Ryomza
I forgot my forum name.
Doesn’t matter, I’ve been around since Launch Day.
But I’m also one of those people who wishes TP (nee DB) would DoBetter.
Yes, we’re celebrating Star Trek, but I’m going to have to bring something up.
Do you see it?
The subtle difference in language?
‘Complete Shuttle Missions’ vs. ‘Start Faction Missions’.
Gee whiz, what could I ever complain about?
The problem is that it’s mechanically different in the game (duh).
Technically, ‘Start’ is easier than ‘Complete’, since in theory you can start 70 shuttles and get the achievement in 5 minutes.
But because of that, the expectations of the event is totally different.
Please, please be more careful with accuracy of the language in your announcements TP.
Even a half-not playing corpse pays attention when free things fall from the sky.
Your forever Stockholm syndrome’d friend who had 30 shuttles ready to complete,
Ryomza
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It looks like the 99 Level Ups achievement is NOT leveling up 99 times, like the daily 10 levels one.
It looks like the achievement is leveling up ONE character to 99.
Can someone confirm this too?
I didn’t start them today. I was working on tanking a faction, so I just left a bunch of shuttles unclaimed since the announcement.
Ah I see! That made sense.
It is not leveling one character to 99. I have split leveling between two cards and it just counts the number of levels.
I just did my Maquis Tuvok from 80 to 99 and got the achievement.
Though I was futzing around with other characters to level up, none of them got up to 80 before I started work on my Lv80 Tuvok.
I just find it incredibly unlikely that I some how wandered to exactly 80 levels, then finished the last 19 on a card that was already at level 80.
But I may have gotten lucky too, so just wanted to see how it’s going
I did the achievement this way also.
Nope. I finished it by Leveling Admiral Kirk and Android Kirk to 50+.......
I am really scratching my brain on the Arena though. Not sure why we should have to spend 450 Dilithium to complete that achievement? (Yes, a bargain, but kind of thwarts the concept of "giveaway")
I’m with you there. I’m debating whether I want to bank the dilithium for the eventual crew slot sale (I’m F2P) or spend it to get the 10 pull that will most certainly for me at this point result in honor or useless schematics. I’m leaning toward the former.
They probably wanted to do something not everyone can easily achieve. But you are right about the "giveaway"
FORGET IT! Resistance IS futile!
It's a little weird how everything else was slightly harder than daily targets, and this one was more than twice daily target and requires saved tickets or DIL to reach it.
I pointed that out, and got roasted. Apparently my terminology was "technically" wrong. Since you can give them back some of the Dilithium you get from the celebration, to pay the piper......
Yes that's correct I've had my reward levelled up a 1* crewmember and immortalised them
Now to be completely fair, the Level Up Crew and Complete Away-team Missions achievements are quite a bit more work than normal daily targets over 7 days, but neither should require spending dilithium...
But it was suggested to me that these kinds of observations are unappreciative and ungrateful since TP/WRG is essential giving us "free" stuff. So while I understand that we will receive more than enough dilithium to offset this cost to purchase 30 more arena tickets, I just think the optics are not great. If this Complete Arena Battles achievement requirement was maxed at just 70 arena battles, but rewards were reduced, this would look better.
It should. It still "Completed". Let me check. Mine should be back. And I always have Fails......
EDIT: The Achievement is for STARTING the Shuttles. Has nothing to do with how they end up.
They count as soon as you send them out. I just looked before and after sending a wave......
Even better.
The arena temporary achievement has been addressed in several threads and just seems to be a difference in philosophy that is better addressed in those threads/doesn't really involve language.
1. For the newer / less advanced rosters - a few simple achievment
2. For the middling player - some achievemnts that require more than your daily effort / time / chron burn
3. And for those that have lots of resoruces or like to tick all the boxes, something that requies a little more commitment / effort / "spend"
Does every element of the give-away have to be fite "me" or "you"? and if it doesn't then its wrong?
Surely we all understand that this is a game with many thousands of very different players and nothing here is one size fits all?
Do the bits you enjoy, leave the bits you don't
For many player the extra Dil will be welcome, as is the ability to get some achievements where long established players or the big spenders have no real advantage over the rest of the playing field.
LLAP