Can you tell us if Noah gets a Bonus or any other crew
We know all Jadzias, Harry Kims, and Worfs will give bonus. It is possible Ezri and Curzon Odo will as well but I wouldnt count on it. As it is galaxy you only need a top crewman for each of the six skills.
I think it's only appropriate, we hadn't had a Klingon in one whole week now!
Also: The way I understand the word "event" is that it is something special and not something that you have all the time. Given that "events" last four days and thus most of the time, the word is a joke. A five day event **tsk tsk** even more!
Knowing full well, that I am repeating myself: What is wrong with those people?!
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All of these crew fit the theme of the Event Crew perfectly (Duchamp and Honey Bare from Our Man Bashir, and Kim for the Captain Proton episodes).... I would absolutely love the event crew info before Tuesday for this event. So many possibilities
I agree that it would be awesome to include these thematoc crew however for galaxy it unfortunately doesn't really matter. All you need is one or two crew and that's it, they cover all the recipes. For faction amd expedition event crew clearly matter a lot but not for galaxy.
I agree with south of sulu voyages have made galaxies more tolerable
That's just DB fooling you. Voyages have made Galaxy events worse. Before you were chron limited and you would generally run out of 1 or 2 items in every recipe. Now because you have enough chrons to keep farming those first 2 items, you eventually run out of a third or fourth item. The more chronitons you have and the more you play, the more it depletes your inventory. Sure it feels like you're playing more, but so is everyone else. Voyages has just raised the points of Galaxy events and forced you to burn through even more of your inventory to compete.
On top of that, Voyage mechanics mean you need to check in every two hours to keep the voyage chrons flowing in so that you don't fall behind, whereas before you could dump all your chrons and not need to check back for many hours. Voyages mean players actually have to check in more often for Galaxy events than for Faction events now.
Before this was announced, I had been thinking to myself that it’d be nice if next week’s event didn’t start till Friday, or better yet, maybe it could be a week off.
5 day galaxy? Over a weekend intended to be spent with family and friends? Hm. I could certainly play and do well in this event...the characters are good ones after all. But rather than buy in to the greed of such a cynical move, I think I’ll just say piss off and mostly ignore it. I imagine others will too.
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I think we're looking at this a little myopically. This is the first event with objectively good characters in quite some time, I really don't think it's any coincidence that it's an extended galaxy event. DB is counting on the fact that a large percentage of the playerbase will want them, and even many of those who are willing to commit to running a cheese-grater over their faces from Wed-Mon to get them will miss out. This is about pack/bundle sales, pure and simple.
Maybe the irony is that we play because we’re Star Trek fans, those hopeful idealists that like to think things will get better when we raise valid concerns about fairness and balance, etc and we forget that DB’s greed openly mocks the values espoused by the franchise they have a license for.
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I think we're looking at this a little myopically. This is the first event with objectively good characters in quite some time, I really don't think it's any coincidence that it's an extended galaxy event. DB is counting on the fact that a large percentage of the playerbase will want them, and even many of those who are willing to commit to running a cheese-grater over their faces from Wed-Mon to get them will miss out. This is about pack/bundle sales, pure and simple.
I wonder if it is event that intentional.... I feel like it started like this;
Lets give the folks some characters from the wish list.
We don't have the new event type ready, so lets alternate faction/galaxy each week.
Ok, lets put this in a galaxy in Nov
Hey one of those weekends is US Thanksgiving, we give our employees Thurs and Fri off.
Ok, we'll extend the event that weekend. Gotta start it early so when our QA folks screw up we have time to fix it before the devs go to their family weekends.
Cool! I bet we sell more packs that way!
I get the impression it's more like 1 Season DS9 Rom than Quark or an organized actual effort to make money.
EDIT: Ideally, this announcement should have said, "Due to Thursday 11/23 being a holiday in the US, the event will start on the following Thursday, 11/30. There will be no event next weekend. But we are gifting everyone with 1000 chronitons and 500,000 credits for you to spend leveling your crew. Happy Thanksgiving!"
Ideally the announcement should have said "This game is played globally and given 95%" of the world don't care about thanksgiving the event will be started at the usual time"
Captain Proton Paris
Arachnia Janeway
The President of Earth
Doctor Chaotica
All of these crew fit the theme of the Event Crew perfectly (Duchamp and Honey Bare from Our Man Bashir, and Kim for the Captain Proton episodes).... I would absolutely love the event crew info before Tuesday for this event. So many possibilities
they could throw a curveball and just have hologram alter-egos as bonus crew, rather than other versions of the event crew. Huge numbers of Worfs after all, and Dax if you include Ezri.
Ideally the announcement should have said "This game is played globally and given 95%" of the world don't care about thanksgiving the event will be started at the usual time"
I believe it's for the staff, not the players. DB staff are likely off on Thursday.
Captain Proton Paris
Arachnia Janeway
The President of Earth
Doctor Chaotica
All of these crew fit the theme of the Event Crew perfectly (Duchamp and Honey Bare from Our Man Bashir, and Kim for the Captain Proton episodes).... I would absolutely love the event crew info before Tuesday for this event. So many possibilities
they could throw a curveball and just have hologram alter-egos as bonus crew, rather than other versions of the event crew. Huge numbers of Worfs after all, and Dax if you include Ezri.
Yet Shan specifically said in the thread talking about the change in announcements that they were NOT going to change the procedure where by alternate versions of event characters were bonus.
So, though there is a chance that someone at DB decides to go back on their promises again, I don't think it likely unless they have a damn good reason.
I believe it's for the staff, not the players. DB staff are likely off on Thursday.
Sure - but it does kinda unfairly benefit those in the states (albeit only slightly in galaxy events). If your product is global you have to think globally.. If they were a french company they wouldn't shut down over august!
it might backfire if something goes wrong with the event and they end up working over and some devs/ops end up working over thanksgiving!
I believe it's for the staff, not the players. DB staff are likely off on Thursday.
Sure - but it does kinda unfairly benefit those in the states (albeit only slightly in galaxy events). If your product is global you have to think globally.. If they were a french company they wouldn't shut down over august!
it might backfire if something goes wrong with the event and they end up working over and some devs/ops end up working over thanksgiving!
I've played several games based in China where some local holidays affected staffing and thus events in game.
It's fine. All you guys that love Galaxy events blow out your chrons and items, I'll pop in and collect the community rewards and otherwise have a great weekend. :-)
First of I don't live in the US. But I'd rather have no event for holidays then extended events... This game is starting to feel like a weekend chore...
Also I would like to remind you that people work on Fridays, so having an event running on the last workday of the week is bothersome already, now I don't know where most of your player base comes from but, having an event run on 3 work days with this extension is just asking for it. It starts Thursday evening and end Monday evening, afternoon if you are GMT +0, here in Europe, now we get on extra on top of the usual.
Usually having your nose in your phone at work is frowned upon.
No work no money DB.
Extending the event during work days for us non Americans is asking us to adding insult to injury. We can't collect all the honor from our fleets, we struggle with the gauntlet hours. Do you actually want non us players because I'm starting to doubt it.
Extending the event during work days for us non Americans is asking us to adding insult to injury. We can't collect all the honor from our fleets, we struggle with the gauntlet hours. Do you actually want non us players because I'm starting to doubt it.
No, they don't. DB might like non-US money, but CBS as an organisation is renowned (historical refs can be provided) for deliberately ignoring non-US players and even favouring specifically US-based players over others to blatant advantage. In this instance I don't feel it's right to blame DB, as CBS will instruct them to do far worse in future.
Extending the event during work days for us non Americans is asking us to adding insult to injury. We can't collect all the honor from our fleets, we struggle with the gauntlet hours. Do you actually want non us players because I'm starting to doubt it.
No, they don't. DB might like non-US money, but CBS as an organisation is renowned (historical refs can be provided) for deliberately ignoring non-US players and even favouring specifically US-based players over others to blatant advantage. In this instance I don't feel it's right to blame DB, as CBS will instruct them to do far worse in future.
At least we know where the blame goes then, doesn't change the end result though.
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We know all Jadzias, Harry Kims, and Worfs will give bonus. It is possible Ezri and Curzon Odo will as well but I wouldnt count on it. As it is galaxy you only need a top crewman for each of the six skills.
Thanks db
Also: The way I understand the word "event" is that it is something special and not something that you have all the time. Given that "events" last four days and thus most of the time, the word is a joke. A five day event **tsk tsk** even more!
Knowing full well, that I am repeating myself: What is wrong with those people?!
I agree that it would be awesome to include these thematoc crew however for galaxy it unfortunately doesn't really matter. All you need is one or two crew and that's it, they cover all the recipes. For faction amd expedition event crew clearly matter a lot but not for galaxy.
Honey Bare would be great, but just reaching the O'Brien threshold last time was too much work, far more painful than my worst days at my job.
On top of that, Voyage mechanics mean you need to check in every two hours to keep the voyage chrons flowing in so that you don't fall behind, whereas before you could dump all your chrons and not need to check back for many hours. Voyages mean players actually have to check in more often for Galaxy events than for Faction events now.
Please create two events one 3 day two phase and second two day maybe expedition event.
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5 day galaxy? Over a weekend intended to be spent with family and friends? Hm. I could certainly play and do well in this event...the characters are good ones after all. But rather than buy in to the greed of such a cynical move, I think I’ll just say piss off and mostly ignore it. I imagine others will too.
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I wonder if it is event that intentional.... I feel like it started like this;
Lets give the folks some characters from the wish list.
We don't have the new event type ready, so lets alternate faction/galaxy each week.
Ok, lets put this in a galaxy in Nov
Hey one of those weekends is US Thanksgiving, we give our employees Thurs and Fri off.
Ok, we'll extend the event that weekend. Gotta start it early so when our QA folks screw up we have time to fix it before the devs go to their family weekends.
Cool! I bet we sell more packs that way!
I get the impression it's more like 1 Season DS9 Rom than Quark or an organized actual effort to make money.
Ideally the announcement should have said "This game is played globally and given 95%" of the world don't care about thanksgiving the event will be started at the usual time"
Plz no. I dont want to have to get top 2000 to FF Buster Kim...
they could throw a curveball and just have hologram alter-egos as bonus crew, rather than other versions of the event crew. Huge numbers of Worfs after all, and Dax if you include Ezri.
I believe it's for the staff, not the players. DB staff are likely off on Thursday.
Yet Shan specifically said in the thread talking about the change in announcements that they were NOT going to change the procedure where by alternate versions of event characters were bonus.
So, though there is a chance that someone at DB decides to go back on their promises again, I don't think it likely unless they have a damn good reason.
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Sure - but it does kinda unfairly benefit those in the states (albeit only slightly in galaxy events). If your product is global you have to think globally.. If they were a french company they wouldn't shut down over august!
it might backfire if something goes wrong with the event and they end up working over and some devs/ops end up working over thanksgiving!
I've played several games based in China where some local holidays affected staffing and thus events in game.
Somebody is thinking!
Also I would like to remind you that people work on Fridays, so having an event running on the last workday of the week is bothersome already, now I don't know where most of your player base comes from but, having an event run on 3 work days with this extension is just asking for it. It starts Thursday evening and end Monday evening, afternoon if you are GMT +0, here in Europe, now we get on extra on top of the usual.
Usually having your nose in your phone at work is frowned upon.
No work no money DB.
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No, they don't. DB might like non-US money, but CBS as an organisation is renowned (historical refs can be provided) for deliberately ignoring non-US players and even favouring specifically US-based players over others to blatant advantage. In this instance I don't feel it's right to blame DB, as CBS will instruct them to do far worse in future.
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At least we know where the blame goes then, doesn't change the end result though.
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