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About today's disciplinary actions - 2021-02-11

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  • MicrohopperMicrohopper ✭✭✭✭
    Oh dear. I woke up this morning and thought TP were giving us all a hand in jump-starting the new mechanic. I hit the "claim" button (mine didn't say "buy again"), saw my loot, and the button just kept saying "claim". The text below said something about "limit 19" so I hit it until it went away. Then I saw the cyclone of excrement here. :o

    Let me add my voice to the masses. I cannot comprehend how this is any player's fault. I constantly have to identify Spock or Kirk or Sisko to prove my lack of nanoprobes (presumably because after playing this game for 5 years I know how to time my button-presses to skip through all the time-wasting animations), so why wasn't there a similar check in place for this pack?

    If yours had a "limit 19" text, it was probably the "fix" that they did so they didn't risk the "Buy Again" fiasco from the first few minutes after the noon ET reset from happening again. So if you didn't do it right after the event started, I think you used it as it *currently* is set up.
  • Yeah, the one with 'Limit 19' is the "fixed" one that only gives you 19 minus a random number of packs.

    It's supposed to depend on if you already took a pack or two or 80 earlier in the day, but no one ever told us that either.
  • MicrohopperMicrohopper ✭✭✭✭

    All of this after waking up from alarm since event start is in the middle of the night. With wife unhappy waking up from that alarm and because of the light of my phone.
    Checking for new packages and half asleep clicking on this one. Nice, free gifts.

    ...

    THAT BUTTON WAS VERY OBVIOUS

    I also set an alarm so I could wake up to start the event. This easily could have been me, had I woken up a little quicker...

    I feel for you.

    In my half awake state, I will see a big yellow button on my phone screen much more easily than smaller "limit once daily" type.
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    @Shan, any chance that your devs forgot the "Do Not Touch" sign when they released this code's iteration? Maybe they also forgot to hook up the battery too?

    :/
    In the immortal words of Spock: "Live long and prosper"
  • OttoOtto ✭✭✭
    Dear Shan, an immediate 3 day ban is way too harsh and you can't tell me that the "exploitation" and the impact on the game is sooo big.
    I'm taking a step back and won't EVER be as much involved in the game as I used to.
    For the future I give you advice. The players are your costumers, treat them friendly.
    Best regards
  • so the next time a mistake like this is made maybe they should fire you and hire me
  • I took the free pack, wanted to buy it again and clicked on "Buy", then received it again for free and was happy. I thought maybe it was a hidden gift for the players who are spending a lot of money here that they are now getting some extra free. That was probably not the case. So it was a programming mistake by TP. And that's why I've been banned now! Are you serious about punishing players for wanting to spend money and only you guys have made a mistake?
    But that was nothing new either. Legendaries were previously unmentioned and hidden in small packs for 5 dollars, which were bought 5 or 10 times in order to own the legendaries FF, older players here will remember that. I don't know whether it was a mistake or a hidden reward, but nobody was punished as a result.
    I maxed first my avatar here, Mirror Saru, expensive. Currently my avatar is Sord, which was only available to buy, I had to buy crew seats again, and all that not only with this account. All this money I spend to get advantage over others from these Crewman, and that's OK because I'm paying you for it. If I get something from you offered for free like the Daily Retrieve Pack, which gives me an advantage, that's OK for you too. In summary: it is not reprehensible to gain an advantage, it is actually the point in the game to be able to progress a little faster. Your argument that you want to gain an advantage by calling up a free pack multiple times makes otherwise desired behavior this time something very questionable. Your reasoning is meaningless and has nothing to do with your behavior.
    Like many others, I don't want to be p** off by you any more as a thanks for my money and playing your game.
    Correction: we all don't buy anything from you, because we don't own it, everything is only rented, as soon as we are out of the game we don't ow any more.
  • Navarch wrote: »
    Dragyn wrote: »
    My last comment and I’ll go back to lurking bc y’all are too much.
    TP is NOT responsible for how a different company handled prior exploits.
    Truly a shameful day for this forum and player base.

    Guess you don’t look at UC that often. UC is often a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

    I’m outraged and I didn’t get the chance to grab this pack more than once. Now TP is offering a take 19 copies of this pack. If TP can’t put in a limit of 1 correctly, how are they going to put in a limit of 19?

    They didn't. I came to the game, saw the 19 limit. Clicked. 18 clicks later, the offer was gone.
    Probably because i allready had claimed the original offer for the day, but still.
  • JeanLucKirkJeanLucKirk ✭✭✭✭✭
    The "severity of its impact on the game" (as Shan called it) is not there! They upped the number of tries by 20 after one day. 20! So by doing that it seems the feature was not well thought despite the long planning time. Tiny adjustments ok, but this is by numbers massive. But ok, maybe they turned the bug into a feature.

    Also the not banned players will get more in the time of the ban than nearly all so-called exploiters got out of the bug in the first place. So if there is a severe impact it is for the gameplay of the punished players. Cause in case they do come back they will even have less than before...
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