Scrap the 24 hour extension
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Make your opinion heard if you think this is a ridiculous idea & for them to change it
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Edit: And note that I am not the forum going type usually.
Plus giving away one
Granted, he is very worthy of duping
No. Now that they have announced it, they absolutely should not change the Event again.
Agreed. It was a mistake, but reversing it with less than 5 hours notice would only compound it.
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I dont think that those who will get the 5* Spock in the end will be the most disappointed or the most disadvantaged by this 24 hours extension. But those players who tried their best, had their strategy set, have more limited resorces and will not get the rewards they were aiming for and most probably could get if not for this fiasco. Like people trying to get into the 1500, 750, or aiming for a 3 or 4* Spock.
But yes, Spock is not a bad dupe candidate either
2. Give all ranked players the rank 1 rewards, regardless of actual rank, and in addition to earned rewards
3. Replace all copies of spock from players earned ranked rewards with leg cites.
4. Explain to players with game mail that wrg is taking ownership of screwing up the event.
Let's just have 5 day events from now on. And the OE to bridge the gap!
The period that it started up to the end surely is enough for all time zones
It’s a very competitive event and many players are burning through dilithium and chronitons, another 24hrs of that will only mean $$$ for WRG as we all need to compensate to replenish resources. adding 24hrs to an already arduous and monotonous event is a kick in the teeth to everyone who strategized, balanced resources and gave time to rank where they are.
Annoying, illogical, and if not an inept decision by someone, then a ploy to expend more resources by WRG. Both possibilities **tsk tsk**
I took some timestamped screenshots of my resources and will send CS the bill at the end of the event if I'm out thousands more chronitons because of the extra day.
You spend more hours skirmishing than anyone else. 24hrs longer event time is hardly an impact when you are accustomed to marathoning your way to rank 1 all the time.
I do think the extension is right for those players, for the reasons that have already been rehearsed, chiefly that they can find time to make up the time they lost if they were planning to play during the outage somewhere in that 24 hours. (Declaration of interest: I am effectively one of them for this event, as I realised very early that there would be a lot of people going hard for Spock and set myself other goals.)
On the other hand, it absolutely **tsk tsk** for the most engaged players (who are of course the majority of those on the forums) competing for rank as it just adds another day of grinding. I think the best solution would be to award everyone the rewards for whatever their highest rank achieved was between the point when the outage happened and the extended end, but I somewhat doubt that that's technically possible.
Arena and space battles for the daily tasks are a different issue that needs intervention. Not the event.
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Lets extend it until thenext convergence day
The true endurance event.
Or maybe wait until everyone has SNW Spock from Dabo to close it. (A couple of millennia by my back of the envelope calculation.)
Was extending the event by 24hrs the best course of action: no. But I understand the thinking, especially when you take into account the global nature of the player base.
But I would also say this is just annoying. WRG has a generally good record of making things right when they have outright messed up (thinking the HMS Pinafore Data incident is most comparable). I'm betting they move everyone up one level on the rewards, if not more.
I would also add, it would be compounding the problem, and just sowing confusion, to cancel the extension.
What about for casual players? I was pretty busy this weekend and was going to spend some time getting to thresholds (and a bit beyond) yesterday and couldn't. So, it wouldn't really be fair to to me if the event ended on time since the error impacting my ability to get to thresholds.
It **tsk tsk** for people who are competing for top spot but the flip side is that you do actually get quite a bit of resources back in skirmish (as opposed to supply missions).
From my perspective, it's the right decision to extend the event to make up for the lost time (and to expand the rewards).