Event Notes - Faction Event Notes Battle ready - 2023-06-01 (rerun)
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Make him a +7 attack instead of a +6 and reduce his cycle time to 20s and you have the new choice everyone wants for FBB. Even just doing +7 with the slower cycle and he might be a better choice if you have a high enough bridge to survive. But right now Dereth is still better and the only people that will want reed are the people without dereth and Riker.
I believe there will have been 2.5 faction events during the OE. That's 10 days, leaving 20 days for the OE. You only needed 10 shuttles/day to reach that. You can run 6 rounds of shuttles a day. For someone with only two shuttles that's still 12 shuttles/day.
So for a player with only two shuttles and no tanked shuttles, it was still achievable while competing in all faction events. And if the player is running short there are always speed boosts and rental shuttles to earn more shuttles. If the player still misses, they weren't playing enough during the month. One of the points of the event is to encourage players to play. If the player chooses not to play, that's fine, that's their choice. But then they don't need to get everything that players playing more get.
I finished mine Sunday, but you have a good point. I'm going to check in with my newer players and see where they're at. It's been a while since my fleet had this many newer players. It was before I was admiral, iirc.
You are 100% accurate but it is fair to say that players may have been expecting a Faction event with Terran based on what we have experienced in the past. I know that I was going slow at the beginning because I didn't want to "waste" running Terran shuttles if I was going to wind up spamming them later on.
When there is a lack of communication from WRG, all players have to go on is past experience. That makes it frustrating when they change things up without notice/warning.
See I looked at a Mirror Blinker and thought "Mirror or Lower Decks" concerning a possible event and banged him out. While I am concerned about my fleets newer players, so far, everyone that answered if they had Boimler either had him done or thought they soon would. Not everyone replied, but they seem to make good progress.
On the other hand, before it started, I put up a reminder to switch their ships, so warped space battles counted, and preload Terran shuttles to jump start. Not sure how everyone else did, but I started with a dozen shuttles to collect. I know a couple other long time players did the same and a couple newer ones did after we explained. Teaching, reminding, and sharing information are things I consider being part of being a good admiral. Off to check the current FBB.
Agreed - it's definitely doable* and I think WRG have generally been good at calibrating things so that they are even for lower level/more casual players.
*though IIRC there were also three days of Section 31 shuttles gaining the event winner bonus so, again, trade offs between taking advantage of that vs working on the Boimler OE
But those lower level/more casual accounts might well just do the minimum for dailies in the week so could only have been doing 8 (4 waves of 2 shuttles or 2 waves of 4 shuttles) or 9 (3 waves of 3 shuttles) a day in the expectation, based on past experience as @[RotP]Ran Airen points out, that an event would sort it out for them.
We've had at least one endurance event in the past with no relevant faction events to make things easier. If you do the bare minimum and make assumptions based on absolutely no evidence then frankly you don't deserve the prize.
Reed has a different trait set than Riker. One of the things I look for when I node solve are repair crew even of they’re inefficient like Reed. Reed also has better passives.
Haven’t decided if I’m going to chase him or not. I have Little John and more importantly I have Chief Rutherford who has a little more duration on his attack.
All three of them would likely get put out to pasture if I ever pull a FO Chekhov.
If I ever get a Chekov in a behold, I now always take him unless there is another really good card as he has only a 1 in 5 chance of getting retrieved & want to freeze him after I had no option but to pick him
There is a point in bridge progression where you don't need the extra 10% hull, but the attack boost is a little extra damage when your other attack crew aren't active.
And he has a 17s cycle. My choice for extra attack is use Rutherford/LilJohn at 24s or potentially switch to Chekov at 17s if he ever shows up.
I've personally survived with 40% total hull repair plenty of times.
Should be due a mega starting next week. We should have new content throughout the mega.
Unless this is a known bug that I just haven't noticed before for events without phases?
Then it should say that. But it doesn't. Without the Phase 1/2 designator, it appears to only be a 2-day event.
Once again, WRG can't seem to get it right.
The announcement does say it is a 2 phase event. But I understand the confusion, since I seem to recall other full faction events only being one phase of 4 days. I wonder if 1) I'm remembering wrong, or 2) why the change.
Restart game - timer is now as it should be....showing 4 day event
Makes me think - if nothing was said and the event actually ended at 2 days - who would loose more.....WRG or the player? Factions are P2W - so deffo WRG