Daily mission change
cmdrworf
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in The Bridge
Wondering why the change to need 3 scans for the daily now. Forcing us to spend ISM each day.
Sir, I protest! I am NOT a merry man!
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I guess that promise had an expiry date. And of course the communication around the change is up to their recent standards.
Also noticed this change, and there has been no official communication.
Unless I have missed it.
There really needs to be more in-game communication. Not all players use the forums or use social media, so any changes brought about really should be communicated in-game.
...and it will be all over...
Community pressure was changing three dilemmas a day to one.
I also seemed to miss out my second tier of rewards for space battles and away team missions, it went from do 5 to do 20.
Space Battles and Away Team Rewards were always 5/10/20. Unless I am misreading your last sentence. I just woke up.
What he was saying that he did not get the 10 away and space battle reward in achievement.
So far I have. But, I will keep an eye on it.
BTW @Mirror Cartman if you cannot complete your daily, it will be because of the loss of accolades.
A good compromise would be the reintroduction of the 3h countdown and let become paying this ISM bill a last resort effort for people, who missed the lousy number of needed logins.
C'mon, logging in regularly over the course of the day, paying all these bucks and watching all those ads must be worth something. Just my 2 cents.
To those who do just one scan daily; Do you bother with crew retrievals?
Retrievals are such a nice way to pick great crew you missed out on IMHO.
Scanning your way to the right polestar is major RNG. People are saving their ISM so they can buy the one or two polestars they need from the market instead of hoping it happens to drop from the scan and then opening the constellation.
FWIW, I treat my two accounts differently. On my main account I generally do 10 scans per day, 5 paid for with ISM alternating with 5 from watching ads. That may be too many, but it's what I've settled.on and I'm a creature of habit. So the change obviously hasn't impacted me at all there. I currently have more than 400K of ISM in the bank for that account, so it's working so far.
On my alt account I was doing one scan per day and leaving it at that. Mostly because you can't do ads on two accounts on the same device, because the devs apparently like bugs that stop the company from making money. I've obviously upped that to 3 scans per day now, it's only an extra 200 ISM for the two extra scans.
It's not the cost of anything in this case that's annoyed me, 200 ISM per day is meaningless. It's the fact that they've apparently gone back on their word, again. And the fact that they haven't bothered communicating with us about the changes, again. That's the bit that really winds me up.
Hopefully they will get rid of warp & speed ups next
I prefer this version
My assumption is this is an accident/mistake because otherwise it makes negative sense..."So let me get this straight, you need me to spend ISM so that I can complete my dailies, and when I complete my dailies you will give me back my ISM? What are we doing here, paying a refundable deposit for the privilege of completing dailies?!"
Admiral, I’ve been doing just one scan a day for at least a year and have been able to keep up with my CRs. There comes a point where you have a massive stockpile of polestars and scans are just a waste of time. I’m only just now cutting into that stockpile by plowing my daily dilithium into quantum and doing a CR about every week. And my 4M ISM bank can buy me any polestar I need. So that’s one approach.
Interesting side note: I needed to do a CR to get Lt JG Kayshon. But the only way to get him is with the Tamarian polestar. So I put an order in at 500K ISM for his constellation. Someone took me up on it and it was the Tamarian polestar I pulled. How I felt: 😎
You are absolutely right, my bad!
There is a feature of the animations when claiming rewards, I don't know if this is new.
When I do 20 away team or shuttle missions, and go to the daily mission screen, if I double click on the 5 mission reward, it claims to 10 mission reward as well, skips the animation and jumps straight to the 20 reward. It does give the 10 mission reward, just does not show it.
On an android phone, first thing in the morning it is very easy to do this without realising it.
I don't know if this is a new feature, or one I have just noticed because I was taking notice of the reward structure.
The entire game is being run by a skeleton crew now. You wont see increased communication or improved quality of life features. As nomad alluded to, this is the twilight stage of this game. There will be one big round of holiday sales (black friday, christmas) and when they compare those sales to last year, the game will be phased out. Its inevitable.
Happy Thanksgiving
I hope this game will run for many more years to come.