Please add new VIP levels
I don't feel like I've spent a lot on this game, but I guess I have over many years thanks to holiday offers and monthly campaigns tracks. My VIP level has been stuck at level 14 for what seems like forever. It'd be really great if we had that little bit of incentive/reward to look forward to if we keep spending.
I know the incentive is supposed to be accumulation of the things we buy, but thanks to RNG, the longer we play the more likely each purchase is a complete waste of money due to duplicates and poor honor conversion rates. The VIP bonuses at least give us something tangible to show for our money.
I know the incentive is supposed to be accumulation of the things we buy, but thanks to RNG, the longer we play the more likely each purchase is a complete waste of money due to duplicates and poor honor conversion rates. The VIP bonuses at least give us something tangible to show for our money.
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I think once you get to the point where you have hit and far exceeded VIP 14 standards, help with collecting is more useful than buffs/boosts/etc so I think improved DYC (Double Your Crew) options make a LOT of sense as an incentive/reward for the spenders.
Things I would want:
1. A DYC 'A La Carte'. How this would work: at VIP 15 the old DYC is replaced with a menu of every 5* card you have acquired since the DYC triggered and the VIP 15 player can choose which card they want to double. All the other benefits remain the same but this would liberate us to open a lot more packs and be able to double the card of OUR choosing and not the first card RNG chose.
2. A reduced DYC cost. Leave everything as it is just take something off the price. We already have a lot of skin in the game, make it a bit easier for VIP 15 to complete the cards they are buying packs to complete.
3. Reduced cooldown on DYC. Pretty self-explanatory.
I don't need more buffs and I would imagine most people wouldn't be in favor of the haves having an even easier time in events, but this would be a meaningful boon to help people complete the cards they are collecting without unbalancing competition.
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I can imagine this would be complicated to programme
There would also be the factor I think of taking advantage of non-portal cards
how exactly would this work?
How would it work with honour, voyage & gauntlet (specifically Voyage) crew?
Apart from premium packs, if you are aiming for specific crew such as from event, campaign, OE, then it doesn't take a genius to time it or not open anything. 24 hours isn't a long cooldown period. I know when I got my voyage Chapel, I timed it right until picking her
Leaving it open to non-portal crew is unfair too as you had the chance to earn them(if they were event crew) during that period. Chances are you have already leveled them up for the next week anyhoo
You got your cites. Use them or buy them, save your honour & get them during the sale
Plus if you are at VIP14, then you should have the resources to level up immediately. I know I hardly need to do any building or replicating to get crew straight to 100
If you are just looking to dupe already FF crew, honestly IMO with quipment now, dupe crew aren't really necessary now, apart maybe from the elite
Here's the situation I suspect the op is dealing with. They got Chapel on a voyage. Clicked return and are waiting for the voyage to return. Then before the voyage returns they played gauntlet and got a FF behold with crew they don't need. Now that gauntlet crew triggers the DYC. The player now needs to give up the DYC on chapel or sit with no voyage going for 24 hours so they can wait to claim the voyage with chapel.
Are players supposed to not play gauntlet if a voyage is returning? Plus in the general portal case, if they're opening multiple packs who knows what crew show up in which pack. Imagine opening an elusive treasures and getting an ok behold to trigger DYC before getting a better behold in the same pack.
I still say the simplest solution is just give DYC for every 5* drop. If players want to spend $25 instead of using a cite, let them. I'm sure TP will make more money selling $25 DYC than whatever they think they're protecting by limiting how often players get it.
yup, I would have waited on Chapel. What's one missed daily mission?
As for multiple packs & elusive treasure, sorry but tough if you don't get your pick
If you buy a lottery ticket or scratch card & win, should you be able to get a new one because you got nothing?
As you progress in the game, chances of getting all frozen beholds or naff choices increases. Buying elusive treasures early on is great but later on not so because of the increased chances of owning all the crew
And IF bland did get a gauntlet win, then he surely would have posted it in his RNG thread, no?
Also you still haven't addressed how this would work with non portal crew that you already own. because as I see it, that's the main hurdle
a higherboost on the limit on daily chrons,. More Rep rations?
Maybe a cite for every X amount you spend or a monthly one
You get a 5* crew, you get the DYC option. That's it. Doesn't matter if it's a portal crew or not. If a player wants to spend $25 instead of a cite, good for them. If a player wants to spend $25 to dupe a crew, they can.
If a player owns Chapel at 1/5, gets a second on a voyage, and chooses to spend $25 on a DYC for a third copy, that's fine. They can make a 3/5 or make 3 separate versions. TP makes $25, and the player is happy with the choice they made.
If a player has Omet'iklan at 5/5 and then gets another one in gauntlet, they can choose to DYC for $25. If they want to start at a second at 2/5 or start a second and third at 1/5 each that's their choice. TP still makes $25 and the player walks away happy.
I don't see why this is complicated or why being portal or not makes any kind of difference.
It may be a sucky challenge, yes, but what is a game whithout them?
This should be a marathon, not turn it into a sprint with this move
And again, at this level, why would people have essential crew not already leveled up?
Last word: no crew that will never be available in the portal should be made exchangeable for DYC AFTER they have been added to your crew.
you want 2 Captain tribbles? time it right
You want more Mirror Mariners? earn them
I went through a dabo wheel to get wanted Mariner pre-portal release
yesterday I got her from a credit pack 😆
That's the luck of the draw. getting her on the dabo, then getting first a gold in credit pack & one that you already own.
Other stuff I’d want with higher vip levels: no more caps on chrons and quantum. Accumulaate as much as you want.
Interest on credits, dil, and honor paid daily.
Just a quick note on this; I have been VIP 14 for... almost a year? I still have to do building and replicating constantly. Particularly once I hit level 70+ for the character. Different people play differently; resources are distributed differently. I know I'm not stockpiling, everything I get goes right into leveling up crew, of which I have hundreds still waiting to climb the ranks.
So just to keep in mind for this discussion that the idea that VIP 14 = easy/quick level-up does not hold true for everyone.
I totally get that & was in the same place as you, but you have to understand that the quote you posted & its content was to one person & not everyone at VIP14
the same person who posted:
Which I don't agree with
Hope that clears things up
It does, my appologies.
...at VIP 15, we should only ever get voyage ship traits for 5* ships.
I agree with you on general principle but you picked a bad example to illustrate it since we do have a 5* Gorn ship available. Barely anybody will have it completed, but it does exist.
If you'd chosen Maquis or Hirogen for your example, I'm behind you 100%.
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