Can someone explain what happened here?
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I'm out of the loop. Copied from the Big Book
"Despite Continuum Missions being nothing more than away missions lifted one-for-one from previous developers’ work and launched in a hilariously disastrous manner resulting in an easily exploitable bug that players gamed for an entire week to the tune of a hundred thousand dilithium and/or quantum, the exclusive cards that come from CM have already established a more impressive lineage than The Dishonor Hall"
"Despite Continuum Missions being nothing more than away missions lifted one-for-one from previous developers’ work and launched in a hilariously disastrous manner resulting in an easily exploitable bug that players gamed for an entire week to the tune of a hundred thousand dilithium and/or quantum, the exclusive cards that come from CM have already established a more impressive lineage than The Dishonor Hall"
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Those sound like grossly exaggerated claims. You could get the final rewards again initially when paying to restart continuum missions, but you were still going to be limited by no small amount of time/chrons/dilithium on speeding it up, so.... no idea what this person is talking about. They fixed the repeat final rewards problem pretty early on.1
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Are you suggesting I exaggerated? That accusation is fifty THOUSAND times worse than anything anybody has ever said to anyone.
Anyway, they buffed Kejal's stats (your Big Book tax dollars at work) so I'll have to re-write her note and find another mediocre crew to be snarky about. LLAP.2 -
Frank?
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Yep!
Because I like ZAPP tm R C (can't do the symbols) and the other person posting in this thread is blocked by 90% of remaining forum goers, I'll actually explain:
When CM launched at the end of October, it was a good ol' fashioned "Dumpster Fire"
As those who played it will attest, it went from the 4 missions/12 stars we know today and expanded upon that to 8 missions/24 stars - however there were glitches and fun times to be had!
As CM is just existing galaxy map missions with the difficulty cranked and loot tables changed, anyone who went through and opened/played the CM missions would effectively wipe out their years-long galaxy map progress, erasing the history of you completing the mission and the ability to warp it. A patch had to be issued to correct all the crashes in-game (there were many) and reset the galaxy map. Compensation was issued for players to effectively have to replay all those missions again in the form of Chrons et al.
That was known and well documented.
What wasn't was the 'never ending' rewards bug.
If you complete the hardest difficulty today, you get a 5* behold or crew, depending on the week. At launch, it was 250 DIL. Middle difficulty gave Quantum, easy path granted merits. The DIL, Merits and Quantum *should* only grant once, and when you achieve star #24 on that line of missions.
*Should*
If you paid DIL to refresh the table, you would get all the nodes refilled. If you completed the run again, you got the end rewards of DIL/Quantum/Merits again after #24. This was known and somewhat documented, but kept kinda quiet and 'wink wink nudge nudge' on discord and the forums, probably for fear of button ban gate v2.
Only....
What *really* wasn't talked about was if you were an old hat and played the missions backwards, like in the old Expedition ways (hey kids, remember those?), you got the end rewards every time you went from one completed difficulty to another. So for example:
I finish Mission 3, Easy, on the first run with 3 crew. Instead of going again with different crew for the other tree of nodes, I instead keep the same crew and just change the difficulty to the higher one. Since i've already cleared it, i can swap back and forth. Each time you change difficulties and clear a set of nodes, it granted the end rewards.
So, in short, yes:
A lot of people got their galaxy maps screwed up.
A smaller group of people paid DIL to refresh rewards and got more quantum and DIL, but at diminishing returns (DIL cost increases and after 3 runs it's no longer profitable).
A very small group of players paid DIL to refresh rewards and worked it Expedition style and had enough DIL and Q for the winter hibernation.
Devs were made aware, by me, instantly, with video. It was deemed "too hard to reproduce/not noticeable by players" and it took a week to patch it. Final instructions were 'keep on playing'.
So yeah.
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It was a bug the first week continuum launched. If you weren't playing the game then you wouldn't have noticed. And apparently some players who did play the game didn't notice. I can't imagine they're going to come back and comment on an issue they fixed a year ago.
Yeah. I doubt anyone got "rich" in any supplies that first week. The main thing it did would be give you double the rewards for 50 Dilithium if you completed twice. I didn't do Continuum Missions at first, so I didn't experience it. I think the first time I do two complete runs was after UBQ became the Epic Reward. By then, repeats only dropped the Qbits and whatnot if you refreshed.
Yeah. It was resolved very fast, from what I remember people saying about it. It's a lot more likely to get an update on something current, rather than something that was fixed almost immediately and also so long ago.
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But the new Voyage Exclusive Beverly description even goes into mocking people with special needs in a way you usually only see in '80s movies.....
I did get tens of thousands though.
Just because you don't think something can happen, or did, doesn't make it so. Your collective heads would explode if you knew the levels of abuse early offer wall abusers made off with when a bug existed where you could multitap/multiclaim mailbox items, like offerwall DIL.
It's known, it's swept under the rug and largely ignored. It's a mobile game with no 'game over' or winning. If someone cheats, they are just decreasing the amount of money that goes to TPG, it doesn't really impact other players at all.
The common retort to that is 'i was knocked out of X placement in an event and lost out on a reward' - or 'I evented for 800 hours of real time at the expense of my own personal health and a bot lapped me and took 1st place'.
The response is the same.
Stinks it happened, but the (content) train keeps going and doesn't stop. Whatever happened will be forgotten about in a week and only murmured about by 12 people in a month. It's a mobile game.
Hang on, is this coming from the guy who is a known misogynist, who has been calling Jess Bush "baby doll"?
Sounds like every good time I ever had playing this game.
"History became legend. Legend became myth."
"Simple Simon" is not an insult, it is not a slur, it is not ableist and it is not offensive.
It's a bistro in Cali that a few of us like to eat at.
That's literally it.
A shout out to one of our favorite food places.
I'm sorry you have to feign outrage and try and stir up the pot and have attention brought upon you. It didn't work and i'm shutting it down before you do it again. Stop. Get help.
https://www.simplesimonsbakerybistro.com/
Alternatively, it is a nursery rhyme that predates the Declaration of Independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Simon_(nursery_rhyme)
And while we are at it… just know we never plan to let people forget that you’re a creepy misogynist, DScott.
I have no dog in this fight, but how is this...
...a "shout out" to a restaurant? Is it not a direct reference to Dr. Simon van Gelder?
Yeah. I have to agree. There is no way that @Frank? is referring to the restaurant here. At least not directly, maybe its tongue in cheek or something but the comment is directed toward a specific crew reference.
And simple Simon absolutely is an insulting term that is frequently used in place of words that start with “R” and end with “D”, and refer to mental intelligence/disability.
What Frank wrote is correct. Tens of thousands of dil/Q by a handful of players, maybe someone hit six digits, I don't know.
You're not blocked by most people, DScott is. Not surprised to see him slinging mud as always. Most of us have moved onto Discord where his brand of pot stirring is not allowed.
'Simple Simon' was a reference to a song I love that always pops into my head when I see the name Simon. Missing the old Big Book days of hyperlinks. My sister is autistic and we've talked a lot about "the r-word", her struggles with being 'normal' and the like. I'd obviously never intentionally use slurs like that in my writing, especially as it's a labor of love for the community.
Look, misdirection and “spin” sets aside, weve heard now that simple simon refers to a song, a restaurant, and looking at the context of the statement it implies something that is selctable from a behold.
I mean no insult to you or anyone else. Im just agreeing with the above post that calls out it is highly unlikely, or, basically not believable, that you or whoever wrote that was implying that you could select a song or a restaurant out of a behold.
And simple simon is not a pleasant or nice way to talk about anyone and might elicit emotional responses.
Enjoy your smoke, agitated Ben Afleck.