Key information about next week’s event: First Impressions - 10/12
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in The Bridge
Dear Shan,
Every week you create a post like this.
"Bonus crew: The featured event crew + T'Kuvma will provide the best bonuses, but all versions of event crew + non featured Discovery crew and Augments crew will provide some."
And every week you get, "Is so-and-so included?", "Who are such-and-such crew?".
Every Week I am astounded. Why not list the crew? It would make me very happy to know the reason why they are not listed.
Why not have an "event crew" filter in the crew roster?
Why not have the text "Bonus x2" or "Bonus x3" overlaid on the crew member in the Cryostatus Vault?
There are thousands of pointless posts that you have to read, that I have to read, that everyone has to read, that none of us want to read.
This post is not primarily a request for changes but rather a request for the reason why the changes, or their like, have not been implemented. If we understand it will reduce many people's frustration.
Thanks
Every week you create a post like this.
"Bonus crew: The featured event crew + T'Kuvma will provide the best bonuses, but all versions of event crew + non featured Discovery crew and Augments crew will provide some."
And every week you get, "Is so-and-so included?", "Who are such-and-such crew?".
Every Week I am astounded. Why not list the crew? It would make me very happy to know the reason why they are not listed.
Why not have an "event crew" filter in the crew roster?
Why not have the text "Bonus x2" or "Bonus x3" overlaid on the crew member in the Cryostatus Vault?
There are thousands of pointless posts that you have to read, that I have to read, that everyone has to read, that none of us want to read.
This post is not primarily a request for changes but rather a request for the reason why the changes, or their like, have not been implemented. If we understand it will reduce many people's frustration.
Thanks
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This is not relevant. I am not talking about crew that have not yet been revealed, or not yet visible within the game. I am talking about announcements where crew have been determined.
those are lame excuses.
It's actually quite simple: they do not release the new main crew's names and stars, but they can release the variants. for example, last week :Georgiou, Saru and Janeway; no rank, no nickname, no stars.
This way, we would have time to upgrade the characters. But it's too complicated!
It is not about revealing characters, it is about identifying the crew when a general descriptions are given.
For example is "Katra McCoy" a variant of Spock.
Just list the crew and there are no debates or mistakes.
However, I cannot do this in cryo. So this again leads to us needing features in cryo to search it.
Shan did that. She said start leveling up your Janeway's and Saru's.
You can use the Ctrl+F feature in your browser when on the wiki page. Far from ideal but at least you get to see who's useful and who's not.
(I know DB should add extra features, but with the current CS response time of 2 weeks(!!!!) I'm hoping they add nothing and start bothering to code and test properly before new features are added)
Captain level 50, approaching 100 immortals
All you need to know about Disruptor Beam
https://stt.wiki/wiki/Category:Augment
This line turned out to be false - T'Kuvma does not provide best bonus. I'd say Shan's post wasn't exactly fine, and explained at least one of the bonuses incorrectly, although it's probably not her fault she works with lazy incompetents.
Captain level 50, approaching 100 immortals
All you need to know about Disruptor Beam
I think we would really appreciate knowing whether any existing characters will be included and if so, who they are.
We certainly understand the problems with CBS and if the event is entirely comprised of new Discovery characters then you can just leave it at that.
Thank you
However there is no trait for Defiant crew.
Yes we all look for workarounds. Why not make it unambiguous. List the crew.
Until you mentioned it I didn't know there was a wiki for Augments. Who updates it? Who maintains it? Shan's posts are not just fine and do not explain all of the bonus characters in a suitable way. Which are 2x and which are 3x. I know but a noob might not.
Is there a wiki post for Defiant crew? The question is rhetorical and should be redundant.
Grant, unfortunately others do not know what you and I know. Others know what we don't.
So why not just list the crew so that there is no ambiguity.
Not relevant. Lists of crew should be considered as being drafts or notices that refinements or additions may occur included. In other words standard disclaimer text against the "But you said ... " posts.
The players update and maintain the wiki. I don't think it is too much to ask for players to go there on their own, but that's just my opinion.
You're not wrong, but I don't think OP is necessarily complaining about wanting already-available information made easier to get. It's about the things we can't search for, like as mentioned above whether Katra McCoy counts as Spock. Or if and when Yar counts as Sela, or recently the long delay of finding out whether or not B'elana would count as Miral. This stuff won't be linked to any in-game information anywhere, and won't be on the wiki (unless it's an event repeat). There's just no way for us to know for sure what the Devs decide about these ambiguities without them telling us, which having a full list of event crew would help to alleviate.
The players update the wiki. YES YES YES. DB does not update the wiki and the players are not telepathic. I would be happy to consult a wiki if updated by DB and refered to in the notification post.
Grant, your comments do not make sense. Think before you post.
Others might not be as knowledgable or savey as you. It took me less time to find my augments. So what?
In Britain, laws are not published. The government thought that spoon feeding the public was a bad idea. We just guess the laws and mistakes don't really matter in the scheme of things. Lawyers are however a bit better at guessing that the average layperson.
Kortar
Locutus of Borg
The Professor
23rd Century Martok
Captain Nog
Obsidian Order Garak
Captain Sisko
Klingon Bride Jadzia
Lt Commander Jadzia Dax
Delta Flyer Paris
Will Scarlett
Tempted Data
Age of Sail Crusher
Commander Troi
I don't blame Shan. She should be able to click a button and have event crew copied to the clipboard ready to post. Just like I did above.
The players update the wiki. YES YES YES. DB does not update the wiki and the players are not telepathic. I would be happy to consult a wiki if updated by DB and refered to in the notification post.
Grant, your comments do not make sense. Think before you post.[/quote]
I'm sorry, but are you implying that the wiki is not updated or accurate? I'm not at all clear on what you are trying to say.
I find that the wiki is an excellent resource and I am able to find what I need in a matter of seconds.
Grant, I'm not sure how you have inferred that I have said that the wiki is not updated. This is ridiculous. Of course it is updated. I have updated elements of it.
It is not completely accurate and never will be. It does not answer all the questions that a list of event crew would answer. It does not outline who are and who are not event crew. Examples of issues outlined above.
If the wiki has provided all the information that you have ever need then that is great. For the rest it does not. I refer to all the unnecessary posts, examples provided above. For the rest of us a list of crew members would be great.
They can't provide the event characters due to CBS restrictions. The information that they are able to provide is on the wiki.
Let's say hypothetically that the event characters are a Captain Picard variant and Captain Lorca, with augment crew getting a bonus. A full list of characters is EASILY found on the wiki. That's my point, I think you missed it.
Irrelevant. This is not what was asked for, as discussed above.
" The information that they are able to provide is on the wiki."
No it is not. As discussed above.
"Let's say hypothetically that the event characters are a Captain Picard variant and Captain Lorca, with augment crew getting a bonus. A full list of characters is EASILY found on the wiki. That's my point, I think you missed it."
Your point is wrong. Its not that I misunderstand or missed it, it is that you are wrong. Your example about Picard perfectly illustrates my point. When Locutus was introduced, and Picard and Event Character, there were posts about; is Locutus a variant of Picard?. A list of the crew in this case would have resulted the answers being known without having to trawl the post to see if Shan had addressed the issue.
However if you do that for Bashir you will not find Changeling listed, although as I have only recently discovered DB do count him as Bonus crew when a Bashir is featured.