Have the DS9 pack super rares FF several times over already so if I don't get a legendary on any of the packs it'll just be more airlock fodder and honor. Have had some bad luck on legendary drops the last week, 12 event packs no Q, 4 elusive treasures and only 1 legendary. Got to say I find the community rewards very Meh for this event. Have zero interest in dumping any chrons into this event. Was going to try and stay top 1k just to FINALLY get another Q but may just take the rest of weekend off.
It's very much the same for me, and it is the same for a lot of advanced players... still, it's a freebie, so it's whatever we get
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The extra packs are honor if nothing else, so it's all good as far as I'm concerned and we will stroll through the community rewards. All new crew will push a lot of people to try and FF Quark.
Honour wasn't good enough for people the last time they gave us something extra for free, so I'm expecting a lot of complaints.
The extra packs are honor if nothing else, so it's all good as far as I'm concerned and we will stroll through the community rewards. All new crew will push a lot of people to try and FF Quark.
Honour wasn't good enough for people the last time they gave us something extra for free, so I'm expecting a lot of complaints.
I think most people were happy with the honour. The problem was the amount.
800 million for the final community reward ?
I think we might struggle making the 600 million for the final star on Graduation Burnham (But hope I'm wrong).
The faction phase of this event was brutal for me, due to such a small bonus pool and so many 4 and 5 crew shuttles.
The grind to get 800 million in phase 2 will be horrendous.
Anybody hoping for a rank 1500 finish to get the extra 3 stars for Quark will be burning through a LOT of chronitons.
Not for me I'm afraid.
I think you forgot to scroll down.....the final community reward is not 800mil, there is a 1.0bil 10X pull reward as well! How else can db get us to buy more chronitons? :P
My only concern about the DS9 Anniversary packs being in the rewards table is that because it's time sensitive to claim, it can put a lot of players in a frustrating position of being compelled to take on crew they don't have anywhere to put. The alternative is to simply forfeit them, which is an understandably unpleasant choice to have to make.
It's not a concern for me these days, but I remember well how frustrating it was for me to jostle crew around last year to take on the Q's Choice pulls. At the time, I was banking all of my Premium pulls until I was able to catch up on my backlog. I was happy to add another star to my 1701 Jadzia Dax and I got Frank Hollander in a Behold! that was pretty cool (I picked him over Shinzon and Tempted Data). I also, however, dismissed four different 3*'s because I had nowhere to put them. They weren't important to me, but they easily could have been.
If there was a mechanism in place that would remember special packs we've got and allow us to open them at our discretion later, though, then I'd be entirely in favor of replacing the default 10x Premium pull in the community rewards for every event with a 10x pull of whatever that week's thematic pack is. I feel like that would make it more interesting for me, anyway. As it is, I look at most of the thematic packs and I'm not tempted enough to spend dilithium. I could, however, be tempted into making something of an effort in an event to earn one of those packs.
I suppose now is as good a time as any to revisit the idea floated before of expanding community rewards to the other event formats, while I'm at it. There's really no reason for them to be exclusive to Galaxy Events, except that they're the only thing anyone actually likes about those events.
My guess i s tomorrow morning. It took 2 hours for the first 100 million... so 20 hours total if it stays at that pace. But it should speed up as people earn at higher levels.
Following up on my guess, things got faster.
The first 100m took 2 hours
The 2nd and 3rd each took 1.5. Quark was unlocked at almost exactly 5pm ET.
I was going to post about that. Two of them are DS9 anniversary packs. What happens if we hold onto those? Will they turn into regular packs or disappear?
Probably disappear. That’s what happens to limited time packs purchased with real money. So I don’t see this being different.
Do we know how long we have? I don't see a timer on that pack in the portal store.
Aaand it's an O'Brien. That's kind of comforting in a way, even with all three superrares FF the DS9 legendaries have been tempting me something fierce, so this is kind of like a reassurance that letting the pack pass by is the smart move. And hey, got a Florist Q out of it, so that's something.
A year ago I paid nearly £150 to immortalise Klingon Bride Jadzia.
Guess who I pulled from the DS9 portal packs...
Just wish I had that much chance of pulling her in real life. 😁
Edited to add: Kudos where it's due though - DB really upped their game this week. Get the Mirror Bev and Portal issues fixed and I'll start spending again.
I didn't get a behold, but I got O'Brian, which is good for me, and a third star on Wesley, which I needed. The Borg schematics also knocked my cube to level 6.
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It's very much the same for me, and it is the same for a lot of advanced players... still, it's a freebie, so it's whatever we get
Honour wasn't good enough for people the last time they gave us something extra for free, so I'm expecting a lot of complaints.
I think most people were happy with the honour. The problem was the amount.
I think you forgot to scroll down.....the final community reward is not 800mil, there is a 1.0bil 10X pull reward as well! How else can db get us to buy more chronitons? :P
We'll be fine. Its unusually slow but at 60M per hour we should have everything by noon tomorrow.
Yup... Quark unlocked at 300m just under 5 hours
It's not a concern for me these days, but I remember well how frustrating it was for me to jostle crew around last year to take on the Q's Choice pulls. At the time, I was banking all of my Premium pulls until I was able to catch up on my backlog. I was happy to add another star to my 1701 Jadzia Dax and I got Frank Hollander in a Behold! that was pretty cool (I picked him over Shinzon and Tempted Data). I also, however, dismissed four different 3*'s because I had nowhere to put them. They weren't important to me, but they easily could have been.
If there was a mechanism in place that would remember special packs we've got and allow us to open them at our discretion later, though, then I'd be entirely in favor of replacing the default 10x Premium pull in the community rewards for every event with a 10x pull of whatever that week's thematic pack is. I feel like that would make it more interesting for me, anyway. As it is, I look at most of the thematic packs and I'm not tempted enough to spend dilithium. I could, however, be tempted into making something of an effort in an event to earn one of those packs.
I suppose now is as good a time as any to revisit the idea floated before of expanding community rewards to the other event formats, while I'm at it. There's really no reason for them to be exclusive to Galaxy Events, except that they're the only thing anyone actually likes about those events.
Following up on my guess, things got faster.
The first 100m took 2 hours
The 2nd and 3rd each took 1.5. Quark was unlocked at almost exactly 5pm ET.
We are now at 360 million after 6 hours. So a churn rate if pretty much 60m an hour.
Which suggests about 16 to 17 hours if the pace continues.
We have 48 total so should be well in
Right now the VP are spinning by at almost exactly 75 seconds per million. Slower than usual, but we should still be good.
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Agreed, though I'm just assuming it was a troll post intended to draw a bunch of incredulous replies.
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Do we know how long we have? I don't see a timer on that pack in the portal store.
Why not? You only need about three crew for galaxy. Just leave those three off the shuttles and do both
Guess who I pulled from the DS9 portal packs...
Just wish I had that much chance of pulling her in real life. 😁
Edited to add: Kudos where it's due though - DB really upped their game this week. Get the Mirror Bev and Portal issues fixed and I'll start spending again.
I was actually hoping for O'Brien weirdly. I don't have him yet.
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