The Same Already FF/FE Crew Drops In Pack Purchases (Like 3 Straight Times)
Is anyone as ticked off as I am about getting the same crew member 3 times in a row when buying these packs? This has happened to me at least 10 times in the past 3 months and the crew member happens to be one that is already immortalized. The latest being on the "Do No Harm" pack. Random, I think not. I know they can fix this but they choose not to for monetary reasons. I am at the end of this happening and I guess the only solution is to stop buying packs and to stop playing. I sent a ticket in but honestly, I don't believe they will do anything until I force their hand.
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It **tsk tsk**, but it's bad luck and I don't know what needs "fixing" here.
The real solution is to get more honour from dismissal or better compensation for receiving duplicate crew.
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We all are fed up with these packs where they offer a limited set, we have one immortalized, and that is the one we get. The solution is if we have one FF we do not buy the pack. That is what most of us are doing. Though sometimes one wants to open packs, buys one, and gets burned.
Then they swear to never do it again ... until the next time.
+1 here! I'm truly shocked they don't realise what a huge money loser this is for them. It's not a "cheat" to guarantee we won't pull a character we already have immortalised and it would go a long way towards showing the customer base that they actually care about us.
As to the complaints about "DB Losing money on these packs"...what do you want from them? 6 new crew in every pack every time they put one in the portal? With no repeats. Come on guys... Don't get me wrong, I think there is a lot DB could do better regarding RNG and "value" of items, but routinely putting non-event packs in the portal isn't a problem. It is an "opportunity" to decide for yourself if you want to spend your money on the cards within. Choosing not to buy shouldn't reduce your ability to compete more than a small amount in one or two aspects of the game.
By the way, what's with the "chocolate cronut?"
Forum's censorship.
Phlox is a gauntlet beast and Pulowski has a draw for being much needed MED, i just wish they sold the packs by more transparent means and provided the odds for each crew. I don't have the spare dilithium floating around otherwise I might have risked a punt but alas, better stick with event packs as at least then there is usually a 45/45% chance of pulling the threshold character to FF them.
Jim
Personally, I will never buy a pack if I have a character FF. And if I'm only doing one or two I will think twice if there is a new 4* I could be stuck with at 2/4.
Also, unless you're planning to buy 10+ packs, never buy for the 5*, you will just be disappointed.
If more people stop buying packs DB will do something about getting immortalized crew, until then there is always another sucker. Looks like the OP was the sucker this time.
I'd like there to be a difference between dismissing crew you don't want and dismissing a crew that the game even acknowledges is a "duplicate".
Dismissing some 4* you just don't like is your choice, and you get a small amount of compensation, maybe a bit too small, but I get they don't want you to just swap a 4* you don't like for one you do like.
But dismissing a duplicate crew is just...logical. Sure, some people level multiple copies, but that's not normal. I'd like it if the game acknowledged that pulling duplicate crew is just **tsk tsk** luck, and you've gotten something completely useless, and you're dismissing it not because you're being picky, but because there is absolutely no reason to keep it around. Something like half a citation, or even a "stepped down" citation (dismissing a duplicate 5* gives you a 4* citation or equivalent honour, dismissing a 4* gives you a 3* citation or equivalent honour etc.)
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Do like I do, only get packs where you have no FF characters. Chasing Legendary characters out of these 6 crew packs is never a good idea. I only pull from packs where I need the SRs, and if I get a Legendary then that's just an extra bonus.
That is too general. With many characters that surely applies. But if, say, a character is in the Top 5 of whatever, has outstanding base, proficiency or a good mix of both, is event character often etc., sometimes a dublicate is much better than a variant with worse stats.
It's better to prevent than to heal. Best solution would be to put some code and offer a possibility to prevent such cases from happening. I strongly advise not to participate in such practices and stop buying packs until this problem is resolved.
Here is a guy that spent 6500 dil and got 2 Toby Russells for his trouble and he also had her FF/FE
In the end, chances of getting a legendary out of such a pack are roughly 8%. That's not much to go around, but it's awesome when it happens.
It's not getting something you want its avoidi n g something you don't want. If you don't want 1 character out of 6 but get that one 3 times in a row. The laws of probability went out the window
Just guaranteeing a useable 4 star from each pack we buy would fix this. Make it so each pack generates enough honor to convert to a 4 star citation, so we don't feel ripped off when this happens. It costs DB nothing to make their paying customers happy.
If it costs someone 5 packs to get something useful, and they change it to 1 pack, then it's cost them 4 packs.