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I timed myself to clear thresholds and it took...
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in The Bridge
...38 minutes. I stand by my previous statement. I'll take galaxy over faction every time. After claiming rewards, I came out not quite 1100 chrons short of where I started. Bam.
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I had to awesome that.
Indeed. Let us rejoice by enjoying some nice, uninterrupted sleep this weekend.
Plus I immortalized two T'Pols in one afternoon. Show me a faction event where that's possible.
Next galaxy DB is introducing a 60 second cool down on recipe turning. Or pay 10 dil to skip one cool down.
Shhhh. You'll give them ideas.
Shudders. I don't even have words for that...
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I stopped once I cleared the thresholds and was at #830. I'm currently at #7492 and falling. I'll likely slip out of the top 10k by time this thing ends. And that's the rub; clearing thresholds is relatively easy once you hit a certain point. Holding steady in rank is something else.
I don't remember how long it took to clear thresholds...a couple hours but I had RL to deal with and couldn't give it my full attention. With the chronitons I had left I tried to get Wedding T'Pol immortalized in 24 hours...fell short on that one while working on the lvl 90 equipment...didn't have the chronitons, IDICs and replications to make it.
Personal challenges are a great way to add fun to galaxy events.
Really its if you want to 'compete' in an event not just 'complete' that you can see the detractors of both events having other points.
But like Palli said, neither side is wrong. And it's great that there's an option to please both types of player!
It is not total time, it is when I play. For me to be competitive, I have to kick start the event whilst at work. I can (and do) start in a break, but I have to devote the whole break to it, and still don't do it properly.
Then for the rest of the event, I have to stop work every three hours for five minutes at certain times. These times often fall outside my regular break times.
Galaxy, I get to button press when I get home from work, I can do this nice and relaxed with a pint of beer. I can do a bit more the next morning whilst eating breakfast, and during my regular breaks at work, without the stress.
With Galaxy, I tend to get two 4/4* crew, the event seems less competitive. With faction I get one 3/4, and struggle to get a 4/4 ranked reward.
I can only speak for myself here but my dislike of faction mainly boils down to a few things... The first being that I have to set alarms to go off in the middle of the night if I want to rank. Sending overnights just won't cut it. Even if all my overnights succeed, which rarely happens, I'm still going to slip 2-300 places typically. I might, MIGHT, be able to get away with it once and still be able to rank, but I'm still looking at 3 nights of interrupted sleep. And dude, I like my sleep. I work a physical job and I really need it.
Second, if I want to go see a movie or something and can't re-launch my shuttles as soon as they come in, guess what? I just lost another 100 places. If I want to spend some time with my family at my mom's lake house where cell reception is spotty, that's gonna cost me a couple hundred places too.
Also, when you factor in DBNG, there's ALWAYS a possibility that even if you do everything right for the first 3 days, you can suddenly suffer 8 90%+ losses in a row, and your bird is cooked. You've wasted your whole weekend to walk away with a 4/4 and a 3/4 that won't be added to the portal for 6 months. And that 's happened to me more than once. The rewards just don't justify the effort. Until DB actually reworks the rewards for faction events, you're never going to convince me it's worth the hassle. Frankly, I'm not sure that even a 2/5 would be worth that amount of hassle, much less a 1/5.
As a counter to your argument, I typically spend almost as much time doing my quick start as I spent on this week's entire event. And if you want to rank, you better be ready to go when the countdown hits 0, which inconveniently lands right smack dab in the middle of my work day, like most of us on EST.
Sure, I could spend stupid amounts of money to guarantee I rank but why? If I was willing or able to drop buckets of cash, why not just buy the cards outright and skip the event altogether?
With galaxy, I KNOW, with absolute certainty, I can get the gold if I want it. With faction, it's never a certainty. I can USUALLY rank if I want to, but upsets definitely do happen, and with the time/effort/hassle involved, those upsets REALLY sting.
After Voyages, things began to change for me and I found it easier to balance crew levelling and chroniton hording and, if I want to, can get a top 1000 in a galaxy event while doing other things.
I have also stopped going hard at every event which helps reduce stress and burnout. For example, in this event, I’m happy to sit at 130K max threshold after an hour of play and ignore the rest of the weekend because I got both T’Pols immortalized, already have Valeris immortalized from before so decided it’s not worth burning up resources and time just to get another two skill 1/5* taking up a valuable crew slot. Despite having nothing but airlock honour from the community pull, it has been a rewarding event for little effort or resource usage.
So, I kind of like both event types now even though factions are harder after they nerfed the shuttle kickstart and still suffer the problem of getting a 3/4 threshold. Staggering the events also helps resource management. Without back to back factions, you get two weeks of free shuttle boost pulls on Thursday’s cadet mission. For Galaxy’s, I usually start saving Chron on Tuesday to get 2-3k in time for the event.
So I kind of get the pros and cons of both types of events. You can prefer one type over the other if you like (for me even this has changed over time as Voyages has made Galaxies easier and Kickstart nerf has made Factions harder). But what I don’t understand is the hardline positions some people take. It’s like you either have to love Faction and despise Galaxy or vice versa. Why can’t you just enjoy both or at least mildly prefer one over the other rather than be so polarized?
That's the world we live in today. Everything is polarized. Coke/Pepsi, Yankees/Red Sox, Habs/Bruins, Republicans/Democrats ...
But even those have problems, mainly tediousness past the first few tickets.
Even those are OK. I somehow ended up with two Mirror Crushers (must have done a pack pull for the 3/4 and got lucky) despite not using the “bonus” six expedition tickets so I’m ready to kick butt on the next one...
I sure would like to see some new event types just to mix things up more. Right now I’m trying to consistently get 8 hour voyages on all skill sets though ENG seems to be the weak point now but Banjo dude is helping. We also now have a strong Voyages MED with Cornwall and SCI with Surak. Did anyone else notice that 3 or the top five Voyage characters were the bonus Mega event characters from the last thee Mega? And all 3 Gauntlet characters are top 10. So six of the top 10 Voyage characters are “free”... plus Borg Queen at 12...
There is no debate about that... “les habitants” all the way... Bobby Orr was a long time ago 😝
Are you sure you didn't get both those crushers from packs? I played (and cleared) every ticket and probably at least 2 extras each day ON TOP of the 6 extras DB "blessed" us with and I still only ranked 1260. Talk about grueling. I was LIVID that I didn't get a Crusher out of that ordeal. Can you double check your event rank for Reflections and let me know what you ranked?
I guess you could've smoked me in the faction portion, but man, that doesn't sound right.
Wow... trust issues much? 😝
OK... to be clear, I didn’t buy extra tickets every day (just used the freebies) AND I still have the six extra “gift” tickets sitting in my inbox because... Christmas right? Like everyone else, I didn’t have time to slog through with all the turkey cooking and family commitments...
And no... I didn’t superboost the Faction part or used DIL. I don’t have that much DIL to spare as I only buy a monthly card (hence only VIP 8 after playing for 20 months). What little DIL I have I use for pack pulls on events without threshold rewards (mostly faction or the rare faction/expedition like Reflections one but if I already have the threshold character I don’t pull either)... hence the extra Crusher... as that’s my strategy so I don’t end up with a bunch of 3/4 threshold character eating up my limited crew slots...
To confirm, I ended up 577 in the event. But please, I don’t want to bring up the painful memories of the “Mirror Crusher” and “Mirror Picard” fiasco... let’s let that sleeping dog lie...
Trust issues? Definitely. I'm just trying to figure out how you ranked so much higher than me without clearing all those extra tickets. I mean, I grinded the hell out of them and didn't even come close to your rank. That was the event that made me HATE expedition events. I loved them until then too. I will never, never, never, never, never, never, never... NEVER... participate in one again after that mess. If DB was trying to kill expeditions, I say mission accomplished. Good riddance. Every time I see a Mirror Bev, I can't help but flip the bird at the screen.
I do remember one of the nodes didn’t give the right bonus or something so I avoided it and used the Mirror Beverly I got from the pack to give max points on Epic nodes (which usually doesn’t happen as I don’t normally have the legendary event crew to use during the event) if that helps explain some of the variance...