What has been the best STT Mega-Event thus far?

BigDaddyTaylor, CPT. (SJ)

BigDaddyTaylor, CPT. (SJ)

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

The poll itself is interesting but the reasons behind your votes are equally so.

Banjo1012

Discovery 1 (A New Anomaly)

I was most excited about the new Discovery crew and it was from that mega that I kept the most crew members

÷ The Eternal Champion

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

I voted Mirror (although Borg and Klingon Mega-Events were good too).



Other than Mirror Janeway Artwork / Toons were pretty cool

BigDaddyTaylor, CPT. (SJ)

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

I was very underwhelmed with the Vulcan-Romulan event. I appreciate Surak but the rest...meh. I thought Borg had the best overall assortment of crew. I greatly appreciate Megas giving folks a chance at a FF 5*

[Retired] BeamMeUpScottie

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

With all these events, i have never read the shuttle missions/results anymore. who got time to do that when other players busy sending shuttles 24/7?

With the galaxy, tap tap tap....

It would be nice if they actually have a weekly short story (1/2 page single space) released for mega events for people to read.

[10F] Belle'Anna

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

I've only done 4, Disco was my first mega and I still have 6 crew from that in my regular roster. It was exciting but a bit stressful, and really improved my crew impressively. I also won my first legendary in a Galaxy.

Mirror was great (apart from the glitches) again, 6 new crew that really solidified my base. I loved the twist on well-loved characters.

Andorian was good, I got 6 new crew for the roster, love the Andorians.

Vulcan/Romulan was like, oh is it still going? Lol. I've fused a few existing, and I'll get a couple of new crew and Surak is awesome. I also got my second Katra! On the plus side, I've also saved thousands of chronitons. Brilliant!

Data1001

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

As much as I hated leveling so many Borg at the same time, I think I enjoyed that event the most out of those (or maybe it's just far enough in the past that I am looking upon it with nostalgic rose-colored glasses). Mirror mega was fun, too, but getting Borg Queen definitely swayed my vote.

Banjo1012

Discovery 1 (A New Anomaly)

Data1001 wrote: »

As much as I hated leveling so many Borg at the same time, I think I enjoyed that event the most out of those (or maybe it's just far enough in the past that I am looking upon it with nostalgic rose-colored glasses). Mirror mega was fun, too, but getting Borg Queen definitely swayed my vote.

Yeah I agree with the Borg Queen. She was an awesome addition to the game

[SSR]Trollhammeren

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

Borg had the best crew added, then Klingon. I'm getting the most use out of those. The rest are lost in the crowd. I expect I will freeze most of the Vulcans & Romulans from this event.

[CAB595] Emrys Myrddin

Klingon (A Good Day to Lie)

I really enjoyed the Klingon one, mainly because at that point in time I felt they were under represented so the boost to their numbers was a good thing. In addition as has been mentioned there were a few with good stats as well.

garner

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

I voted for the Borg, the Mirror was a consideration because the quality of new crew we got that month, but I can't vote for it because it was a torturous process with extended events, bugs and the Picard fiasco.

Borg was the first, we got BQ, it was the first time the arena rewards were changed and it dropped really strong crew that are regularly used.

dunnagh

Discovery 1 (A New Anomaly)

I voted Disc I because it was synchronised with the release of the episodes on Netflix, so each week you´d get one new character you just saw on the Show.

I hated the Mirror one as I really dont like FanFic, the Vulcan one was "meh", too. While the free legendary is great, the whole Event just doesnt feel like "vulcan" (or romulan, for that matter).

The best legendary was the Borg Queen or Cornwell. T´Kuvma probably the weakest of them all.

Antasil

Discovery 1 (A New Anomaly)

I'm a positive person and I usually see good things in all the mega-events. I started out as newbie in the middle of the Borg event, so I kind of missed out there. The Klingons were my first real mega-event and I got some of my best starting crew there. Both Klingon and Mirror mega still had an expedition event, and I liked doing those. Mirror event had a few bugs and mistakes, but aside from that it was done quite well. Yes, mirror data didn't look that good and you had to allow for comic characters, but most of the mirror crew was made with great art. Discovery was a good link to the newly launched Discovery series.

All-in-all I liked all the mega-events, including this one. The least liked is the Vulcan-Andorian event, because I think DB squeezed in a few too many Discovery crew there. To compare, there are zero in the current mega. But that event did bring us Cornwell, my best medical crew now and a favorite from the show too.

Thurthorad

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

Yep, the Borg and the Mirror were the best by far. Klingon month was a frustrating mess because of all of the 2* Bloodwine we needed and the fact that some of the faction events were non-KCA. Discovery Month gave a whole load of 2 stat crew after Voyages had been released. Vulcan/Romulan month wasn't bad, but the Romulan fanboys can definitely be annoyed about it. Basically only one Romulan week.

Mirror wins it for me because the artwork was generally good (Mirror Data excepted), and this is the way that I want to see DB use expanded universe concepts, taken from other official sources and not just made up themselves. Borgi may be good, but he's pure DB made up. (And it particularly bothers me when they skew the power of cards to the cards that they know people are going to be most ornery about.)

Lady Gaghgagh

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

Borg was my choice because the first mega exuded complete hype about what a mega was. It was unexplored territory and it was a faction we often only dealt with as enemies (hence why I look forward to a Dominion mega someday). The Klingon mega which followed the Borg one about 3 months later was also great, it still felt fresh and Klingons were a big part of the whole franchise, from enemies in the days of TOS to comrades and friends in the later series. The Mirror mega was fun simply because we know all of the characters, they are well-established, we just get to see different (read: alternative dimensional) sides of them and it explored part of the mysterious, time-honoured Mirror Universe of the franchise.

But ever since then, I feel like each mega is trying to recapture the nostalgia and wonder of the first mega, and none seem to be able to do that. I think it is possible, but only through a few avenues. One is we can't be having a new mega every other month, they stop feeling like a special wonderful event and start to feel more like a chore. I want my megas to be mega, to feel amazing, not to feel like another month of drudging through connected events.

We also can't be having megas as too obscure. The Discovery mega was here nor there for me, it was middle of the road. Why? Because it was used as a way to hype the new show's debut. A tactic I get from a business standpoint, but I feel the magic of the mega was lost by the fact that none of us knew these characters well enough to feel much amusement about them. In hindsight, we all can feel good about them because we now have a much clearer idea of who these characters are. I, for one, do love my Captain Lorca that I scored from the Discovery mega, but when the mega was actually occurring, I don't recall feeling any high anticipation about it. The same happened with the Andorian/Discovery II mega. I'm not harping on Discovery's potential, I just think it was way too soon for us to be having any megas with that series since it hadn't been established long enough for most of us to get a strong sense of who the characters are. A lot of players can't put value in what they haven't had the chance to get to know well enough to place value on.

Then, there is now the danger of a trend of "the underwhelming mega" as we are seeing with this current Vulcan/Romulan mega. In fact, I almost put the previous sentence in the past tense "as we have seen with this V/R mega", as if the mega was already over. That's how underwhelming this mega is registering to me, I'm already viewing it as so unimpactful that it doesn't even feel like a mega is still going on. This mega has given us sorely ill-chosen crew releases and is something I think DB needs to add to their list of considerations when devising the concept of a mega. So here are the considerations below...

1. Pace megas in a quarterly manner - this will allow the players to regain a sense that megas are super special and worth anticipating. By having megas too often, they feel mundane and trite.
2. Make sure whatever concept of a mega there is, is one which can be highly anticipated by the players such as that the players are well aware of who the crew involved are and have a sense of their personalities/development in the franchise.
3. Carefully consider which crew will be released in the mega, do polls of the player base for who players want to see most and deliver most of that. When it comes to the inclusion of existing crew, again, find out a) who fits the mega's storyline, b) who players have expressed a want to collect.

Shy Khan

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

I liked the trailer for the Borg event.

Ironagedave

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

I started at the tail end of discovery 1 when I didn't know what was what so for me smoke and mirrors was an awesome event and although there was Picardgate I was grateful for the free copy to immortalise him also the crew in general I obtained was a great boon to my roster. Discovery 2 also ranks fairly highly but the romulan event was a bit lack lustre for me.

Thurthorad

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

Is it possible that a lot of the love being shown towards the Borg and Mirror events is because the free Legendary was somewhat iconic. Even though Surak is an icon of sorts, he definitely has a lower profile amongst casual fans than Picard and the Borg Queen. Perhaps Beverly Picard should have been the event Legendary and Surak should have been in the Honor store?

BigDaddyTaylor, CPT. (SJ)

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

Lady Gaghgagh wrote: »

1. Pace megas in a quarterly manner - this will allow the players to regain a sense that megas are super special and worth anticipating. By having megas too often, they feel mundane and trite.

Quarterly sounds reasonable

Lady Gaghgagh

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

BigDaddyTaylor, CPT. (SJ) wrote: »

Lady Gaghgagh wrote: »

1. Pace megas in a quarterly manner - this will allow the players to regain a sense that megas are super special and worth anticipating. By having megas too often, they feel mundane and trite.

Quarterly sounds reasonable

I thought that was how they were originally going to do it. The time between the Borg and Klingon megas was about 3 months, and it was bout 2-1/2, almost three between the Klingon and Discovery mega. Then we had the Mirror one 2 months after the Discovery one and then one month later the Discovery II one and then one month later after that here we are with the Romulan/Vulcan one. In the span of a year, we've had 6 megas, that's averaging a mega every two months, except as I just said, it hasn't been paced out that way. Quarterly is just plain reasonable.

MirrorMartigan

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

I'm going with the Mirror Mega Event, it's my favorite aspect of Star Trek. We need more canon Mirror Universe!

Travis S McClain

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

I went with "Smoke & Mirrors". I had been clamoring for such a mega-event ever since "The Process of Assimilation". I'd have preferred it not have been built around the TNG comic characters, but I've made my peace with that. All thirteen Featured Crew were Mirror Universe. Existing Mirror crew were in the thresholds, which made it easy to hit the ground running and fuse up as I went. And there was the introduction of I.S.S. Defiant schematics as an upper threshold reward in "Reflections", which I thought was really cool and I've been hoping to see that little bonus repeated. I'd go all out next week if there were Romulan Bird-of-Prey schematics at the end of the solo thresholds!

My ranking of the megas to date:

1. "Smoke & Mirrors"
2. "Discovery: A New Anomaly"
3. "The Process of Assimilation"
4. "Ghosts of the Past"
5. "All We Become"
6. "A Good Day to Lie"

SSR Barkley

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

yup, it's no longer a "mega" event when you do them every other month, just like events are no longer special now that they're done every week.

borg queen and borg janeway were at least solid solid stats. borg tuvok also remains a pvp staple. borg laforge is a gauntlet/voyage monster (but still a wtf canon thing)

eXo | JessAtreides

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

It's a tie between the Borg and Mirror events for me. I'm fascinated by the Borg and welcomed the Queen's inclusion. And, regarding the Mirror event, those are some of my favorite Trek comics so I was quite happy to see some of the characters added.

S14 Bri

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

Mirror event was great. Lots of great crew from various races and a lot of fun. Events since that have been pretty boring

[DB:LOL] eXo | Kurrostanza

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

My vote was for the Borg event - it was new, it was exciting, and we got the Borg Queen.

I really wanted to vote for the Mirror event, because I liked the concept, and I loved some of the crew (looking at you, Troi), but Mirror Data looked ridiculously awful, and the event itself was completely mishandled and riddled with bugs.

Getting another legendary "Klingon" after A Good Day to Lie was a downer, too.

~peregrine~

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

As much as I loved the inaugural Borg mega, I voted for Mirror because of Picard. I wish that things had gone differently for everyone involved, and I can only hope that DB learned some valuable lessons about running Events during holidaze. 🖖🏻

EDIT: I used the Picardgate 50k Honor to immortalize the Borg Queen, so that is also a factor.

Dirk Gunderson

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

Although the Mirror Universe is one of my favorite things about Trek, Smoke and Mirrors was behind the Borg mega because of Picardgate, Bevgate, and some of the worst artwork in the entire game. I enjoyed having more Andorians but having Discovery shoehorned in with them really soured that event for me. And the Klingon event was nice but Kortar as the recurring 5* was a big whiff.

Discovery I and the Vulcan/“Romulan” events have been my least favorite thus far.

S31

Mirror (Smoke and Mirrors)

Romulan had the most potential. It should be the best ever.

Imagine this.

Mega event crew Surak
First event same - Koolinar Spock, Amanda Grayson, Katra McCoy
Second event - Vreenak, Keras, T'Pau
Thrid event - Koval, Valdore, Donatra
Foruth event - Kir'shara Archer, Weeding T'Pol, V'Lass

Webberoni

Borg (Process of Assimilation)

I voted Borg for several reasons:

- good hype & felt fresh
- solid recurring 5* that was iconic and had 3 skills
- decent plot each event and woven throughout
- good crew (though I prefer all crew to be cannon)


Klingon - good mega, still fresh, questionable choice for recurring

Discovery 1 - the show grew on me, but the mega felt rushed and disjointed (like CBC was calling the shots each week), and it was a terrible recurring crew (small role in the show, weak, redundant 2 skills)

Mirror - too quick for another mega, hated the addition of comic book crew, artwork was terrible, event had too many glitches and hiccups

Discovery 2 - recurring crew would have been great for an inaugural Discovery mega event, but the inclusion of so many Discovery crew in a Vulcan/Andorian event was questionable from the start; felt like another ill-conceived event that was rushed to force more Discovery crew into the game before the end of season 1

Vulcan/Romulan - good story, good recurring 5*, liked the inclusion of so many existing crew, but still feels underwhelming and repetitive

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I agree that mega events should be no more than 4x each year, or possibly even just 3x each year (every 4 months). They should feel more special, more thought out, and less repetitive. They should also come with at least 5 free crew slots.