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Crew sorting in the selection screen for expeditions makes it very difficult to "optimally" play. None of the event crew for the current event, save Bashir, is anywhere near the top of my lists. The event 4*s (Augment Riker and Mirror Leeta) are especially hard to find given their relatively low scores.
That said, they would all be VERY USEFUL in the event given the 1.5x or 2x score multipliers they grant for each star they clear.
In every single other crew selection opportunity, optimal crew are sorted to the top. In this case, crew with the highest stats aren't necessarily the "optimal" crew to pick. Bonus crew should always be sorted to the top of the list and easily accessible.
That said, they would all be VERY USEFUL in the event given the 1.5x or 2x score multipliers they grant for each star they clear.
In every single other crew selection opportunity, optimal crew are sorted to the top. In this case, crew with the highest stats aren't necessarily the "optimal" crew to pick. Bonus crew should always be sorted to the top of the list and easily accessible.
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Yeah, that's been the 2nd biggest pain of Expedition events for me. Wish they could re-code it so it remembered your choices like Skirmishes do.
I do recall in the last Expedition, I made a mental note when selecting crew: "Okay, for Uhura, hit 'page down' twice, then scroll up once" or some such thing. Made it slightly faster than just scrolling and scrolling and hoping you didn't overshoot.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
https://forum.disruptorbeam.com/stt/discussion/2435/expedition-crew-sorting
As well as using non-optimal crew, the extra time it takes, means I will not be able to use my tickets fully. I have just burnt through several tickets on Epic level without doing Normal, and a couple without Elite, because I need to go to bed, to get up for work tomorrow.
It is the crew selection bit that makes me hate expedition events, not the expeditions themselves.
As for scrolling, if they just made the "Bonus Crew" appear at the top of the list, like the Faction Missions, all would be right in the world.
Back to scrolling...
The problem with a request like that is that it requires an additional UI piece that they have to implement. Just modifying sorting is no additional UI.
I agree, some think like your proposal might be a superior fix, but it would take more development time/effort to implement so it is less likely to actually get done.
It'll never happen. They've already said expeditions will be rare, take time, and cause plenty of grousing (let's see if the filters don't like geese). There's no way in the 9 circles of the abyss they're going to spend a minute updating the UI for expedition events.
I fear asking for a favourite button will just mean they rope over the favourites from our general crew, meaning that we have to unfavourite our normal favourites to tweak favourites event-by-event.
My other BIG suggestion to improve these events even more:
When you finish one mission and click continue and go to the next mission, the same crew should still be loaded for you instead of going back to empty slots. (Just like if you hit Replay, they all stay.) Since event crew get used in most of the missions, it makes sense to just have the crew stay. If you want to switch crew, then having an occupied spot vs an empty spot is no different.
If you mean the same crew that you used on that next mission the previous time you ran it (and not the same crew from the mission you just completed), then yes, I completely agree. That would make Expeditions much more pleasant to play.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
Let us favorite crew, so they are at the top, and we don't have to dig down and find them throughout all of our crew.
Or at the very least, put bonus crew at the top -
adding some sort of sorting for expeditions and I could fly through them and enjoy them, having to spend 20 minutes going through the entire list of crew to look for the right ones totally bites...
that is all
(added that from my post to here, because I think this is a very important change to expedition events that would make it much more enjoyable for all!!!)
I have 195 crew sitting around and this was miserable
I was able to get "full bonus" from all nodes with 3/4 Leeta (CMD nodes), 4/4 Riker (ENG nodes), and 5/5 Bashir (DIP/SEC nodes) getting the 2x bonus and 4/4 Sarina picking up the SCI nodes at 1.5x
I only bothered doing a couple full clears once it was obvious I would be able to hit the 400k threshold without doing the lowest mission tier. I think I left a few tickets on the table too.
This way one could focus on levelling the right crew members and unfreeze those that could be handy for the coming event.
The sort would just get the featured crew, their variants and the crew having the set of traits that will be of use in the event.