It's a Faction event coming up - Time to ask if the Shuttles are fixed again
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It has now been 2 months plus a full update to the shuttles module since we were told that a bug ticket on perhaps the most significant bug in the game as it relates to event competition was opened:
We were told that we would be communicated to about the outcome of this ticket as soon as there was information to share. Please DB, uphold your commitments to the community and let us know if this has been fixed so we know how to load up shuttles in the upcoming event. Preliminary data points to you already fixing this (yay!), just tell us so we know how to play the event.
We are not going to stop asking for this before every single event, and it will keep looking worse and worse the longer this is ignored.
We were told that we would be communicated to about the outcome of this ticket as soon as there was information to share. Please DB, uphold your commitments to the community and let us know if this has been fixed so we know how to load up shuttles in the upcoming event. Preliminary data points to you already fixing this (yay!), just tell us so we know how to play the event.
We are not going to stop asking for this before every single event, and it will keep looking worse and worse the longer this is ignored.
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They reuse shuttle missions. I would be very surprised if the mechanics of shuttle pass/fail were ported from event to event in that fashion. It would be a very odd way to develop.
Are you declining to provide an update or is there no new information?
If you would please, pass the following onto whomever is responsible for addressing this concern:
We really appreciate you personally and all you do to balance our needs/wants/rants and the directions you are given and information you are allowed to share with us; we’re just getting a little cross with the rest of DB about this bug in particular.
They have likely fixed the bug. That's what the data seems to indicate. They probably don't want to admit that the bug existed for a year and they continued to run faction events(selling crew, boosts, etc) while ignoring players constantly claiming there was an issue.
To poorly quote Spock from TWOK :
There are two possibilities. They are unable to respond. They are unwilling to respond.
It's this.
At least say what the expectations should be. Will we get a response? If not, why, if yes, when?
I view that as one and the same. Shan is the spokesperson for DB. Whatever she is saying is what DB wants her to say. I don't blame her for sticking to company line. I blame DB the company for it's lack of transparency and asking Shan to come here and dodge the questions.
I've been tempted to send Shan flowers at times when things have gotten into full furball mode here. What says, "Hey I hope this brightens your day and thanks for putting up with the crap you have to deal with including your overmaster" without any other connotations?
I've had friends quit the game because they saved up their dilithium to purchase the 4th shuttle and then felt very cheated by the shuttle mechanics. They couldn't succeed at faction events due to the fail rates. It's just not fun. It's why I won't upgrade my shuttle. Just not worth it. I just look at faction events as 'time off' from events.
Something is wrong here and DB has to figure it out. Either there's a bug somewhere that is causing the additional fail rates OR there is an issue in the displayed success chance. I don't know anymore. I thought it was related to which skill was first, but in the end, it's just messed up.