To alleviate the Staleness of STT...

Commander Sinclair

Would you rather have:

Farnsworth

Other – what's your idea?

A social, no-dil-or-merit game/tournament like a galaxy-wide Fizzbin tourney. Play for free, win credits.

Also, make the gauntlet an event and eliminate it from daily play, change the Arena to the Skirmish event type (eliminating the Skirmish events, sorry for those that like them) so we have to actually think about our crews and such as we climb the ladder, and a few other sundry changes I'd make. I'd mention them but I'll leave it here.

Webberoni

Just another Episode

I like adding more episodes and distress calls and challenges.

With power creep, they could even add a fourth difficulty level to all existing missions.

What about episodes/missions that require full squad and/or fleet participation? Get your squad/fleet mates more involved in team play during the non-event time.

Banjo1012

Other – what's your idea?

Farnsworth wrote: »

A social, no-dil-or-merit game/tournament like a galaxy-wide Fizzbin tourney. Play for free, win credits.

Also, make the gauntlet an event and eliminate it from daily play, change the Arena to the Skirmish event type (eliminating the Skirmish events, sorry for those that like them) so we have to actually think about our crews and such as we climb the ladder, and a few other sundry changes I'd make. I'd mention them but I'll leave it here.

I like your idea of mini tournaments. One day events in this manner would be really cool. It would give many more people the experience of ranking high in an event, winning tournaments, and just overall more excited reason to play on those lazy Tuesdays. Every Tuesday would be perfect. Start at 11:00 AM end at 11:00 AM Wednesday. That’s the only day it wouldn’t interfere with an event.

(HGH)Apollo

Other – what's your idea?

I would like to see a way to exchange event rewards for something else. Some events have rewards and crew I dont want. But if I could exchange a legendary I dont want for a random legendary or a super rare I dont want for a random super rare it would be so much fun. Also I would like to see db boost the stats some for the old crew. Not to the lvl of new crew but somewhere between. On the two year or one year anniversary of the month when crew were introduced boost their stats and make a production about it. It would give us something for us long players to look forward to. I have very old legendaries with terrible stats and it would be so much fun to see their stats boost and to anticipate when it was coming and what the boosts would be. Also I would like to see synergy put into the game. If you use crew all from the same series or the same collection then you get a slight shuttle or voyage boost.

[Retired] BeamMeUpScottie

Other – what's your idea?

honestly i have no idea..... i have lost a lot of interest and have been on and off with this game. Many old players in my fleet retired and left the game.

more stuff in game means players have to spend more time. I definitely dont want that. i did spend many hours on weekend before but no more..

frustrating gauntlet, rewards, duplicates pull, etc that ppl have mentioned in the forums. DB should prob start addressing those first...

Captain Q

Other – what's your idea?

DB should take a page out of STTNG "The Chase" and the movie "Ready Player One". Make it a month-long event where fleets can play if they want to at their leisure. Make the puzzles more cerebral so it isn't like "just another mindless clicking" game.

The game can end when someone solves the series of puzzles to reach the intended outcome or it can go on until the end of the month. The latter will allow everyone to "win".

Method of play should involve everything from planetary travel (to discover and solve clues) to ship battles (fight for relics), to finding and buying special items in various markets (needed to trade for or assemble special relics).

This is a rough draft, to be updated as ideas evolve.

Lady Gaghgagh

The development of mini-games like Kal'toh or Strategema which can earn us honour, but credits is cool too.

Banjo1012

Other – what's your idea?

Lady Gaghgagh wrote: »

The development of mini-games like Kal'toh or Strategema which can earn us honour, but credits is cool too.

Ooooo Strategema. I like that idea. Or space chess. Or Parises Squares (I’m sure that’s spelled wrong).

jestergenie

Other – what's your idea?

I play this game rarely and only because it's based on Star Trek. I wouldn't touch any other DB's game with a mile long stick. You have to understand one simple thing about it. Timelines staleness is deeply built-in in its core because its paradigm is almost entirely based on randomness. Any change potent to alleviate this pain would have to break RNG only paradigm, would have to add another factors to the equation, another than RNG. In every compelling game you lose because you make mistake. In Timelines you lose just because, without any reasonable cause. It doesn't really matter how you reiterate RNG only paradigm. This game is boring and will be boring for a long or even medium run as long as randomness is the only driving factor.

Pol

Other – what's your idea?

My deepest grievance is with gauntlet... a RNG based minigame with a RNG based prize (a very desirable one at that!), but a change in gauntlet would only alleviate my frustration not the staleness. To combat that the treasure hunt that Captain Q sugests is an amazing idea!

Commander Sinclair

An "Easter Egg Hunt" around the galaxy map for hidden objects to unlock certain planets we currently do not have access to to get a "bonus" mission of some sort

Fizzbin! I love it!

Obtainable when you orbit Beta Antares IV, with Gangster Kirk & Spock on the bridge. And of course, you have to play on Tuesdays to get the extra card face up!

Watch out for the Kronk!

Pallidyne

An "Easter Egg Hunt" around the galaxy map for hidden objects to unlock certain planets we currently do not have access to to get a "bonus" mission of some sort

Commander Sinclair wrote: »

Fizzbin! I love it!

Obtainable when you orbit Beta Antares IV, with Gangster Kirk & Spock on the bridge. And of course, you have to play on Tuesdays to get the extra card face up!

Watch out for the Kronk!

Where there's a Kronk there's an Yzma......

Zombie Squirrel

Leave it just the way it is

Just leave all as it is, and don t mess around with the already slobby coding and glitchy game.

GhostStalker

Other – what's your idea?

First of all, who said it was stale?

Second, here's my suggestion: Instead of once or twice a week random offers we probably don't want, give us a daily selection of offers to choose from. Three, perhaps, with the option to buy all of them.

If every day there was a chance of seeing an offer I really wanted, in my case something at the $10 range, I'd be happy.

Ironagedave

Other – what's your idea?

I also like the idea of more easter Eggs too! especially a hunt for the doomsday machine would be good. A 3D chess game would be another possibility as well as a Kal-toh game.

But I posted an idea a while back on how to make more use of all the ships and combine a lot of existing formats of gameplay:
https://forum.disruptorbeam.com/stt/discussion/2988/idea-feature-request-assignment-operations

Which I still would like to come to fruition, but I doubt it will.

Dirk Gunderson

An "Easter Egg Hunt" around the galaxy map for hidden objects to unlock certain planets we currently do not have access to to get a "bonus" mission of some sort

I would also like another episode, but an Easter egg hunt and minigames/tournaments would also be appreciated.

Commander Sinclair

An "Easter Egg Hunt" around the galaxy map for hidden objects to unlock certain planets we currently do not have access to to get a "bonus" mission of some sort

Zombie Squirrel wrote: »

Just leave all as it is, and don t mess around with the already slobby coding and glitchy game.

It's only glitchy if you're using Microsloth.

[QH] Captain Ziggy

I'd like to see an opportunity for fleets to work together on something other than the Starbase. A long time ago myself and others were talking about how cool it would be to have a 'raid' type event where your fleets armada could defend Earth from a Borg cube attack for example.

Another thought I have is that rather than just collections it would be nice to improve your own bonuses etc by training at Starfleet academy. You would play mini games such as a shuttle simulator or just a memory test thing like the glyphs in Ingress. The point being that YOU are working on an achievement not your crew.

I would add by the way that even as a day one player I don't find the game to be that stale - it's remarkable that a mobile game lasts this long and I've enjoyed the additions such as collections and skirmishes. Voyages have even made Galaxy events tolerable! I think a lot of the time the players who've run out of things to do have accelerated their progress too much with Dilithium and no matter what DB adds that spending will continue to have that effect.

(HGH)Apollo

Other – what's your idea?

I would like to see DB include more content from the trek books and comics.

Wildstar19

Just another Episode

I like your e egg idea, but 1 or 2 more distress calls would be cool also; or a new episode. I finished the Klingon distress call the day it came out, and I was only a lowly lvl 50 then, lol. Maybe they could include your e egg idea into a new episode?

Wildstar19

Just another Episode

[QH] Captain Ziggy wrote: »

I'd like to see an opportunity for fleets to work together on something other than the Starbase. A long time ago myself and others were talking about how cool it would be to have a 'raid' type event where your fleets armada could defend Earth from a Borg cube attack for example.

Another thought I have is that rather than just collections it would be nice to improve your own bonuses etc by training at Starfleet academy. You would play mini games such as a shuttle simulator or just a memory test thing like the glyphs in Ingress. The point being that YOU are working on an achievement not your crew.

I would add by the way that even as a day one player I don't find the game to be that stale - it's remarkable that a mobile game lasts this long and I've enjoyed the additions such as collections and skirmishes. Voyages have even made Galaxy events tolerable! I think a lot of the time the players who've run out of things to do have accelerated their progress too much with Dilithium and no matter what DB adds that spending will continue to have that effect.

That Starfleet Academy suggestion is really good 👍. They could gear it towards newer and "middle" players to help them out, maybe. And for the higher level players, they could create some special Starfleet commando training missions, that would only be unlocked after reaching a certain lvl, geared towards using 4 and 5 * characters.

[QH] Captain Ziggy

Well my point was to take crew out of the equation so that it's not another pay to win but uses actual skill

[FF] Frylock IBOL17

Just another Episode

i love the game as is, but Fizzbin sounds *GREAT*! (just something silly and fun to do, maybe choose players from among your crew, and rules are determined by traits?)

Another episode would be nice, especially if we can farm some other items, like things that are currently faction-only.

Just keep STT alive and i will be happy with it.

Commander Sinclair

An "Easter Egg Hunt" around the galaxy map for hidden objects to unlock certain planets we currently do not have access to to get a "bonus" mission of some sort

[QH] Captain Ziggy wrote: »

I'd like to see an opportunity for fleets to work together on something other than the Starbase. A long time ago myself and others were talking about how cool it would be to have a 'raid' type event where your fleets armada could defend Earth from a Borg cube attack for example.

Another thought I have is that rather than just collections it would be nice to improve your own bonuses etc by training at Starfleet academy. You would play mini games such as a shuttle simulator or just a memory test thing like the glyphs in Ingress. The point being that YOU are working on an achievement not your crew.

I would add by the way that even as a day one player I don't find the game to be that stale - it's remarkable that a mobile game lasts this long and I've enjoyed the additions such as collections and skirmishes. Voyages have even made Galaxy events tolerable! I think a lot of the time the players who've run out of things to do have accelerated their progress too much with Dilithium and no matter what DB adds that spending will continue to have that effect.

I never thought the game was stale, I have just been seeing a lot of people post that they think it is lately, so I was trying out some ideas to refresh & boost already good play.

I love the academy idea, and to take that one step further, how about an actual Kobyashi Maru Simulation? You pick a starship & bridge crew and see if you can win the simulation based on a mission like a Away Team Episode format choosing different paths, then shows you the battle outcome in a video and "Success" or "Fail". Maybe we could earn "Voyage Rewards" for this?

Matt_Decker

An "Easter Egg Hunt" around the galaxy map for hidden objects to unlock certain planets we currently do not have access to to get a "bonus" mission of some sort

Commander Sinclair wrote: »

[QH] Captain Ziggy wrote: »

I'd like to see an opportunity for fleets to work together on something other than the Starbase. A long time ago myself and others were talking about how cool it would be to have a 'raid' type event where your fleets armada could defend Earth from a Borg cube attack for example.

Another thought I have is that rather than just collections it would be nice to improve your own bonuses etc by training at Starfleet academy. You would play mini games such as a shuttle simulator or just a memory test thing like the glyphs in Ingress. The point being that YOU are working on an achievement not your crew.

I would add by the way that even as a day one player I don't find the game to be that stale - it's remarkable that a mobile game lasts this long and I've enjoyed the additions such as collections and skirmishes. Voyages have even made Galaxy events tolerable! I think a lot of the time the players who've run out of things to do have accelerated their progress too much with Dilithium and no matter what DB adds that spending will continue to have that effect.

I never thought the game was stale, I have just been seeing a lot of people post that they think it is lately, so I was trying out some ideas to refresh & boost already good play.

I love the academy idea, and to take that one step further, how about an actual Kobyashi Maru Simulation? You pick a starship & bridge crew and see if you can win the simulation based on a mission like a Away Team Episode format choosing different paths, then shows you the battle outcome in a video and "Success" or "Fail". Maybe we could earn "Voyage Rewards" for this?

Ooooo. Kobayashi Maru. Love it. This has potential. It could also be a succession of ship battles that get progressively more difficult until you finally lose. That way it's a "no-win scenario". But you get rewards for each victory on the way to your final loss.

Ishmael Marx

Other – what's your idea?

This is probably impossible to implement, and I probably should post it in Make It So for future reference, but here's my idea:

Once a month (or so), let each player play whatever event they want to.

To explain: there are 60 (more?) unique events that have been run since the game's inception (ignoring re-runs). Many players missed a lot of the early events, many players were too new to succeed in the early events, many players wish they could get a first (or additional) copy of the legendary from early events. As present, our ability to do so is limited by DB's discretion is choosing whether to re-run an event or not. Why not give us a chance to re-play any event we want to - perhaps excluding anything from the prior 6 month window? We compete against the pre-existing VP/rank results, not "live" against current players. A multiplier can be used to bring the older VP totals in line with current gameplay standards (power creep, plentiful chronitons, etc) - just state it as part of the game set-up (e.g., Blood and Circuses, player's-choice-rerun, VP table x 2.3). Your result is "unofficial", in that even if you finish 1st in this "archived" re-run, you are not the true winner of that event, but you can still get the rewards.

This solves several problems. One, staleness - it's your choice, how can it be stale? Two, power creep. Almost no one is going to use honor-accumulated citations to improve Dr. Soong (for example) - he was weak when he was released and he's useless now - but I would happily replay his event to add stars in hopes of someday being able to vault him. Since I might be vastly in the minority for wanting his event, that's fine - we're not voting on these choices. You can go play Proto-Worf's event again, or whatever you prefer. Three, burnout. You need a week off from events? Fine, take it off. You won't miss out on any new crew.

There are a lot of logistical issues that I haven't delved into here - but those can be worked out should the idea be deemed worthy. The biggest issue, of course, is the ability to server-host multiple events simultaneously. I'm guessing that is the flaw that torpedoes this idea. But I can dream...

Flemming

An "Easter Egg Hunt" around the galaxy map for hidden objects to unlock certain planets we currently do not have access to to get a "bonus" mission of some sort

You could use the Scan Feature (and like the Kitaran Game) drop some unique (and otherwise unproductive items) as suggested here

[QH] Oxmyx

An "Easter Egg Hunt" around the galaxy map for hidden objects to unlock certain planets we currently do not have access to to get a "bonus" mission of some sort

I like fizzbin for obvious reasons, along those lines an event based around the episode piece of the action would be awesome. If that were to ever occur I’d have to reopen my long closed wallet. But until then the hunt sounds like a great idea.

Capt Ajamm

Just another Episode

I decided to vote for what's most likely that we can get out of DB

Jim Steele

Other – what's your idea?

To be honest, all of the above would help.

After all stt is a card collection game, there isn't much content beyond collecting cards.

I'd like to see improved voyages with new text/dillemas, ship battles that were more strategic and less about cloak and hit all the attack buttons, gauntlet is a pain when your 45% or 65% crit character gets beaten by fake guns Picard 99% of the time.

FF beholds means that I don't buy any offer packs anymore.

Pick an existing problem and fix it rather than some new content thats bugged and gets forgotten about to milk the next person for cash