Discussion Thread: Specialist Event Beta Test 2 - [5/20/2025]

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• ChaosChild ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 20

  Just took me about 7 minutes to hit threshold. I can't see how this event could possibly be stretched out to cover a weekend without some major changes.

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• Webberoni ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 20 edited May 20

  This is still a boring event. I was able to clear thresholds in about 2 hours, spending about 2,000 chrons. I see no reason to ever push for rank in this event type though, since it's a pure resource waster beyond thresholds. At least skirmish (item farming & honor), galaxy (item farming), and faction (faction item farming) events return useful stuff for your time and investment... this is just chrons down the drain.

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• ChaosChild ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 20

  Agreed. This event is just a resource sink, and a tedious one at that. Unless you're really prepared to throw your resources away to rank higher, there's absolutely no reason to put the effort in. Threshold and done for me, every single time. But at least it won't take long.
  
  This beta is better than the first attempt but it's still a complete failure all round. But still better than voyage events.

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• weakinteraction ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 20 edited May 20

  I've encountered a bit of a bug. I often get interruptions to the game when I leave the range of the WiFi signal and my phone switches on to mobile data, which I'm pretty sure was what happened, but they don't normally cause things to break as badly as this.
  
  Basically, one of the missions on the display stopped being able to be used; I could get as far as allocating a crew but if I tried to start or warp it I got this message:
  
  
  
  And at the same time one of the others (possibly the one which the one that had become unusable was due to be replaced with) reset to Level 1. Also, from that point on, when the bonus for main mission progress was a slice of extra VP, it always came in amounts with a 3 on the end (though maybe that's intentional?).
  
  Non-bug feedback: Very glad to see community rewards. Other than that, the QoL improvements are welcome but in the end just emphasise how much of a clickfest this is. If you have a halfway decent roster and have stashed a couple of thousand chronitons there's no need to be strategic at all, just spam away. Personally, I would still choose this over galaxy as the spam-clicking is more streamlined, but that's not saying much as galaxy is by far my least favourite event type.
  
  Bring back expeditions. (joking not joking)

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• Seven Constanza ✭✭✭✭

  May 20

  I like the addition of community rewards however I’m just “meh” on the rest of it. Although I’m sitting on a ton of chronitons I’m using them to start each mission, not to speed them up. I’m happy to take the slow route as the rewards this time don’t excite me. Maybe that will change in future iterations. I am happy I’ll be able to finish the Emil card though.
  
  I’ll echo bring back expeditions, please.

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• Mirror Cartman ✭✭✭✭✭

  12:21AM edited 12:23AM

  Where's my dilithium for the top threshold reward?
  
  
  
  
  

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• Shaw, Liam Shaw ✭✭✭

  4:46AM

  Just to get a bare-minimum smidgen of Honor, I have used my most middling crew (ones I know won't be used elsewhere) in this event, and am just letting the timers run out without doing any quick completions (even though I have plenty of chrons stashed away). Anything else is more than I'm willing to give to this otherwise pointless event type.

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