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Re: Crew Retrieval Introduction Discussion
UPDATING MY FEEDBACK
If I understand the scanning table shared in this thread, there is a 98.47% chance that I should have succeeded by the time this image was snapped.
This is the third such time I have managed to get to 37% without a success. The exceptionally long droughts (my results do not appear typical thankfully) I have experienced combined with the significantly likely chance that the Polestar I eventually acquire being effectively useless has completely soured me on this entire process.
As you can see, I have over 78,000 ISM currently. I have stopped caring/trying and do 4 scans a day just to do them, but I find I do not care if they succeed or not. At 4 scans a day it has been over 4 days since I hit a Constellation and that should bother me, but it doesn't, because I know from experience that the Constellation I eventually get won't be useful ("proud" owner of TWO Bynar Polestars on my alt!). At this point I've burned through the good Polestars we all got at the start and they have been slowly replaced by the same handful of Polestars I already have multiple copies of, the handful of cards I would actually care to chase copies of are very difficult to isolate, and none of the retrieval options I currently have interest me at all.
And I know you must be saying to yourself right now, but why not just use up all that ISM, it isn't useful for anything else, you may as well just use it on a bunch more scans? I know you are thinking that because others have asked me that exact question and my answer is simple: using ISM to fuel this enterprise has a hidden cost, hope. Spending a resource increases expectations that something good/fun will result. I've effectively blown off the entire system, have a corresponding hope factor of 0, and that has allowed me to remain blissfully ambivalent about the entire thing. I am thankful I can complete my daily scans quicker now, and that is where I stop caring. Increasing my scanning will only increase the frustration when my next 37%+ drought occurs in a few days or when that scan finally yields a Constellation only to magically turn an additional 1,000 ISM into another Human/Starfleet/Federation/Resourceful Polestar.
I find my ISM has more value to me as something to hoard. I actually find that more interesting than stressing myself about maximizing scans, chasing Constellations, or trying to stay ahead of my quantum before it hits 1,000 and stops accumulating. I'm out of useful combinations and I look forward to seeing my quantum hitting 1,000 sometime next week, for me seeing that will feel like a win, and I'll revive my hoarding thread with a screenshot when I hit 250,000 ISM, that will definitely feel like a win.
So my updated feedback is pretty simple: I think TP monetized the wrong part of this thing. I really want to be able to use it, but the only thing I can spend on is quantum, which is useless without Polestars to feed into the retrieval mechanism, and the process of acquiring Polestars is so incredibly difficult I find I do not care to participate. I would welcome some way to use dilithium to re-roll Polestars, trade in existing Polestars for better ones, sell packs of Polestars in the Time Portal, something, ANYTHING!
Ouch. That's rough. RNG can **tsk tsk**. But keep at it and hopefully things will turn around.
So far I've been able to retrieve Mycelial Culber, Stranded Quark, Captain Braxton, and I just got the hero polestar to let me retrieve Gay Seven next. It's a great feature if you keep scanning to find more constellations.
Is Gay Seven a new Seven of Nine variant based on the final episode of Picard or a Gary Seven typo?
Re: Tripple Praise to RNGesus
I had 6 beholds begolds this morning, no screen shot, but the 3 begolds gave me stars.
Re: Panem et Circenses (Bread and Circus) Campaign Portal Pulls
Just got this from the campaign. Added a star to Honey.
Tripple Praise to RNGesus
While it may not be the best beholds ... these either were a crew i wanted or extra star ..
Anyways .. i feel the need to praise RNGesus for the pack.. with a tripple begold.
Fairly sure this is the first time for me to get this in the years i have been playing ...
Anyways .. i feel the need to praise RNGesus for the pack.. with a tripple begold.
Fairly sure this is the first time for me to get this in the years i have been playing ...
JiveDutch
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What's Next for the Game?
After some missteps like Adira-gate and others, the developers seem to have redeemed themselves the last couple of months with the honor sale, free characters like George & Gracie, some pretty good deals including this weeks, introduction of the crew retrieval system, some collections, etc. I think they erased most of the ill will they received for those that stuck around.
What's next? I hope an early portal update, new episodes (maybe once a quarter?), new cadet challenges (or maybe a reset 1-2 times per year), some tweak to the arena, etc.
What's next? I hope an early portal update, new episodes (maybe once a quarter?), new cadet challenges (or maybe a reset 1-2 times per year), some tweak to the arena, etc.
Re: What's Next for the Game?
They've mentioned that Expedition events were labor intensive to make and not very popular with players, but there are a couple they've already rerun three or so times. They could convert those to episodes with a little work, use one copy of the gold as a rare reward (like Quinn), and give us a new episode and recoup that work into something more permanent. The stories were interesting, so they would make good episodes. The golds are older, so some players would welcome a drop of something they might not cite or that they might not have.
Re: Crew Retrieval Introduction Discussion
Yay, I got something different!
Wait, that is pretty useless...
I got an Arandis constellation a few days ago. Opened it and got Risian
Now I have a Mugato constellation waiting to disappoint me.
Re: Crew Retrieval Introduction Discussion
DavideBooks wrote: »
I'm pretty sure it is impossible to pull crew that are not in the portal using this feature.
IceCat
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Re: Panem et Circenses (Bread and Circus) Campaign Portal Pulls
Not had much luck with any of them this time, but I did hit this on tier 95:
Took Etana Jol. New and an ENG. See her frequently in Gauntlet.
Took Etana Jol. New and an ENG. See her frequently in Gauntlet.