💬-general-feedback

[lofty wharf]

Would be nice to have read "we are aware of the recent problems, team is investigating AND everybody was granted a 8hrs CEASE FIRE shield..."

[cyan cedar]

@tacit obsidian help .. i am having STFC withdraws!!!

[limpid cipher]

Wait, they have a customer service team?

[jolly mesa]

https://tenor.com/view/computer-says-no-gif-13782932

[crude arch]

As everyone there is a bot that ran on the same server as authentication.

[warped void]

They can't give you a shield until they can get into their own servers 🤣🤣

[jolly mesa]

^^ photo of CS team leader

[quick cape]

@tacit obsidian if the game doesn go up in one h and a half TNG wants a territory for free. Will tell you the server in pm.

[valid jungle]

The joys of cloud computing 🙂

[glass dragon]

Hey I'm able to login! Time to raid everyone! Muahahaha

[small silo]

server 77 is down

[glass dragon]

Just kidding btw

[valid jungle]

Lmao

[valid jungle]

“Made ya look!”

[hushed pine]

an update needed to fix a minor issue has crashed every server ... so typically Scopely

[glass dragon]

Hehehe

[atomic oar]

you got that message, troble is there are no one around to investigate problem little lone fix it

[glass dragon]

Resistence is futile i guess

Omw to Scopley HQ to fix it!

Anyone got gas money?

Fine I'm staying home

[atomic oar]

where what server is @Candle playing STFC

[gloomy vale]

Many servers are still alive. https://stfc.2c.fyi/

[digital flame]

i was in the middle of building my first faction ship

[chilly arch]

https://tenor.com/view/sinir-sinirli-sinir-hastası-kafayıyemek-çıldırmak-gif-19939232

[fiery island]

think its just the authentication server

[chilly arch]

unfinished events

[atomic oar]

sign on door at Scopely HQ doors, "WE ARE CLOSED DO TO NO ONE HERE"

[raw willow]

Have the game developers ever heard of an ISO 9000? I can assist with this. Quality control is crucial for a successful business. I sense you have none of these quality control methods in place.

Game testers for each patch would help pick up on the majority of bugs. Might want to ensure each template you use is clean of past bugs. 🤦

[brave verge]

Why test?

[civic haven]

https://tenor.com/view/i-want-to-play-a-game-jigsaw-saw6-lets-play-a-game-lets-do-this-game-gif-21986602

That’s not meant to be threatening, I just literally would love to play your game if that’s cool…🤦‍♂️

[west ivy]

So, you do this thing with less than two hours until event reset? Guess I’m not completing battle pass this month, thanks #scopely

[exotic lily]

Can't sign in

[brave verge]

Contact support

[ashen brook]

Wow, thought it was my internet connection again, can’t login to game

[west ivy]

Who’s got Strongbad’s “the system is down” gif?

[umbral wren]

Why would you want one of those, much better ships out there unless you just want to look like the masses

[marble prism]

Did you guys forget to pay AWS?

[blissful mountain]

I don't have it

[slow nimbus]

I got back in, well see if it lasts

[digital flame]

i'm back in

[fast trout]

I dont think we have bought enough packs to get them off the second hand USSR servers

[lofty wharf]

Back on again... let's raid 🤣

[slim lake]

69 just came back up

[digital flame]

server 24 is back

[harsh jacinth]

Server 8 is back

[hot plume]

Got booted, game will not login

[marble prism]

Speak for yourself 😄

[jade patio]

I bet Eco is hiding under his desk by now.

[golden radish]

Can login now to server49…. Fast fix, thanks

[marble prism]

https://tenor.com/view/preparing-hide-nuclear-us-coldwar-gif-11289072

[patent depot]

HOORAY! FREE GIFTS!!!

[twilit oyster]

Servers are back and we got a 2H ceasefire that's nice...
Now can we at least please have an explanation of what just happened ?

[nova sierra]

Something that took Disney+ down as well. And a few other things.

What that was I still haven’t worked out, nobody is fessing up 🤣

[twilit oyster]

Even if it's not their fault... If they can't even be aware of server's being down without people having to put this discord on fire, that's a real issue.

[tawdry quarry]

My money is on their Auth servers.... since the web store wouldn't even work and their server status page had most servers in the up status and people were booted mid game. Token server down = nothing working

[nova sierra]

I’m guessing they knew the same time as us 😉

[civic haven]

I hope no one boarded a plane right before the 2 hour ceasefire 🙈

[nova sierra]

Do Scopely’s Auth servers run Disney+ too?

[cursive cairn]

Thanks for the downtime! My last combat exo expired and now I can't complete the Cerritos event.

[nova sierra]

I’m not overstating things when I say “a large part of the internet disappeared”.

[tawdry quarry]

They could share a service like Okta, OneLogin, etc.... and if their backend auth is down, their "scopely id" would also be down

[nova sierra]

Possibly, but that wouldn’t explain why my stream stopped at the same time.

[lime lagoon]

https://c.tenor.com/E9xIcgA-7aEAAAAM/the-twilight-zone.gif

[nova sierra]

Once the stream’s started, token has been issued and validated.

[tawdry quarry]

This is part of the payload from signing in to your scopely id on the web.... so, if Okta had issues, it could have affected loads of services

just depends on how often they recheck the tokens... if they have their expire set too quickly, it could wipe out your session

[sullen wadi]

During that 5 min period I got about 17 notifactions from various service monitors.

someone, somewhere, unplugged something they shouldn't have.

[nova sierra]

We use Okta elsewhere. It didn’t go down.

[jolly laurel]

they didnt feed the monkies

[cursive cairn]

https://tenor.com/view/airport-whoopsy-sorry-unplug-gif-13704093

[nova sierra]

Yup. It went very bad somewhere.

[jolly laurel]

chimpanzees...sorry

[tawdry quarry]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-power-cord-struggle-cute-gif-3521010

[jolly laurel]

IT WAS THE ARANGATANG

heh

[lime lagoon]

https://c.tenor.com/OqHx3o098SkAAAAM/nurofen-blackout-nurofen.gif

[sullen wadi]

I'm actually curious because it also broke a connection to a network volume that's physically only about 2 miles away and doesn't involve any of the big cloud companies so - something with ISP interconnects maybe.

I have no idea to be honest.

but it's working now

[nova sierra]

Yeah, something massive went tonk.

[jolly laurel]

they were tryin to fix known bug issues, like the alliance rewards, and most likely goofed in the process

imo

[glad cradle]

The alliance rewards were fixed before the game broke

[jolly laurel]

i had to reupodate

[fallen epoch]

That was fixed by a client patch

[jolly laurel]

re update

im guesssin thats when game broke

[tawdry quarry]

https://tenor.com/view/working-as-intended-scopely-panicstfc-stfcpanic-stfc-gif-17759937

[nova sierra]

You guess wrong.

Been running the update for most of the day now.

[jolly laurel]

😕

i try,lol

[trail garnet]

The question is: when are they going to put someone in charge to put proper procedures in place so these errors stop happening? A beta test server is not a complicated endeavor and we would not feel like a test subject all the time.

I will also say that for me and for many others, the you have to do every thing event in the last arc set a precedent. If scopely expects me the customer to be perfect then the same expectation is set upon them.

[quaint nimbus]

Beta-Tester would be nice ... this however ... sometimes it feels like an Alpha 😭

[lilac pond]

Sooooo…… when are we getting the “sorry we screwed up” chest?

[glad cradle]

Not likely for such a short screwup

[lilac pond]

Disappointing

[nova sierra]

Who screwed up? 👀

[lilac pond]

Aliens

[steel escarp]

2 days in a row there are events that require the entire server to kill 40 hostiles each in 1 system.

I guess they wanted another round of complaints today.

[brazen prism]

again hostile grinding in one system

[quick coral]

@tacit obsidian did you guys not learn a lesson from yesterday? Or is it that necessary to repeat the same failed design again? Funnel a whole server into 1 system and have each player kill 40 hostiles....

Yeah, worked so well yesterday, let's do it again!

[brazen prism]

and you need also special token for it!!!

[steel escarp]

it isn't in the borg system. it is the one that connects to them.

[shell root]

Didn't we just yesterday get a promise not to do this?

[brazen prism]

<@&509691205798592532> can we stop with annoying players? with this kind of events? will be so nice

[dawn nexus]

We are players as well, and raise these issues immediately. But we have no control of events

[merry dune]

One system again ? Didn’t you have to expand it yesterday ? You should have seen this coming

[steel escarp]

they expanded and lowered the completion goal yesterday.

[trail garnet]

They just expanded and reduced the completion goal today.

But after they launched it and not before.

[static owl]

@tacit obsidian Please add rare survey ship parts to the 7 and 30 day chests. Thanks

[spare vapor]

You can't funnel an entire server into 1, 2, or 3 systems more-or-less all at once; especially when they need to stay there long enough to kill numerous hostiles. 1 or 2, sure, but someone really needs to think through this design with developers and event planners to try to come up with better staging, resource availability, or just generalized planning

[honest coral]

Fix the dam game period

[nova sable]

Well I don’t know about y’all but I’m not gonna play for about 4 hours till they unscrew all the events…..I’m wasting speedups etc. let them unscrew there end before I waste anymore

[tranquil cradle]

I legit am starting to be embarrassed that I play

[nova sable]

This is getting ridiculous I know my alliance in the last two days has dropped around $5k for a game that is getting repaired by the half hour.

[charred acorn]

🤣🤣🤣 well done scopely

[charred acorn]

Or even SOME planning, because I don't think anyone is doing any!

[spare vapor]

I mean...I hope the position at least exists, to me, this is symptomatic of a lack of a cohesive product roadmap, or someone looking at that roadmap and making sure that it takes into consideration how an arc impacts the entire player base (levels, spends, resource, etc...) lessons learned from past events (good and bad) and using that to direct what's upcoming. I mean to me an ideal roadmap should include % of player base eligible/impacted (so an entire arc isn't geared towards only 25% of a playerbase for example) and same mechanics should have improvements baked into every future iteration of that mechanic #HireMeScopely! LOL

[nova sierra]

Omw.

Neowww

[charred acorn]

I'll see if I can find you some room!

[grave tartan]

I hope something is being done for those of us that didn't get to complete events do to the outage.

[twilit oyster]

They knew. They did this on purpose. And they're joking over it.
This is downright insulting to the whole of the community, ESPECIALLY considering what happened just yesterday.

[hollow pike]

That’s part of the clue. If you can’t see that through your outrage maybe you should put the game down for a bit

[twilit oyster]

Good point but still... 🤐

[glad cradle]

They added Pasadoran

[late stream]

This game isn't Free to play, it shouldn't be sucking so hard right now

[wide marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/danny-rand-iron-fist-technically-well-gif-13550194

It is free to play, just not free to play in the top tiers.

[sly mountain]

@tacit obsidian other issues aside, great working finding the guy who unplugged the servers to charge his phone today! 😄

[quick coral]

He had to make sure his phone had power to play Diablo Immortal...

[trail garnet]

@tacit obsidian do we need to remind someone there to check events 6 through 10 for any one system kill events?

[high igloo]

Remember what happened when they first introduced the Franklin arc? 100% of the server flooded 1 system. No one could touch a hostile but needed to kill 50+

[frail magnet]

is it possible to add a small % chance for officer badges to ultra recruit pulls? they hold back progression and the other 'free' method requires a discovery and a lot of luck

[shell root]

They also come in various other events for free including Crucible or Apex (don't recall which off hand) and event stores at the end of those arcs that have them. Honestly I have more problems with XP than I do badges still. The Disco method provides a fairly decent source of these if you just do the 1 weekly event and refines.

[wide marsh]

Yep. I was gonna say about the same:

[tranquil pelican]

Good morning eco🖖😃 fanx for the heads up 🙏😇☕ love your work & thank th " fixit " team ,they been busy...🖖😇

[wind vortex]

When your overbearing chat filter makes things look worse instead.

[wide marsh]

On that note, why is Walter censored?

[surreal condor]

Not sure but the CEO of Scopely is named Walter.

Maybe he doesn't want us talking about him.

[fallen epoch]

👀

[wind vortex]

Some censored words that seem nonsensical may be offensive in other languages, I guess. But why there's no "chat filter on/off" toggle for us adults, I don't know.

[iron path]

It would be awesome if app could be installed on M1 macs. (Port iOS?)

[wide marsh]

Yeah. We had some weird conversations in the winter about frozen pipes.

[surreal condor]

It's been requested quite a few times, but has never gained traction as a priority.

[dense walrus]

Why can't we claim the alliance rewards.

[edgy harness]

That was actually addressed in a patch release this morning.
Unfortunately, todays shortcomings involve the issues around away team assignments and their events; the new daily loyalty events being borked; and a rather tone deaf message in the starfleet academy event paired with once again trying to cram whole servers on top of themselves in one system all day.

So, even with three things getting somewhat addressed, it’s still a -1 for the day as far as getting stuff right goes.

[frozen frigate]

Transparency goes a long way in the industry. Most companies I partner with provide an Root Cause, and what they learned as well as corrective actions. Would you please mature this procedure and strategic communications back to your consumers? Even a 1HR outage…status on server shards, and what happened is very helpful. This also calms down the populace from flame grenade accusations to protect your brand and image to the public

If not…I’ve seen accusations on data loss, denial of service, someone trying to charge a phone on AWS cloud, bankruptcy…it’s not funny anymore. Need to take ownership own the mistakes and publicize what went wrong

[true zealot]

Have we highlighted the need to talk to the members that produced the missions months ago? Are we gonna have more current fixes only to be surprised again? I can't imagine how complex it is to keep an online service running, but man. Are yall talking to your folks to clean up these missteps? A good experience and solid infrastructure will get you tons of money...I promise.

[wooden sable]

When is the Assignment glitch going to be fixed. I(t still isn't scoring for me. I'm down about 2500 points now and you said it was corrected on the Games Announcement page

The SMS one

[harsh anvil]

So we had this 2 days full of mess and bugs and not even a terrible compensation chest? new low for scopely

[lime kindle]

This new support login is just the worst. Can’t login, can’t do events and the support just gives pre logged scripts and say did this help. Lol what a joke

[worthy lagoon]

Can we please get more ways to source ATA Speedups? I appreciate the ones I get from doing my dailies, but with all the ATA events happening lately, it's getting harder and harder to keep my stockpile of one hour Speedups feeling sufficient. A month ago I had over 500 of them, now I have just over 100 and I know I need to spend more tomorrow to complete my SMS.

More sourcing of ATA Speedups, please.

[waxen schooner]

Im just curious when we will get less crashes on IOS - every little thing crashes the game now on my ipad. Its not over filled with stuff, and didnt have this issue before the lower decks arc. A system with a ton of players in it? Thats a joke. Assigning crew to a ship? Nope - crashes at random for that. Ship upgrades? Every single upgrade is a crash/restart.

[vocal plover]

Does anyone know what i should do with the 400+ kumaris i can build at level 42?

[trail garnet]

Ignore them. They are not profitable to build and scrap.

[vocal plover]

Lol figured. Sure wish id stop getting the dang prints haha

[sullen matrix]

bring back scout message amount in the faction store, dunno who thought its a good idea to remove it from the place where it actually makes sense

why would you want to have it shown at the place where its spend, right?

[light hamlet]

Can we get Chen in the Shards Store please🥲

[nova sierra]

You don’t want the Chen pack. I bought the Chen pack. 😆

You’ll get there. Honestly, I know it’s a brutal slog. I faced it. When you get there, it becomes immeasurably easier.

[dim pawn]

I like the idea behind the events we have been provided. But the execution is flat out awful. How are we not rewarded points for critical successes? Makes no sense.

[nova sierra]

Point has been raised. Increased milestones, no stacking ability and no crit success points is definitely stacking the decks the other way IMO.

[vale wasp]

You are awarded pts for crits, just not additional ones over a non-crit

[dim pawn]

Yea I set off every AT mission yesterday to prepare and still only find myself very short

Yes… crits should give more points seems to be the major complaint. Because that’s how it’s worked in every other AT event we have seen.

[vale wasp]

I'm not a fan of the scoring cards either, seems too hard without luck

[dim pawn]

In order to compete you need to have hoarded speed ups (ofcourse a lot of us blew those during the last slb) or spend.

[wary fjord]

Props to Scopely for buffing the new Galaxy tree additions, did they do anything with the 10+ years of research time to max them all? 🤦

[tender echo]

@tacit obsidian Wasn't this just fixed in a recent update?

First item on the Bug Fixes list
https://www.startrekfleetcommand.com/2022/05/03/update-42-release-notes/

[sharp trout]

Wonderful new problem that popped up today.

Can't collect Gifts, Mission rewards, or purchases from faction store ....all come up with the message above.

Similarly, plenty of glitches in the Refinery store when selecting ISO1, ISO2 etc, with {box} shown against each.

What did Scopely fix?

[frail lotus]

Nothing like doubling the amount of eclipse security codes for exchange armada directives. These sneak tactics are wearing thin. This was not noted in any patch notes I saw.

[nova sierra]

They didn’t, you went up a reputation level.

[frail lotus]

No I have not - I have been at that rep level for weeks

[nova sierra]

You know directives and tokens have swapped places, right?

That wasn’t in the release notes either but it threw me 😆

[frail lotus]

Yup that’s it thx - wish they would leave things alone sometimes (facepalm)

[analog dagger]

So let me get this straight....you make a few increases on that new research and you feel that you've corrected the problem? All that new research is in the away team and tc tree already....for FREE....no mats needed and very low cost on dil. So why would we want to do any of the new junk? Why would you feel like the changes you made fixed the issue with it? The whole addition is just a renaming and recharging for the exact same research we've done....over and over and over. The "only" thing new is 4* miner research...let me rush out and do that...umm no. Everyone I've personally spoke with...I've advised not to do any of it...and even with the recent changes....that's still my advice. One last thing...the jobs...the job that let's you come in...play a game and get paid to do that....is funded by us. The whole stfc team needs to remember that. We stop playing....you lose job

[hoary blade]

Funny thing Is most of us want even see or get to worry about the new tree from this arc cost to much to even get the the level to worry about needing them

They need to make it more competitive the need to help the low pay free to play more so that the bigger guys have a reason to keep playing

Once u hit 30s the game tanks 40 pluse .... Even more so

[thorny wing]

The refinery is a joke… 25 pulls of 3chests for uncommon 4* ship parts got 1 (yes 1) uncommon hit…

[analog dagger]

Furthermore, I'm not sure why I even wasted my time posting what I posted. You don't listen to "whale" feedback and they are the ones paying your salary...keeping this game afloat...so why would you listen to me or anyone else....right?

I used to try to talk folks out of leaving the game....based on what I'm seeing from the new galaxy tree addition....I'm changing that stance. Instead of using the "ability to interact with others in game" approach....I'm switching to get out of here and do some stuff out in the real world.

[polar basin]

Dear Scopely - So my server EU 156 wont be maintained anymore? 😢

Or am I the last human left and all the others are bots?

[craggy saddle]

Maybe you merge soon, making a maintenance irrelevant 🙈

[polar basin]

Yep - wanted to provoke scopely to say something like that

[tender echo]

the whole 150-159158 range?

[craggy saddle]

I don't know about any future merges, just saying it's a possibility

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[polar basin]

Yeah, I would say the same if I would know all planned merges

[craggy saddle]

I see 159 in there, only one tho

[nova sierra]

Moderators ban ppl for nothing

[polar basin]

All members of EU Servers 15x - It was nice - as long as it lasted. 159 is the last survivor - Dont give up - keep fighting💪

[carmine notch]

So not only was 188 going down but 187?

[polar basin]

Sure - Simplifies Maintenance for Scopely - you must understand

[craggy saddle]

As scheduled, yes

[tender echo]

could be an omission, who can tell

[polar basin]

I believe in conspiracies. Lets call this the 15x Conspiracy

[carmine notch]

Yea clicked on the link after I posted. But the post itself didnt say 187 until you clicked on the link

[polar basin]

Operation "Sunset"

[warped void]

Well Scopely, you have shown you are completely and utterly tone deaf. The feedback you got was to scrap (completely, utterly and with haste) the research extension tree and fix the hundreds of other things you have been neglecting to finish.
Since you value profit over customers you have now lost both when it comes to me. Best of luck, enjoy, I'll spend my time and money elsewhere.

[polar basin]

@pulsar leaf any feedback #💬-general-feedback message

[thorny wing]

Refinery is a fraud

[edgy bronze]

Do you need to push every individual server's maintenance out to all subscribed Discord servers?

[fallen epoch]

Tbh if there was no notification then people would start spamming here why there was no announcement

[edgy bronze]

True. But just one for the timeframe would be plenty! 🙂

[fallen epoch]

That’s true too.

[polar basin]

Better to have 299 announcements than not getting maintenance like all servers EU 15*

[fallen epoch]

I have passed this on already. There is also some US servers missing

[edgy bronze]

I suppose. But if I'm going to get 299 push notifications while at work, and then more from non technical people on the Discord servers I volunteer with, I'll probably just mute them...lol...

[polar basin]

or you quit working

[lunar falcon]

@pulsar leaf maybe it makes no sense to spam tag everyone and to introduce a feature where players can assign themselves to their server in order to get the right info at the right time?! Personally I don't care if any other than my server is under maintenance.

[edgy bronze]

Kind of like add each person on this Discord to a role that indicates their server? Or even a set of servers? Nice idea, but probably way too much work for the admins here...lol...

[lunar falcon]

Can be done by a bot...

[polar basin]

I wont say the name out loud of the discord server that has seperate channels for each STFC server

[edgy bronze]

Yup, if they know how to write one, or if one is available. (I can write Discord bots, but I'm not volunteering 🙂)

[lunar falcon]

Me neither... 🤣

[lunar falcon]

As long it's not done by scopely devs...

[polar basin]

You dont trust them is it? Scopely: These guys from EU 157 dont trust you

[lunar falcon]

I even don't pay them as f2p 😋

[polar basin]

F2P is a forbidden word here

[lunar falcon]

F2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p f2p

[modern adder]

@pulsar leaf @tacit obsidian : sorry to disturb but https://scopely.helpshift.com/hc/en/19-star-trek-fleet-command/faq/6667-june-maintenance-schedule/ says all servers but not seeing EU-156. Or do I read wrong ? thx

[pulsar leaf]

Hello! The FAQ was just updated with servers EU 151 and 156 🖖

[modern adder]

thx

[fallen epoch]

Thank you

[ornate rover]

Yo, our whole bloody alliance got disbanded post maintenance! (#188)

[lunar falcon]

@pulsar leaf don't forget 157

[fallen epoch]

155 still missing

[hidden night]

That schedule PROBABLY should have been posted in announcements huh guys?

[golden spade]

Server 9 down again

[bitter ocean]

20 down

[woeful nymph]

Server 8 just shart the bed and crashed

[deft siren]

WTF? Stop Spamming each serverdonwtime. jesus....

[bitter ocean]

Someone must be a south pole elf....

[fallen epoch]

The tags have been removed for the newest ones

[sage token]

Server down

[honest coral]

Someone better learn how to fix these dam problems....

[quick coral]

@pulsar leaf
@tacit obsidian

Duck darnit! Stop unplugging the servers for phone chargers!

Server 10 is down.

[sage token]

Server 30 down

[opaque niche]

Server 16 is down

[honest coral]

Just say the game is shut down it will take two weeks fir the kids to fix the problem

[lunar falcon]

It actually is...

[woeful nymph]

sigh, I have multiple node rolling over to zero as well....

[maiden nexus]

Why do servers keep going down

[honest coral]

First let everyone buy the packages so they can soak everyone's money and blame it on a multitude of glitches they can't fix

[woeful nymph]

https://tenor.com/view/server-is-fine-burn-fire-spongebob-blow-gif-14178373

[honest coral]

👍

This arc is by far the worst they ever put out ...

[fallen parcel]

Bug-wise, agreed

[hidden night]

Making the announcement once the first server us already offline doesnt really count but ok. Sure.

[mental turtle]

@pulsar leaf We have alliances missing after the maintenance / APAC188

[honest coral]

Dam they sound like a bunch of teenagers

[mental turtle]

@tacit obsidian

[pulsar leaf]

We are reviewing this at the moment. We'll get back to you when we have more info 🖖

[half stream]

NICE JOB SCOPELY. IF EVENTS SCREWUPS WERE NOT ENOUGH...TAKE OUT ENTIRE SERVER

SERVER 10 IS DOWN

[lyric willow]

Server 8 appears to be down as well

also is it a mistake that servers 8, 10, and a whole bunch of them don't appear on that maintenance schedule at all?

[glad cradle]

Server 10 is on 6/21; just look carefully

[lyric willow]

Control+F in a browser window for server 8 and I can't find it lol

[idle bear]

My complaint here is that you have made a pay to win system. People with less money to spend are always at a disadvantage to everyone else. I cannot get anything done because people keep blowing up my mining ships. It does no good to try and protect it with one of my other ships, since ship parts are so hard to come by and take forever to collect enough of to upgrade. So, thank you, for adding something else to the world that gives all the advantage to people with disposable income, not those willing to put in time & effort. Pike would hold you down while Kirk junk punted you people for this.

[woeful nymph]

Maybe we are so old and special we already have the upgraded hardware 😉

[lyric willow]

Wouldn't count on it omi lol

[rain burrow]

I wonder if Paramount is aware of how well scopely takes care of their IP?

[misty bluff]

I'm sure they don't care as long as the cash keeps flowing in

[lyric willow]

☝️ nailed it

[zenith sierra]

@pulsar leaf where is my alliance

[scarlet pollen]

CAN NOT LOG IN AGAIN!!!!!!!

[idle bear]

That's the issue everywhere, all that matters is money. I don't think people realized just how nice Thanos was, we'd all be gone if it were me, nothing here worth saving.

[fallen epoch]

US server? This is currently being investigated 🖖

[idle bear]

Yeah, I just got booted from US server as well!!

[warped void]

Most contracts and licensing agreements generally have a good faith clause, Scopely is definitely not acting in good faith to protect the licensed materials. The Star Trek franchise tends to have a standard for quality which Scopely has negligently failed to uphold.

[scarlet pollen]

Yes US, They had the same issue yesterday....... How about FIX the BUGS before adding anymore stuff

[lyric willow]

Nah they're gonna follow half of Continuous Intergration... just push changes... never roll back if it breaks 😛

[woeful nymph]

Less stable then a Blizzard WoW server...

[lyric willow]

HAHA ain't that the truth

I rolled a private WoW server back in the day because of that

[honest coral]

Just curious on what lame bull they are try to pull off for this excuse

[woeful nymph]

Gotta be dem AWS servers again, right?

[idle bear]

I hope you folks know there are more games out there, if this is the best you can do, I might just take myself elsewhere. This is pathetic that we go through this everyday. I mean, what are you folks doing with all this microtransaction influx, cause it's obviously not being invested back into the game or we wouldn't be having the same problems over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and......

[torn wave]

Servers down again????

[idle bear]

Of course.

[torn wave]

Lol

[honest coral]

Nothing new space just another enjoyable day with scopley

[torn wave]

😁

[idle bear]

I thought Blizzard was bad......these people seem to be competing for an award for who can piss off the most players at one time.

[honest coral]

We were in the middle of an epic armada when ours went down

2 mins left ffs

[idle bear]

They be like, "Oh, you can't log in?...."

[honest coral]

Scopley at its finest

[idle bear]

No no no....that a Hollywood script writer!

[honest coral]

[polar basin]

Not necessary

[wary fjord]

Worked at Blizzard, things were so much worse than you'd ever see in the news or from playing their games. 🤣 Such a backwards organization on so many levels.

[lunar falcon]

If alliances get deleted it's definitely not necessary

[scarlet pollen]

Going to go back to play Space Empires 4

[polar basin]

Guys - you must understand - when you transfer the handwritten server list into the fax machine - then the receiving developer might not be able to read the hand writing

[wary fjord]

Just thankful that after 10+ years working for them they paid me over a year's salary to leave. 🥳

[idle bear]

https://tenor.com/view/office-space-gif-18166316

[woeful nymph]

You should go play Diablo Immortal to keep that pay to win feeling going

[lyric willow]

Jeeze what did he do to you to deserve THAT torment

[idle bear]

Yeah, cause I love it so mu......hey!! What are you trying to pull here anyways?!?!?!

https://tenor.com/view/raspberry-tongue-out-gif-18926529

[woeful nymph]

8 back up (for now)

[twilit latch]

any alliances missing? 😉

[slate anvil]

195 lost a top 5 alliance

5th largest alliance in power got deleted

wtf

[woeful nymph]

Ohhhh boy....

[runic zephyr]

RSVP NOVA 😂

[polar basin]

This is the reason why your alliance got deleted . Why did you take such a huge risk to name your alliance like a ship in the game

[scarlet pollen]

Just BS can't log in for 2 hrs!

[fallow lodge]

Good riddance

[woeful nymph]

My first bit of resources mined before the crash did not register for my dailies

[scarlet pollen]

now Reds are stuck on spawn points....... Great job Scopeley!

[thick owl]

Our server 13 was down presumably for a fix, no maintenance shields were applied and now reds are piling up at spawn points in most if not all systems.

[scarlet pollen]

SSDD Same 💩 Different Day

[idle pewter]

The head of Scopely I.T department

[hidden night]

Oh man, they wish they had Frank Spencer working there lol

[dense walrus]

Still not able to get alliance reward credits. How long till fixed.

[wide marsh]

I was able to after applying a second update. Check for an update and try again.

[idle pewter]

I've two accounts 2nd account is on ipad generally OK main account is on a newer more powerful Samsung galaxy tab
Keyboard either disappears or causes the game to crash

[obtuse wraith]

While I appreciate the communication, is the #⭐-official-announcements channel the best approach to mention per server maintenance? The information is cascaded to several discord servers, causing a lot of pings and info not relevant to all. Maybe a one off message with status page, or even a dedicated channel with (automated?) up and down messages might be nice

[gloomy falcon]

orrrr they can just stop clicking "Publish" on those maintenance messages

[stable timber]

🤣

[fallen epoch]

Then we get messages here saying “why can’t I log in”

[fallen epoch]

Trees? 👀

[stable timber]

Yes. Need more

[trail garnet]

So we lost the alliance gifts section for two days and no comp chest? Really? Nothing?

[thick owl]

Please Stop posting the server maintenance announcements to all

[fallen epoch]

Update your game

[stable timber]

You didn't lose any of them. You just couldn't collect them.
It's fixed how and all the gifts that accumulated during that time can be collected again.
All is well.

[fallen epoch]

You sit here long enough you resort to “update your game” 🙈

[trail garnet]

I did. Yesterday. Nothing to update this am.

Also no alliance gift chest since the update. So me thinks it is nit working even now

[stable timber]

It is working

[fallen epoch]

It is working

[daring bear]

@pulsar leaf there's hundreds of alliances with their discord server plugged into #⭐-official-announcements and #⚡-mod-announcements - are you really going to broadcast information about all servers individually?

Please stop spamming, we don't care about APAC

[jovial hound]

Hey Scopely, we aren't your sysadmins. Stop spamming everyone.

[stable timber]

Don't stop

[daring bear]

create separate channels for each server if you must announce, and then you can communicate with your target audience

but please, do stop tagging everyone

[jovial hound]

https://tenor.com/view/twerking-dont-stop-get-it-get-down-gif-15156155

[stable timber]

There are no tags there

So, now what?

[daring bear]

there were in the beginning

[stable timber]

Yes. But not anymore

[glad cradle]

It worked for me yesterday

[thick owl]

We all agree its spam, tags or not this is unusual and disruptive to everyone.

[jovial hound]

The simple solutions would be to alert that some servers are down/being taken offline and link back to a status page or to a channel on this discord. Or create a separate announcement item for server outages we can separately subscribe. Not alert for each individual server 😉

[thick owl]

Or let everyone keep logging in as we usually do with scheduled maintenance until it gives them access. Suddenly Devs are so chatty 😂

[wide marsh]

Because they were asked to be.

[jovial hound]

Im ok with chatty on things like "hey folks we broke the events for the 6th day in a row!". If scopely wants to pay my consulting fee for sysadmin work I'm happy to charge them to monitor their servers going up/down 😄

[glad cradle]

They just need to fix the game

[cobalt cave]

Dear Scopely,
Can we take some time to fix all the bugs before focusing on new content? I know that you need to appease the whales but if the F2P people are not having a good experience than they will stop playing and your whales will have no one to kill anymore. That's when the cash stops rolling in...

Sincerely,
Everyone

[thorny wing]

I see invisible BP event

[wind nebula]

Wait you can see BP event?

[tranquil dew]

I can now, it’s retrieving but points score for mining

[open atlas]

armada event and again forget to increase the refresh rate?

[civic haven]

https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-disappointed-fan-seriously-what-are-you-doing-judging-you-gif-17485289

Regarding the official announcement (not the 99 about every individual APAC server, mind you):

[rose sinew]

You slowed armada respawn rates for eclipse. Please return it back to what it was

[opal garnet]

the game has also stopped scoring

[waxen kite]

did they fix it or i shouldnt even bother loging in ?

[lime lagoon]

The scoring is horrible, dailies ain't counting, lag is terrible. I've had enough for today. I love this game but it's turning into a love hate relationship. I truly appreciate the fact that this game doesn't have ads pop ups. I like the theme but it's getting frustrating to play.

[warped void]

Find a new non scopely game, that's what a lot of us are doing.

I'm still here just to watch the world burn while scopely still refuses to listen to their customer base. Watching scopely scramble for all these little fixes vs having the business ethics and fortitude to do a stand down and address the issues is hilariously akin to watching Enron go down.

[waxen kite]

with this buisness model STFC is and will always be just another mobile app, its not and will never be my first or only game so dont worry

@warped void

[edgy harness]

@tacit obsidian The changes to the researches are a nice start, but considering they all still operate off of base/beginning stats the percentages are still tiny in actual effect in comparison to what is advertised to the player. Especially for research types that have multiple nodes dedicated to them already like officer power buffs.
And none of this addresses the multi-year timeline for sourcing the new material to get anywhere near even the ops 46 research nodes, not to mention maximum potential on the introductory nodes.

[wide marsh]

@tacit obsidian One quality of life type improvement that may help with complaints about the value of primes or the 40+ galaxy tree is giving us an easy way to see the current modifier for something without having to dig through all of the research trees. I would be able to quickly see that officer health is currently at a 250% increase and decide whether moving that to 350% is a high priority.

[raw plinth]

@tacit obsidian not every server is on the maintenance schedule?? Server 47 my home is not

[covert sapphire]

App will not open….any ideas?

[nova sierra]

Other servers will be scheduled later

Bookmark the URL to be sure

[raw plinth]

Ok thanks

[sly belfry]

The new part for the galaxy tree is just to costly to do. You need to remove the material cost, the cost of rodinium is paywall enough. Or you can start increases the amount of material we get so it’s not so expensive for us to do. I will not participate in the new galaxy tree to changes on material cost have happened.

[analog dagger]

The new changes in the galaxy tree.....umm..try again

I don't care how much you increase the bonuses....with your formula...it is plain old crap

Either remove all mat/rss costs associated with it....our just remove it all. Better yet....adjust the numbers of the same research that we've already done multiple times for the same stuff.! Do you think we are stupid??? @tacit obsidian

[edgy harness]

The research tree introduction kinda tells you what they think of their player base.

[analog dagger]

Stop trying to grind every nickel u can....be creative....

They can take those new packs and shove them right up their "hellos"

I refuse to do any research in that tree....and will continue to advise....everyone i speak with to avoid it

[icy cipher]

Post-covid revenues have been down, and it seems mgmt just told the devs "just roll something out, they'll pay for it..."

[woeful coral]

So y'all just threw more officers into the Ultra Recruit Chests, diluting their value further. Thanks a lot

[analog dagger]

If they gave us the new galaxy addition knowing it was about as useful as game reliability....do u think officers in a chest would make them bat an eye?

Not pointing the fire at u....your point is valid....they really don't care about u...or us

[chrome cape]

Your wallet. Still the only way to get them to listen…. I haven’t spent another dime since the Cartoon arc. Don’t see it ever happening at the rate the game is falling apart.

[trail garnet]

@tacit obsidian a little accuracy in reporting would be appreciated. Elite daily adjustment should read as "UP TO 10 DAYS, DEPENDING ON WHEN YOU BOUGHT IT AND HOW MANY YOU HAVE TURNED IN".

Personally do not prefer scopely over promise and under deliver.

[true zealot]

New Research tree to takes early lvl 40 folks 16 yrs to accomplish? That's not including how expensive in g4 rss... Um is stfc gonna even be a thing 20 yrs from now? WoW or Destiny had millions in their player base...pretty sure stfc is in the thousands of users...

[tepid bramble]

Alright, can we please line up daily resets please…

Lost a day because I am just getting home and have time to collect (Because Scopy has programmed me not to collect immediately) and now the damn thing is reset…did I just lose a day worth?

The new dumb thingy

Not impressed with this whatever it is. Whole thing is shifty

[past remnant]

So we're all given 800 SNW Medal of Honour, but yet LV19 and below players don't have the officer chests to do the pulls...

@tacit obsidian can we stop being forgotten about?

[sly belfry]

The new research added to Galaxy tree is expensive compared to what you get back. Also the sourcing of the Rodinium is way to slow.This new research is overshadowing the rest of the arc. Like the new officer they look good, and will have a purpose in the game. The arc calendar looks like we will have much to do, and fun to do. But the new research just disappoints me more than the positive thing in the arc.

This is falling in under a several tings in the game that looks good but ending up disappointing and give me a poor game experience.

Sourcing of Jaylah. The RNG in the swarm armadas to get Jaylah is so bad. That i don`t see the cost benefit of running the swarm armadas. As this cost Rare directives i find more value of running normal armadas. It’s a great idea to lock Jaylah behind armadas. But as this cost rare directives you should have better RNG to get the shards. Especially now as she is becoming old content. A guaranteed shard for starting a swarm armada, and 50% drop chances on 2nd chest in armada. Still the price on Jaylah will be high at this RNG. Good ide, poor RNG

Amalgam is a nice ship, not as great as i was hoping for. But thats due to i cant open up the big base too get the big loads. Got to test it this. Weekend as a ops 47 player stopped playing, then i got some nice loads. But were the big disappointment happen was in the Amalgam officer pull. As there is so many item you can the there i was expecting to be able to buy 2 items( 1 ship skin & 1 beam) out of the store with the ship skin trackers. This due to the time line I see normal for a person to stay in every T. As i lvl up my ops to ops 40, and got the Valdore the Amalgam officer recruit have not been updating. So the skin for the Valdore is not there. It’s a good ide but it have a bad RNG, and disappoint me. Giving me again a poor game experience. Have invested cash in the amalgam but, im disappointed when i see how the RNG is for the Amalgam.

Events bug. I feel that you have many good event but you manage to deliver poor quality. There is just to much miner errors in scoring and displaying wrong rewards. Making the game experience poor good intentions on events and arc. Bad poor execution and delivery of your products.

Transporter patters again happy that you updated the TP store. Not so happy that you did not adjust the price on the previous new officer getting them down to 1000 tp. Again good intentions poor execution. Like the 3 of the 4 officer so good choice on officer. Quality control on this update is frustrating.

Then you have all the small stuff that you have not update due to your quest for making new content. The PVP, PVE, chest do not follow up games development. A small thing that irritates me, on top off whats mention above.

The rewards in the 4* armada chest is no not updated, as game is entertaining into the 5* economy. To get the f2p and low spending player up. The rewards need to be boosted its poor rewards. A small thing that irritates the daily game play.

The alliance rewards my alliance members get when i buy pack in the store is no longer relevant in the game. This should now be updated as it have no value in the game for general population. A symbolic amount of multiphasic to all alliance members would have been more correctly. Also is this new research added to the game the rewards to alliance members will give them a “free to play road” to the prime ship-xp. The multiphasic rewards form purchase peach will automatically scale for alliances membership as the lvl up.

To summarize i feel now i have more of a poor game experience. I feel its now time to speak up, and inform you that im dislike the way you manage the direction you taking the game. Been trying to give you informative feedback, and not just a angry mob feedback. Now time will tell if I continue playing the game.

[winter sigil]

I got the Rodinium Particle Elite pack for the next Lab Expert SLB, and 3 days later they come out with the Galaxy Research Pack 1 which contains more than 3x the amount of Rodinium and much more of the other stuff too... I know all purchases are non-refundable, but I can't help feeling like I got the short end of the stick.

I'm OPS 41 btw, if anyone wants to compare pack contents.

[limber dock]

Correct. You got screwed. Sorry they did that to you

[winter sigil]

I know, I just had to whine about it a bit to feel better. 😅

[remote dune]

You got scammed

They have to "price match", you deserve it

[past remnant]

This is why I call the company Scum-pley right now.

[frosty flame]

Dopely

😁

[polar basin]

Maybe I should write a bot and then constantly send @ everyone on his icecream server

[brittle veldt]

Yo! scopely
why the hell my Efficiency researches are not working? lol

[edgy harness]

Purposeful design according to cs

[sacred garden]

Holo deck seemed nice at first, but after doing the initial holo deck missions it became as worthlesss as the treasury buildings vault . Never in my 40+ yrs have I ever had a game that claimed fair and free to win be such an outright lie where it was so blaintly clear that you had to buy everything just to get anything. So in fair to free to play and the causal spenders.

[cyan locust]

Having been a player since the game was first released, I think it has come a long way and had many positive additions over the years. With that said, there have been plenty of additions that have also failed to reach the mark, were just lackluster in general, or realistically take years to make any progress on without spending insane amounts of money. While a good portion of this new content is appreciated, a lot of it seems to be thrown at us with the intention of making as much money off players as possible. What becomes frustrating is every new material or item that needs to be mined or collected whenever a new arc is released. Instead of throwing new things at us faster than we can keep up, how about alternating with a month of events that have considerably higher rss and mats payout simply to help the community grow as a whole. Players will maintain more interest if they are able to progress at a meaningful rate.

[vocal plover]

That’d mean youd spend less 🤣

[spark bloom]

Can someone please explain to me what a 100% PC exocomp is good for ?

[fallen epoch]

Increase your ships protected cargo amount

[spark bloom]

in my head 100% is 100% eg. full cargo hold

protected

[fallen epoch]

No 100% of base protected cargo

[spark bloom]

mkay .. well still wrong in my head 🙂

have a nice weeknd

[fallow pendant]

Help please. I’m level 28, completed research, have enough codes to exchange, already have 20 bp but now option to buy more has disappeared from rogue store. This will be my first Stella

[vale wasp]

Contact CS and let them know that your exchange is missing from the Rogue store. #👽-how-to-contact-support

[fallow pendant]

Thanks, already sent ticket to Scopely. Just wondered if anyone else had seen similar problem 😀

[vale wasp]

Used to happen more frequently, but then nothing for months. They recently changed something in the latest patch so it's interesting to see it pop up again

[fallow pendant]

Bloody annoying though lol

[earnest granite]

@tacit obsidian
It is nice that you (Scopely) are trying to fix or mitigate the dumpster fire that the Galaxy tree extension is.
Unfortunately the recent updates to it don't really address the issues.
The issues being that it is just copy paste of existing research and the huge time (or money) gate.
It would take with just the dailies many years to finish for negligible bonuses additionally to high material costs(!!).

Easiest way to somewhat save this would be getting rid of all material (gas, crystal, ore) costs for these new research options and only use the Rodinium for them.
Additionally a at least 50% increase in the daily gains of Rodinium would go a long way too.
This would still not make it 'good' but at least it would make it somewhat neutral.
As it is now the material costs of these research options mean that they would actually slow down a player's progression while offering nothing really new!

[chrome vortex]

What does successful server maintenance look like for me? Here are a couple items: 1) Events don't have retrieving in them. 2) Points post and count at reset and tickets are not required. 3) I DON'T HAVE to reload the game to reset a miner, ever!!!!!

[stoic finch]

Another day of new events and again not scoring. When are Scopely going to get their act together and fix things

[cunning spire]

Indeed

[stoic finch]

Can’t wait to see what the next excuse is

[silver abyss]

Wtf is going on!!

[astral mesa]

would love to know how they expect people to pay for broken garbage .......................im done spending on this Diablo even in beta runs better

[lucid rampart]

anyone else’s dailies not incrementing thier point total? just turned in 15 (swarms mining and power)still shows 0/260

[waxen kite]

server(s) hamster died

[humble tiger]

Ticketed event for gas does not seem to work

[brazen prism]

always remains typical at Scopely. Massive server lags and time delay in event scoring. The only thing that continues to work well is the money store

[honest coral]

I guess people are not buying enough to make it worth scopleys time to fix these glitches..they should dismantle this arc because it is by far the worst I think everyone has seen.... I wonder if paramount has gotten there notice about scoey handles this game

(Scopley)

[brazen prism]

There are never any problems at the store

[honest coral]

Lol

[brazen prism]

Only thing that keeps working well

Scopely fix store problems in second

[modest condor]

Adding my voice to complaints of server lag causing delayed scoring in events. 12 minutes after reset I joined Ticket event for gas mining. Then took my ship off a has node and had to wait several minutes to get credit. It's the uncertainty that this causes which is upsetting. Will I or will I not get.credit? Will I need to deal with the hassle of submitting a ticket?

Better if you just fix the lag issues so this doesn't happen

[paper kindle]

Forget the mining try dropping 15k uncommon 4* on a building and hoping

[high igloo]

Hmmm

[true zealot]

Ooo pick that one!

[polar basin]

The other is better

[high igloo]

How about this?

[fallen epoch]

Those are mostly story line that’s why the rewards are the same 🖖

[glacial island]

I know we have this new fancy faction store currency and all but can we get the faction messages to reappear at the top again. I know you can look through items but its so much easier to just pop in each faction and see what you had and judge what you needed to farm

[peak minnow]

Just checking in. Any word on this? Some clarity would allow us to move forward, one way or another...

[fierce bough]

Does anyone know how to change this recurring annoying amount?
2 months with this same amount almost every day is this the same with you?

[kind steppe]

Is there any information on how to obtain more pattern buffers?

[craggy saddle]

Events and $-Store

[kind steppe]

Kinda stupid to have missions behind a paywall. No missions have rewards worth paying for.

[craggy saddle]

Hence you get those from events too

[wheat quail]

I need some help

Can anyone help me? I created a ticket but it seems like no one has got to it. I want to transfer my progress from android to apple

@surreal condor

[shell root]

The ticket process is the only way to do that if you want them to make the transfer. No one here can affect the back end if you want scopley to do it. But, if you create a scopley id and tied it to your android account then use that same ID when you set up the apple device, you have enabled cross platform without the ticket because it's all tied to your scopley ID now.

https://startrekfleetcommand.scopely.com/2021/08/10/introducing-scopelyid/

[wheat quail]

Thanks but that didn’t work

I contacted support via email

So I have this mission to upgrade the ship but I don’t have those box currency looking things

[shell root]

Then you will have to wait it out with them if the ID process didnt work for you.

[shell root]

Ship upgrades are added at those plus boxes. After you fill them all, you can then tier up the ship to the next tier which will allow you to add more levels to it.

[wheat quail]

Thank you

So much

I was finally able to complete it after being so confused

[shell root]

Everybody is new at some point. No problem.

[wheat quail]

Which one should I do?

[hollow pike]

Press the rewards button to see what each choice will earn you, then press the rewards button again, then tap on whichever one gives the rewards you prefer

[wheat quail]

I just let him go

Cause transporting him would only give me logs

[hollow pike]

These in-mission choices only decide what you earn for completing the mission. They have no impact to anything else

[wheat quail]

Ok

[hollow pike]

So just pick your preference

[wheat quail]

Which one is worth more?

[vale wasp]

Too small to matter, but go right.

[wheat quail]

Can someone tell me

[cold seal]

Sometimes it does affect the mission (and therefore the difficulty) but never beyond that

[lunar pollen]

Any one else have a hard time reading how many helps you have on building/research? I have to move it to a dark background to read it.

[nova sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/no-sleep-its-been84years-titanic-gif-13077787

[polar basin]

Here is what you should really do. Read all the mission text and listen to your heart on who is right in this dispute. Then smack the enemy and yell - ha, bet you did not see that one coming💪

You must recognize that this is the STFC game design. The rewards button is just to corrupt your thinking

[broken forge]

@tacit obsidian
There are a number of old refinery chests that don't have a linear scale of chests to costs ratios. With the older, established refines, the more chests a player pulls, the costs go up exponentially, making larger pulls too costly.
Newer refineries seem to have avoided those extra taxes for multiple chest pulls. With the newer refineries, 2 chest pulls cost 2x the cost of 1 chest pulls, and 5 chest pulls cost 5x the cost of a 1 chest pull.
While a complete revamp of the RNG for all refineries would be great and is strongly desired, a temporary appeasement could be accomplished by implementing the aforementioned chest cost suggestion.
Thanks for listening. Feel free to PM me if I didn't explain this well enough. I don't always word things correctly.

[charred ravine]

@tacit obsidian

My main problem in this game is that it does not tell you how much you have as base and how much you have on top from existing research, officers, buffs et cetera and without that information properly visible in the app it is effectively cheating when you are told 100% of something. Because it is not the same to go from 0% to 100% versus going from 300% to 400% even though both are increasing by 100% the benefit that you get is reduced because of the diminishing returns

The fact that they don’t show you this information in the application and that you have to run around like a headless chicken collecting numbers into a spreadsheet to figure it out just pisses me off

[shadow aspen]

@tacit obsidian @broken forge Also worth remembering to add that a multi pull is often less reward than a twin or single, a very unbalanced chest reward system indeed. 👍 example, single chest refine might hit 20 uncommon and 140 common, where a few times I have drawn triple chest to find 0 uncommon and perhaps 160 common and 2 rare. It appears the chests are rigged to give less so that those who do not realise will work harder and dare I say, spend more, to achieve the required rewards. 🤷🏻‍♂️ A more accurate ‘reward per input’ balance would be more fair to the players.

[short isle]

@everyone does anyone remember how many Curvel particles were distributed during the Cerritos arc?

[balmy spear]

Agreed, this nonsense right here needs to be addressed and fixed. @75k for a 3 pull, you shouldn't see common drops at all, especially when the 3 pull is 6.25 times more expensive than the 2 pull @12k.

3 pulls don't save time; they just waste raw materials.

[wise notch]

maybe increase the potential outcome for uncommon and rare if you open more boxes/spend more raw materials...

[broken forge]

might be on STFC.space, courtesy of @stable timber

[balmy spear]

My idea was that it was input/output based. If you want alot of commons, then there should be a threshold where you get max return for common based on input. Same for uncommons and rares. 10k threshold, max common, beyond that, say 10,001 you get a low number of uncommons up until say, 40k for max return, same for rares.

Give the player control over their outputs, especially with the proliferation of these spending events.

[wise notch]

currently it is just a 1 box gives you 3 random draws, 2 boxes give you 6 and 3 boxes give you 9 draws. Question just is, are the chances to draw a certain box equal to all the others or not

[balmy spear]

"Supposedly", but I've yet to see an instance where pulling 75k will give more UC... I get more UC from 12k pulls. Seldom do I see rare or UC on a 75k pull.

Hence: its a waste of materials to pull 75k. Full stop.

Even more nefarious is that they don't list the drop rates in the refinery like they do with the recruitment section.

[shell root]

I think that's as much a legacy as it is intentional, though it is sketchy. The recruitment section has been updated since the game was released giving them the easier ability to add in the percentage indicators. I don't think the refinery has been touched since day 1, at least not that I have ever seen changed.

Which goes to the argument that it really needs an improvement as the player base has leveled up.

[balmy spear]

I don't think so either, what's funny is the refinery comes off as more of a slot machine than the recruitment pulls do.

But even a slot machine gives a good payout on max bets... the refinery? womp womp "enjoy your 200 commons from 'betting' 75k".

[shell root]

I do get annoyed when I do my 3x prime pull for all commons.

[balmy spear]

It's beyond annoying, it's a downright obvious progression bottleneck that I cannot believe hasn't been addressed as of late.

I see more anger over the refinery than I do most other mechanics in this game, yet it gets completely ignored.

If it's the economy they are worried about, then that's on them for building a games monetization around hard progression bottlenecking and conditioning their playerbase to "just accept" a purposefully designed bad mechanic.

[shell root]

The thing is that it's not a badly designed mechanic for it's real purpose. It's designed by scopley to be an intentional bottleneck and drive people to buy material packs with real money. And based on the amount of people who indeed do that, scopely has no incentive to change it.

[balmy spear]

When someone will spend over a grand on one ship component? Yea.

But it dosnt make it any less of an extortion tactic.

For example...

[shell root]

But with the push to drive people to 40+, scopley does need to get around to actually making adjustments to it now if they want people to get there.

[balmy spear]

Thats a $700 impulse upgrade.

And that's rounding the pack up to 300/buy

So it's actually more than $700

on crystal alone

[shell root]

I did the math here (#💬-events-feedback message) the other day, so you can probably afford to upgrade 1 part at that cost per month, but yes, a problem.

It gets worse though. And the next armor part is even worse.

[balmy spear]

Oh I believe it... this games development team took Torulf Jernstrom's monetization playbook to the utmost extreme.

[shell root]

At least it's not as bad as the new Diablo Immortal.

[balmy spear]

Blizzard is and always was the king of "hold my beer". 😆

[shell root]

When you make EA look good by comparison, it's a problem.

[balmy spear]

They made soo much money off the FIFA license through microtransactions, that FIFA didn't want to renew it, because FIFA is non-profit, therefore they never saw a dime outside of licensing fees... Makes you laugh and think at the same time, yet wonder why CBS/Paramount won't step in and stop it... Disney did with SWBFII... EA/DICE was TOLD not to monetize that aggressively... they found out and almost had their license pulled.

If this game decided to switch to purchase volume for income vs. OTBs, they'd be in a heck of alot of a better place both financially and gameplay.

$1000 for a ship component? Nah.
$20 for those materials? I'd spend. Easily.

[lime socket]

My experience is the complete opposite. Since I switched to 75k pulls, I almost never see a common only pull.

[balmy spear]

Wich opens the possibility that there is an RNG modifier assigned to each player based on "x" or just at random.

[lime socket]

Very far fetched

[balmy spear]

But not in the realm of impossible

[shell root]

To be fair, I rarely see all uncommons either, but I do see a lot of only 7 uncommons in a triple refine

And I do see them sometimes

[lime socket]

Yes, 7 uc is a very “common” outcome, but the occasional 50 or 70 uc pulls increase the average drastically

[balmy spear]

Most of a playerbase won't see it that way. Most will hit 3 75k pulls and immediately think the refinery is broken, especially when their needs are fulfilled more frequently on a 12k pull.

That creates anger among a playerbase very easily.

[lime socket]

These were my pulls a couple days ago and they’re not unusual

[shell root]

You need to get to level 34 so so you scrap 26 ships to get the primes. It's a much easier pill when you pay 12K for 3 and not 75K

[lime socket]

But their needs are not fulfilled more often on a 12k pull. That’s actually more likely to give all commons.

I pay 75k for 4 and am happy with that. No way I would pull smaller ones.

[balmy spear]

I just pulled 3 12ks each and landed about 150 uncommons between gas and crystal. Literally this morning. Ore was the only one that gave all commons.

I have never had those numbers on a 75k pull. No joke

[lime socket]

But from what you’re saying, you don’t actually ever do 75k pulls.. so it’s not very surprising that you haven’t landed that on a 75k pull

[balmy spear]

I actually used to only do 75k pulls when I got them unlocked

[shell root]

I do think it really is random, but we just cant see the details behind the curtain. Each chest is a random chance and that random spread is higher percentage chance on the lower numbers.

[balmy spear]

Then I did the math

[lime socket]

The math isn’t complicated. Without the prime, 75k pulls give 50% more. If you did 75k at ops 28, the refinery is worse at lower ops, that’s why you weren’t seeing the good outcomes.

[balmy spear]

True, but the odds aren't listed, so there's no way to know.

[balmy spear]

If it's ops based, then again: list the odds in the refinery.

[lilac turret]

Uhhh… there’s no rewards on the disappearing act SMS?

[lime socket]

They list odds for the officer chests and there’s still conspiracy theories about it

[balmy spear]

Ahh, but that gives them something to point toward when it comes to things like what I'm saying.

Those odds can be tested and verified.

The refinery odds cannot.

Players will always test what you say, and assume what you're not when it comes to game mechanics.

[lime socket]

You can test the refinery too, would just take longer. The people who have spreadsheets full of their refinery pulls will tell you that 75k pulls do indeed give more uncommon and rare on average.

[fallen epoch]

I’m very surprised with how weak your 75k pulls are. I get that on a bad day with 12k pulls 😳

[balmy spear]

Hence why I'm lead to think there is an RNG modifier somewhere that's dictating that... but it's not explained... so what are we to do other than assume?

I'd have absolutely no ground to stand on if the odds were listed

We've already seen things change for a player based on spending habits, what reasonable evidence do I have to think that RNG isn't the same way? Spend more? Better RNG.
F2p? Horrible RNG to coax you into spending.

[nova sierra]

Why does the crystal ticket event always pay out more unc? Would be nice if we could get gas and ore at the same payout

[lime socket]

They look like they’re the same for me? Top ms is 16 uc for all three

[lime socket]

You could, y’know, not assume?

They don’t list even the possibilities for pve drops. Do you think everyone has their own personal table for those too?

[lime socket]

You got data for that? That pull iirc is around the average as measured by somebody who ran a spreadsheet for a few months

[nova sierra]

Crystal is nearly double payout at level 41. Top payout is 163 for crystal, 89 for gas and ore

[lime socket]

Ops 37 they’re all the same, interesting

[nova sierra]

Yeah best go collect some data. Until then…

[glacial island]

why can't the swarm events keep giving out 3* gas and crystal even into the 40s. Why does it switch to 4* only. All other events give out both.

[lilac nebula]

A story in 4 panels.

[glacial island]

I know right..it beat my ship that was bigger then it

[lilac nebula]

5 panels

[fallen wasp]

SMS that REQUIRE purchases to complete, shows a tone deaf mentality. SLB is understandable but events like Disappearing Act should be able to be completed without buying a battle pass or store packs

[hoary blade]

I'm ops 32 and refineries at 32 I don't see that but once in a blue moon best I see normal is 14 uncom and a ton of com the refiner needs a fix I wish that was a common number for max pull for me and I don't have the prim I can see spending dubble mats for no guarantee

[rotund mantle]

im ops 41 and i would be happy to get this every day

[desert crow]

I don't think this is a level 25 mission.

I think for these mission you need at list level 26 and after that to max the first faction ship to be even able to berely win it with Marcus in the crew.

Or to try it with a max Vi'dar😐

[frank ingot]

what's the deal with Breakthrough Part 1? The ships in K'amia are not klingon, and killing klingons elsewhere doesn't work

[true zealot]

That's the system, make sure they're 25

[fallen epoch]

Hit 4 level 25’s there and it will work

[true zealot]

Of course no one kills the 22/24 to make the 25s spawn

[frank ingot]

these are not klingon ships 😡

[true zealot]

They're going through some stuff

Like the og one in TOS

[frank ingot]

just a minimal QC scopely, it's all I ask for. is not that hard

[signal elm]

Killed Many Lvl25 in there .. and No GO ! 😕

[frank ingot]

25s in K'amia works, but you are 30 mins killing 23 till a 25 spawn

[signal elm]

Yep tried that .. No change for me ☹️

[vale wasp]

Works fine, are you on the right step to need them?

[iron drift]

I found the uncommon armadas in the system counted. Level 25 klingon ships arent in the system (none of them are klingon ships), and killing lvl 25 klingon ships in other systems didnt count

[stiff light]

it doesn't. killed several non klingon 25 and none counted. so the event is definitely bugged as it seems any 25 count for some players and for others it doesn't

[vale wasp]

Are you on the right step of the mission?

[neon lodge]

How does an ops 25 mission require a ship from at least an ops 32 level.

No way I can finish this mission with a tier 4 Sali.

[vale wasp]

A stronger sal can do it, you don't need a 32. I'd wait to see if a change is done tomorrow.

[craggy saddle]

An Ops 28 shop is easily enough

Ship

[hoary blade]

Out 35 with a max salt failed to exocops and 3ships for them 1.9 mill saly

[vale wasp]

A player earlier tonight won with a 1.4m sal PMC-crew, so that's pretty surprising

[hoary blade]

They pmc must be level up a lot

[nova sierra]

Pmc doesn’t do anything against that ship so it was just the sally

[polar basin]

Use pvp anti interceptor crew

[vale wasp]

Right, pmc does nothing, so it is surprising that a 35 lost with a stronger sal. It might have just been bad luck, so they should try again, with a yellow crew if they didn't have one the first time

[polar basin]

This is a bug that should be fixed ASAP. Frustrates level 27 and below

[nova sierra]

With 4 days on the event timer I think it’s alright they waited out at least the weekend before reviewing it 😉

[harsh kernel]

I spent an hour and only found one level 25 in the system. I would call this a super bug. When you going to fix it?

[nova sierra]

Shoot other hostiles in the systems for 25s to spawn.

[outer harness]

Or defeat 25 uncommon Armada in this system, this count for the mission

[nova sierra]

Yep

[spark finch]

I am going to punch my screen...not being able to click the popdown notifications of armadas

[nova sierra]

I’m going to punch my screen if they make those clickable, damned things always clicked when I was trying to click a hostile.

[half ginkgo]

In the PC version, I just saw that Private Chat now show indicators representing unread messages. I would like to say "Thank you Scopely! Very nice addtition!"

[nova sierra]

Yes, very much like this.

[neat hull]

Why is my ship XP not increasing after kills? I'm stock at 1156 ship XP cubes, no matter how many I kill this number does not increase 😟

[craggy saddle]

Killing hostiles gives the XP directly to your ship and not to you as an item

[neat hull]

So how do I earn those cubes for upgrading m

?

[craggy saddle]

Events, dailies, Ata

[neat hull]

So what is the point of gaining ship XP with kills? How does that improve things?

[craggy saddle]

You Level up your ship without having to spend the little cubes

You can save those for ships not so good at combat

Like miners

[neat hull]

OMG, thank you so much for explaining, I've been going mad restarting the game, and reinstalling etc. Thank you so much!

[craggy saddle]

Nothing to thank me. That's what we're here for 🙂

[kindred siren]

After doing the new missions this Arc, we need a new channel #missions-feedback. The worst missions I have done so far in STFC. No storyline, ships chasing, hit one hostile, ships chasing, hit 3 hostiles, ships chasing, hit 5 hostiles. End of mission.

[nova sierra]

Yeah, and Pike’s cross at me cos we had a deal but I didn’t care to read the text to work out what about because it took too long to do the first hostiles 🤣

I guess some day when I’m bored I can use the holodeck to do it again.

[wide marsh]

I enjoyed the storyline for the new missions to be honest. Though I arguably have pretty low standards for a decent story in this game.

[fallen wasp]

Level 25 mission. 2.1mil mission hostile. Not cool Scopely. Not cool at all.

[brazen prism]

quests need to get level scaling. Only way to keep it exciting and fun for all

for killing the 2.4 mil hostile try that crew setup

[nova sierra]

No.

It’s an interceptor.

KSKang much better.

[brazen prism]

you can chance it with Kang -

[nova sierra]

It’s not chance, it’s actual science 😅

Marcus is anti-explorer, Kang is anti-interceptor.

[brazen prism]

with that spock - kirk you can do a lot more than your ship strength

[nova sierra]

Yes, but you then use the wrong trinity officer.

KSKang will do more against a 2.1M interceptor than KSMarcus.

[brazen prism]

I have killed with near 4 mil gladius, the mission is too hard for some, too easy for others

[nova sierra]

I can send it out with Badgey and kill it.

The point is helping people kill it with ships that can’t kill it.

Missions always are either too easy or too hard, the issue here is it says it’s for Lv15 in holodeck, Lv25 in game and has a hostile that would usually appear in a Lv40 mission.

[nova sierra]

The biggest problem is there’s a completionist trophy at stake.

[fallen epoch]

You could skip it for an extra ticket event tbh

[peak cloak]

If it's supposed to be a recommended lvl25 mission then it should have a level 25 range enemy not a level 40 enemy. I'm level 31 and can't get past a 2m ship

I'm very disappointed in the game

[rotund mantle]

whats your best ship?

[fallen epoch]

2.1mil is not a level 40 enemy. That’s easily a 32 enemy

[lilac yew]

Play for an hour and repair for 12….

[nova sierra]

From missions, 2.1M is somewhere around “Recommended Level 40”

[fallen epoch]

Jesus 🙈

[nova sierra]

Angel in Disguise is 1.8M hostile, for comparison.

Minimum level for completion, 42.

[fallen epoch]

🤦‍♂️

[lime socket]

The normal space faction missions have lots of 2.1m bosses though I think they don’t have a recommended level

[fallen epoch]

Those are definitely lower than Ops 40

[lime socket]

Like I said no recommended level 🤷‍♂️

[fallen epoch]

Yeah

[nova sierra]

Aside from the last line where it states US36?

It’s ok, it’s early. I won’t judge you 🤣

[sullen parrot]

Can you possibly fit anymore events on the slider or will it break the screen?

[rotund mantle]

i think its cool, I rather have 100 event than 2

think of them as sidequests in any mmorpg

[remote flume]

Here’s some feedback. Stop being the absolute worst at designing events. Unattainable sms completion and crappy rewards at that.

[hallow shadow]

Let's ask god how he think life is going on 😅

[onyx dock]

Please be so kind as to adjust your message so it abides by our rules; any further attempts to slip past our automated defenses will be met with removal. 😅

[hallow shadow]

Kindly appreciate, but pay me of B4 💩 happen 😅

[weak tundra]

I must say, the errors & frustrations of basic game & event mechanics nit functioning correctly is beginning to wear extremely thin. Please get your quality control & testing on par with a minimum standard. We are nit even concerned with excellence or even a good level here, we are talking about needing to improve just to meet a minimum standard.

[main moth]

It's not entirely clear how I should contact customer support

[fallen epoch]

#👽-how-to-contact-support pick an option

[waxen kite]

you spends 2 years to get to ops 45 and then you spend 120000 epic credits to get this:

[placid grotto]

G4 chests suck

[waxen kite]

there is absolutely no justification for these kind of rewards except bad quality of game

[serene aspen]

Please open the flood gates on 3* uncommon mats. I can’t upgrade any buildings because I’m out of uc gas… 10 uc here and there from these events is not enough… if I can’t progress any further I’m just gonna quit at level 37

[rich elm]

I can attest that they condone anything from anyone spending money 🙂

[waxen kite]

they wont ban a spender from game ever

i have a whale on my server who broke the terms multiple times and nothing

even has 2 accounts on same server that his sharing with other players , and nothing, so dont even bother

[lavish spruce]

Treasury looking super nerfed this month, way less mats and lat than last month. Will be skipping that one.

[analog bolt]

You guys have GOT to be kidding me. Do y’all even know there is an independent pack in the store?

[nova sierra]

Would it make you cry if I told you that was a good pull?

[waxen kite]

only if you show me a screenshot of a "bad" one

[nova sierra]

I don’t wanna push the button of disappointment, sorry, but I’ve had pulls with only two ship BPs and a quarter of those faction credits.

[waxen kite]

at ops 45 ?

[fallen epoch]

Independent credits have always been the most valuable faction credits.

[analog bolt]

They haven’t touched them since they rolled them out. Been 12k forever.

But the others have gone up.

So no, they must have forgotten they have this or it would have grown along with the rest.

[fallen epoch]

I think the others go up with ops

[nova sierra]

44

[analog bolt]

They should all go up with ops.

[nova sierra]

My next increase is at 46.

[hard aurora]

OK, but hear me out: Make SNW Pike's hair a lower decks officer. I mean, we already have Ten of Eleven.

[thick ermine]

where is Arise

[waxen kite]

@nova sierra incorect, at 45 you get chance for 46 ships from epic chests

[bronze cargo]

You know what would be really awesome to have for an update? FIX THE GAME SO IT DOESN’T CRASH EVERY FEW MINUTES! Oh and BTW this arc is lousy. Hardly anything for players under 40, I’m 39.

[sweet sand]

@tacit obsidian thanks for the news about another bonus refinery. Is the Dev team ever going to address regular refinery pulls universally being regarded as poor and a deterrent to player advancement?

[dire dragon]

👆🏻 plus @tacit obsidian don’t tease us! When is the next bonus refinery so we see if your mod works 🤣

[placid grotto]

We aren't going to forget ANYTHING from the past week just because you pat us on the head and give us a week-long Bonus Refinery.
(thanks for it though Eco)

[frozen needle]

Maybe not. But I’m gonna appreciate the bonus refinery when it runs. Might even need to convert faction credits into raw mats. 🙂

[winter sigil]

So after that I bought the Galaxy research pack 1, and the next morning the Rodinium for BOTH packs was about 4x the amount. Got screwed again. 😂

EDIT: Ok so I saw an announcement by Eco that the difference will be reimbursed. I still wish they released both packs at the same time so I didn't have to buy the inferior Rodinium Particle Elite pack. It's not so Elite if it's going to be devalued by 70% in a few days, is it? 😑

[wispy shoal]

Do we have a schedule for server maintenance for Tuesday? And will there be a warning before shutdown?

Server 34 in particular.

[mighty bloom]

the Lost Progress / Contact Support option referenced in the #👽-how-to-contact-support channel option 1 doesn't appear to exist any more. is it still possible to contact support via the app?

ah, looks like we just have to say "No that wasn't helpful" and the contact option comes up. Maybe the info in the channel needs updating?

[crystal moth]

Please re-tune lockbox rewards. Mine has 2* materials and 1* ship parts, among other things. I'm ops 36. I actually want to spend my broken rods when the time comes but I won't for that.

[sour bobcat]

is this correct pc client

[trail garnet]

@tacit obsidian

Has no one at scopely figured out that limiting armada's to a level below need is just reducing revenue? As if you can't use the armada directives you have there is no reason to buy them.

[nova sierra]

What part about it?

[gentle pier]

It’s actually only six days long

[placid grotto]

I digress lol

Have a good night everyone

[opal hedge]

it would be nice when I spend Epic armada points I would get the event points.

[vale wasp]

That scoring mechanic only works for regular armadas, not eclipse.

[opal hedge]

doesn't say that , besides I got the points for my rare

[vale wasp]

The event description states regular armadas. An interesting quirk of these events is that they often give win/lose pts for the eclipse armadas, but nothing for the starting part of the scoring.

[opal hedge]

lot of bs there then

[true rapids]

I'm pretty sure the Start Rare/Epic Armadas is actually short for Spend 200/500 Rare/Epic Armada Directives, which are distinct items from the Eclipse Armada Directives, which is why the spending doesn't count, but the completion does

[acoustic cloud]

It said start "regular" never once said uncommons weren't regular. Bone head move by worthless scopely

[vale wasp]

It's a testable theory by doing a swarmada

[hasty plover]

These just suck the mats out of people anyway for slightly better than crappy refines. I don't know why people slobber over these when they can make the refinery worth the hundreds of billions RSS and Mats spent to upgrade it, to just sit there and do nothing.

[fallen epoch]

Yes

[fallen epoch]

The info on here needs updating the app was updated and changed a little

[fallen epoch]

Yes check #⚡-mod-announcements

[sterile umbra]

I thought I got super lucky with my 1% chance of 720 skin shard trackers. And how many actual skin shards does that get me? 9! That really needs some reiteration and rethinking.

[sterile umbra]

The point is, even though I got lucky with the pull, it is nowhere near an unlock of a skin, not like a lucky pull of an officer which is an immediate unlock.

[fallen epoch]

Yeah it’s crazy the costs remember someone said it takes 450 days to unlock the Refits

[agile tapir]

🖐️

[analog nebula]

I guess US server 34 is special. Two days of maintenance 14th and 23rd. WHY???????

[fallen epoch]

I’ll pass this on 🖖

[patent depot]

Why 31 in maintenance?

[fallen epoch]

Check #⭐-official-announcements

It’s maintenance for backend work

US31 started 4 mins ago

[fallen parcel]

Cuz they broke it worse the first time & had to redo it?

[swift steppe]

It would really be nice to have just a little more notice on maintenance

[crystal moth]

They posted the schedule 4 days ago.

[stuck delta]

Im 41 and its not much better tbh. Unless you want to spend cash for 2 year old missions

[stuck delta]

The extra refine for the prime is nice. Though I am still just going to do the minimum, odds are I'll get 0.01% of the 3000 I need for one module on my Enterprise

[swift steppe]

Where ? I sure as hell never saw it

Are you talking about the some time we'll be taking down some servers? Some

Schedule!!

[stuck delta]

#⭐-official-announcements message

[fallen epoch]

#⭐-official-announcements

[swift steppe]

I"ve looked back 2 weeks and don't see 31 mentioned until this morning

[fallen epoch]

#⭐-official-announcements message

[fallen epoch]

Check the link I just put

[nova sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/your-language-is-offensive-watch-your-mouth-zach-galifianakis-gif-13885320

[swift steppe]

There lack of communication is offensive

[nova sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/spies-in-disguise-spies-their-there-grammar-gif-22659580

[fallen parcel]

The grammar mistake doesn’t invalidate his point

[swift steppe]

I'm so ashamed!😂

[nova sierra]

The communication was there. Our server has been actively communicating it since the announcement. People complain they’re told too late, people complain they get told so far ago they forget…

In all this it’s always the person communicating’s fault, never the person not reading them 😬

[fallen parcel]

BS. People shouldn’t have to come to a third party site to get communication from the vendor. It should be done IN GAME. Maybe use the unused “Inbox” function?

[fallen epoch]

The one I linked is for all servers

[nova sierra]

You react like I disagree with you, if you want to be a toxic mood-hoover, please do so elsewhere.

[fallen parcel]

I react that way because your comment reads that way.

You might want to address that

[nova sierra]

Stop following anyone on here that volunteers their time for the good of the community to troll them.

Your obsession because you had bad ideas is bizarre and concerning.

https://tenor.com/view/bye-felicia-friday-shoo-go-away-gif-4389994

[crude sandal]

I like "toxic mood hoover" 😂

[fallen epoch]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[swift steppe]

No I don't read every message on discord to discern whether something useful may be in there

[nova sierra]

I’d read the announcements 😉

[crude sandal]

You don't need to... just the announcement channels...

[nova sierra]

They’re likely to include pertinent information to your game.

[crude sandal]

Which are probably also piped through to alliance and server discords...

[mild hemlock]

Important information can be found in #⭐-official-announcements or #⚡-mod-announcements

[fallen epoch]

So you don’t want to read the announcements channel and then complain that there is no communication about stuff? Ok 👍🏻

[crude sandal]

Now, if you muted it on the first day when they were pinging everyone, then forgot to check which day was your server's maintenance day... well, that's a you thing not a them thing (in comparison to the rest of the dumpster fire that is this month thus far, which is very much a them thing!)

[swift steppe]

And the announcement pointed out began clearly about a specific server. That's why you have a feedback channel so I can feed back that when the first line specifies a server it's a poor way to communicate info for everyone

[crude sandal]

There's a lot of poopy to be flinging this month, plenty of scope for pitchforks, without hassling them about the one thing they've actually managed to do well so far this month 😂

[nova sierra]

“I didn’t read the whole message” is what I see there.

I do believe it should be in the rarely used in-game news feed.

[crude sandal]

Which server are you again?

[nova sierra]

But not reading all the message doesn’t make it Scopely’s fault you didn’t see it here 😅

[crude sandal]

Nobody would read it and/or would forget which day was theirs anyway...

[swift steppe]

That's exactly right I don't read through every single message I wouldn't have time to do anything else

[crude sandal]

it takes 5 seconds to read the full notice...

[nova sierra]

Of the announcement channel? Sheesh.

[crude sandal]

Alternatively you're on the same reading level as my kid...

We're not saying, read everything in general

We're here all the time, and we don't read everything 😂

[nova sierra]

Never read General.

[crude sandal]

I routinely reply to things from two hours ago without realising

[swift steppe]

One, yes I have other things to do, two what's offensive is flaming people trying to use this page for it's intended purpose

[crude sandal]

But announcements...

[nova sierra]

I know, it’s infuriating 😆

[nova sierra]

We helping you to help yourself

[crude sandal]

https://tenor.com/view/joey-notsorry-sorrynotsorry-notevensorry-joey-tribbiani-gif-5640794

[nova sierra]

Give a man a fish, he can eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he can read all the announcements.

[swift steppe]

Mostly people just handing out a dose 📈

[nova sierra]

If you don’t laugh at this last week you cry.

[crude sandal]

Is it only a week? 😐

[nova sierra]

It has only been a wonth.

Meek

Week

Feels like a month.

[crude sandal]

16 ore off 37... should get that one way or another with the refineries this evening 😂

That's something at least

[crystal moth]

@swift steppe 6/8 They announced they were planning to take all servers down for maintenance this month, and that they'd post a schedule in the near future.
#⭐-official-announcements message

6/10 They posted the schedule. That post was already linked.

[nova sierra]

what should I think of a quest that send me in a uncharted system, named Taiti (yeah uncharted a pair of ...), and then ask me go on a neaby planet ... in Nausicaa, when the text clearly imply that the planet is in the same system I already was, so Taiti?

[crude sandal]

You mean the "uncharted system" which was the same system as "federation HQ" a few steps later?

Super low effort stuff this month 😂

[nova sierra]

I just unlocked that part and was repairing before checking where the hq where, now I checked it and you are right 🤣 🤣 🤣

[crude sandal]

Would have expected them to be better at mapping local space 🤣

Is your surname 'Black', or just a game name?

Don't see many in the wild 😂

[nova sierra]

really a sloppy sloppy work, and the writing seems so unnecessarily dragged out, terrible spot for the series for who had not been able to watch it

just a username

[crude sandal]

Shame, was hoping to bore someone with discussions of family trees 😂

[raw willow]

Is it just me or is the event mission (for ops 25+) Breakthrough boss hostile a tad bit very ridonkulous? I can smash an ops 39 mission boss hostile without problems and I'm ops 31. Maxed out ships. But this ops 25+ Breakthrough mission boss is destroying me.
https://c.tenor.com/4H2Y_-CJgkgAAAAM/mc-jugger-nuggets-angry-gamer.gif

[nova sierra]

If your Lv28 ship is maxed, and you can’t kill the hostile, there’s a good chance you’re not crewing it right - what crew you got?

Of course, the cop out is to log it with support and they can autocomplete it for you, as per the announcement.

[raw willow]

Wait, there was an announcement? I'll be right back after I try with a different PvP crew and max ship. 😉

[crude sandal]

I've not seen the announcement either 😂

[nova sierra]

On a 28, KSKang or KSKhan are your chances.

[crude sandal]

every link I've followed has taken me to the wrong place

[nova sierra]

#⚡-mod-announcements message

[crude sandal]

See... that one worked

all the others took me to galaxy chat 😂

But all the others I was on mobile, so who knows

[raw willow]

I've tried KSK already and died an embarrassing death. I've gone at this ops 25 mission boss and have been demolished with every variation of popular and strong PvP crew appropriate for each ship I threw at it.

I didn't realize the recent announcement included the mission boss issue and I'm glad I'm not the only one, especially after watching more players get destroyed by it right after me. 25+ me tooshie. 🤣

[nova sierra]

Yeah if you can’t kill it, support it.

[golden spade]

why were armadas removed from Penumbra???? hard enough to find armadas during an event...

[nova sierra]

There’s only one in penumbra, if they killed it they killed it.

[vale wasp]

Caught that too, weird they'd use the plural...and that it's a hot target

I know some servers have a different number of eclipse armadas than others, so I'm watching for a response

[golden spade]

we've been watching for it to respawn and it's not

S9, this is the same server there's no longer an epic in Karppinen either

and yes, i've opened tickets on the lack of epics in Karp. "armadas respawn rapidly, so keep your eyes open, Commander" or something like that lol

[vale wasp]

Did you bring it up to Eco yet?

[golden spade]

not yet, i figured a sanity double check or more coffee would be a good idea

[golden spade]

yay it's back. an extra long respawn? watching off and on for a couple hours this morning

[placid grotto]

Yeah the respawn timers for Eclipse can get wierd during events

[golden spade]

thanks! sanity check worked

[coarse oracle]

So this level 25 mission... Anyone know if they plan to make the hostile an actual level 25? Lol

[nova sierra]

#⚡-mod-announcements

[coarse oracle]

Thanks!

[shell root]

I get the cheaper cost model to encourage people to start spending, but who at scopley thinks that anyone is going to be incentivized to pay cash for a vault full of 1* parts and some 2* as its main contents?

This is being offered to people in their 30s.

[worthy lagoon]

Not people in their 30s.. to people who don't spend.

@tacit obsidian and Devs, it would be pretty sweet if you could add a "Set Course" option to Bookmarks. Save us a step. 🙂

[nova sierra]

Don’t always want to go there though 😜

Mine’s full of tasty stations and grinding spots of people I like killing.

[worthy lagoon]

Which is why it would be an option. 😉

[nova sierra]

Good to check if someone is there to play 😆

[nova sierra]

GPWM.

[shell root]

You kind of glossed over the rest of the comment about incentivizing people at the right level which was my point. I know how it works. It just makes no sense for scopely to keep doing their algorithm without some sort of ops level adjustments or the entire point of them offering a $5 starter key to people is lost.

[worthy lagoon]

You're correct, I did gloss over it.. because I said the same thing the first time the Lockbox came out. I'm a F2P, so my LB is pretty garbage too. The only real incentive to get a F2P to buy one, is this... That said.. It's nowhere near enough to get me to start spending. Even $5.

[shell root]

All fair points.

I just don't understand scopley sometimes. They want money, and the introduction of this treasury could actually lure some people over if they put an effort into it. Not me because I'm cheap, but somebody.

[slow nimbus]

Re: Faction Allegiance Keys-not sure why there needs to be a cap of 7 on how many you can have. Why can't I hoard them if I want? This game is all about hoarding for some of us 😜

[cerulean quest]

If scopely Made packs of 20,50 en 99 with a litle more stuff in it then other packs , people would buy it more I think

Sort of bonus pack .. since it’s locked 😎

[worthy lagoon]

I don't know. I can only base it on me.. Would I pay? Nope. Scopely hasn't done anything worthy of me spending money on the game. In the last 6 months, my active time in-game has dropped pretty significantly. The game is boring now. Boring = I keep my monies.

I have more fun lately playing Wordscapes.

[steel gull]

When will be These done? I mean when do we will get the gift???

@everyone

Commanders,

We've seen a lot of discussion about the Galaxy Tree Extension and have more adjustments coming your way!

Starting today at daily goal reset, 9pm PT, we'll be increasing the amount of rodinium provided by daily goals to make acquiring the new resource easier. The amount available in packs will also be increased to better match the amount being sourced through daily goals. For those who purchased the packs before these changes, you will be sent a gift of the amount added.

You may need to reset your game to see the new values!

We also will be starting a bonus refinery event tomorrow that will go on for the next week.

LLAP vulcan

-Eco

[marble prism]

@tacit obsidian ☝️

There's an event running to utilize those research materials

[tropic onyx]

Has the epic daily reward chest changed ? Here is May and June uncommon drops from 66 per day to 11 per day ?

[worthy lagoon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diFUVLP7tUo

[tropic onyx]

thanks for that, so i loose 90% of my uncommon for a few rare, not looking a great deal. give this pack a miss moving forward, wish id noticed this before.

[upper parrot]

Well.. for me, 60 2* mats was something that I really had no use for in 30's, conversion to G3 via ship scrapping was tedious and not really that great. I prefer getting just the G3 mats directly, along with rares that were not present before, more latinum and steel and speedups.

[desert crow]

This mission line is very strange, first a 2 mill mission hostile that a level 25 player( the level required for the mission line ) can't kill it, and now an hostile that for level 5 players and below ,even the hostiles in the system are stronger then the mission hostile!

What kind of mission line is this😐?!?

[craggy saddle]

That's actually a level 1 hostile 🙈
Exact same stats iirc too

[fallen epoch]

You get 7 then start another faction and get 7 more

[lavish lark]

Lol at the desealing rod stuff. Just never worth it

[fallen epoch]

Yes 2 free £89.99 packs a year aren’t worth it 👍🏻

[lavish lark]

I would rather take a free battlepass a month and get way more value. The treasury isn't worth 100 bucks, if you happen to get one for free thats cool. Its not worth the price.

[olive nacelle]

What is in this game????

[fallen epoch]

The £89.99 lootboxes are around 1.4x more value than the normal £89.99 packs they get based off of

[lavish lark]

The cheap battlepass is worth the money compared to everything else they sell. Technically the ships that are basically locked behind a paywall

[olive nacelle]

Compared to everything else THEY sell, yes I agree. But still not worth £20.
Look at far more advanced games and the prices and loot they offer for a battlepass that often lasts months, not just a few weeks.

[ripe thicket]

@tacit obsidian where are the ore mats in the treasury chest? The previous ones had all 3 resources

[nova sierra]

Possibly. I've never had a 99 dolla rod yet. We'll see what this one turns out to be. Max I've spent on a pack is 50 dolla. Max rod I have seen is 50 dolla. My guess is this is a 50 dolla key, but idk. Ops 29

[fallen epoch]

Looks like a 50

[fallen epoch]

I was being sarcastic above (in your tagged message) sorry 🖖 the £89.99 loot boxes really do have good value it’s just a question of can you pay enough to get them

[nova sierra]

It's no problem. The reason I responded is because the general consensus was that the rod price was determined by some kind of cumulative spending. While not conclusive it is looking more like you need to pop a 100 dolla pack to get a 100 dolla rod

[fallen epoch]

Yeah you got to spend it seems to see the good chests

[half ravine]

Please create a process to have dormant bases removed from TC.

Also- please ask devs to fix the lvl 35 epic eclipse armada in Karppinen on S9

[warped vault]

Can the Worm-madda locations that were added be fixed for their location icons? Kordindr for example has them but the System icon isnt for Armada's

[indigo heart]

Still no gift for packs I bought. To make use early pack buyers even. Argh

[civic turret]

interceptor exo is BS... no difference.

prob all combat exos are BS

[dapper fable]

It's a crap mission. The next hostile is 300k higher than my best shop and crew. I don't know what they're expecting. Not all of us are whales.

[viscid hill]

They are somewhat. Adding 30, 50, 80, etc. to a base that you already have 2000+ percent on isn't going to show a huge difference.

[vale wasp]

Though you might be close to winning with luck and/or crew adjustments, if you're incapable of defeating that mission hostile too, contact CS again to get past it.

[dapper fable]

I did. I wish mission hostiles worked the same as regular. I sent four ships and each attack was within a second of the last. Got it down to 0 shield and 12k health.

[vale wasp]

Generally, the two-tap method only uses two ships. One with Yuki that needs to lose before the shield is entirely stripped, and the 2nd one, the strong shop, to clean up.

[edgy harness]

At those levels and powers, usually a kirk Spock khan combo takes care of most bosses that would seem well outside your normal power. Could usually easily kill things 2.5-3x your size with it.

[dapper fable]

Unfortunately, I don't have those

I have Yuki

But low level

[vale wasp]

Yuki's level doesn't matter, she's there for her CM. Strip as much shield as you can without hitting zero, then quickly attack the yellow when your first ship dies.

[trail garnet]

Anyone help with getting actual help with an issue with the game? Got my first feesha to tier 9 level 41 and the game says we get a part at the point to continue upgrading. Did not get and customer service is giving me the usual run around.

[vale wasp]

What ops are you?

That image is for the t5 gate, if you're t9, then you're past that, so where are you getting that image from?

Actually, I can see that your feesha is only t4 in that background. So back to the first question, what ops are you?

[faint snow]

forcing players to buy packs on a particular platform only to allow in game research progress ?

this would give ground to googlestore, ios store to put anti competition charges and consumer protection legislation in europe

more importantly it is an evil act against players freedom of choice

[polar basin]

I would love it if a player could archive store offers (just like missions) that the player deems not relevant at present. The store has so many packs - it is hard to navigate.

[glad cradle]

Level 41 means you have to be ops 41. @vale wasp

[vale wasp]

Sure, but there was already one error in the message. I'm doubly confirming information

[glad cradle]

What’s the error?

[nova sierra]

I suspect he has 2 feeshas. And the answer is that you only get the first for free

[glad cradle]

I only have one, and get the same message when I try to get past t4.

[vale wasp]

What ops are you?

The error was that the player stated they had a t9 feesha, that's t4.

Oh I see what Tommie means, yeah, that's the 2nd feesha in the image.

Only the first Feesha gets the warp part, the 2nd one is from the shop or event stores.

[glad cradle]

I’m ops 39

[lunar falcon]

@tacit obsidian there is still no downtime timeframe for 157 listed in the blog.

https://scopely.helpshift.com/hc/en/19-star-trek-fleet-command/faq/6667-june-maintenance-schedule/

[hexed brook]

Do you have to spend on the second part then? I already have it for my first feesha but would like to tier my other two…

[fallen epoch]

Event stores or paid stores

[hexed brook]

Thanks, I’ll be waiting for the next vent store then, would have got one in the last one if they made it clear only the first would be free

[fallen epoch]

It’s always been clear the first was free 🙈

Wish they would do it like the meridian

[hexed brook]

Not that clear

[fallen epoch]

Works the same Frank and Frank A warp locks

[hexed brook]

But why would anyone ever need another franky, feesha yeah you need extra for lat rush, typical. You are right they should do like meridian

[fallen epoch]

Don’t know but lots of servers got a free Franklin

[crude sandal]

any server that was active before last April/May I think?

[fallen epoch]

Yep the older servers all have 2 Franklins

[stuck delta]

Part of their marketing stratagy is to spam you with so many offers you eventually buy one

[stuck delta]

I have a OG Frankie and a Frankie-A. Bought some of the extra interlocks from the event stores but not really used it that much; is more a cheap to repair ship to grind swarm sundays with

[fallen epoch]

Tbh yeah but given how much the Frank A refinery pays out I don’t think it’s needed to use a cheaper option

[spare parrot]

I am currently competing in the JF Pursuit and carefully monitoring my spends/points. After spending 800 rare crystal on a Prime research I only got 80,000 points instead of 120,000. All other research and material spending seems to be awarding the correct points.
Are primes somehow different in their material spend rewards?

[humble gorge]

I think the pvp banding should be reduced

at the higher levels

[nova sierra]

Nah

Double edged sword

They can’t hit you but you can’t rob them.

[polar basin]

Getting nervous, is it?

[lunar falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-panic-gif-22140702

[drowsy sierra]

It would be nice to have customized notifications. Armada gongs at 2am are annoying but I want to hear attack warnings if I forgot to shield.

[lunar falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/pink-floyd-gong-pink-floyd-gong-gif-20765935

[nova sierra]

@tacit obsidian we need more nodes in a token space for rogue space for gas crystal in ore

[nova sierra]

They need to be better. Barely any better than normal mines.

And more mines too.

[left bolt]

Is 2 Amalgram a good direction to go?

[vale wasp]

If you find yourself often raiding a base with two miners and could use another for overcap robbing, sure

[left bolt]

I was thinking more of getting away from the crystal expense as my faction miners are only T2 . So before I put more into miners , think about maybe have 2 amalgams . As I always use 2 ships when raiding for speed.

[nova sierra]

Everything has everything expense.

Not spending crystal on miners (especially to avoid having decent actual miners) means you’re spending something else in it’s stead.

[spare parrot]

Allow access to the shipyard and other screens when all ships are out of station or mining and no other ships available.
Example 1. when your ship is mining then the 'Manage' button is not available. If no other ships can be used as a workaround for this then you can't access the management screen without interrupting the miner and if waiting for upcoming mining event then you are stuck.
Example 2. When swapping ships you can see all available ships in the carousel at the bottom of the screen and ship stats on the right. But the only way to access the ship hangar is in this way. Can you provide an icon above the ship hangar building the same way as the scrapyard?

Also, when upgrading the R&D building you can still access the research tree when you select the building and click 'Research' but the scrapyard doesn't work the same way. So if you are upgrading the scrapyard then you are unable to select a ship to scrap. Can the building have a similar button when selected during upgrade?

[nova sierra]

I like these. A workaround for the scrapyard thing is to try and do a Stella Pringles to (material) conversion that you can’t afford, that takes you to scrapyard but it is extremely annoying. Same for the missing manage button because a ship is mining 🤦🏻‍♂️. Will stick them in as a suggestion when that’s back.

[spare parrot]

Never knew of that workaround, Thanks. Won't work if you can afford the max pull

luckily i couldn't

[wide marsh]

Those are very good suggestions, and thanks for the work around.

[ashen lodge]

@tacit obsidian

A general suggestion for the Galaxy Tree extension issues.

Make it largely passive like syndicate or away teams.

Allow us to collect our 250-300 of the rodinium every day and make that the ONLY cost for the new research.

Scopley can still sell packs for those who want to advance quickly but it's not taking away resources from a more typical player while still providing some modest benefit long term.

Heck a couple of away missions could source some extra every once in a while (away missions need a few new things anyway)

[jade patio]

Why did you guys (at Scopely) even bother creating that Treasury option, if you are going to make the rewards so lousy that no one is going to pay it any mind? Seems like a lot of programming effort went into it, without any thought for how to make it attractive to players.

[surreal condor]

Out of curiosity, what price point is your Treasury? Eco has been trying to gather suggestions on how to improve / what people perceive as being poor value about them, so that may help.

[modern crane]

@tacit obsidian haven't been able to jump with my USS Discovery for 3 months. I was told it was fixed while still being unable to jump. A few weeks ago they said they realized it was so broken. I would suggest fixing long term issues now rather than focusing on the new shinies.

[nova sierra]

@jade patio if you can PM me some screenshots of it’s contents, your Ops level and a very high level view of your spending habits, I’m trying to work out what patterns there are. Mine, this month, I believe to be very disappointing.

[nova sierra]

There’s a pin in #👾-bug-reporting for this issue, upgrade the spore drive or do an efficiency research and it’ll sort.

[wide marsh]

Part of it is that everything in the store is massively overpriced already. Take the battlepass for example. It is arguably the best value in the game at $20. In Marvel Future Revolution, the battlepass is $8.99. In Diablo Immortal it is $4.99 or $14.99 for the collectors battlepass. I've never spent much in game, but I also don't get see options to spend that are less than $99. It's just one more overvalued thing among all the other overvalued things in the store.

[modern crane]

Thank you. The customer support never suggested any work around in our 20+ conversations about it.

[dense walrus]

How are we suppose to finish the break through missions for 25 when the target is a +2 mil.

Holodeck missions

[stiff perch]

@tacit obsidian hi Eco - still waiting for Pike Avatar and also compensation chest for the bought research packages. Maybe some update would be great. Thanks 👍🏻

[spare parrot]

From #⚡-mod-announcements

 Breakthrough Part 1 - We're going to investigate the requirements for this mission and will update in the future. For those who are unable to complete the mission right now due to level (25+), please contact Customer Support and they will assist with this so you can finish the SNW Mission Pt.2 - SMS