💬-events-feedback

[thin void]

@wanton copper I was forced into selecting Admiral Kirk as my Fleet Commander and I'm super pissed because I had no idea I was going to be locked into choosing when I recalled my ship, I was trying to close the game and it force selected Admiral Kirk, so now I have NO choice

[grizzled dragon]

Yeah this is great….

[wraith wasp]

@wanton copper, due to the new charged nano prob requirements, we now have to choose between independent credits and faction credits or the new solo amarda.....

30k Charged probs got all 4 credit 4 times a week and 3, 3 times a week.

Now we can get 45k charged probs for 1m inert (more grinding) and that's only 1/2 a solo amarda a day.

[austere vigil]

Anyone else missing the “be not afraid of greatness” mission after using matrix diodes to get it? It’s not in my missions list or my archive.

[pastel lodge]

me too, spent diodes on the "be not afraid of greatness" mission, but cannot find it anywhere - no mission dialog triggered
was 15 minutes ago - tried a few restarts

[marble sierra]

so is this directives sourcing really as bad as it looks for borg solo madas ? horrible

[white bramble]

Depends. T9 Vidar is better than T1-8 but it’s still rough

[marble sierra]

well guess more content we wont have to do

[vagrant topaz]

O treasury this month?

[white bramble]

They usually announce it later in the month

[vagrant topaz]

same...and i know of other people that have this bug too...

[tough pasture]

149 is not 150. How difficult is it to do any basic math or quality control.

[rustic plover]

Tier 9 vidar directive refinery showed 200 uncommon directives but actually only got 100…

[white bramble]

It is 100. Not sure how you saw 200

[rustic plover]

A few of my alliance saw the same

[tough pasture]

Well my screen said 150 and only got 149. So wouldn’t be a first mistake

[white bramble]

Contact CS

[tough pasture]

72 hours waiting. Thanks for messing up all upcoming events

[pallid sand]

@pastel lodge did you made a ticket? If not you should contact support

[regal oxide]

Taking the mik! Waaay to expensive…….so for me……fleet officers and Borg solos just killed itself before it got going.

[urban moth]

Add to that that the odds of failing a borg solo are 2x that of dominion solos and the effort to get the directives is pointless.

[regal oxide]

And to finally screw us that little bit more……I just checked the new combat research……guess what currency it needs?? 😂😂

[red atlas]

People in my alliance picked Kirk then didn’t get him for command centre

[white bramble]

Tell them to contact CS

[tough pasture]

@white bramble why does scopely not take a proactive approach? It is 1 query to determine impact. Or better just add 10 shards for everyone

[white bramble]

They already investigated and found out only a minority of players are affected so it’s easier to go through tickets

[limber shell]

@wanton copper @icy cairn only got 148 fc spock shards, put in ticket with support

[icy cairn]

Thank you for getting one submitted! They are prioritizing these and handling them individually and manually. 🪴

[limber shell]

Will it get handled during event?

[icy cairn]

That's the plan, though I am unable to make any promises. But they are currently going through the tickets submitted on the issue.

[red atlas]

It’s customer support you wait 3 days. Then they ramble on about something total unrelated to your concern then close case immediately before you can even see it or comment

[stray cedar]

3 days your lucky 😂

[vapid meteor]

Really feels like this update was pushed out before it was ready or without planning. What the was intended way to get the info needed to make a decision on whether to pick Kirk or spock? I relied on a graphic from the community online in a panic. During mission I’m forced to make a decision with no way to even talk to my team mates, no way to view info, no way to back out, didn’t know it was going to happen

2 of the new materials look VERY similar and it’s quite confusing

Have my officer now, several things in the UI are unclear, confusing or misleading. Unclear how I will get certain materials, if I have to choose one forever or can swap later etc

Seems the mission to use a battleship is too high for my lvl. I’m lvl 45, it’s been a long time since I’ve had the option for a new Battlehsip, but the event seems to think I already have my newton

[short silo]

@white bramble from my alliance statistics its about 5-10 % of ppl who got not enough officer shards...

[white bramble]

Ask them to contact CS

[mild moth]

1 player stops playing now, 2 think about it. High accounts - a lot of money and time invested! Bravo scopely! You keep chasing away your customers and thus your own income. All because you do NOT listen to your customers, often ignore their wishes and do exactly the opposite of what you promised. In this case, your statement to minimise the effort! Nobody enjoys shooting probes - nobody!

[vapid meteor]

Need to drastically address the amount of grinding needed. I’m already cutting certain factions/ships as I don’t have the time. Now we need to grind even more Borg

We need higher lvl borg with bigger drops, and increased cargo. Takes forever to fill a maxed ship and then you can only do it twice per day cause of those blood warp tokens

[short silo]

i just point the fact that it is a very BIG amount of players being stucked with not enough shards...

[swift prairie]

Feedback on the event: #🏆-event-chat message

[urban moth]

It’s a one and done research though.

[mild moth]

Exactly, and please without having to buy 3-4 packs. But let them continue - greed eats brains. That's how the game dies out. Then no one will buy packs any more ...

[onyx moss]

Now you have bad luck if you choose Kirk as a fleet Komander. There is a Spock Event and gives Spock token....

[short silo]

Kirk events are comming too )

[white bramble]

There is also Kirk events

[sand sky]

Fix the rewards for leaderboard ties. Why should I get rewards for being 37th when I hav3 the same points as th3 person in 3rd ?

[old jolt]

@wanton copper what happened to balancing the grind you have added two big grinds that are so slow, people have jobs friends family need to eat and sleep. The only balancing I can see is a prime pack, understand this I have to work if I want to buy anything, but with the extortionate prices charged I will never pay scopely just find another game that will not take over my life or drain my bank balance

[vague prism]

I didnt get my unlock for the event and now i need to wait 72h for ticket response and i know it can be way longer than 72h from my experince... will there be an compensation ?? i cant play the events like i should 😒

[wise shore]

did you find a solution?

[white bramble]

Contact CS

[wise shore]

I sent request to support

[astral talon]

Bek, I’m not sure I believe that. I put a ticket in within 30 minutes of this going live. Haven’t heard a peep. Assuming it’s a “small minority” and they’re prioritizing, I should have heard from them by now. Call me skeptical, but something tells me they’re just in whatever line already existed. (To be clear, not upset with you.)

[warm juniper]

New currency, new useless building with useless officers, new borg armada. Scopely, nice try….. in my opinion the rewards aren’t worth my time, surely not worth spending any money on it. Nobody is waiting for one more kirk and spock, nobody wants more type of armadas and currency. It supposed to be a pvp game but it seems it turned in to armada farmwille. Grinding and starting very exciting armadas where people can count down the seconds…….. uhhh boy oh boy

[cinder crystal]

am I having the same problem as everyone else?

[maiden hearth]

It took me like 10 minutes with an augur.

[wet pollen]

It's not just for the new grind, it is the overall grind for all the factions, mining, dailies, events, leveling ships, fighting wars, etc. I think I was grinding way less as an end game raider in world of warcraft than I spend now doing all the crap that has to get done on a daily basis. I don't have the money to spend thousands of dollars per week like some people do. I spend, but like $40 a month max. I have bills to pay and I have a life to live.

[maiden hearth]

There is no requirement to do everything every day.

[viscid phoenix]

A few minutes with an Augur in Caelum is all it takes

[maiden hearth]

Most of the complaints are ridiculous, why even play if you want everything handed to you. Be happy there's enough content you can now pick what to focus on. This i deserve everything mentality is weak.

It's drowning out those that need help to unlock kirk/spock that should be heard.

[fringe tree]

@icy cairn Umm.

1. Gifts section gives mission. Unlock. Spock and Kirk for free. This is great

2. Battle pass gives more Spock and Kirk shards for what??? Why not give Locutus.

The battle pass office or Shards are completely worthless.

[trail adder]

Bp rewards are very disappointing.

[shy nebula]

So many are addicted to instant gratification. They can't stand adversity or any mild inconvenience.

[hoary dawn]

@shy nebula yes why have an expectation on something where they charge $99.99 for so many items in their store, yet when new content comes out that they say is free it doesn't work nor fixed quickly. But you can go into store and buy that same free item right now for $99.99, no waiting for those who want instant gratification.

[round hare]

Can anyone tell me where the borg diodes where located at for the missions some of my alliance members are missing them

[pallid token]

Battle pass. Milestone 6 I think?

[vagrant topaz]

The mission to unlock the command center is in the gift tab. The holodeck missions will come along in the BP

[outer pivot]

I was wondering what "working on reduce the necessary grinding effort" might mean in Scopely case. Now we know it.
They added a 3rd chest to Borg refinery, effectively DOUBLING the effort needed. Well, good job in reducing!
If that continues this way, I feel we will soon need 26h / day instead of 16 to do everything 🤬

[storm oar]

Thanks, scopley. I can no longer afford to play the game. I need 5-6 hours to do everything on a daily basis.

Mining, dailies, 5 different kinds of armadas, mantis, amalgam, etc. It can't be done.

I am so glad that i learned that you need to spend 30k probes to getnone armada beforebInspent $500 buying kirk, creds, skill packs, etc.

There is no chance I am spending that when I still need millions of probs for things like independent creds.

I eill not be engaging with these borg armadas, which means, no engagement by default with fleet commanders.

What a great arc, and an even better game this has turned into.

Its now basically mining and armadas.

[vapid meteor]

Inside the fleet commander view along the top where it displays resources it says I own 0 “Quantum Keys”, but I do own 1 “Spock Quantum Keys”. Both of these things seem to have the same image, or at least too similar

[mild moth]

Scopely, here's how you could still save this arc and the Borg theme: 1. unc policy costs must be reduced by 90%. 2. more loot through Borg probes through new systems larger than 33. With this you then also keep your promise to reduce the effort. Since you were able to deactivate Gaila's ability within a few hours, you should be able to do it tomorrow.

[white bramble]

Check your refinery

[vapid meteor]

Yes, it shows up in other screens. I can use it. I'm highlighting that in the UI is confusing / broken. There are several new materials that are very similar and have the same icons. Very badly designed, needs to be reported

[stone quarry]

I reckon this is the Command Center site, however nothing is happening in order to build it

[white bramble]

Update your game

I can tell it’s not updated btw

😊

[stone quarry]

Thnx 👍 So how do you aquire the first 18 components to build?

[white bramble]

Free mission

[stone quarry]

Much appreciated thank you.

[rancid drift]

@white bramble do you know of any way that scopley is fixing the fleet commander choice if you picked the wrong one by accident and didn’t finish the cosmos part 5 mission?

[white bramble]

They aren’t fixing wrong selection as far as I know

[rancid drift]

@white bramble It’s a really frustrating setup. There’s no button to escape a mission prompt. And they didn’t put in a button to take you to look at the FC skills either. I tried to exit the game to restart but when swiping somehow Spock got selected

[naive viper]

This is annoying. At this rate I will be pushed out of the rewards entirely and won't get the ST La'an shards. Even though I have the same points as 1st.

[frosty stirrup]

@wanton copper @icy cairn I am a level 44 and you expect me to send my Vi'Dar to PvP with level 50 players and I ONLY GET POINTS IF I WIN???? Why do ignore our complaints about this kind of event? Stop lying and pretending $copley listens to us

And forcing us into one system is an extra helping of garbage on top of this nonsense

[heavy escarp]

Scopely: "We're gonna fix the grind", they said. "We understand we've layered a lot of additional grinds since the games inception so we are going to help cut back some of the time it takes to get through daily required grinds".
Also Scopely: "let's double how many probes they have to grind every day and only give them exo boosts that only last 15 minutes and add 25% loot and make them have to activate it at station, so it really only lasts like 10 minutes"

[frosty stirrup]

For a mere $100US you can resolve this issue

[heavy escarp]

I'm Ops 45 and don't have that in my store. So I don't even get to pay to make it easier

[frosty stirrup]

Odd I am Ops 44. But we both get to do forced PvP against Ops 50 as I noted above

[heavy escarp]

Webstore and PC store only I guess

[white bramble]

First week only. Then it goes to mobile

[hardy knoll]

Nice of them to penalize the platform the game started on.

[white bramble]

You can still purchase it early. You just need to use Webstore. They prefer it since Google and Apple don’t take a cut.

[pale steeple]

No one should be purchasing through mobile store anymore. If you are, then you are paying more for less. You are missing out on metaphasics.

[white bramble]

Also you are getting charged Apple and Google’s higher fees

[hardy knoll]

I do buy through web store, but I browse the mobile store since that's what I play on and I'm already in the game. I'm sure not every mobile user uses the web store, so those people are getting left out. Also the price for the user is the same on mobile/web store. You just don't get the multiphasic credits on mobile, but the $$$ is the same.

[pale steeple]

I do not pay any taxes through web store, where Apple store is about 11% tax. Plus webstore gives metaphasics which you can redeem for additional stuff.

[hardy knoll]

Interesting, maybe that's based on location. I'm in KY and pay the same 6% state sales tax on both webstore and Google play store. But Google gave me credits all the time for $1-$5 off purchases. I do lose out on that by using the webstore.

[pale steeple]

Yes, every state/country has different rules about online sales tax. In IL if the online company has a physical store, you pay sales taxes and IL sales taxes are crazy high. Metaphasics are my best source for Syndicate XP. I just cash in a bunch every event. Almost syn 30 now.

[sinful heart]

Jeep, I shudder to think what you (and all your peers) have spent on this game. Damn skippy get those metaphysic chips dude 🤘 (but I pay tax through the web store has well)

[ember kelp]

Please double check my math, but it looks like those that are under Ops35 will be 200pts short and those under Ops24 will be 400 points short on reaching the top Milestone of the We Are The Borg event because there are no alternative events listed under the FC Locutus section.

Is this intentional?

[boreal coyote]

after years of this, isn't there a better way. How are these calculated? completion time? who is on top? first or last. These ties are ridiculous. The difference here is millions in dilithium and 300 4 star refined. It's really not cool and has been going on far too long. How does it work?

[white bramble]

Random

[coral flume]

Why am I still 2 shards short on FC Kirk. And others are not. It's a bug that doesn't affect everyone. @wanton copper

[manic estuary]

So it says you can get quantum communicators in the command refinery but none there

[astral coral]

No one has ever said, "YES! Let's kill worms" Can we please stop having events to kill worms

[small heron]

Placement can't be random when it's a tie. Whoever decides to try to place and then ties for that place is automatically bumped ahead if they are the last one to tie the score. I've done this to slingshot ahead of competition at the last second several times successfully.

What makes even less sense is why not just make the places "equal" then at that point? Like in the screenshot above, everyone there should be in 4th place since they're tied.

[white bramble]

It really is random.

[sinful heart]

Because that would be equitable and fair, and there is no place for that when corporate greed is involved;-)

[warped knoll]

Cerri-Borg Event is not working

[white bramble]

It’s a swarm event

[light walrus]

Any chance of some Borg armada credits for this event you decide to run straight after a Borg armada event at the end of last year

[warped knoll]

Wasn't that a borg-event last week?

[white bramble]

There was a Borg one last week. Now it’s swarm

[bronze rain]

This is utter crap and the ones below get shafted. This happened to me last arc during solo armadas. I put in a ticket for my missing ketracel. And they closed my ticket

[golden mason]

Scopley only wants your money. The 4.99 shield doesn't exist anymore, so be players are screwed, I looked with Odin

[white bramble]

Read higher

[viral kayak]

@wanton copper & @icy cairn Make a choice with no option to change it and no info on what are the advantages of your choices ...

[cosmic quarry]

any system for these solo borg armardas?

lvl 37 shows this for spheres.. ??

[rustic plover]

@wanton copper @icy cairn Scoring on cerritos event is wrong. Less points for 44 than 40 on the description. Yet I got 1600 points for a level 40. So not awarding correct points…

[turbid flare]

Taking Command of the Fleet -ALB lists Borg Probes as 10 points each, but are only giving 1 point each.

[white bramble]

What does the events page say. The banner is usually wrong

[white bramble]

Clear localisation cache. It’s supposed to be flipped

[turbid flare]

What events page? I go by what the banner tells me. The banner should be giving me correct information.

[white bramble]

Click on the event.

In your events tab

That will show the correct scoring

If it does then the black banner is irrelevant

[fiery iris]

is it really 6 borg uc directives for 10k nanoprobes at a t8 vidar ? shouldnt it be 60 directives?

[runic arrow]

Am lvl 35 and even with the Federation Translink Disruptor research and my three strongest ships I can barely do any damage on the lowest level Borg Sphere, is there any plans to have a different option to complete the Resistance is NOT Futile - SMS event?

[white bramble]

Yep. You need a T9 Vidar for full 100

[cosmic quarry]

borg solo armarda is 3 ships or just 1?

[turbid flare]

The event states I should be getting 10 points per probe kill (as the first screenshot shows.) I am not getting 10 points per probe kill, I am getting 1. I checked within the event after a kill, and it was 1 point.

[viral kayak]

yep

[white bramble]

Thank you I’ll pass that on.

[fiery iris]

yes but i only get 6 not 60

[white bramble]

Correct. T1-8 get 6

Who told you it was 60?

[marble sierra]

so unless we spend money on directives we are gonna have events that cant be finished ? :x

[dim pollen]

Event scoring is wrong only getting 1point for borg probes

[inland apex]

so you can only complete the Resistance is NOT Futile - SMS Borg Solo Armada event if you have a T9 vidar to get enough armada credits to run a 3rd?

[wicked current]

need hostiles in the borgmada systems to die on so i dont have to summon my cerritos and defiant home

[white bramble]

Yep

[rustic plover]

Still the same after clearing….
And the gift of shards to fix peoples missing shards. I got shards for the wrong officer…

[unique badger]

Isn't that event ops 35+? Who is 35+ and don't have a max Vidar?

[inland apex]

I am 3 upgrades from T9 vidar and level 35. Just beat 2 solo borg armadas with T3 Enterprise, T9 Salidan, T7 Legionary

[bronze rain]

I don’t lol. Didn’t get vi dar early on with cosmic cleanup. I went disco first. I’m level 37 and my vi dar is only t7. I also don’t grind borg ever soooo I’m a little behind

[north lintel]

I really like the new Borg refinery with the officers but it lacks independent credit for the rank and file. It would have been wise to include some in the epic chests?

[fiery iris]

mine vidar is t8 at ops41 never saw the need to push for a t9…. also 3 upgrades away

[inland apex]

They need to rethink how people can finish the Borg Solo Armada SMS event

[dark horizon]

maybe make it clear through some sort of in game guide that the research is NEEDED for the borg spheres, wasted the directives trying to figure out how to get the smallest armada down, it might be in the release notes but not everyone reads those 20 pages

[frail bridge]

@icy cairn @wanton copper the Free gift u guys just gave was not fc officers shards it was a mission now I have 2 of the same mission running....

[hidden needle]

@wanton copper these refresh times dont go well with a two day event

[inland apex]

I wonder if missing 1 SMS will prevent me from finishing the "We Are The Borg" Monthly SMS

[pliant grail]

@wanton copper @icy cairn why have you turned the we are the borg monthly into a HEROIC by making players finish all three 'resistance is not futile' sms which is basically a soli HEROIC unless players have almost maxed out ships for their levels...and most 40's don't have that. Why!?!!

And then to add insult to injury, you make the borg daily grind into an EVEN WORSE daily grind by forcing players to grind even more to attempt the borg solos that most won't be able to compelte anyways!

Why! WHY! WHY!!!!

[low shoal]

@wanton copper @icy cairn Why are newer, less populated systems getting the same scoring for IMS events, as older, heavily populated servers, when there is absolutely no way we can complete them. This is the second arc in a row that this has been done, and it's ridiculous.

[turbid coyote]

Lol plenty of us, lots of Crystal hogs in this game and it was lower priority. Mine is ready to go to t8, was waiting for a spend event. So 6 directives a pop is incredibly annoying and I wish scopely would consider grouping it more like 7-9

[neon storm]

I went for a Full pull from inactive nanos to active nanos…inactive nanos disappiered, Timer set to 22 hrs and got 0 active nanos…ScoFAILy Hit it again

[foggy hamlet]

Vidar was excellent for raiding iso/lat/everything else for a while so I maxed mine first.

[white bramble]

If you are above ops 35 then as far as I can see you cannot miss an event otherwise you won’t get the full rewards

[inland apex]

So I won't get full rewards as I cannot complete the Solo Armada SMS just because I don't have my vidar up to T9.

[white bramble]

Maybe. Honestly I’m not sure because I have no idea how that Meta is supposed to run. But to me it seems it needs full participation

[dim pollen]

https://i.imgur.com/oInVrKp.png how are we suppose to finish this sms we dind get any directives.

[turbid coyote]

@icy cairn @wanton copper any chance this feedback can be addressed and the vidar directives tier adjusted to something more like 1-5, 6-9 or similar? The game has been pushing players to rush to 35 for months by locking almost new content behind it; plenty of ops 35 players without a maxed vidar

[stone quarry]

3 quantum locks for Spock? Only received 1?

[white bramble]

You have to pick 1 out of 3 options

[stone quarry]

That isn't right. How would a player know this before hand. 1 lock should unlock the whole thing. I'd rather dilly or Trit than parsteel tbh 🤣🤣

[white bramble]

That upgrade is very insignificant anyways

[stone quarry]

If so insignificant, why have it in gameplay?

[white bramble]

Tbh they are all insignificant until levelled up

[runic arrow]

I hope not as I can't complete today's SMS

[inland apex]

Same here see the response above

[quartz creek]

Don't know if they know, I would hope they would know by now. I'm having difficulty understanding the Borg Armada mechanics and mathematics at play.
1 Borg Directive spent = 100pts
4 Borg Directives spent = 400pts
10 Borg Directives spent = 1000pts
That was the easy part.
Destroy 1 Unc Borg Cube =100pts
Destroy 1 Rare Borg Cube = 320pts
Destroy 1 Epic Borg Cube = 800pts
This is where I get lost because it will always be more economical to just destroy uncommon after uncommon and never go after the bigger ones. There's no point to it and if Scopely just made it equal, people might would actually spend the directives on the rares and epics. Hell I know they would just to save time.

[runic arrow]

Hmm well I hope they reconsider as that sucks for the players who only just got to 35 and don't have strong fleets, I used my strongest ships with the research and barely made a dent in the shields of the L35 sphere

[inland apex]

I beat 2 spheres but I can't do the 3rd since my vidar is only t8 and can't get enough directives. I have other strong ships.

[timber maple]

That's how it is during the normal borg armada events between arcs. the uncommon borg cubes reward more if you only do them. the limitation is time.

[turbid coyote]

I beat it easily except for the one I accidentally sent PMC to 😂😂 so happy to help with crews etc if you need help but #🤝-help-each-other may be the better channel

[light canyon]

Worst events are when you force people to buy and run armadas yet have the armada events were only way to score is by beating them especially when you know most can’t beat the armadas way to go trailering a once decent game to just being for the pay to win

[livid yarrow]

I, along with nearly every person I’ve seen comment in months, have asked for less to do and not more. This arc maybe the worst ever and I wish I hadn’t already wasted my money on the elite pass or I would quit the game today after playing for years. Too many issues with this arc to even type them all out. Scopely you should listen to the people that actually play the game. It’s too bad because this was a great game. I will not be spending another dollar and will likely quit altogether this arc. Good job ruining what could have been a fun arc with more stupid armadas. We had borgmadas already.

[runic arrow]

My strongest ships are only just over 1m and my Vidar is T7, but because Ops in 35 am stuck on the Sphere's SMS so basically I am pretty much screwed, shame really as I like this game but clearly don't spend enough for Scopely to actually care

[wet oak]

@white bramble is there some logic to the mechanics behind the solo borg madas? I did three - two fail and one success. First was without support/exo - lvl 45 uc - lost by 665K. Popped a 165% mada exo and brought the Cerritos - same three ships and crew and won. Repaired all the ships and ran again, but the third time, lost by 51mil. Why the wild discrepancies in results?

[flint yacht]

Exactly the same happened to me. Full pulls appear NOT to be working on nanoprobes

[pliant grail]

Crits. Crits on you and on them. If you look at the logs, they don't go for long.

The borg armadas are massive differences between levels. A 41 I can run a dozen and not lost any ship, that same group on a 45 doesn't even fo half hull.

[silver briar]

Where are the better officers?

[white bramble]

In the rare and epic solo exchanges

[silver briar]

Ahh ok so the same ops locked bs as the bajoran arc. No money from me. Ops 39 should be high enough for the content. Now I see why the 5min censor is on too . Definitely taking care of the player base/customer.

[white bramble]

#💬-events-feedback message

[wet oak]

thanks for the feedback. I ran three and had wildly different results - and the logs - not all that different. I didn’t expect such wildly different results, especially when on mada number 2, I won - and the 3 mada, running the same set up, was a massive defeat, more so than the first when I had zero boosts.

[pliant grail]

This arc has been a big failure imo. I am just close to quitting. Taking a boring grind every few days and turning it into a daily grind again, and making it even worse, is just a pain! The borg armadas are just broken. I can run 41 all day long and not die but a 45, the next uncommon up, spanks me! Broken. And there is no way to finish the monthly sms or 3 of the sms events for it. Many players are in that same boat.

Scopley has failed and started the year out badly. Just when I started to have hopes for them fixing things.

More independent officers but no more independent credit sourcing. More pay walls. More solo armadas to run. More penalizing for not having maxed out and big time ships. More grinding. Adding an officer that gives a small boost to loot is just the middle finger imo. No only does he start out so low it is not worth it, but you have to have an open below deck spot that is not needed which no ftp players have yet on the mantis. The boost to vidar loot speed is nice but the vidar cargo is still behind a pay wall and there is NO FTP sourcing for it yet.

The list of failures that scopley has started the year out with is staggering.

[golden atlas]

@wanton copper I'm listening to DJz podcast from yesterday (talking in cars), and I'm wondering if there was a change in implementation with regard to the borg probe grinding exocomp. You said that it was a guaranteed drop from each solo borg armada, which isn't the case. Did you mean that the exo is guaranteed from the borg armada boxes? If so, hitting the lvl 35 solo borg armadas, that takes three borg armadas to get a guaranteed exocomp (that's 86,400 charged nanoprobes), or 1.5M inert nanoprobes every 3 days to be able to do a double pull in the refinery. This is a drastic increase in grind

[golden atlas]

Eco gave a strong hint that independent credits and faction credits will get an increase next month in the borg refinery. He said it in yesterday's podcast. Still, my bet is that it'll be a paywalled prime or something

[sweet valve]

I’ll be frank, he needs to do a better job. The background to DJz asking for the exocomp was to reduce the daily grind once a ship was maxed like the Vidar. It got turned on its head and doubled the grind time plus penalized the faction credit pulls. The only grind actually reduced was the ship xp grind 🤣

[worn shadow]

Where in the World are we going to get the Independent credits to upgrade all the Borgs?

[golden atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/magic-confetti-awesome-gif-11884906

[vernal isle]

Triple that question for the nanoprobes for tiering as well

[lone dragon]

Ok, So these Solo Armadas are some kind of joke right? Make a whole event around them and at level 34 I can't even come close to killing one. What the hell?

[uneven arrow]

at 34, you are not doing solo armadas for the event, you do regular borg armadas

[stoic peak]

You guys said you'd help cut down on grind. Away teams made it so I never have to grind probes as it would give me enough for a week at a time which a 100k refine would provide me enough for my indy shards and 1 factions credits NOW I need to refine a MILLION a day, when my vidar has (with cargo) 910k max capacity. What part of cut down on grind were you guys confused about? You brought back something most people had STOPPED NEEDING TO GRIND.

[lone dragon]

My event specifically said Borg Solo Armadas.

[vapid meteor]

I’ve had amalgam since it was available in an event store. Still haven’t earned 1/6 of the stuff needed to get the jellyfish refit. It will take a lifetime to get anything useful out of this. Same as every aspect of the game. Nothing takes less than 2 years to get/complete

[sour arch]

Yup. By the time you can unlock any of the refits through the Amalgam Refinery you won't use the ship any more 🤦‍♂️ 😭

[terse thunder]

In 3 years I only missed a few weekends. But now I consider either having a month pause or quitting altogether. The worse grind in this game that I found hard to do often enough for daily pull is now double? I'm not sure I would do it even if I was payed for it.

[vapid meteor]

That’s why I’m not spending any until I can afford the whole thing. Incase I get a new ship that makes all this worthless. Such a badly designed game. Can’t actually get any time to enjoy these ships, just spending all day grinding to catch up

[crystal orchid]

Simulators required asap please

[deft wren]

When Star Trek Timelines added a significant amount of new officers they would occasionally GIFT the players extra cryostasis spots to store all the ones not needed daily.

Given the increasing amount and variety of grinds and Armadas in the game it would be a nice gesture if Scopely handed out some extra crew presets

[sudden zodiac]

Presets need to be fixed first and cover all officers on a ship, bridge and lower deck. Takes more time to organise than before if you are shuffling a whole team.

[uneven arrow]

weird, should def be normal borg armadas

[white bramble]

The scoring card says both you need to use your bracket to decide what you are doing

[white bramble]

Screenshot please

[uneven arrow]

We had an earlier conversation, this answer will make sense to him

[remote badge]

@wanton copper @icy cairn The events calendar for the last week looks ridiculous… I double checked it at least 3 times; there are a ton of events on the 27th but nothing other than the armadas on the 25th?

[white bramble]

Half the events are ticket events so you can only do 1 anyways

[remote badge]

Assuming a player does 1 ticketed event and the battlepass, that’s still 7 events even though nanoprobes will count toward multiple. And it doesn’t explain leaving Wednesday so empty…

[modern urchin]

Ive aload of banked tickets from events ive not run

[vagrant topaz]

@wanton copper @icy cairn 10,000 charged nanoprobes for SIX armada creds unless you have a maxed VIDAR. WHat sort of nonsense is this! 170,000 charged nanoprobes to do one borg armada. thats insane!

[vagrant topaz]

That’s a choice; the intent is that you can/should do one, and you can choose to do more 🙂

[olive cradle]

Don't waste your time for a month over $20, your time is more valuable than that.

[desert nimbus]

borg solo armada sms event at 45 is way too many points, at 44 it's 3k points, at 45 it's 15k points, which makes no sense considering there are no new ships at 45 to help with the increased points, and 45 borg solo armadas are a huge jump from 41s

[lone dragon]

Definitely Solo, but I am ops 35. just everything else is 34

[shut wharf]

yep levels 35 without a maxed vidar are excluded from the event in a way... 17 days to get the third solo borg directives and no way to complete by borg cubes...

[lone dragon]

Yeah, and my most powerful ship is my Bortas at 1.7M maxed

[shut wharf]

Logic would have been imho to have the "borg sphere" event restricted to vi'dar tier 9 owners... those without cannot complete "resistance is NOT futile" event by lack of directives, and are thus relegated in the Fleet Commanders events as they do not have access to the solo loot AR chests... Quite unfair, no?

[lethal moss]

Another month of no sms mat spend for officer recruits, I thought it was decided that was terrible and basically makes it so light spenders or f2p can’t get any of the new officers. I know Scopley needs to make money but this stuff pushes more players away.

[lone dragon]

What are these good for? Can't find a store to use them in.

[prisma pollen]

Very last section of the regular store, furthest to the right is the section to spend those. Most people in my Alliance save them for events like the Orion Syndicate XP since there's literally no way to quick boost through those but $$$ or Multiphasic Credits you got for already spending $$$.

[steep prism]

Im disapointed in the borg solo armada roll out. I am needing to do 3 them for the event, but was only given enough to run 2. Then the exchange for directives is tiny, only 6, so that means you expected everyone over level 35 to spend real money to complete the event.

But it is more than that. You only get the 6 reg borg directives if you complete that event. So now im missing out of the solo event rewards AND im missing 6 reg borg armadas also.

Now i have spend a very good sum of money in this game, but i will not spend on directives that i need to complete a event your asking me to do. And i wont spend any more money at all until you make it to where i can complete the events that are posted.

People asked for less grind, less currency, and less armadas. Yall did the total opposite of that. Maybe time to rethink the persom in charge of making events.

[boreal coyote]

we will have some - Recruit Hugh 14-15, 21-22

[lethal moss]

I only saw leaderboards for the recruits, no milestone events, and we all know f2p or light spenders don’t win leaderboards at higher levels

[boreal coyote]

web currency only - like a rewards program for buying direct.

[stable urchin]

i am only getting single points, not double for the kirk eclipse event, even though i have kirk slotted as fleet commander. anyone else?

[vapid meteor]

Physically can’t keep up with dallies, multiple VI’dar runs, mantis and dominion every day and more everyday. Have to just ignore parts of the game and let myself fall behind. All this stuff shouldn’t have been released so close together. No time to max anything

[deft wren]

Worked for me, have you unlocked a skill that affects the ship you're using?

[safe cloud]

28.8k for 100 uncommon directives? Seriously? This is way to much, especially when you usually use the stuff to get your faction credits on a daily basis.

And: that increases the daily time consumption again enormously and looking at the roadmap I actually thought you want to keep an eye on that?

[ocean belfry]

The leaderboards for the FC stuff are poorly thought out in that the top 3 (or more) are all likely to have the exact same score and then it's fully down to luck on who gets what.

[steep prism]

Consider yourself lucky. Anyone with a non maxed vidar is getting 6 at a time instead of 100. Litterally cant do the event without buying a directive pack.

[small lotus]

With 50 by pull we would have had a fair chance. But 6, it’s ridiculous!

[steep prism]

They should have at least increased by each vidar tier.

[peak meteor]

The one I did good on had no boosts. Thought. I did decent. So ran 3 exocomps and a Cerritos boost. 😑 only in this game can you buff up and do worst 🙄 guess I didn’t buy the 9 pack of 99.99 rng primes oh and the unc armada bellow that. I totally waste it. 🙄

[vernal isle]

8 and 9 from borg crew work vs these like they do on megacubes.
Data is really really bad, period.
You need to make sure you have a Lorca or gorkon in the group.

[vagrant topaz]

You've done the combat research? This should have been a win

[peak meteor]

Thanks for 8 and 9 reminder. Forgot all about them. Crews were Borg armada couple with kahn. Sisko miles and gorkon then data bev and Picard. I be in a top 2 alliance on my server. Some have had luck with these crews. What gets me is unbuffed I did better than buffed. If I would have just lost and did better. I could live with that. But to do that much worse. 🙄 game is a joke.

Yes research all done.

Exos were armada boost. Attack boost and battleship boost. And the Cerritos. On the biggest ship.

[short silo]

armada and bb boost are pretty much useless on those, there's little difference between+35000 % and +35300 %

[remote badge]

The announced event listing and the schedule don’t match.

1. Are there 2 Recruit Hugh XSLBs, or 3?
2. Is Mission Master the 24th-25th or the 26th-27th?

[vagrant topaz]

The in-game calendar is always buggered. Never rely on it

[remote badge]

Last month the calendar was actually more accurate than the event announcement… seems smarter just to ask.

[vagrant topaz]

I wouldn't know, since I stopped looking at it after it was wrong for a year straight 😆
(It's never had EVERY event in it)

[lone dragon]

Yeah, nothing in my store for them

[deft wren]

Should be here, if you have earned any. If you haven't it won't show up.

You earn them by purchasing packs on the webstore rather than in-app

[autumn wadi]

Any chance you can make these three separate currencies look more different?

[rigid topaz]

If I spend $100 to get the Borg Refinery bonus (new prime) will it reset my pull?

[real vigil]

Huge fail, scopely. AT missions supply the nanoprobes that I need to refine and trade in for FACTION/INDEPENDENT CREDITS, and now you add a ridiculous amount to redeem for 1 borg armada?? The value of the armadas has yet to be demonstrated, as I haven’t been able to cash anything in in the refinery. The new officers are meh at best. Your attempt to ease up on the grinding is a piss-poor failure. Unless you were trying to bring back something that a lot of people were happy could be sourced elsewhere (AT missions). I can’t recall a worse arc than this one. Am seriously considering throwing up a 30 day shield and hoping for better next month. Scopely grade: F

[north venture]

How are rankings for XSLB being determined when top 15 all have same points?

[subtle reef]

from the perspective of players, it is random, i.e., no way to know

[harsh flower]

So what shall we do we cant complete borg solo-armada event we havent get enough credits for it it takes 23h to get 1 and then we are missing 1 day. Event stopp today so I cant complete it and then I cant complete borg event eighter need points from borg soloarmada event to get points to borg event. Some of my alliance members have 8h betwin they can collect credits and I and some more have 23h.

[sweet valve]

Well, at least those wallets in that server have remained closed.

[vapid meteor]

Scaling of the borg armadas + SMS has screwed me for this arc. In order to complete SMS, based off how many directives I can earn, I need to hit 45's ... but I can't hit 45's. In normal solo's i can do 43's no problem, but there are no 43's in borg. Jumps from 41-> 45. Can get enough directives to kill 15 x 41's

I've done research, using the correct crews, used exocomp, boosted with cerritos etc. Can't do it. So i'm just out for this arc, can't do events

[elder marsh]

Will it be sometime actually possible to switch the abilities on a fleet commander? I'm not sure why but I missclicked on Kirk and choose Warp instead of impulse...

[patent river]

When u unlock impulse with that special token, should allow you to swap between the two.

[urban moth]

@wanton copper @icy cairn - So the Vi'dar is THE ship for borgs... but was completely ignored in this update? We have borg armadas and the Vi'dar is not the ship to use. You created research to make faction ships stronger against borg armadas... stronger than the Vi'dar. Why wouldn't you enhance the vi'dar as a critical ship that can do more against the armadas than faction ships?

We invest months in upgrading it and it turns out it's just good for grinding probes to feed the refinery. Why do you take every ship that could be MORE and turn it into a waste of time?

[elder marsh]

Well from how I understood it you can only choose once, unfortunately I unlocked Warp instead of Impulse. So now I'm missing the Key to unlock it as I've already used it. And the description for that key only says that it will be given by unlocking the fleet commander.

[patent river]

I assume more ranks of kirk, will yield. I get a daily skill pull as well as the daily cc one. So prob eventually unlocks. Or now fomo and make u buy a kirk pack for more skills.

[dark horizon]

Dear Scopely, not that you care, but the amount of time that is required to complete missions / factions / dailies in this game has become untenable, as many have said before. It pretty much requires one to quit their job to progress. At this point, I am just going to move on and find another game that can be played for fun and not as a second job.

[urban moth]

Bye Felicia. You do realize that they've improved many loops, right?

[patent river]

They just revived the borg, which has been basically dead for years.

[urban moth]

It could be great... but in true scopely fashion, they missed the mark.

[patent river]

Verdicts still out, and there's prob more to part 2. Re introduced the grind, and better rewards. More screen time. If your not putting in the time are you really playing stfc?

[dark horizon]

To each their own, but this game now requires grinding for faction rep, for mantis refinery, for bajoran rep, and with this arc for borg spheres (which look suspiciously similar to a death star - not long before star wars franchise comes in with an IP infringement case), which all these take too much time altogether to complete. Add to this the mining required for G3,4,5, etch refining and you got your second job.

[patent river]

It's what these games do. Pick your flavor. Destiny, cod, fornite, wow. They all have grinds. They designed to keep you in game.

[urban moth]

Faction Rep Grinding has always been a thing. This isn't new. For the 3 core factions, there are ways to speed this up now. Bajoran faction is a slog, but better than launch. Mining... park your miners overnight and you're free and clear in the morning.

What level are you? Because I'm lvl 35 and frankly the game takes me a couple hours to play every day. I'm normally in it much more than that... but if I plan things out, I can usually get what I need in a couple hours then send miners out for their jobs.

[patent river]

You'd think games now would be fun, to keep you coming back. Now it's usually a daily requirement, social aspects, events. Every game has them. If you don't enjoy it, there's many more or completely different genres to go enjoy. Games as a service is the new norm.

[vagrant topaz]

These leaderboards are a joke.. people with the same score should be the same rank, not just have it based on who got the points first... this is why it pushes people away as well. Yeah I got what ever score but so did 10 other people so you get screwed.

Could you imagine for example. Spend 100 to gain rank and then you are still the same rank as others but you still get screwed because of the moment you ranked up?

Just me but I think it's a horrible way to do leaderboards.

[urban moth]

how else would you do it? There needs to be a tie break that is reasonable. Typically, it's the milliseconds that matter.

[high aurora]

The in game news said ore, eclipse and alliance fleet development….Very disappointing

[gaunt hill]

Wow, Domination BP event, Display of Dominance ALB + SMS. All lasting 24hrs the day before a Mat spend event. Feeling the love there. 💩

And right after making an SMS that some players can't finish (Ops 35 with non-max ViDars).

[halcyon fiber]

very rewarding to get nothing @wanton copper

[hidden needle]

<@&509691205798592532> do we have events for this?

[high aurora]

Seems like they switched the ticketed event days around, just so there was NOT synergy….

[hidden needle]

So much for planning ahead on mining

[inner void]

I guess it would be too much to ask to have an ARC where there was not incredible LAG in Event Scoring. We go through this each and every ARC and it seems like nothing is done proactively to address the issue.

[hot crane]

same, terrible design

[sweet valve]

@wanton copper Been blowing up non-faction hostiles with my interceptor and getting no points. The few points were from Borg hostiles.

Edit: Ok, extreme lag to get points, but that 2nd step gave nothing like to other ppl.

[halcyon fiber]

i did get points, buy my rewards are empty and a window with no rewards pops up frequently

[hazy swallow]

So points not scoring, events missing reward tiers, wrong ticket events per the published in game schedule...just another day in scopelyville

[soft agate]

Yes the event is called buy a $99 pack

[serene blaze]

also, empty rewards

[mild moth]

Do we have such extreme lags again because so many players are hunting probes? Scopely at its best...

[hidden needle]

ahh the old spend more to earn less

[soft cove]

Are favors not scoring for power events?? Just did a favor that was 99k power and counted for nothing

[gaunt hill]

Most events have scoring delays of around a few minutes.

[tight elbow]

Dear scoobley, please dont make the mining ticket event the best rewards for materials every time

[manic estuary]

scoring lag again

[hazy swallow]

Scopely, GET OFF THE PHONE! The AOL disconnected again!

[bitter slate]

Oh noooooo, slow mooooddddeee has been enabled....

[white bramble]

It’s always on in feedback channels

[sand lintel]

i think thats a reference to the major event scoring lag currently happening.. could be wrong though

[white bramble]

😅

[trim gazelle]

Nothing is scoring today. Not dailies, not events, not anything.

All five of my swarm dailies going at different rates.

[static sand]

X 100. I get it after 3 hostiles every time. Unfortunately the gifts don't keep accumulating 😆

[misty pollen]

I came to check if there is immense scoring lag or scoring is broken… looks like everyone is lagging 😫

[sand lintel]

its taken like 3+ minutes for scores to come through for me but they are processing (guessing there's just a major backlog and or processing slowness)... maybe someone's runnng "SETI@Home" on the server... 🙂

[terse cliff]

if it say 24/25 even though you've hit way more, just reset your localization.

[trim gazelle]

I had one at 15/20, one at 60/65, one at 24/35, one at zero and one complete, all from the same 40x lvl 43 swarms 😂

[terse cliff]

i had all my swarm dailies do that however i reset my localization and they caught up and was able to claim them

[stone quarry]

Just spent 176k Ship XP and got no Battle Pass points even after Clearing Localization and other prescribed procedures.

[sand lintel]

event scoring is backed up.. it should show up in a few minutes (just trying to pass on info and have nothing to do with being able to fix it)

[uncut sentinel]

Okay I have given it 90 minutes and the game is still not scoring for the events. Any suggestions?

[sand lintel]

ive been waiting for 5 minutes for the last 500 points to show up on battlepass event... and it just showed up... but the milestone points havent transferred to the main "Assimilation event"

[wanton stag]

Ticketed events don’t match for mining today. Is there going to be something done? @wanton copper @icy cairn

[white bramble]

I’ve already asked and since it’s not changing it means they changed the order.

[frosty stirrup]

More likely someone loaded the wrong event

[sand lintel]

potato / potatoe (same end result - we get crystal today)

[shell kettle]

"Sorry for the unbearable server lag" chest incoming soon. Chest includes 100 latinum, and 100 2* crystal.

[frosty stirrup]

It’s all in how $copley spins the incompetence

[trail adder]

Ticket event tactical swarm sms not scoring properly. I’ve hit 7 level 46 swarms and only received 55k total points. It should be 710k points . 67650x7x1.5. Please address.

[rustic bison]

To echo the echo chamber here...scoring lag is particularly bad right now

[sand lintel]

i agree it doesnt match the calendar of events... the question is which part was wrong.. the reporting of the events or the loading of data to events... again, the end result is we get crystal today... and overall as problems go... I'd say that the event scoring is a much bigger problem today [much larger scope and wider impact] than a mis-scheduled event (reporting or loading of data - which ever one was wrong)...

[shell kettle]

There's NEVER any lag when it comes to someone wanting to PAY money to Scopley for something...works great , ALL the time, EVERY time... lol

[frosty stirrup]

Oh, I agree. The ineptitude runs wide and deep from the dev team to the programming intern.

[keen remnant]

Massive scoring delays atm for events and goals. Just did an entire hull with the Franklin A and no points

[sullen willow]

Hey! It's Friday and yet another Lagday! ☹️

[sullen badger]

You know what they say.... Never skip lag day!

[stable ivy]

no i have to blame the game managers for blocking the programmers from doing things that need to be done.

[subtle oracle]

ok so likey not only server but 113 not updating events

[novel mango]

Ticket mining event is not scoring.

[subtle oracle]

compo time full luck tos scotey please so i can do more mission in warp 120 space or 32 fedection facation crdits so i can unlock enter < more importent chears in advance scopey

[keen remnant]

Ridiculous, the game has been out for years and yet we still have consistent scoring delays with events/daily goals.

Is almost as if that scopely doesn't realize that events/dailies are a major driving force for people's game play. Why should we prioritize fixing a basic mechanic?

Scoring delay is over 20 minutes now on s65

[pallid tartan]

The shop hardly ever lags when dick Turpin wants his £89.99

[subtle oracle]

32K thats is to be clear cover a good 3 moths of bugs and what not

[brave tide]

Both destroy battleship event and borg probe event dont score. Points missing now for 30 minutes already. Server 130.

[vagrant topaz]

Ridiculously slow scoring on Server 33. Can't say how long because nothing is showing up yet.

[steep prism]

The issues have been since reset like 2.5 hours ago.... announcment a bit off dont yall think? Talk about trying to cover how bad this is.

It may have been getting worse through out, but deff major lag at reset

[slender tundra]

still no points on anything i'm doing in game and its been half an hour

[weak cave]

Slow scoring on server 172 and killing swarms doesn't bring bonuses for the points...

[lyric cipher]

Great, I kill swarms for 30 minutes (59 attacks) but it doesn't count for me in the event and daily mission. Also, no points in the event for completing research. Zero progress on everything. How long will I have to wait? You don't deserve the money here for that. I'd rather not write about the daily lags anymore, I have yet to experience a day without lag in this game. Server 180

[strong anchor]

On dailies I’m having not only delays but omissions on milestones. 2h since I collected with no points added to the milestones.

[kindred aurora]

As usual, the in-arc swarm events incentivise hitting regular hostiles over Swarm. 50% extra points for swarm isn't enough for it to match the regular faction or Jem'Hadar ships I can hit.
Quadruple points might be enough except there's more benefit to grinding extra rep or storing up antimatter units over hitting a tonne of Swarm once dailies are finished.

[lyric cipher]

After half an hour, it finally slowly and certainly began to change something. I'm on the ground and not on Mars, that's a lot across the line, yesterday 5 minutes, today 30 and tomorrow 24 hours are the prospects

[bitter field]

whats up with the massive lag is scoring and missing credits for things?

[shut wharf]

Same here, lag, milestones, rewards not validated... a whole mess

Some points appear after like 15 minutes or more...

[idle summit]

Ok so it is not only for me.

[mellow raptor]

The lag is so bad on server 75, the game is unplayable, no way to know if your scoring the events. This is getting ridiculous, every update the incompetence of your coders gets worse. The whole lot of you need to be fired

[remote badge]

Well, I guess the ticketed events really take up less time if they don’t even give us the tickets for one if them.

[slender tundra]

How come on the mining mastery crystal event the tritanium token awards do not match the raw amount of tritanium to be given out, but the ore and dilithium ones do match? @wanton copper

[white bramble]

You did get the tickets. MS 2 of bp

[steep prism]

No tickets in my whole server. They supposes to give them in the chests. BP ones are always extras

[white bramble]

Bp ones stopped being extra months ago. They don’t always give gift chests now only when bp doesn’t cover it.

[vagrant topaz]

Is anyone else not scoring anything now?

[modern monolith]

State of the art cutting edge payment servers, but the game is running on hardware built from reject parts from Wish...

[white bramble]

#⭐-official-announcements

[steep prism]

I got them last time like normal. Just another scoply money grab. And i do spend money. Well i should say i did spend cause after today i will be f2p. Scoply has gotten extra greedy this ark and yet cant afford to maintain their servers?

[white bramble]

During DS9 they used both methods. The tickets in bp pass have been a thing since the summer. Unfortunately no more free tickets

[steep prism]

You mean no more free to play at all. Ticketed events, solo armada directives, many events, ect all has now been pay walled. Like i say, greedy.

In the past we would have even been given 2 extra cells for the probe event. This ark is a pay walled terror 🤷‍♀️

[sand lintel]

i would argue that they did need to give us extra warp tokens for the borg event... and doesnt look like they thought of that

[lyric cipher]

I am not interested in any free gitfs, I will not open it. Maybe something max ($100) that can only be bought in the game. If I didn't have lag every day, yes. But over half an hour lag is already a breeze. I don't know at all what I have done and what not. I won't find out until the morning, but then again I won't have much time because I'll be at work, so no ready-made events.

[wraith zephyr]

If the goal here for this arc was to make me appreciate all of the content that already existed, job well done. The new features are a nakedly capitalistic money-grab. They're excruciatingly hard to comprehend, needlessly convoluted, and offering very little in the way of actual rewards. Requiring a T9 vidar to get more than 6 solo directives at a time, and making it so incredibly expensive, without offering an easier way to acquire the resources necessary to even PLAY THE NEW CONTENT, is a slap in the face. I love this game, but there is so far no redeeming value to anything introduced in the last 3 days. It's frustrating, it makes me want to log out until it all becomes clearer (much less accessible to people at my level without infinite money to throw at the problem). You didn't make the Borg better, you made it more tedious and much more expensive. It's discouraging, and even the whales in my alliance are actively avoiding engaging with the new content. I highly suggest getting real actual community input in the future, and add a goal that isn't sucking more money out of the people you know are going to spend it anyways.

[steep prism]

Agreed. To make us need 3 of the solos to finish event and only giving us 2 was rediculous. They should of at the very least made each vidar tier get a little more than the last.

[remote badge]

As others have said, we still got gift boxes with event tickets consistently during the previous arc. And if the BP ones were supposed to give us enough to do 1 event per day, they would have needed to give us 30 tickets. The BP milestone only had enough to do one out of nine ticketed events. You don’t have to just make excuses on their behalf.

[white bramble]

Yep we did get gift boxes towards the end of the arc but the start was all from bp.

[stone quarry]

Borg Event today has no points being tallied or rewards.

[shut wharf]

Maybe they can give some tickets as lag Oooopsie?

[stone quarry]

WTH?!? <@&509691205798592532>

[white bramble]

#⭐-official-announcements

[heavy escarp]

Does nobody read the announcements that they push out? In game and here on discord.... jeez. SMH. The question you should be asking is will all our progress catch up with that server issue. Or should we all pause progress? And even that was already answered in thr announcements

[lone ridge]

i finished that now

[stone quarry]

This concern has been addressed 5 ARC's ago and has been ignored by Scopely Support to take the opportunity and correct the issue. Just sayin.

[slender tundra]

@white bramble any idea why these do not match?

[white bramble]

What am I looking at?

[dense canopy]

Scopely: we want to reduce the grind ! also Scopely : please kill 750 borg probes complete this event. in 24h

[light canyon]

Still waiting on the rest of my scoring since I know for a fact I finished this event completely

[quartz arrow]

The lag is also affecting dailies I collected it but it's not showing any points

[stone quarry]

I hope Scopely intends of reimbursing lost tickets for today's events and Full Compensation as well for today's events, and not just Officer Shards as an apology.

[vale harness]

According to my calculations and what scopely has written, killing one lvl 51 hostile should’ve finished this event. I killed several. I got no points ….

[white bramble]

The events are still scoring. They are just delayed

[white bramble]

#⭐-official-announcements btw there is lag

[rigid belfry]

False, not scoring for me at all

[stone quarry]

4hrs I've been waiting hbu? Seems a bit much for lag

[pallid sand]

Yes, it's lagging

[lone ridge]

my we are the borg thing just came through

[vagrant topaz]

My events started scoring..then stopped again...same for my dailies, which I am closest finishing..but don't know really.. mainly it is the 7 day token I am worried about, so I don't lose out getting the 30 day...

[lone ridge]

now waiting on FC Skill Champion XSLB thing to work and crystal thingy as well

[loud viper]

the grind for 'plug the leaks' is bad

[astral talon]

How so? At 41 with Kirk it wasn’t too tough

[shut wharf]

over 1 h lag to score "opening 24Hrs chest" 🤣

[loud viper]

im killing lvl 30 probes. takes over 500 to finish

especially for a 24h event. non-zero chance it will reoccur during this event too

[light canyon]

We’re is the event for earning this I don’t see it anywhere

[steep prism]

$$$$ check the store 😂

[boreal coyote]

odds everyone gets arrock? 😀

[dim hare]

Probes - mining- swarm - doesn't matter I am not getting credit for anything... put in a ticket and they said yes you pulled 27K off the node... but says nothing about the fact that I go credit in the event for only 9K... not even going to bother with the fact that I am not getting credit for swarm or probe kills... their CS is clueless..

[strong anchor]

Still no milestone score on dailies since 4-5h. Regular events scoring has trickled in. Are the dailies a write off?

[astral talon]

Ouch. That sucks. No chance of punching up to the 31/32/33?

[swift rain]

Borg probe space is a parking lot at Cosco and it's not even Saturday!

[bitter field]

Battlepass does not sem to be fixed yet

[vale laurel]

Anyone else missing points from this event? We should be at a total of 900 points. So now the slb for the Fleet Commanders ends in 16 hours so I will be screwed out of those points i'm sure.

[chilly sable]

So when in Gods green earth are we gonna get borg probe systems higher than level 33? Did it for mantis system, why not borg?

[icy marsh]

It ends in 16 days, not hours. Oh wait NVM you're talking about the other event I guess

[icy marsh]

Interesting, I looked at mine and despite finishing all the events except today's, I'm only at 600 pts

[quartz creek]

I don't know what you guys are talking about. We just started on Tuesday and have had two FC events and two Borg events. The two FC events were 48hr events, one Borg event was a 48hr event and today's Borg event was a 24hr event. We should all be at 700pts if all the events have been completed. EDIT: Belay my last, we should be at 900pts after today's FC Kirk events.

[vale laurel]

Mine finally came, it was the last reward i got but i wanted the upgrade materials for the slb that ends in 13 hours

[quartz creek]

Glad it worked out for you.

[vale laurel]

Thank you 😊

[gilded pilot]

@wanton copper what is going on with these cyber luck tokens? Why would I pay for a chance at ship bps lower than my ops level?

[elder marsh]

Why was the charged nanoprobe prime only available for a few days when all other new stuff is in the shop for the whole event?

[limber marsh]

@wanton copper that was rhe best communication with us in official announcement, Keep it up

[final pendant]

Are you kidding me. Over 2000 level 35 swarms to complete this event. Give me a freaking break some of us have lives outside of this game. @wanton copper

[limber marsh]

One 49s should so this

[final pendant]

If I could beat that I would. People like you are why people don't say anything. Be constructive or stay out.

[wraith wasp]

That is constructive. On my server most ops 35 can defeat a 49 with the 2 ship method.

[limber marsh]

Im lvl 39 and Beat 49 Trader since 4 lvls, so what lvl you have that you cant Beat swarm 35 and Not 49 with augur, d4 or ent?
And im f2p player

[final pendant]

I can not beat them. My ships can't even get out to a 49 trader. I cant get to deep space

[limber marsh]

Sol, kronos are Not deep space, and only Hit the normal ones , Not the heavy ones

[final pendant]

There not swarms for the event

[limber marsh]

You dont need swarm, i finished without Killing one swarm

[quartz creek]

This is what happens when people assume and do not read. @final pendant you DO NOT need to kill swarms for the event. They give bonus points. Go to Sol, Romulus or Kronos and kill one regular trader. If you have a T4 epic ship with PMC or PBC you should be able to kill one with a couple of hits.

[final pendant]

Well I can't do that. SO GIVE CONSTRIVE CRITICISM or MOVE ALONG. Toxic stuff like this is why people quit this game.

[white bramble]

👀

[vagrant topaz]

Toxic reactions to people offering advice that you’re not hearing is why people leave; people want to help, but at 35 if you can’t kill a 49 trader by giving it a whack with an epic ship then tell us what ship you have so we know what we’re working with to help you. 🙂

[final pendant]

Or this is the feedback channel. I'm giving my feedback. And you all are attacking me.

[vagrant topaz]

Well, I guess my feedback on your feedback can only extend to “git gud” then rather than anything more helpful 🙈

All of those style events (particularly separatists) are best completed with the highest level hostiles you can kill; the modifiers are rarely worth it.

[final pendant]

Again feedback channel. Not asking for help. It's not that hard.

[white bramble]

It looks like you are. End of story. If you want help #🤝-help-each-other

[patent tide]

I think you might be misunderstanding the event, you get bonus points for swarm, but you can kill normal hostiles to finish the event....I'm not a giant scopely fan, but this event isn't bad.....kill a Kronos or earth or Romulus " normal trader" or use pike moreau chen to grind out some hostiles...

[quartz creek]

Don't bother, he's a miserly one who just wants to exercise their "right" to be however they want to be without anybody telling him he's wrong.

[wicked pike]

Otherwise known as being Karen 😂

[quartz creek]

I think for guys it's either Kyle, Kevin or Chad. Society hasn't decided yet. 🤣

[dapper junco]

What happens to the Surplus commander parts that you got in the battle pass?

[white bramble]

Turns to FC Dust

[dapper junco]

ah ok thanks 👍

[boreal coyote]

Cross server top 50 😐 not cool

[silver briar]

Where’s the sms?

[frosty stirrup]

@wanton copper Really????????????????????????

[half flare]

XSLB where 25th place pays less than 10% of the shards needed for unlock? Trash

[white bramble]

#💫-event-information there isn’t one scheduled

[boreal coyote]

Total trash

[green mica]

Trash events aside, I want to say it’s really great that we’re getting events with Indy credits as rewards. Much needed.

[frosty stirrup]

And tomorrow $copley has blessed us with this 💩 . Level 42 players required to PvP level 50s in a single system that pays only for wins.

[mental helm]

Looks like im not going to be buying a couple of pack anymore. XSLB means its just not worth it to spend. Guess itll go towards another game this month.

[mild coyote]

10pt per probe

[boreal coyote]

You guys aren’t creating FOMO, your creating anger in your player base

[harsh mason]

Real clever, cut payout of officer shards by 50% by doing xslb and on top of it, no SMS. 🤑

[gaunt hill]

Not only that. But ours is (at least) 3 Servers, and only first gets the full unlock.

I can't imagine the thought process on this or it's reasons. But I can tell you the feeling from the FTP player side is, why do I keep playing this game? If I keep asking myself that every month, I'll stop asking and go play something else.

[agile hound]

3 days of domination events in a row. Screw right the hell off.

[sage steeple]

XSLB and no SMS? That's dumb. Not even a heroic SMS just nothing at all except hope you can spend enough to maybe get 20% of the shards you need. I don't like it.

[mild coyote]

as usual they make the officer thats especially important to the struggling f2p extra impossible to get in the hopes that theyll start spending

[high aurora]

Hugh auction is only 50 deep and no SMS. What kind of infuriating BS is this!

[woeful whale]

Cross server spend event? No sms? Trash. Oscar the grouch wouldn’t be caught dead doing that event.

[tight elbow]

@wanton copper please don't make the mining event ticket pay out the best every time

[snow pumice]

Thanks scopely. You just saved me almost $1000 this month with your XSLB nonsense. No point blowing the same amount of money and getting less than 1/2 the rewards as before.

[novel totem]

So again an auction without an accompanying for f2p or low spenders to accompany the auction? I would appreciate one of those mat spend sms giving out some cyberluck tokens 🍀

Worked out last 2 times why make it different this time?

[high wharf]

Thank you so much for the skill champion SLB wherein places 19-40 are tied so deep, it pushes people out of rewards brackets. Maybe next time, you can make it so only the top 25 get prizes so I can get screwed even more

[high aurora]

It's worse. It's an XSLB with only 50 slots, not 100. The rich get richer....yet again

[fair cairn]

no we don't - 50+ is all in one bracket. whales are just as furious right now

[high aurora]

Well, even the rich have rich, so the giga whales get to curbstomp the uber whales. Everyone looses. This is universally terrible.

[novel wolf]

I'm curious as to how the leaderboard rankings are determined when players are tied. On the cross server FC Skill Command several players were tied for 4th place. However, the rewards at the end of the event gave me 8th place rewards while the players from the other server were ranked higher than my server even though we had the same final score. Why not give all players tied the same reward tier?

[ebon matrix]

Scopely why are you guys SO CHEAP with payouts for a 2 server event??? Only 1 person has the chance of getting a full unlock through a spend event? Should be top 10 or something. All the other reward tiers are crap for what we have to spend. I'm sitting on 4 ships I want to full upgrade but this is just a waste.

[shrewd warren]

Come on, Scopely. I know you're busy with all that event testing, bug fixing and the 3d models for the Borg Solo Armadas (ha ha), but at least finish writing the tooltips on your gambling-boxes 🤣

[deft wren]

We have asked over and over for Deeper, more rewarding SLBs.

We need more than just the top player to win a full unlock - the top 3 at least should.
These "All-or-nothing" reward tables are terrible and discourage people from competing as they can potentially wipe out their RSS stash and still miss out.
The fact you're making these XSLBs and therefore further reducing people's chance to obtain the crew is also discouraging and now you removed the SMS and there's no reason to spend at all unless we think we'll place at the top.

[novel totem]

Also by regulatory means you are required to provide the odds. XX needs to be specified!

[proper dune]

What kind of crap is this? Having to go against 3 servers let alone at the 51-60 bracket....for only 50 positions? The xslb that just ended today likely had at least 150 spots....this crap has to end Scopely

[worn shadow]

There is no point of saving for these spending events anymore....

[sand lintel]

it would have been real helpful if scopely gave us more warp tokens to complete this event. 😦 I'm going to be unable to complete event at max tier because of not having enough tokens.

[storm mica]

That is terrible, i want the 11 shards @wanton copper @strange flume

[high aurora]

You probably have been so busy grinding probes for directives that you never thought you'd actually have to save tokens for an event that required you to grind more probes....They should have sent out a gift chest with tokens

[strong anchor]

Only 50 slots in the big spending XSLB event? No SMS at all? 🚫 Another don’t bother event.

[ebon matrix]

This game man. I have no problem spending money in a game I enjoy and know I will stick around in, but the way you guys are going I have no faith I'm going to keep sticking it out in this game... so I don't spend money on it now. I've saved for months for mats to tier up my Ent and Jelly. That gets me to position 23... a WHOPPING 11 shards... which I will probably lose that position anyway. Nope. Losing interest in this game FAST.

[novel mango]

@wanton copper we hate cross server spend events.

[lunar jay]

Then don't spend. No one is making you.

[cursive raven]

I'm seriously not ok with these events where our rewards are split with another server. We have enough people to compete against as it is. Please stop doing this.

[primal dune]

Please add SMS for recruiting events.
I’m not participating in SLBs.

[stray cedar]

On top of the rubbish rewards, cross server leaderboards, no recruit sms can you sort out the rewards for people when they score the same as others

[austere mortar]

and please!! enough with the grind on grind on grind events!! i don’t have 10 hours a day for this stuff!!

[devout dirge]

Can we get some ultra pull or at least epic/rare officer events to score with. Spend rss/armada directives are getting seriously boring and dull. We get it your greedy Scopely, but you guys have so many other scoring metrics you could use. You guys use to run Ultra pull events, not sure what changed.

[digital sage]

Putting a non ascended server against an ascended server in xslb spend events? Congrats Scopely, as usual you continue to run this game superbly. What a joke. and can you fix the spock bug while were at it? Its only been around for years

[main crater]

currently 122 people on our xslb

[humble sleet]

@wanton copper
Have to say if Scopley is actually worried about Player base decreasing = Revenue Decreasing they are approaching each new arc from a progressively worse point.

Spend events XSLB against 2 other servers is demotivating:.

We get that there is a balance, and Yes some of the whales will keep whaling, but you loose the dolphins and the F2P people when the competition is that cutthroat.
Doubly so when there isn’t a linked SMS!

-BTW the bracket changes are terrible:.

Sure some will disagree, but this isn’t the “fixes” and rebalancing most were asking for, it doesn’t seem to encourage longer term growth and more feel it’s another way to try and force people into spending..

-Taking a Event Store reward and turning it into P2W only doesn’t win you any fans:.

Cyber-Luck token chest? It’s the same chest we’ve seen in a couple arcs we could earn some rolls on via SMS, SLB and Ticket based SMS, and then spend to get more chances at it.
Making it P2W only, while also removing rewards from the BP looks pretty bad.

-Speaking of BP Rewards:.

Reducing the reward even further, swapping in ”Common” Fleet officer shards for UC, Rare & Epic officer shards feels cheap, especially when one is automatically unlocked via starting quest.
If the end result was a full unlock of the 2nd UC Fleet Officer of your choice we might not be as frustrated, but as it stands this seems disappointing, heck the “Elite BP” patch seems like the worst deal we’ve seen in a while.

.

The thing that leaves me scratching my head the most is Scopley gave us over a month of the Elite Reward as an apology for how bad the DSN arc started, and yet seemed to double down on the bad calls that caused so much outrage last time (Gaia gate aside).

If our outrage and frustration was clear why are we seeing this again?

[whole tinsel]

Please stop all Borg probe events until there are more systems…. I can’t breathe in the 33 system

[humble sleet]

-Oh and the new content didn’t need to be gated at 35:.

More than a couple players had a T9 Vidar by OP’s 28, and with the other OP’s 28 ships had the entry level Solo armadas been tuned slightly better it would have been more than doable.

Heck as an OP’s 35 I can solo the level 41 Uncommons without loosing a ship with only 2 epic and one Vi’Dar, and know someone who tried with only OPs 28 ships and a Vi’Dar, recently risen from OP’s 28 and they managed the 35’s just fine.

It was a missed opportunity to engage with lower / newer players, and I don’t think many will rush up, and if they do it won’t be a sustainable player base.

[normal dagger]

Scopely screwed 83 again, rerolling our match up away from vs 84 to vs 71.

[celest wagon]

Can you stop with the monetization experiments with officer recruiting. This month is another variation on a stingy xslb with a gambling pack add on and not even a free roll this time. Recruit events should be standard at 3 slb/sms per arc with decent payouts not less than 1/4 of an unlock for 4-5 and downhill from there. Not going to bother with this one or any other slb/xslb of this type. Good luck getting people to spend when losing is easy and the non winner rewards are so pathetic.

[normal dagger]

God forbid we stay matched vs servers in our own set of 10, 80 through 89

[vague terrace]

Why the heck are we doing XSLB’s when incursions aren’t going on and haven’t happened in a while successfully either. Pretty stupid scopely.

[vernal isle]

As the player base shrinks they need to squeeze who is left more.

[tall lantern]

@wanton copper @icy cairn I have to say I find this XSLB to be discouraging. It seems like there could have been, at the very least, the classic SMS event alongside the XSLB. I think that would be a significant improvement for next week. Cheers!

[mighty star]

Go out guys and buy more stuff. It is for a good cause

[shut wharf]

I agree , but there is also the inverse: many players ops 35 do NOT have a maxed vidar especially those who went for Saladin or D4 as they saved their crystal...

And the max sourcing they can get for borg spheres is a whopping... 6 directives a day! They are excluded form the most exciting event of this arc... farming like mad during 17 days to finally get the third solo armada??? Useless to spend 200 directives if you cannot secure even one ar chest pull..

[humble sleet]

And odds are they didn’t see the need for it since the other ships looked “better” out of the box.
(I actually disagree, numbers wise the Vi’Dar is an amazingly efficient ship, carried me from OPs 26 to 34, never built any OPs 28 or 32 ships).

The Vi’Dar has a big “hump” around T5/T6 where the grind is soul crushing (less with the SNW officers I’m sure) but I think many people haven’t maxed their Vi’Dars because they didn’t know the major benefits from having one, Faction and Independent credits.

That also falls on Scopley, information isn’t easy to find, they don’t bother helping the players grow by giving good info

[shut wharf]

You are right, but mainly among players in my alliance it is a matter of Crystal and grind time... truth is many will max out their vidar, but AFTER they have good armadas/pvp ships... Also TBH the borg refinery seemed an old and almost abandoned feature for a long time... those players were grinding actians last month!

My point is that this event should have been modulated around the vidar level, with specific events to HELP max the vidar, not drain the active probes away to grind an insulting low number of directives. With their faction ships and researches, those players with tier 6 7 8 vidars could run borg spheres 35 or 41 just fine, but are barred form running more than the two given away as gift at the beginning of the arc...

[humble sleet]

Agree 100%, heck every tier past 5 could get the same number of tokens, just increase the efficiency (lower the cost) of the refine.

But to be honest that issue could have been avoided if they did good community management, many other game companies gave clues, or flat out said “You’ll want to max out your Vi’Dar in the next month or two” (replace with whatever would be relevant for said game).

[humble sleet]

A good deal of this and other massive issues of late could be avoided if they had a “player council” or some other semi-direct interaction with players of varying OP’s level.

Many successful MMO’s have implemented them in one form or another, and don’t get me wrong, people like Rev and other content creators are important points of contact, but they don’t provide a wide enough degree of perspectives to cover something like this.

And before people comment about the difficulty of keeping leaks out of the community, most working professionals know what a NDA is, and will respect it, because a breach can cost adults their jobs.

[proper dune]

It's a wonder a few big people in the content creation industry ignored Scopley knowing how they work 🤣

[snow pumice]

To be fair, if by now an ops 35 player hasn’t maxed out their vidar, that’s on them. There are no excuses. It’s a unique ship with a lot of utility and has a power-cargo-speed-warp combination that’s unique and superior to any ship in and around its class.
A vidar doesn’t even cost that much crystal to max.

[wicked pike]

Please for the love of all that's holy, narrow the PvP event bands for the event due tonight! Only wins score? Ops 26 - 35? With lower part just having got theirs and upper part having maxed them? Also 42 - 50? Do you even realise even with a max vidar how wide the gap is considering research? It's a recipe for frustration!

[normal trail]

fix the borg armadas for ops 45

[fringe tree]

@icy cairn what’s the update on TREASURY this month ?

[wicked pike]

I don't know for a fact as not seen it with own eyes but I heard there is one actually, a sort of test server for upcoming features (I heard about the starbases already months ago from one player who wasn't very tight-lipped 😂 never put anything in writing or screens but freely bragged about insider knowledge on voice chat so leaks couldn't be traced to him). Problem being how do you get onto that? Well, word is the population is invitation-only and invitations go out to top players (read: whale spenders). Therefore, feedback from that is not what I'd class as multi- or wide- angled either

[vagrant topaz]

they should simply give points for loosing too, the same amount of points would be ideal, so people will not care too much on the outcome and take more risks and have more fun

[wicked pike]

yup, all that'll happen in 42-50 bracket is ppl sticking Dukat strike crew on their vidars and going in there trying to kill as many smaller players as they can before they get caught 😂
not my idea of a fun event, especially being in the lower end of this bracket

[turbid coyote]

The game has been pushing players towards ops 35 for months now by locking all new content behind it. If they hadn’t been, I wouldn’t be ops 35 right now, I would’ve waited longer to level up. I am far from the only one.

[normal trail]

they should stop all xslb and incursion, it does no good to anyone

[snow pumice]

While it has, one shouldn’t bow to peer pressure as it isn’t in your best interest to go 35. They just want you trapped there so you have to spend your way out of it

[turbid coyote]

My game is otherwise fine at 35. I’m triple locked. Can do dominion solos just fine. So no good reason to hold myself back from new content really. Surely anyone can agree that making the tier split for directives 1-8 and then 9 is ridiculous though.

[frosty stirrup]

<@&509691205798592532> Just want to make sure that I understand this event. I am a level 44 and I am required to take my Vi'Dar to one specified system and PvP with level 50 players. I only get points for wins and I must complete the task in order to finish the We Are The Borg SMS monthly event. Is this correct?

[white bramble]

I guess we will find out today

[zealous zenith]

Ops 46 here and also disappointed in the missing Spend SMS alongside the XSLB (which further dilutes the winner base). Best approach was the classic SLBs combined with the 4M SMS. Hope this feedback helps shaping the next arcs.

[frosty stirrup]

So I we're getting another great big steaming pile of garbage as event that only the biggest players in each bracket will be able to finish and everyone else will also be potentially screwed on the monthly SMS as a bonus.

And if there is a PvE option, why is it too much work for anyone at $copley to be bothered to check event descriptions to make sure they are correct? Whether it's incompetence, sloth or both, it is mind boggling

[dreamy hamlet]

Really need to tighten up these brackets to be more fair to players

[quartz creek]

I can only imagine the chaos that exists on some of these servers. We must have some pretty cool cats on 56 that are willing to donate their ships so that lower level players can score in events too.

[frosty stirrup]

When they pull this stupidity during the week, they could add a PvE option. On the weekends it can be challenging to find anyone at home at $copley They've also run these with multiple systems active for PvP credit. If this really one system and you must win the PvP, the whales need wins too and they are going to feed on the krill.

[quartz creek]

What I find hilarious is the freak out everyone has without really knowing anything. Do you know what the scoring metric is? Are we going to have to kill 100 Vidars to complete the event? More likely than not it's 4 or 5. I'm also trying to figure out why a lvl 42 has to compete with a lvl 50? That's just a bracket. Two lvl 42s can exchange blows just as two lvl 50s can. Is it easier for a 50 to snuff a 42, sure, but that doesn't mean that it is the only available option. And nowhere in the write-up does it say you HAVE to use a Vidar, only that you have to destroy a Vidar to score.

[frosty stirrup]

So two level 42s can exchange hits in the same system the 50s are exchanging hits without concern? Your server must have some really interesting RoE

[quartz creek]

No, warships are a free for all on 56. I guess we just have cooler people.

[frosty stirrup]

The point is that well thought out and well designed events would force players to depend on "cooler people"

[wicked pike]

and you don't see the problem of putting 42s in same bracket as 50s precisely because they can but most likely won't leave the lower ships alone and go for ppl same level especially if they don't have to use a vidar but can use their G4 rares and epics? they will snuff everything they can, leaving nothing to those on the lower end of the bracket

[quartz creek]

I cannot speak for other servers, but on 56 most of our alliances have Codes of Conduct speaking to what we deem to be acceptable behaviour. Being respectful, not hitting grinders, not hitting players just finishing armadas... Our top three alliances are pretty much all whales but they realize that the rest of us need to be able to play and grow so we just don't quit and leave them to their own devices. Alot of them go out of their way to help smaller players finish PvP SMSs. They dominate our SLBs, but we kinda realize that without them F2P wouldn't be a thing. Our ROE just protects armadas, UPC miners, and token spaces.

[wicked pike]

your server sounds like a haven, sadly ours has just too many high level people who don't look for any other way to complete events but the most obvious simple roll over everyone else in the process kind of way... or even do it on purpose as their idea of "fun" 🤷‍♀️
(remember the time we had PvP and armada events at the same time in Cardi space? we had just agreed on one system for PvP and left others alone... but there were a fair number at higher ops that just went "nah" and shot every PvE crewed ship in every system - fastest, easiest innit?)

[quartz creek]

I remember when I first started, I was on server 16. It was the wild, wild west. It was a struggle once I got to lvl 20, I couldn't do anything. The environment in that server was toxic. I quit the game for about 6 months before starting a new account on 56. Glad I did, much better environment.

<@&509691205798592532> Since this arc is so heavily Vidar & Borg-centric, will there be opportunities to earn shards for the Invictus skin?

[vagrant topaz]

I really hope so.

[shut wharf]

Maxing the vidar requires endless grinding of probes everyday, and now there are other things to grind. I see strictly no urgency to max out this vessel early. It is an useful and versatile ship already at tier 6.

So maxing early on the vidar is an option that requires continuous effort and drains substantial quantities of crystal. I agree it pays out eventually but saying that everyone should have maxed the vidar before reaching ops 35 is not only a sign of ignorance but also of scorn towards players that have a different approach than yours.

[unique sluice]

Leveling the vidar early is still a very good choice. The daily grind gets easier with higher vidar levels + you could skip the lvl 28 ships and instead level the vidar. You'll want the daily faction credits from the borg reffinery to get the BPs for the lvl 34 faction ships easier. Having the lvl 34 ships early helps to not make the mistake to level/max the lvl32 faction ships (huge waste of ressources).

[shut wharf]

depends on play-style and objectives. I personally tried different approaches and the strong lvl 32 ships is surprisingly effective if you do not plan on leveling up as soon as you can.

Yes maxing the vidar early is a very good idea, and was an event better idea in the long gone time there were much less other grinds to do everyday. Still, getting all the active probes requires at least 6 months of daily grind to refine at max level. In less than that, nowadays, an active player can progress to ops 35 easily...

[novel mango]

So events not scoring again today, sweet!

[vagrant topaz]

the pvp event gives points for loosing, that's a good thing 👍

for the future, it would be better if it gives the same points as winning, since that would encourage more people to take the fight even when the odds are clearly against them, also adding some repair speedups to the rewards will make people more trigger happy in my opinion

[vagrant topaz]

Which events, in what way?

[hot cloud]

i only got 100 points for the we are the borg event after finishing the pvp event

[void light]

its a 1 day event. so 100 points

[dapper marlin]

btw, ops 59 guy seems to be scoring in the system for ops 42 - 50

[hot cloud]

it runs for two days

[frosty stirrup]

The Geniuses at $copley have really outdone themselves with this 💩 . Not only are they forcing every bracket into one system, they make it a system with a single entry point. Pure trash again

[vagrant topaz]

<@&509690795536941056> I maybe late to the party on this but for a server that is rumoured to be in the pipeline for a server merge sooner rather than later you are somewhat making this out reach for the amount of active players. The events are really pushing the pay2win and now you aren't even making the targets achievable. Greed and Bugs are killing the game

[halcyon fiber]

The Crew Variety of the Vidar event is astounding, thanks Scopely

@frosty stirrup you literally have 180° to enter the system

[frosty stirrup]

Great event. Level 44 Vi'dar with the strike team forced to PVP with level 50s

[chilly cedar]

Why no bracketing for vidar pvp? How is a vidar from a player 10 levels up gonna not trash the little ones?

[void light]

weird i see

[chilly cedar]

Ya, say +/- 2 levels. And any vidars from too high a level kills any lower, the big ship loses all their points to the little one 😜

[heavy cobalt]

This has got to be one of the Stupid, Dumbest and most unenjoyable PvP events ever..!
And Why is there Not a non PvP alternative for players to complete/progress the monthly ‘Complete Events’ event??

[half flare]

I must say, the Vidar PvP event had me nervous, but it was a LOT of fun. Would like to see PvE added nonetheless for future installments. Ops 41, have full interceptor strike team, 1.85M lvl 45 Vidar for reference. Would be 42 right now except for absolutely terrible XSLB payouts.

[vagrant topaz]

I'm getting killed (just being a sitting duck) in Cita Laga with the right ship but I'm not getting those 30 points. Is it the usual reward delay, or there are more conditions? I'd rather not attack myself and lose my shield

[humble sleet]

Have to ask….

Why no real participation events over the weekend but schedule Heavy Hitter at the same time as the weekly Mining Monday?.

Players seemed even more disconnected / disenfranchised when there no “hook” to keep them playing over the weekend, having Heavy Hitter would have atleast kept some engaged.

I’m not suggesting there should be a heavy interaction event every day, but scheduling it to conflict with another heavy participation event seems like another missed opportunity / lack of understanding of the community.

[carmine orbit]

I'm a fairly new player with a brand new little baby Vidar. My only hope to complete the event is to get killed 18 times. That's not fun.

[half flare]

Use Vemet as captain with full synergy

[frosty stirrup]

Because the devs either don’t play, don’t give a 💩 or both

[tight elbow]

System specific pvp events with no alternate scoring👎

[mortal tundra]

I agree, no things here to score.

[hot crane]

same, at ops 28 this isn't a pvp event, it's "go here to die, waste mats & speedups respawning, and repeat" event

[humble sleet]

<@&509690795536941056>.

Follow up on my comments from yesterday and today:

So unlike Steam there doesn’t seem to be a way for us to see how “active” the community is, however I think the fact my Alliance (1st or 2nd on Server 58) is struggling to fill Rare armadas is very telling when it comes to player engagement.

The cash grabs are a turn off for players, and not having events to engage us further hammers home the disconnect.

There are constructive ways to encourage the players to spend, the trend the past few months seem short sighted and cabalistic, as if Scopley is trying to squeeze out the most they can before abandoning the game.

[paper girder]

I got this game years ago for pve. Stop making ridiculous pvp events. This game isnt made for it no matter how many op pay crews you make

[potent beacon]

Been getting rewards for Anomalous Phenomenon about every 3 minutes. Clearing localization does nothing and neither does switching devices.

[frosty stirrup]

If you’re actually getting the awards, don’t say anything. If you’re just getting messages, that would be annoying

[potent beacon]

No rewards, just the notification.

[autumn wadi]

This vidar pvp event is showing me three things:

1. Some people are just pricks (ganking with ships that don't even score points).
2. The shipclass-specific pvp crews are mandatory.
3. Scopely couldn't organise a fight in a Dennys carpark.

[frosty stirrup]

https://tenor.com/view/oof-meme-gif-25793745

[vagrant topaz]

the ghalenar quest would be better if I could actually see ghalenar portrait in the mission dialogs

[autumn wadi]

I expect they do not have an un-borged portrait for him so they hide it until after the quest chain is completed.

[faint crest]

This pvp event is painful. I am in the zone it tells me I need to go but there is noone there. How do you complete the event if there is noone to fight in the zone?

[hidden flare]

im in the same boat as you :/ i want points!

[echo lava]

Is there no non-vidar pvp event for ops 26? Because if so I can't score on the "We Are The Borg" event today!

[faint crest]

Looks like a few of us are having the same issue.

[rustic hull]

Once we are done with the Unbound mission, how do we get the others? Don't see them in the Holodeck.

[manic estuary]

<@&509691205798592532> Does Scopely realize that the underdecks scoring is working on any system/ship??? Makes this a full galaxy pvp event

[echo lava]

They level locked them...

[manic estuary]

Just put Klaa and an under decks officer on and go kill all the weaker ships in some system

[rustic hull]

Well that sucks. Guess I won't be finishing THAT event. Same with the Vidar Pvp. Dumb.

[frigid patrol]

I am an admiral with a player who is lvl 19 waiting 6 hrs now to reach the first milestone for the Attack Pattern Alpha event. What garbage do you keep pushing on us? Such incompetence is getting to the point of no return for me.

[rustic bison]

Not to pile on, but also want to add my negative feedback for the xlsb... No reason for it to be cross server. Especially with only a top 50

[frosty stirrup]

There is a reason. $copley is greedy and the Dev's don't care

[quartz creek]

Jeebers, the negativity in here is depressing. Do you all not talk to other alliances? How about something along the lines of, "Yes this event is inane but how about you and I go and destroy each other just to finish it." It's not hard folks. You get points just for dying.

[hot crane]

i did it by attacking zero-node & OPC miners while having a lower deck officer equipped. 70 kills later, done.

[pulsar obsidian]

Pretty lame to have a spending event with only the first 50 spots getting any sort of reward. Then on top of that you make it not only against our own servers, but a whole other server as well. Thanks for that. 😒 On top of that, the rewards are complete crap. Spending 200k of uncommon mats for 5 officer sharts. 😂😂😂 What a joke.

[deft cargo]

what happened to XSLB rewards? why its the same as SLB now? it must be twice more shards

[vagrant topaz]

rev said its because the officers are already sourced f2p via solo borg armadas epic chests (that a level 39- can't even see for now) ... so it seems they felt the need to make an event that rewards less people for them ... this makes me feel the need to not participate in the event and not spend my mats (nor money on the bp)

[sinful heart]

Sure it does, if you are a greedy corporate entity that would squeeze a penny out of folks than actually provide reasonable priced entertainment 🙄

[prisma pollen]

On the Borg event:

1. Why are we doing an XSLB for crew that everyone wants to chase? I knew from 30 minutes after it went live that I had 0 chance. The whales saw to it that any non-whale was discouraged immediately.

2. The grind for 40k nanoprobes on Saturday for lower tier Vi'Dar players was brutal. Were I not playing board games with friends and tapping at my phone absently for awhile, I'd never have finished due to pure tedium.

3. The community is clearly unhappy about the nanoprobe drop rates and the inclusion of yet another daily grind loop. Why has this not been addressed?

4. This event has further reinforced the "don't level anything if it's not on a leaderboard" mentality. This causes stagnation. It isn't fun.

All this event has done is reinforce what made the players angry through 2022 and Scopely assured us "would be better" with the roadmap. This first event is a massive swing and miss.

[potent oracle]

Keep xslbs for incursions only, regular events should be slbs only

[sinful heart]

And run the heroic sms next to it, these pixels don’t cost you a dime. This is absolutely ridiculous. You give and then take away. Waste of time and mats on this thing.

[dim relic]

Not only do I agree on the xlslb thing, because you keep the rewards the same with double the competition, but for the love of Pete, please stop changing the brackets. I am lvl 41, and got lumped in with 42 players that can build G4 ships, and I am not just talking about the ISS Jelly, this is huge disadvantage, and didn’t realize it till I was trying to figure out how o could not keep up. The constant change is just shady, we can’t plan, please, just make the events fair.

[pliant grail]

This is sad. For 3 servers, the top 100 is barely breaking 2 mil. And you know these players ain't spending more. Heck, I didn't spend any either.

This should be a red flag to scopely that players are not playing. 3 way xslb for top 50 is unacceptable. This month is an F!

[urban moth]

I watched one of my smaller alliance members wreck players 10 levels above him. Officers and how much you invest in vi'dar are a solid factor on this.

[urban moth]

1. Agreed. I had a massive stash of 3* that I was saving up for ship upgrades, so I'm lucky to be in the top 100 on my server... but otherwise I know all the names at the top because they always are.

2. Didn't experience this. Your "grind" should have been one cargo hold per hull of ships if you were hitting the right level of borg probes. If you were grinding a lower level, that's on you - not the event.

3. As a vi'dar that can easily fill my cargo hold on one trip (480K), it does take a long time to complete on lvl 33 probes. The new borg officer is supposed to improve the drop rates, but it would be nice if lvl 35 & 37 probe systems were added.

4. Not sure I agree with this.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the event. My primary disappointment is that the "borg ship" (vi'dar) is not the ship to fight borg armadas. I spent a ton of time getting my vi'dar up to T8 (one upgrade left!!!) and was very disappointed to see that it's not the best for borg solos. Now it's just a utility ship, like the Defiant and Cerritors except for grinding and refinery bonus. I had really hoped that they would build new life into the ship for the folks that maxxed it and 1) give an option for more nanoprobes faster and with the release of borg solos (c'mon we all knew it was coming) would make tiering it up past T7 actually an important aspect.

[mighty star]

Scopely: Can you please do me the favor and fire the guy who decided to turn Mats Spending events into XSLBs ?

[urban kettle]

The XSLB makes sense in an incursion prep. Otherwise it’s cutting out rewards in half and making officers even harder to source

[mighty star]

You effectively leak growth to the server with more Dollar Spenders. That is corrupt Scopely thinking

[sinful heart]

Now, it is psychological. They are hoping (and successful) to spur the competitive whales to out do each other. Great for their bottom line. Awful for the consumer. This is the type of crap you do when you have scarcity. There is NO scarcity. This is totally scopy driven to maximize profits and minimize their efforts.

[mighty star]

I guess, I will ignore XSLB's from here on

[sour arch]

Meaning that if you want the officers you have to spend $$$. In Scopely's eyes that's a win. Players? Well, we can just go swivel ...

[icy marsh]

Oh come on...just 1 shard of the Borg pakled?? How poorly should we be expecting the sourcing of this thing? I also noticed there was zero shards in the ticket events when normally there is 1-3 before

[novel mango]

Is the heavy hitter bugged some guy has a billion points in only 10 minutes.

[civic gorge]

Seriously. If you call an event "Recruit Ghalenar Borg -sms" for one f-ing shard, you need your head checked.

[dark sinew]

Don't know if this matters but XSLB event for Hugh was actually a good wake up call for me not to spend anymore money on this game. It was a pure whale/ money grab event. I threw everything i had saved at it and didnt even make top 50. I guess thanks lol

[olive cradle]

1 Shard Event reward, ISS JF event missing. Another banner day for Scopely.

[vagrant topaz]

only now I realized that the "new and improved" version of heavy hitter only scores for hostile behind token space, I don't think that's a good idea

[lone ridge]

is there any events in the borg and fleet commander stuff

[molten marlin]

nothing new, only way to score for the SMS is with the token space events, commander is still empty

[wet crag]

So going fantastic, missions to do FC and Borg SMS... no FC or Borg SMS again today; and they are also giving lvl 20s the Borg killing event... when they cant get to them 😄

[burnt carbon]

why on earth have the heavy hitter event for people under ops 25, if you can't reach Borg or actian hostiles?

[ashen notch]

I'm just wondering where the ISS Jellyfish event is. Supposed to start today.

[halcyon fiber]

but that way they can sell tokens and players who purchased their Mantis earlier and have it more upgraded get an advantage

[thick drift]

What’s the purpose of calling it “recruiting officer” when you only get a single shard for the event. Do we get 37 more of these events?

[fast notch]

why earn matrixdiode in bp if theres no quest up in holodeck?

[violet cliff]

How is a level 24 supposed to complete Recruit Ghalenar and the Heavy Hitter event? Both are events that require you to go to token space.

[woven gyro]

Scoring for the heavy-hitter event is a joke. So if you buy the refit that adds 20% damage (which is extra points) you get 10x points? It's not unreasonable to give people an edge for an event by buying the refit, but pay-to-win mechanics like this are pretty insulting.

[fading venture]

You know, changing the event 2 hours after it launches without telling anyone, kind of a d&$k move Scopley. Even if I might understand and agree with the logic behind it, both probes and actians are token locked, swarms are free and open to everyone, still makes it a d&$k move to people who spent the last week saving tokens cause we actually read the event list and plan ahead.

[limber shuttle]

How is a lvl24 suppose to complete this event mission?
It also counts towards the monthly 'We are the borg' evnt mission so probably wont be able to complete that one either

[vague terrace]

For todays event rewards there are matrix diodes. But there is no mission in the holodeck to unlock?

[white bramble]

Clear localisation and kill Swarms

[white bramble]

Level 40 mission was pulled you have to wait till it returns

[limber shuttle]

@white bramble Cleared localization ... still the same mission to kill borg

[white bramble]

Actually my bad seems I’ve mixed up the events.

[white bramble]

Let me pass the event on 🖖

[lone ridge]

are there any event missions for level 17 today or am i missing some

[molten marlin]

you don't

@lone ridge the BP event, your regular dailies and the latinum rush ALB is all you'll have access to, and the command center upgrade

[lone ridge]

oof dang

[weak ocean]

Listen here scopley. Listen carefully. NOBODY WANTS cross-server SLB. NOBODY.

[lone ridge]

@weak ocean it is fun to beat other servers in the slb stuff but its not fun when you are losing lol

[weak ocean]

You're right, let's just have one SLB across all servers, that'll be fun

[lone ridge]

@weak ocean that would be super fun lol

[twilit shoal]

Does this mean, and I haven't run a vidar, that you're over the 34mil hit (aka, kelvin) with the vidar?

[twilit shoal]

I'm only 43, that's a massive auger hit- I think the best(after research) was 43mil from the auger. Wow. I run Kelvin/Auger/Enterprise with Sisko/5/Riker on those ships. No burning because of Jemhadar experience, but if I need to swap something out ... I'm going to

[vernal isle]

Maximize front loaded damage, sisko and riker are too slow. 8 with full synergy on a ship, a decent ent with a kirk and Lorca on the sides of a decent captain, augur can run a nero no problem, it’s a disservice to the ship to not have burning there for at least it.

People play too passive on solo madas. Hit hard, frontload damage instead of waiting on a handful of officers to slowly ramp up over ten rounds.

[urban moth]

Funny. I threw everything I had saved at it and made #1.

[dark sinew]

Awesome congrats.

[fringe lake]

I went in about 60k unc and 15k or so rares and finished 44th or so

[molten marlin]

barely placed on the shards, but managed 3rd for the avatar

[harsh ocean]

Does the polaron beam work...I have not gotten a single crit hitting borg. So, was it just a waste of money scopely?

I've told my alliance not to waste their money on it. wish I could get a refund.

after 13 kills i finally got a crit in round lol.

[wet cosmos]

Hey mods, can you pass along to the team to not change events during the event? Heavy hitter added swarm like 1/6th of the way through after it had been advertised as token only, with a mats spend right before for officers that would impact the event. My decision making seems not to matter, and I’m a bit frustrated.

[runic oriole]

Swarms were added because the event was given to players who couldn't reach Borg token space so they had no way to complete the event

[wet cosmos]

Hmm, I would think those players without a vidar could have been bracketed for swarm only. I’ve seen events do this in the past. Anywho, thanks for pointing out some had no way of scoring to begin with. I didn’t know that

[urban kettle]

Recruit Galhenar…1 shard…😂 so terrible I’m laughing. Between this and the xslb i’m just not feeling it Scopely

[runic oriole]

Unfortunately, they didn't get bracketed that way. They still had token space which they couldn't even reach. No problem. 🙂

[restive bramble]

Did the St Patrick's day stuff get pushed into Prod too early? Why do we have "Cyber-luck" Tokens that look like shamrocks and an Event store???

[queen kindle]

No, that's an intended method of getting the new borg for payers.

[granite nymph]

@queen kindle I’m just curious. I have only been granted 2 of the quests towards the completion of the complete new quests event. Unbound and legends…. Is this normal?

[timber maple]

Be Not Afraid of Greatness and Dreams of Nightmares are 40 and 50 ops missions, respectively. You get 125 points from completing Unbound (25+), Fortune Favors the Borg (35+) and Legends of the Cosmos (15+). if you're not ops 35 you won't be able to complete the SMS. If you are 35 check your battle pass reward track and the holodeck for the Fortune Favors the Borg, there's still 8+ days to finish the mission SMS event.

[granite nymph]

Well I’m not level 35. So that yet another instance where scopley does not value all its players. I don’t know why I keep playing with the way they. Constantly mess me over. It’s getting tiresome. No wonder new users are non existent.

[restive bramble]

The idea is to gently encourage you to keep leveling b/c they can't keep crating content for lvl 10/20/30 players when there are 40/50/60 players out there.

[granite nymph]

No they are trying to force me to spend $$$$ to keep up. They should be happy for what money I do spend. And they better provide new content or there will be no players left. And actually I’m not asking for special content just don’t level cap it. What purpose does saying a person under level 35 can’t even try to complete a quest. If I can’t do it oh well but saying I can’t even try. If that is the case then they shouldn’t even allow the event for us.

[restive bramble]

Sorry... "Gently" encourage you (to open your wallet) to keep leveling 😉

[granite nymph]

They are failing to realize the whales won’t survive without krill. I mean the whales only like picking on the low level players as they don’t have the guts to go after each other. And god do they whine if you attack them.

[ivory heart]

Thank-you Scopely. After 3 great years, many hours spent with alliance members and probably a little too much money spent today was my last day on STFC. I have always supported a pay to progress business model. It made sense to me that paying to speed up something in the game made sense and the game needs to make money but today crossed a line you can’t go back from, you went to pay to even compete. Making an event that you can’t even compete on if you don’t buy the useless polaron beam is going too far. The multiplier for using it is too far spread. So I bit you adieu and wish you well.

[quartz creek]

I dunno level 39 here beaten many 41 unc BSAs and a couple of rare 42s without it. My ships are nothing special Baby T5 D4, T5 Ent and T5 Augur, cloaked all three and Cerritos boosted took care of the rares with my D4 exploding into a fiery ball of greatness, my Ent hanging on by a thread and moderate damage to my Augur.

[vagrant topaz]

Very unhappy with the event change this morning with no word. Basically used all my tokens to get a solid lead, and then the scoring changed a couple hours later without any announcement. Thought I was good, to only come back and see people grinding the newest addition to the event, which happened to have better scoring and made all my grinding earlier null...
Big fail so far this month!

[bitter field]

Same. Quite pissed that the rules changed after it started.

This mismanaged event of heavy hitter was poorly executed and should not have been changed after it started. Bad move to step on so many users and add the greed option forcing the purchase of the polaron beam just to have a chance at the top spots after the bad decision to change scoring mid event.

[pulsar lintel]

why clear localisation?

[pulsar lintel]

they either don't learn or don't care

or both

[shut geode]

when the server population is around level 39. Then with every Stella and Borg event the zones are overcrowded .. we need more 40 stella zones/33 Borg zones. Or change existing zones in level scaling. If you're level 44, it's pointless to go below 40 Stella and 33 Borg, it's not enough points. Then you have to go grinding all day long. Now you have to fight hundreds of players in the limited space.

[white bramble]

So you can see what the event now says instead of the old description

[subtle reef]

what we need is rather higher levels stella and borgs.

[wet crag]

did anyone actually buy polaron and see the points ? thats not a x10 modifier, unlike the x25 in the other slot its just 10. the 2 out of the top 3 in my leaderboard I can vouch for are way up there without using it at all

[leaden lichen]

I kill borg ship but not x25 point because only x15 point
This good or wrong?

[wet crag]

I also onlyy seem to get 15% against borg, so yeah they broke that too sigh

[vagrant topaz]

Now I understand what others were discussing. The borg solo process is upside down. You need 100 directive ls to start one, yet the payout from the refinery is 6 directives per 10K active nanoprobes. So, that is 16+ days just to be able to hit the armada once, IF I can refine 10K nanos per day..(which I can't consistently). Why isn't the solo the same as a normal borg armada, with 1 directive per attempt? Given how many tries it will take for someone my level (31) to take it down, at 100 per attempt, not even gonna try. 😐😡

[soft agate]

It is to incentivize you to max your vidar which is not very hard to do… and during which, do not spend the directives but collect them from time to time. When you have more than you need for your next upgrade while you work on uncommons to get there. Just trying to see the glass half full. If i was them and trying to justify it

[vagrant topaz]

@soft agate yea..my incentive to max the Vi'Dar is to be stronger against other players primarily. Secondarily, to be stronger for borg events. At the rate I am currently able to refine, this event will be long over before I get to T9 (based on cost of active nanoprobes per section of ship to upgrade ).

[soft agate]

While vidar can be used as a substitute to regular ships… vidar primary purpose is probes and to get maxed so you can pull ind and faction creds daily… well till the new loop at least. Forget the event.. you are screwed just think of it for future e advancement of your account

[patent river]

Congrats, your excited about a 2 yr old ship again. The rest of us will enjoy the new addition to borg refinery. Some of us never quit grinding borg daily.

[sinful heart]

Bully for you. The Borg grind has to be one of the most ridiculous and boring ones ever. Not sure if that would be something I would tout though. You just have an abundance of free time it sounds like.

[patent river]

Everything in this game has a boring grind. Time or $$ is the price you pay. The rewards for completion are usually pretty great. See stella/outlaw grind.

[sinful heart]

The reward for “completing” them is not having to do them. By the time you max level the refine returns are so lopsided against you that it isn’t worth it to grind for Stella’s, just more time in congested systems. There are NO real rewards worth the time they put forward in these events.

[viscid phoenix]

How can you “complete” the Borg loop, unless you’re saying g you don’t value daily indie & faction credits?

[patent river]

You'd think that. Case in point the old vidar. T9 reward was to pull faction tokens daily. Look, Bajor broke the mold and made newer content the gold standard. I'm glad scopes is reviewing old stuff. *ready for augment wrath of khan update

[obtuse trellis]

What the actual FORK scopley why is my timer only 30s now

[vagrant topaz]

as of my understanding the commander that you choose will be active till you remove him, the timer is to block you from removing him too soon

[scenic flint]

<@&509690795536941056> this is a bit ridiculous for a server that has gone thru 2 mergers. We have too many players to only payout BPs to 1 per week.

The other payments need some sort of Jellyfish BPs to make the event worth it. Even if it's only 10 and 5 respectively.

[sinful heart]

He used the Stella as an example. And you aren’t helping your case, just re-enforcing mine. The grind is never ending, and the returns are always diminishing.

[sinful oxide]

Why on earth run these many borg probe missions when the limited number of tokens available for most to borg spaces?

[cinder oak]

Mission Master - SMS does not give extra points for Critical Success. Is it normal? Why this change?

[queen kindle]

I just crit mine and got pts. I'd try rebooting and checking the scores again, it might be lag.

[green mica]

@wanton copper @icy cairn does scopely really expect over 2/3 of our server to shell out $100 in order to complete the IMS? Or do they just have no clue on server populations?

[olive cradle]

rofl another day of 1 shard reward event. You guys really know how to treat a playerbase.

[uncut cloud]

How do we get those Cyber-Luck tokens without buying from the store? Is there an event that's supposed to be giving them out?

[queen kindle]

There's no known f2p sourcing for those yet.

[fast notch]

theres n info how get holodeck missions for yesterdays dioden from battlepass?

[uncut cloud]

Thanks. It would be nice if Scopely would give us some way to get those soon. I feel like it's not right to have those, but no sourcing for f2p. I appreciate the response, Candle.

[cold oyster]

Is there a Treasury coming soon?

[patent river]

Also a great indicator if your server isn't producing economically and needs to merge

[green mica]

Isn’t about economics. It’s about population.

[iron pivot]

yet again another kill x hostile type event and the spawn rate isn't increased.

[austere mortar]

So, what is with the locutus quantum key "earned by unlocking locutus" but not there when you purchase him? Something seems off....

and what is the point of it if you cannot unlock those points in the tree if you have not unlocked locutus? XD

[tribal cape]

Something is seriously wrong with the expectations of players here, server eu130

By my calculations the server would need a spend of between £81,926 and £122,890 (depending on buying either Locutus or Kirk/Spock, prices as per UK android store) to finish this right now.🤯 Estimated prices, not exact before some maths genius gets picky about a few pounds.

[deft wren]

EU135 feels your pain.

We've NEVER failed to complete these early before now

[vernal isle]

It’s set up that way to make people feel the need to spend to get that last reward

[soft fox]

Any chance for paired sms @icy cairn ?

[tribal cape]

I get this entirely, but like EU135 we've never failed to complete an IMS. This time round the milestones are ridiculously inflated, when the rewards are so far out of reach why even bother trying?

[idle fulcrum]

Can we lower the milestone numbers please? I seriously doubt enough people are going to shell out money for a 2nd Fleet commander and/or Locutus . Server 26 here.

[icy cairn]

I haven't heard anything, but I can ask. 🪴 I don't think so, though.

[soft fox]

Worth a shot - passing along the feedback from team who didn't see a path for top 25 last round 🙂

[real lichen]

Changing the second mat spend event to a SLB is great. Should have both been that way to begin with. Too bad they’ve managed to screw the folks that tried to get something out of the first one. I’m certainly not buying packs to compete again and had saved quite a bit in preparation for the first one. Wouldn’t have wasted my time on the first had I known.

[true radish]

I'd like to complain about this switch to SLB and taking away of one of the officers which was available to players who participated in the first XSLB. I specifically declined to participate in the first event and saved so I could compete in this next round. Now I will not be getting the same officer unlocks afforded to players in the first round and think that this is very unfair.

[deft wren]

Taking the rare away is a bad move agreed.

[fluid lotus]

Well I participated in the first event and got cucked by a larger leaderboard and now the next one is easier so that's unfair... You aren't doing the same event so why should you get the same rewards?

[true radish]

No matter what scopely does its unfair unless they don't change it. People planned there spending based on calendar and now event is being changed. If I knew rewards would be different I would have altered my strategy. I choose to wait till second round if event and now I won't be competing fornwhat I thought would be available.

[molten marlin]

at least you have the event, heh

[deft wren]

It's not necessarily easier though. I can easily get beaten by the same person in an SLB who would also have won the XSLB

[carmine sphinx]

I find this game kind of weird. it gives you lots to do during the working days when you have less time to play, but on the weekends, when you tend to have more time to play, it just gives you 1-2 SLBs and you have to just chase that if you can...Maybe we can look to fix that?

[sand lintel]

If true (I havent made that correlation), I'd agree... 🙂

[vernal isle]

But then a Scopely employee or two would have to work weekends.

They don’t do that.

[carmine sphinx]

would they tho? Events break on weekdays more than weekends 😂

[vernal isle]

Also never said many of them actually work during the week either.

[tulip elm]

Someone got an idea when the treasury comes back?

[vapid meteor]

Spent all my mats on the first XSLB trying to compete. Extremely annoyed the second one has been made easier now

[brisk sigil]

Server 135. We’re so far from completing. Too many people are not playing anymore I suppose

[icy marsh]

Come on, please fix the grindiness. Today there's grind swarm event, Grind jem Hadar, grind interceptors, grind CRIT dmg, grind worms. Seriously stop it.

[vestal bison]

Knows anyone when we can unlook the cyperlucktokencontainer in the eventshop?

[white bramble]

Paid store

[vestal bison]

Dont see it in paystore 😉

[white bramble]

It will likely be back

[frank spade]

I should be 12th in xslb event , but due to tie function I'm 25th. Not cool when the difference in rewards is so high. Make rewards less and no one would care. LB events should be for bragging rights only anyways. The bad reward structure is a lot ofbthe cause of server death

[mild moth]

Is there a change regarding the Borg probes? I'd like to repeat; none, I stress none! enjoys firing probes for 30-60 minutes every day. Everyone, I repeat everyone, needs the independent credits because otherwise they are far too rare. Scopely has promised to reduce the effort! The game lives from the interaction with others, for which there is hardly any time left! If your solution can only be obtained through money, you will lose players! A very urgent tip: Play your game yourself! Then you will know what you are doing in the future!

[turbid hamlet]

What happened to the uncommon hexagon tokens counting for scoring in this like last week?? Now the only way to score is strictly buy Command Center pack, because we haven't got enough of those to get to lvl 10 needed for next FC tier or buying another Fleet Commander. Dumb!!

[uneven arrow]

EU164, I don't think the number will got much up anymore

[limber shuttle]

And AGAIN an event lvl24 cannot complete

[lone dragon]

Please stop running events that are impossible to complete! I am level 35 and can't do 5% damage to these armadas.

[naive viper]

EU172 is much the same

[white bramble]

Do the new research. Crew well and it will work

[limber shuttle]

@white bramble How about the Locutus event for lvl24, will it change like they did for Recruit Ghalenar on Monday?

[white bramble]

Passed on 🖖

[lone dragon]

Did it with the best ships that I have. 1.7M Bortas, 1.7M B'rel, 1.1M Vi'dar. Research is done for all 3 Factions. And don't have most of the recommended crews. Tried it with the standard battleship, interceptor, and explorer crews. Also used a combat Exocomp.

[quaint vessel]

This multiplier is not working on the traders in Zed Alpha. Checked score before and after hitting a 31 trader it only increments by 2100 points. ignore me. They are miners not traders. Should read event description better.

[inland apex]

@wanton copper @icy cairn Again handicapping those of us that are at least ops 35 and don't have the vidar maxed yet. Can we get the same gift chest as last week with 2 borg solo UC armadas? I can easily beat these armadas and have been saving all charged nanoprobes to finish maxing it since these events were known, but is not going to happen before the event finishes.

[steep prism]

If yall want us to do borg solos, yall are gonna have to give us better sourcing for the directives. Not everyone has a max vidar as they were not really all that important before. The directive buys should gradually increase not just 6 or 100 for max.

[chilly island]

Came here to say this. My refinery only gives me 6 directives every 24 hours. 6!! Would take more than 2 weeks to get enough for one armada.

[steep prism]

Yup, and if your doing the lower level ones you need to do 3 to complete. Even a higher level uc will need at least 2. This is a joke. Give events and dont provide anyway to do that event unless we pay actual money..

My lower levels are having issues too, cause they have to kill probes.... with no vidar and no alternative.

[limber shell]

Scopely, how are we supposed to complete armada events with directive sourcing this awful?

[grand raven]

Moving post here, please review scoring and either boost points or lower milestones. Difficulty level is too high.

[limber shell]

Refining charged nanoprobes should passively give directives, and you should have the option to spend nanoprobes to get more...like outlaw faction store.

Maybe give 6 per day passively per charged nanoprobe refine, so max pull is 18 directives. Then give the option to spend 10k charged nanoprobes to buy like 25 uc directives.

At that rate maximum pull on nanoprobes would get 3 uc armadas per week. Minimum pull on charged nanoprobes could get 2 if they bought directives daily.

[sullen frost]

I understand SLBs and Heroics are mostly for spenders. But having to spend money to participate in simple SMS is just ridiculous.
Considering the SMS even counts towards the meta-event is double crippling.
Who thought it was a good idea to give 6 directives for Vidars from t1 to t8. It is taking more than 2 weeks to get enough directives for a single Borg Solo armada, if ou don't have a maxed Vi'dar....

[high lake]

@wanton copper do you have info when?

[hidden needle]

@wanton copper The lvl 33 probe systems are getting way over crowded. We have been saying we need more and higher lvl probe systems for months. The exo's are a nice addition to help when farming nanos. How ever it doesnt solve or help the problem when the Cerritos 2nd Contact Elite event has you killing probs, which has a max lvl of 33 and the min lvl hostile to count for the Second Contact - SMS is 36. Please this need to be fixed. **We NEED higher lvl borg probs **

[worn shadow]

@icy cairn Where it the DS9 30 Anniversary Gift? 😏

[prisma pollen]

G89 is no better off. I don't get how Scopely actually expects us to even come close.

[vernal isle]

Spend. That’s what they expect. They expect everyone to spend $100 to $200 to chase poor rewards.

[coral flume]

I Just lost to a mega cube and it didn't give me the 4000 points for the "Resistance is NOT futile - SMS"

It's not for solo armadas.

[steep prism]

Ops 35 + has solo event not a reg

[safe cloud]

Borg Solo Armadas: Warp speed (location) & warp range according to Ops level are a catastrophe!

[mighty star]

See above with research you should be able with 3 ships to do x12 damage, e.g. your top 3 ships are 10M you should be able to defeat 120M. 3 uc solos for me without repair in between

[steep prism]

I can win them np lol.

I just cant get any directives 🤷‍♀️

Maybe try scrolling up a bit next time to see what the convo is about....

[patent river]

It's a choice. Part of the cost of entry is a t9 vidar. Solutions are there. The decision is yours.

[sullen frost]

that's an interesting point of view. that i didn't think about that solution. It's so easy, just have a maxed vi'dar 🙂

[patent river]

They offer a quick fix in the store. The cost? Not being able to say your f2p anymore.

[floral jacinth]

@wanton copper Is it intentional that players below ops 35 are not able to complete this sms? Did the 2 missions available. The rest are for higher ops per the release notes.

[wintry abyss]

@icy cairn @wanton copper - any reason the Borg armadas give only 200 epic directives for rare chest and bajoran give 250? Both the same pathway and solo armadas. Makes no sense to me / both require 500 epic directives for one epic to run

[trail adder]

Treasury this month?

[queen kindle]

Yes, no date has been announced other than this month.

[cold quiver]

This event is the only reason I’m ops35 right now. If I had known it would screw me for the Borg event, I would have waited.

[vagrant topaz]

I'll put 5$ on this is fixed next month. They just want us to rage

[turbid hamlet]

Git rid of 42's in the bracket for Ops 41 down for all this damage events. Why do 41's and 39's have to compete against OPS 42 WARSHIPS

[opaque jacinth]

Second week in a row I fail to win any Borg solo armadas: despite respective researches made, triple exos on, Cerritos support applied & cloaking boost made. Conclusion (for me) is that prior I'd have 2 fraction 4* ships I shouldn't waste time on such events anymore.

[floral plaza]

I got my enterprise! two years of grinding and sweating and I finally have it after seven months !

[fringe tree]

If Scopely holds true to upgrades. Like Freesha and Franklin A. We can expect an update to ViDar and new Borg probe systems in the next 2 arcs. That’s why they have not added any

[vagrant topaz]

If you need help with crewing, the community can help!

[high lake]

<@&509691205798592532> Is there a date for the treasury?

[white bramble]

Not yet

[high lake]

😂 but this month?

[tall wharf]

I hear it's before the 31st. Haha

[shut copper]

I wanna know how we're supposed to be able to complete in the solo Borg armadas event when I only get 6 directives per day inn Borg refinery and it costs 100 directives to run each one. It takes 17 days to get enough to run just 1 solo Borg armada. Kinda useless.

[patent tide]

Do you have a maxed vdar? I think once you do it bumps up to 100 per day ( what I get) for purchase (28k green things)

[vagrant topaz]

Event store consists of one chest which, unless I’ve missed something, we have so far had no chance to gain the currency for and we are over halfway through the battle pass.
We have become used to having 2 bad event stores(last cycle was 3) before we get a good one but this is basically a non existent event store

[fringe tree]

I saw few days ago you in offers tab. Seems you had to $pay to get the currency for. Event store 💩

[vagrant topaz]

Minimum effort maximum reward on scopleys part…

[shut copper]

@patent tide No, it's not maxed yet. Thanks for that information. I appreciate it.

[ancient jay]

You can win it without multiple 4* ships. I can suggest crews I've used and others in my alliance have used that work, if you'd like.

[wicked pike]

It is possible, even if not easy - with 2 exos and some ritos juice I take on 45s and rare 46s with T6 valdore T6 ent T6 Aug so not even great G3 ships (relative to my level, I really should work on them 😅)
All thanks to crews suggested by ppl here 😊

[sweet valve]

Got the reward screen (with no reward in it), still showing two short even if I damaged another transport after the false complete.

Edit: Destroyed 2 more transports in Sol. Still stuck like this.

[white bramble]

Can you check your inventory if you got the MS 4 rewards

[sweet valve]

Doesn't really help if I didn't know what I started with. Anyway, already went the ticket route

[gaunt hill]

@wanton copper @icy cairn
Adding to the rest of the feedback for Non-Max vidars (I'm ops 35).
This exchange rate is bonkers. I'd have to spend ~330,000 Charged nano-probes to do a SINGLE solo armada. When I need those to clearly max my vidar!

This is nuts, and down right broken in my opinion. Further any that are spent prior to spending the 330k needed are wasted if you max out before then. Come on..

Never mind the event, this exchange rate should be removed entirely or changed.

[white bramble]

They want T9 vidar owners to engage with solo armadas

[gaunt hill]

Right, its a Max Vidar "mechanic/event". That's fine, but this refinery option for non max vidars is a trap and waste of charged probes. The very thing we need to max the vidar.

Maybe they can't "hide events" based on if a ship is maxed or not. Ok, technical challenge, I get it. But leaving it this way seems cruel and anyone who spends charged probes prior to max will be pissed to find out that they wasted them b/c they are left with a non-multiple of 200 directives.

For example. I pulled this 3 time before realizing. So I "wasted" 30k charged nanoprobes. Bc I will never be able to use the 18 directives that got me. Why in the world would I waste 300k more charged nano-probes for 1 run of a armada when I can upgrade my ship and start pulling 100 directives at a time? It just doesn't make sense.

[lone dragon]

Why does Scopely hate level 35?

[raven marsh]

currently on 110 - it doesn't look better here. ☹️

[hollow iron]

So does 5th place get double rewards?

[lone dragon]

Why is this Borg Solo Armada event running again? Do they not want people to play? My day of playing just ended because I have nothing to do, because I can't play that event.

[steep prism]

If thats the case then the solo event should only be given to people with t9 vidars. And the rest of us should get the event for reg borg armadas.

Our issue here is that we cant complete the even we are being given and we dont get the event that 34 and lower are getting. So now we cant finish the "we are the borg" event either cause we will have missed all the "resistance is not futile" ones so we just lose. All the way.

Also, i didnt need a t9 vidar to beat the solos.. in fact i didnt need a vidar at all so im super not sure why they are even tied together.

[viscid phoenix]

That should be achievable. They already give different formats of lat rush for feesha and non-feesha owners.

[queen trout]

Gj introducing this event after the events reset. Top planning going on here 🙌 the rest of us that collected the syndicate ex at event reset ( in my case 4k ) have nothing to show for it .
Top of the range company you are 👏

[vagrant topaz]

aaaaand its gone 🤣

[queen trout]

Scoplay at it’s finest…

[hidden needle]

It triggered early. the event is slotted for next week

[hearty scroll]

I spent 18k multiphasics bc I saw that event, when I was done it was gone.

[scenic flint]

Another mining event? Didn't we just have one like yesterday? Or was it the day before? It's so boring and basic. Add some pvp option or something!

[indigo iris]

Do you have reward issue (less rewards) with Para Bellum event? Have received half amount than it should be from the event

[white bramble]

MS4 goes straight to inventory. Visual bug

[cold quiver]

I, like a lot of people here, don’t have a maxed out Vidar, so it’s impossible for me to participate in this Resistance SMS. I don’t really mind that. I do mind that I have invested considerable time and effort into the Monthly Borg SMS. What I want to know is, will there be a path for me to complete the Monthly even if I can’t complete this one SMS?

[vagrant topaz]

My Vidar is T8 and I have just turned ops 35 so I have those too but you know what $copely want you to do is spend a small fee of £359.96 or equivalent of your currency if it isn't GBP!

[sly wadi]

SMS doesn't count correct it should be twice that points as I've Spock as commander...

[autumn wadi]

I have a maxed vidar. But the vidar is not vital for the borg solo armadas. That said, I only just got to 35, and my maxed saladin, tier 4 augur, and maxed vidar, have a 2/7 success rate against solo borg armadas. They're my 3 strongest ships and only by crit luck do I complete one. It's too brutal. If I had known that going from 34 to 35 was a guaranteed fail on this event and hence this whole chain I would have held off.

No game punishes you for progressing like this one.

[vagrant topaz]

Its not for being able to defeat them with a vidar that's what the research is for its for the refinery if not T9 this is what you have

[white bramble]

Hmm you need to relook at your crews. Those 3 ships are a 100% success on uc35's

[autumn wadi]

If there's a guide you'd recommend I'd be glad to take a look. I watched deuce's video but he's logically focused on higher level stuff than mine. I have most of the crew he uses but not all (IE lorca). I tried to emulate the crews as best possible, focusing on mitigation and crit. I succeed only when scoring a lucky crit.

Also @vagrant topaz Ah I did not know that that flips a switch between how many directives you get. That's even worse.

[vagrant topaz]

yeah, thats the only bit that annoys me I lost to a borg sphere lvl 35 by 3m i was gutted. I have Lorca my ships are 2.4m Sally, 2m Centurion (cloaked at the start) and Bortas 1.5m (not cloaked as I dont have it)

[stone quarry]

360 diodes for Missions yet no missions to utilize them on? What's the deal with that?

[queen kindle]

Riker will provide very little value to your ship since the research completely overwhelms his bonus. I'd slot in a different officer there.

[vagrant topaz]

you could try Bashir (I got him from an event recently) instead of Lorca

[vagrant topaz]

Thanks but not according to Rev Deuce's guide where I got it from but maybe I should be swapping him with Bashir in hindsight as he doesn't specify Dominion just says "solo". Like corpse says about his higher level maybe relevant

[autumn wadi]

Sadly I don't have bashir either. Nor dax, odo.

[white bramble]

You need Dax and Bashir

Definitely

Makes life so much easier

[queen kindle]

Ok, that's up to you. I'd just take note of why someone's using an officer, and if the reasons they use them are still relevant for my situation.

[autumn wadi]

That's a little different than "Those 3 ships are a 100% success on uc35's". 😛

[vagrant topaz]

I only got bashir, didnt get the others from the event. and I wasn't buying them. What about 6 of 11 instead of Lorca the synergy is nice and high between 5 and 6 of 11

@queen kindle I have taken note of your comment hence my thought about Bashir instead I haven't just ignored you as I am pretty sure you know a lot more than me

[white bramble]

😅

[white bramble]

Need a bigger Augur then

[queen kindle]

Bashir is a good choice to slot in here, I'd actually stick him where you have Gorkon assuming the ships are roughly equal. There was some talk about using an 8 captain with synergy the other day against BSAs. Seems like a good choice if the fights are short, or to make them shorter. I'd check your logs to see if it makes sense for you.

I don't think 6 is a strong officer against BSAs, the spheres have excessively high def stats and you're not likely to to stat high enough to make use of the OA. I'd use 7 if my ship's mitigation needed a boost and I were choosing between the two.

[main crater]

all you need is 200k ttack

[merry raft]

Anyone else feel the 'recruit Ghalenar' events are a bit silly as they only produce one shard? Are the days where recruitment events give you shards at each milestone long gone?

[patent river]

Picard, eurydice, bev changed my life in regard to solos

[cold quiver]

I have no doubt that I can win against the Solo Armada. I don’t have adequate sourcing the get the directives. I can only buy 6 a day in the refinery. Unless there is another way I am unaware of?

[patent river]

It's to entice you to lvl up faster. Your precious nanos need to get ur vidar up to t9. Its wasted if u dump into directives sooner than that.

[cold quiver]

Yeah I’m a couple months from that. 😒 At this point all I want to know is if I’ll be able to finish the Borg monthly event without this one specific SMS.

[patent river]

The meta prob not. It's scopes standard to lay the carrot out. You'll either buy to get on board or grind it out. There's some advantages of being leading edge. In most cases not really. I'd assume going forward there will always be fc events. As they coincidentally keep the player short of the mats needed to lvl up the fc if not multiple. It's a marathon folks.

[turbid coyote]

Nah you can’t. I notice they haven’t once addressed this quite common bit of feedback though. @wanton copper @icy cairn any feedback on adjusting the tiering for directives re borg solo armadas? 6 directives vs 100 for a t7/8 vidar is a bit ridiculous

[carmine veldt]

I just did the Spock command event which gives Uncommon 3 star gas as a reward. Still Needed 54

My bad thinking one thing doing another.

[errant vault]

Treasury unlock when? and will it be anywhere near the levels last month's was?

[wintry abyss]

How are we supposed to finish this event?

[white bramble]

Your server has to pay for the FC’s

[wintry abyss]

Yeah rubbish - we have lots of whales but it’s impossible to finish this. An IMS should never be a payed only event. Particularly this one is off the charts to finish. Sorry but just plain stupid.

[white bramble]

By the looks of it. Your whales didn’t like the IMS. Only 2 or 3 servers have completed the IMS but most got stuck at the second or third MS. I don’t agree with the IMS but it is what it is. Hopefully they make better ones in future

[kindred aurora]

I assume, if this stays as it is, I'll only get 2nd place prize?
On what basis does it put me second?

[white bramble]

It’s random. Yes you will get 2nd place

[half flare]

If the slb has the same tiny amount of shards as the XSLB, I’m not interested.

[kindred aurora]

Thanks. I definitely won't feel hard done by 😄

[scenic flint]

Just another example of Scopely greatly over estimating the appeal or buying power of thus event.

I don't even care about the final Milestone, I just want thr Hugh shards.

[stray cedar]

Im in a very active server but these milestones are just ridiculous

[raven marsh]

same here 😦

[vagrant topaz]

@raven marsh Same here and my server doesn't have a very active base. How to tell us all $copely doesnt care

[deft wren]

You can look at it as the prizes not being all that great anyway.

I prefer to look at it as Scopely valuing those small awards above letting the player base have a positive experience in the event though 😂

[urban moth]

Do not use your Vi'dar. I have a maxed Saladin, T4 Augur and maxed Cent. I can complete 3 borg armadas on one pass. Have you done the borg solo research?

[opaque jacinth]

please advise: either here or in DM. At once telling you that I don't have neither Sisco nor Picard yet 😭

[stray cedar]

@wanton copper @icy cairn if you had any sense of customer service you should gift everyone the last 2/3 milestones of this event as you have badly miscalculated this.
I can’t see many, if any servers completing this and if you were prepared to let us win them then it’s not like you are giving something away that you hadn’t already planned to.

[patent river]

I'd call it even with just 2 high shards

[urban moth]

The math on this one doesn't work for newer servers, much less older ones. 100 points to recruit Kirk or Spock means 1800 players have to get at least one of them. I think there are maybe 700 active players TOTAL on my server. Of those 400 might have the where-with-all to do the missions and unlock the free one. Of those 400 maybe 150 - 200 are spenders that will buy one of the others, but not both. Right now, there have been 780 unlocks total on my server... so pretty sure there is no way for Server 87 to complete this one.

[vast stirrup]

Agree. Even if it was intended to encourage spending on packs, we probably don't have the 340+ players to buy or recruit all three to finish the event

[jolly fable]

Also a server wide event should not be designed to be about spending heavy or for it to depend on heavy spenders. There is next to no incentive for those players to spend on this event. It is not an SLB or XSLB which can basically turn into auctions if players choose to spend heavy for the rewards. This is meant to be an event for the server to work together beyond whatever differences or "wars" they have going on to be able to complete a difficult event and claim the rewards. This event makes it seem like a direct attempt to design something that will not be completed but will milk the wallets of low and medium spenders in an unrealistic attempt to progress in it. That might not be what the intent was but that's how it can, and likely will come across to many.

[patent river]

I'd much rather server events based on a mass server wide activity. Kill million borgs, build a new station building, series of meta events..something. Spend event during an economic downturn is poor form.

[hallow tree]

Still no Informations about treasury this month @icy cairn @wanton copper

[jolly fable]

Agreed!! We get that the game has to make money, but this kind of thing is not the way. Trying to force spending just to progress a main arc event should never be the focus when there are countless other ways of monetisation that do not make it seem like we HAVE to pay just to play the game. This event is not a spending choice, it is a necessity and that's not right. Server wide events should be a large goal that the majority of the server can contribute to in a similar theme of the main arc.

[sinful heart]

Money. Standard answer for anything involving events not being sourced to finish 😉

[boreal coyote]

@wanton copper I thought syndicate was coming back today? Now my pulls are all outta wack 🤣

[vagrant topaz]

My personal opinion is:

I have seen more and more events aimed at making players spend hundreds of pounds making events XSLB definitely aimed at making it an auction but not just in one server but two against each hoping the CC whales will keep buying and buying. There has been alot of feedback here about this IMS and yet $copely have just ignored the feedback.

They want us to spend all this money on substandard game due to all the bugs on it basic things like leaderboards not working after several months because “it's a low priority”, the Discovery jump issue ongoing since what seems like the dawn the time and events being released when they shouldn't with people seeing them then spending resources only for the event to be pulled and players left out to dry to just name three things.

Yet with all this and more we are expected to throw money at $copely for the privilege with unachievable targets based on active players per server. I am on 112 a young server and we have already lost a huge amount of our active player base because of things like the above and nothing is encouraging them to return.

It would be good to hear what our <@&509690795536941056> s have to say on these subjects because I am sure I am not alone

[main crater]

What happned to the syndicate event that was supposed to happen today? Yesterday I burned a ton of multi-phasics we are told its running today and still nothing?

[hallow tree]

What a sad event day now… like all arcs, ok start and from day to day more worse 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

[odd ivy]

Are the rewards correct for the tactical ticketed event, lvl 19?

[white bramble]

Check the brackets on https://stfc.space

[odd ivy]

Big difference from the other two. Maybe it’s considered easier since it’s combat?

[white bramble]

The brackets are different

[marsh aspen]

So boring events...

[white bramble]

That’s why I said to check

[odd ivy]

I did check, still don’t understand why the reward is so much lower than for the other two

[white bramble]

The last time it was passed on the response was the brackets are different. If you want more rewards then they will up the milestones

[timid cliff]

So why have the crystal tickets given out more mats than the others all month?

[vagrant topaz]

because gas is needed for more things so it all goes back to 💳

[unreal coral]

am i missing a mission event? I am sitting on 260 matrix diodes and nothing to spend them on?

[worthy perch]

I received Milestone awards for a Borg Event (Station related) but I cannot see any events in the Borg Event area...even after clearing localization and restarting UPDATE Sorry, it was a Borg even but under the ticketed events...I just missed the name

[vagrant topaz]

The "we are the borg" sms event?

[autumn wadi]

Yes I have. My vidar is my 3rd most powerful combat ship. I'm not using it just because it's designed to be anti-borg.

It bears mentioning that I am fully f2p. I do not have any of the prime researches that aren't available naturally at my level. I was discussing things with others yesterday and it seems that kind of thing is often overlooked.

[urban moth]

I tried using my vi'dar with borg solos and it sucked. I lost easily 50% of the armadas I ran with it.

The research I'm referring to is not prime research. It's F2P under combat research.

The research bonus on faction ships is only slightly larger than the vi'dar, but for whatever reason, removing the vi'dar gave me 100% success rate.

[autumn wadi]

I know. I have those too. I read the description of the armada. I saw the login screens. I saw the people who flubbed it by not doing those. I have a maxed saladin, T4 augur, and after that, either a maxed vidar, a T3 mantis, a maxed franklin, and it only gets worse after that.

I watched the guides. I experimented with crews. I lack bashir/dax/odo which seems to be a significant factor.

[urban moth]

You can do it without bashir/dax/odo - the crews are similar to ds9 solos. Crit is your friend... damage is next.

5-7-6 (some people say don't run six, but his ability pops here). Instead of 6, you could use Gorkon
Bev-Picard-Khan (if you have them, this is a good mix
Sisko-Obrien-Nero (on augur)

Kirk + Lorica + Khan is another good mix.

Ideally if you can get hull breach and burning, you're going to get a good set of damage bonus.

On lower deck, stack any of the STLD crew you have - on your Augur would be best.

[rustic leaf]

@wanton copper @icy cairn are we getting a treasury this arc??? Haven’t seen it in the event listings yet and arc is almost over

[white bramble]

They said it’s coming

[pallid sand]

Everytime someone ask about the treasury, its delayed for 24h 😞 should start around October '24 for now
But I m sure bek or eco will have something more official soonish 🙂

[royal fossil]

While I appreciate putting in sub-ops 35 content, these borg events are hot garbage. 18 uncommon cubes (highest efficiency per directive spent) with a currency that isn't obtainable regularly is poor design. By doing this, you also put lower ops players at a disadvantage for the mega cube events that provide the only access to the invictus skin.

Did I mention most people complete the solo armada event with 1 kill?

[next vessel]

Is this the current event store? I have the number 13 but not able to use anything aside from the luck token

[white bramble]

the 13 is from the elite bp

[next vessel]

Is that something I can claim?

[white bramble]

If you buy the elite bp then the 13 will disappear yes

[next vessel]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[white bramble]

20

[vernal fulcrum]

So what is the scoring metric for the upcoming Vidar refit event?

[sand lintel]

kill a bunch of stuff, spend a bunch of mats... u know the typical stuff.. 🙂 oh, and do it a lot more than anyone else on your server 🙂

[vernal fulcrum]

Oh nm, they both start tomorrow,

[sweet valve]

I’m sure they’ll figure out the worst possible scoring mechanic for it. SLBs with 24 hours notice are usually horrible. I’ll be happy if 10 shards can be obtained with low effort.

[proper cipher]

please shorten duration of heavy hitter slb to 1 day...it's toxic having to outgrind your opponent for 2 days.

[raven marsh]

This Event ( Screenshot 1 ) is only per Server, so some of them will be able to finish it and some not. While this Event ( Screenshot 2 ) is for all Servers, all fight for the best Places in the same List. Sorry but that make no sense for me - why did they not switched that? So Event 2 only per Server and Event 1 all Servers, so when 1 Server finished it - that all Players recievd the Rewards.

[gloomy jay]

@wanton copper @icy cairn This is just hilarious! Perfect example of how money greedy Scopely is!
This is THE worst event! Greatest BS, Congratz Scopely you make another money grabbing event which only drains the morale to play further more down to zero..... You REALLY should overthink your concept of IMS Events!!! The players not totally stupid and buy all your overpriced stuff! 🤬 This Event is F-rated! 👎

[oak sand]

It's primarily a bunch of bots winning anyway, why bother.

[vagrant topaz]

Epic fail Scopley.

[rustic leaf]

@wanton copper @icy cairn add to this global fail chain this is Targ56 which is a super active server. The devs set the bar WAY too high for this event.

[stoic peak]

Any servers even finish this joke of an event?

[patent river]

Pretty sure my server would sit at needing only 1 person...and still not buy it.

[woven grove]

Server 32 here. Hard "nope". Scopely set the bar WAAAAY too high.

[boreal coyote]

I think Scopely needs to add icons to events { similar to the research icons but larger } to all events that Require pay to complete.

[halcyon fiber]

byeee spend event

[hidden needle]

Some dont even have the event

[summer barn]

404: hugh slb event not found 😂

[trim gazelle]

The recruit Hugh slb was live, I scored points and now the event is gone. Was it pulled?

Why did you reset the scores! I upgraded my ships for improvement in the parallel Armada event, and all that spend is now wasted! @wanton copper @icy cairn halp!

[halcyon fiber]

SLB is back, but seems like they reset the scores, people mad

[novel mango]

Why is the vidar skin event normal armadas?

[heavy escarp]

You should never spend big on an auction right out the gate anyway. Kinda defeats the whole auction part. But yea that's messed up. #bringbackthepoints

[tight elbow]

Please stop making the mining event tickets give the most resources every time

[hollow lichen]

Same nonsense here, thousands of gas spent but scoring pulled so now 0 points... ticket submitted but no hope

[novel mango]

Got to love those retrieving events!

[white bramble]

Contact CS

[rancid portal]

Tried a ticket and bot just closed it without me being able to write. Wtf?!

[sudden zodiac]

Scopley really need to look at how events are created, they are only ever a rinse and repeat of something you should be doing in the game anyway. So boring.
If they want the devs to do something meaningful in an arc create a new and good mechanic that is only used in events so that players actually want to complete them.
Hitting hostiles, doing armadas or mining isn’t an engaging event imo.

[urban kettle]

Choose a different option so you get past the automated message - event rewards issues not tech issues

[mystic kraken]

No points scoring on Hugh slb…

[pallid sand]

You will have to contact support

[olive cradle]

Guys they only had 4 days from when they announced they'd be changing the XSLB to an SLB to get this right and not still post the XSLB then take it down to post the SLB and steal everyone's point. Try to be understanding, these are trying times for them.

[halcyon fiber]

people like you are the reason everyone with serious problems have to wait for days for a response

[rancid portal]

People like you are the reason for prophylactics👍🏼

[mystic kraken]

Wrote a ticket and didn’t click scoring delay so that it was automatically closed 😂

[toxic vortex]

52 bracketed with 60 on a spend SLB. GTFOH with that stupidity.

[olive cradle]

We got 29s in with 42s

[jolly swan]

Thanks scopley

[toxic vortex]

Whoever designed this is an idiot

[olive cradle]

Correct

[worn shadow]

Don't light the torches until we see what is inside the Comp Chest! @icy cairn @wanton copper

[low flicker]

Hopefully a full refund on all the mats I spent 😂

[olive cradle]

Counter offer: 0 mats and 0 LB points - Scopely

[low flicker]

Wouldn't put it past them

[worn shadow]

I was thinking about some infinitus refit shards to help out with the borg grind.

[unreal coral]

ops 41 of the SLB rank 4-5 has wrong number of shards as reward

[pallid sand]

Try to clear your loc, and see if that change?

[unreal coral]

did already (to get my BP tally to update properly), will do so again in case it got updated in last 30 minutes - nope, doing so again, SLB reward is still borked

[uncut cloud]

Really disappointed once again in this constant armada spending but no way to actually get the directives without spending real money. I can save and save the free UC directives and still never be able to compete. The rare and epic directives sourcing is a joke.

[pallid sand]

@unreal coral others bracket have 36 shards at rank 4-5, will report it and ask 👍

[native radish]

Have the same problem with scoring. Lost points for about 9k G3 resources

[unreal coral]

thanks, I see slb rank 4-5 in my bracket now fixed

[ashen trench]

I don't seem to be getting extra points for killing swarm or having FC kirk for FC event. Is this happening to anyone else?

[mystic kraken]

Is anyone looking into the SLB scoring? I have a ticket but they said they’d get to it in 72 hours….

[pallid sand]

You have an on duty skill unlock and put him in the left spot? I know there was something about that last event, it's a bit tricky to get it to score. I m looking

[ashen trench]

Yes regarding Kirk

[pallid sand]

@ashen trench what on duty skill gave you unlock?

[kind cobalt]

'nuff said lmao.

[boreal coyote]

My server

[pliant grail]

So let me get this straight. We, the players, have been asking for a reduction of the grind. For less play time to finish events. And today, you respond with a FC event to kill swarms (requiring an explorer and going 10+ minutes into DS)...a day before swarm sunday!!!

You also have two separate kill events. One is to kill borg and another is to kill battleships. They do cross over but you give mid to high players the middle finger because 33 borgs give 80 points and we need 100k+ points. I would only need to kill 1700 borg probes to finish that event!!!

And, on top of that, a slb to kill armadas. 15 minute timer armadas for FKR.

Whomever is running this arc doesn't need to be fired. They need to be required to finish out the rest of this month using only one hand...their off hand. And then say of they conpelte 5x their normal work load, they can get a bonus.

Thos month has been a big F-. This has been the worst arc ever.

[sand lintel]

dumb question... my armada event says spend regular directives... not start FKR armadas... i havent tried, but Cardassian armadas take regular directives and their timer is 6 minutes~ . yours could be different as you are higher level than I am. just wondering

[sturdy fjord]

Greedy sods! The infinitus skin LOCKED behind the typical Rare and Epic armada doors. It is just me or this this ‘Arc’ just money grab after money grab! 😡

[queen kindle]

If the SLB is too difficult for you to compete in, then I'd recommend getting it via the borg mini-arc event store. Took me a few months, but I got mine that way.

[pliant grail]

The borg slb is solo or rare/epic. That can be on cardassian, FKR, pirates, or even swarm. But, if you are spending most of your rares and epics on cardassian, you are going to massively slow down your growth unless you really need the cardassian research

[pliant grail]

Why do moderators and admin act this way? You very well know it doesn't take a couple months to unlock that skin. It takes AT LEAST 4 months and that is if you can pull the credits to get a max pull each month. At least.

This is just like the solo armadas where you act like most players should be able to finish the sms easily and those that cant have played the game wrong.

It is really annoying to see mods and admins ignore players legitimate issues and have you act like it is our fault.

Please stop pretending how others feel doesn't matter.

[white bramble]

How do you expect us to act? We are volunteers and players. We can have an opinion and we are not the only players to have these opinions.

[queen kindle]

I never said it took me a couple months, why do you claim I stated that? I stated truthfully about my experience and provided a way for someone who struggles with SLBs with getting a difficult to obtain item for the game. I've never been able to max pull the limit on infinitus shards and don't believe that's an expectation of players.

[wintry abyss]

It’s old content. Asking for rare and epic armadas to gain it is just money making shame. Give it out for free, nuff said.

[pliant grail]

If you are players, then act as players. Dont pretent like something is easier than it really is. It doesn't take a couple months to get the borg refit. It is not easy.

You are free to have your opionons but it appears the mods opionons pretend like acopely doesn't do anything wrong and is the players fualt for events. Or they should spend money to compete.

[white bramble]

FYI: I don’t see an opinion above. We know infictus is one of the hardest skins to get. You were offered an alternative to the SLB. Take it or leave it.

[pallid sand]

No one said the infinitus sourcing was easy... But spending valuable armada credit in a leaderboard always won by the same player? Yes, the mini borg event between arc might be a far better way to get it.

[pliant grail]

You are correct. You didn't say a couple, you said a few. It is all a matter if interpretation. A few to you may be 5 or 6. There it may be 2 or 3. Some it may be 4 or 5. I do apologize for assuming.

@white bramble because they made borg a daily and nasty grind now, believing they are messing up and wanting better should not be a "take it or leave it" attitude. Do you want the game to he better or do you believe it is perfect the way it is?

[white bramble]

The skins boost is fairly small so depending on where you are in the game it will have different value. For me, SLB isn’t worth my time for it. I’ll pick it up a few shards at a time when they launch the mini Borg store, will take me significantly longer but I’ll get there, until then I have other grinds I can keep pushing and improving, It’s not like the skin doesn’t have any sourcing except for SLB’s unlike the Stella skin, It’s just generally very tough to get overall.

[patent river]

Exos are waay better than the skin and easier to obtain. Just not permanent like the skin.

[mystic kraken]

Can anyone help me with understanding if the Hugh scoring issue is being looked at?

[queen kindle]

You're reading way more into statements than are there. It's not easy to complete via borg mini-arcs, it takes a lot of time and dedication to do it that way, and sacrifice to avoid buying something else from the event store. But it is f2p-viable and it's not a question of whether Scopely did right or wrong. They've created the game as they want to, and we engage with it as we want to. If the SLB is not how you want to play, then I won't try to convince you to spend, I'll just show you the f2p path available for you to achieve your goals.

If you believe the game's too difficult then leave your comments on that matter. If your premises are wrong, I may try and show you why and maybe even offer an alternative. And it's not that I'm ignoring you if I don't, I might even agree with you.

[pliant grail]

The point is scopley said they were going to reduce the grind and instead took a dead one and made it into a neccessity basically.

Yes, the skin is not a lot....so why not make it much easier for players to get? Especially when we are asking for a reduction of grind.

[white bramble]

They also said dont knock it yet as the grind gets easier later even though it requires more effort now. Normally to make a grind easier and im speaking generally not just about STFC, you put in X amount of work so that task Y becomes more efficient or automated or semi automated, but to get to that stage you need to put the work in which is what has been said here so far. So on the point of reducing grinds lets see what they do. For now we agree its not reducing it. The only way we can reduce it rn is to time it and do certain things at certain times

[worn shadow]

they need to give the Vidar Skin to everyone for free and also 50 officer slot..

[pliant grail]

That works IF you are starting out. The vidar grind is not necessary to have increased. They are doing this as a money grab for officers via borg solos.

You know this, we know this, they know this.

I get it, it is a business and they are out to male money. They are losing players though, and it will NOT get easier anytime soon. Months at least, unless you spend a lot of $$.

What scopley has done is like telling pro athletes that have made it, we are going to male the game harder...but don't worry, it will become easier after you get used to it.

Again, it appears as though mods and admins are defending scopley and a bad implementation and blaming the players. We should know better or have been better prepared.

[remote sigil]

I'm just wondering how many points do you have in the Borg month event.
I've done all the events and I'm only at 2,400.
I've seen others that are at 2,500 points

[white bramble]

2500

[bleak pendant]

don't know should done everything but only at 2100

[white bramble]

Ops level?

[remote sigil]

i am OPS 55 and i have 2400

[white bramble]

You have definitely missed an event. Maybe one of the FC ones?

[bleak pendant]

OPS 44

[north viper]

Ops 41, also at 2400

[bitter anvil]

Ops 39 and 2500 points in it

[north viper]

Other reports of people 31 and 35 with also 2400 and claiming they didnt miss anything.
Wonder if there was some scoring issue or event not showing up

[white bramble]

They probably missed an FC event that links to that Borg event

[north viper]

Well, our server didnt even get 50% on the IMS, dont know if that counted

[white bramble]

Nope it didn’t

[north viper]

Isnt it a bit sketchy that multiple people from multiple ops levels (and servers looking by the chat here) are at 2400 claiming they didnt miss anything tho? Especially considering how common scoring issues are with Scopely

[vagrant topaz]

I have 2300 ops 35 and I am pretty sure I haven't missed anything either

[white bramble]

They can write a ticket to CS and then CS can tell you what you missed.

[sinful heart]

Yeah, the carrying of scopy water is getting real old.

[scenic flint]

How many different grinds are set for today? 4? Probes, Swarms, Eclipse, and Diso.

Oh, and Vidar pvp which is also needed for the probe grind.

Seems a bit excessive

[sand lintel]

most of the events can be pared down to kill swarms... because swarms (and or hostiles) are an options on most

[pallid tartan]

No free ticket for the ticketed event? Dick Turpin is in form again I see, let me guess scoply are selling them for £90 in the store.

[white bramble]

They are in the bp

[scenic flint]

Not today. While the BP event is either swarms or probes, the Recruit borg event is basically probes only because of the cap on generic hostiles being lvl 32 or below. And then there is the Threat from Beyond, which is only Swarms.

And the FC event is the Eclipse grind.

[bold geyser]

Armadaevent with blue and purple RL isn't easy to do, when the dark space armadas respawn after hours.
They should change the times as they had done it on the other armadas.

[timid willow]

May want to avoid the "HH" title. Just spell it out. If you don't know, HH can have a meaning I assume (hope) Scopely wants nothing to do with.

[white bramble]

Hostile Hunt 👀

[minor finch]

HH is a clothing brand "Helly Hansen". They use HH as a logo design on their clothes.

[sinful heart]

Usually “those folks” use 88 over the more obvious HH. 😉

[noble citrus]

I have 2800 pts...whatd I do wrong...or right I spose

[timid willow]

Right, which oddly enough is a very lucky Chinese number.

[novel mango]

@wanton copper we hate the stupid treasury banner!

[tribal nimbus]

Why is my treasury not full?

[coral hatch]

See, what we meant was, when we said, you know, treasury will start on 1/23, we meant "on or around 1/23". Pray we do not alter the calendar further.

[white bramble]

The treasury is live

[icy marsh]

Is this really right Treasury content? Ops 41 and I don't have a single 4 star rss in it?