🏆-event-chat

[dreamy willow]

Yeah, 16k, I didn't see the extra day for the event store

IF you know to do 3-2-3. I bet a lot of people don't

[plucky ermine]

20k, you can redeem 5 times in 4 days 🙂

[inland wraith]

Also severely restricts choice. I don't want a bunch of ISO pulls. I want the choice to get what I actually need

[compact panther]

Makes no sense. If i’m winning so much loot, let me spend as much as i want to! Or don’t keep events that give even more loot that cannot be spent because of the cooldown timer 🤷🏻‍♂️

[plucky ermine]

you can also donate the loot to the guild and win the SLB and get officer shards.

[balmy verge]

I am so excited for the event store. It totally makes spending all of my solo directives worthwhile. Happy, happy, joy, joy.

(written with strong sarcasm). 😒

[plucky ermine]

and if they really stick with only 2 elite events per day, you won't have an issue at all.

[inland wraith]

Welcome to STFC

Where the prizes are all made up and the players don't matter

[compact panther]

The SLB gives even more loot 😂👌🏻

[warped ginkgo]

I don't disagree but unfortunately 99% of players will not have your problem. Most won't even be able to spend tokens everyday (while only buying 1 of the items until cd)

[plucky ermine]

yes 4k for top spot which is the extra redemption day

[compact panther]

I get that..i’m also only interested in 2 options in there..so that makes me end up with even more loot just sitting in the inventory once this is done. The cooldown should be removed

[warped ginkgo]

If you were to buy everything except the donate, would that leave you with extra tokens?

[compact panther]

Yep it will

[static wigeon]

Where do I find how many entry tokens I have? They're not displayed in events screen or inventory so how do I plan my events?

[scarlet osprey]

They're in your inventory under "other".

[static wigeon]

Can't see them

[scarlet osprey]

Hirogen Bounty Order

I had to scroll through like three times to notice them xD

[solar ferry]

Well the Armadathon is finished, look at all the wonderful rewards you can get after all the effort you've put in. 💩💩💩

[scarlet osprey]

Do we know if we're going to be able to earn any more of them over the next two days? Also, do we know if the same bounty events will just reset for the next two days, or if we're getting different ones each day?

[steady hedge]

Looks like we will get different events to spend the Hirogen Bounty Orders for the next 2 days. As for the credits, we can get more from doing the bounties.

[pale steppe]

With these event store cooldowns we won’t be able to spend all the event store loot.

[scarlet osprey]

Good to know about the events, thank you!

My other question was actually about the bounty orders.

If we're not getting any more of those, that changes my plans for which events to enter.

[bitter snow]

You will, just not all on one thing most likely

[spare perch]

wtf is with this event store cooldown. Why? And yet another carmada event. Is scopely trying to solve its server issues by getting players to quit the game?

[abstract gate]

pay for more orders - up to 36 in store (if pic bev is worth it to ya)

[echo pier]

i mean the carmada's dont have to be done. its actually quicker just to do some hostiles depending on your lvl

[abstract gate]

How do you get Hirogen Bounty Order for the Bounty Hunt event? Can you get any free or do you need to buy them?

[dreamy patio]

the previous slbs/sms

you had 3 days

[ornate geyser]

This whole week has been high entertainment on the discord, lol….

[dreamy patio]

One way to put it, lol

[icy moth]

Does pulling 3/2/3 chests in event store actually give you 3 chests on last pull?

[bitter snow]

Yes

[icy moth]

Only received 2400 trait xp but I think I was charged the 300. Will have to check tomorrow 😕

[rancid terrace]

Amazing so glad I put in retort to get top 10 ranks in these events to be forced into choosing away team and iso useless garbage

Players who invested a fraction into those events will still max out the rss/material pulls

Utterly screwed ppl

[hexed kettle]

@pseudo rune Cooldown on event store needs to be removed. Won't be able to spend all the currency we earned.

[echo pier]

Didn’t they remove it last time or set it to 10m?

[neon badge]

Why even have a cooldown 🤷‍♂️

[neon badge]

I went hard day one then figured rewards would be trash so the last days of the event didn't really bother

And I was right

[ornate geyser]

I didn’t bother with last two days, still ended up high-placed on the SLBs because nobody else did, either, lol.

[rigid radish]

What is a Server Byeweek ?

[bitter snow]

no incursion, mini chest for doing nothing

[ornate geyser]

Means they won’t have incursion.

[bitter snow]

usually because of odd count of servers or server too new/small to participate

[rigid radish]

Thank you all

[ancient light]

Lack of interest/participation is more like it... servers are dying, people are fed up and quiting... we be on a sinkin ship captain

[proud wing]

Cross region incursions will be the first sign of end

[proven pendant]

The bounty hunter events stopped scoring hostiles for me day 1 and now the store only gives 200 points for a guild donation on a 3 chest pull instead of the intended 300 points.

[mellow scaffold]

@pseudo rune cool down on event store is ridiculous.
Can't even spend the currency I earned.
In this case, the events were not worth my investment in terms of time and directives

[undone sundial]

The cooldown in the event store is insane. Makes no sense to do that. Have to spend on stuff I don't even want so I don't end up with extra at the end. Not even sure I can spend it all before event is over

[raw owl]

Just dont buy the ticket packs and you wont have that problem.

[sterile wave]

where are the borg hostiles?

[proud wing]

In the borg systems, below and to the bottom left of Romulan space, accessible via the tokens, and then more to the left of Rogue space.

[naive lily]

hi, why are event store items limited to only a few pulls? can't spend the currency earnt

[strange bear]

Wait did incursions just get pushed a day?

[dreamy patio]

no

they're starting an hour earlier

[strange bear]

Oh I get it

[balmy verge]

@pseudo rune @modest frost <@&509690795536941056> How Can We Help You?

When @pseudo rune and @modest frost started their communication efforts it was a refreshing change from the dearth of information that proceed them.

However, communication has become one of the most complained about topics (ranking up there with stability). I have no doubt your hands are tied by internal failures of Scopely’s organization (eg, having a VIP Communication team and Everyone Else Communication team), the tension in trying to get current information to share when things go 🤪, and advocacy for player compensation chests for when things go 🤪.

It seems weird to ask how people who pay to play the game can help you when it should be about how you can timely help us. During the recent communication failure around the Hirogen event there was at least one player active in this channel sharing what information he had put together. Information had to be gleaned from 3rd-party content creators that should have come you.

So … what more do you need from us to help you? Do we need to flood the help desk with complaints to raise communication as a pain point? Send e-mails? Send snail mail? Leave comments on every content creator YouTube video? If yes, what should be highlighted to avoid putting you in the cross-hairs v the cats you seem regulated to herding? I still think you have the best of intentions and should not be fired or otherwise penalized.

Let us know & I’m sure you will get support to correct this ridiculous pain point we are all dealing with.

And FWIW, I expect you & Bek live in this world …

https://youtu.be/Pk7yqlTMvp8?si=IYHoaSRNSHVUetsi

[sage mango]

Just having someone in discord passing along periodic info goes a long way. Good job today, Domo.

Silence is deafening otherwise

[turbid kayak]

As a point of clarity… we don’t pay to play the game. We pay to win the game. Sadly not all our budgets allow a mortgage payment every month for upgrades.

[balmy verge]

Some pay to play (or play for free) and some pay to win. I’ve always looked at the game as a marathon v sprint after watching an alliance member pour thousands to reach the tip-top only to discover there was no more content and there was no one close enough to do PvP with. This was about 4-5months into the game.

TBH I’m likely a dolphin/krill hybrid.

I have a strict BattlePass budget, funded by Apple Card rebates, and if I exceed my wife will cure me of my obnoxious habit of breathing.

Update: breathing was berated … 🤬 autocorrect

[lapis harbor]

I’m familiar with explorer, battleship and the surveyor but WTH is a destroyer?

[sage mango]

New ship type confirmed!

[acoustic bear]

A battle square?

Or outside the triangle you think?

[severe bridge]

The old school never updated description because it’s Scopley standard—it’s an interceptor

[acoustic bear]

Sigh bummer lol

[ornate geyser]

Win what? There is no “winning” in this game, lol…there’s no end, no finish line…

[acoustic bear]

Ops 70 and top power spot might be winning lol

Winninger

[cunning radish]

or losing, depending on ur perspective

😂

[acoustic bear]

Lol I'm never getting there so I guess no worries lol

70 for me is when ops 100 is available lol

[turbid kayak]

Every leaderboard is an opportunity to be a winner. If you have mortgage payments to spare.

[turbid kayak]

Nobody pays to play. That's the beauty of scopely's model. There is no actual contract with the players for the game state or quality. You play for free and all the risk is on you. If you choose to spend money in game, it does not alter the contract for the game being free... the only obligation scopely has is to ensure that whatever you bought is delivered to you. The fact that the Mantis was a paid ship AND broken for over 6 months should tell you all you need to know.

[echo pier]

It was broken for 6 months :)?

[turbid kayak]

more than 6 months. The actian apex would get stuck and could not be attacked. Since you couldn't kill it, a new one wouldn't spawn. So the only way to grind was to hit the low return ships.

[echo pier]

Ahh well that was the space. It the ship. Now I see why I was confused 🙂

[turbid kayak]

Most people just parked the ship and didn't bother... grinding the crysalis ships for their cargo was a painful grind.

[echo pier]

True best thing they ever did was add 3 hostiles

[turbid kayak]

agreed. The funny thing was that when they added 3, the apex getting stuck also went away.

[echo pier]

Well then technically the bug made our lives easier ?

[turbid kayak]

After 6 months of broken. yes.

[echo pier]

Yep

Begs the question. Lifetime working with 1 apex hostile. Or 6 months broken resulting in 3 everywhere. Hmm not sure which would be better

[turbid kayak]

If you bought a car and couldn't drive it for six months because the gas pedal was defective... I think you'd prefer to have it fixed immediately.

[echo pier]

True. But would we then not get the spicy new 3 wheel upgrade later ?

Still torn

[turbid kayak]

Multiple APEX might have come along anyway. People were complaining that 1 apex was not enough.

[echo pier]

But was that because of the bug ? Either way I’m glad it’s fixed and glad we have 3

[turbid kayak]

No complaints now.

[bitter gale]

Please remind me of what level system i need to be in for my shields to be effective during INCURSIONS

[dreamy patio]

19 or lower

[narrow walrus]

One of the biggest annoyances with stfc events example the past 2 days. BP event cardassian. Needed to kill 60-100 Hostiles depending if 50/51s spawn(and every man and his dog isn't fighting for them too) and then jemhadar BP event which is done in 1 hostile. So inconsistent. Sort it out @pseudo rune

[coral niche]

For Cardassians, two e50 and one r50 carmada finishes your event.

[narrow walrus]

Not possible in every alliance. Needs a good g5 ship to knock down the e50

[fiery compass]

i would imagine for the players that need tons of hostiles they've got the good g5 already themself

[narrow walrus]

You imagine wrong

Ops52 and need 30m points.

I can't remember but I think the 51 hostile gives 425k points? But it's 1 system and everyone is going for them and they don't spawn that often. So your hitting 49s/50s. It becomes a slog

[modest sparrow]

Does anyone know if there'll be another round of those "ticketed" hunt events together with Incursions?

[ocean frigate]

there should be another run tommorow

then that'll be it

there might not be tbh

[north vessel]

I know there's an official announcement, but my alliance members are still questioning incursion time.

To be clear, incursion starts <t:1704470400:R>, correct?

[serene helm]

That’s my understanding

[rocky perch]

incursion is at 11am EST

[pine glen]

One hour BEFORE reset.

[cunning frost]

yes or 5pm berlin time 😛

[fast ruin]

Do all servers start incursions at the same time?

[bitter snow]

yes

[fast ruin]

I’m so confused by the timings of it all for APAC

[bitter snow]

the times in the announcment are keyed to the timezone of the device you're reading discord in

So, providing your location is correct, it'll show the right time

[fast ruin]

Well darn. I was hoping it was Saturday night.

[bitter snow]

35 minutes

[fast ruin]

So it starts in 34 minutes

[bitter snow]

hope you shielded 😄

[fast ruin]

I haven’t moved. 😂

[scenic kernel]

and pray that no whale was planning to shield in one hour 🤣

[fast ruin]

Well that is going to happen.

Whales always sway the outcome

[pastel hatch]

Scopley response to scoring for bounty hunter/great chase last week

"Greetings, Commander Redlohliana. This is Rhea, we appreciate you waiting for our response. I see that you have concerns about "The Great Chase - SMS" event. Please know that it is intended that you will score 7 points when defeating Species 8749 or Assimilated Scouts with Bounty Hunter Avatar equipped, as this is already a bonus score. You will only get 1 point for hostiles that are not listed in the bonus scoring metrics.

I hope that this clarifies your concern. Let us know if you still have other concerns."

Concurs with what some players have posted

[bitter snow]

I'm going to need some context... what was the issue?

[static wigeon]

We didn't get 7 points per 8472. (Couldn't find any 8749s)

[bitter snow]

see, I know they updated the text shortly after it launched, not sure beyond that though

honestly I just did augments, even at a 700% reduction in kill totals I was never going to finish it manually 😂

[fiery fulcrum]

When you plan on there being Elite Hirogen events today, and Scopely screws up......

[dreamy mortar]

Could always wait til event reset and see if they show up then

[dim surge]

Why is incursions event again 24 hours? It was 8 hours last two turns as I remember which worked well? Gave non pvp players a chance to complete battlepass and other daily events etc.

[cyan iron]

i really wish Incursion was not 24 hours, that's 24 hours The non-PVP'er can't do events for... - last few have done a reduced length and that was a good, fair balance

[jolly sun]

I just wish we got warning sometime before 9pm the night before, there is no way your gunna make me believe they decided to do this last night

[clever ibex]

Let the error 5 bug commence

[cold crest]

How we going do the this event without get killed who Idea was that what an absolute joke

Any ideas

[cyan iron]

in the last hour it would seem between incursion finishing and the event reset.... because thats balanced 🤦‍♂️

[cold crest]

How is kill one hours OK 👍

Wow

[cyan iron]

prob more money in PvP, hence why its gets priority

[cold crest]

Yes your right OK

[sleek ore]

Any one else see the mess up scopely game notification to say incursion event will be starting in 7 hours at around 3-4pm

[smoky mortar]

@devout cairn FYI, just throwing this out there, but Incursion on Ascension friday is bad timing. IS it possible to get the ascension event on saturday whenever Incursion falls on friday?

[paper venture]

Is the battle pass event broke? I am not scoring.

[stable crow]

you can do an armada in the last hour, there's a window between end of incursion and end of ascension event.

[desert laurel]

Ascension is trivial, it's an epic armada, even eclipse or low level, and can be done by a cloaked ship.

[drifting bridge]

Helpful if you have any sort of life/job/something better to do

[stable crow]

there's also the option of waiting a week, most people don't up their ops weekly and you're not really missing anything by delaying it a bit.

[finite cypress]

24 hours without being able to play We will take a break from the game

[narrow violet]

From what i rem Ascension Friday will run every Friday till you ascend, even if you have completed the event before. as noted above its a super easy thing to do. I actually have extra ascension keys in my inv as completed event many times before i ascended 😄

[haughty mountain]

any one help me can they do this in this space

[narrow violet]

Help you do what exactly?

[haughty mountain]

sorry wrong board

[nova oar]

Hydro hunters not scoring

[fiery compass]

it can also be done the other 3 fridays of the month

[lapis harbor]

Is anybody else game keep freezing up?

[sharp cairn]

Freezing. Booting me with fake network problems. The usual fare. Client is too twitchy

[teal jungle]

scopley stop cheating for other server the ghosts of thier players all over our server we target and wont lock keeps us busy or was that the idea

[raw laurel]

No but the every two minute crash on iPad is still alive and well(?)

[turbid kayak]

Nope. But I'm not logged in, so my life is peachy. 😄

[cunning frost]

yrah my windows client decided also now its time to restart it

after 22hrs XD

but i also sended windows fail report to ms ^^

[trail vigil]

iOS is so broken at the moment

[proud wing]

Some peoples iOS devices struggle to cope with whatever STFC is doing. there fixed it for you.

[rotund cairn]

So scopely you need to fix the issue with players being able to hit bases with shields up that makes them drop after.

That glitch is cheating. Any point gained from it should be dropped from the count.

[dreamy patio]

if only

[dusky grove]

The latency in the game is so hard to play right now

This seems okay.

[molten sigil]

Having a bunch of bases glitched and unattackable is another fun one

[frigid cave]

So, I figure there wil be a new event tomorow, any hints on what next month will bring?

[ornate geyser]

Bugs. Glitches. Killing hostiles.

Same old, same old.

[stable crow]

supposedly enterprise

[acoustic bear]

@frigid cave smooth gameplay and no crashes!

[frigid cave]

Yeah, if wishes were horses.

[hoary ocean]

if Scopely would ever listen to their players and not only to their payers ...

[cinder inlet]

It is my belief that the incursion events cause more people to quit the game than any other event.

[compact helm]

Being thrown out of the app in the middle of an ongoing raid isn't as funny. I lost 2 miners + load and my Kumari because of that...
One from our own server grabbed my stuff 😕

[urban crown]

nice bug

[quiet depot]

Yeah after this blowout

[drowsy marsh]

Do we have the calendar of events?

[plush sparrow]

Hey @prisma dome - still think you should just automatically get handed the winners award?

[dreamy bear]

Maybe you are looking for TembaWithHisCheeksWide @plush sparrow

[graceful grove]

https://tenor.com/view/how-lame-is-that-eric-cartman-south-park-s23e7-board-girls-gif-19444677

[plush sparrow]

@prisma dome

[valid root]

S16 always wins right? @modest frost @pseudo rune thanks for same matchup. S16 needed some humble pie

@prisma dome always win right?

[frigid cave]

when is the next event?

[acoustic root]

31 giving billions away, like usual

[scenic cloud]

S16. Lost? Let me guess. A DRGN. fell asleep. Always happens. And I wasn't there........
mwaaaaaHahahaha

[graceful fog]

Yeah this didn’t age well

[scenic cloud]

S16. The Most TOXIC Server

[cobalt dew]

That isn't true at all... They were a great opponent and we busted our butts off to beat them

[plush sparrow]

But, to be fair, thanks @prisma dome for the motivation.

[versed heath]

This..

[sleek horizon]

Good to see some evenly matched servers for a change. Pity $copely doesn’t do it more

[versed stirrup]

Do we know any events the next 3 days, till arc launch?

[slender shuttle]

Faction hunts lol

Is it just me or is there way less g3 uncommons for each factions' total milestones rewards? 15 uncommons for completing ea faction's milestones?

[elder gyro]

thats trillions

but hey we had fun you guys saw our dark side and we saw yours

[turbid kayak]

I don't see anything wrong.

[acoustic root]

There was only one that was literally giving away trillions. Whole server is tryin to blame just 1 guy like usual.. Don't think 31 has won since incursion 3

[elder gyro]

we were up by 20 tril before this even happened

[acoustic root]

Yeah, it was around 1:00am from what ive gathered

Thats when the landslide started 😆

[lapis forum]

Wtf this timer on hirogen event store? I can't spend all my loot 😕😕😕

[oak matrix]

there wasn't any notification on the cooldown either ..many people are stuck with leftovers

[cold horizon]

So we wasted loads of directives only to have even more cluttered up inventory?
@pseudo rune: do you know what scopely was thinking?

[light elm]

Last few (prior to this one) weren’t fair at all to overnight/early morning players in the US…

[cyan iron]

tbh they are never going to please everyone, if they make it a 24-hour event they should make it an "Opt in" event that way PvP'er can pvp, and PvE players like myself who only PvP when i have to, can carry on like normal

[serene helm]

That would probably only end up with a few players opting in , it’s not like they have this event that often I’m sure the pve players can put up with it and the other 362 days of the year they can have the pve events

[cyan iron]

which is all well and good but then it makes the BP events impossible sometimes,

[serene helm]

Did mine with no issues

[cyan iron]

i havent, it left me 1 hour towards the end to ge them done and i was not able to get on to do them

[light elm]

I didn’t see anybody getting bothered while I was hitting lost hostiles for the BP… I had people from the other server in the system and folks left each other alone

[cyan iron]

doesnt mean our incursion was the same

regardless, i believe it should be a opt in, instead of forcing people that dont enjoy pvp off the game for 24 hours

[light elm]

Some people will bother you with the ones that are hostile grinding tasks, others will leave you alone. That’s probably true on every server. Getting hit while grinding hostiles with a warship would be legal on my server without an incursion, so if I get hit, oh well. A mining BP or armadas would have been harder to do.

I don’t particularly enjoy pvp myself, either. But those who can’t or don’t want to fight can always scout.

[wicked arrow]

Losing builds character. That's why S20 has so many characters.

[mellow scaffold]

Interesting, Opt-in incursion. How about opt-in war or opt-in rogue?
Not a big fan of incursion per se now, rewards are not worth it.
On the other hand on my server it's the only time for cross-alliance and galaxy wide cooperation and communication. Which I appreciate as it's a fun change.

Dont think
it's "impossible" to do BP events during Incursion though. It's possible during war, ergo also during Incursion... And only days a year (depending on how many get cancelled)

[scarlet osprey]

Sorry, this question has probably been asked repeatedly already... is there a system where I can destroy fed ships for the faction event without losing rep? Found the systems for the other two factions, but I'm stuck on this one.

[acoustic bear]

I don't believe so.

[wicked arrow]

Nope. Just don't hit surveys and the loss should be minimal.

[scarlet osprey]

Okay, just wanted to be sure. Thanks!

[craggy bramble]

Any idea when territory season / reset are happening? 3* territories up today, need to know whether to spend on perks or save and wait.

[brazen pewter]

Why on earth is there a timer on the bounty hunter event store?????

[clever wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/cry-harder-bitcoin-bitaroo-laser-eyes-gif-25471309

[severe violet]

This is another fail by scopley

[pine glen]

There's research to reduce rep lost from hitting hostiles.

[dreamy patio]

hit warships for less rep drop, or skip that part, there's no fed faction ships that reduce 0 rep

[drifting bridge]

Hey @knobheads (Scopely) let’s redact the timer on the hirogen event store. Let’s not start off ‘24 with failure.

[wraith dome]

And exocomps can be applied

[echo pier]

Besides exos like someone mentioned. Just balance it. If you are working on say romulan Kill surveys for the kli and fed kills. And for romulans kill anything but surveys. Surveys give. Or lose more rep. So you will get more out of the surveys and loss less from@the non surveys

[upbeat dawn]

you can also tier up respective faction ships instead of hitting faction ships.

[echo pier]

Almost forgot about that too

[fickle sigil]

Does anyone know if the TC season reset will happen Tuesday also? I can't find any mention of it.

[static wigeon]

No, provisionally it's the 23rd but still under discussion

[fickle sigil]

Thanks Ziggy

[languid loom]

Just went to spend my Hirogen bounty credits and there is a cool down in place after a certain number of chests. Can’t spend the vast majority of them before store timer is done. Brutal.

[radiant flicker]

Not possible to spend all bounty credits in event store ...... great event....🤦

[dreamy patio]

event will run again

[cobalt grove]

https://tenor.com/view/waynes-world-no-gif-9916251

How about extending this event store with a week.. Absolutely rediculous

[stoic cedar]

Where was the communication about the bounty hunter event store purchase limits and cool downs? There is no way to spend the event currency. Eliminate the cooldowns so we can spend the currency we earned!

[dreamy patio]

event is like it was before, and will be again when it returns, any leftover currency can be used then

[cold horizon]

There was no communication whatsover. Lots of players spent loads of directives to now discover they are wasted as the hirogens credits cannot be spent

[tribal elbow]

Why would anyone spend money/time on the event then? You will get most useful rewards for minimum effort.

[steady hedge]

I don't have enough 😆

[naive lily]

no, and wondering why do it this way? #🏆-event-chat message

[naive lily]

doing something badly over and over again does not make it ok, even if it should be "expected" by people that have seen or remember how this event was before 😄

[left harness]

Agreed. No warning. And the limits are ridiculous. Just put a spend limit on the tab itself so people know. Same result, less anger.

[misty whale]

I agree. The event store is poorly done. Wasted effort. Limits listed on the “rewards” would help to remind people to keep spending during the event, rather than expect to be able to spend it all at the end. Very disappointing.

[ornate geyser]

All kinds of lag today again…half the time, when attacking a hostile, the ship dies my even travel ti yeh hostile…the attack just kinda storta happens…and pew pew pew animations are gone…

[ornate geyser]

People did the event. So however bad it was…it wasn’t bad enough…and it’ll be back.

When people actually hate events…they don’t post about it in social media, they just stop doing the events.

[naive lily]

when people want events to be better they will post about it, else how will they know

too late when everyone stops doing the event, and in this case its about the event rewards redemption not being clear, and seems nonsensical

[smoky mortar]

Wrong way to look at it. When people are forced to wait for months for earned rewards, it's discouraging. New players aren't exactly flocking to the game. Don't need any more to leave.

[naive lily]

this

[ornate geyser]

It’s exactly the right way to look at it. It’s no different than IRL - what people do is far far more important than what they say.

People did the event. It’s a successful event, whether we liked it or not.

[naive lily]

lets agree to disagree on that then 😄

[ornate geyser]

Do what you want, lol. You can see it in this discord…a whole bunch of people who were yapping about how bad the previous event was are now yapping about the bad rewards.

Which means…for all complaining…they did the event anyway.

And that’s what matters.

[nocturne cave]

its usually the ones that dont participate that give away their rss because they dont move / shield. if its all opt in there will be nothing to loot ;p

[naive lily]

people did the event thinking they could redeem. just because they did it does not mean it was good enough, imo thats the take away from this

but as per your logic, lets wait until next year, hope everyone remembers how bad the event was, and hope that all new players get informed by the old players how bad it was so the numbers reflect how bad it is, and then finally someone may do something about it...

[smoky mortar]

I don't really know you, so no offense meant, but that kind of mentality is the reason we can't get good service/quality anywhere anymore. "Sitting back and taking it" should never be an option when it comes to anything that you spend money on.

[celest relic]

It’s actually worse, people did the event without even knowing what the rewards were. Even on this discord, which is way more informed than ye olde broken in-game news players, there was doubt as to the rewards until they landed. I think as long as people paid for directives scopely will continue the armadageddon. If there’s enough backlash they’d leave the store open longer, or send a comp chest. They did neither, so I don’t think scopely sees a problem

[dreamy robin]

Major lag going on. Dispatched two lvl 56 armadas and have received 0 points for the HH event.

Never mind, just showed up.

[wide sonnet]

4 days to redeem the hirogen tokens and still wasn't enough?

Its not Scopely fault players became hoarders and wait till the last minute to use everything

[elder junco]

I spent everything I could for the last 3/4 days and have 2k left because I won the SLB and my timers reset about 10 min after the store closed

[wide sonnet]

And that's fine, I also had tokens from the first time they released the event. It will come back again one day.

Complaining about the timer when they gave 4 days to redeem the tokens is simply ridiculous

[naive lily]

i redeemed each day to the limit. i would blame scopely as it was not at all clear that there was a limit, and this is shown by people being 'caught out'. it is very common for people to save to see what they have achieved and then spend

[smoky mortar]

@devout cairn On a different note, How about some Transporter Patterns on the Threat from Beyond event when those officers are maxed......

[proud wing]

You do get them, as far as i know, Mara has been maxed for months for me

[smoky mortar]

I don't get them. It keeps rewarding me 5 more shards, which is useless.

[dreamy patio]

you do get them, it just doesn't show them in the reward box

[proud wing]

Yea, its not visually correct, but it does happen.

[fiery compass]

yeah, I checked this last month

[smoky mortar]

Ahhhh....I'll check it today then. (edit: confirmed with my own eyes. You do get them.)

[ornate geyser]

It literally is Scopely’s fault that players hoard because most events are structured to…wait for it…reward hoarding.

[upper atlas]

and then players get admonished when they don't hoard. Tough balance when in game information is limited and even discord becomes very tough to navigate for event info

[ripe jungle]

Yeah you spent if you were lucky enough to remember/be informed by someone who did, that based on the last run six months ago there would be a cooldown

[hearty monolith]

Seriously scopley? the cosmic cleanup event store is only 24 hrs now? Even though all it has is outdated stuff….

[hard oxide]

Whilst I agree with your sentiment about there being plenty of time here.

I would say that it is scopelys fault that people hoard as they have made a habit of adding things to stores or changing events at the last second if we could all ensure scopely wouldn't mess with things it may change this mindset

[torn timber]

It’s not even hoarding at that point, it’s playing the SLB. You can’t afford to spend on the other boxes if you are trying to place, but you also shouldn’t just dump off everything into the SLB and be left with no reward. Every SLB you only spend to get ahead in the final 2-3 minutes. This was no different

Either way, for any event store, since currency is limited, there should never be cooldowns. Place the limit on there if needed, but if you have the currency, you should have the opportunity to spend it all at your own convenience.

[proud wing]

I find the cooldown less annoying than me having an unspendable amount of tokens in the first place. For something that spends in multiples of 100, why the flerk do I have 50 left over?

[hasty silo]

Are there any events active that require me to defeat Assimilated Scouts?

[bitter snow]

nope

[hasty silo]

thanks 😂

[bitter snow]

that was last week with hirogen... and that was a painful way to do it 😂

[hasty silo]

heard so yes 😂

[echo pier]

Well it was the easier way to do part 1. But doing 2 and 3 with it. Nope. Dang

[bitter snow]

I think I'd run out of tokens before managing part 1 tbh

I left ships in augment and it was done in an hour or so 😄

[onyx topaz]

Any clues what the feature/theme of the new Arc is yet?

[bitter snow]

nothing official yet

I wish it was Prodigy, because I love the amount of rage cartoons generate 😂

[celest relic]

I’ve heard January is usually Borg, and I noticed no megacube between arcs just now

[onyx topaz]

That would be funny aye

[onyx topaz]

Well the Bog Cube ship launched and then not really been needed since - so something involving that would be nice.

Ideally not yet another single use ship - and sticking to the promise of less new stuff, and more improving what we have already and making game work better.

[karmic breach]

Any idea if we are looking to have TC Reset after maintenance tomorrow?

[haughty yew]

The roadmap suggests cross server pvp. With better rewards for commanders who participate in the league style play. Casual players can continue to enjoy the game as they do now.
Expect more wave style events with bigger payouts. 🖖

[viral yarrow]

@pseudo rune do you know when territory reset is happening???

[ruby elbow]

New arc tomorrow?

[proud wing]

yes

[narrow violet]

Rumor has it reseting on the 23rd Jan

[frigid cave]

what ship are we getting tomorow, the nx-01 ?

[junior crescent]

ideally none

[covert onyx]

We are getting the realta-A. For better realta pvp events

[frigid cave]

Knowing scooply, dont give them Idears

[hexed gorge]

It's time for the Stella a 😬

[dreamy patio]

a g5 and g6 specialty arc. Update swarm, probes, actian to g5 and 6

with their accompanying ships

[languid nova]

enterprise f and g 😹

[frigid cave]

They are still missing the E

[dreamy patio]

no

https://stfc.space/ships/4132047263?tier=1&scrap_level=1&ci=0&tiers=@:1%26:60&c=$description:false%26build_cost:false%26components:false%26scrapping:false%26crew:false%26ability:false%26levels:false%26fp:false%26refits:false&component_stats=1&t_r=0 E is in game

[frigid cave]

lvl 70 ship

[fiery fulcrum]

No more grind ships please. 2023 had way too many.

[waxen fable]

Ye, get 3 new currencies grind instead 😁

[pseudo ibex]

Just lost another member yesterday because too much grind and no time for life

[fierce cosmos]

Has anyone heard anything regarding new TC and Wave seasons?

[lilac musk]

Don't worry bro, more grind coming today! 😂

[narrow violet]

A member quit a game because their is to much to do in the game? 😄 They should play Solitaire then ! ... may be difficult their is multiple games of solitaire, they might find the game to challenging and quit that also 😄

[heady mica]

New arc, add more grind and screw players under level 40

[polar briar]

Rolling out new currencies Monthly and needing to grind more must be the way to reduce active players... Way to go Scopely! 👎

[lilac musk]

Don’t worry. Quality over quantity this year

[cunning radish]

You don’t NEED to do anything

Do what you WANT

If you WANT to do everything, that’s on you to do

Why people think are owed maximum rewards for minimum effort confounds me

[covert onyx]

How about they just fix the crap that needs fixing rewards won't matter if the game is unplayable

[wary belfry]

"Minimum effort" would be to complete dailies in a few minutes without getting disconnected 14 times.

[ornate geyser]

It’s obviously not going to be fixed. So you have a choice…accept it for what it is, or find a new game.

[cunning radish]

Or try a different device

[rare verge]

Or a different game 😬

[snow oak]

So, we start with a new grind into 2024? Great xD

[junior crescent]

if there's no freebooters update along with the ex-borg expansion, this arc will get crappy ratings again

[turbid mulch]

People did the hirogen event, yes. But they did so NOT knowing what the rewards were. If the event store had been revealed as normal... I think ppl would have held on to directives for use on bigger rewards. So it's more like ppl were TRICKED into doing the event. I mean have you ever done 23 solo armadas in back to back days? We all expected the rewards would be commensurate with the effort/resources expended. But instead we got to choose between some pretty accessible reward options. And then... The coup de tat... A hidden cool down. Wtf? Why is that needed? Somebody had to come up with this and then code it. And yet nobody thought... This is bad, this will anger our most valuable asset, our devoted users??!? And for those who say they will run it again and we can use our currency then.... WHEN? They ran this before, true. So freaking long ago that nobody remembered the cool down BS. So yeah, we will get to spend our hirogen tokens... In 2025? If it's mathematically possible... Some may have so many that even if they start spending as soon as the store opens, they can't spend it all. Then it'll be... Wait til 2026 or 2027. One thing is for sure... Mankind will build an actual Enterprise before we get to spend all the dozens of leftover currency in our STFC accounts. Think about that.

[hidden peak]

The hirogen event was easy enough outside a normal Arc, and i still can do over 100+ solo’s

And i have 200 left for that store, for me it was a nice extra and i’m not complaining

[sinful dock]

merger pairings allready known, btw?

[turbid mulch]

Not sure how that makes up for the obfuscation. Why hide the event store until after event is over? Why have hidden cool down? Most ppl wait til end to claim rewards, and Scopely must be well aware of this by now. A simple note about the cool down would have sufficed but they purposefully chose to screw over their users.

200? Lol. I have 7850 remaining. That's after buying the max allowed in the three useful tabs. The other two were so worthless it's better to wait in case I'm still playing 12-15 months from now.

[sinful dock]

You are aware of that this event store is a regular one, was not the first time, and you can save up your credits? had a lot from last time left i could use and did not need to participate in too much events then to get every pull i needed. And: I dont want to be too rude, but telling that there have been only three usefull tabs makes me questioning if you really do understand the value of for example the starbase and the territory-research-tree.

[turbid mulch]

When was the last one? It's not like apex which they run every month. If it were, it would not be an issue.

The other options were... Away team speedups and xp? Last one I think was for the stuff you get for refining iso. It's very possible they are more valuable than I realize. I dont think I have ever opted for them... I do away teams everyday and I refine iso everyday.

[sinful dock]

i dont remember exactly, but not so long ago, some month likely

[dreamy patio]

was run in the summer

and it'll run again

[bitter snow]

Yep, it ran in summer (Summer Hunt) with the same restrictions on store pulls

[desert laurel]

They intend to run it more often, and they've seen the feedback players have posted. There will be improvements to the mini-arc. You won't be saddled with unspent currency.

[bitter snow]

This time was more condensed (6 days vs 2 weeks)

[sinful dock]

Yes, Iso is. Maybe your level is actually not that high that you already can see, do or need everything there. But you will come to that point. And trust me: Next time you see a possibility to get Iso-Emulsion or special particles: Take them. As much as you can. You will be in a desperate need of it at one point.

[bitter snow]

And frankly, the mini store with mat/rss, and trait and territory options is becoming pretty regular 🤷

Trait xp is by far the most important of the options early on

[turbid mulch]

I am just ranting because this is just one example of scopely doing stuff to screw users over for no reason. Look at the Faction Allegiance Key. You have one day to use it, or you lose at least one. Why? And why no notice? They tell you max on everything else, why not this? I lost 8 before I noticed the count was no longer incrementing even though I was collecting everyday. Help didn't know about the restriction either, they were the ones who figured out it was 8 and offered to add them back. Then... Oops we can't do that lolol

[bitter snow]

No idea about the allegiance tokens, there's a 7 day timer on the chest so doesn't make sense to hoard those at all. That's self inflicted 😬

First thing I did when the store popped was send some loot to see if there was a limit (because the last one in summer had it).

Hoarding isn't healthy 👀

[lost tide]

I thought we were going to concentrate on fixing STFC and not introducing more new stuff? New currencies, new enemies, new systems. Sounds like a lot of new to me and not much fixing?

[hot palm]

its only 25 new favours with 3 currencies to break things in roughly a 1000 different places, what did you expect??

[karmic minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/money-rain-money-cash-sunglasses-smile-gif-17149896

never broken lol

[turbid mulch]

Sorry but I gotta disagree! I hoarded my daily tokens. Used if needed, held if not. Very happy I did. They have since added formation directives. And now that I'm past ops 40, those same tokens that only got me 3* mats also produce 4* mats!

Totally disagree about self inflicted. Why would I expect the limit to be 7? That means I gotta use it the day I get #7, or when I try to collect #8 it literally disappears into the ether. I prefer to use my options when needed. All three faction stores are open to me, wasn't sure which one to go to. Why not wait til something comes up where I need an influx of fed or rom or Klingon creds? And again, if they just put a note that limit is 7... No issue. Please explain why they chose not to do that!!

Lol. I actually DID buy one chest of each. But the limit is two, I think, so I didn't encounter the cool down. Again, just put up a note. 2 chests/22 hrs. That's it. No more complaints. Communicate! And while it's cool that you are eidetic, I think the majority of players did not remember the store limitation.

Btw... Hoarding is the reason so many ppl can spend $100s per month on this game. They been hoarding cash irl!!! I grew up dirt poor though, so they won't get more than the occasional $20 from me no matter what. Geez I remember when spending 59.99 on a game was a big deal (and a one time expense). Now ppl spend dbl that (yeah I know lots of inflation) monthly on a "free" game.

[scenic kernel]

120 is a low spender 😅

[grim crater]

I wouldn't. As a gamer I only spend money on real games. Not games that exponentially increase in effort the more you level. 😵‍💫

[turbid mulch]

Cyrus/Picard.... Yep, you guys got it. It's about $$$. Players will buy new arc for $20/$100/multiples. But nobody will pay for bug fixes. Every change costs money and adds to testing. Even easy fixes are costly. If it's something that happens intermittently and may have dozens of possible root causes... Ouch. I used to be PM for a website/app. We had long list of new features as well as bug fixes/improvements. But you don't get awards or NYT writeups for bug fixes and incremental improvements lolol. So it's obvious where dev funds went... To the things that MGMT could tout to clients, media and of course, their own mgrs. Not blaming them for that, it's how the system is set up.

Wow. Scopely has made over $700m in lifetime revenue from stfc. It's the second biggest game in their portfolio. In early 2023 they were purchased by Saudi investment group for 4.9billion. wow.

[agile steeple]

I think the Saudi investment group is pretty hands off. Literally nothing has changed since they were bought. Gotta diversify that oil portfolio

[ripe jungle]

I thought the wow was for the price tag

[agile steeple]

Scoobley has a pretty annoying design flaw in a lot of the content they release. Say when you get further into almost any lööp the grind becomes much much harder, when it should be very hands off at or near the end.

Some lööps feel easy in the beginning and middle, but that's because you can punch up. See monaveen, solo lööps, rogue. But when you reach the end of the lööp and can't punch up any longer due to there being no higher armadas or hostiles to hit, you see their actual intention for the lööp. And it sucks

[desert laurel]

I don't think it's a design flaw, but fully intended in order to wean players off of a finished loop.

[ripe jungle]

The Stella loop didn’t feel harder towards the end really

Felt harder at the start if anything

[scenic kernel]

keys are annoying at beginning and end for stella

[ripe jungle]

Towards the end you don’t really need keys though

I’ve gone months without pulling those chests

I just farm them while xp leveling

[scenic cloud]

As a 5 year veteran on s16. And now a ops 38 on s101. The price you pay is total difference. As in slb event. I have learned from my spending mistakes. And. In a weird way.... Am saving money and time. ,everyone using so Many words , figured I would do it * meta pvp. Freeman. Event. Won 1st for $300. Love 6 primes. Fyi. You don't need to do every single loop. Yikes

[agile steeple]

For instance the key grind is massive at the end. I went from never grinding for keys to having to grind for keys every other day. I just don't grind keys anymore. At the loss of officer shards

[ripe jungle]

Yeah I don’t grind keys either except while leveling ships

But you don’t need keys. And I don’t need officers either, it’s just xp and tp at this point

[agile steeple]

I'd rather they just end the lööp by making it so you've acquired all the rewards from it in a reasonable time frame

[shut moon]

I noticed it doesn't say nxo1 anywhere not even as a skin.

[desert laurel]

There's no ship this month.

[agile steeple]

Not for me. I don't have the 3 epic rogue officers maxed in that pack. Mudd, other mudd, and eurydice. By not doing keys I'm getting less shards of them per week

[ripe jungle]

Yeah I got to max shards for them so there’s nothing left there really. Only a few extra armada directives.

[desert laurel]

Finished the officers today. Maybe I should consider closing the loop. 😃

[ripe jungle]

Basically I can pretty much not do anything but carry armadas during apex to keep the scrap cycle going

[agile steeple]

Mantis is another one, that lööp has been extended by years now

[desert laurel]

Stopped scrapping awhile ago, the parts just build up. I never farm hostiles, loot comes with finishing events and I have enough codes from that source.

[ripe jungle]

Yeh mantis is terrible loop, especially when doing with mantis

[hexed gorge]

That loop requires 10mins a week

[fiery compass]

if I hadn't gotten Tal for free I think I would hate the mantis because I would have never been convinced to buy him

and now I'd frankly buy packs to tier him

[ripe jungle]

I mean think of all the people who weren’t around during that flash pass and don’t have tal

[desert laurel]

Pre-Tal I used Ash Tyler, very much works the same way.

[ripe jungle]

Hm 🤔

Can he be better?

[desert laurel]

He's not capped at what he can do, so yes.

[agile steeple]

Mantis is 10m per week if you single pull the chest, but syndicate up to lvl 35 is pretty valuable. And then also whatever level unlocks the extra fc slot is valuable. Single pulling extends the lööp by double the years

[fiery compass]

there can't not be places flat damage beats % damage

also Tyler works on armadas

[desert laurel]

And scopely keeps putting out officer stat boosts without considering officers like him. Antifaction also gets bloated, cf. Ledger's realta antics.

[ripe jungle]

I mean the 48s have 3.5b health, so I wouldn’t have expected tyler stacking to add that much

[fiery compass]

to be fair, the numbers anti faction & etc are trying to kill are also going up

[desert laurel]

Oh tal was awhile ago, before him I wasn't hitting 48/49s. Still running pilum back then.

[celest relic]

Is Tucker an anti-freeman, save the rare one shot defiant attacks?

[desert laurel]

I'd have to see the rest of his team. He has potential, but a large portion of some Freeman fights end on the first volley.

[celest relic]

From what I’m seeing it’s per weapon and stacks, right? So just tier him up or use pm?

[ripe jungle]

By the time he procs you might be dead

[fiery compass]

each reduction requires you to survive another weapon for it to apply, yeah

[celest relic]

Yeah, I guess crit damage research is too high to make quick statements

[ripe jungle]

If you’re beefy enough to survive a couple shots a high tier Trip might be good though

And low tiers probably excellent in g3?

[fiery compass]

it can be. again, depends a lot on ops & ships involved. weirdly, G6 space seems to be off mutual one-shot range from what I see.
I'm fairly confident g3 is as well.

[ripe jungle]

G3 ships probably won’t kill each other that fast I think

[fiery compass]

right now my korinar can, Lorca willing, kill similar sized ships without taking damage. bigger ones too, sometimes.

as a different consideration on trip: it's an officer ability.
what crew do you run above that fits him well?

I can see the G3 ent with tos Kirk, tos Spock, trip doing interesting things? but I'm not thrilled about most of the other things I'm thinking about

[bitter snow]

I maxed them over three apex events to win the SLBs, using transport patterns.
I need 900k more UC loot and I can just coast to the end of the loop 🤣

Mantis... not really a loop anymore for me. I top off venom once a month at most, and just claim the things as they pop 😂

not done the dailies in forever

trying to remember to put the monaveen out more often lately

[nocturne cave]

so next month ? they gotta have something to sell for fomo.

[bitter snow]

rep and credits for exborg stuff this month I reckon 😄

[haughty yew]

Thank you for making wave events coming later this month 3-day events. You won’t need to run waves everyday. 💕

[sage rivet]

Event not Show Which time Shows in game ?????

[dense kelp]

Why do the exborg dailies not give the new exborg credits, and what happened to the old exborg credits I had?

[dreamy patio]

still have them, they just don't show unless you look directly in your inventory

brilliant move by scopely

[bitter snow]

treat it as a seperate loop from the OG exborg, effectively - you use the old exborg to segue into the new, and need to go loot xindi to fuel the new currency

[dense kelp]

Shouldn't there have been some way to covert like the Franklin and the Franklin a? Will there still be a use for the old credits we get from dailies?

[bitter snow]

you still need both I think

the new loop skip/assists they added for example (feesha, monaveen, voyager) still use the old currency

[dreamy patio]

hm, since temporal war stuff, wonder if we're getting daniels

[dreamy mason]

Anyone knows good xindi hostile Crew?

[crisp forge]

Mastercard

[indigo haven]

Because everything we do takes a loooong time and we pay money for fun. Are you having fun??? Have you been grinding for almost 5 years? Come back to the table when you’re veteran.

[kind canopy]

Has anyone noticed the loot that the Xindi give in the lower systems vs. the amount to trade in?

Doesn't seem like a 5 minute grind unless I'm missing something.

[hidden peak]

#skipthegrind

[proud wing]

I got 1367 scraps in 1 run, lowest systems won’t get you far it seems

[kind canopy]

What system? The level 40 system looks to give about 35 per

[proud wing]

Level 40 system

E Picard, E Data, 5, Doctor below, and level 1 delay favour

[kind canopy]

I'm ops 45...the turn in 3500 for 1 chest

[proud wing]

I’m Ops 43, 2500 per chest

[kind canopy]

what ship did you use?

[proud wing]

T9 Valdore

[dreamy patio]

Explorer's primary defense is shield deflection, which is useless against them

You want a battleship or interceptor

Only armor and dodge work

[proud wing]

Yea, i could try the Augur later

Took out 9 level 40s though, so a reasonable start

[carmine lily]

100billion round 1 double shot on a level 40 hostile?!!! What were you thinking?!!!!!

[bitter snow]

that we need to get the delay favour 👀

[elder berry]

Won't get to try the new arc until after reset, but where are the Xindi found? New area?

[ripe jungle]

That’s not accurate at all. They bypass shields, not mitigation. A battleship will be somewhat better but simply because it has more of its health in hull. Mitigation is the same for all types.

[proud wing]

Hang a north west off Cardassia

[elder berry]

Thanks Spork

[karmic breach]

@desert laurel As the in game news feed is still down will you be posting event information today by any chance?

[restive elm]

Congratulations for yet another piece of crap you've created

[fiery fulcrum]

So in waves, high level players have no incentive to buy a favor. Now they swung hard the other way to force you to get a favor or die. They adjusted way too hard the other way.

[proven pendant]

Lvl1 beam delay does nothing for ops44 t5 Kelvin so I'm hopeful that the later beam delays will help otherwise just another useless grind until I get my rep up

[robust juniper]

I think we should boycott the new arc until they give us Porthos.

[charred flame]

I cannot kill 1 lvl40 with a t5 kelvin ops 45 lvl 2 favor. tried with almost all combination , last one snw una uhura lorca as someone said was enough. I don't have jenaway or last ent e crew

[proven pendant]

You got close maybe lvl3 favor would do it for you

Also the wanted warships are a good focus even if few and far between as they drop a considerable amount more than normal

With max loot crews I can see the wanted dropping 2k+ per ship

[inland galleon]

You guys are gonna spin your wheels this arc trying to kill these things and ripping into scopely and next arc will be the release of the NX-01. It'll be yet another specialty ship just for farming these new hostiles and everyone that was complaining they can't kill them will jump all over another specialty ship.

[proven pendant]

Nah I'm done with specialty ships after the cube so if that's the case I'll just rep up and buy beam delay until normal ships are good

I'm not ripping into scopely I understand what they are doing/ have always done I'm just saying there's only so many coffin nails to be had here and we are getting close for a lot of folks

[ornate geyser]

The 40 I killed dropped 40 loot. I need 40k for a pull. That’s 1000 kills…I’m noping right out of this content, completely unreasonable.

[queen forum]

3.5 billion trit to die on a 13 mill hostile.. f that

Less than 50/50 kill rate

[charred flame]

likely I have to wait to get a newton cause lvl 3 needs uc credits xD

[queen forum]

I have 2 tiers of the favor and it does me no favors 🫣

[drifting briar]

You need the uncommon credits for tier 3

[scarlet osprey]

Do we know what the level brackets are for the Research Chase (Heroic) - SLB event?

[split tiger]

What good is a cube refit going to do a level 19?

[deep steeple]

I need 2m points to complete Xinidi hotile hunt and got 80k points on 1 pilum t6 hull, what am i doing wrong? I have the delay and loot favours to tier 2 as thats as high as i can take them, hitting lvl 42 battleships

25 hulls for an event seems a little high

[gritty sentinel]

Maxed Augur, best crew so far has done about 75% hull health dmg before getting blown away. Have all the Ex-borg buffs available from credits.

so if this is meant to start at Ops 40 people and above, looks like Ops 40 and 41 is boned until they have some lvl 42 ships in the higher tiers

[ornate geyser]

Quantity over quality, mate.

[deep steeple]

so its broken as usual

will do my battlepass event hopefully that still works as its only hitting probes

[shrewd knot]

yeah, kinda of like wave defence is avalible to lvl 35s but they can't do anything till 40+

[fickle meadow]

So everyone’s agreed then that these hostiles are broken? Never seen so many dead ships

[gritty sentinel]

I dont mind killing 34s and 35s if the drop rate was like 2 or 3x what it is. 9 per kill WITH a loot crew and the store buff to make it even bareable, makes 167+ kills for a single chest at my lvl

[fickle meadow]

Yeah 100%, it’s ridiculous

[true cypress]

Don't worry they will release the fix next month. A 100$ ship and a 100$ prime

[fickle meadow]

@pseudo rune I really hope you’re seeing everyone’s feedback on these hostiles. They are ridiculously hard to kill

[gritty sentinel]

@pseudo rune I posted identical information here about the crews and results.

---

my experience as a lvl 40 player:
1-3 Xindi Scrap per kill in the 34 System.
With the 50% Ex-Borg buff along with E-Pic/E-Data/5 for drop rate, you are at 300% rounded.
3-9 per kill in the 34 system (again, AFTER a buff and a loot crew)

1,500 for 1 chest, 4,000 for 2.
167 kills of a lvl 35 for a single chest. using max loot crew, with ALL Faction Store buffs purchased (anything with Borg credits, including 2-round beam delay and improved loot drop)

lvl 40 system starts at about 11.5m

• completely ignores the player shield.
• negates pretty much all crit damage

9.2m Augur results (Against 13.1M Xindi Explorer for Triangle benefit) and already have lvl 2 Particle Beam Delay:
P/M/C - Made it to round 5, did maybe 33% hull DMG
SNWPike/Ort/M - Made it to round 5, did approximately 50% hull DMG
Pic/Bev/TLaan - Another round 5, about 33% hull DMG
SNWUna/Ort/Lorca - Another round 5, did about 65-70% hull DMG

Overall: I cannot kill a single lvl 40 ship. I'm resigned to 167+ lvl 34s and 35s to even pull a single chest.

I'm watching 42-49 lvl ships farm in the lvl 34 system because they cant even do anything in the 40s....

Easy Fix:
Improve the drop rate so its less kills.

Same fix was done for the Jem'Hadar Arc since it was also broken

[silver solstice]

They aren't hard to kill, it just takes WAY too many of them

[fickle meadow]

Just look at the messages mate, everyone’s saying it. Yeah 35’s are easy but anything above that isn’t so the events gonna take forever

[silver solstice]

It's cause they are all doing and wrong and can't bother to read. You trigger critical hits you are gonna die, it's kinda simple as that, and yet I watch player after player trying to hit them with crit officers both above deck and below. Trust me you can kill both 40s and 42s with little issue if you pay attention.

As I said before the issue is it takes way to many of them even hitting said 40 and 42s

[autumn shadow]

Wtf. Where are Ex-Borg favors? Never seen any, ops 39.

[fickle meadow]

Nope sorry you’re wrong. People know about the crits, I know about the crits, I can’t kill 40’s running ent e Picard data and Janeway. My valdore is 22m and I still can’t kill an 11m hostile? Sounds right does it 👍

[silver solstice]

In the ex borg faction store. Update your game app if you don't see them

[main spindle]

How come after round 1 my dammage delt is 0 its like im not even shooting in rounds 2 and 3

[frozen abyss]

Hostile ship ability. -500% critical damage every round for 2 rounds, so -1000% in rounds 2+

[silver solstice]

Well then I'd say your account just sucks dude., and so do Valdores. You should be using an interceptor and hitting battleships. Like I said, reading in important.

[silver solstice]

Case in point, I just explained why, and folks didn't read.

[carmine raven]

Crew suggestions?

[fickle meadow]

Well then I’d say your attitude sucks dude. The majority of players are saying the same, but hey you know best 👍

[silver solstice]

[frozen abyss]

I've told at least 50 people the same thing this morning

Any word on the main storyline missions and when they will show up? I got both side mission chains, but the main storyline missions are not in my holodeck.

[main spindle]

@silver solstice so ur saying remove hugh and kahn from my ship then?

[autumn shadow]

It’s updated. 22 300 faction points.

[fickle meadow]

Still doesn’t work after that mate, but hey this guy says it does so it must be right 👍

[silver solstice]

Absolutely. They are crit triggering officers lol, and the ships you are hitting mitigate crits 500% so you aren't doing any damage to them. You want normal damage and as much as possible. Use a damage exo if you really want to punch up

[silver solstice]

Pay no attention to the rookie. Same guy probably shows up here whining about a comp chest too.

[fickle meadow]

🤦‍♂️

[umbral coral]

hi where is origin space?

[frozen abyss]

territory is called "origin space"

[fickle meadow]

Ops 46 3 years playing yeah a real rookie 🤣🤦‍♂️

[frozen abyss]

You have to read hostile ship abilities

[silver solstice]

In 3 years you are only a 46 and your best ship is a Valdore? Yeah... rookie confirmed.

[silver solstice]

Reading is hard, just like math! 😀

[frozen abyss]

Hard to decide which is harder for Scopely

[silver solstice]

But we sure can spend all die whining on discord because ITS JUST TOO HARD!!!!!!

[fickle meadow]

Of course that’s how we get things changed for the better, player power

Anyway enough of this drivel. I have rl to attend to, you might want to try it sometime. Enjoy your paid for pixels 👋

[main spindle]

@silver solstice thank you for the advice that works

[silver solstice]

Sure thing boss. Congrats on affecting the massive changes you seek. Maybe when you get back from your paid job which I'm sure is also hard, they devs will have taken your complaints under advisement.

You should run for congress too rookie.

[somber cedar]

See anything wrong here

[silver solstice]

No problem. Glad you were able to read and adjust your game play to get the results you were after.

Some players aren't capable of that as you may have seen above.

[somber cedar]

Good start to the get things right year

[ornate geyser]

No…what am I missing?

[ornate geyser]

That’s typical F2P progress, and there isn’t a thing wrong with it.

[gritty sentinel]

@pseudo rune

Your Ops Level: 40
What the highest level hostile you can defeat without losing: 35s, hundreds
Level and tier of ship being used: T9 Augur
** Crew being used (including below deck): Ent E Picard, Ent E Data, 5 (Below: Barclay, PIC Crusher, Rusherford, Boimler, Paris, Alonzo Freeman, Badgey)
Do they have the particle beam delay favor: Yes, level 2
** Ftech being used: Abalative Armor, Lvl 20, 100% to both Shield and Hull health
** Fleet commander research Level:** 39, Spock (who is at lvl 45, lvl 14/15 Best Guess to increase DMG, lvl 11/15 Fascinating to increase piercing)
Any ISO Artifacts unlocked? Handful, most likely useless

[silver solstice]

Looks like you scored 1 point rather than 3. That would be a bug. I'd just go with the madas either way. Pvp disco isn't really pvp, it's just crashing ships.

[somber cedar]

Yep, either the scoring isn't working, or the description is wrong

[silver solstice]

Not on my server it ain't.

[lime eagle]

Good crew for these.new.hostiles??

[gritty sentinel]

anything WITHOUT crits

[ornate geyser]

Yeah, it is. It’s a simple thing to calculate because we know what flows to f2p.

Cheers.

[gritty sentinel]

SNWUna\YourShipSynergy\Lorca seems to be a favorite to do DMG

EPic\EData\5 seems to be the loot favorite

depends on what you can kill

[silver solstice]

I don't have any need to argue with you. I've been playing this game a lot longer than 3 years and I know exactly what it takes to op up. In addition with the number and frequency of comp chests along with treasury unlocks, it doesn't take anywhere near 3 years to go from stone cold ops 1 to 46. But you can believe whatever you want.

You can also join the block list, bye bye

[upper atlas]

Did the TC armada spawn timer get rolled back?

[ornate geyser]

Treasury unlocks didn’t even exist 3 years ago.

Starting NOW is a lot different than starting 3 years ago.

Cheers.

[lime eagle]

Epic what

[gritty sentinel]

Ent Picard\Ent Data\5

[rain root]

ENT e picard

[lime eagle]

Una spok lorca 2 kills, then boom

[gritty sentinel]

sounds right. good job

[ornate geyser]

Yep. You’ve solved the meta, lol.

[lime eagle]

Lol

[frigid cave]

am i doing something wrong with xindi hostiles, with a 34m korinar i can only kill lvl34's and it will takes weeks to get a chest pull that way, is there a special crew i need?

[woeful prairie]

By majority do you mean the dozen or so "Scream at everything" people who post here?

[stable crow]

use a crew that does high damage without crits.
e-picard, e-data, janeway is a good crew for example.
boosts isolytic damage and loot.
any officer that affects your shields in any way is useless.
any officer that increases crit chance actively hinders you and should be avoided.
and make sure you get the xindi weapons delay from the ex-borg faction store, gives you a few more rounds of battle before they instakill you.

[gritty sentinel]

you just need to go lower on the lvl and use a loot crew. this grind is "meant to be hard" so dont expect it to come easy

[zealous prawn]

34 is the lowest

[frigid cave]

I can only kill 34's

[gritty sentinel]

sounds about right as well.....

[frigid cave]

that gives 2 loot each kill, i would need to kill 1000's

[gritty sentinel]

so... put on your best loot crew... and kill as many 34s and 35s as you can.

after getting the ex-borg drop rate buff you can likely get around 3-9 scraps per kill killing a 34 or 35 (assuming you have a good loot crew)

[zealous prawn]

The bigger question is, WHY are they making grinds harder?? Making it so people have to continuously farm hostiles to even keep up with this faction is just ridiculous.

[gritty sentinel]

and yes... that is the current thing most people are complaining about.

usually they are unable to kill a higher lvl hostile at all, so are relegated to killing lower (and therefore making it a crazy long grind for a single chest)

[ripe jungle]

Not to mention that f2p treasury unlocks don’t actually give anything that helps with progression.

[stable crow]

i get 6-7 kills of lvl40's using a 25m monaveen, i think 4 with my 18m valdore.
your korinar can definitely do better with the right crew.

[lilac gate]

how do i kill a xindi big hostile?

[zealous prawn]

Now yes, some people say those of us in the higher ops do have an unfair advantage with the bigger ships, well not so much this time. Those buggers hurt, esp cuz they bypass shields

[gritty sentinel]

I'm confused with what you mean...

I see UC/Rare/Epic credits in the F2P Battle Pass, the Scraps Chests, and everywhere I would expect

all of which are free

[ripe jungle]

Treasury and battlepass are not the same?

[gritty sentinel]

right... point being there are multiple FREE avenues to get UC credits.... which means progression

and as the treasury is not running... why is it even being brought up? I assume you mistyped.

[ripe jungle]

No, you just haven’t read back far enough to understand the context

[ornate geyser]

Look back at the thread. It started with a claim that Treasury meant faster Ops progression 3 years ago - before it even existed.

That’s the context.

You’re talking about something else entirely.

[gritty sentinel]

I didnt even notice he was replying to something... thats why I figured it was a mistype

my bad, swimming

[broken hatch]

You need to use ent e Picard an data and Harrison to reduce damage, you can't use Hugh.

[lyric vale]

anyone know what level you get the Launch Gift?

[gritty sentinel]

I got it at lvl 40

[rough marlin]

A big pile of 💩

[lyric vale]

is it for Ops 25+ ??

[broken hatch]

But even doing that, the number of hostiles you need to kill is ridiculously high! The developers need to remember that this is a game, not a full time job!

[hazy wren]

anyone know where the 34+ Biding Timelines missions are? they are not in my holodeck only the 25+ mission was. Im ops 36.

[lyric vale]

referring to Faction Events...?
agreed

[nocturne cave]

they are not hard to kill.. they just do so much damage to our ships

[sullen frost]

Several of my alliance aren't seeing them either

[broken hatch]

All events running at the same time, dailies, grinding XP and reputation and now this bp event requires a delusional amount of screen time... No wonder why so many people are quitting the game.

[neat plover]

Where is the ties that bind main mission? I don't see it anywhere

[hazy wren]

if you mean the 34+ Biding Timelines missions, i cant find them either and a bunch of other players cant too.

[pearl isle]

Maybe its time to quit @pseudo rune

[sick berry]

Haha so 1 hull of vorcha only got me 8500 scrap stuff. Only need 95k to do a single trade in. So I have to use 30+ bil trit and repairs just to do a single trade in? Yet @loud solar says scopley said its only 5 mins a day of grinding. In what world? @pseudo rune @modest frost any answers?

[ancient light]

we got $coplied!

[nocturne cave]

guess rev deuce should not be listened too. he just repeats what scopely tells him to repeat.

[ornate geyser]

His job is to get you to buy packs. Effectively, he works for Scopely…not for you.

[neat plover]

I'm betting that 5m a day is after you have a few favors done

so maybe my the end of the month if you just go for favors

[uneven wave]

Once you spend a couple thousand and max out the favors and buy the next ship then it's probably 5 minutes

[sick berry]

Yeah only 5 minutes a day after you spend $500+ in packs or 6 months after the content was released.

[nocturne cave]

still my point stands. dunno why everyone still follows that scopely lackey

[celest relic]

I had an ops40+ say they got Biding Timelines. Anyone else 40+ able to confirm they see it? I’m wondering if 34-39 got excluded by accident

[fierce cosmos]

Something is off here... guessing that the second one is supposed to be 35+? And 1/10-11 instead of 1/10, 1/11? (one is an SMS and the other SLB, just seems weird that there is only a small LB)

[severe tree]

I'm level 36 and can't locate the "Biding Timelines" missions. I only had the "Its Only Logical" one in the holodeck.

[prisma holly]

Worst loop ever

[celest relic]

<@&509691205798592532> it sounds like a lot of 34-39 ops folks aren’t getting the Biding Timelines mission, but I’ve got some 40+ in my alliance that got all missions. Can anyone check if scopely excluded a wrong segment or weigh in? I’d expect a mission drip to impact all lvls

[covert onyx]

If anyone believed scopelys lies about quality over quantity I have some land I'd like to sell you

[neat plover]

48 here no Biding Timelines mission either

[celest relic]

Darn. That breaks my theory. Thanks hypo

[hexed gorge]

You mean these?

[neat plover]

YUp, I'm missing that one

[hexed gorge]

They were in enterprise holodeck, I'm assuming you've looked there ?

[neat plover]

yup did the two side missions already, but that one wasn't there

[celest relic]

Yeah, nothing more there. Finished the it’s logical missions, cleared localization and still nada

[hexed gorge]

Well that's a bit 💩

[celest relic]

Hey, it’s probably the smoothest launch day in half a year. I’ll wait a bit on a missing mission

[hexed gorge]

Although with the rewards being a couple of speedups, it's really not worth the effort 😆

[celest relic]

I’ve noticed all the rewards so far are looking lackluster

[blazing furnace]

Right so enticed to do the missions lol

Equal to 3k Latium for the last reward 💩

[molten sigil]

Beats the 39 rewards

I get 10x more speedups in 1/4 of a hull in Tygo than the reward

6 hours 24 minutes

At 39 for the last tier, just absurd and a bit insulting. Just do no reward

[abstract gate]

How can I obtain the Binary Cutter Refit?

[neat plover]

well the missions finally showed up in the holodeck

[solar abyss]

6 runs to get one chest pull. One chest pull gave 150 unc creds. That means 9 more chest pulls or 54 more runs to get one Xindi Excalation level. No Thanks, Scopely. Pack it in, we are done here.

[scenic kernel]

lucky I need 20 runs for a chest 😅

[fiery compass]

United Again part 1 gives 1k uncommon ex-borg credits.

Got me the 3rd level of the beam delay & made it a lot easier

[viral yarrow]

@pseudo rune points for xindi scrap for ops 49 is 100 points per scrap but for ops 50 it's 10 points per scrap 🤷🤦

[ornate geyser]

My 3d costs…wait for it…1090…

No can do.

[fiery compass]

so 1k from the mission + 150 from the daily turn-in covers it, right?

[ornate geyser]

Which daily turn in? I have nothing on my screen to turn in that gives me 150 uc.

[fiery compass]

ahh, you're not the person i'd responded to originally who mentioned getting 150 uc then. the xindi scrap exchange. i just went for a single chest today but i've got enough for a double tomorrow if i feel like it.

[iron axle]

Can't access stfc web site to claim mission key

[ornate geyser]

Yeah…sorry…I’m not grinding out 500 kills on I don’t even know how many hulls to do that exchange. If it means the loop is dead to me, lol, so be it, it’s dead to me.

[rare verge]

Just so I’ve got this right? It was Quantity over Quality Scopely we’re bringing to the game? Well congratulations you have smashed it 👊👊👊

[dense kelp]

The hostiles are broken, they keep getting zero damage from crits after round 2

[hidden peak]

What a major 💩 start of a arc with these hostiles

[hidden peak]

Remove Hugh

[fiery compass]

read their abilities

[dense kelp]

So it can go more than once?

That's dumb why not just say every round

[sleek horizon]

I’m confused, I can hit 7 or 8 lvl40 in one run then die instantly on the next run 💁‍♂️

[merry fulcrum]

Oh that's stupid

[gray slate]

Love how people complain before reading ship abilities. Still 💩 content

[junior kraken]

The xindi reds behave realy strange. Like an hour ago I was able to kill 4-5 40's with my tinga. now I cannot even kill one and did not change anything. Spend all my freaking trit on repairs and cant even complete the SMS. yes, I claimed both favours with regular ex borg credits. that is stupidly insane

feels like the ex borg favours just stopped working

[gloomy girder]

Can you say WHAT!!!

And never mind reducing crit damage, they reduce your damage period to 0 not just the crit

You will get 0 dmg on any crit you score

[sharp raft]

When you crit, the whole damage is crit damage. So of course it gets reduced to zero.

[fiery compass]

that looks like your non-crit dealt damage. and your crit behaved the way it does when your crit gets tanked by, say, 500%

[gloomy girder]

Yea just making a visual 4 people to see

[sharp raft]

This is Scopely's revenge for our demand that they not nerf the Gaila exploit lol

Now we're getting Gaila'd

[shadow swan]

I'm only getting 10 points per scrap.

[pallid charm]

differnet ops lvls
I got 10 per scrap andneeded 10m points

[shadow swan]

Thanks. The tooltip says 10 points, but what I actually get is 100. So only the display is wrong, the counting is correct.

[pallid charm]

wierd, at least you get the higher amount.

and lucky you, only 2m points needed

[shadow swan]

ops 52

[bold pagoda]

Scopely: "We will do better". ..... YEAH RIGHT!!!

[tiny patio]

ops 59 is prob more than that, at 57 it's 7m

[brazen jungle]

How do I unlock it? I can't find the BP's to get it

[rare shoal]

Something called the store

[pallid charm]

£99

[tiny patio]

open the wallet

[shadow swan]

ops 52 2M
ops 54 3M
ops 57 7M
ops 59 10M
or something like that

[brazen jungle]

I have checked the store and it's not in it.

[dreamy patio]

56

[raw laurel]

They didn't say when....

[brazen jungle]

I have looked through it 10 times and it has not shown up in mine

[paper venture]

Seriously that the reward? I know it wasn’t hard at my level but seriously?

[serene helm]

Yep not showing in mine either

[elfin raptor]

Scoply doesn't get it.. players hate more grinds but proceeds to add one of the worst yet. Tons of hostiles needed and expensive repair bills. Thanks Scoply, how about you actually test how bad your new loop is first

[brazen jungle]

Glad I am not alone

[ornate geyser]

11 arcs left in 2024…

[visual verge]

If they follow the same trend of 2023 it will be fun to watch, just because sometimes watching something crash and burn can be entertaining 😜

[paper venture]

They get it, they don’t care. Scopley is trying to milk the players for all the cash they can get. Make a problem sell the fix.

[sour lotus]

Right

[tough scaffold]

Lol, righto

[novel spruce]

40k for one pop in 8 visits not a massive grind some of ours are shielding as they so frustrated as they can’t even beat one xindi so the whole thing is pointless for them. Tbh i am done with it for a few days at least with Dominion it was realisticallly achievable without hours and hours and massive repairs.

[hallow ember]

Remember when new content was fun? I'm not sure I can remember that far back.

[turbid kayak]

You hate grinds, but you play a game that is entirely based on grinds. LMAO.

There is no strategy in this game that doesn't involve spending money. Buy the prime, win the fight. Buy the prime, speed up the grind. Buy the prime, win at PVP.

[dim juniper]

@sour lotus quality focus. That's a dream. Stability is awful but yet they pump out more stuff. Not to mention the daily grind is now silly again.

[turbid kayak]

Scopely makes a prime that delays station defense. then they make a prime that delays ship firing on station attacks. Then they make a prime that allows for doubling shots at the start of station attacks. Make Strike Team officers, then make officers to beat them, then release new lower deck officers to boost them, then lower decks to nerf them.

@pseudo rune - Maybe want to tell the devs that theire positioning of the Delphic Expanse is a little off. Canon says it is approximately here:

[elfin raptor]

I have no problem with grinds but there cant be endless new ones to add to dailies. Scoply could easily fix ark, just drop scrap required for turn in by a factor of 10x.. that would make it 10 hostiles for 2 pull with a loot crew. Now thats a added grind i could get behind

[turbid kayak]

If the grind was easy, what would the incentive be to spend money on upgrades?

[elfin raptor]

Lol, i mean if they rather run off all f2p and light spenders , i can see your point

[turbid kayak]

f2p don't pay the bills, my friend.

[reef wave]

You can't really call it a gring game when you spend most your time with miners sitting on mines

[real cargo]

others getting the same result after finishing the new holodeck missions?
wondering if i missed anything

[elfin raptor]

No, but me at 59 , and paying here and there does and im ready to drop

[reef wave]

No prob be more mission released

[real cargo]

ah, two more pop up in holodeck after finishing the first two

[woeful vapor]

If you hit people with discovery in their territory, does the event override all roe ?

[turbid kayak]

LOL - true!

[fiery compass]

"ROE ("Rules of Engagement") is the way at least most of the players on your server have agreed to play. The specifics depends on what server you're on. Your leadership should be able to tell you what your server's ROE is, galaxy chat might be able to tell you, or if you're on a server listed in #🕵-server-discord-links2 , that would be a way to find out. You can check your server number by selecting your station and and looking right above "total strength" in the bottom left

[solid bone]

https://tenor.com/view/this-isnt-how-its-supposed-to-happen-randy-marsh-south-park-s20e7-oh-jeez-gif-20389792

[hot forum]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-trash-garbage-hot-dumpster-gif-16535557

[raw laurel]

Good business sense says to make a quality product, and price your add-ons within reason. Make your $$ in volume, not individual sales.

Scopely doesn't have any business sense.

[turbid kayak]

Says the guy to the 4B annual sales company.

[tiny patio]

their buisness sense is in influencing lemmings.

It clearly works.

[ornate geyser]

When it was first released, Territory was a blast. And the they let it get stale and now it’s basically irrelevant.

[ornate geyser]

F2P is the free content for their actual customers. And really…that’s how it’s supposed to be. As long as there are just enough non-whales around to provide tears of lubrication for the bogs, Scopely has the balance just right.

[ornate geyser]

Well that’s demonstrably false. Scope is in fact world class at monetizing players.

[turbid kayak]

This. 👆

[abstract gate]

i do not see any way to get the binary cutter…

[lost abyss]

$99

[abstract gate]

not seeing that either

[silver solstice]

Uninstaller the game then lol

[lost abyss]

Beg customer support to take your money I guess, it’s a crap refit so you sound like a prime target for it.

[silver solstice]

You know what's deliciously ironic about that event?

They want clueless players to spend $99 to get 10 shards and the ability to possibly reduce the time it takes to do a loop that only further encourages you to tier up ships that requires further money to do unless you do it f2p which takes months and months. It's pure genius and players fall for it over and over.

If there is one thing Scopely is awesome at its FOMO. Fear of Missing Out

[proud wing]

Android store? Cos it’s not in my iOS one but i see it in the webstore

[fiery compass]

no idea if it's in the android store. Webstore's a good go-to for a lot of things.

[proud wing]

Ah wouldn’t be the first web exclusive

[fiery compass]

I hear that, but I don't mind them selling skins for mostly convienence rather than pure power.

Beats the alternative of "people spending $1k+/month have yet more things to obliterate you with'

[proud wing]

Spending that, then deliberately hitting people 900mil points lower than them

[silver solstice]

It's right about the time when a player goes... ahh dang it my cube is locked until I build a G5 rare that they ask, why am I even working on this cube that has very little benefit. It's just another grind on top of a grind, but gotta have it 😀

[abstract gate]

I do not have that and i did update game today

[fiery compass]

from the sound of it, it's only in the webstore & the pc store

[abstract gate]

yes - in web store

only way to source it is to pay $99 its not pay to win any more…

[proper meteor]

No point in spending g to get the BINARY cutter. Coz you know in 2 months time there will be a TRIPLE then QUAD cutter totally rendering the binary useless.

[ornate geyser]

Common uncommon rare epic…yep…the rare and epic cutter buffs are in our future…

[hoary ocean]

and even after finishing this event with OPS 54 I still can't exchange a single chest . Still missing about 2k loot 🤬

[acoustic bear]

So to maximize efficiency on xindi bits ( considering the collection difficulty) single chest seems best way to go.

[civic frigate]

whens tc reset is what i wanna know 👀

[rocky wing]

23rd

[civic frigate]

tyvm

[loud knoll]

Anyone know when Origins Reset is supposed to happen?

[loud knoll]

The 23rd for Origins reset?

[nimble vine]

Ok I give up on the xindi event, Im not hitting 2800 of the lvl 30s and the 40+ are too hard. Thanks scopely

[pallid dawn]

Is anyone else having issues with the particle beam delay working?

[rocky wing]

That is the current plan - 23rd for territory reset yes

[rough lagoon]

What is defined by origin space?

[rocky wing]

Origins = territory

[rough lagoon]

And there are armadas there?

[stable crow]

beta systems have half-price independent armadas that give isogen.

[covert onyx]

Wow something else scopley is over charging for. Who would have thought they'd do such a thing

[modern estuary]

wow i hate this arc already way way way tooo grindy

[shrewd knot]

Quality of life. Has a different meaning than I remember.

[tight ruin]

@pseudo rune tell scoopley then suck from USSGman with this new hosties sucs

you have to have 20m ship just to do the events oh yeah you can do the 34's but that will take too long to do it not going to finish it so thanks so much SCOOPLEY

[round wren]

Omg… what hallucinogens is Scopely taking when they thought of these Xindi hostiles. They are way too powerful for lower 40’s players. This is just nuts.

[unique quiver]

Game Auto restart function is still fully operational. Thanx Scopely’d. 💩💩

[small wadi]

Please pull the plug on this arc. It's as bad as the show was.

[dreamy patio]

https://tenor.com/view/howdareyou-offended-rude-offensive-appalled-gif-26011926

[hoary ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/crazy-crazy-man-going-nut-nuts-nuts-case-gif-17895082

this arc

[river gazelle]

Scopley "lets slow things down the hell with them they whine then lets just make it grind to a halt then they will play or leave if they dont pay we dont need them " this is how they think what a joke great job dumb asses think about you walet not the players

[hoary ocean]

maybe Scopely should at least hire ONE person with brain!

[agile lynx]

Hey Scopely, xindi droppings are cràp! This new additional grind is ridiculous.

40k for a chest pull is way too much.

[abstract gate]

Q: Why are you banging your head on that brick wall? A: Because it feels so good when I stop.

[balmy verge]

🥰. Quality & Quantity 🥰

It was a nice surprise to start the year with both Quality and Quantity.

It was a lovely start to the day to have the launch show Quality by going smoothly (for first time in months).

Then the “lovely” surprise of Quantity: I literally can’t count the number of 34/35 hostiles it took to finish the Xindi event and get less than enough to refine/turn-in from Xindi scraps.

[balmy verge]

I’m trying to relieve my stress from hunting Xindi’s all day.

[abstract gate]

took me less than 100 35s to do event - about 8 scraps per kill with max loot drop crew

[neon badge]

It was crazy, I wanted the cyndicate xp so I did it, but every day? Nope

[sharp shadow]

I would love scopley to post a how to do this grind in 5m💩. This is a 5hr grind no one wanted. I am probably throwing up a 30day and skipping arc.

[finite cypress]

scopely: We will do an event. Which will take a week to get the right crew.
Programmer: .how many days do we put the xindi event?
scopely: Set it to 2 days so they get annoyed

[tame timber]

Anyone know where I can see an excel sheet of this month full detail of Arc event schedule ?

[lapis harbor]

Xindi sucks blankety blank blank

[balmy verge]

😭🤬

[mental tartan]

So, when can we expect to hear “faith of the heart”?

[covert onyx]

Soon and it will play on repeat without lag. Only way to stop it is a $99 pack

[chilly pulsar]

#boycottxindievent

[hearty monolith]

Careful certain glass hearts may ban you 😂

[silver solstice]

Not that I don't agree with the sentiment of several posters here, but comeone let's be real. Almost all of you will just go ahead and do the events and the grind no matter how much complaining you do.

You are compelled to. Your very fabric will not let you leave an event unfinished.

I see people talk all the time about quitting the game, and yet no one whose actually invested a decent amount of time and/or money ever really quits the game unless there is a serious real life issue that pulls them away. Tough pill to swallow knowing you've wasted years into a game and then to just quit it.

Scopely knows this, it's why they get away with putting put the subpar product you see month after month and everyone just keeps coming back thinking THIS time it will be dofferent.

[ocean ice]

Thats wrong. I've stopped even before I've reached the first milestone of the SMS

[rare verge]

Why am I not getting these when I hit xindi hostiles?

[dreamy patio]

Because that's not how you earn them

xindi's drop scraps, which you turn in for the currency

[silver solstice]

You are one player. There are hundreds of thousands of players.

And soon you will demand that scopely compensate you for this sms....

[ocean ice]

No I wont demand anything, because I know they will do it by their own purpose 😂

[silver solstice]

You aren't wrong there, there will be a comp chest. But what will also happen is another episode basically just like this. It happens every month.

Maybe next month they really will focus on "quality" but I'll keep as much hope of that as I do of owning my own island.

[ocean ice]

Agreed 👍

[dreamy patio]

I have my own island right now in the back yard. There's a small patch of grass in the middle of the water from all the rain.

[silver solstice]

Be thankful it's just rain. Round these parts it's massive piles of wind blown snow

[jovial owl]

Use exborg credits to get the Delay favour in the exborg faction store. It makes the 40s doable. Still takes several runs but it doable.

[ocean ice]

...still waiting for a feedback of the community managers 🖖

[void pendant]

@pseudo rune why does the ops 54 battlepass not contain rare G5 materials even though all building require g5 rare? (e.g. 54 academy requires about 2800 rare g5 ore)

[errant oracle]

Ok, 5 hours of grinding the new crap, over billions tritanium wasted, and not even halfway to getting a SINGLE redeem.. 5 minutes my donkeys backside..

[ashen wharf]

its done purposly so people pay this month and complain

then they make the next arc with a new ship with another loop to lessen this loop

and pay more the next arc for another loop or armada because they are boring

[cunning radish]

I didn’t do them actually

[silver solstice]

But you did try until you realized the futility of it, didn't you?

[hasty silo]

which officers will make the perfect xindi crew?

[real cargo]

e-picard e-data janeway

[hasty silo]

thanks

[silver solstice]

Any that don't trigger crits lol. But choice of crew is sort of irrelevant since you won't be able to do anything meaningful with them for the time being.

[hasty silo]

thaaaaanks 😄

[silver solstice]

Okay I take that back. If you are under a certain ops level you can finish the sms with only 280k. For those above that it's 2m points which is a whole Lotta L40 or higher xindi. And regardless of your ops level you won't be doing any scraps conversions as it's 40k for one chest.

On the other hand the sms sucks anyway, a little bit of syndicate points, and a couple pulls of a special officer chest., so not that big of a loss anyway.

[gleaming oxide]

Bro why do they keep adding more grinding. Ffs we’re already severely overburdened with grinding and now you add more.

[silver solstice]

Didn't you get the message, they said they were looking for ways to reduce your grinds. This is the answer 😀

They gave you freebooters, what else do you want dangit!

[hard oxide]

It reduces all the grind alright. If you want to use the new content you have to spend all your time on the xindi 🤣🤷 they did exactly what we asked 🤣

[empty grail]

Where is system beta please ?

[fiery compass]

any of the systems in/around territory who's names end in "Beta"

on my server, "Tola Beta" was the general meet spot

[empty grail]

Ha ok thank you 🙂

[proud wing]

I’d forgotten about the “test” systems

[raw aurora]

Any idea if this apply to Xindi as well?

[fiery compass]

so far as i know that's half the point, yeah

[versed osprey]

"Hostiles"

[balmy cipher]

with $copay you can never be sure

[quick spade]

Has a list of arc events been released yet

[cunning radish]

Indeed

[versed osprey]

In-game news

[visual sparrow]

From all tested crews this one is showing the best against 40's

[low cargo]

<@&509690795536941056> what’s the point of completing xborg dailies if even those meagre points don’t register?

[lyric fern]

https://tenor.com/view/spinal-tap-stonehenge-disappointed-not-to-scale-too-small-gif-13622524

I think somebody measured wrong

[distant cargo]

Anyone know how often the xindi surveys appear?

[warm zinc]

Where in the world are the binary cutting beam shards?

[dreamy patio]

in the store

[warm zinc]

Which store?

[proud wing]

With Carmen Sandiego in the webstore

For whatever reason, cough profit cough, they haven’t seen fit to put the pack in the app stores

[warm zinc]

I love how the multiphasic credits say they are only available in the web store, which gave me 5, which gave me 1 Hemler shard, yet I need thousands for anything further. Anywhere else to get those without $$$

[desert laurel]

You can only get mpc in quantity via cash shop purchases.

[distant cargo]

The £££ store

[distant cargo]

I took one at 7am this morning, and again now at 1pm, so it's at least every six hours but I'm guessing more often?

[proud wing]

No. Those credits are rewards for buying things in the webstore, but 5 free per week with the in app weekly mission key drop

[warm zinc]

Is there anywhere in gave to begin earning them?

The binary cutting beam shards?

[desert laurel]

The borg beam refit is brand new, only in the cash shop for now. In the future, that may change.

[warm zinc]

That figures. Typical Scopley confusion creation. They call it multiphasic "Hunter" like you can do something in game to get them. They should have called it Multiphasic Money roller event.

[warm zinc]

Hell, I'm having trouble even finding it in the cash store.

[desert laurel]

I'd try the webstore or on pc. It's an exclusive right now.

[whole sequoia]

SNW officer better than T'laan? she did lower the damage taken more for me, but it may depend

[warm zinc]

Yeah, there it is on their .com store. For $100 (not surprised) I'll definitely pass... 😂

[desert laurel]

Not a fan of SNW, too restrictive, and you don't need that much power. Bev works on all targets and can cap mitigation too.

[ripe jungle]

Or Paris

[proud wing]

When the hunter event runs in game, it has that first 5 point milestone so everyone can get that. Most of the time it runs in the webstore and you need more to get anything at all.

[warm zinc]

Regardless....if it's something to be bought, hardly seems "event worthy".... nevertheless, the rewards for spending $$ to complete that event also seem rather lackluster.

[covert onyx]

Multi phasic event=spend to win

[sand tendon]

#boycottxindi

[austere stirrup]

About an hour

[scenic kernel]

I guess you are playing alone 😅 plenty quit for the boring grinds and/or ignore half of the grinds.

[gritty sentinel]

@pseudo rune

Updated this morning

my experience as a lvl 40 player:

lvl 40 system starts at about 11.5m
completely ignores the player shield.
negates pretty much all crit damage

9.2m Augur results (Against 13.1M Xindi Explorer for Triangle benefit) and already have lvl 2 Particle Beam Delay:
P/M/C - Made it to round 5, did maybe 33% hull DMG
SNWPike/Ort/M - Made it to round 5, did approximately 50% hull DMG
Pic/Bev/TLaan - Another round 5, about 33% hull DMG
SNWUna/Ort/Lorca - Another round 5, did about 65-70% hull DMG

Update for 1/10/24:
9.2m Augur results (Against 13.1M Xindi Explorer for Triangle benefit) and already have lvl 3 Particle Beam Delay (Maxed, should be 6 rounds):
The below stats are WITH a 80% DMG Battship Exo being active
SNWUna/Ort/Lorca - Another round 5, did about 90% hull DMG
EPic\EData\5 - Another round 5, did about 90% hull DMG

Overall: I **STILL ** cannot kill a single lvl 40 ship. With an 80% DMG Exo, maxed ship, AND maxed beam delay

That is complete garbage.

[light elm]

LOTS of people who have invested time and money have quit. You may be committed to the sunk cost, but to say “no one” does is simply not true.

[silver solstice]

And yet here you are, there are plenty of full servers and scopely is making money hand over foot. They don't care about players who don't spend anyway, and barely do for those that do. This has been going on for years.

And guess what? You'll still keep coming back.

[scenic kernel]

servers are full because they keep merging them, we merge every 10 months

[silver solstice]

As is the case in every MMPONG

[light elm]

There are also a lot of servers that are not full.

Plenty of people still keep coming back. But it’s false to say that people who have spent thousands of dollars never really leave unless they have a real life issue. You can’t say that from a position of authority.

[desert laurel]

Since you know the hostile's abilities, you should tailor your crew to combat with them in mind. Spike does nothing, and shouldn't need to be tested. If you lack Paris, then mitigation is necessary in a bridge slot (loot crews provide no value if you cannot win).

What are the raw reqs of the xindi scrap refine?

[silver solstice]

You are free to think whatever you want.

Just like you can believe that any amount of posting on this discord channel is gonna change the way scoplely operates.

Its dollars and cents, and if things were really as bad as you think they are, scopely would already be out of business or done something to address the QA that fails every month and has for years. Now feel free to continue your rant, I choose not to continue this pointless banter.

[scenic kernel]

Maybe "quality over quantity" is an indication 🤔

[gritty sentinel]

and when raw DMG crews were used they proved to still not be enough.

point is, this is "meant for ops 40+" is clearly a lie. this is meant for ops 42+ with a ship with a handful of tiers. a maxed augur, with a FULL below deck loadout wasnt enough, along with a maxed beam delay, 80% exo, etc.

its not worth the grind for even a single ship.

lower levels are better off just farming the 35s with a loot crew until your fingers fall off. 10x 35s are the equivalent to 1x 40... and dont require all the garbage to go along with it

[desert laurel]

If farming 35s will get you a refine in a reasonable amount of time, then it sounds like that's what you were meant to do. How large is your refinery req?

[light elm]

It’s not about what I think, it’s only about you trying to speak for other people. That’s it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[gritty sentinel]

thankfully its 1500 for 1, 4000 for 2. -- 1,500 is 167x lvl 35 kills with a loot crew (9 credits per kill with loot crew) so... not exactly a short grind.

but as soon as 41 is done cooking in about a month, I'm sure it'll jump

[desert laurel]

That's a little too high to be reasonable for a daily grind. I think focus on officers is warranted. What do you have for lower decks?

[gritty sentinel]

everyone

from voyager to PIC to borg to lower decks

[desert laurel]

I don't think PMTlann should have faired so poorly. I'd try it again, or Pike Cath Tlann + Paris. Remember to leave Hugh out.

[gritty sentinel]

again... maxed loadouts, exos, still cant do it. having to add Cerritos or even cloak to get a SINGLE kill, would be an absolute waste of resources

[keen mist]

From what I've seen, if you don't have a g5 rare, it really sucks. And I'm 55 so it really sucks.

[gritty sentinel]

hugh is actually the one I dont have so he is exempt

[bitter snow]

cerritos has a +crit chance research...

so uh, don't do that

[gritty sentinel]

cerritos OR titan, either way.... they add buffs and pure DMG and mitigation... either way... I'm not running crit crews so proc chances are still less

point is... to do ALL THAT for a single kill.... why bother?

better off ignoring it until 42+... which is why I said 40+ is a lie.

[desert laurel]

The hostiles are heavily kinetic-based, so a Tlann/Cath focus should be signifcantly better than the other crews tested. You should be able to reach the kill shot.

[bitter snow]

crit floor is definitely a key favour... shame it gets so expensive 😐

[gritty sentinel]

my hulls are better spent on capital ships, grinding BPs for 41/2/6 and rep. this arc is just going to be a waste for me

good luck to the rest of you

[light elm]

Iso damage helps. But yeah, I’m using a maxed Augur, the common FT that increases hull heath, with T2 Tendi below, and I can still only kill 1 of the 40s per trip at Ops 41 even with exos

[misty ridge]

the xindi drop rate and exchange rate is complete 💩. I don't have time to endlessly grind like this every day like I'm trapped in a Groundhog Day Faction Hunt

and I'm saying that with the PBDelay and scraps drop favor both maxed

[tough forge]

Yup, not doing xindi unless they make some qol improvements. Time/repair bill not comparable to miserable returns

[regal ridge]

Now that they’ve created the problem, you can expect they’ll start selling a solution

[tough forge]

Too true

[hollow badge]

Hey remember when scopely said ex borg was created to help reduce grind loops

[carmine lily]

Big props to scopely for creating new stuff that completely nerfs virtually everything we’ve spent 5 years trying to build up. The grind is absolutely ridiculous. This content will be completely ignored outside of events specifically for it, it’s just not worth the time.

[hollow badge]

I already ignore waves and can easily ignore this trash

Y’all remember assaults? Me either

Here’s a bunch of pvp buffs when pvp is still 100% cash based

[broken hatch]

Where do I exchange this thing?

[misty ridge]

Here:

[forest gulch]

Server 29 here, regarding the Xindi Hostile Hunt SMS. Yeah, gave it a try and I’m out. The idea can turn into something but needs a lot of improvement which includes nerfing the hostiles. That may help the currency drop seem more fulfilling.

[hollow badge]

It would cost me a couple billion trit and an extra hour a day to even bother with it

They need to up the cargo by 10x

[golden chasm]

Hi is anyone having problems with your shots hitting these new hostels I kill 3 or 4 easy then all of a sudden I die I look at battle report and I'm having shot but no damage at all is done . Like my last battle 5 rounds and only hit the red once

[broken hatch]

Great... Another thing to the giant list in my inventory! Hope it worth the trouble.

[misty ridge]

If you hit the round where the big gun goes off, you die

[hollow badge]

Crits do no damage without research

So if you get a bad run of crits you go boom

[golden chasm]

Ye my point is my ship is 49mil there reds are 12 mil I'm getting shots but no doing any damage

[hollow badge]

Hence why there’s a 99.99 prime to buy to counter that

[golden chasm]

@hollow badge thanks mate that makes sence

So remove crit crew lol 😆

[hollow badge]

Yes absolutely

Crit is bad against these mobs

[golden chasm]

Thanks again

[carmine lily]

Remove all crit bonuses you can, those hostiles nerf crits to zero.

[celest relic]

Is the auction setup gone? Only heroic sms to unlock then pay to max? I’m not seeing the recruit slb in mine

[wind fog]

Dom hostiles were terrible when first introduced so maybe they will listen to complaints.

[neat garden]

they fixed dom hostiles in about 10 seconds flat, coz players were better off. Funny how quick it can be changed when we are the benficaries.

[misty ridge]

LOL, I just finished the xindi sms and I don't have enough scraps for one pull. That's with the scrap drop favor maxed. This is a joke. If this is left as is, it's gonna get dropped faster than Assaults.

[ripe jungle]

Players weren’t better off it got fixed because it was taking too long for higher ops.

[hollow badge]

Yeah dom mobs were pretty awful at launch but changing the decimal around threw people off

[carmine lily]

Changing dom actually made it worse for the majority of players. At best it was a zero sum change for anyone but the highest levels. Usual practice for this game.

[ripe jungle]

No it had no effect for lower level players at all.

[hollow badge]

With the ex borg research it’s not really an issue grtting mats

[ripe jungle]

Except for folk who had stockpiled the loot and benefited.

[hollow badge]

Even more so if you are doing borg cube refines daily

[ripe jungle]

Nobody was made worse off.

[scenic kernel]

it did, they weren't going OPC anymore, so I couldn't steal their work 😅

[light jolt]

OK, so this arc is terrible right? It's not just me?

[proud wing]

I’m finding it relatively smooth compared to the last 2

It’s mildly annoying, like the elderly at a checkout, rather than homicidally irritating like a Karen wanting a manager

[plucky ermine]

Quick question: why is everyone hyping the crit floor research that much for the xindi grind? The lower tiers are like 20% or so - that would barely make any difference, if you crit damage usually is at 300-500%

[proud wing]

Because the xindi make your crits 0%

[plucky ermine]

yes, but what is 20% if my crits are sually 350%

[proud wing]

More than 0

[plucky ermine]

but that is not the proclamated savior of the grind then.

[proud wing]

I guess it only really helps if you get crits occasionally, as too often means youre going to get splatted from insufficient damage

I’ve not looked at damage, but i’d guess 20% is going to be much like a regular hit

[bitter snow]

Going from zero to a normal hit with that favor maxed for me is an additional thirty percent of damage compared to what I get now (22p crit chance at base)

[bitter snow]

100pct crit damage = normal hit

[hollow badge]

Doesn’t change the fact that the refine rates are way too high

Unless there’s a meme ship on the way with a bonus to drop rate

[proud wing]

Yea, does seem to be, with 10% i get 1/10th the damage of a normal hit

So, back to the original question, hype only applies to full investment, low levels are meh at best

[junior crescent]

wow, 9 total officer shards in the FT SLB? Scopely beeing generous today I see

[proud wing]

They have a buy and upgrade event to support

[narrow wagon]

Can we get the refine cost lowered or something? Took me about 4-5hrs of grinding and nearly 35-45B trit in repairs for one refine. And let’s be honest, the refines are disappointing for the amount of effort involved.

[grim crater]

4 to 5 hours grinding. You're hardcore. I wouldn't waste more than 20 mins on this😂

[narrow wagon]

I shouldn’t, either. This is the only game I play where I dread new content releases. The last one I liked was freebooters because it meant less time I had to spend in-game. Maybe that’s a sign lol.

[hushed yoke]

46 lvl. 5.5k one chest and 14k for double pull.... that's around 200 kills of 40's xindi npc. 7-9 npc per valdore hull. thats make 25 times to fly and grind. This took 3hr for me. Ex-borg suppused to breakdown grind mechanics, but instead raised grind time to absolute. and i also have to do voyager and pickle grind......

[ancient light]

just add it to the items to skip

[lofty arrow]

Am I missing something here. In order to get the UNC Credits in Ex-Borg I need Rare credits, in order to get Rare I need Epic. Seems backwards to me.

Thought you would be able to buy up, not down.

So where do you get the Epic Credits?

[austere rover]

Or xindi lot to exchange and get luck

[teal sphinx]

There is a daily chest pull that you can buy with xindi loots but I already did 3 pulls so far and don’t even get any epic! How the hell we have any epic to exchange even if we want to exchange it to rare or uncommon

Scopely genuine brains 😂

[stable crow]

epic credits are logically the rarest to get.
but early on you have no use for them.
to make them still the best credits to get, you can trade them down if you don't have a use for them yet.

[lofty arrow]

So much for quality over quantity

[teal sphinx]

So the backwards exchange is there, to make sure you can exchange rare to uncommon only and the rare is costly the same as uncommon! If you have a gold than you can exchange for silver at the same rate 😅 you realize something? Just for this clue you can understand how the brains of scopely!

We are the slave of scopely they rob our times and money unfairly brutally 😂

[teal sphinx]

There is no way people will trade epic for rare or uncommon when it is very hard to get

[lofty arrow]

So I killed 450 Xindi in the lvl 34 and got 901 Xindi loot, yet my chest pull is 3500. Those 450 only got me 90K out of the 180K needed to finish the Event. And not a word from them about all of this either. I guess until they fix this it’s not really worth doing any of it. Thx for the info guys, will be skipping the Xindi stuff for now, not worth my time.

I would kill the 40s but I can only kill one with a 23m Kelvin and I have the Beam Delay at lvl 2. Hmmm

[fiery fulcrum]

Level 34's are there for show mainly. Minimum to hit are the 40s, and it still takes a LONG time and many hulls for me. The 42s, I can kill 2 and I'm dead so not worth it for me.

[fiery fulcrum]

You need to stack that ISO dmage thick. Crits are your enemy.

[lofty arrow]

I guess I will go figure out how to do that and give it a try but not today, wasted to much time already.

Interesting I saw a lvl 53, 55 and a 57 killing Xindi in the 34 system.

Thx for the info

[finite cypress]

Yesterday I was able to destroy two level 40 Xindi ships. From there they destroyed me all the time. Today the same thing happens to me again. If only two ships can be destroyed, let them say so. This way we don't waste time and repairs because it doesn't make sense. that you can only destroy two xindi ships

[native jasper]

If you could kill them before and can't now, you've probably added crit to your build. Remove any officers that give crit damage and do Hull Breach. If not, no idea...

I just can't kill them.

[finite cypress]

I have no critic and I have not done anything, no changes, the same officers and the same ship.

[native jasper]

Ick.

[stable crow]

against xindi you want no crit, high damage.
that means a focus on isolytic damage.

[olive birch]

loving scopely idea of making the game less grindy, remove a little bit of grinding by adding freebooter hostiles to complete dailies, add in multiple ships that require double the amount of grinding

[stable crow]

and it can be (bad) luck.
they do an instakill attack after a certain amount of rounds, make sure you can consistently get a kill before that round(or get the delay)

[finite cypress]

That's what I did yesterday, increase the delay. It let me kill two ships. And then they always kill me. Today the same thing happens to me again, I kill two ships. And they always kill me.

The most normal thing is that if you kill two ships. You repair. You come back and you can kill two ships again. Well, not just two ships. From then on, every time they kill me the first time.

[covert frigate]

Ops 54 here, 60k it will take a 20,000 kills!

[olive birch]

you dont need to sleep right?

just grind at it for 24 hours a day, you will get there.

[fiery fulcrum]

More motivation to camp at 49 until they fix this mess.

[olive birch]

more motivation for me to pick up a good book