Dilithium Weekend Nerf

[cmdraftbrn]

i would like to take the time to apologize for the fubar while simultaneously blaming the community for finding a non approved way of getting what you want.

[Metrikon]

Yeah, I understand why they want to even out playing styles, but the way they come across is really bad PR. In fact I honestly think that Cryptic would benefit from a professional PR company helping them with the business decisions. At the end of the day just about all of these decisions affect their current player base rather than new players or "foot traffic", to use a retail term. New players wouldn't know any different. I bet is the relationship was better between players and Cryptic, a lot of these changes would be accepted far more easily.

[Pip]

Agreed, it's nice to see *something* that says they care. And, I suppose, I no longer have to grind my accumulated marks into dil all at once now. Still, I'm a tiny bit pouty.

[cmdraftbrn]

Yeah, I understand why they want to even out playing styles, but the way they come across is really bad PR. In fact I honestly think that Cryptic would benefit from a professional PR company helping them with the business decisions. At the end of the day just about all of these decisions affect their current player base rather than new players or "foot traffic", to use a retail term. New players wouldn't know any different. I bet is the relationship was better between players and Cryptic, a lot of these changes would be accepted far more easily.

problem is cryptic keeps making 1st and goal passes to the wrong team.

[Metrikon]

Yeah, I understand why they want to even out playing styles, but the way they come across is really bad PR. In fact I honestly think that Cryptic would benefit from a professional PR company helping them with the business decisions. At the end of the day just about all of these decisions affect their current player base rather than new players or "foot traffic", to use a retail term. New players wouldn't know any different. I bet is the relationship was better between players and Cryptic, a lot of these changes would be accepted far more easily.

problem is cryptic keeps making 1st and goal passes to the wrong team.

Nailed it.


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[seraph]

While it does suck... This guy is at least taking the time to talk with us about the situation unlike his predessor. True he did blame us for doing something but...yeah wasn't exactly what they intended. But previously they would have nerfed it by taking it out of the game completely rather than not giving us a 'bonus'...I mean come on we should be at least glad we get dil weekend at all.

[[D010 - Primar13]]

Two Things...

They Also Extended the Weekend. until Next Thursday the 12th.

and two... The New EP Salami, gave a reason.

First of all, I would like to apologize on behalf of the Star Trek Online team for the incorrect information posted in the Dilithium Weekend blog and the confusion that followed. Even though the in-game calendar text for the event is correct, we should have made doubly sure that the text in the blog was also correct. We have indeed adjusted the Dilithium Weekend. Unfortunately, the blog did not have the updated event information. I’m going to take it a moment to fully explain these changes and hopefully help everyone understand why these changes were made.

Our goal for the Dilithium Weekend is to provide the community of Star Trek Online with the opportunity to earn Dilithium at a significantly increased rate on any Dilithium earned through play for the duration of the weekend. As the event had been run over the last couple of years, we noticed a trend that fell out of line with the goal of players getting bonus Dilithium on anything they’ve earned through play over that weekend. While the earn rates for Dilithium remained fairly constant for any type of content that provided it as a reward, the earn rate for Dilithium that was collected using the mark conversion projects during the event skyrocketed. When we allowed mark conversion projects to gain a bonus during the Dilithium event, the vast majority of people were only using mark conversion projects during the event. By not offering a bonus on these projects, we are making mark conversion projects valid and valuable all the time, not only during the few Dilithium Weekends we run every year. We are committed to making sure that Dilithium is more available in game, and to that end we are currently working to introduce Dilithium rewards to episode and patrol play by the end of this month.

With that being said, it is understandably frustrating to expect one sort of bonus only to receive another. In order to make up for this error in communication, I will be converting the Dilithium Weekend we are running this weekend into a Dilithium Week. Everyone that logs into Star Trek Online can now earn Dilithium at an improved rate from the time you read this post through February 12th 2015 at 10 a.m. Again, I apologize for the lack of proper information in the blog and I look forward to seeing you in game and earning bonus Dilithium for an entire week.

Stephen Ricossa
Executive Producer

[cmdraftbrn]

Two Things...

They Also Extended the Weekend. until Next Thursday the 12th.

and two... The New EP Salami, gave a reason.

First of all, I would like to apologize on behalf of the Star Trek Online team for the incorrect information posted in the Dilithium Weekend blog and the confusion that followed. Even though the in-game calendar text for the event is correct, we should have made doubly sure that the text in the blog was also correct. We have indeed adjusted the Dilithium Weekend. Unfortunately, the blog did not have the updated event information. I’m going to take it a moment to fully explain these changes and hopefully help everyone understand why these changes were made.

Our goal for the Dilithium Weekend is to provide the community of Star Trek Online with the opportunity to earn Dilithium at a significantly increased rate on any Dilithium earned through play for the duration of the weekend. As the event had been run over the last couple of years, we noticed a trend that fell out of line with the goal of players getting bonus Dilithium on anything they’ve earned through play over that weekend. While the earn rates for Dilithium remained fairly constant for any type of content that provided it as a reward, the earn rate for Dilithium that was collected using the mark conversion projects during the event skyrocketed. When we allowed mark conversion projects to gain a bonus during the Dilithium event, the vast majority of people were only using mark conversion projects during the event. By not offering a bonus on these projects, we are making mark conversion projects valid and valuable all the time, not only during the few Dilithium Weekends we run every year. We are committed to making sure that Dilithium is more available in game, and to that end we are currently working to introduce Dilithium rewards to episode and patrol play by the end of this month.

With that being said, it is understandably frustrating to expect one sort of bonus only to receive another. In order to make up for this error in communication, I will be converting the Dilithium Weekend we are running this weekend into a Dilithium Week. Everyone that logs into Star Trek Online can now earn Dilithium at an improved rate from the time you read this post through February 12th 2015 at 10 a.m. Again, I apologize for the lack of proper information in the blog and I look forward to seeing you in game and earning bonus Dilithium for an entire week.

Stephen Ricossa
Executive Producer

[Baz]

Macro to the rescue once again

You can't deny they messed up this time, mate - particularly over changing the blog. Otherwise, why would they apologise and extend it?

I recognise we have no power over what Cryptic / PWE say or do, and they can justify whatever the hell they want. But it was in the game. Had been for a long time. Not OUR fault that we played the damn game the way they intended it, is it?

C'mon, defend it in your own words, don't quote stuff and expect it to suffice as an explanation.

[longshotnorth]

Wow... Quite a slap in the face for people who got a ton of marks to turn in.