Star Trek Online has taken a backseat of late. Some minor character maintenance and a quick round of admiralty missions are ongoing. I'm mainly doing the admiralty for the dilithium and to complete the first round of levelling for my Klingon character.
I've managed to curb the need to spend Zen so have risen the total from 3000 to 4000.
The last two weeks or so have seen a lot of R&D sales / promotions (Ships). Which I've ignored as I'm not into the R&D side of the game. I may have upgraded a weapon once but that's about the height of it. Does that even count as R&D?!?
I've also ignored the Sompek Arena. It may reward R&D materials and dilithium but it doesnt' scratch any itch for me.
The more I play the more I've been able to appreciate the subtlety of the Endeavour system.
While I've done a lot of them I've also chosen to not do others. And it doesn't feel like I've missed anything by skipping them. It's a great system if it's pro's and con's are that subtle.
No super fantastic rewards that would make me do things I dont' want to do; But plenty of rewards that at the least end of the scale are better than nothing for a little extra time in a game I'm enjoying anyway. Who can argue about that. Nothings perfect, I do think STO's system is better than most. I've always found WoW dailies to be grind on grind, and the likes of the Events in Eve offer feck all decent rewards. To be fair Eve doesn't even know if it has dailies or not yet.
The Dev's playing the board game (Vid on twitch) was something new. Not that I watched it. Once I saw it was over 4 hours long (like most D&D) I moved on. Live events can be filled with chaff. Post processing/editing adds so much for future viewability. There are better Trek boardgame video's that are more consumable. Like games from Wil Wheaton's Tabletop series (the Dracula & WttD vids there are also well worth a look).
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