Happy Weekend Clammers!
Well we’ve all made it through another week and the weekend is here!
All week we field your comments about your frustrations in the game and we wanted to give you (and us) a fun way for you to voice your frustrations and get it all off of your chest.
So welcome to WHAT THE DEUCE?!
Here’s your place to vent about anything and everything, Family Guy or not. Consider this your weekly bitch fest and get it all out with a good…WHAT THE DEUCE?! And start your weekend fresh! 🙂
Just be respectful of others & be mindful of the language.
Here’s mine for this week:
–WHAT THE DEUCE….updates after midnight again…seriously. If you’re not going to have the update ready at a normal hour, just push it the next day TinyCo. Some of us enjoy sleeping…
–WHAT THE DEUCE….another thing to attack this week? Really? At least there aren’t mutant stewies wandering around to bomb…
Now it’s YOUR turn…give us your WHAT THE DEUCE?! moments from the past week! Go on, get it off your chest…you’ll feel a lot better! 🙂
Family Guy Addicts 
WTD!!!! ALL those crystals needed for Picard and Kirk?! I’m exactly at a little over 4,000 so I have ONLY ENOUGH FOR EITHER Data…. OR Talosian Stewie 😰 I already have the Dark Matter and Synthesizer for Picard,…I just don’t have the 8,000 crystals 😭😪 …
I’m enjoying this event still tho lol!!
✨💫
LikeLike
Latest ios update just crashes on load for me. Did the clean install thing, no difference. Now I gotta try to contact support outside the game, but that means it’s unlikely to get fixed any time soon. I was more excited about this event than any other so far, but almost from the start it’s been a disaster of bugs and frustrating unbalanced gameplay. I’m feeling like this is the final straw, I may be done with this game.
LikeLike
LikeLike
How about an “Anti-WTD?” There I am turning right at a stop sign when I see a big SUV pull up alongside me. Fully expecting them to pull all the way up and completely block my view I’m ready with a WTD, or worse. But no! They stop short, a good five to ten feet, giving me a perfect view of the oncoming traffic. My faith in mankind, however temporarily, was restored.
LikeLike
WTD why can’t every1 just enjoy the event instead on complaining about every little thing if u miss out on a character then u should of played more often or paid for them i havent unlocked all characters and in not on complaining about it its a game its not like u can invite the characters for dinner and when the event is over u will be here complaining that they are useless characters
LikeLike
You’re complaining about complaining? LMAO.
LikeLike
Well its the right post to do it on. 😉
LikeLike
So, first complaint I have is that Q after buying him and using him to get condoms, he literally does nothing else to help out. For 200 clams you’d think you’d get a bit more.
Only other complaint is about Cleveland. I bought him a long time ago and have had absolutely no benefit from having him, besides during the Halloween ghost busters event.
Premium characters in general get lost by he wayside when the next event comes out and it feels like completely wasted money.
Other than that, this is an amazingly fun game, and the addicts team are freakishly good at what they do, lol. Almost precognizant.
LikeLike
Well, you are correct about premiums usefulness after their events, but Cleveland really wasn’t a premium character. He was a freemium unlock like most of the Enterprise crew in this event. I believe they offered him for clams later because he did have a big part in the Ghostbusters theme from halloween. I am hoping that now that FG:TQFS is a year old, and recurring events can start showing up in the future that the premium will come back into usefulness if their event are re-done.
LikeLike
What the deuce! I’m trying to unlock the sick bay and it’s taking way too long to get the light green energy. Either I suck it up and pay for the room that guarantees them or I’m never gonna finish the event in time…
LikeLike
So about Talosian Stewie… Is anyone else seeing what I’m seeing? When a wrinkle cream or dress drops, it floats to the upper right corner and there are TWO meters. One is full, the other is only partially filled. When clicked, the partly full one takes me to the replicator, and the other full meter takes me to Al Harrington’s. Thing is, there’s no outfit showing in Al’s… Seriously, WTD??? I took a screencap, but can’t figure out how to post it here… HALP!
LikeLike
LikeLike
Wtd am i going to do now? Probably going to lose any progress over the weekend due to the game being unusable since 1.7.6. Hadn’t completed crusher or quagmire (although was getting close on both). Chance of getting kirk and maybe even picard seems to be getting closer to zero with every passing hour. At least i haven’t spent any clams this time following a similar experience at xmas. Just got to hope TC pull their fingers out and fix it!!!
LikeLike
WTD. Herbert not dropping Antivirus software even after 9 tries.
Clam fees for any type of advancement in the game.
Drop rates almost zero to slow.
Unless character action that do not produce any item drops for the high amount of item quantity.
Server crashes and warp core delays without extending the time.
LikeLike
I’ve found the event to be almost impossible. I got a bit behind because of a trip and family events. Which wouldn’t be bad if there were easy quick ways to catch up but with bad drop rates and an insane amount of stuff to unlock characters, yea this event is a bust.
At one point I loved the game but now I seriously question if I should continue to play if there is no reasonable chances of unlocking things.
LikeLike
WTD? I have nothing to complain about this week (I guess this would be my complaint…)
LikeLike
Less tribbles, no dilithium from romulan warbirds, less quests and the new room isn’t helping! Everything got more expensive and our sources of dilithium are diminishing! No second source for dark matter, how are we supposed to get captain kirk?! And two more characters and a new costume added to the list of releases for next warp core, how are we supposed to be able to get everything?!!
LikeLike
Bertram
LikeLike
Hes NOT the answer to that, sorry. Se need 3 or 4 characters to get the better drops, and that are premium or a skin that takes forever to get, and…. COSTS DILITIUM. Its Jesus all over again. Sucks.
(Great job with this site, btw)
LikeLike
He is an answer for help. Him and the planets will pay out a LOT of Crystals. It may be slow start with Bertram at first, but as we saw in previous events, the drops increased as it progressed. Yes, we remember Jesus just fine. 😉 But they saw what we went through, so I am waiting to see how this one goes. Four of the Characters are all earned ones and 2 have as great of damage as the Premium if not better. 😉
LikeLike
It was mathematically impossible for a Freemium player to win Jesus during Xmas. And Kirk looks to be a virtual repeat of that farce. So, WTD indeed.
LikeLike
EXACLY!!
LikeLike
I got Jebus on my freemium game…
LikeLike
What the deuce? Awful drop rates, it’s like they’re pushing really hard to get everyone to spend money on clams. Also all these 1 day missions for the very few people who drop the stuff you need is ridiculous. I haven’t moved anywhere in the quest line because I’d rather spend my time trying to unlock the costumes and characters than sending Peter to abuse the replicator for the 5th time. it’s sad that after all the money and time I’ve put into this game I’m about to just stop playing all together and delete it. This game is more highway robbery than anything anymore. one last thing the borg Bertram it says we’ll have access to at the next warp core upgrade better be a playable character no clams needed, not a deco like that whole king yeti thing from christmas. Thanks for letting me rant! Thanks for taking your time to let everyone complain about this game! You guys at FGA are amazing! Maybe you should run the game! Haha.
LikeLike
I know it’s been said a million times before, but there’s no earthly way I’ll be able to get enough dilithium for this week’s characters and next week’s characters by the end of the event. I’m targeting Picard first so that he can help out with battles, and simultaneously working on Data (thanks TinyCo for making his items attainable…) but even if I get the dark matter required I’m still 3800 dilithium short. Is there a way to convert clams to dilithium? Outside of purchasing premium buildings or mystery boxes. Just curious.
LikeLike
Bertram Battles, and send people (like Klingon Meg if you have her) to planets to get some. 😉
LikeLike
Out with the camera today, wandered down the grass at the Loch too far as on my final step I sunk. Managed retrieve myself minus one of my shoes. Forget What the Deuce more like What a Dunce 😀
LikeLike
WTD- frustration seems to be rampant for this event…anyway…I have to say I am glad the tribbles have gone away for the most part.. They are kinda hard to tap between everything else going on…I think it would be great if TinyCo added dilthium crystals and xp to some of the characters tasks in Quahog to characters who are somehow associated with space (Roger, Takei, Fallon, Alien, Predator, Steve cuz he’s a nerd, Stan,…you get the idea)…I believe they have done this in past events so chill out and have fun…just saying😉
LikeLike
WTD – it was already a slog trying to get Crusher’s hypospray, but now that the tasks that earn them have become multiple item drops, I never get them. Been stuck at 27/55 since the update because I only get wrinkle cream from the lab and disks from Borgs. Crusher was going to be the last character I was actively “going for” in this event, but at this rate I’ll probably get all the items for Vulcan Quagmire before I even come close to getting Crusher (if at all).
And WTD is up with making higher Dilithium requirements for characters, but scaling down the ways of getting it (nerfed tribbles spawn)?
LikeLike
Do me a favor and report what you are experiencing with Crusher drops to them from your game. It helps to visually see all those being impacted.
Dilithium… Bertram. 😉
LikeLike
Can’t open the game after the latest update. I can’t say that I’m surprised either, with the way this event has been going.
LikeLike
LikeLike
WTD! I can’t load the game this morning.
LikeLike
I uninstalled and reinstalled the game and now it will not restore progress. WTD!!!
LikeLike
iOS?
LikeLike
Hi Bunny, I’m actually on android. I’ve reinstalled before and never had an issue. Just bizarre. Anyhow, thanks for this site as I’ve used it over the last year but I think I’m done with this game at this point. I now have a clear understanding why Tinyco has a D- rating with the BBB. Wonder if Tinyco will reimburse the 50 bucks I’ve spent on this game, lol. Take care all and good luck.
LikeLike
LikeLike
Yup its totally gone stale 😦 too many things to collect and not enough people collecting.I have almost all my quests at a stand while waiting for character to be unlocked 😦
LikeLike
Seems like anti virus drops for Data are more epic than rare….3 characters sent on task every 2 hours (except for sleep) since Thursday night and have only gotten 2 of 28….
Also like many others, I wish premium characters like Q and Klingon Meg would be useful throughout the game
LikeLike
WHAT THE DEUCE!!!!!!!!!! I wish there was a way for the freemium/less then part time premium player to get more phaser energy. The tasks I send characters on are to long and usually net nothing, room swaping is the only way for me to get guaranteed PE but that still takes to long, shooting the warbird 2 shots every 10 hours lands me 1 space condom and 3 microchips. I still need 22 condoms for VQ. At this rate I will have everone unlocked except VQ. I know its just a game, but to spend 100 plus clams for a decent amount of PE is ridiculously expensive. I caved in and got spock leaving me 75 clams, what can you buy for that nada. Things do seem to cost way to much clams for characters to have no contributions to future events. I have 40 plus characters just walking around quahog becouse im going insane putting them on usless tasks…..I know im not alone on this. If I was rich I would have over 1000 clams at all times, but im not. I just wish that PE was more abundant for the freemium player. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest, it been building up all week, trying to get these damn space condoms. Thanks B&A too for letting us vent.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thats four shots a day, so my math adds up. 😉
LikeLike
I didn’t need to room swap for phaser. I’m strictly freemium collecting every 2hrs for 16 hrs a day and was getting at least 12 pe a day from the 2 rooms and 4 characters. Pe was dropping 80% of the time for me. I still have over 30 pe leftover now useless after finishing both condoms and chips. I have over 200 life energy useless, over 100 transporter energy. I have over 40 green ore and 16000 crystals, but still need 30 more ore and 15000 more crystals for kirk. Ore seems possible, but not sure how to get 15k more crystals. What the deuce!
LikeLike
What the deuce? More characters that cost clams, more items that cost clams!! I don’t know anything about Star Wars and don’t know when I have Q or whatever their names are working… Did Tinyco really think this event through??? Or did they just say wth we going to just put 20+ characters out there 100 tasks a piece and sit back and watch…. I know we wanted more characters but dang for this event is overkill. I can’t keep up with my regular game task because of this event… And where does Lois fit in doing laundry on the Star Wars event?? Seriously is she doing their laundry? Killing bugs, killing borgs, killing alien stewie, killing blue and orange men, going out of space, shooting aircrafts with peters face on it!!!!! Dang that’s enough… Okay I feel sooooo much better.
LikeLike
Its Star trek if ur seeing star wars ur watching telly
LikeLike
Thank you for correcting me. Star Trek, Star Wars all the same to me lol
LikeLike
WTD after getting quite a few mystery boxes I decided to add up the clams I’ve spent on this event. :S 2400
LikeLike
Thank you for supporting the freemium players…
LikeLike
“Get Picard faster” if you buy clams, but Picard wants 8000 Dilithium too, which I would be unable to get even if I splashed out (new CC billing cycle, heh). I’ll barely make it with Crusher and Data.
I’m at 48/55 hyprospray with Crusher, and Data just begun. Together, they want 7500 Dilithium. I have 6500 right now, and the Tribbles spawn in way fewer numbers than before.
Also, still working on Vulcan Quagmire. 24/42 condoms. I got everything else. But he wants 1750 Dilithium too.
Talosian Stewie wants 4000 Dilithium…
So if one were to get just the above (ignoring Kirk, as I have no idea how one would get 150 dark matter in time, except with a limitless bank account) that’s… (counting on fingers) 13250 Dilithium needed.
I went and bought Spock with my remaining clams, so I can’t boost myself with clams in rage 🙂
I can’t even develop a strategy where clams would be useful, so I have to wonder, Sherlock style (when all that seems impossible is eliminated…): are TinyCo in financial trouble and about to go bye bye? Because latinum hysteria (price increase madness) is what drove customers away and closed a popular thing in Covent Garden in London just a few days back.
It’s also possible that my original theory (Star Trek events are money milking exercises in general) holds and TinyCo just do what they’re told by the Ferengi cartel who have no idea what “price inflexion point” means.
LikeLike
Oops, forgot some fingers: 21250 Dilithium is needed for everyone bar Kirk.
LikeLike
Agreed! I’ve finally put my foot down. I’ve called them on their garbage and have given them an ultimatum. Fix it by Monday or I’m calling their offices personally to demand a full refund of all clams spent on this event. I’m sorry their churn rate isn’t as high as they’d like it but I’ve spent a large amount of money on this event and better get every last bit of content from it. Besides, they only have themselves to blame for the churn rate and loss of customers. The content is great but, the production is what’s lacking as the Production Manager would be the one responsible for this train wreck. I said it before, I’ll say it again….they need to be sacked!
LikeLike
WTD! I keep accidentally reading “Bertram” as “Batman.”
LikeLike
What the deuce? Last evening I posted how my game won’t load since yesterday’s update. I’ve contacted Support and Help, and so far, nothing. I know that it’s the weekend, so I’m really not expecting any word until next week and I’m really bummed. I’ve spent significant money on the Star Trek event and now, with this issue, there is absolutely no way I can complete any of the quests. Waste of bucks, wouldn’t you say? But that’s not the issue – I checked old emails and about a year ago (Apr 24/14), my game wouldn’t load and TinyCo was never able to come up with a solution. The only thing that corrected the issue was when there was an app store update. So, is that going to happen now? What the deuce????
LikeLike
There is an update for iOS released today! Hope it helps you again
LikeLike
I finally got Picard unlocked but can’t use him. Al Harrington’s says he is there but Patrick Stewart has no option for him. I sent a message about it but so far no response. Anyone else with this problem?
LikeLike
Locutus is the one that will have the Picard skin
LikeLike
Picard is a costume for Loctulus. Hope this helps!
LikeLike
Ps. Still love the game
LikeLike
Maybe if Tinyco extends this StarTrek until the end of May, I might get caught up! Play ALL THE TIME and still trying to get Lois and Dr. Crusher. I have over 40 characters and only five contribute to getting stuff for them. If Tinyco really listens to our Deuce, then they should have more characters able to contribute. Why buy premium characters if they are useless after the events. (Whew! I guess I had a few things on my mind!)
LikeLike
I am still stuck in phase 3 and falling further behind. Now after updating my iOS device yesterday I can’t get into my game. Tried reinstalling the app and turning my device on/off and nothing seems to work.
LikeLike
LikeLike
NOT WTD but, I love this event and hope every event after this is just as good however I don’t know how tinyco will top this. 🙂
LikeLike
Requiring Photon Energy for the replicator. I still don’t have Vulcan Quagmire because of the lack of Photon Energy. When I do have some and I shoot the Vulcan ships I am getting half emotion chips for Data, and have condoms for Quagmire.
I have the same problem every event that has a 24 hour clock like Bertram. Unless I get up in the middle of the night I can never complete them. I’ve got 9 hours left with only 3 of the 10 health gone. I have had both Chris and Laforge shooting non-stop (except when I would have had to wake up in the middle of the night to start a new round). I had the same problem last time with the Abominable Snowman. A majority of the time the characters only take 1 health away, which makes it close to statically impossible to complete.
No new rooms, that don’t cost clams, that drop required items. I can appreciate them wanting to make money. But it is coming close to requiring a user to spend $60-$100 per event to make it through.
LikeLike
Why in the world would they make one of the most annoying items to get even more annoying?!
It was bad enough with that garbage shielded craft but at least you always got the item you needed…but now you wait for hours to get phaser energy to have to gamble your chances on possibly Gering them from the warbird….
WHAT THE EFFING DEUCE?!
LikeLike
THANK YOU for this section!!
WTD!!! I’m SO sick of having to send Klingon Criss to that ridiculous Battle Cry for hours (it has been needed 3 or 4 times now) instead of using him for whatever is useful. So, for now, he is fighting Bertram and I don’t see him changing his actions for the rest of the event – There goes an unfinished questline for me.
If you are lucky enough you can get to use the same action for different questlines and having it counted on both.. but not for me this time. – Also, that Herbert Plot.. what a terrible waste!!! 10-12-24 hours tasks.. For me is just a way to restrain us.. but I needed it so badly to disappear from my task bar.
The same for Vulcan Quagmire – I used 35 clams to unlock him because I was absolutely bored of shooting the ships; yes I surrendered to what Tiny Co wanted from us… but it is just because the process of collecting.. shooting…waiting… (2 shots… WTD!!) was absolutely dull and fastidious after one week – And now it has been also 3 times that I need to send him to Suppress the Giggety for questlines to complete??? REALLY?!?!?! Come’on!!! – What a hideous waste of time!!!
Even when the ingame things are entertaining… it is wrong the way they work – Collecting – hoping they will drop – materials to activate whatever you want (trasporter, replicator, phaser shots, you name it) and then go into a second “rare”, “extra rare” or gambling chance.. is what makes it not enjoyable for me.
So.. you have to decide, finishing repetitive questlines to get crystals and XP (now we need like 20,000 for the new characters) or collecting stuff to unlock part of whatever is needed. The same few characters doing everything (some are collecting 3 different items!) and a bunch of illogical relations like Fighting Bertram to get Dark Matter, the one you need to unlock Picard… who is one of the characters that fight Bertram.. I would have preferred to have some things gone at this point like the phaser shots, or nerds on fire which first you need to help 2.. then 3 or 4.. Yaaawwwwn.
Since Bertram works just like the Yeti, the only way to succeed is to fight him with alarms set every 4 hours, even with premium characters; that’s how I got Jesus, and honestly that is not healthy, it’s too much coming from a mobile game. I wish things could be done playing less.. like 3-4 times max. each day, not every hour.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I want to give this event an F-; way too much stuff, way too few characters, even with the premium characters there’s not enough time, it looks like the tribbles have been nerfed, and now my game is crashing when I try open the app after the early morning/last night’s update.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hi All,
I created this post for WTD yesterday however, didn’t see it pop up until today. A bit of edits have been added in to discuss a few additional comments. Originally, this was meant as a complete critique of both positive and negative but the more they “tweaked” the phase to the negative, the more this became a WTD. I no longer need additonal input as my strategy for approaching the issues with TinyCo has changed. Suffice to say, I’m release my content “as intended” with edits and being up front about it. So here we go:
Interesting Phase and I’m offering up a critique. Some of the information herein may be useful toward strategy and player knowledge, others not so much. I feel that this does not belong in the “What the Deuce” posting as it’s not designed to be a bitch session. For that reason, I would ask that this be left uncensored and posted in it’s entirety. This is a genuine assessment and I’d like to see some feedback on it before sending it on to TinyCo.
Ok now for the critique:
__________________________________________________________
What they’ve done right:
1) I’ve been waiting for Bertram for almost a year and they’ve finally put him in! As Borg Queen though? ROFL! Anywho, glad to see him in the game and at least done up in typical over-the-top Bertram fashion. As far as the Boss battle; I’m pleased to see the Christmas Yeti streak concept come back without the Stay Puff mechanics. For those of you around for Halloween, you know how much of a pain in the butt it was to have to collect stuff to hit.
2) “Always Drops” being reintroduced to the game! This game mechanic is truly welcome back and should be utilized more often IMHO.
**EDIT: At the time of writing, this mechanic was in game. Except for the Romulan Warbird, this function has once again been removed 😦 Booooooo!!!!!!
3) Bring Spock into the game was well on the docket before before his passing. This is most apparent by the fact they got his voice attached to the character. I am touched by and think it’s awesome that they’re donating to the Leonard Nimoy Foundation! More on this later.
4) Leaving a small out for players to catch up (from previous phases but still viable and has not been “corrected”). It’s not very well pronounced and requires a great deal of thought before proceeding; however, it’s there. What I’m talking about is the SFXP gained from building the casket ejector and the Romulan ale bars. The ejector produces 800 SFXP and the ale bar 200 SFXP. While not cost effective to create either, the out is there depending on where you’re at in the game as a way to convert one collectible into another. The real benefit comes from the ale bars as they’re buildings that continue to produce the all so precious dilithium crystals. I personally shot up almost an entire level by creating a small farm of about a dozen of these.
5) Lowering the cost to open the Holodeck! This wasn’t specifically necessary for some players as the Life Support needed for it was in line with the rest of the districts; however, as many players were already behind, this was a smart move. **Edit now if only they’d reduce the dilithium costs!!!
6) Romulan Warship battles aren’t difficult. This could have been much worse and I’m thankful it wasn’t after the pain in the butt the battles have been thus far.
**EDIT: But they’ve removed the Dilithium Payout 😦 Booooooo!!!
___________________________________________________________
What they’ve done wrong:
1) Dilithium costs have shot through the roof! A HUGE What the Deuce on TinyCo for this one! With 2 weeks left, how on earth are we suppose to generate this much dilithium without forking over a ton of clams for dilithium mines?
Replicator cost on new builds breakdown as follows:
Borg Cube – 500
Guardian of Forever – 1,000
Stewie Skin – 4,000
Picard Skin – 8,000
Kirk – 15,000
Fencing Arena – ?
Chip Factory – ?
____________________
Total – 28,500 so far
Additional Items:
Data – 4,000
Armillary Statue – 500
Planet M113 Ruins – 400
____________________
Total – 4,900
So with the likelihood of the Additional Items being needed for quest lines, the grand total this phase alone is looking to be approximately 33,400. Really? No, really?!?!?!?! The average player has been bringing in 10k or less dilithium a week and you’ve presented us with this? Just wow. One option is to hold your breath and hope for the best on away missions to Beta Max and Acapella XII; however, the character use still suggests shelling out clams:
Beta Max:
Geordi – Needed for Dark Energy
Peter – Source of Transporter Energy; Needed in several quests
Q – Premium Character
Vulcan Quagmire – Needed in several quests
Riker – Item Generation
Max Dilithium per Trip (2 hrs): 500
13 Event days left; Max Payout – 78,000
Acapella XII:
Klingon Chris – Needed for Dark Energy
Klingon Meg – 3 Premiums and Limited Time (Most won’t have her)
Peter – Source of Transporter Energy; Needed in several quests
Max Dilithium per Trip (4 hrs): 750
13 Event days left; Max Payout – 58,500
**EDIT: These numbers were generated yesterday, there’s now 12 days left and they’re less than what they were. Additionally, Away missions have seen a noticable decrease in big payout as well.
Now while seemingly feasible by these numbers, this does not factor in sleep, work, running quest lines, or the randomness of drops (meaning that these numbers won’t be produced every time). Once you factor in sleep alone @ 8 hrs, those numbers drop to 52,000 and 39,000 respectively. Better payouts per trip exists in Beta Max making Acapella XII virtually obsolete. For clams players, sending Q or Meg down is the best bet so far. Meg has been completely useless (remind me again why I paid money for this?) and once you have Vulcan Quagmire, Q is likewise. Now for my game I’ve gotten all the premiums except Spock thus far but for anyone who hasn’t paid to play, they’re SOL. Even though I’ve got them, still not certain how this is going to pan out without dilithium mines. I start to question what I’m paying them for as this math is beyond wrong and doesn’t give non-premium players a chance at all for Kirk without sacrificing other characters, plot (main and side quest), or fairly useless decos. Hoping that this one is corrected by lowering costs a bit.
**EDIT: Q and Meg are practically useless now as neither seem to be pulling any significant gains on the transporter, even when coupled with other party members. Sad part is purchasing Q to get someone equally as useless maybe only saved me an extra 6 hours (approximately 1 round of gathering phaser energy from everyone). 200 Clams for 6 hours and 2 completely usless characters? Bah! 6 hrs on speeding up an action is roughly 12 clams when I checked on Guinan earlier. I feel ripped off yet again 😦
2) While admirable that they are sending a portion of the proceeds of sale of Spock to the Nimoy Foundation, exactly what percentage are we talking about? This is why I haven’t jumped in to buy him immediately. TinyCo hasn’t made an official press release yet (note that this is a question that reporters would be asking) and as such, is merely a rumor at the moment. I’d never put Bunny and Alissa into a scenario to paint them in any negative light; however, until TinyCo makes an official statement, the company is free to change their mind and allow this to be a ploy to garner more income. Though I’m certain they wouldn’t have said it if it were not true, the lack of official press release (which also acts as free advertising and would certainly be picked up by the associated press) is disturbing. I haven’t even seen this in the game (please correct me if I’m wrong).
The other thing that irks me to no end about this is, why isn’t ALL proceeds of sales going to the foundation? Nimoy himself would have already been paid for his voice work and would have been built into the overall budget for the event. I’m sure the event has already seen profit and isn’t in the red, so why not all proceeds? Sigh, maybe I’ve just taken his passing a bit harder than I’d like to admit; however, without an official statement in game or otherwise, this seems quite literally like profiting from the passing. I would like to think that no one is capable of such a disgusting concept; however, the realist in me knows otherwise. They need to fix this ASAP or other like-minded people will bail not only on this game, but on Family Guy and/or Fox altogether. Believe me, this is the stuff that gets licenses yanked and becomes lawsuit fodder, so I hope for everyone’s sake they correct this soon. Bottom line is I can’t bring myself to purchase this character without official justification for doing so.
**EDIT: I did locate in game the note about sending proceeds to the Nimoy Foundation in the FAQ. It’s disturbing that they didn’t have that information apparent up front when announcing the character and even more disturbing that there’s not been an official press release on their site or otherwise. You’d think it’d be something they;d be proud of and want everyone to know about. Anyway, I trust that the in game info is enough to see to it that they do the right thing and have purchased Spock.
3) The insane number of items needed to get the cast and the consistently poor drop rate. This wouldn’t be so bad had the drop rates been solid, though I think it’s still quite high for a timed event. Tinkering around with the drop rates and making them impossible to begin with will destroy trust with the player-base.
When a game designer creates a game, the player trusts that the game designer has created it to allow the player to get to the endgame and complete the game regardless of the difficulty therein. Thus in games without an endgame such as this, goals are set in order to create a temporary endgame (in events and any other timed aspect, the temporary endgame is the event end date or timer end). If a designer makes a mistake, people will complain and the issue resolved through patches to correct issues such as bad math. With the good designers having learned from the errors, future installments will ensure that the issue does not happen again. With poor designers, issues will continue to occur until either they wake up to the fact that the issues persist or the player-base is a complete loss and cannot support the weight of the staff and are let go. Classically, TinyCo is about making money, but persistent errors that continue to be unresolved and reoccur have put trust into play. The player-base has and is dwindling and the efforts of the good ones are being judged by the mediocrity of the bad ones.
This is very apparent by the continued fudging with the drop rate. I can no longer trust that TinyCo design team wants me to see ALL the content they’ve worked hard on providing. I cannot trust that the drop rates aren’t set or changed to make me open my wallet and pay extortion fees rather than openly pay them on my own volition for content that I choose to view. In short, trust is broken with this company as a whole for the misdeeds of the bad design. So why do I continue to play? I enjoy what the good ones produce and the community that surrounds it. I reward the good with purchases, when I see the bad, my wallet stays shut until the issues are resolved. This time around, they leveraged Klingon Meg versus my desire to not reward the bad. Admittedly, I caved. It was my purpose to collect all the Griffin costumes. In retrospect, I shouldn’t have and have thus learned my lesson. As to the community: I would have stopped playing long ago had I not been convinced by the community to stick with it because they listen better than the game house itself. The only problem is the “who” in the listening part is not responsible for doing the game right the first time. In short, the “who” responsible for the consistently poor design needs to be sacked IMHO.
**EDIT: Drop rate has become much worse, and my thoughts about them not wanting me or other players to see ALL content has come into view. My trust in this company has been shot by this event and I’m certain I’m not alone as there has been quite a large number of posts of people who’ve quit on this and other sites.
4) Customer service is lacking considerably. It was recently brought to my attention that a number of people had filed complaints with the BBB. While not in anyone’s best interests (including your fellow gamers), it is understandable, if you do not get legal satisfaction from a company before pushing into the realm of the courts, to go this route. This is not somewhere to go vent your frustrations with drop rates, etc. It’s a place to go where unauthorized transactions haven’t been reimbursed or overcharging due to no part of your own has occurred. In other words, LEGAL ISSUES. That being said, most of you listened to my earlier post about not doing it. Great. What’s bad is a lack of response (not a single response) from TinyCo since Christmas that has garnered them a whopping D- grade for unresolved resolutions. Understandably some people’s complaints will fall through the cracks when you’re getting hammered by issue after issue with this game; however, failure to resolve these complaints will garner lawsuits.
Not sure how many of you are familiar with ITIL standards but in a nutshell: an issue is an incident. When you’ve collected 3 or more of the same or related incidents, it becomes a problem. Basic problem management dictates you elevate the problem issues above other issues in order of importance. Problems are then sorted into urgency categories, analyzed, and then corrected. Upon correction, changes in implementation are made to ensure that the problem does not occur again. This standard does not exist at TinyCo and needs to. Blizzard, makers of the World of Warcraft and Diablo franchises, adhere to ITIL and continue to please millions with their products. A lesson to be learned here in what to do right. Now I have to interject one last thought…..Hey TinyCo, check your board of Directors, you have a former Production Manager from Blizzard on your staff!
**EDIT: I was talking to my neighbor yesterday who mentioned his work. He talked about how he wishes the younger generation would snap back to the reality of how businesses function. He said, “They don’t know the first thing about ethics. I mean, how do they expect to raise sales volume when all they want to do is scheme to get one over on the customer. That’s not how we operate. We’re a quality business but I can’t seem to change their perception that businesses are only in the business to take people’s money, regardless of the product quality or defects.” I agreed, it seems the modern day perception of business ethics is how to generate funds, regardless of the “product quality or defects”. TinyCo should pay close attention to that last bit. It seems their perception of “as intended” is akin to a used car salesman’s “as is” warranty.
___________________________________________________________
Hope this has been enlightening to all. I’m not TinyCo bashing on this so much as point out what many are already thinking and trying to offer up solutions where I can. Please give feedback on this one so that I can send this info over to TinyCo. Thanks.
–Evil
LikeLiked by 1 person
Bertram isn’t the Borg queen. That honor will go to Consuela.
LikeLike
Who was that masked man. Nicely put evil ned, I ended up reading you’re whole post, and totaly agree. Tiny co has us all by the cahones. Just like with the yeti, the only possible way I got jesus was I had to spend clams, or I felt like I couldn’t win, especially with all the time and effort I put in, I wasn’t giving up without jesus. It’s gonna be the same with this I bet. Good call.
LikeLike
I dont think any1 would spend the half hour to read this….
LikeLike
You want feedback? I think you are over thinking every single aspect of your post, this game, and probably life in general. You should try playing the game and having some fun.
LikeLike
Evil Ned, I do feel this was very well thought out. However, parts of it seem verbose, especially the mid to latter parts.
I really like how you broke down the Replicator costs. Easy on the eye and clear as day. Maybe it might be better received, and more likely to be discussed for e.g. in meetings, if you were to bullet point each main change you want to see, with no more than a sentence or two, summarizing each point. A lengthy final paragraph I think is fine but I would try to keep the entire body, in more of an outline form. Just think it might stand a better chance at effecting change, in that type of format. Just my 2 cents.
LikeLike
Aha
LikeLike
I agree with everything. Fantastic wording. I wish I could say TinyCo doesn’t listening us because they just frustrate me sometimes. However, that is not true. They change things to our advantage all the time. I know you aren’t really saying this but I think you should give them some time. However, there are some things they would have to explain, such as the Leonard Nimoy foundation dilemma. I would just like to thank you for this though. It really says everything I thought about. Plus, I greatly enjoyed reading this!
LikeLike
Bertram Boss Battle. Let me see if I got this straight.
The most damage that Geordie and Klingon Chris can do in 4 hours is 4 points. That’s the best we can do until we unlock Picard.
To defeat the first level, they have to do 5 damage, which will take them at least two 4-hour sessions, and at most three. Okay.
To defeat the second level, Geordie and Klingon Chris have to do 10 damage. That will take them at least 3 sessions, and at most 5. (Between 12 and 20 hours).
The third level requires 18 damage, requiring at least 20 hours. There’s a chance you won’t have done enough damage in 24 hours to complete the third level, and you have to reset.
Like I said, it will go faster once you unlock Picard, but that takes (among other things) 21 Dark Matter, which you can only get by (buying clams or) defeating Bertram slowly.
Can anyone figure out: should I stop trying to get the second level reward and just repeatedly go for the first-level reward? Would that be faster?
LikeLike
You can see this kind of breakdown from the Yeti posts at Christmas on the site. They will help until I get the new posts for Bertram compiled and on the site. 😉
LikeLike
I have a quest that requires me to send Geordi to Bowel Regus, but every time I’ve attempted this, the game crashes. What the Deuce?!
LikeLike
What the deuce no Boba fett yet? 😛
LikeLike
200 clams for Q, dropped less than a dozen Trojans and now he’s useless. No help at all for Data, Talosian Stewie or Bertram. What the deuce indeed!!
LikeLike
Yoohoo Baby! Why is it that when I send some of these characters to do stuff in a building somewhere, some of these buildings still sit there like a stick in the mud, while others animatedly tell me, “hey someone’s in here doing stuff!” I mean, really, having Carter berate employees at the Quahog Malt Shoppe would simply be way more satisfying if said Shoppe threw me a bone of something. Human Rupert causes more commotion when he’s bronzing at the Bare Bear Tanning Salon when those solar panels to get all flashy, and he doesn’t even speak! What the Deuce?
LikeLike
what the duece am I supposed to do with $3M!?!? It seems like cash doesn’t mean anything in the game anymore. Why can’t I use some of this grip to buy clams or items needed to unlock characters?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Anyone else having trouble installing the latest update? I’m getting a message saying ‘Couldn’t install on USB storage or SD card’. I’ve got plenty of space though! Not sure what the update is, it’s only just appeared today.
Game seems to play okay without it.
LikeLike
Make some room on your main device as it loads there before external. Also try to reset your device and try again.
LikeLike
Hey thanks for the reply! Tried all of that, no dice 😦
LikeLike
Dilithium shortage. Need 31000 for stewie, Picard, kirk, and data. 12 days left. Almost 3000 per day needed. Will probably need more for other characters next week. Bought all 4 premium characters so far so I do spend money but buying buildings with clams won’t be happening.
This might be the first event that I don’t get everyone unless tinyco let’s me trade in my 3 million coins for Dilithium lol
LikeLike
Long time reader, first time deucer ;-).
I finally passed the 10 million coin mark, and nothing. Given how useless coins are in later districts (and after months of events where they aren’t used), I was actually expecting the counter to max out at 9,999,999, and was surprised that it rolled over into 8 digits.
TinyCo – if you’re going to give us the capacity to have MILLIONS of coins, why not give us the ability to use them? Let me buy 100 clams for a million coins, or SOMETHING! What the Deuce?!?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Send them an in game message asking for aspirational buildings and decks, the more people that do the more likely they are to do it. But wait a couple weeks, I think they might be a little busy right now.
LikeLike
What the deuce?
I’ve been having a problem accessing help and support. The page isn’t coming up and if I try to send a message to TinyCo, my game freezes and sometimes so does my device. Is this a bigger problem? Also, I can’t send Vulcan Quagmire on away missions because it says he’s still locked.
I posted this on an earlier thread, but this feels more appropriate.
LikeLike
Still don’t have Dr. Crusher or Vulcan Quagmire (though getting very close) but was wondering if I’m the only (non-paying) player noticing a drastic slowdown in dilithium crystal drops.
I notice that the purchase price, in crystals, is going up substantially for new items/characters but Tribbles are coming less frequently and in smaller numbers & that there are few other ways to earn lots of crystals.
LikeLike
You’re not the only one Steve. I’ve noticed this too. Tribbles are getting less frequent and are appearing in less numbers. Makes getting the last few characters kinda hard
LikeLike
****
LikeLike
I am sorry but we are NOT TinyCO. Please go to the other comment I responded to you on and follow the instructions there. https://familyguyaddicts.com/2015/04/17/phase-5-is-live-the-holodeck/comment-page-5/#comment-144625
If they don’t work, you need to reach out to TinyCo.
LikeLike
My only WTD for the week is:
Spock does not help win Bertram! Or drop Dark Matter on his own! I brought his up with TinyCo But no response as of yet. Spock helps with a ton of characters, that most people already have. And Dark Matter is important for this phase, whih he was released in.
Side note:
Keep up the great posts Alissa and Bunny!
LikeLike
*beat Bertram
LikeLike
Precisely why I didn’t purchase him. I love Star Trek and have since a kid, but I won’t fork over 265 clams for a character that — at this juncture — is worthless. I made that mistake with Q. Fool me once…
LikeLike
Looking at the comments, it seems that everybody have unlocked exactly zero characters.
LikeLike