azndomin8tion Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) When I first heard about the new tactical alert, with its easter egg returning exclusives featuring extreme low drop rates, I took it as a personal challenge to overcome this ultimate RNG obstacle, for no reasons other than funzies (and to stick it to the elitists). So I ran 100 runs (on my 104th as I am writing this - ash bladestorm does wonders), on public, to meet with people and see what their thoughts are on this alert (pics or it didn't happen http://puu.sh/iHVIC/d28fe891a2.jpg). I'm genuinely concerned that while I'm doing it for fun, there are quite alot of people who take the alert seriously to get their missed mods/sigils (the chat in the screenshot resulted from me promising a teammate to give them fanged fusillade if we get something exclusive this round as a bonus) and will likely never get what they need despite how much effort they put in. QUESTION FOR THE COMMUNITY: Just how much grind can be considered reasonable? Is it even ethical to add in exclusive rewards, fully knowing it's a statistical impossibility for a player to get it with a certain amount of grind? Has this little easter egg joke gone too far? I would rather they not add the rewards at all, than to give false hope to people who missed out with lottery level drop rates. P.S. 100 rounds, got nothing :P Special thanks to Deathtrain78 and Trickst3rGawd (among lots of others, they're just in my mission currently lol) for providing me with hours of fun listening to my insane rambles and sharing their thoughts. TLDR: ran 100 tactical alert runs, got nothing, I thought it was funny but some people may not, should DE even play a joke like this? Edited June 30, 2015 by azndomin8tion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishki88 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 My 1000+ plat earned and 3 Buzz Kills from the event is enough to maintain my sanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azndomin8tion Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share Posted June 30, 2015 I've always been known as a person hated by RNG, which was exactly the reason I did this alert with its super low droprates :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalvorax Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 god O_O 2500 waves *shudders* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ognj Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) I haven't played a single game from this tac alert, and probably wont. It's way too grindy, and due to endless modes being played the most I just can't bother with it.Luckily i did played Gate Crash and Phoenix interception for sigil and mods, so It's not a great loss. running over 100 runs just to get one mod? Nope not worth it, even if its a primed chamber. Edited June 30, 2015 by Ognj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azndomin8tion Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share Posted June 30, 2015 god O_O 2500 waves *shudders* And I cast average 3 bladestorms per wave with it chaining 3-4 times, calculate how many of those execution animations I've seen in these last 3 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
--Nef-Anyo-- Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I did post before that the chances of you getting the set in the time frame is less likely than winning the lotto. The funny thing is they decide to do the alert on the draco tile set even though they've bought it up on dev streams how the recruitment channel is 95% all draco asking for Mesa and the usual crew. So the question is, why encourage it or was it DE's plan all along just to tease people with the rewards? Could this be because there seems to be fewer players actually playing of late? At least what I feel anyway. The reason behind this thinking is I've changed locations the last week and some locations didnt even have a player on or very few. I know I will be playing alot less as soon as I get Elite dangerous, that looks epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishki88 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) I need to see screenshots of 100 runs w/o being rewarded one rare mod. I need to see screenshots of people's mods :^) Edited June 30, 2015 by Ishki88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalvorax Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) And I cast average 3 bladestorms per wave with it chaining 3-4 times, calculate how many of those execution animations I've seen in these last 3 days that would make ANYONE insane......... at 9 executions/wave = ~22500 at 12 executions/wave = ~30000 yikes Edited June 30, 2015 by xcynderx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neutralred Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I did post before that the chances of you getting the set in the time frame is less likely than winning the lotto. The funny thing is they decide to do the alert on the draco tile set even though they've bought it up on dev streams how the recruitment channel is 95% all draco asking for Mesa and the usual crew. So the question is, why encourage it or was it DE's plan all along just to tease people with the rewards? Or they just want to burn players out even more on Draco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Institute-Marksman Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Or maybe NOT grind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culaio Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) Or maybe NOT grind? People wouldnt grind if tactical alert wasnt created to be grindy, dunno if they created alert in such way to burn out people who grind on draco but it backfired at least in my case, I never did draco grinding and look at me now bringing mesa to tactical alert every time(would use ash if I had it), at first I was briging my favorite frame nova prime but it was making alert even longer, I got seriously bored of doing same mission for hour every time. Edited June 30, 2015 by Culaio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-CM-Valen Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 And I cast average 3 bladestorms per wave with it chaining 3-4 times, calculate how many of those execution animations I've seen in these last 3 days Virtual high 5 I used Ash for most of the runs. And whatever kept me engaged was the shock on mesa users when they realised I gotten more kills then them. 100th run today too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racter Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I don't understand why people farmed this so hard. You could have done anything else, IRL or in game, to get enough plat (or money to buy enough plat) to buy the dang things from trade chat and been done with it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stouty22 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Virtual high 5 I used Ash for most of the runs. And whatever kept me engaged was the shock on mesa users when they realised I gotten more kills then them. 100th run today too. You... I like you. You get a thumbs up and 1 internet cookie because I dislike mesa hotheads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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