QuoteDisplay MoreThe recent Delta Rising expansion released for Star Trek Online included
a large number of updates to existing features throughout the game.
The focus of many of these updates has been to add new challenges for
players to experience and to update rewards to reflect these difficulty
changes. Unfortunately, our first attempts at setting rewards values
have not been universally successful. Accordingly, we will be working
towards bringing rewards in line with where we, and players, think they
should be.
An important part of playing any piece of content in Star Trek Online is
that players feel appropriately rewarded for the time and effort they
put forth completing that content. With all the changes made to the PvE
queues (new difficulties, new mission objectives, etc.) many of them
now take significantly longer than they used to before the release of
Delta Rising. This means that the number of reputation marks players
are getting are no longer adequate for their time investment.
Accordingly, we will be increasing mark rewards on all queues that are
currently under-rewarding. There are also a small number of queues that
are significantly over-rewarding which will have their rewards reduced.
PvE queues are not the only pieces of content that will have their
rewards adjusted. With the introduction of the Research &
Development and Item Upgrading systems, there is an increased need for
dilithium. To accommodate this need, we will be increasing dilithium
rewards in several key locations throughout the game. PvE Queues will
get a small increase to their current dilithium rewards, while Adventure and Battle Zones will see their dilithium rewards increased by 50%.
We are also examining the drop rates of Very Rare Research &
Development Materials, Skill Points, Officer Skill Points, Starship
Mastery Skill Points and Elite Reputation Marks (i.e. Borg Neural
Processors, Voth Cybernetic Implants, etc.) among other items.
There will be many changes coming in the next several weeks that are
aimed at updating the rewards throughout the game –in most places
increasing the rewards to meet the new demands players have from taking
part in brand new systems. We will continue to communicate with the
players about all these updates as they occur.
Charles Gray
Lead Content Designer
Star Trek Online
