Material Converter In Star Trek Fleet Command | A Good Feature Plagued By Taxes! | Dump The Tea!

I so agree with this topic

I now crave a Samuel Adams.....or hot tea

Scopely proving once again they have no one with a brain. A lot of ideas in the game could have been great, except they were killed in the crib by idiots who do not understand game design. These fools also are very disconnected from reality and it takes regular player revolts to get terrible implementation of good ideas shifted over to just bad implementation of those ideas.

These are Trek fans Scopely is dealing with. Those fans are smarter than the devs and the management of Scopely, no contest. If Scopely would come to accept that and treat their player base like they deserve to be treated (instead of like the Monopoly GO crowd), the game would not be the mess that it is.

AGREE

The taxes for pulling higher level conversion chests is unfair. Still just pull the one chest and put two fingers up to Scopley. Well Done Robin Hood

Frankly it's discouraging. Finally a mechanic to balance out my inventory. But: taxed. : (((

Why is there any kind of tax for any increase in exchanging or increasing your chests? No one gets the "extra". There is no "bank" benefiting. It's all just a negative. It's pointless, tbh. It's all there to make the grind longer, that's it.

Have not used it, will not use it till its fixed, total scam

Tax is way too much! And, why can't we trade the other direction. I need more common at Ops 54 than anything else.

Awesome effort put into the Video :)

I haven't unlocked this feature yet, but this video tells me I really likely won't use it much. I hate taxes like this. These kinds of play taxes are one of the things I hate most about STFC.

Give me Liberty, or give me rare ship parts! 🔥

Call me a bootlicker, but considering the cost in parts to scrap Jelly’s, I’m more than happy to scrap my borderline worthless ore in exchange for Crystal and gas at a high price. Maybe I won’t full-pull every time (unless I’m close to an upgrade), but the option is there.

Possibly the greatest video you've ever done. Laughing so hard the whole time. Brilliant script, brilliant outfit, brilliant music. Every time an eagle sounded.... there's Samo, cackling away. Oh, and good info/insights/opinions! Congrats on a stunner of a video ahhaahhaha

Down the road, they'll sell a "prime" or efficiency to improve it slightly

A flat rate would be better no matter the batch size.

However, personally I would rather they had done it this way:

1. Add a new building called, no surprise, the "Replicator".
2. Clicking on it shows what in your inventory can be "recycled" into perhaps 3 or more raw materials that the replicator would use to reconstruct "stuff".
3. With that raw material, you can "replicate" other materials.

This would have been VERY on target for this arc since Janeway gave Chakotay an order to send the pocket watch back to be broken down so the replicator had more raw material for sustaining Voyager and the crew.

But going forward, this gives us a place to recycle anything, including by not limited to useless 2* ship blueprints, in the hope to be able to replicate BP's for other ships .... INCLUDING those that are drip fed at the moment <rimshot>.

And Scopely, I'm sure you can see the $$ opportunities here to sell packs and primes to make replication more efficient, or provide exclusive pay-walled benefits.

Coming soon! Prime resource converter efficiency!

Agreed.

While the building bonuses are good, I deliberately did NOT buy the upgrade pak because of the tax on the resources and felt my building was progressing fast enough without it, and thus the only speedup was the refinery which with the tax is DOA.

Now that is actionable feedback.

100% agree with you Rev. And while we’re at it, the Cube Beam tax needs to be axed as well

Scopely being Scopely with the tax. Pulling resources from the player economy. “And they say the want players to level up”
Math doesn’t Math Scope!

Yes, we need partial unlocks for ships. Some of our teams have grinded out 100 blueprints out of 200 and scopely only offers the full unlock.

Hi Rev, Great video. Full video.
So the creators of the game are punishing us who buy packages in which we can't choose what we need. So if a package contains 70% of what I don't want and I don't get to choose and I pay for the package, now I'm going to pay again? Did they overdo it?
They could modify the packages, have packages in certain values and give buyers the option to put in the things they actually need.
And I have nothing against the tax, but it should be fair according to the individual material.
I hope they cut the tax to at least half or a third.
Thank you for the videos and the work you do for our community. 🖖

Scopely the biggest gaggle of gaming money grubbers I’ve ever encountered. Why I’m now F2P.

We Americans fought wars for less.

This needs to be changed

Car analogy! I love it!

The outro is the best

🇬🇧 😂
New scopely anti-tax pack. Only $400 😂

I could accept one or the other but a tax AND a 48 hour CD is ridiculous and makes it not worth using

Has anyone had problems with the voyages past event ? I made it to imgra and then nothing..

AGREED!!!!!!!

I have to be honest Rev, maybe for a high level player, the tax is not as bad as is sounds because I'm sure that kind of player don't need those mats for anything unless is in the scrap game... even that, efficiencies won't make it spend all at some point.

Now, for newer players, this mechanic is awesome and for those the tax definitely is killer.

Now, what I would love to see in this? Level lower mats to higher mats. G3 to G4 and G4 to G5. One only can dream

great Video Rev

That tax is unfair I will not be using it

It’s like the Bajoran solo armada directive exchange. 135 credits for (basically 1 uc armada) 100 vs 200 for 850 credits. (Currently I’m lvl 46 and my rep is Ornathia)

Best cold open ever!

You are spot on with this one rev. I get that it shouldn’t be 1:1 but the value/return they are proposing is really absurd. And yes to ship parts as well… and blueprints. thanks for fighting the good fight Rev!

It's not that there IS a tax, it is that the tax is UNREASONABLE.
-Shawn

Of all the things to gripe about, this is near the bottom of the list.... Almost every refinery charges you more to do more pulls, the 1:1 isn't taxed.

AGREE 100%! Not going to be used by anyone but the elite higher levels at these exchange rates.

Ops 67, here. I'll pretty much ignore the converter. Might pull the 1 chest in a pinch, but there is no way I'm taking the already-hard-to-obtain mats and throwing them away. The same-tier conversion is especially ridiculous. Trading G6 ore to G6 crystal should be, at most, a loss of 10% when converting. Sad too, bc it's a great mechanic. (PS great job of taking historic speeches and adapting them to STFC. That rocked, lol)

Agreed!

i want to make a complaint, the ims now goin on is the sec ims of its kind so far this week, static or charged for the ims, noones doing the charged side of the ims ,this means i lost out on half the milestone the firt go round, and as it stands rt now, noone has made it to the first lvl of the charged ims rewards, why? because scopley decided the building cxan only be upgraded thru static entities ONLY, thanks for screwing me once again scopley

YES DOA

See,you're using big words,and since I don't know what they mean,I'm a take them as a form of disrespect,watch your mouth and help me with the video.

I was almost getting ready to buy a $20 battle pass and then I saw this video. Now I will save my $20 until Scopely lowers their greed shield.

@RevDuece - Do you know when TC reset is? Scopely can’t communicate and it’s leaving a lot of confusion

It should be said in the beginning, the building is unavailable until Ops42.....

I understand why people like this feature, but I personally do not like it at all. It removes one of the core mechanics of this game, which is resource management and planning. These „taxes“ for bigger pulls have to remain, because they would impact this core mechanic even more during leaderboards, taking away the need to pre-plan your events.

It's funny that you mentioned at the end ignored mechanics in the game and put the text on there of Starbase Assaults. On our server, it might be kind of mostly ignored or people gradually passively upgrading some things, but we have ONE huge whale whose single-minded obsession is to not let anyone have their starbase deployed. He constatly prowls and hunts for them, and you can't have it out for an hour without him finding and destroying it. It's weird.