Gold Skulls

[DivineWind]

Very nice...but what exactly does it prove??? It can hardly be considered a badge of honour or glory or valour. I did mention in game and was told "it shows dedication!". Dedication? Perhaps. But that hardly warrants something as honourific as a gold skull. So gold skulls are used to rank player in the hall of fame should they have a similar achievement score. Mmmm. What is more dedicated than some of the achievements? Completing all system missions (Mizar example which has over 200). IMO this shows a lot more dedication than sitting on Teresa/Lustra in a Sol Sniper with GGB fitted blasting away to your hearts content. And what do these achievements give? 10 - 15 points.

Time for a rethink on the whole goldskull/achievements scenario (and know, I am not promoting the removal of gold skulls to those who already have them). But lets have something that actually has some kudos about it rather than a nice shiney badge for grinding!

 

[V2-Hyper]

Hi Strontium! Yes i gree with u and I think the true achivment points only are worth and shows your effort and what u have reached in the game
The gold skull are nothing worth and only shows u can shoot harv with Draco ship on Antares on mass and tireless...but not more
Thats why I hope and think Split will/should remove that gold skull from achivment cause should not be a player with 860 points is on 1st place with 5 skulls and the next 12 pilots with lot over 1000 points are behind him.
The points in achivment should be very more worth than endless crazy shooting on low harvs.

 

[Adrana]

This is one thing I agree 100% on, the hard work, and dedication to the game is more shown in the points of achievement than just in senseless grinding.
The skull by grind can be achieved in just a few mere days, when the achievements takes a very long time, and has really a respectable aspect much more than grinding.

The achievement points shows a player that care for the game in whole, all what it includes, finalizer of planets and systems. I would also suggest maybe other skulls introduced, like an Bronze skull for Vega Finalized, etc. like here below.

Graphite: Sirius
Palladium: Draconis
Platinum: SOL
Gold: Mizar
Silver: Gemini
Titanium: Antares
Bronze: Vega


This means, all Missions, BP's Gold bps as rare items, and ships. (Not counting any event ships as those are impossible to acquire normally.)
All paint BP's rares included.

This off course requests the achievements working 100%.

Tell me what you think? ^^

 

[Royal Ri Death]

This is one thing I agree 100% on, the hard work, and dedication to the game is more shown in the points of achievement than just in senseless grinding.
The skull by grind can be achieved in just a few mere days, when the achievements takes a very long time, and has really a respectable aspect much more than grinding.

The achievement points shows a player that care for the game in whole, all what it includes, finalizer of planets and systems. I would also suggest maybe other skulls introduced, like an Bronze skull for Vega Finalized, etc. like here below.

Graphite: Sirius
Palladium: Draconis
Platinum: SOL
Gold: Mizar
Silver: Gemini
Titanium: Antares
Bronze: Vega


This means, all Missions, BP's Gold bps as rare items, and ships. (Not counting any event ships as those are impossible to acquire normally.)
All paint BP's rares included.

This off course requests the achievements working 100%.

Tell me what you think? ^^

4 Words: Love your idea, Girl

 

[godman]

I agree but that thing with the rare patterns doesnt fit then u wait in orbit of some planet for age's just waiting for a gm to maybe drop a rare mantis

 

[Adrana]

GM's doesn't drop any rare mantis anymore.
They are appearing auto on each planet in these days, I think once per day.

 

[godman]

GM's doesn't drop any rare mantis anymore.
They are appearing auto on each planet in these days, I think once per day.

Oh sorry,my bad ok then i agree with the rare patterns)=

 

[Proteus1959]

I have a skull and at one point in game I believe I may have used the term "dedication". I won't retract that either. I have done the missions and am currently working on completing the other achievements. The war scores as of late are a lot higher that 2 years ago so the only way you are going to get one is to tirelessly grind for hours, days on end. And as I have found, if someone wants it more than you, you will literally have to fight for it. So, sometimes it takes dedication.
On that note, I have been thinking this over and strongly believe that the number of skulls in itself should not be the determining factor in placement on the Hall of Fame. Only in the event of a tie, maybe. Dedication also requires that you play the game! Presently it's like giving the Worlds Series MVP to someone who has yet to get on base!
Score first, skull later!

 

[MrDarkman]

Or there could be separate list for skulls...

 

[Whatever]

using sol ship equipped with gemini tech and grinding war score on terasa/lustra is exploitation in the game and as such should be considered as violation of CoC paragraph 4,

quote from COC:

4. Exploiting Missions, Bugs or any other facets of Pirate Galaxy that are not related to fair Game Play i.e.: to increase War Score, Ladder Rank Climbing, Pilot Ranking etc is not allowed

end quote

any player who "grinded" their skulls should have them removed and punished accordingly by GMs. Rules are rules and as such MUST be obeyed.

 

[godman]

What is the explotation of doing that? ur using tech you got in the game and putting it on your ship,i don't think you can call that explotation.....

 

[DivineWind]

What is the explotation of doing that? ur using tech you got in the game and putting it on your ship,i don't think you can call that explotation.....

I agree. Hardly an exploitation but the use of initiative as there is no bug being exploited here, merely the way the game is set up. Which highlights the general concensus that the skull system needs revamping

 

[Adrana]

Whatever, there is no exploitation within that issue. It is not a bug, it is not a glitch, it is nothing you can gain advantage over other players, since any player can do the same.
There is no rule what determines what bps has to be installed in what ship.

If you have a Gemini ship with sol bps, it will still calculate the % with the items, not with ship, it's always a loss in cry.

It counts as exploitation and cheating if this is a request to be system ship and tech in an Event, otherwise it has nothing to do with warscore exploitation as you pointed out here.

 

[MrDarkman]

Well after todays update, gold skulls will be harder to get.

Fixed a bug that caused the given warscore to be 2 for every alien kill no matter what the target was

So i guess now you get warscore only from enemys what gives you xp also?

 

[Death-Hunter]

Well after todays update, gold skulls will be harder to get.

Fixed a bug that caused the given warscore to be 2 for every alien kill no matter what the target was

So i guess now you get warscore only from enemys what gives you xp also?

probebly yes... was like that before

 

[DivineWind]

No, warscore is basically killscore x 2 now. R75 can still get warscore yet their XP limited has been reached.

Edited: to elaborate, for every mantis killed you get two points of warscore regardless of mantis rank. How this change will affect R75 players who knows. Perhaps no warscore for us

 

[WRAITH1]

my 2 cents since server is down:

this game lacks even basic game content tht isnt linear and finite.
some examples of not so finite content tht "normal" games usually use to entertain players are bosses,minigames,decent pvp,etc .
in pg they just patch in some stuff to keep players busy (or hope it will cause many still quit.lol) .
this game even lacks a "normal" score keeping. (doesnt bother me personally cause not so much into scores)

now even with the "improvised" score keeping tht exists also a big element is missing as i know : theres no difference if ur member fully boostered and infinite energy and get a "score" or just a stingy ^^ non paying player.
imo for those tht care for scores it should matter if u "bought" ur rank score etc.(of course theres many tht wouldnt like tht im sure.lol; and its not meant as criticism against paying players so dont start booing.lol)

 

[Reuben965]

The way that you got warscore by killing mantis close to you rank was i think a lot better than this 2 warscore per kill system the system at the moment means that high rank players can just shot harvs with a weak blaster to drop the most inters possible and then us the Aggro Bomb, Rockets or Orbital Strikes

 

[CapnSanta]

I should get a Gold Skull simply for my dedication of collecting greens AD NAUSIUM !!! ^^ ^^

Oh and I think that you should get SOMETHING towards warscore no matter WHAT level mantis you kill simply because you did kill one. Maybe a single point for a mantis working up to the maximum (whatever that is). ^^