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[PC] Elachi Weekend!

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The Elachi are coming through the Iconian portals, and only Captains on PC can stop them!

Full details here:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10624484
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    legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    so, is this ACTUALLY happening this time? the last few times an elachi weekend has cropped up this year, it was cancelled at the last second and replaced with something else​​
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    iamynaughtiamynaught Member Posts: 1,285 Arc User
    Attention Captains, the Elachi are pouring into the Alpha Quadrant from previously undiscovered Iconian space gates in order to abduct helpless people! The Elachi have been doing with their captives, we need every Captain at the ready to help stop their forces.

    What have the Elachi been doing with their captives? The mind boggles! Boggles I tell ya!!!

    Making them watch Ishtar on repeat?

    Sitting them in a corner with a dunce cap on?

    Feeding them Tofurkey?

    Playing Scrabble with no vowels?

    Reading the Twilight saga to them?

    Please, for the love of sentient life, we have to stop these Elachi from doing, ummm, whatever it is they are doing!
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    zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,764 Arc User
    Elachi? Elachi? Hmm... Why can't I remember anything about these Elachi?
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    nommo#5819 nommo
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    iamynaught wrote: »
    Attention Captains, the Elachi are pouring into the Alpha Quadrant from previously undiscovered Iconian space gates in order to abduct helpless people! The Elachi have been doing with their captives, we need every Captain at the ready to help stop their forces.

    What have the Elachi been doing with their captives? The mind boggles! Boggles I tell ya!!!

    Making them watch Ishtar on repeat?

    Sitting them in a corner with a dunce cap on?

    Feeding them Tofurkey?

    Playing Scrabble with no vowels?

    Reading the Twilight saga to them?

    Please, for the love of sentient life, we have to stop these Elachi from doing, ummm, whatever it is they are doing!



    That particular sentence, "The Elachi have been doing with their captives, we need every Captain at the ready to help stop their forces." was boggling my mind as well. I reread it another 3 or 4 times just to make sure my comprehension was accurate or possibly I needed a drink to have it make sense. Fairly good event, but not sure if I'm going to participate too much. With Cryptic running these latest events back to back to back & even over-lapping them it's burning me out when I attempt to participate in them all.

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    tripwire690tripwire690 Member Posts: 178 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    The grammatical redundancy is real. Who wrote this blog post? SOB said the writing had gotten bad but really? I suppose there are just helpless random people just hanging out around these hard to spot gateways?

    "The Elachi have been doing with their captives, we need every Captain at the ready to help stop their forces." Hmmm. And WHAT exactly have the Elachi been doing with their captives...... "it" perhaps? The Elachi have been doing "it" with their captives? Honestly.

    "Quick Captains! You’re needed on the frontlines to stop the invading forces before we lose more Captains!" So basically we need more Captains for our Captains so we don't lose more Captains? Poor form. No wonder the blog wasn't even signed.
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    dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    Attention Captains, the Elachi are pouring into the Alpha Quadrant from previously undiscovered Iconian space gates in order to abduct helpless people! The Elachi have been doing with their captives, we need every Captain at the ready to help stop their forces.

    "The Elachi have been doing with their captives, "

    Doing what? Cryptic needs a proofreader.
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    zellkarrathzellkarrath Member Posts: 182 Arc User
    Its a bit deadly doing this alongside the Sompek event. Also why are the Elachi still stealing people with the Iconian arc already wrapped up? Not complaining, just wondering if there is some sort of narrative or in story justification for this (Aside from maybe T'Ket being responsible that is)
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    tmghost7729#8985 tmghost7729
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    > @tripwire690 said:
    > The grammatical redundancy is real. Who wrote this blog post? SOB said the writing had gotten bad but really? I suppose there are just helpless random people just hanging out around these hard to spot gateways?
    >
    > "The Elachi have been doing with their captives, we need every Captain at the ready to help stop their forces." Hmmm. And WHAT exactly have the Elachi been doing with their captives...... "it" perhaps? The Elachi have been doing "it" with their captives? Honestly.
    >


    Doing "it" with the captives should be against the Khitomer conventions. Nuff' said.
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    thlaylierahthlaylierah Member Posts: 2,984 Arc User
    So does this event offer Competitive Marks?

    You remember the Competitive System you forced upon us and then abandoned?

    Or is this a complete ball drop like the Endeavor system?
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    ikonn#1068 ikonn
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    edited August 2017
    I have a feeling the captives are being strapped into chairs and are forced to watch marathon streams of Barney singing the Barney Song.

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    ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,569 Arc User
    I see that this Weekend Event has not been turned into a Weekend Event of the old Sompek and Kobayashi Maru Event type. Looks like with the recent change of Sompek to a three week grind we're not going to get that Account Unlock four-day Event back again. :(
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    dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    zellkarrath wrote: »
    Its a bit deadly doing this alongside the Sompek event.

    Well, if you were diligent in your daily suicide runs, you are now done with Sompek. o:)

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    thatsgottahurtthatsgottahurt Member Posts: 36 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    iamynaught wrote: »
    Attention Captains, the Elachi are pouring into the Alpha Quadrant from previously undiscovered Iconian space gates in order to abduct helpless people! The Elachi have been doing with their captives, we need every Captain at the ready to help stop their forces.

    What have the Elachi been doing with their captives? The mind boggles! Boggles I tell ya!!!

    Making them watch Ishtar on repeat?

    Sitting them in a corner with a dunce cap on?

    Feeding them Tofurkey?

    Playing Scrabble with no vowels?

    Reading the Twilight saga to them?

    Please, for the love of sentient life, we have to stop these Elachi from doing, ummm, whatever it is they are doing!


    Yep, came here to mention the "oops", see you got it early. Funny no one has fixed it yet. I would ask "don't they read this stuff before they post it?" but obviously they must read it, multiple times, before posting it. So I wonder how they still managed to mess it up?

    This isn't the big September event is it? I was hoping for another expansion like the Delta and Temporal expansions.
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    qqqqiiqqqqii Member Posts: 473 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    Any chance we're ever going to get the "Mine Trap" queue back?
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    alcyoneserenealcyoneserene Member Posts: 2,412 Arc User
    Sounds like the perfect job for my orion slavegirls to come to the rescue of all those other poor captains. They excel at doing, and at playing a captive, in order to have their way.

    Also curious if it will have competitive reputation marks.
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    vorwodavorwoda Member Posts: 694 Arc User
    edited September 2017
    dracounguis wrote: »
    Attention Captains, the Elachi are pouring into the Alpha Quadrant from previously undiscovered Iconian space gates in order to abduct helpless people! The Elachi have been doing with their captives, we need every Captain at the ready to help stop their forces.

    "The Elachi have been doing with their captives, "

    Doing what?

    The Elachi have been forcing their captives to write illiterate blogs for Cryptic, obviously. :)
    dracounguis wrote: »
    Cryptic needs a proofreader.

    And a functional QA department, and a faction-impartial replacement for Gecko, but you can't have everything.
    qqqqii wrote: »
    Any chance we're ever going to get the "Mine Trap" queue back?

    Now THERE'S the 64,000 EC question!
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    anodynesanodynes Member Posts: 1,999 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    so, is this ACTUALLY happening this time? the last few times an elachi weekend has cropped up this year, it was cancelled at the last second and replaced with something else​​

    The difference between those times and this one is that there wasn't an announcement here confirming it, just the calendar.
    ltminns wrote: »
    I see that this Weekend Event has not been turned into a Weekend Event of the old Sompek and Kobayashi Maru Event type. Looks like with the recent change of Sompek to a three week grind we're not going to get that Account Unlock four-day Event back again. :(

    I wouldn't take being wrong at a guess as an omen of the future of the Weekend Event framework.
    thlaylierah wrote: »
    So does this event offer Competitive Marks?

    You remember the Competitive System you forced upon us and then abandoned?

    Or is this a complete ball drop like the Endeavor system?

    It's only as abandoned as any reputation is when a new season is just around the corner. The only difference here is that they've been (far too) cautious about allowing those marks into most non-combat reward pools. That will almost certainly change after Season 14 comes out with a new reputation. I know that they haven't announced a new reputation for the new season yet, but it's like predicting that Fall will come after Summer this year, it's a gimme. Anyway, since this is a combat-oriented event, I'd expect competitive marks to be in it, even if the calendar leaves them out.

    The blog announcing this alert weekend was in this same sorry state the last time this ran. Hard to believe that it's been 2 years since we had one of these, or that this one will only be the 4th time that it's been run.
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    mavandaimavandai Member Posts: 16 Arc User
    I found my old account login just to found out what "The Elachi have been doing with their captives,..."
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    jcswwjcsww Member Posts: 6,790 Arc User
    Only bonus marks? I would have figured there might be some special weapon or console to earn from this instead of the usual broken 3 week grind. Oh well. Bonus marks are always welcome.
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    questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,318 Arc User
    Always nice to kick some Elachi around in either Space or Ground.
    That said i do hope it has an XP boost so leveling some new ships
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    aliensamongusaliensamongus Member Posts: 285 Arc User
    It's too easy.. and I do mean EASY.
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    smokebaileysmokebailey Member Posts: 4,664 Arc User
    dracounguis wrote: »
    zellkarrath wrote: »
    Its a bit deadly doing this alongside the Sompek event.

    Well, if you were diligent in your daily suicide runs, you are now done with Sompek. o:)

    Naw, they will be ordering everyone to "After 5 ships destroyed, rest of you quit!"
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    ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,569 Arc User
    Shuttle Event is the best. Play 'Atmospheric Assault' on Advanced for almost 270 some-odd before Daily. 210 for Normal.
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    postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    It's barely 5 minutes in length if one or more players head to the gate points, spam F and only shoot stuff that comes close so low marks should be expected.
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    alcyoneserenealcyoneserene Member Posts: 2,412 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    Shuttle Event is the best. Play 'Atmospheric Assault' on Advanced for almost 270 some-odd before Daily. 210 for Normal.

    I agree, farmed that one a lot way back in the day and it was actually properly challenging, but I won't be repeating that again as shuttles aren't fun and I'm through with the time wasting and farming when I could be having fun in other games for free where fun is the grind. At least now with Sompek event it's not that bad except for the time it takes to get to the higher levels.
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    sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    The only problem is if you just hit F you can get afk penalty if the team one-shots the elachi armada at the end. I only played twice. The first time I got afk for hitting F (which allowed us to get the top bonus). the 2nd time I just killed things and we failed to get the top bonus (because no one was spamming F) but no afk. It's true the payout is poor. But whenever a queue is featured I will play it some just for the heck of it and because I know it will pop quickly.
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    postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    Just stop the f'in spam around 90-95% done and full impulse over, I'd honestly be surprised if a random queued pug would take down them all in the time it takes to move that short distance needed.
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    sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    postagepaid wrote: »
    Just stop the f'in spam around 90-95% done and full impulse over, I'd honestly be surprised if a random queued pug would take down them all in the time it takes to move that short distance needed.

    It was an extreme case maybe. They got em in about 1 second. For comparison the second run took about a minute.
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