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canadascott
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Stop lying to me.
I queued for two alerts, both of which failed without giving me a chance for feedback, and gave me these messages.
[System] [PvPGeneral] You failed to respond in time and were removed from the "Two Minute Drill: Mindslayer" queue.
[System] [PvPGeneral] You failed to respond in time and were removed from the "Radiation Rumble: Nocturne" queue.
I was not responsible in either case for YOUR failure. Please stop trying to shift the burden of responsibility onto me. All it does is embarrass you, you lazy, shiftless sod. Man up - ur, game up - and place the blame where it belongs.
(Okay, the blame really should fall on some coder who probably left Cryptic a long time ago. I pity those who are forced to work on the queueing system code: QQ indeed. But still...)
I queued for two alerts, both of which failed without giving me a chance for feedback, and gave me these messages.
[System] [PvPGeneral] You failed to respond in time and were removed from the "Two Minute Drill: Mindslayer" queue.
[System] [PvPGeneral] You failed to respond in time and were removed from the "Radiation Rumble: Nocturne" queue.
I was not responsible in either case for YOUR failure. Please stop trying to shift the burden of responsibility onto me. All it does is embarrass you, you lazy, shiftless sod. Man up - ur, game up - and place the blame where it belongs.
(Okay, the blame really should fall on some coder who probably left Cryptic a long time ago. I pity those who are forced to work on the queueing system code: QQ indeed. But still...)
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Lifetime no longer gives a forum title. That should be updated on the Lifetime page that mentions what you get. PMing the CSR doesn't work neither.
Why you blaming us humans just because we cannot respond to your messages at the speed of electricity?
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Failure will result in you being sent to Teleios in small packages.
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So that's why it take forever for the Ao'quepoth Alerts to go away.
Pretty much. Of course we do have a few Ao'Hunters out there brave enough to bring him down so the alert can rotate out.
Remember, Ao'Quepasa's weaknesses are (In order of effectiveness from best to worst):
Skarn's Bane
Pestilence
Trauma
BLOCK!
Cut where it Counts (Form of the Swordsman)
People who can dish out more than 3% of its Max Health in Damage every second.
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When I'm on I'm always complaining because I only get to do them like twice before they're gone...
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
with flight I just cancel and drop behind it.
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If my memory serves me correctly, these issues surfaced about a week later when they nerfed the droprates on the Alert and Recognition Costume Unlocks. Also worth mentioning is that Old Cryptic built this system, the 1-4 people(usually 1) who made On Alert, based off of the old neglected PvP Queues....they also went on to do this in both STO(which got improvements so it's much much more stable) and NW(which can have similar issues and also the one where if you go for 5-man content with 5-man premade group it can still take forever to pop). I realize Old Cryptic never liked PvP in CO. I realize it was a bit of a last minute "tacked on" thing. I get that some of the forum users will ignore the majority of the information in this post and try to twist this into a PvP Discussion. Point is quite simply, if all those times some dev came to the PvP Forums and got feedback to make repairs and had actually done some repairs/updates to the PvP Queues then it is very much likely(it still would have been Old Cryptic so 50/50 shot there I guess) that alerts/pvp would be in a much better place than now.
As for Ao'Qephoth....he's not a coincidence. He's intentional. A dev liked him and the idea that he could, potentially, faceroll teams. Notice how many times you see "Triple AO" vs...."Triple anything that isn't AO." I actually do not mind AO beyond the fact that he is very unpopular with the playerbase so if I am random PUGging(yeah, that happens from time to time) then it can be difficult to get queue pops.
Also, that queue rotation thing where stuff people like goes away faster and stuff people don't like sticks around for ages....this was not bright on the conceptual level. This is another item on my long list of theories that Old Cryptic never had that guy in the office who said stuff like,"Oh, so if people like it we take it from them and if they do not like it we leave it there. Yeah...that's a horrible idea. Let's totally not do that. In fact, how about we try the opposite of that?"
As for totally randomized alerts where you don't know what you're getting until you're there. Well, that would be annoying for the dailies for starters. Beyond that it may have been a decent idea at the launch of On Alert but now I know for myself(and some friends) we're down to the last few unlocks on Alerts and I'm, most of the time, headhunting 2 villains. With the abysmal drop rates as they are currently making me plow through tons of fights just to get to the fight I want to fight and not get the drop I want to drop would be almost sadistic.
In closing, could some dev please go into the GIANT list of unused unlocks in this game(not counting the pre-On Alert which I would love to see converted to unlock items and put back EXACTLY where they were in the original content to promote a new resurgence of people actually running missions because there would be a reason to do so) and give 1 costume unlock to any Alert Boss who does not already have one please? Oh, and to keep it interesting....give AO an unlock AND an aura please(he needs the extra incentive IMO). :cool:
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That's a good idea.
We don't like those. You're banned.
That has a chance of the following : Summon Leacher Device Become [ Server Crash ] device , Ghirahim brand stim packs that have a : [ 10% chance to fill your Heart with rainbows ] , 1% chance to drop WORKING ALERT!
Not to mention the YOUVE JUST BEEN HAD TOKENS that you can trade to some NPC for some stupid tank.
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I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
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