What happened to star bases being randomly attacked?

j4ck5p4rr0w

I thought the bases were supposed to be randomly attacked like a red alert or something? Now its just ques?

thepleasuredome

j4ck5p4rr0w wrote: »

I thought the bases were supposed to be randomly attacked like a red alert or something? Now its just ques?

More over-promoting and under-delivering it seems.

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th3gr4ndnagu5

I have to admit having to que up to defend your base feels silly; its like asking for an enemy fleet to come attack you rather than actually responding *to* said attack.

psiameese

I guess the Starbase Red Alerts didn't pass muster at all on Tribble. The one time I actually saw one, it didn't actually trigger when I pushed the Alert button. I never even saw one offered the last week of testing. Hopefully, we can see that polished and re-introduced?

tangolight

There were issues with the red alert thing not working right on Tribble I recall. People would frequently get removed from the queue a few seconds after joining it.

cormoran

I prefer it the way it is. I don't think it's a good idea to have people need to respond to a starbase defense when they're doing their own thing, like in the middle of a pvp match or an STF. It's much better to let fleets, or even individuals decide precisely when they want to do this sort of thing.

latinumbar

Yeah, I could never get in correctly. Either got booted, or never started. I think they just decided to remove it and put it in the que while they work on a fix.

erocker

So what about all the defense/reinforcement stuff for your base that can be purchased? Useless now?

th3gr4ndnagu5

cormoran wrote: »

I prefer it the way it is. I don't think it's a good idea to have people need to respond to a starbase defense when they're doing their own thing, like in the middle of a pvp match or an STF. It's much better to let fleets, or even individuals decide precisely when they want to do this sort of thing.

I think there should be both. Let people que up and do them whenever they want, but also seeing a Red Alert randomly pop up at the bottom of your screen would make it seem a little more exciting. Too bad Cryptic cant get their own stuff to work right :rolleyes:

psiameese

cormoran wrote: »

I prefer it the way it is. I don't think it's a good idea to have people need to respond to a starbase defense when they're doing their own thing, like in the middle of a pvp match or an STF. It's much better to let fleets, or even individuals decide precisely when they want to do this sort of thing.

I could be mistaken, but the Starbase Red Alert appeared for only your own Fleet player's when it happened. Not just to everyone in the game all at once.

captainrevo1

erocker wrote: »

So what about all the defense/reinforcement stuff for your base that can be purchased? Useless now?

No. you can still use them.

your starbase still gets attacked, its just you have to start it in a queue rather than a red alert pop up which did not work right. i expect it will come back eventually.

doubleohnine

th3gr4ndnagu5 wrote: »

I think there should be both. Let people que up and do them whenever they want, but also seeing a Red Alert randomly pop up at the bottom of your screen would make it seem a little more exciting. Too bad Cryptic cant get their own stuff to work right :rolleyes:

Yeah, I want the Red Alerts too. Throw out a few extra fleet marks for answering the call on a Starbase Red Alert over what can be had for queuing up.

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darren0kitlor

j4ck5p4rr0w wrote: »

I thought the bases were supposed to be randomly attacked like a red alert or something? Now its just ques?

It was seen as "****ing annoying" from a design standpoint to force the attacks, rather than just queue up.

eklinaar

Time gated content is annoying and players hate it, so they made starbase attacks always available via the queue.

lordmalak1

IIRC there's no need to defend the base anyway, nothing happens to the base during an attack. The base defense mission is solely to allow defenders to gain fleet credits (or something like that).

Complete waste of time defending the base if you ask me.

th3gr4ndnagu5

eklinaar wrote: »

Time gated content is annoying and players hate it, so they made starbase attacks always available via the queue.

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=4763651&postcount=9

centersolace

Eh... I actually like the Red Alert idea. In conjunction with queues of course. I'm usually derping around kerrat or Doffing anyway. Having an alert, like the incursions, would make me go, eh, worth a shot.