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Winter Event Competitive Race - "The Fast and the Flurrious"
jheinig
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We'll be adding an official to this race to explain the mechanics of how it works, but this posting should give you a better explanation of how the race starts and how you can participate.
* The competitive race takes place on its own track. If you are in the gazebo with Q, look for the staircase that has a sign indicating "Fastest Game on Ice" and "Fast and the Flurrious." Head down the stairs, then up the hill to your right to reach the start area for the competitive race.
* The competitive race happens 15 minutes after the hour, then again 22 minutes after the hour, 45 minutes, and 52 minutes. You'll know it's on because you'll see "The Fast and the Flurrious" pop up on your mission tracker.
* When the race pops up, it will show a 1-minute countdown timer. This is your chance to get to the starting area.
* Once you're at the starting area, stand on the wooden platform behind the wooden gate and click "Join the Race." You should see a big green "Waiting for Race" over your head if you're in the right spot at the right time.
* Wait for the announcer to call for the race start. The gate will drop. Follow the track and race!
* When you reach the end of the track, you need to grab your place flag. 1st place is the first person to grab the 1st place flag! Once the flag is grabbed, a 2nd place flag will appear, then a 3rd place flag. If all three places have been grabbed, anyone left in the race just needs to reach the end zone to finish.
* If you leave the track during the race, you will be disqualified from the event.
* If the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place flags have been taken while you're still racing, you have 1 minute to reach the end of the race track.
* Once nobody is left racing (either because they've all reached the end or been disqualified), the race will end automatically.
* If you finish the race, you will earn winter epohh tags based on your placing:
1st place: 12 tags
2nd place: 6 tags
3rd place: 3 tags
Participant: 2 tags
* Take your winter epohh tags to the Romulan winter epohh researcher in the gazebo. For 6 tags, you can track one of the winter epohhs as a duty officer assignment (biologist or research lab scientist). When the mission finishes, you will get a random winter epohh baby!
* If you run the race to the finish without being disqualified 20 times, or win 1st place in the race, you will earn the Accolade: Fast and Flurrious, which unlocks the title of the same name.
Run fast and have fun!
* The competitive race takes place on its own track. If you are in the gazebo with Q, look for the staircase that has a sign indicating "Fastest Game on Ice" and "Fast and the Flurrious." Head down the stairs, then up the hill to your right to reach the start area for the competitive race.
* The competitive race happens 15 minutes after the hour, then again 22 minutes after the hour, 45 minutes, and 52 minutes. You'll know it's on because you'll see "The Fast and the Flurrious" pop up on your mission tracker.
* When the race pops up, it will show a 1-minute countdown timer. This is your chance to get to the starting area.
* Once you're at the starting area, stand on the wooden platform behind the wooden gate and click "Join the Race." You should see a big green "Waiting for Race" over your head if you're in the right spot at the right time.
* Wait for the announcer to call for the race start. The gate will drop. Follow the track and race!
* When you reach the end of the track, you need to grab your place flag. 1st place is the first person to grab the 1st place flag! Once the flag is grabbed, a 2nd place flag will appear, then a 3rd place flag. If all three places have been grabbed, anyone left in the race just needs to reach the end zone to finish.
* If you leave the track during the race, you will be disqualified from the event.
* If the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place flags have been taken while you're still racing, you have 1 minute to reach the end of the race track.
* Once nobody is left racing (either because they've all reached the end or been disqualified), the race will end automatically.
* If you finish the race, you will earn winter epohh tags based on your placing:
1st place: 12 tags
2nd place: 6 tags
3rd place: 3 tags
Participant: 2 tags
* Take your winter epohh tags to the Romulan winter epohh researcher in the gazebo. For 6 tags, you can track one of the winter epohhs as a duty officer assignment (biologist or research lab scientist). When the mission finishes, you will get a random winter epohh baby!
* If you run the race to the finish without being disqualified 20 times, or win 1st place in the race, you will earn the Accolade: Fast and Flurrious, which unlocks the title of the same name.
Run fast and have fun!
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Same issue here, I don't seem to be getting tags for simply completing and reaching the final area.
You actually stand a better chance of getting 2nd if you hang back and get to the end in 4th/5th place because everyone slides wildly towards 1st place. Strange mechanic!
Kirk's Protege.
Seen this twice myself.
Also would've been nice if there was a solo version so casual players don't have to wait for a stupid timer!
This just told me not to waste my time then
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It will be fixed.
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and to those others not getting tags...
Here's an idea...
dont cheat....
Just cause you CAN jump off the cliff... doesnt mean you should.
Have run the race MANY times... dont care bout winning... Gotten 2 tags every single time except...
A. when I was DQ'd (first time at it)
B. When like everyone else I jumped at the first corner.... (wanted to see all the hubbub was about).
So far.. I have found.. When U COMPLETE the track.. U get the tags... Simple.
Wow good advice, since i DIDNT cheat, I ran the course...
Oh and heres more I just saw a guy take first and second place
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I guess this race isn't exactly "working as intended" just yet?
first time I ran it I thought I was suppose to do that.
I had a feeling THAT was the shortcut.
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Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
Was a post in another thread that there is a bug that it doesnt award people. Said fix was in the next patch.
I assume that somebody else got it by cheating?
i did get the two tags though.
There is a legitimate cliff you jump, the one they are referring to is the one at the bend of the race track, the curve. People just run straight through the first portion jumping unto the track way below, thus bypassing the bend, and the real cliff jump.
It is a nasty cheat and people are exploiting it to the teeth.
Fixed that for you.
I don't know that it's a cheat anymore than the shortcuts in Mario Cart are cheating.
Is it intentional? No, apparently not. But this isn't exactly uber-exploit territory. Somebody forgot to place the invisible walls.
It just so happens, though, that the invisible walls for races aren't exactly well defined in the first place; look at all the corners you can cut in the NPC race. It'd be hard to win if they weren't, after all.
Cut the people who jump the cliff more than a bit of slack, for two reasons:
1. It's both possible and not terribly difficult to go over it accidentally;
2. It's entirely in the spirit of the way the races are designed;
3. It's also entirely in the spirit of the way race games in general are designed.
Fix it if it's not working as intended, but calling it a cheat or exploit is spilling far too many words on something which isn't a big deal at all.
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The times for this and snowball fight are way too far apart.
Don't fix it!!! It's so much fun jumping off that cliff. Plus, everyone is doing it. Nice PvP for the event.
Fortunately, I wasn't a complete looser and won all three.
I did use the cheat on the last one though.
There were so many Instances open, that finding one with less than 5 people that weren't at all interested in doing the race was quite easy.
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Let's go ahead and fix it.
I don't care a whit for the goofy colored targs, but I'll take another title option.