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Community Small Craft Only PvP Event - May 8th - 2 Timeslots (BST and PDT/EDT)

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited May 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hi Captains!

I am organizing an in-game (Holodeck) Community Small Craft Only PvP Event for this coming Wednesday.

The first timeslot will be at 7pm BST/ 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT. (Click here to view in your timezone)

The second timeslot will be at 5pm PDT/ 8pm EDT/ 1am BST. (Click here to view in your timezone)

Let's plan to meet in orbit of Bajor then and we'll queue up for private matches. Feel free to attend with a character on either faction, but, they must be in a small craft ONLY (i.e. Fighter, Shuttle, Runabout, Captain's Yacht, Delta Flyer ETC). We'll try and do as many matches as possible, for one full hour. Please join the OrganizedPvP channel to see any communication/ instructions from myself. Type this command in your chat bar to join the channel: /channel_join OrganizedPvP

If you can't make it Wednesday, I would like to try and do these often, and on different days/ times. Feel free to post constructive feedback in this thread with ideas, including if you would like to see this expanded to other types of events (STFs, PvE, Events, Fleet Actions etc.).

Hope to see many of you Wednesday!

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Darn, my school and book club fill both timeslots. Guess I'll have to skip one. :P

    (just kidding)
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  • cmaclcmacl Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Sounds Fun :P
  • jaguaro70jaguaro70 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Will most certainly try and make it. Looking forward to it.
  • landerx74927landerx74927 Member Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Sounds like Fun! Great idea. I'm there.
  • phoenix841phoenix841 Member Posts: 487 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Can you guys do one that's not during pacific business hours? I'd love to join in, but I work from 9a-6p.
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  • lykumlykum Member Posts: 382
    edited May 2013
    like 100 lobi from rozhenko timeship. hope you guys keep running it because i'm currently diverting my ec towards fleet modules on the exchange. =(
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  • thishorizonthishorizon Member Posts: 1,158
    edited May 2013
    how about a real pvp tournament?

    with...

    actual ships and teams?

    so we can.....

    you know....

    use the bridge officer powers and ships you provide in the game?
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited May 2013
    thishorizon wrote: »
    how about a real pvp tournament?

    with...

    actual ships and teams?

    so we can.....

    you know....

    use the bridge officer powers and ships you provide in the game?

    Because this is not a tournament -- it's a community event, and casual. :) This same event has been run a few times in the past and everyone's had fun.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • blznfunblznfun Member Posts: 241 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Any prizes?
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  • wolfpacknzwolfpacknz Member Posts: 783 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I'll compete if you're gonna be in it :D
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  • redshirtthefirstredshirtthefirst Member Posts: 415 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    blznfun wrote: »
    Any prizes?

    Having fun... priceless!
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  • kinetic78kinetic78 Member Posts: 90 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    A mass shuttle pug stomp :p

    I may come to this !!!
  • adamkafeiadamkafei Member Posts: 6,539 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Stuff that Rommie C-Store ship, I'm buying that fighter, I'll see you at 7pm tomorrow :P
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  • izonadeclaunizonadeclaun Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Aw man I'm totally going to suck at this. I'm not use to my Small Craft. Oh well, I guess it's great practice for missions that use them.

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  • mancommancom Member Posts: 784 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Because this is not a tournament -- it's a community event, and casual. :) This same event has been run a few times in the past and everyone's had fun.
    I think you didn't quite understand Horizon's request. I don't believe he was criticising the small craft event, but rather reacting to your request for further ideas for future events:
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Feel free to post constructive feedback in this thread with ideas, including if you would like to see this expanded to other types of events (STFs, PvE, Events, Fleet Actions etc.).
    Since PVP in actual ships (and teaming up before queuing) is part of the regular game, it seems like a valid suggestion.

    And maybe you are too young to remember, but we are approaching the third anniversary of Snix day. And Snix day reminds us that tournaments are a part of Cryptic's vision for STO.

    Don't be too afraid of new things. Yes, these casual and shallow events have worked in the past, but that doesn't mean that you can't also try new things! Boldy go where no man has gone before!
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  • bluewafflemungbluewafflemung Member Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Pvpers lay off the guy. He doesint even have to do the shuttle event. If you dont want to do it fine. But dont bash the guy. Why not make this event a succsess in hopes of encourgeing them to make other more structured tournys. Sorry cryptic is ruining your vision of what the game should be. Quit minging about it.
  • m4tth3wk4n3m4tth3wk4n3 Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Greetings

    While I am not opposed to this idea (its a small challenge to fly a ship as limited as a shuttle/fighter...); I would rather like to have something like that but in lower tier ships (more specifically ships like miranda's, constitutions, k'tango's etc etc..., but no birds of prey though for they would cream all the opposition...)

    Me personally, I am not really a fan of shuttle combat (those things are too twitchy for my liking)...
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    nah, i never liked the pvp aspect of sto and never cared for sto pvp before, but you guys enjoy yourselves. i may come on and ask if brandon is willing to give a more concrete answer to the open beta question everyone is asking, but that would pretty much be it.
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  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Shuttle_warz???? I have missed this since Mav went on sabbatical.
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  • thishorizonthishorizon Member Posts: 1,158
    edited May 2013
    bluewafflemung wrote: »
    Pvpers lay off the guy. He doesint even have to do the shuttle event. If you dont want to do it fine. But dont bash the guy. Why not make this event a succsess in hopes of encourgeing them to make other more structured tournys. Sorry cryptic is ruining your vision of what the game should be. Quit minging about it.

    Since I see no bashing coming from Hilbert (mancom) or myself, I can only read your response as someone taking a very defensive posture on the subject. Which, is.... interesting.

    I just made a suggestion for a real team play tourney. Something a lot of people have asked for in the past and it's never came to fruition. And to see this event being planned, makes me wonder if they have the time to do such things... Why not just throw together a 3v3 or 5v5 tournament? They provide us with a queue system which pits us 5v5....

    And please, no one is ruining anyone's vision of what the game should be. Hilbert and I are both part of very casual fleets. You can find most of us running stfs and going for fleet marks or rep stuff most of the time. We pvp casually. Just.... Not often in shuttles, we see the game as being much bigger than that, and this is evident from the tools that cryptic gives us to play the game.

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  • webdeathwebdeath Member Posts: 1,570 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I've been apart of the shuttle event once before. Kind of enjoyed it. But I can see where my other fellow PVPers are saying.

    Perhaps this is still a bit of a disappointment of Cryptic pulling out their support of the PVP Tournament that was being worked on in the past. But it is still something that, in the future, I would like to see. And I can only assume that others who pvp would like to see, not just a PVP community Event. But an actual PVP Community Tournament Event.

    It would especially be maybe a nice way to usher in the Romulans into the fold. Perhaps a month or two after LoR comes out to give players time to Level up their new characters.

    Either way, don't hate us just because we're "PVPers". Especially when we are trying to do our best to PVP in a game environment that doesn't look like it will get the help it needs from the development staff for another year. (Making it 4 years since any true PVP content and updates have come to pass:()

    Anyway, I wish I could participate in the tournament, but real life stinks. And it is taking up most of my prioritized time for such things. Good luck with it Brandon. And have fun. :)
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  • glassguitarglassguitar Member Posts: 427 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Sadly this falls into a bad time slot for me. I do want to say thank you to Bran for doing this!! If you ever do this on a weekend I can guarantee I will be there!
  • kapla1755kapla1755 Member Posts: 1,249
    edited May 2013
    with my current schedule I might be able to make both time slots whee :D

    Maybe sometime after the 21st when every faction has access to 1-50 ships we can see this expanded to a level 1-10 player ship event more pilot skill less dependence on boffs and consoles, overall I like the idea.

    btw, Bran do you know if KDF is getting anymore low level starter ships (besides the 2-bops),
    like maybe a lethean ship or the nausicaan npc destroyer escort (fingers crossed maybe all the npc ships as they look amazing after last tribble patch). Great work from all the texure artists with the new tribble stuff makes me not wanna go back on holodeck after seeing how even my characters looks like they have more detail when on tribble, truly amazing.

    Edit: PVP wise at this point I would love some more ground arena/assault maps (like the New Romulus warehouse) be added in :)

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  • drunkadmiraldrunkadmiral Member Posts: 197 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    it will be 5vs5?
  • adamkafeiadamkafei Member Posts: 6,539 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    *Removed*

    Problem solved
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  • blznfunblznfun Member Posts: 241 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I think Cryptic getting "personally" involved in the PvP community as a "standard function" of tournaments hosted by them (Cryptic) would be a major (and I mean major) conflict of interest. What about the rest of the community? STF'ers, People who Mission or role play on Drozana. Would they get the same personal level of attention that the PvP'ers would get? Would there be contests on who is the best actor/roll player, who is the best STF'er?

    Someone from Cryptic doing it on their own time, with their own personal account would be exempt of course and rightly so. Its their personal time. But using their Cryptic account for such things is where the conflict of interest arises.

    I think this is off topic, but necessary.

    If you want shuttle/ship 5v5, 3v3, 1v1, 10v10 etc, then the community should coordinate something outside of Cryptic's help or assistance. If not, then Cryptic should do the same for every group in the game. I am sure there are a lot of people that would like them to set up some kind of function for their game style play... :D

    A PvP queue that auto adjusts for tournaments with auto-pairing would be super cool that has leaderboards, etc... I would like to see it but doubt it would happen given the awesome stuff already on their plate...

    I am sure many are gonig to say I am missing the point. No, I get it... Fun, casual PvP event, that I myself might attend just because its there. Its still a great idea Brandon...:D
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  • really2297really2297 Member Posts: 9 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Brandon,

    great idea and I think fleet, and other PVE events would be great to have on a regular basis keep up the great work
  • aquitaine985aquitaine985 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Because this is not a tournament -- it's a community event, and casual. :) This same event has been run a few times in the past and everyone's had fun.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    So as the GM, it might be high time to utilize the other 90% of the ships in the game for a proper PVP tourney?
    blznfun wrote: »
    If you want shuttle/ship 5v5, 3v3, 1v1, 10v10 etc, then the community should coordinate something outside of Cryptic's help or assistance. If not, then Cryptic should do the same for every group in the game. I am sure there are a lot of people that would like them to set up some kind of function for their game style play... :D

    You mean like the foundry contests that Cryptic run? Or how about the litracy contests that Cryptic runs? Oh and not to mention the random "Let's go to Quarks and RP" evenings.

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  • thishorizonthishorizon Member Posts: 1,158
    edited May 2013
    aquitaine985 wrote: »
    So as the GM, it might be high time to utilize the other 90% of the ships in the game for a proper PVP tourney?



    You mean like the foundry contests that Cryptic run? Or how about the litracy contests that Cryptic runs? Oh and not to mention the random "Let's go to Quarks and RP" evenings.

    Fact up first.

    wee bit of "nailed it" in that post.

    ...

    okay, so it was a lot of "nailed it"
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited May 2013
    aquitaine985 wrote: »
    So as the GM, it might be high time to utilize the other 90% of the ships in the game for a proper PVP tourney?

    I appreciate the desire for a tournament, but a full tournament and a quick, hour-long shuttle event with 2 timeslots that is casual for a weekly community event are two very different things :) I'm not opposed with helping support a tournament, but it's not something I can pursue at this exact moment in time due to various reasons.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
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