How Red Alerts working?

darthpetersen

Its not a question, how i can play them. Its more technical interest.

If a Red Alert appears, how many instances would be create?
Why i can join empty or lost instances?

anazonda

The following is based on memory, and may contain minor errors:

Red alerts will run for 15 mins, and may contain from 1-5 (in case of the Borg Alerts), and 1-20 (in case of the tholian RA's), and will create a new instance whenever the first is full.
The timer remains unchanged and will stop allowing people into them after 5 mins roughly.

Since they are instanced, they run for a given time even without people (you can test this by leaving any mission map, go back in and find yourself at the same level of progress. If you then leave for 5-10 mins, and go back in, the map will reset at the beginning of the last major objective.

That is also why you often enter into one that has already been completed. Since they don't shut down untill 5-10 mins after the last person has left.

A issue that has been pointed out since the borg invasion began, but has never been properly fixed.

hotelkatz

There's also a glitch where you can't turn in the red alert mission.