The event was supposed to be open for 35 days and you needed to do the race 25 times to get the ship. It should take you around 5 minutes or less to complete the race each day using any of the jetpacks, even the rental version. Now given that it takes very little time and that you have 10 spare days, there is almost no excuse for not being able to get the 1000 pearls needed for the ship.
You assume a lot about other people. What if I was out of the country for more than 10 days? Are you saying Cryptic was right for ending the event a full day early?
You missed the point entirely. He is dealing with his wife's Medical problems, plus taking care of their children, and going to his full time job. All at once. He is dealing with so much in his real life, and probably more than he has told us. If he can spare 5 minutes in his night, I too can find a way to work around my schedule.
I get the point. And my point is I really could give 2 pennies about what person X has going on their life. A lot of people planned their playtime. Tonight was supposed to be my last round, my last 40 pearls. Are you saying I'm wrong for planning my playtime? Are you saying Cryptic is correct for ending the event a full day before they said they would? I'm confused.
I got mine a week ago but I can understand how some people may not have for various reasons, and I will indeed keep an eye on how this situation is handled.
Of course, calling it a lie in the thread title probably wasn't the best idea, all that did was invite the trolls in to flood the thread with their oral diarrhea.
You missed the point entirely. He is dealing with his wife's Medical problems, plus taking care of their children, and going to his full time job. All at once. He is dealing with so much in his real life, and probably more than he has told us. If he can spare 5 minutes in his night, I too can find a way to work around my schedule.
I feel for him. I appreciate whet he is going through. However, none of that excuses or changes the fact that people were planning their real life schedule to acquire their desired game goodies within the time frame Cryptic promised they were to be allowed. They were screwed out of a day. You either live up to your promises or you do not and in this case some one failed to keep their word to you, me, and everyone else... They either fix it or they shoud be prepared for the pitchforks to be stolen and flung.
1. Cryptic creates event.
2. People complain that they don't have enough time to gather pearls.
3. Cryptic extends event by three days.
4. Cryptic makes mistake, event ends a day early.
5. Forum rage ensues.
Lesson learned by Cryptic: Next time, don't bother extending the event.
"Participation in PVP-related activities is so low on an hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly basis that we could in fact just completely take it out of STO and it would not impact the overall number of people [who] log in to the game and play in any significant way." -Gozer, Cryptic PvP Dev
Indeed. You cannot say one thing and then not do it. I mean I know the Peals can be bought for Lobi, and the Dilithium or EC for keys is easy enough to get. But still, you should have gotten your last day. If the blog says 5th Pacific time, you should get until the 5th Pacific time.
1. Cryptic creates event.
2. People complain that they don't have enough time to gather pearls.
3. Cryptic extends event by three days.
4. Cryptic makes mistake, event ends a day early.
5. Forum rage ensues.
Lesson learned by Cryptic: Next time, don't bother extending the event.
Wrong. The event was not extended due to people complaining they didn't have enough time, it was due to a bug that prevented some people from completing their daily runs. The bug was later fixed and the event was extended to compensate.
it doesn't matter what happened in his life.. when the OP thought he had till tomorrow he should have.
they specified a date and time..
on the winter event some things came up and i got my ship the very last day, like at 9am..
if they closed it early id be mad too.
[12:35] Vessel Two of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 225232 (271723) Plasma Damage to you with Plasma Lance.
[12:44] Vessel One of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 1019527 (1157678) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Energy Bolt Explosion.
Wrong. The event was not extended due to people complaining they didn't have enough time, it was due to a bug that prevented some people from completing their daily runs. The bug was later fixed and the event was extended to compensate.
Exactly, the event was extended because Cryptic had already had 1 snafu.
Who cares half the stuff including the ship you will be able to get off the exchange if am not mistaken so chill, if you want your holiday stuffs just buy them thats what most of us who want the lockbox ships do its so much easier that way .
Who cares half the stuff including the ship you will be able to get off the exchange if am not mistaken so chill, if you want your holiday stuffs just buy them thats what most of us who want the lockbox ships do its so much easier that way .
Wrong. The ship is bind on pickup, just like the Breen ship from the last winter event.
The original announcement and others (like Twitter), excluding the blog sited in several responses, did say "Flying High" would be extended to Aug. 4th, not 5th. The blog may have been a typo - after all Cryptic is human as well. If someone plans their play to end at the last moment, life issues not withstanding (which I know there are some things that can come up that prevent any play for one or more days at a time), and something happens, like it ending a day early, where they end up unable to complete the task, then the problem may be the player's poor planning, not Cryptic's error. After all, something in life could have happened, God forbid, that would have prevented their play anyway (life is unpredictable that way), regardless if it ended on the 5th, as the blog mistakenly stated. Next time, if possible, plan with a little buffer for life's possible unforeseen delays - they do happen whether we like it or not.
Unfortunately the main blog post was updated to say the 4th:
Update! (7/19/13): As announced in the recent State of the Game article, we will be extending the time needed to get pearls by a couple of days for those who may have missed a day -- the new end date has been moved from August 2nd to August 4th, 2013 at noon PDT.
There are some confusing posts by Brandon out there. In the interests of fairness they should extend it 1 more day or discount the ship 40 pearls.
so 2 places say the 5th(state of the game/main blog) and 1 says the 4th(main thread) - clearly an error in typing - i do it all the time. But it is Cryptic's fault and not the OP's.
so 2 places say the 5th(state of the game/main blog) and 1 says the 4th(main thread) - clearly an error in typing - i do it all the time. But it is Cryptic's fault and not the OP's.
Yes, it's pretty bad, talk about making something simple and easy into a big ball of mess-up.
We are talking of a company that announced a Marks event and they forgot to put it on.
So.. yes.. is cryptic. You get use to it.
Exactly. Snafu after snafu. Snafu is a term to describe Cryptic and STO pretty well. If you don't know what snafu means, I encourage everyone to Google it. edit: actually I think this now qualifies for TARFUN status.
Cryptic programmer: "The world must know by now. What we've done."
Cryptic executive: "Know what? Only that the long night is over. The crown of programming is tarnished, but that will fade in time. The riots, a fever dream; the plague, a horrible nightmare and like everything else that happened, such things will only be dimly remembered upon waking to their normal lives. In the end, all sins are forgiven. Even yours."
Cryptic programmer: "What about the bugs and customer service?"
Cryptic executive: "Do you really think they're ready for that? After everything you've seen? Everything you've done?"
Cryptic programmer: "No. Not yet."
Cryptic executive: "But soon. We have made our own mistakes, became insulated from the world we sought to control, and whatever they may think, the night is far from over. But that will change, and you will help us change even as we teach you, this time... this time we will do it right."
Cryptic programmer: "And who are we? Who are we really?"
Cryptic executive: "We are the invisible programmers. We are the SNAFU. We came before and after. We are forever. And eventually... eventually, we will lead them into the day."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cur1uMGrxs
Reminds me of Cryptic every day.............. hoping to sit it out, wait for people to forget and to hope to do it better next time.....
According to http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=928221 we have until tomorrow to finish up our Fyling high, as it says the 5th at 10am... It's the 4th at 1pm and it's already been shut off.
ADDED: If this is going to be fixed and folks are going to be given the 1 more day they were promised, they need the WHOLE day. I had my own getting of the ship planned out to just make the deadline and you folks have screwed me over.... Thanks.
WTF? The day they edited that to say it was extended by a couple of days and it said the new date was August 4th. I and many others in game have been going by that date letting people who ask know the date was extended to the 4th. What did they do? Decide on the last day to extend it 1 more day and allow the event to shut off anyway? The green text in the dev blog shows it was "Updated July 19, 2013" but that's bogus. The text was also yellow instead of green when they first updated it to show the Flying High event had been extended.
I got my ships days ago on all the characters I wanted it for, but I know some players needed those extra days.
Cryptic messed up the summer event. For almost the first 2 weeks of the event some players had a bugged Flying High event. They would only get 1 or 2 courses and could not complete it at all to get any pearls. When this was finally fixed it was 2 days past the 10 days you could miss, hence why they extended the event for 2 days.
So.............they took their sweet time to fix a bug that would have made people short 2 days, extended the event for 2 more days, then later updated the blog to show it had been extended a third day, then shut the event off on the original extended day?
[12:35] Vessel Two of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 225232 (271723) Plasma Damage to you with Plasma Lance.
[12:44] Vessel One of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 1019527 (1157678) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Energy Bolt Explosion.
Yes, it's pretty bad, talk about making something simple and easy into a big ball of mess-up.
Exactly. Snafu after snafu. Snafu is a term to describe Cryptic and STO pretty well. If you don't know what snafu means, I encourage everyone to Google it. edit: actually I think this now qualifies for TARFUN status.
If you think that badly of Cryptic, then you must never have heard of Gameforge before, believe me, you'll be kissing Cryptic's boots in gratefulness at how much better they handle their games then Gameforge does, I can know, I play Tera Europe and it's a nightmare with Gameforge as publisher.
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Go find something else to do...like take a long walk off a tall building. I swear, humanity is need of an ELE.
You assume a lot about other people. What if I was out of the country for more than 10 days? Are you saying Cryptic was right for ending the event a full day early?
I get the point. And my point is I really could give 2 pennies about what person X has going on their life. A lot of people planned their playtime. Tonight was supposed to be my last round, my last 40 pearls. Are you saying I'm wrong for planning my playtime? Are you saying Cryptic is correct for ending the event a full day before they said they would? I'm confused.
Of course, calling it a lie in the thread title probably wasn't the best idea, all that did was invite the trolls in to flood the thread with their oral diarrhea.
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I feel for him. I appreciate whet he is going through. However, none of that excuses or changes the fact that people were planning their real life schedule to acquire their desired game goodies within the time frame Cryptic promised they were to be allowed. They were screwed out of a day. You either live up to your promises or you do not and in this case some one failed to keep their word to you, me, and everyone else... They either fix it or they shoud be prepared for the pitchforks to be stolen and flung.
1. Cryptic creates event.
2. People complain that they don't have enough time to gather pearls.
3. Cryptic extends event by three days.
4. Cryptic makes mistake, event ends a day early.
5. Forum rage ensues.
Lesson learned by Cryptic: Next time, don't bother extending the event.
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Wrong. The event was not extended due to people complaining they didn't have enough time, it was due to a bug that prevented some people from completing their daily runs. The bug was later fixed and the event was extended to compensate.
it doesn't matter what happened in his life.. when the OP thought he had till tomorrow he should have.
they specified a date and time..
on the winter event some things came up and i got my ship the very last day, like at 9am..
if they closed it early id be mad too.
[12:44] Vessel One of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 1019527 (1157678) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Energy Bolt Explosion.
Exactly, the event was extended because Cryptic had already had 1 snafu.
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Click here to view my DeviantArt.
Wrong. The ship is bind on pickup, just like the Breen ship from the last winter event.
There are some confusing posts by Brandon out there. In the interests of fairness they should extend it 1 more day or discount the ship 40 pearls.
Do you have a link to that blog post? This blog post says the 5th @ 10am PDT: http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=928221
Hmmm I was sure I had read in a dev blog that the ship was bind on unpack lol
I should have said the main "thread"
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=768241
so 2 places say the 5th(state of the game/main blog) and 1 says the 4th(main thread) - clearly an error in typing - i do it all the time. But it is Cryptic's fault and not the OP's.
So.. yes.. is cryptic. You get use to it.
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No, this ship is character bound.
Yes, it's pretty bad, talk about making something simple and easy into a big ball of mess-up.
Exactly. Snafu after snafu. Snafu is a term to describe Cryptic and STO pretty well. If you don't know what snafu means, I encourage everyone to Google it. edit: actually I think this now qualifies for TARFUN status.
Cryptic executive: "Know what? Only that the long night is over. The crown of programming is tarnished, but that will fade in time. The riots, a fever dream; the plague, a horrible nightmare and like everything else that happened, such things will only be dimly remembered upon waking to their normal lives. In the end, all sins are forgiven. Even yours."
Cryptic programmer: "What about the bugs and customer service?"
Cryptic executive: "Do you really think they're ready for that? After everything you've seen? Everything you've done?"
Cryptic programmer: "No. Not yet."
Cryptic executive: "But soon. We have made our own mistakes, became insulated from the world we sought to control, and whatever they may think, the night is far from over. But that will change, and you will help us change even as we teach you, this time... this time we will do it right."
Cryptic programmer: "And who are we? Who are we really?"
Cryptic executive: "We are the invisible programmers. We are the SNAFU. We came before and after. We are forever. And eventually... eventually, we will lead them into the day."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cur1uMGrxs
Reminds me of Cryptic every day.............. hoping to sit it out, wait for people to forget and to hope to do it better next time.....
WTF? The day they edited that to say it was extended by a couple of days and it said the new date was August 4th. I and many others in game have been going by that date letting people who ask know the date was extended to the 4th. What did they do? Decide on the last day to extend it 1 more day and allow the event to shut off anyway? The green text in the dev blog shows it was "Updated July 19, 2013" but that's bogus. The text was also yellow instead of green when they first updated it to show the Flying High event had been extended.
I got my ships days ago on all the characters I wanted it for, but I know some players needed those extra days.
Cryptic messed up the summer event. For almost the first 2 weeks of the event some players had a bugged Flying High event. They would only get 1 or 2 courses and could not complete it at all to get any pearls. When this was finally fixed it was 2 days past the 10 days you could miss, hence why they extended the event for 2 days.
So.............they took their sweet time to fix a bug that would have made people short 2 days, extended the event for 2 more days, then later updated the blog to show it had been extended a third day, then shut the event off on the original extended day?
Not logical.
AFAIK there is no evidence to suggest this will be available next year or that the prize will be the same.
which is tomorrow.
[12:44] Vessel One of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 1019527 (1157678) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Energy Bolt Explosion.
They post the new end date for getting the Pearls is 8/5/13; NOT TRUE!!!
http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=928221
... the new end date has been moved from August 2nd to August 5th, 2013 at 10AM PDT.))
Letting the weekend hamsters run the show again
If you think that badly of Cryptic, then you must never have heard of Gameforge before, believe me, you'll be kissing Cryptic's boots in gratefulness at how much better they handle their games then Gameforge does, I can know, I play Tera Europe and it's a nightmare with Gameforge as publisher.