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  • fhbradleyfhbradley Member Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I'm not bothering with this event anymore. Finished it for one toon, when I could see the entity. On my 2nd toon I tried this I couldn't see the entity so ignoring the spam just meant I died. After all my teammates changed for 4 times I left as well. I too like a challenge but obviously that challenge is too much for me, with all the lag and the missing ability to find the entity.
    Get me right, I don't want it nerfed, but I want to have fun while I play. And that - at least for me - wasn't fun at all.
  • longasclongasc Member Posts: 490
    edited September 2013
    Very good questions below!

    I would like to add one:
    When I complete the old project, will I be able to start the new 1-shard project or must I complete the new Project with the DOff?

    EDIT: Just read only the new project allows the 1 shard project upon completion, so better do this unless you want the pet that badly.
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    OK, I have a few questions not covered in the announcement.

    Is the old reward of the Crystal Shard space pet still available? I have some Romulan characters "born" after the first run, so they never got a chance to get it.

    If so, how many shards to complete its project? If it's 14, like last time, it will be impossible to complete both the old project and the new project.

    The Duty Officer pictured is a Federation officer. Am I correct in assuming there will be equivalent officers available for Klingons and Romulans?
  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I don't know who the hell was the one who thought the changes to the CE was FUN? But right now I honestly think that person needs slapped on the side of the head!


    Who thinks that MORE SPAM = FUN?

    Not only do we have to battle though a literal hundred Terran ships to get to the CE, but we also have to combat against NEWBS who don't know how to do anything and MOOCHERS who just SIT THERE at the SPAWN POINT AND NOT DO ANYTHING! :mad::mad::mad:


    I'm not joking, it took me 4 minutes to go from logging in into STO To getting a migrane so powerful that it actually made me dizzy!
  • smokeybacon90smokeybacon90 Member Posts: 2,252 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    It's not a reward for the new project; it was for the old project. We may consider making a new way to obtain the Shard pet in the future.

    That's a shame. I never picked up the old project as I always assumed the pet would be available once the event was held again. Please do add some way to get it.
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  • kpg1usakpg1usa Member Posts: 190 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Thanks for returning the STO CE event!

    STO CE Migraine? You should try, SCOTCH! Engineering, of course, what were you thinking?
  • hfmuddhfmudd Member Posts: 881 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Can we get, if not a timetable for fixing the issue, at least an acknowledgement that impenetrable rift/Mirror Universe ship spam is a bug and not Working As Intended?
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  • kapla1755kapla1755 Member Posts: 1,249
    edited September 2013
    Changed it is right this is CE in normal mode last 4 runs:


    If you see this ruuun for your life :P

    what comes outta the rifts 1
    what comes outta the rifts 2
    what comes outta the rifts 3
    what comes outta the rifts 4


    1st run in a Fleet norgh on an engy
    :D

    These are all with random Pug teams, there is also what appears to be subspace clouds like the black hole console that block any targeting and weapons fire from within them.
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  • rylanadionysisrylanadionysis Member Posts: 3,359 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    fhbradley wrote: »
    I'm not bothering with this event anymore. Finished it for one toon, when I could see the entity. On my 2nd toon I tried this I couldn't see the entity so ignoring the spam just meant I died. After all my teammates changed for 4 times I left as well. I too like a challenge but obviously that challenge is too much for me, with all the lag and the missing ability to find the entity.
    Get me right, I don't want it nerfed, but I want to have fun while I play. And that - at least for me - wasn't fun at all.

    tl;dr

    lolhard, i quit

    wuss

    i did it on five different toons, one of which was a bop, A fricken BOP, nd i didnt even die on the bop

    what the heck is your excuse?

    its like people expect everything to be ss azure mission easy

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  • sernonserculionsernonserculion Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    xiaoping88 wrote: »
    Ah, no Romulan doff? Would it have been hard to make a Romulan picture or copy one? I don't want humans on my ship. :(


    Give this Romulan a medal. I've spent millions in an effort to replace all the alien scum, but if you want to run certain setups, the job is all but impossible. Including that conversion unit that gives me some blue andorian for 5 green romulans. Oh, the irony.


    Edit: I'm running a tight ship, please consider tailored DOFFS... Make a Klingon and Romulan version in the spirit of thematical coherency... it means the world to some of us... I know we probably must represent some weird minority, and should accept this glorious reward as it stands. But you see, I have to delete this DOFF in the end. It's just how we roll. And that makes the event rather... well... generic... It is just hard as it is, right now. It truly is. :(

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  • alopenalopen Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    tl;dr

    lolhard, i quit

    wuss

    i did it on five different toons, one of which was a bop, A fricken BOP, nd i didnt even die on the bop

    what the heck is your excuse?

    its like people expect everything to be ss azure mission easy

    christ

    Problems are from the groups not individual loadouts/ships. If your team wants to spam faw and TRIBBLE off the mirror ships and forget to kill the CE as it goes from 20% health to 30% health to 43% health, then the run is indeed hopeless. IF the the team focuses on the CE then doing it in a bop is piece of cake. But if your whole team is awful your lonely bop is not going to take down the CE solo.
  • burstdragon323burstdragon323 Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I don't know who the hell was the one who thought the changes to the CE was FUN? But right now I honestly think that person needs slapped on the side of the head!


    Who thinks that MORE SPAM = FUN?

    Not only do we have to battle though a literal hundred Terran ships to get to the CE, but we also have to combat against NEWBS who don't know how to do anything and MOOCHERS who just SIT THERE at the SPAWN POINT AND NOT DO ANYTHING! :mad::mad::mad:


    I'm not joking, it took me 4 minutes to go from logging in into STO To getting a migrane so powerful that it actually made me dizzy!

    I have to agree with Azurian. I just finished with my toons, and in one instance, there were over ONE HUNDRED MIRROR SHIPS in the map, and no one could approach the CE. We had to kill everything just to get close.
  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,485 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    tl;dr

    lolhard, i quit

    wuss

    i did it on five different toons, one of which was a bop, A fricken BOP, nd i didnt even die on the bop

    what the heck is your excuse?

    its like people expect everything to be ss azure mission easy

    christ

    If it works like intended, it is not hard.
    However, if the mirror frigate spam "event" (calling it event until conformation it's a bug) then it is seriously not fun.
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  • kapla1755kapla1755 Member Posts: 1,249
    edited September 2013
    I hate to do it but if I see THIS at the start of the match cya I'm gonna warp cause that is ridiculous, each can apparently at the moment spawn an unlimited amount of ships since the rifts don't close and can't be collapsed.
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  • alarikunalarikun Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Will we actually have a timer for the cooldown this time? Or are we on our own to guess when 20 hours is up?
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  • xelene13xelene13 Member Posts: 222 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Something is messed up here. On certain toons I breeze by, on others I go in and get marks a cooldown but no shard, and still others I enter and the place is FULL (in a NORMAL) with mirror vessels that drop my shields and hull in moments (I did NOT aggro them), still other instances have no mirror ships and only distortion. W-T-H!?!?! This is a mess. :rolleyes:
  • shurato2099shurato2099 Member Posts: 588 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I have to agree with Azurian. I just finished with my toons, and in one instance, there were over ONE HUNDRED MIRROR SHIPS in the map, and no one could approach the CE. We had to kill everything just to get close.

    I've been in a couple of those today. I suspect that I was a filler when somebody left a previously spawned instance where people went after the Mirror ships rather than the CE.
  • sernonserculionsernonserculion Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I've done it on normal and elite now, and must say I've had a fairly good time. Sorry about that. :)

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  • oneerranttwitchoneerranttwitch Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    First time I ran it (normal difficulty,) I got dropped into a late-phase game, just saw a belt of Terrans, bugged out.

    Found this thread, "ignore the Terrans". It's not as hideously unbalanced with that in mind, but I'm still disappointed that Cryptic resorted to Fake Difficulty via ship spam...
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I'm sorry but I do not like these changes to the Crystaline Entity. It's like the Development Team purposely was trying to antagonize the players of Star Trek Online by increasing the number of enemies to thwart players and the put massive loads on their graphics cards at the same time that causes them to overheat.

    I cannot continue playing the event as it is now.
  • thegreathibikithegreathibiki Member Posts: 98 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I've done a few normal and elites and frankly one of those normals felt like elite. As many have said adding in the near to over hundred ships that SPAWN faster than one group can kill is a ridiculous addition to the CE event. I'd just as soon not do it but the dilithium is too much of a come on. That said I have had to leave four maps so far because the dps requirement on the guard ships was too high for everyone and I found myself alone against them all because everyone else bugged out before me.

    cryptic please either make the spawning slower or only allow a preset amount at a time, something. because the only elite I beat had zero ships spawn because of a bug or something. because the normals I have endured remind me way to much of the Hive with a bunch of newbs.
  • dechala1dechala1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    If you already have the old project slotted, you may complete it and get the Vanity Pet as a reward. It's up to you.

    However, you will not be able to slot the "Bonus" project until the new 14-shard project is completed (the one that rewards a Doff).

    This is, uh, false.

    I currently have -both- projects slotted on my FED toon, 1 from previous that I did not complete (it as 12/14) and the new one as well.
  • usscapitalusscapital Member Posts: 985 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    whats with all the mirror ships ? as I do not remember there being that many ships in the last entity special event
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  • captainnandicaptainnandi Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    every since the new ce mission went live I get on for a few seconds and then it says that the server is not responding. Is anybody else experiencing that too?
  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    My opinion about these "changes" (to avoid the obvious "bugs"/"reality check failure"/"trolling",etc...) would be that even the Dominion would think of this being overkill.

    Here's an idea, let's start a contest we'd call "Show your most ridiculous situation in Crystalline Cataclysm!"
    My first entry:
    Star Trek's version of Bullet Hell: Phaser Hell.
    #TASforSTO
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  • newromulan1newromulan1 Member Posts: 2,229
    edited September 2013
    My opinion about these "changes" (to avoid the obvious "bugs"/"reality check failure"/"trolling",etc...) would be that even the Dominion would think of this being overkill.

    Let's start a contest we'd call "Show your most ridiculous situation in Crystalline Cataclysm!"
    My first entry:
    Star Trek's version of Bullet Hell: Phaser Hell.

    I should have taken a screen shot of my worst one - you literally could not see the entity with all the mirror ships and the phaser beams - more than 100 easily - could have been as high as 200 as people were just sucking them out with all types of spam. My super eng fleet excel tank could only survive for a few seconds with 20+ ships attacking + the entity
  • goku5030goku5030 Member Posts: 229 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    My opinion about these "changes" (to avoid the obvious "bugs"/"reality check failure"/"trolling",etc...) would be that even the Dominion would think of this being overkill.

    Here's an idea, let's start a contest we'd call "Show your most ridiculous situation in Crystalline Cataclysm!"
    My first entry:
    Star Trek's version of Bullet Hell: Phaser Hell.[/QUOTE

    Wow that's a lot of ships rofl
  • goku5030goku5030 Member Posts: 229 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    My opinion about these "changes" (to avoid the obvious "bugs"/"reality check failure"/"trolling",etc...) would be that even the Dominion would think of this being overkill.

    Here's an idea, let's start a contest we'd call "Show your most ridiculous situation in Crystalline Cataclysm!"
    My first entry:
    Star Trek's version of Bullet Hell: Phaser Hell.

    All hands to battle stations brace for impact against 2 million ships....
  • aelrhianaaelrhiana Member Posts: 285 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    This needs to be fixed. I've run about 10 toons. It took 3 and a half hours. It shouldn't have; not on normal mode. Not even on Elite should it take that long! I had 2 runs that took me about 3 minutes, those were just fine, but then you come to the ones that are severely frakked up, and they take 30 or more each.

    Bug 1: Spawn in point is littered with MU ships that do NOT stop spawning. Just had a run that we bailed after 40 minutes of time wasted. Literally hundreds of ships that we could not get through.

    Bug 2. The area is littered with Tyken's Rift and Gravity Wells...I mean 100 of the damn things! O.o

    Bug 3: Get close and a blackish, green cloud of I-don't-know-what spawns. This unknown thing covers the CE and most of the map. Nothing is targetable and you can't get out of it.

    1 quick and bug-less run out of 10 is really just ridiculous. I hope you fix this...not let the entire event go by like one of the last ones...that was bugged for all 4 days, no fix, and you basically told the playerbase: Tough luck, kiddies.

    I like a challenge as much as the next player, but some of what is happening is quite obviously bugged and needs addressing.
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  • lterlter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Just did it... Quite easy as always. Just stay at less than 1km of the entity all the time, and it wont harm you (you'll be immune to the powerful atack). Yeah shoot it with some aoe too, for the shards, like volleys or warp plasma and such, and that's all.

    Dont pay attention to the mobs, they dont do any damage (you all have your emergency power to shield 1, transfer shield strenghts and hazar emitters, right?)
  • ducklesworthducklesworth Member Posts: 131 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Our special Crystalline Entity event is now live! Before you jump in-game and participate daily to earn special rewards, read more for full details about the event.

    Special rewards for completing the event's project include: 50,000 Dilithium Ore, 500 Fleet Marks, 250 Marks of your choice (Fleet, Omega, Romulan or Nukara), and a special Very Rare Duty Officer!


    Click here to read more.

    I take back my previous criticisms, and apologize. This is awesome. Thanks, Cryptic. Good job on this one. I'm logging in on all 18 of my characters to bust this out :D
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