Glad all of your ships are so built that you can solo the event on all of your toons. Not so for everyone.
i don't solo it i just ignore the MU ships along with some other players and pulled the crystal away from the rifts
(STO)
Matriarch of Banished Orion Girls. Neela D'tan @captaintpol (with many alts)
May we sail and have fun always and forever. LLAP
(PC version NW)
Arwen@captaintpol TR - Tully's of RiverRun
Mai Kelly DC-Tully's of RiverRun
Neela BumKisses HR-
Arya Stark GF-
Sansa Stark CW- Team Fencebane
Crystal Marie OP-
(xbox version NW)
Arwen@Admiral Jazdia TR- Team Fenebane
Mai Kelly DC- " "
Ahsoka Tano CW- " "
Neela BumKisser HR- " "
lol just ran another one. oh man. Tykens rifts, enemy gravity wells and MU ships. everywhere. We also started off with that nebula static only this time the shields were up (phew) then it ended in a dark green haze O.o . I could not switch targets because nothing was targettable. So I just plowed on against the entity. completed that one just fine but man, its weird
i don't solo it i just ignore the MU ships along with some other players and pulled the crystal away from the rifts
Yeah thats kinda what we just did in this one, only the MU ships started converging on the spawn point. Only those that could cloak could survive in my scimitar complete with 3 consoles, I had no trouble with this but oh man is it taking time to finish.
Won't be running this one again.. Tried 8 pugs, all fail... 100+ mirror ships at spawn point PLUS each Rift had 4 groups.. If this is required to participate in the "new" rep system, guess I'll be a non participant. I know there will be those of you that think Cryptic/PWE can do no wrong, as you wish. This, IMHO, is one of their worst revamps in my 1,000+ days.. No thanks for the CE fiasco..
So, am I to understand that no player under level 50 is allowed to play the CE event?
Why is that? I'm at a level 42 Rear Admiral-Lower, and I can't play the CE event?
That's bull TRIBBLE!
That's less than 1 day away. Plenty of time to finish the run.
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
lol nice pic. I took a screenshot with the UI just to show that you can't even see the Crystal Entity because there was so much on the screen it blotted it out
Are you limited to 1 shard per day? I have done the event twice but only gotten 1 shard.
once every 20 hours
(STO)
Matriarch of Banished Orion Girls. Neela D'tan @captaintpol (with many alts)
May we sail and have fun always and forever. LLAP
(PC version NW)
Arwen@captaintpol TR - Tully's of RiverRun
Mai Kelly DC-Tully's of RiverRun
Neela BumKisses HR-
Arya Stark GF-
Sansa Stark CW- Team Fencebane
Crystal Marie OP-
(xbox version NW)
Arwen@Admiral Jazdia TR- Team Fenebane
Mai Kelly DC- " "
Ahsoka Tano CW- " "
Neela BumKisser HR- " "
(STO)
Matriarch of Banished Orion Girls. Neela D'tan @captaintpol (with many alts)
May we sail and have fun always and forever. LLAP
(PC version NW)
Arwen@captaintpol TR - Tully's of RiverRun
Mai Kelly DC-Tully's of RiverRun
Neela BumKisses HR-
Arya Stark GF-
Sansa Stark CW- Team Fencebane
Crystal Marie OP-
(xbox version NW)
Arwen@Admiral Jazdia TR- Team Fenebane
Mai Kelly DC- " "
Ahsoka Tano CW- " "
Neela BumKisser HR- " "
This event is awful. Who had this worst idea of amping the thing up until NORMAL feels harder than ELITE used to be?
Cryptic... just what was someone thinking!?! This is undoable unless the WHOLE team has the best mark XII fleet-reputation equipment. Even than it is a pain that makes the Elite Into the hive pale in comparison!
A hundred terran ships, giant disabling ruptures that you can't even full impulse out of , this is the worst instance this game ever had.
Just one mirror battleship has shields like an elite cube. Or better. Just... did anybody even playtest this?
Let us wear Swimsuits on Foundry maps or bridges please! I would pay zen for that.
This event is awful. Who had this worst idea of amping the thing up until NORMAL feels harder than ELITE used to be?
Cryptic... just what was someone thinking!?! This is undoable unless the WHOLE team has the best mark XII fleet-reputation equipment. Even than it is a pain that makes the Elite Into the hive pale in comparison!
A hundred terran ships, giant disabling ruptures that you can't even full impulse out of , this is the worst instance this game ever had.
Just one mirror battleship has shields like an elite cube. Or better. Just... did anybody even playtest this?
it is not undoable and you don't need the best fleet mk XII gear to beat it
(STO)
Matriarch of Banished Orion Girls. Neela D'tan @captaintpol (with many alts)
May we sail and have fun always and forever. LLAP
(PC version NW)
Arwen@captaintpol TR - Tully's of RiverRun
Mai Kelly DC-Tully's of RiverRun
Neela BumKisses HR-
Arya Stark GF-
Sansa Stark CW- Team Fencebane
Crystal Marie OP-
(xbox version NW)
Arwen@Admiral Jazdia TR- Team Fenebane
Mai Kelly DC- " "
Ahsoka Tano CW- " "
Neela BumKisser HR- " "
I realy like this event and enjoyed playing it last time with my fed and kdf, now I get to play it with my rommie.
I only wish the event was running for 28 days instead of just 21, I have cued the new project with the doff prize with all my characters but my rom was also able to cue the previous event with the shard pet prize.
If the event was running for 28 days I would be able to compete both these projects and that would bring my rom up in line with my others.
as it is I will have to do half of one project and hope the event is repeated in the future so I can finish it then.
dear Brandon, I see in an earlier post from you -
Quote:
Originally Posted by bberge1701 View Post
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 old project is not available any longer. We may consider making a new way to obtain the Shard pet in the future. Please see the linked news post for information pertaining to players who already had it queued up, and information about the new project.
just to let you know the old project is available or at least it was on Tuesday when I cued it with my rom.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
i just ignore the MU ships and hit the crystal til it goes to next phase, then end of the rifts
Right. You can totally ignore 300 ships that are all between you and the CE. And there are 20-30 ships hanging out by the CE. And the CE itself is surrounded by shards. And the shards start attacking you when you're 20k out.
Oh, and it should also be noted, if the CE starts with transdimensional rifts, it doesn't move to the next phase. It just stays on rifts. But it's nice to know you're so epic you can somehow get through 300+ ships (that respawn as fast as you're killing them, if not faster) and kill the CE.
It is said the best weapon is one that is never fired. I disagree. The best weapon is one you only have to fire... once.
it is not undoable and you don't need the best fleet mk XII gear to beat it
Not if it spawns the mirror ones. otherwise its doable, but when the Mirror ones hit, your only option is to quit (if they did not camp the spawnpoint yet, than you hve to just log out and cant do anything else) and hope to find one without them.
The subspace rifts are only a problem if spawned with terrans. Without terrans, they are not game-breaking.
Let us wear Swimsuits on Foundry maps or bridges please! I would pay zen for that.
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
lol thats nothing try going against 100+ mirrior ships 100+ tholians and the CE that one run alone took out all our ships in under 5 seconds man i never seen so many multi colored beams coming at me >_<
I have to revise my earlier opinion of the event after running on 25 characters with a variety of builds - go under or over the initial spawn and start attacking the entity spam your heals to keep your resists up , I generally have preferred to be about 5 km out above the entity then drop. mine pattern or tractor beam repulse the shards away if they get close and use torp spread and csv or bfaw and become a big stationary turret seems to work. I turned a engy char in an armitage into a photon spamming turret with multiple photon launchers and turrets in the back that also worked well with the runabouts on escort duty against the shards. 10 more characters to go later tonite so see ya all in game.
I have to revise my earlier opinion of the event after running on 25 characters with a variety of builds - go under or over the initial spawn and start attacking the entity spam your heals to keep your resists up , I generally have preferred to be about 5 km out above the entity then drop. mine pattern or tractor beam repulse the shards away if they get close and use torp spread and csv or bfaw and become a big stationary turret seems to work. I turned a engy char in an armitage into a photon spamming turret with multiple photon launchers and turrets in the back that also worked well with the runabouts on escort duty against the shards. 10 more characters to go later tonite so see ya all in game.
I would say rapid fire, beam overload and high yield are even better for the entity, unless you get the shard spam on you.
Let us wear Swimsuits on Foundry maps or bridges please! I would pay zen for that.
Vesta... 2 photon torps, one Hargh'peng, one cutting beam, 2 photon consoles. (all rare XIs) Parked at 9.8km. Got first place! Am I good or did everyone else suck? :rolleyes:
Sometimes I think I play STO just to have something to complain about on the forums.
Vesta... 2 photon torps, one Hargh'peng, one cutting beam, 2 photon consoles. (all rare XIs) Parked at 9.8km. Got first place! Am I good or did everyone else suck? :rolleyes:
haha nice. I must say, all my scimitar captains did extremely well, placing 1st or 2nd.
I have run this event on all 12 characters, however on one, so many ships had spawned that even on this 4Ghz quad core machine, the entire zone froze for about 8 seconds upon entry. I ended up quitting that one, i'll run it again on that character another time
The static on the screen is giving me a headache and all the shaking is making me want to throw up =-(
I turned off the rumble effect but the screen still shakes. I tried putting video settings down to minimum but that didn't lessen it either. Is there anything else I can do?
All right, I posted it another thread too, but lets show it here too, after 3 hours and 16 runs :
Most of these characters have either Mark XII Maco, Adapted maco/Honour guard OR mark XI borg sets , mark XI purple consoles, and Fleet advanced weapons, with Tier 5 omega and romulan rep powers.
Some may have kinetic cutter beam, plasmonic leech, assimilated console or romulan set console.
Federation tac - fleet patrol escort with dual heavy cannons and turrets, romulan torpedo.
Federation tac - breen crusier with dual heavy cannons and turrets, romulan torpedo.
Federation tac - breen cruiser with dual heavy cannons and turrets, romulan and omega torpedo.
Federation tac - Defiant with dual heavy cannons and turrets, dual beam bank.
Federation eng - fleet excelsior with dual beam banks and turrets, romulan torpedo.
Federation sci - armitage escort with dual heavy cannons and turrets, tricobalt torpedo, dual beam bank.
Federation sci - breen cruiser with dual heavy cannons and turrets, romulan and omega torpedo.
Romulan tac - fleet Mogai with dual heavy cannons and turrets , romulan torp.
Romulan tac - fleet T'varo with dual heavy cannons and turrets , romulan torp and omega torp.
Romulan tac - Scimitar with dual heavy cannons and turrets , romulan torp.
Romulan eng - Deridex with dual heavy cannons and turrets , romulan torp.
Klingon tac - breen cruiser with dual heavy cannons and turrets romulan torp .
Klingon tac - bortas science cruiser with dual heavy cannons and turrets, romulan torp .
Klingon tac - bortas science cruiser with dual cannons and turrets, romulan torp .
Klingon eng - bortas science cruiser with dual cannons and turrets, romulan torp.
Klingon Sci - Vu'qov with Birds of prey, dual beam banks, turrets, romulan torp.
Now my Klingon carrier science is perhaps the weakest one, with only the lame Aegis set.
With it, I managed to steamroll ISE with a normal team : Here is a dps counter log that a team mate used. I blanked out the team mates names as X for privacy's sake.
With this being of my weaker characters, I should be able to do Normal CE without problems. I used to be able to do elite with 1-2 deaths too (critical hits from CE on characters that are designed to resist plasma, not AP, shard spam or just me being dumb and not noticing the big shockwave buildup) .
The problem is the Mirro ships. Otherwise the event was easy, if the mirrors did not show up.
So please, do something with the Normal terran ships Cryptic. Its bad enough to wipe the floor with people who used to be able to do elite CE without much problem, and wipe the floor with ISE.
EDIT : the problem is the Mirror ships in Normal. I'm talking normal, not Elite Ce here. They can take damage that would destroy cubes in Elite STfs, and they come by the dozens.
Let us wear Swimsuits on Foundry maps or bridges please! I would pay zen for that.
I would say rapid fire, beam overload and high yield are even better for the entity, unless you get the shard spam on you.
that works also but I like the aoe especially with torp spread as it helps the team by clearing out any shard spam around the entity. I find that apb or Apd is also a nice debuff on the massive amount of spam the CE is throwing out now.
Regarding people having trouble with Mirror Universe Ships:
In a slight variation of the Undine statement:
"For the player base to advance the weak must perish." Or rather adapt. After a few tries everyone will be able to do it. These "impossible" statements after one-two tries are just feeble.
Remember when they were revising the CE, one of the things they did was reduced the number of shards because the CE turned invisible due to video problems. And what they do? They add tons of NPC ships (which are on top of tons of player ships and fighters), and then add a environmental hazards as darkness clouds, radar jamming, gravity wells, and tyken spam. Which freaks people's video cards to death.
Whomever is the one responsible in calling this "fun", thanks. /sacrasm
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for challenging scenarios. But this isn't challenging, it's just stupid.
Flooding a map with so much spam that I either get kicked from the server from the lag, or have to struggle along through 30 second latency (or worse) isn't fun. It's an excercise in pointless frustration.
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i don't solo it i just ignore the MU ships along with some other players and pulled the crystal away from the rifts
Matriarch of Banished Orion Girls. Neela D'tan
@captaintpol (with many alts)
May we sail and have fun always and forever. LLAP
(PC version NW)
Arwen@captaintpol TR - Tully's of RiverRun
Mai Kelly DC-Tully's of RiverRun
Neela BumKisses HR-
Arya Stark GF-
Sansa Stark CW- Team Fencebane
Crystal Marie OP-
(xbox version NW)
Arwen@Admiral Jazdia TR- Team Fenebane
Mai Kelly DC- " "
Ahsoka Tano CW- " "
Neela BumKisser HR- " "
Yeah thats kinda what we just did in this one, only the MU ships started converging on the spawn point. Only those that could cloak could survive
That's less than 1 day away. Plenty of time to finish the run.
Rofl nice
Once every 20 hours
My PvE/PvP hybrid skill tree
once every 20 hours
Matriarch of Banished Orion Girls. Neela D'tan
@captaintpol (with many alts)
May we sail and have fun always and forever. LLAP
(PC version NW)
Arwen@captaintpol TR - Tully's of RiverRun
Mai Kelly DC-Tully's of RiverRun
Neela BumKisses HR-
Arya Stark GF-
Sansa Stark CW- Team Fencebane
Crystal Marie OP-
(xbox version NW)
Arwen@Admiral Jazdia TR- Team Fenebane
Mai Kelly DC- " "
Ahsoka Tano CW- " "
Neela BumKisser HR- " "
hahaha jinx lol
Matriarch of Banished Orion Girls. Neela D'tan
@captaintpol (with many alts)
May we sail and have fun always and forever. LLAP
(PC version NW)
Arwen@captaintpol TR - Tully's of RiverRun
Mai Kelly DC-Tully's of RiverRun
Neela BumKisses HR-
Arya Stark GF-
Sansa Stark CW- Team Fencebane
Crystal Marie OP-
(xbox version NW)
Arwen@Admiral Jazdia TR- Team Fenebane
Mai Kelly DC- " "
Ahsoka Tano CW- " "
Neela BumKisser HR- " "
Cryptic... just what was someone thinking!?! This is undoable unless the WHOLE team has the best mark XII fleet-reputation equipment. Even than it is a pain that makes the Elite Into the hive pale in comparison!
A hundred terran ships, giant disabling ruptures that you can't even full impulse out of , this is the worst instance this game ever had.
Just one mirror battleship has shields like an elite cube. Or better. Just... did anybody even playtest this?
it is not undoable and you don't need the best fleet mk XII gear to beat it
Matriarch of Banished Orion Girls. Neela D'tan
@captaintpol (with many alts)
May we sail and have fun always and forever. LLAP
(PC version NW)
Arwen@captaintpol TR - Tully's of RiverRun
Mai Kelly DC-Tully's of RiverRun
Neela BumKisses HR-
Arya Stark GF-
Sansa Stark CW- Team Fencebane
Crystal Marie OP-
(xbox version NW)
Arwen@Admiral Jazdia TR- Team Fenebane
Mai Kelly DC- " "
Ahsoka Tano CW- " "
Neela BumKisser HR- " "
I only wish the event was running for 28 days instead of just 21, I have cued the new project with the doff prize with all my characters but my rom was also able to cue the previous event with the shard pet prize.
If the event was running for 28 days I would be able to compete both these projects and that would bring my rom up in line with my others.
as it is I will have to do half of one project and hope the event is repeated in the future so I can finish it then.
dear Brandon, I see in an earlier post from you -
Quote:
Originally Posted by bberge1701 View Post
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 old project is not available any longer. We may consider making a new way to obtain the Shard pet in the future. Please see the linked news post for information pertaining to players who already had it queued up, and information about the new project.
just to let you know the old project is available or at least it was on Tuesday when I cued it with my rom.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
Right. You can totally ignore 300 ships that are all between you and the CE. And there are 20-30 ships hanging out by the CE. And the CE itself is surrounded by shards. And the shards start attacking you when you're 20k out.
Oh, and it should also be noted, if the CE starts with transdimensional rifts, it doesn't move to the next phase. It just stays on rifts. But it's nice to know you're so epic you can somehow get through 300+ ships (that respawn as fast as you're killing them, if not faster) and kill the CE.
Not if it spawns the mirror ones. otherwise its doable, but when the Mirror ones hit, your only option is to quit (if they did not camp the spawnpoint yet, than you hve to just log out and cant do anything else) and hope to find one without them.
The subspace rifts are only a problem if spawned with terrans. Without terrans, they are not game-breaking.
lol thats nothing try going against 100+ mirrior ships 100+ tholians and the CE that one run alone took out all our ships in under 5 seconds man i never seen so many multi colored beams coming at me >_<
I would say rapid fire, beam overload and high yield are even better for the entity, unless you get the shard spam on you.
haha nice. I must say, all my scimitar captains did extremely well, placing 1st or 2nd.
I have run this event on all 12 characters, however on one, so many ships had spawned that even on this 4Ghz quad core machine, the entire zone froze for about 8 seconds upon entry. I ended up quitting that one, i'll run it again on that character another time
The static on the screen is giving me a headache and all the shaking is making me want to throw up =-(
I turned off the rumble effect but the screen still shakes. I tried putting video settings down to minimum but that didn't lessen it either. Is there anything else I can do?
Most of these characters have either Mark XII Maco, Adapted maco/Honour guard OR mark XI borg sets , mark XI purple consoles, and Fleet advanced weapons, with Tier 5 omega and romulan rep powers.
Some may have kinetic cutter beam, plasmonic leech, assimilated console or romulan set console.
Federation tac - fleet patrol escort with dual heavy cannons and turrets, romulan torpedo.
Federation tac - breen crusier with dual heavy cannons and turrets, romulan torpedo.
Federation tac - breen cruiser with dual heavy cannons and turrets, romulan and omega torpedo.
Federation tac - Defiant with dual heavy cannons and turrets, dual beam bank.
Federation eng - fleet excelsior with dual beam banks and turrets, romulan torpedo.
Federation sci - armitage escort with dual heavy cannons and turrets, tricobalt torpedo, dual beam bank.
Federation sci - breen cruiser with dual heavy cannons and turrets, romulan and omega torpedo.
Romulan tac - fleet Mogai with dual heavy cannons and turrets , romulan torp.
Romulan tac - fleet T'varo with dual heavy cannons and turrets , romulan torp and omega torp.
Romulan tac - Scimitar with dual heavy cannons and turrets , romulan torp.
Romulan eng - Deridex with dual heavy cannons and turrets , romulan torp.
Klingon tac - breen cruiser with dual heavy cannons and turrets romulan torp .
Klingon tac - bortas science cruiser with dual heavy cannons and turrets, romulan torp .
Klingon tac - bortas science cruiser with dual cannons and turrets, romulan torp .
Klingon eng - bortas science cruiser with dual cannons and turrets, romulan torp.
Klingon Sci - Vu'qov with Birds of prey, dual beam banks, turrets, romulan torp.
Now my Klingon carrier science is perhaps the weakest one, with only the lame Aegis set.
With it, I managed to steamroll ISE with a normal team : Here is a dps counter log that a team mate used. I blanked out the team mates names as X for privacy's sake.
CombatLogReader?Infected Space[7:38]?Damage(DPS) X1 5,421,189 (14,341) X2 (7,759) ME 2,536,629 (7,125) X3 1,848,117 (5,295) X4 320,089 (1,099)
With this being of my weaker characters, I should be able to do Normal CE without problems. I used to be able to do elite with 1-2 deaths too (critical hits from CE on characters that are designed to resist plasma, not AP, shard spam or just me being dumb and not noticing the big shockwave buildup) .
The problem is the Mirro ships. Otherwise the event was easy, if the mirrors did not show up.
So please, do something with the Normal terran ships Cryptic. Its bad enough to wipe the floor with people who used to be able to do elite CE without much problem, and wipe the floor with ISE.
EDIT : the problem is the Mirror ships in Normal. I'm talking normal, not Elite Ce here. They can take damage that would destroy cubes in Elite STfs, and they come by the dozens.
that works also but I like the aoe especially with torp spread as it helps the team by clearing out any shard spam around the entity. I find that apb or Apd is also a nice debuff on the massive amount of spam the CE is throwing out now.
In a slight variation of the Undine statement:
"For the player base to advance the weak must perish." Or rather adapt. After a few tries everyone will be able to do it. These "impossible" statements after one-two tries are just feeble.
Remember when they were revising the CE, one of the things they did was reduced the number of shards because the CE turned invisible due to video problems. And what they do? They add tons of NPC ships (which are on top of tons of player ships and fighters), and then add a environmental hazards as darkness clouds, radar jamming, gravity wells, and tyken spam. Which freaks people's video cards to death.
Whomever is the one responsible in calling this "fun", thanks. /sacrasm
Flooding a map with so much spam that I either get kicked from the server from the lag, or have to struggle along through 30 second latency (or worse) isn't fun. It's an excercise in pointless frustration.