Never seen a bigger deal made out of such a nothing, I usually look forward to when someone throws one of those things up, it's a pleasant change from the normally "intellectually stimulating" chat conversations. :rolleyes:
If something is not broken, don't fix it, if it is broken, don't leave it broken.
How about a special space station that these items only work on, so dicoballers can all go get together and **** each other off.
I think it would be far easier for people to simply stop whining about it than trying to force Cryptic to make a whole new map. Especially after Cryptic already made a whole item just to stop people from being offended by other people's fun.
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I didn't ask to be President of the Balloon Enterprises! The Balloon Enterprises demanded it!
Especially after Cryptic already made a whole item just to stop people from being offended by other people's fun.
What you call fun, others call grieving. And the item is worthless. Don't even have to make a zone, can designation areas already in existence that are out of regular player use way.
Oh right you don't like that because without bothering others who don't like it, it defeats the purpose for people who like to Grieve others. Sorry your whole woe is me about your fun is just crocodile tears. Who is whining now?
I'm having a hard time grasping the continued rants/rages over this...
1. Due to the RPG portion of MMORPG, many people have "concepts", "personalities", etc. for their characters - and all looks/animations/etc. are usually (at least somewhat) under the player's control.
For example, my Vulcan, the usual "pillar of logic and stoicism" type, is not going to just "drop everything and boogie" if he's hanging out and someone pops a Disco Ball. This "forced imposition of action upon a character archtype" isn't exactly something that a player wants to have happen to them. Therefore, the "violation" threads (I'd say more akin to "telepathic / mental compulsion" type violation than what everyone else compares it to) aren't too far off base and we got the nullifier for it.
2. The remaining effects of the ball - the light show and the music - This is where my head begins to ache, how is a light show and/or "bad music" suddenly a violation akin to the mental compulsions destroying a character's archtype?
Granted, "society" as I've been exposed to it does not encourage dancing and parties at memorials to "honored people", I don't recall big parties being thrown weekly at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier / Arlington Cemetery / Paul Revere's Statue (though I've heard of it wearing various sports team sweaters during championship games) / Stalin's Tomb / Vietnam Wall memorial etc. etc.
Hence why, at these "usually somber" places, they've placed anti-disco ball fields. Those who wish to "grieve" the passing of the subjects in question can do so in the "generally accepted somber manner", they can spam dance emotes of their own when in range of these memorials if that is their inclination and/or method of honoring the people in question, but they cannot fire off party-grade light shows and musical soundtracks.
However, if someone wants to celebrate making a massive score on the exchange, or some nifty information they found in their in-game mail, I have no comprehension as to how, in light of the nullifiers, this is such a bad thing. Someone fires off ball, nullifier equipped "pillar of logic and stoicism" / "troll of trolls" / whatever stands there like a board (performing their usual game assigned but player chosen idle animations) and the rest party like it's 1979.
This is bad, how?
Detecting big-time "anti-old-school" bias here. NX? Lobi. TOS/TMP Connie? Super-promotion-box. (aka the two hardest ways to get ships) Excelsior & all 3 TNG "big hero" ships? C-Store. Please Equalize...
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
Could someone let me in on why this is even still an issue? It's already been fixed as far as I know, if you want to dance, have fun, if not, keep a subspace party nullifier in your inventory and it blocks the disco ball dance effects. Purchasable for only a few latinum and you only need 1.
If Cryptic had some guramba they would make it so every month the daily number of people affected by disco balls falls below a certain amount the last day of the month is declared galactic europop day, during which all BGM becomes different versions and remixes of the numa numa song on repeat, every PC and NPC is forced to don sunglasses and wear a random swimsuit, all animations are switched to dance steps on top of a hoverboard, and every starship model shows the crew having a deep space dance party on top of the disc.
Thread closed as 1) It's from 2013 when the party nullifier didn't exist and 2) the disco ball arguements are FCT.
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Never mind. Got one!
Rayzee
excellentawesome#4589
torgaddon101
raeat
I think it would be far easier for people to simply stop whining about it than trying to force Cryptic to make a whole new map. Especially after Cryptic already made a whole item just to stop people from being offended by other people's fun.
I didn't ask to be President of the Balloon Enterprises! The Balloon Enterprises demanded it!
What you call fun, others call grieving. And the item is worthless. Don't even have to make a zone, can designation areas already in existence that are out of regular player use way.
Oh right you don't like that because without bothering others who don't like it, it defeats the purpose for people who like to Grieve others. Sorry your whole woe is me about your fun is just crocodile tears. Who is whining now?
1. Due to the RPG portion of MMORPG, many people have "concepts", "personalities", etc. for their characters - and all looks/animations/etc. are usually (at least somewhat) under the player's control.
For example, my Vulcan, the usual "pillar of logic and stoicism" type, is not going to just "drop everything and boogie" if he's hanging out and someone pops a Disco Ball. This "forced imposition of action upon a character archtype" isn't exactly something that a player wants to have happen to them. Therefore, the "violation" threads (I'd say more akin to "telepathic / mental compulsion" type violation than what everyone else compares it to) aren't too far off base and we got the nullifier for it.
2. The remaining effects of the ball - the light show and the music - This is where my head begins to ache, how is a light show and/or "bad music" suddenly a violation akin to the mental compulsions destroying a character's archtype?
Granted, "society" as I've been exposed to it does not encourage dancing and parties at memorials to "honored people", I don't recall big parties being thrown weekly at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier / Arlington Cemetery / Paul Revere's Statue (though I've heard of it wearing various sports team sweaters during championship games) / Stalin's Tomb / Vietnam Wall memorial etc. etc.
Hence why, at these "usually somber" places, they've placed anti-disco ball fields. Those who wish to "grieve" the passing of the subjects in question can do so in the "generally accepted somber manner", they can spam dance emotes of their own when in range of these memorials if that is their inclination and/or method of honoring the people in question, but they cannot fire off party-grade light shows and musical soundtracks.
However, if someone wants to celebrate making a massive score on the exchange, or some nifty information they found in their in-game mail, I have no comprehension as to how, in light of the nullifiers, this is such a bad thing. Someone fires off ball, nullifier equipped "pillar of logic and stoicism" / "troll of trolls" / whatever stands there like a board (performing their usual game assigned but player chosen idle animations) and the rest party like it's 1979.
This is bad, how?
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
IMO, it may have been better if the devs had just told the complainers to get over it.
Rayzee
excellentawesome#4589
torgaddon101
raeat
Oh well. Sad day for you.
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