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Winter Invasion - Present -- Are you serious?

soundwisdomsoundwisdom Member Posts: 248 Arc User
edited December 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Are you serious?

Yes, my tone is completely intentional. A winter event focused around obviously, Christmas, which coincidentaly is about giving and not receiving; etc. You place a key item(to the event, that's part of an accolade, and is going for decent amount on the exchange), that only one person can get per run, and can only be recieved by 'outracing' everyone else to it.

All anyone is doing is sprinting past all the mobs to make sure to get it(for their use or to sell it) then a lot of people just afk till other people finish the instance.

Just ...what...were...you...thinking...

Recommendations: Don't do another event with that gimmick. Secondly just add the present 'drops' to the end reward, or let everyone click it, OR one person click it and one person in the group gets it(still sucks but better).

I'm just really disapointed in this design philosophy.

Comments

  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Obviously you don't know the difference between a bug and WAI or Working as Intended.
  • tinkerstormtinkerstorm Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    This is nothing compared to the first anniversary. In fact, compared to the first anniversary debacle, the winter event is highly polished and perfect.
  • hiveman5hiveman5 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I agree, but I find it a minor nuisance, plus wait a week or so and those recipes will be next to worthless, and people will have all the holiday items they need or want therefore reducing the value of the 'hidden present'. Of course some people are gonna race and get it because they can, but in all honesty there's more important things in life to 'worry about'. I pick my battle and frankly this isn't one of them. Besides the event awards seem to partially tier on participation of bonus objectives least I've noticed, so that means more goodies for me and less for those 'greedy' people. B)
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  • captrott1captrott1 Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Actually sounds like Christmas to me. Have you ever gone to Black Friday after Thanksgiving for Christmas shopping. lol. ;)
  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Two things:

    1.) It's currently working as intended, which really isn't in the spirit of the holidays. The message is kinda screwy, leading people to think they've found something when they haven't. (i.e. A found the present, but B gets a message saying B found it, but B doesn't see anything in his inventory)

    or...

    2.) It's currently NOT working as intended. Maybe everyone is supposed to get something when the present is found?
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  • borgus1122borgus1122 Member Posts: 243 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    The running for glossy pictures is for me bad idea. I tried to outrun whatever I'm running from. But Never got to outrun it. I think it's to hard. If I run fast i get out of the track, if i run with normal speed, I'm to slow.It would be better if they put glossy pictures as reward for finishing Christmas invasion.
  • soundwisdomsoundwisdom Member Posts: 248 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    starkaos wrote: »
    Obviously you don't know the difference between a bug and WAI or Working as Intended.

    Link to the report saying it's not working as intended? Yea...didn't think so.
  • hiveman5hiveman5 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    borgus1122 wrote: »
    The running for glossy pictures is for me bad idea. I tried to outrun whatever I'm running from. But Never got to outrun it. I think it's to hard. If I run fast i get out off the track, if i run with normal speed, I'm to slow.It would be better if they put glossy pictures as reward for finishing Christmas invasion.

    Here's a tip... Sprint the long straighter stretches of track and walk the sharp corners. If your getting near the edge, hit 'Space' to Jump, or rollover in the direction you want to go to avoid getting of the track as it will stop you from sliding. (roll by taping the W,A,S, or D key twice in quick succession.) If you still lose, at least you can keep trying until you do win. its not a one shot pop. Gotta watch those Breen in particular. They love to 'cheat'! XD
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited December 2013
    soundwisdom wrote: »
    Link to the report saying it's not working as intended? Yea...didn't think so.

    Here are 2 :)

    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=13925181#post13925181
    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=944611 (see title)

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
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