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Dear Devs of Q's Party Patrol
jaguaro70
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Dear Devs,
Can you please see if you can do something about players who are at the Academy and activate the mini Q's and then run off when they don't get the ones that they have to chase. Maybe make it where if they activate Q then they are forced to participate with the one they activate. It makes it harder on the rest of us.
Can you please see if you can do something about players who are at the Academy and activate the mini Q's and then run off when they don't get the ones that they have to chase. Maybe make it where if they activate Q then they are forced to participate with the one they activate. It makes it harder on the rest of us.
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The people that run away from these are the people that couldn't follow their doctor's finger when getting an eye examination. :P
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I dont think its widespread yet.
It may not become so either, to be fair.
however, it could become problematic.
Yeah instead they bent over and spread 'em!
Not sure about KDF Academy, since it's small. All I can think of is a temporary population event cap.
But of course it's WAY easier to force players to do an un-fun thing than to just remove the un-fun thing.
Clearly the OP thinks like a Cryptic dev.
And the running version is more challenging? I could (and have) done it with my eyes closed.
A brain-dead monkey could do the running version. The present version requires you to pay attention and not be a mindless borg drone (which I think is why so many people hate it).
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Honestly, I don't think that there's a dev-worthy problem with player behavior here. If you find someone tickling the little Q's in an inappropriate way just swap instances. Chances are jerks aren't on most maps.
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1. Remove the annoying Walking NPC's (all the ones that don't give a quest or talk to) till the event is over of course.
2. Fix the Present Box Glitchy Lag.
3. Fix the sometimes not being able to talk to the mini-q and someone else comes barging in and takes the Q from you.
1. Cut shuffle time in half.
2. Make all boxes the same.
3. Have Q hide in a random one that is seen by the player.
4. Instead of having Q and the boxes pass constantly through each other, Q will remain in the box he hides in, and the boxes will shuffle in random patterns around one another. You know, like how a shuffle game ACTUALLY WORKS (minus cheap gimmicks that con people out of their money :P).
5. The shuffling will become increasingly fast, testing the player's ability to track the box Q is hiding in.
6. The player is teleported to a specific spot in front of the boxes and is locked in place during the event, and all other entities (to the player) are phased out to prevent trolling. (assuming the tech to to do this actually exists)
If you see too many present Q's being left alone, change channel, problem solved.
What fun about running mindlessly after a NPC and mashing the f key? I could train a mildly TRIBBLE bonobo to do that. Then, I suppose that's probably the skill set of many players given my experience in pugs.
I do agree however, the shuffling is a bit long. Sometimes I'll just read an article and then watch the last little bit of the mixing boxes.
simple answer then, remove the present game and make it a q chase alone. not many people are interested in waiting around for minutes waiting for one q puzzle to solve when you could of run 4 or perhaps 5 chase in that time.
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Note to Self. Use tiny mode while doing academy..... :cool:
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Both are as boring as each other and neither require any skill at all anyone who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves. Some people prefer one over the other, I would simply prefer to log on and enjoy playing something else other than this grind. Track the log in and reward those who log in instead of forcing people who want the ship to do the grind since devs have stated that events are used to drive up log ins.
I confess - I'm one of the players who does this. But I always make sure I'm in the lowest-pop instance first. And as I'm wandering around playing Whack-a-Q I often come across the shuffled present boxes I triggered earlier (mini-Q gives you fifteen seconds to guess where he is) and I pick a box at random, finding him a bit more often than the expected one out of three tries. I find this method to be quite a time saver - I finish up in about two and a half minutes per character this way.
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Until this happens, I refuse to do the buggy shell game....
I find that I can usually kick off two present games and run a chase mission and be back to the first then the second to see Mini-Q's last movement, netting me 3 of 5 within a minute or two. Not always but more often than not.
Running this on 6 characters is annoying (I can't imagine the guys running 12+ toons) and anything I can do to speed it up I'm for.
Mind, I've been playing on low population instances at hours not a lot of people are on, and so am less of a nuisance than some.
At least I haven't run across jerks trying to interfere when I'm doing the game. (Not counting the NPCs who are constantly walking through the boxes.)
Sometimes I think MMOs would be tonnes more enjoyable without the second M. V.V
Yesterday I decided to activate, if the boxes came up, run to another one, up to 3 if they are all boxes, after the third one, run back to the first and catch the tail end of the swapping, pick a box and go to the second, etc, if applicable. Its far more entertaining.
Why are we sitting there for 3x as long watching boxes when only the last 5s means anything for the same reward? Any possibly no reward if a bunch of NPCs decide to roam through your area right at the end.
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