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So.....where's this choice of minigames for the Qmendations?
rtk142
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Seriously, it was said there'd be a couple different things for the daily grind we could do to get the Qmendations, and all I'm seeing is party patrol. The shell game and chasing the various things down don't really count as a choice in my book, seeing as they're random. This is what we've been complaining about since it was revealed there'd be a grind, and we were assured there'd be multiple things...and yet, there's only the one.
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Partypatrol IS the only thing to do... it's merely the outcome of whatever you do, that shifts between the hunt and the box...
Those ARE the different thing they spoke about.
But your opinion doesn't matter, only Cryptic's- and "chase the runner" vs "Q shell game" are indeed the two choices they've graciously...er..."given" us.
The biggest rampaging pseudo-debate now comes from people complaining that other people (like me) simply ignore the shell game and keep activating "Party Crashers" until we get a runner to chase since one can chase down 3 or 4 runners in the time it takes one !*$%&^%( shell game's boxes to shuffle themselves.
I do this unashamedly, and will say again what I've said before: Until the Devs send down word that this is considered griefing, I'll continue to exercise my choice between the "two minigames" in that way. They made the stinkin' mess, they can fix it, end of discussion so far as I'm concerned.
To everyone annoyed or offended by this behavior: Tell it to the devs and encourage them to fix the problem they created, or in other words "Tell somebody who gives a [REDACTED]. I don't, I'm busy trying to make lemonade out of this Tuffli-load of lemons the devs dumped on me."
As much as I dislike the behavior, I cannot find any fault with your logic. Well said.
The issue I have with the shell game (though I play it when it comes around for me) is the hundreds of other people in there make the zone laggy which breaks the game sometimes. I have had 2 presents stuck on top of each other, pick one, and other lag induced bugs from it. I do not normally lag but when they force tons of ppl into an area + npc actions and all, it does.
Nah not really true .... fastest way is activate 5 of these Shuffle Boxes at once .... Hit "B" and "guess"
So because you don't want to put up with a bad piece of content you make the situation worse for everyone else concerned? This is like taking the lifeboat and filling it with all your luggage and whatever else you could loot from the ship (to the tears of the children left on deck) because it isn't your fault that it's sinking.
Cryptic, to put it frankly, screwed up in making this event. But that is by no means a free license to jerk the rest of the population around. Even without Cryptic's word, you should know better.
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Honestly, the entire thing would be far more tolerable if it were made into groupable content, so you could team up with other players to do the quest, rather than having a multiplayer game where the existence of everyone else is purely a hindrance and rage-inducing.
Because let's face it: Right now, the only thing that other people do for you is increase your lag and load times, and generally get in your way. All of these are purely negative contributions to the game experience. You'd think the game would be designed to at least make other people a positive element.
The fanboys see it that way, yes. I consider it "encouraging the fanboys to prompt the developers to improve things."
Toe-may-toe, tuh-mah-toe.
Bull****, it's just griefing. Games all over have bad pieces of content but at no point throughout that continuum of TRIBBLE is there ANY justification for TRIBBLE over other players.
After all they're already frustrated by the situation. In this case there were a number of several hundred page threads complaining about the grind even before the 4th anniversary hit and a single present wash shuffled. The pressure on Cryptic has already been exerted and what we're left with now is the resolution to that argument. What you're doing is in no way constructive. It's simply antagonism, at best diverting attention away from this mess and onto the bad way you've chosen to handle it.
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Typical Generation Entitlement attitude, refusing to take accountability for their own actions. Always the fault of someone else for their own poor behavior. Ready made excuse to blame someone or something.
In your little world, maybe it is.
Until the Devs weigh in agreeing, though, it's not out here where the rest of us live. Sorry. Ask'em to throw you a bone?
And which "minigame" for getting the ships without paying is that? :rolleyes:
Or simply remove the present game. Even without the kids acting up, the event itself is still pretty badly structured. On the one hand you have an interminable shell game and on the other you have a quick and painless chase. With the choice between the two coming down to chance the effect (in terms of burning out of the grind or no) becomes an awful lot like Russian Roulette. Best just to unload the event and keep things festive (and in future ensure that mini-game alternatives are balanced against each other.)
You should be able to act like a reasonable adult in public without one telling you to. :rolleyes:
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Tell it to the Devs, I'm sure they'll move heaven and earth fixing the problem.
...like they did with today's patch. Oh wait... Apparently they seem to think this is about as problematic as Party Poppers and Subspace Party Amplifiers. But I'm sure they'll get right on it with the next patch.
Welcome to the fora.....and what a first post it was too.....it's as if you've been here forever.
Probably. I avoided the whole thing this year. Partly that comes from having more to do out of the game, but the change in structure for the Anniversary event left me sort of "meh" about doing the whole thing. While the upcoming 3-pack or -packs will require the Anniversary ship to get a full set bonus, that just means I won't bother with those either.
I'm actually just fine with my solution of not giving a [REDACTED] about this year's event, I highly recommend it :P
Actually a lifer from Beta.
If I understand things correctly they are...
1. Grind
2. Lobi
3. Barbarian sack of Cryptic HQ.
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oh yeah, mix present game is tricker for klingons, cant tell which a mini Q hide, and my other and my main, fed and rom were lot easy to spot mini Q, must be some bug when the presents often merged too close for klingon mini game, only choice to score was the chase.
i have seen lot of "Grief-play" at starfleet academy, by tagging mini Q and run off to tag next mini Q before other players need party updates. i even see chases were not either played, but abandoned too, just all griefing.
that kinda upset me as i want few updates to complete.
In English, there's a concept referred to as "context."
In the context of a thread about "this choice of minigames," non-minigame methods of obtaining the goodies aren't counted. If the thread were about "choice of ways to get the ships," things might be different but they're not- this thread is about minigames.
See how that works?
Uh, no, no it's not. You can rerun it like most any other mission and get the other loot.
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But rerunning that mission is independent of the qmendation scheme. There's loot, sure, and that may directly tie into the dyson ship but those additional playthroughs don't get you any closer to the big prize. That would have been a nice thing to see.
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The 3-piece set is a nice set - even without the 4th piece - and the Lobi EV Suit is fairly cool too.
Do as you wish. Just stay the hell out of my way when I'm heading for a Party Crasher
Agreed. If you look at the stats it is tailor made to fight Tholians (fire and radiation resistance, hold and knockback resistance). And you only need EV suits to fight those.
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Flames of Kossuth, protect me!
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Yeah...no.
It was touted as the big prize, after all this is the ship so wonderful they cant just give it away.
However, whats really happening is we're just being given the opportunity to beta test the technology prior to the cstore release.
It's a space set free for running the FE three times, not that much different to the Breen or the Jennie set in that regard.
Can't argue that it isn't a very decent set for a science set up.
But the space set's only connection to the execrable minigame is the fourth piece.
It's a nice enough warp core, but I do wonder what possible use is a 2 LY jump in sector space?
You're paying lobi for it, the hardest currency to get in the game. It damn well better be fairly cool.