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Slipstream interrupted

admiralmedea1admiralmedea1 Member Posts: 38 Arc User
edited May 2014 in Federation Discussion
I am sick of these "sector blocks" they interrupt the slipstream. It stops u at the border, if not the slip would last a little longer. Which makes the Slip pretty useless. It's not like your going through a wormhole or something like that. I don't even know where the neutral zone is, the galaxy map doesn't really show that the same way it would on the show.
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  • UnknownUnknown
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  • peetapipmacpeetapipmac Member Posts: 2,131 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Before legacy of romulus it used to continue when you crossed the sector border. I wish they would bring that back.
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  • zeratkzeratk Member Posts: 409
    edited April 2014
    peetapipmac wrote: »
    Before legacy of romulus it used to continue when you crossed the sector border. I wish they would bring that back.

    Yeah.

    Just another example of "how can we keep players online longer, without doing anything at all InGame".:rolleyes:
    This is Crypticverse... :mad:
  • kamiyama317kamiyama317 Member Posts: 1,295 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    When did they revamp ESD? I've been playing on and off for years and I don't see anything different.
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2014
    kamiyama317 wrote: »
    When did they revamp ESD? I've been playing on and off for years and I don't see anything different.

    It's on tribble, and will be released with series 9 soon.

    Also art devs have zero to do with sector blocks.
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  • cuatelacuatela Member Posts: 296 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    capnkirk4 wrote: »
    Yeah, well a long time ago Cryptic promised to get rid of "sector blocks", and make sector space into one big map. Instead, they decided to revamp ESD.

    You're partially right. Stahl said they wanted to do it, but they didn't have the tech for it (servers couldn't handle that much load). He said they would do it IF they ever found a way to do it.

    kamiyama317 wrote: »
    When did they revamp ESD? I've been playing on and off for years and I don't see anything different.

    They revamped the exterior for the First year anniversary, and spruced up the interior at the same time. They're currently in the process of completely replacing the interior for Season 9.

  • blassreiterusblassreiterus Member Posts: 1,294 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    capnkirk4 wrote: »
    Yeah, well a long time ago Cryptic promised to get rid of "sector blocks", and make sector space into one big map. Instead, they decided to revamp ESD.
    Did Cryptic give an exact time as to when they would get around to "getting rid of sector blocks"? If they did give an exact time, then yes, they'd have broken their promise, if they didn't give an exact time, then no, they didn't break the promise. So, your assumption that they didn't fulfill the promise on your time table doesn't mean anything, really.
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  • jeffel82jeffel82 Member Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    blassreiterus wrote: »
    Did Cryptic give an exact time as to when they would get around to "getting rid of sector blocks"? If they did give an exact time, then yes, they'd have broken their promise, if they didn't give an exact time, then no, they didn't break the promise. So, your assumption that they didn't fulfill the promise on your time table doesn't mean anything, really.

    They never made a promise at all. They said it was "under investigation" for a long time, and eventually admitted that they couldn't make it work. That's the end of the discussion for now.

    As for the OP, I was pleasantly surprised on Tribble recently to see that my slipstream sustained across map transfers. So assuming it wasn't a bug, we should see this functionality return soon. :)
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2014
    capnkirk4 wrote: »
    *Facepalm*

    Art Devs get their instructions from the Executive team. The Executives are the ones responsible for the overall production of the game. What get's fixed, and what doesn't. Imagine your house needs a new roof, because it's leaking, badly. You have enough money to do this, but you also never liked the color of your house and want to paint it some other color, which would cost the same amount of money as a new roof. Which is the smarter choice?

    I honestly don't care how the staffing allocation works at Cryptic, but I do know that when you run a business, you have to be able to either reassign people to get the jobs that you need done, or you cut people, in order to make room to hire the talent you need at the moment. It's that simple. I'm positive that something more productive could be found for the art devs to do, other than revamping stuff that isn't a priority right now.

    Seriously, if you want to come rushing to Cryptic's defense whenever these subjects are brought up, you really need to find some new excuses for them, because these oldie moldies are really getting played out, at this point.

    Meah, don't like it bring it up with them.
    Point is at this moment there are lots of art devs on the payroll not utilising them is a waste of money.
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  • saeynsaeyn Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    It was nice when the slipstream continued IF the game pointed you in the right direction when you entered a sector block. It seems like sometimes the game points you at a 90 degree angle to how you entered the block, so the slipstream will carry you the wroooooong way until you close it out anyhow. Kind of irritating.
  • drasymdrasym Member Posts: 36 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Was on my vesta on tribble server a few days ago and made it completely through 3 sectors on one slipstream drive... Only possible because of the vesta's 4x turn rate while in slipstream but seems to work reliably from sector to sector on tribble now. Hoping that will translate to holodeck when Season 9 starts as well.
  • mandoknight89mandoknight89 Member Posts: 1,687 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    capnkirk4 wrote: »
    Art Devs get their instructions from the Executive team. The Executives are the ones responsible for the overall production of the game. What get's fixed, and what doesn't. Imagine your house needs a new roof, because it's leaking, badly. You have enough money to do this, but you also never liked the color of your house and want to paint it some other color, which would cost the same amount of money as a new roof. Which is the smarter choice?

    A better analogy would be removing all the interior walls from the house so you can run wherever you want.

    Except that the part of the crew with the know-how to do that without making your house fall on top of you is currently busy building new additions to the house. Meanwhile, you let the interior decorators (who are already being paid for their time) spruce up your kitchen while they wait for the addition to be ready for them to decorate.
  • coolheadalcoolheadal Member Posts: 1,253 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Sol Sector can't get to one sector without being asked did you want to warp to delta bla, bla. No I didn't ask to go there.
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  • dragonsbrethrendragonsbrethren Member Posts: 1,854 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Slipstream currently continues across sector blocks on Tribble, it's likely returning in season 9.
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  • daqheghdaqhegh Member Posts: 1,490 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    peetapipmac wrote: »
    Before legacy of romulus it used to continue when you crossed the sector border. I wish they would bring that back.

    I remember that. I don't know why it was removed. They could also restart the cooldown when crossing over or something.
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  • zeratkzeratk Member Posts: 409
    edited May 2014
    drasym wrote: »
    Was on my vesta on tribble server a few days ago and made it completely through 3 sectors on one slipstream drive... Only possible because of the vesta's 4x turn rate while in slipstream but seems to work reliably from sector to sector on tribble now. Hoping that will translate to holodeck when Season 9 starts as well.
    dragonsbrethren wrote: »
    Slipstream currently continues across sector blocks on Tribble, it's likely returning in season 9.

    Obviously not! It is like i said on page 1, it is all about keeping people online and busy with anything.
    This is Crypticverse... :mad:
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