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Shuttle Weekend Event (5/29 10AM PDT - 6/2 10AM PDT)
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Quick captains, it's almost time to jump into your favorite shuttle and get to the frontlines! For a limited time only, we're hosting the Shuttle Weekend Event. From Thursday May 29th at 10AM PDT to Monday June 2nd at 10AM PDT, swarm your enemies in these small crafts! For more details about the events and the new restructured missions, read more here.
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Nice try anyways though Cryptic.
This event would be a great opportunity to release some new KDF C-Store small craft. It's not like there's no existing models to use... (Slaver, Interceptor, S'Kul, Marauder Shuttle). I mean, there's only To'Duj, while the FEDs have a bunch of smallcraft to choose from.
But I guess KDF cannot get anything unless FEDs get it as well... *sigh*
Hope everyone else has fun, though!
Pretty much at the very least what they could do is offer up the KDF since they don't want to make more orion, gorn, nausicaan, etc ships they should atleast have some in the form of shuttles/fighters to flesh it evenly and give the romulan/remans a playable drone ship (would be fun to see the mechanics of that where you can remotely fly one of those
Pretty much only available KDF is the To'Duj, copy and paste generals chariot, and the time shuttle + (those other lobi ones that allow kdf to purchase). Overall though I do not think KDF was included in this due to the fact of lack of shuttle/fighters and the fact that they should have released the fleet alert/nws/etc as cross faction to begin with. To randomly put a Klingon Starbase in if there was a KDF player in a group or whatever.
I can see it now the gre'thor promotion buy the gre'thor pack and become a dishonored undead klingon warrior and fly S'kul fighters into your Empire's enemies killing yourself over and over again and then go back to gre'thor when the battle is done. Interceptor and Slaver would be fun too though I kinda distanced myself from playing non-klingons due to the fact if we do get anything for the KDF it won't theme well for non-klingons so they kinda have just became very well geared out doffing characters.
I almost forgot they do not like making money so we shouldn't ask for anything for the KDF...
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Shuttle events huh.. how about we don't and say we did.
I think the point is, it already takes too long waiting for the normal sized queues on the KDF side. 20 people? Just don't see it happening. Although it would be nice to get the fleet marks.
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If I understood it right, that's kinda the problem. Already I have a hard time imagining 20 shuttles getting together on FED side, now on the KDf side, it currently seems almost impossible.
But I'll be glad if proven wrong.
And it's not like I could really help KDF side, on FEDs, however, I could try my never before used Vulcan support ship I got with the D'Kyr.
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Well keep in mind that's "hard to get 20 people in under normal circumstances." Having special event plastered all over this might motivate a few more captains than usual to hop in their little space potatos.
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Just think of it as an extra level of challenge. It is, after all, the no win scenario.
But I guess it's too much to ask to take some of the existing NPC fighters and shuttles and make them playable...
Oh well, I'm sure all those Yellowstones, Peregrines, Delta Flyers, Type-10s, Tal'Kyrs, and Stalkers will provide tons of fun for FED players... KDF will have to do with their To'Duj...
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Yeah but it was mentioned not in the blog about it heh.
Yeah even though I own pretty much every KDF accessible shuttle/fighter I highly doubt even with a special event that I'll actually get to play it once even if I stayed awake in the que for the whole event. Usually these kind of KDF only ques they get up to 3-5 people and then they get tired of waiting and goes back down to the usual zero in que.
Yeah fleet marks are always great if you can spend them that is lol. The only real hope with the KDF is if most of this stuff becomes all cross faction and that if a KDF player is in a match a chance it will load a KDF base just so they are seen once in awhile. Although IMO if they were planning on doing this they should have released more KDF and Romulan Republic small craft before running this weekend or either ran a special promotion along with it for new craft. They sort of missed an opportunity for the end of this month to push out something that would have been welcomed and usable for all factions but I guess their marketing department couldn't see that opportunity like a lot of us have.
Well at the least I guess its better than us not having a que at all in KDF to pop into although it might not ever get 20 people at least it will be available. I guess they at least thought of us KDF players to some degree even though it wasn't in the blog lol.
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Point they were trying to make is that without it being cross-faction ... Odds are the queue will never fill up.
Of course, I hate shuttles anyway so I'm already gonna skip it.
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Yeah the shuttles themselves should be like ship setups but with micro powers of what a starship would have. As well as the weapon layouts imo that is. Reminds me I think it was a GoS episode I listened to where stahl said something about how the Klingons or KDF were basically put into a small corner with not much to do with low population as being one of the reasons the romulan republic was setup the way it was. If that was the case then you would think they would have been working on bringing the KDF up to moving all KDF only ones that feds have fed only versions and just making them cross faction. As he did state he didn't want it to be this faction or that faction from a quote if it wasn't GoS it was one I listened to so you'd figure before they pushed out this event that they would have made it cross faction as well as made sure all 3 factions had enough small craft to be equally defined as well as something where the elements of a 5 man/person one requires a lot of control which I believe we both agree even with 20 people it will just be setup for failure with no real control abilities with all these ensign skills lol. Not to mention the heals you can put on these shuttles are micro heals so they won't add up to a hill of beans.
You first would have to expect that people would be all smart enough to do that. The track record with the people doing atmospheric mission is a proven result that you'll have 1-3 out of 20 people who will do that just because the TRIBBLE poor design of small craft and the issue of the player base is mostly people who are entertained just by seeing shiny flashy things and are like deer caught in headlights when they see it.
The thing about 5 fully-fledged ships of the line is, players are launching fighters and firing off a metric butt-ton of powers and weapons and other special effects. With shuttles, you have TWO weapons, 3 consoles, and MAYBE up to 3 BOff powers. And none of those powers (aside from maybe FAW and Spread) cause that much lag. Even with 4x the number of players, you shouldn't lag as much. That is, unless my fleet leader is right and there's a memory leak in the UI.
Aside from that, about time I had a reason to update the Marathon. The Delta will Fly again.