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Weekend Shuttle Event

asovanraasovanra Member Posts: 139 Arc User
edited June 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I wanted to give a very special thanks to cyrptic for this weeked's shuttle event. There are no cooldown timers on these STFs, meaning myself, and my fleetmates have been able to play Fleet Alert repeatedly earning more than 600 marks of our choosing in roughly 1 hr's time. Never before have I had such incredible access to Nukara and Romulan marks in particular. I managed to buy alot of reputation gear today and have plenty of additional marks stockpiled should I need it. I would encourage cyrptic to either keep these events open permanently, otherwise, please eliminate bonus marks weekend and replace it with these shuttle events.

In what other STF can you fly a shuttle around for 10 min and earn 118 marks? NONE, until now! Fantastic job fellas, pat yourselves on the back; no need to gride battlezones anymore! :D
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  • medtac124medtac124 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I've been waiting for one of these threads to pop up. I for one will be glad when this event is over.
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  • mosul33mosul33 Member Posts: 836 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I have to say a big Thank You too.
    Its become my new source of undine marks since the others are long and with low rewards.
    And it couldnt be any sooner, since ppl can finish their grinds after marks to finish counter-command rep or for the gears and enjoy the summer event with any extra grinds (well... other then the Risa grinds ofc lol)
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    medtac124 wrote: »
    I've been waiting for one of these threads to pop up. I for one will be glad when this event is over.

    Why is that?
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  • onyxheart1onyxheart1 Member Posts: 347 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    anazonda wrote: »
    Why is that?

    probably cause they're allergic to fun and getting stuff without epic grinding :P
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  • onyxheart1onyxheart1 Member Posts: 347 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    mosul33 wrote: »
    I have to say a big Thank You too.
    Its become my new source of undine marks since the others are long and with low rewards.
    And it couldnt be any sooner, since ppl can finish their grinds after marks to finish counter-command rep or for the gears and enjoy the summer event with any extra grinds (well... other then the Risa grinds ofc lol)

    Heh this is exactly what i was saying to my fleetmates when i was doing runs of the fleet alert, shuttle queue. stocking up on marks to run my rep projects without having to leave Risa

    :D
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  • imadude3imadude3 Member Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    anazonda wrote: »
    Why is that?

    he's probably looking forward to people queuing up for things where he can use his starship again
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  • jellico1jellico1 Member Posts: 2,719
    edited May 2014
    Well done cryptic

    I dont like shuttle's....................

    But ive loved this event.............would be nice if you could modify the even to llow tier 2 ships :P
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    imadude3 wrote: »
    he's probably looking forward to people queuing up for things where he can use his starship again

    Odd... Havn't had any issues with the regular queues.
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  • vsilverwings1vsilverwings1 Member Posts: 572 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    It's been a great event, great job Cryptic. As soon as I knew about shuttle NWS I was preparing my main characters to beat it as much as I could for potential accolades and titles. Had great fun doing it and getting as much as 774-817(boost) marks for ~20 minutes work was awesome!

    A couple of things I would point out. 20 man anything like NWS and it's a little harder to get groups going. There are 20+ people willing to do it just not always at the same time. That said I don't see how having a smaller 5 man team for NWS would have worked and 20 was the way to go, just saying the need for bigger groups will mean fewer groups forming.

    In like the final wave my computer was almost lagging to a standstill and while my graphics card is a cheap one I needed to replace a better one it might be a struggle for some. Maybe it was my connection but it seemed fine before and after only during the heat of w10 did it give me problems.

    All in all a great event.
  • jodarkriderjodarkrider Member Posts: 2,097 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Many thanks too.. this way I can get Undine marks without ever touching the Undine content. My OCD kicked in & I want all reputations on lvl 5, no matter how useless the powers are - and why not do it, when it's fun to do, while derping in the shuttle. :D
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  • tousseautousseau Member Posts: 1,484 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I gotta agree with general sentiment here... been having a blast in my shuttle, more so than I thought I would (the sweet mark earnings are just icing on the cake).

    Thanks Cryptic. :D
  • jockey1979jockey1979 Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I have to chime in with the main sentiment here, I'm having a blast in my smaller craft.
    I'd not noticed my Fed Engi was missing his Yacht until last night, then I went in to a full on panic as after using all my KDF small craft I was really looking forward to that.

    I never thought I'd be so eager to use a small craft, and it was so worth it !!!

    I hope this becomes either permanent or a regular event - it is just too funny and so much fun to over power bigger ships in small craft.
  • medtac124medtac124 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    anazonda wrote: »
    Why is that?

    Simply put, because it got boring fast, but it's all anybody wants to do because of how stupidly easy it is to grind. If it were to stick around it would kill the parts of the game that I find enjoyable.

    Now don't get me wrong, I've been doing it too, but only in the morning and with the bonus marks.
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  • nobletnoblet Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    In other news, zen prices are going back down. Good time to dump the stockpile and buy it back when it's cheap.;)
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  • groomofweirdgroomofweird Member Posts: 1,045 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I for one and many of my fleetmates (some of which hate shuttles and were not eager to try it, but did given the rewards) love this event.
    I have been in my yellowstone/delta flyer/ to'duj fighter for the last two days now and having a great time. The usual pve qeues with shuttles are not that appealing but I've had a great time skimming across the surface of a cube in fleet alert and having to literally strafe around core breaches to stay alive.
    I hope this event comes around again with the bonus marks but I'd love to see the shuttle missions as a regular addition.
    I was a shuttle hater and now a shuttle lover. Cheers cryptic :)
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  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    For KDF players, when was the last time you saw a 20 player queue pop off prior to these kind of events?

    Yeah :P
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  • damix4damix4 Member Posts: 609 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I never expected something like this when I saw shuttle event coming. I really enjoy those 20 man missions so I want to thank devs for making it possible. Now I'm waiting for 20 man shuttle STF missions! :)
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  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Its only popular because of the lack of cooldown, which means marks are easy to get

    Meaning its popular because some marks are stupidly hard to get otherwise
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  • jagdhippiesjagdhippies Member Posts: 676 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Got to say that being in a 20 man shuttle event is kind of fun. Its like being in a zerg rush:D

    That said I am glad that it is only for a few days. It is starting to get old only having 1 boff ability. I like this as a weekend event, we should do it again in a couple of months.
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  • jagdhippiesjagdhippies Member Posts: 676 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    ursusmorologus wrote: »
    Its only popular because of the lack of cooldown, which means marks are easy to get

    Meaning its popular because some marks are stupidly hard to get otherwise

    Marks are only hard to get if you must earn 200 or more in a single day. If you can settle for 70 to 100 a day you can knock it out in 15 minutes. Heck even the romulan marks are easy now that we a lump sum with our first mission. Its no problem getting 2 days worth of marks by spending 10 minutes swatting flies and scanning an octopus or 12.
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    medtac124 wrote: »
    Simply put, because it got boring fast, but it's all anybody wants to do because of how stupidly easy it is to grind. If it were to stick around it would kill the parts of the game that I find enjoyable.

    Now don't get me wrong, I've been doing it too, but only in the morning and with the bonus marks.

    Well thats a good a reason as anything...

    But I would assume, that if it were to stick around after the event, the rewards will be reduced, and a cooldown added...
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  • kostamojenxkostamojenx Member Posts: 251 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Love the event, such a nice change of pace :D

    My favorite thing is how my fleet mates are learning a lot about the game because of this event. Shuttles being so limited in equipment and capability, its forcing them to experiment and try new things. I've even learned a few things (especially about Hyper Plasma Torpedo spame :P )
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    In like the final wave my computer was almost lagging to a standstill and while my graphics card is a cheap one I needed to replace a better one it might be a struggle for some.
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  • tekehdtekehd Member Posts: 2,032 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    jagdhippies wrote: »
    Got to say that being in a 20 man shuttle event is kind of fun. Its like being in a zerg rush:D

    That said I am glad that it is only for a few days. It is starting to get old only having 1 boff ability. I like this as a weekend event, we should do it again in a couple of months.

    Indeed, like it too, running it non stop to stock pile marks on a fed-sci I've recently leveled who is going through rep now....almost have enough Omega marks to both take me through to T5 and buy the whole Mk XII assimilated space set.... might get enough to stockpile some Romulan marks as well from it. Undine and Dyson don't care as much about, those marks grow on trees, and not dying to get much out of either of those except the grav torp which she already has, and the bio-molecular phaser turret.

    And of course we have mark farm coming up next week as well with the summer event. So people are going to be swimming in marks for the next month.

    But, yeah, would get old quick if this was permanent.
  • f9thretxcf9thretxc Member Posts: 505 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Add me to the members who offer thanks. I haven't had this much fun in a long time. This is one event , I would love to see, happen at least once a month.
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  • icsairgunsicsairguns Member Posts: 1,504 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    this time I have to give a thumbs up aswell. but probably for different reasons.

    I Like that its shuttles defending the starbase instead of a fleet of capital ships. just seems to be more realistic. enemy fleet inbound scramble alert craft prepare to defend station.

    this is one event I wish they would leave in and actually even remove the old version. but if they nerf the rewards it will die so that would need to stay as is. same with cool down. if they nerf it it will die.

    possibly only change I would make if it went full time is the choice marks. id tie them to the enemy type that attacked rather than the complete list.

    the undine wave attack can be tuff with all the globs of snot flying around. that's something they do need to address with the undine in the entire game not just this event .
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  • capemike4capemike4 Member Posts: 394 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Loving it myself, too! :D

    I've made more Rep progress in the last 2-3 days than I have in, literally, the last 3-4 MONTHS, and I'll finally get Tier 5 Rep in something by the end of today(Nukara)!

    I'd be ALL FOR these events sticking around after the weekend, albeit, with what someone mentioned earlier, namely reduced rewards and a cooldown put into effect....

    So, my new Yellowstone Runabout and I say thanks! :D

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