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Loving the improved summer event
sicjeb
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I've seen a lot of negative posts regarding the Risa event, so I just want to add my input. I love it, it's by far my favourite event and the improvements make it even better. The race is great fun, so far I'm 3 for 3 on first place. Although I expect that to change as more people get the superior boards. But great job, and thank you!
My only complaint, it's the middle of summer and I foresee that I'll be spending too much time indoors. :-)
My only complaint, it's the middle of summer and I foresee that I'll be spending too much time indoors. :-)
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I never really liked the winter event's race. However, on my first attempt of the summer event's race I finished in third place.
I'm also glad that they kept the bird doff missions from last year. And now we have another animal to raise for even more marks.
The flyer event to earn the ships is not bad either. The only thing I would do differently would be to have more and random courses. In comparison, I found the winter event's skating track absolutely horrid to the point of drunk Klingon rage.
My (extremely minor) complaint about the dancing event is that the ambient background with the music also has a LOT of the background talking sound. It might have been this way last year but I didn't notice it then. Today, I turned up the ambient sound option to the max and the background talking sound really drowns out the dance music.
This.^^^^^
Whatever DEV is responsible for this dropped the ball big time with laziness. They should have put them all over the place on every beach.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
The only thing bothering me is the P2W board race and for those who say it's not:
buy best board => way faster than those who can't afford it
that's literally P2W
Anyways, I just want to sell a bunch of stuff because I'm losing EC rapidly. Had 642k this morning, and now I have 279k.
I also noticed when doing the Horgahn Hunt that they didn't show up on my minimap like they did last year, so I had no idea where the artefacts were!
Other than that, I like it. I didn't manage to get the Corvette last year, so the idea that I can get my first ship for 1000 pearls, and any other ship for 40 thereafter, is pretty sweet.
Buy rental board => beat people with quality boards.
1st place "Ripper" title earned on a rental board.
Got the favors needed to buy a better board by racing on a rental.
Skill can beat gear.
As the seventy-fourth Rule of Acquisition clearly states, knowledge equals profit. And I am a very rich Ferengi.
thought the flags were for "Shalom" ski racing, got confused on first race.
You probably got first every time because you were lucky and have a better board (no way I can get 1000 items already). It's not a race, it's just plain old stupid that people are faster than others because they play longer.
The race is not fun, it's buggy, laggy and after 2 times I got 0 rewards because I simply can't have the 1000 items yet.
You probably haven't build sandcastles yet? Or did you play on an instance with less than 10 people?
I guess you don't have emotes on in your chat when near the dance event?
I also assume that you have a timetable somewhere that states when what is? I've been hanging around an hour and always missed everything.. Race started when I finally had a spot for a sandcastle. When I was doing my flight, the dance started. When I finally did the dance, it had no indication on how long it lasted and ended up in emote spam... It takes waaaay too long without knowing what to do, to even get the items. I quit when I got the accolade because I really couldn't be bothered spamming stupid chat commands anymore.
I don't see the point in this "fun". It's just clicking and pointing, flying uncontrollable jets and boards, depending on mistakes of others to be able to win even something.
This event is just stupid.
I'm playing to be rewarded, that's fun. I'm playing for PvE and PvP. Sadly, collecting content like this is no fun. If I want to do it once or twice to have Fun, I should be rewarded. But "grinding" chat commands, waiting for a sandcastle spot, failing at "winning" a race because it's just stupid to get rewards is no fun.
You play for the party, I play for the rewards. The rewards are not good enough and boring to get. Sadly I have to do it if I want to get the rewards...
you kidding?
this a p2w game and always will be, dont tell me you just noticed.
also "improved summer event" made me facepalm.
improved better less rewards per hour, eh?
-The sand castle always award 5loltoken, no matter the size and complexity of the castle, and if we do it during "bonus" time.
-The race is basically having to buy the best hoverboard, don't use the ramp, and have a trick to catch the flag. No skill or anything else is involved. On my first race, I was easily the 10th (rental board, and not knowing the race at all), but I had the trick for the flag, and I ended up 2nd, almost 1st.
I love the powerboards although I've only rented one so far and haven't gotten in on a race.
I think the sand castles idea is cool but agree that there needs to be more than the 5 or 6 buckets (the 3 or 4 between the two buildings and 1 on each side).
The hunt and dance coming up half as often as last year is kind of a bummer. What I liked about Summer over Winter last year was that no matter when I logged in I could be guaranteed of doing one or the others for favors. Does anyone know the time table for this year? Figuring out the time table made the Winter event much more enjoyable for me this past year.
I noticed the lack of map points for the hunt as well but the V-for-scan still works to point the way. That or just follow whatever course you used last year because they are still in the same spots.
I have a special chat tab to cut out the emotes during the dance but usually I forget to use it. The chat spam doesn't really bother me unless I'm in a team (like last night).
The only thing I'm worried about is the Flying High mission not lasting the whole event so I can finish the Cruiser (I have a vacation planned in the middle of the event with no internet access). I love my corvette and I expect good things from the new ship as well.