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dracounguis
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Ok, the race is just the summer version of the Winter Race for tags. But... instead of just a race of skill Cryptic added in the P2W element of different speed hoverboards. This is the part I find bad.
I had favors from last year, so bought my main toon the Superior board and on my first race I won by a good 10 seconds. Looked like everyone else had the basic boards. Now, on my alt toons I bought the basic boards and can tell you it will be all but impossible to place, let alone come in 1st, against people w/ the superior boards.
People whined alot about the Winter race and that was a 'fair' race (except for the damn hoppers!). And this one suffers from the same finish line problem of having to 'grab' the flag but half the time the 2nd place guy somehow grabs it first.
Not sure who's idea it was to have Pay-to-Win hoverboards to get monkey tags, but it's a horrible idea. Do you guys actively look for ways to TRIBBLE up good things or does it just come naturally?
I had favors from last year, so bought my main toon the Superior board and on my first race I won by a good 10 seconds. Looked like everyone else had the basic boards. Now, on my alt toons I bought the basic boards and can tell you it will be all but impossible to place, let alone come in 1st, against people w/ the superior boards.
People whined alot about the Winter race and that was a 'fair' race (except for the damn hoppers!). And this one suffers from the same finish line problem of having to 'grab' the flag but half the time the 2nd place guy somehow grabs it first.
Not sure who's idea it was to have Pay-to-Win hoverboards to get monkey tags, but it's a horrible idea. Do you guys actively look for ways to TRIBBLE up good things or does it just come naturally?
Sometimes I think I play STO just to have something to complain about on the forums.
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its still silly to include differences in speed between boards, i watched a guy beat everyone in a race despite being very bad at it(he was zig zagging all over the place), he still won, by a longshot just because of his uberboard.
Joined January 2009
My first race was with a rental board. I was fifth or six one back but 4 (I think it was) of the players ahead of me went past the flags and I grabbed 3rd place. On a rental board. I'm sure glad they did it this way, now I know that I can possibly get first even on a standard or rental board!
Not!! It's just stupid. And a rip off, making players pay extra pretend money for for "superior" boards that may or may not help you win......lol. :P
Yep, I watched one dude dismounted by a rock or something. He hoped back on and still won lol.
Like having players race against time limits. You complete it in X time, the next time you race it gets a bit more difficult, and on until you have to beat a reasonable elite time. Or maybe add a bit of real PvP and you get certain tricks in trying to slow an opponent like a board bump.
Also, like the Winter PvP race, they should've given players an alternative. They knew players were not happy with it, so why did they do it with this?
I don't see all those jump points.. sometimes they are transparent and hence difficult to see where to jump. I have graphics at max.
The grabbing flag is a nightmare.. but I will try removing board at finish line.. I have disqualified a few times due to that flag grabbing.
Also once I was like first for a while.. but I flew into a rock.. LOL .. was so mad. (because of my first point)
But later, when everyone has the best boards, those who practiced all that stuff will be the ones winning.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
I got the tokens I needed by racing. On a rental board. And placing 1st and 2nd on my last races, coming in 4th or similar all other times. I reliably beat people with quality boards.
Faster boards make it easier, certainly, but there's a degree of skill there too.
As the seventy-fourth Rule of Acquisition clearly states, knowledge equals profit. And I am a very rich Ferengi.
Look at the Risian doffs. Does that answer your question?:rolleyes:
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
P2W is about putting players in a situation where they have to pay real money to stand a chance.
The thing is you cannot grind and win the boards via the race as you cannot win due to the P2W people.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Yeah, that doesn't put people with alts at a disadvantage at all.:rolleyes:
The problem is everybody does that.
The Risa summer event is now officially the troll fest. Moar disco balls, a doff that allows an AoE DoT to root the targets (which smart people just did with Electro-Gravitic Field before the Exothermic Induction), the flag-grabbing on a surface that is even more slippery than in the winter event and the sand-castle building with not enough spots and some that are placed so badly that if it you suddenly need sticks for your sandcastle you need a superior floater to have a chance of getting them before the castle collapses. Seems my summer event will be reduced to doing the Horga'hn hunt for eggs.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
Now, there are times that the button doesn't actually APPEAR. That's a problem. But the mechanic doesn't seem inherently flawed. Am I missing something?
As the seventy-fourth Rule of Acquisition clearly states, knowledge equals profit. And I am a very rich Ferengi.
If you want to run alts, you should expect to do the legwork with all of them. I'm running 4 toons at Risa, and I have no complaints.
Maybe you need to learn or read what I typed. I did not spend any money to get an advantage over another player. I gridded out my board. That sir is not P2W. I had earn my board and my title. Sorry that some players have not done so. But because I worked last year at this years rewards does not mean the mini game is P2W. Every player has the ability to earn bigger and faster boards without spending real life money. This is what is wrong with society toady. People believe that something should be given and not earned. I earned it through a better board that I had saved for with last years winnings. It is the same grind every other player does with out spending lobi to convert. There is no advantage besides time and the grind. Yesterday I did see a fleet mate win a race against someone with better board. He just piloted better.
Doesn't bother my 10. Maybe "You're doing it wrong" applies here? :rolleyes:
R.I.P