Ok, so from your non-paragraphed posts I seem to basically be getting the following points:
"Scimitar should be uber because Nemesis (it only appeared in Nemesis btw, never any other show or movie) showed it as uber."
"Fed farmers keep Exchange prices low, and I should be allowed to farm in peace."
"People go out of their way to bully me, and kill me."
"I don't want to have to adapt or change my build at all."
"Other people cloaking is bad, my cloaking is ok."
Am I missing anything?
ah yes...because cloaking helps me to fight borg i think you missed that part of it. think about it....1+1=2 not 3. to paraphase it all...feds attack borg, kdf attack feds. the cease fire is useless cause this is all just a simulation yet with real people involved and going outside of the cookie cutter build for a scimterd will get you killed. which strangely enough all the cookie cutter builds of ships were not how they worked in the shows and movies. just more disconnect between what is and what was coming out. in a game you need a farming zone to collect assets but in shows ummm errr where is ker'rat and what happened there?
ah yes...because cloaking helps me to fight borg i think you missed that part of it. think about it....1+1=2 not 3. to paraphase it all...feds attack borg, kdf attack feds. the cease fire is useless cause this is all just a simulation yet with real people involved and going outside of the cookie cutter build for a scimterd will get you killed. which strangely enough all the cookie cutter builds of ships were not how they worked in the shows and movies. just more disconnect between what is and what was coming out. in a game you need a farming zone to collect assets but in shows ummm errr where is ker'rat and what happened there?
So uh...where in the shows were the Feds farming like you want to do?
Of the 97 ships (not counting smallcraft) I've flown in this game, I have not flown a Scimitar. Based on my experience having flown those 97 ships...I still wouldn't recommend a build to anybody. However, it's quite obvious when somebody is having issues and needs to be pointed to some of the folks that are more than happy to recommend builds to folks. You need help...
yes how do i make my build cookie cutter cause the devs made the game that way? oh wait...i know...hax2bat's, dem, faw, beams, and circle jerks.......that's the only way to win is by going cookie cutter.....highly recommended by the funnest of all game enthusiasts. don't branch out, don't try something new just stick to the cookie cutter cause we all know that living in a utopian society like george orwell's 1984 is fun for all.
So uh...where in the shows were the Feds farming like you want to do?
to get down to the nitty gritty of it.......game aspect only to collect assets. so if we here to make a game then i got some great ideas for that...but since they branded this game star trek it needs to follow that brand. if they wanted to make fun for all then it should be called starquest or something generic there of. so tell me then why ker'rat should be in here at all cause you've still failed.
Because when people go to the open PvP zone of Kerrat expecting to be able to farm their way to riches without incident only to be ganked again and again we get to see wonderful threads like this one.
Plenty of other places in the game already to farm Dil without being attacked by other players.
Alhena - 5 minutes of play = 480 Dil.
Traelus - 5 minutes of play = 480 Dil.
Defera Dailies - ~35 minutes of play = 2400 Dil.
DOFF Assignments - At most ten clicks of a mouse for various amounts of Dil.
Been doing these for a long time now about once or twice a week and have no problems acquiring the Dil I want to be able to play how I want.
As to Fed farming supporting the Exchange. For the life of me I cannot see any logic at all in this statement. I try to acquire enough Dil to purchase and sell one or two Master Keys per week. With three toons, one Rommie and two KDF. No Feds involved at all in this. Same with crafting items for sale on the Exchange. Haven't touched my Feds in months. So, the Exchange can be supported without Feds farming Ker'rat. Hmm...
Ker'rat is clearly marked as a PvP zone. Always has been. Until the Devs change things this will continue. Players are informed of this prior to going in. So all this anguish displayed over Mean People shooting at someone else in Ker'rat is entirely self-inflicted. Nowhere in the ToS does it state anyone is under any obligation to defend someone else from their own willful ignorance.
A six year old boy and his starship. Living the dream.
yes how do i make my build cookie cutter cause the devs made the game that way? oh wait...i know...hax2bat's, dem, faw, beams, and circle jerks.......that's the only way to win is by going cookie cutter.....highly recommended by the funnest of all game enthusiasts. don't branch out, don't try something new just stick to the cookie cutter cause we all know that living in a utopian society like george orwell's 1984 is fun for all.
Who said anything about going with a cookie cutter build? If what you've got is not working, then it's what you've got that's not working - you need to fix that, not change everything else in the game to suit what you want to do. You adapt.
Because when people go to the open PvP zone of Kerrat expecting to be able to farm their way to riches without incident only to be ganked again and again we get to see wonderful threads like this one.
and the true problem of ker'rat. you want to test your build against other player ships then go to the arena. you want to farm....well you go to ker'rat cause no where else is there that ec farming can be done so rapidly. its because of the difficulty level of attacking borg cubes that mk xii rare drops occur and for people coming up in the game they need those till they can get fleet stuff. IF THE DEVS WANTED TO APPROACH THIS GAME AS A GAME THAT YET FOLLOW THE BRAND AS WELL THEN TAKE PVP OUT OF KER'RAT LEAVE IT IN THE ARENAS AND IF YOU WANT TO PRE-TEST YOUR BUILD(S) BEFORE GOING TO THE ARENAS THEN YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO ATTACK NPC'S SHIPS THAT ARE JUST AS CAPABLE AS PLAYER SHIPS.....THE LAST PART WE KNOW DOESN'T EXIST IN THIS GAME. nps'c can't alpha gank bo3 or tachyon detection grid and very few and far between do they have the ability to viral matrix. a combination of pvp and pve though is too much. cause your either setup for pve or pvp there is no viable in between given the game current setup. i unlike the enterprise can not have and endless course of action against an enemy ship cause in the game its heat of the moment not wait and formulate a plan.
Who said anything about going with a cookie cutter build? If what you've got is not working, then it's what you've got that's not working - you need to fix that, not change everything else in the game to suit what you want to do. You adapt.
what do i adapt to though...the bopper, the tank, the sci haxor, or the borg cube? and how often can i adapt before i meet my death from surprise attack? sure i can die adapt then find them to see how my adapting works but chances are since im fed and there kdf there cloaked and gone by the time ive adapted......derp
A) its fun to fight in spaceships its canon for these ships to fight with and against eachother
C) its perfectly capable of existing without the roleplay police deciding if it fits their myopic declaration that everything needs to be justified by the story.
what do i adapt to though...the bopper, the tank, the sci haxor, or the borg cube? and how often can i adapt before i meet my death from surprise attack? sure i can die adapt then find them to see how my adapting works but chances are since im fed and there kdf there cloaked and gone by the time ive adapted......derp
You stated you were having issues with the Borg themselves, even outside of the PvP taking place around you - that you had an issue there. They're static - you can adapt to that. So wouldn't you start there? Stay cloaked and fly around Ker'rat, look at what some of the other Fed Scimitars that are farming are doing. Look at their buff cycles - see where they're not having issues where you are...if you don't just want to ask them outright for suggestions on a build. And just because they offer suggestions, doesn't mean you have to end up flying some cookie cutter build.
But again, what do you know about the Borg right off the back, eh?
Assimilate - TT, Borg 3pc, and WCE Cleanse
Shield Neutralizer - HE, Borg 3pc, and WCE Cleanse
DoTs out the wahzoo - HE, Borg 3pc, and WCE Cleanse
That's not saying you need to run the Borg 3pc, btw, it's just listing things that can help deal with what the Borg are going to be doing.
Then you think about what two of those are going to be doing - doing hull damage or increasing hull damage. So what's your damage resistance look like? What consoles are you sporting? What skills do you have? What Traits did you take? What heals are you running?
And you go through looking at everything you've got - what you're running - and - how it's actually helping you as opposed to how you may just think it's helping you.
You'll find that a bunch of the things that you do to help you with the Borg are also going to help you against other players. But if you can't even deal with the Borg, you don't stand a chance against the players...
It comes down to you have to be willing to try...if you're not, then it's pointless. Just complain then...see where it gets you, eh?
SCimitar should be most feared ship in game as it was in shows and movies not a jem bug that crashes into everything. but some how things got lost in translation of trying to stay true to the star trek everything and making a fun game. and i do go there to farm but given that i do so quite often i recognize the names of players that come in to harrass and bully and interupt my farming. so thats why ill alpha decloak and sneak up on you sometimes. othertimes i stick to farming and let you all sit high above all the cubes and fight each other just when you get bored of that here you come trying to mess with me. and being in a scimitar i seem to get messed with more than any other cause i visible from so far away. and how many scimitars have you seen that dont pop fast especially when there gang banged? besides all that think about what the exchange would look like without fed farmers before you all think to ball together and go shooting. testing your zombie tanks, and super drain builds like you can't do it in the arena. there is a disconnect between so many things in the game and ker'rat is where it all comes up. like why are power insualtors weaker than flow capcitors? why are enhanced cloaks in the game? why is the scimitar visible from 50km away? why can a shuttle like the jem bug even equip dhc's?
Scimitar can be really OP in the right hands and has the most damage potential, but is also very vulnerable when decloaked for very long, your fault for being decloaked a lot and not having a getaway mechanism for when you are decloaked.
We aren't there to specifically bully and interrupt you, we are there to PVP in an open PVP zone, which many feds seem to want as they only pvp and don't farm there. So we are just giving the Feds what they want so they don't get bored. However this is your second thread complaining about Kerrat, so don't be surprised if that does make you more of a target.
As for the exchange, you fed farmers generating EC by vendoring/discarding loot create inflation, which is bad for the economy, so we are just helping the economy too by PVPing there.
You stated you were having issues with the Borg themselves, even outside of the PvP taking place around you - that you had an issue there. They're static - you can adapt to that. So wouldn't you start there? Stay cloaked and fly around Ker'rat, look at what some of the other Fed Scimitars that are farming are doing. Look at their buff cycles - see where they're not having issues where you are...if you don't just want to ask them outright for suggestions on a build. And just because they offer suggestions, doesn't mean you have to end up flying some cookie cutter build.
But again, what do you know about the Borg right off the back, eh?
Assimilate - TT, Borg 3pc, and WCE Cleanse
Shield Neutralizer - HE, Borg 3pc, and WCE Cleanse
DoTs out the wahzoo - HE, Borg 3pc, and WCE Cleanse
That's not saying you need to run the Borg 3pc, btw, it's just listing things that can help deal with what the Borg are going to be doing.
Then you think about what two of those are going to be doing - doing hull damage or increasing hull damage. So what's your damage resistance look like? What consoles are you sporting? What skills do you have? What Traits did you take? What heals are you running?
And you go through looking at everything you've got - what you're running - and - how it's actually helping you as opposed to how you may just think it's helping you.
You'll find that a bunch of the things that you do to help you with the Borg are also going to help you against other players. But if you can't even deal with the Borg, you don't stand a chance against the players...
It comes down to you have to be willing to try...if you're not, then it's pointless. Just complain then...see where it gets you, eh?
hmmm....i appreciate your advice but i must say that im more than capable of adapting to borg to stay alive just fine versus them. the only ones i ahve trouble with are tac cubes and thats because by choice i run sci team instead of 2 he to help combat the bopper harrassment i receive in my scimitar while attacking borg cubes. otherwise....see here http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/?build=jaydenomegav202_0
First "there is no RP reason for it"
Second "i get pasted when im caught unaware trying to farm drops"
Third, and the most annoying "omg dem vaper bop wolf-packs"
And Last but not least "a PVP focussed fleet is there doing pvp"
heck, you admit you have difficulty dealing with undine PvE. this tells me there is a lot of stuff you still need to figure out ingame, and the cheese that kerrat throws at you may not be the best place to start.
one thing you may need to learn, is to team up and stick with your allies. since thats the only thing i have found to be any kind of defence against bop ganks.
to say that undine are easy and i can sit there attacking them without ever using an ability is an insult to the game and why they brought them into it to begin with. i choose not to insult the game in such a manner but im not like all people......see above if you have questions or comments about how i can't build something to blow up some ships.
the biggest problem with kerrat is you can not switch zones and you can not switch sides like you used too
the switching zones is a big problem of ker'rat but why would you need or want to switch zones....cause there's a fedball or a kdfball looming on the horizon perhaps? yea probably. so why not jsut take the pvp out and leave it in the arena? simple fix. then too there might be more arena particiaption.
the switching zones is a big problem of ker'rat but why would you need or want to switch zones....cause there's a fedball or a kdfball looming on the horizon perhaps? yea probably. so why not jsut take the pvp out and leave it in the arena? simple fix. then too there might be more arena particiaption.
taking PvP out would result in the same sort of competition you would have in fleet actions: who could sink the most dough.
taking PvP out would result in the same sort of competition you would have in fleet actions: who could sink the most dough.
as long as there not messing with the one true farming zone in the game i could care less. ill be the first to say it in this thread...i don't go to the arenas much cause i don't care to pvp. just in ker'rat when provoked i will defend myself the best i can but again where else can i just farm...no where.
Ker'rat is a unique zone. For that reason alone, it should not be deleted. It's also a very fun place to play.
It's not our fault that you fly a Scimitar. Flying one puts a huge target on you. I mean, those monstrosities stick out like a sore thumb. There's only a couple players that I've seen fly a Scimitar effectively, and you never see them until you're nearly dead.
But please, quit coming to Ker'rat. My Fed will enjoy farming with one less person driving down the price of the farmed items. And my Klink will be happy to face one less ship in the fedball.
You'll note that four of the ships only have 2x Sci BOFF abilities, one has 3x, two have 5x, and one has 7x. So pointing to issues with the Borg while running just 2x Sci BOFF abilities definitely struck me as odd...
But please, quit coming to Ker'rat. My Fed will enjoy farming with one less person driving down the price of the farmed items.
Which is something that the OP is completely overlooking. You can't remove the PvP from Ker'rat. You could remove the shooting at one another, but the PvP would still exist.
The PvE aspect of the zone is not cooperative - it's competitive. Competitive PvE is still a form of PvP.
If you don't like Ker'rat then stay out of Ker'rat. There's plenty of PVE only content for you to be bad at. No reason to spoil other peoples fun just because you can't handle a good ganking.
Its a PvP map. It holds danger. Learn to defend and fight, or farm elsewhere without pvp.
all the same stuff.....if you can't handle it then stay out of it but again i say to you where else can i farm? no where. there is another place for pvper's to pvp its called the arena. farming takes forever by doing stf's and the excess i cant do much with not to say i dont but just saying. i do a couple omega stf's the turn the marks in for dil ore yet get only 1 mk xii item to sell. do crystalline entity and the same. all those things have cooldown times too you know. so ker'rat is open season of farming yet with people people that like to repeatedly run up and gank to what test there build, run fed's out of ker'rat so they can farm, be mean?!?! i don't know...in all the time i've been going to ker'rat the only thing i can come up with is just to be mean but call it fun...seems to be true human nature. again...take pvp out of ker'rat leave it an open farming zone and if you want to test your build the devs need make strong npc's that can do all a player ship can so you can go there then go to the arena to be mean or have fun as some call it. cause otherwise ker'rat isn't relevant to the game at all...it does nothing for/from the storyline and is only there for asset collection because its a game.
all the same stuff.....if you can't handle it then stay out of it but again i say to you where else can i farm? no where. there is another place for pvper's to pvp its called the arena. farming takes forever by doing stf's and the excess i cant do much with not to say i dont but just saying. i do a couple omega stf's the turn the marks in for dil ore yet get only 1 mk xii item to sell. do crystalline entity and the same. all those things have cooldown times too you know. so ker'rat is open season of farming yet with people people that like to repeatedly run up and gank to what test there build, run fed's out of ker'rat so they can farm, be mean?!?! i don't know...in all the time i've been going to ker'rat the only thing i can come up with is just to be mean but call it fun...seems to be true human nature. again...take pvp out of ker'rat leave it an open farming zone and if you want to test your build the devs need make strong npc's that can do all a player ship can so you can go there then go to the arena to be mean or have fun as some call it. cause otherwise ker'rat isn't relevant to the game at all...it does nothing for/from the storyline and is only there for asset collection because its a game.
Again, the rewards - the loot - in Ker'rat is based on the map being a PvPvE zone. If they removed the PvP, they would need to reduce the rewards. The Borg that are there would not provide the challenge alone to provide the rewards that Ker'rat does.
And there are plenty of places to farm that there are no CDs - there are plenty of places where even with CDs, you can farm across multiple toons, etc, etc, etc.
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ah yes...because cloaking helps me to fight borg i think you missed that part of it. think about it....1+1=2 not 3. to paraphase it all...feds attack borg, kdf attack feds. the cease fire is useless cause this is all just a simulation yet with real people involved and going outside of the cookie cutter build for a scimterd will get you killed. which strangely enough all the cookie cutter builds of ships were not how they worked in the shows and movies. just more disconnect between what is and what was coming out. in a game you need a farming zone to collect assets but in shows ummm errr where is ker'rat and what happened there?
So uh...where in the shows were the Feds farming like you want to do?
yes how do i make my build cookie cutter cause the devs made the game that way? oh wait...i know...hax2bat's, dem, faw, beams, and circle jerks.......that's the only way to win is by going cookie cutter.....highly recommended by the funnest of all game enthusiasts. don't branch out, don't try something new just stick to the cookie cutter cause we all know that living in a utopian society like george orwell's 1984 is fun for all.
to get down to the nitty gritty of it.......game aspect only to collect assets. so if we here to make a game then i got some great ideas for that...but since they branded this game star trek it needs to follow that brand. if they wanted to make fun for all then it should be called starquest or something generic there of. so tell me then why ker'rat should be in here at all cause you've still failed.
Alhena - 5 minutes of play = 480 Dil.
Traelus - 5 minutes of play = 480 Dil.
Defera Dailies - ~35 minutes of play = 2400 Dil.
DOFF Assignments - At most ten clicks of a mouse for various amounts of Dil.
Been doing these for a long time now about once or twice a week and have no problems acquiring the Dil I want to be able to play how I want.
As to Fed farming supporting the Exchange. For the life of me I cannot see any logic at all in this statement. I try to acquire enough Dil to purchase and sell one or two Master Keys per week. With three toons, one Rommie and two KDF. No Feds involved at all in this. Same with crafting items for sale on the Exchange. Haven't touched my Feds in months. So, the Exchange can be supported without Feds farming Ker'rat. Hmm...
Ker'rat is clearly marked as a PvP zone. Always has been. Until the Devs change things this will continue. Players are informed of this prior to going in. So all this anguish displayed over Mean People shooting at someone else in Ker'rat is entirely self-inflicted. Nowhere in the ToS does it state anyone is under any obligation to defend someone else from their own willful ignorance.
Who said anything about going with a cookie cutter build? If what you've got is not working, then it's what you've got that's not working - you need to fix that, not change everything else in the game to suit what you want to do. You adapt.
and the true problem of ker'rat. you want to test your build against other player ships then go to the arena. you want to farm....well you go to ker'rat cause no where else is there that ec farming can be done so rapidly. its because of the difficulty level of attacking borg cubes that mk xii rare drops occur and for people coming up in the game they need those till they can get fleet stuff. IF THE DEVS WANTED TO APPROACH THIS GAME AS A GAME THAT YET FOLLOW THE BRAND AS WELL THEN TAKE PVP OUT OF KER'RAT LEAVE IT IN THE ARENAS AND IF YOU WANT TO PRE-TEST YOUR BUILD(S) BEFORE GOING TO THE ARENAS THEN YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO ATTACK NPC'S SHIPS THAT ARE JUST AS CAPABLE AS PLAYER SHIPS.....THE LAST PART WE KNOW DOESN'T EXIST IN THIS GAME. nps'c can't alpha gank bo3 or tachyon detection grid and very few and far between do they have the ability to viral matrix. a combination of pvp and pve though is too much. cause your either setup for pve or pvp there is no viable in between given the game current setup. i unlike the enterprise can not have and endless course of action against an enemy ship cause in the game its heat of the moment not wait and formulate a plan.
what do i adapt to though...the bopper, the tank, the sci haxor, or the borg cube? and how often can i adapt before i meet my death from surprise attack? sure i can die adapt then find them to see how my adapting works but chances are since im fed and there kdf there cloaked and gone by the time ive adapted......derp
no myopic declaration needed. look at the name.
You stated you were having issues with the Borg themselves, even outside of the PvP taking place around you - that you had an issue there. They're static - you can adapt to that. So wouldn't you start there? Stay cloaked and fly around Ker'rat, look at what some of the other Fed Scimitars that are farming are doing. Look at their buff cycles - see where they're not having issues where you are...if you don't just want to ask them outright for suggestions on a build. And just because they offer suggestions, doesn't mean you have to end up flying some cookie cutter build.
But again, what do you know about the Borg right off the back, eh?
Assimilate - TT, Borg 3pc, and WCE Cleanse
Shield Neutralizer - HE, Borg 3pc, and WCE Cleanse
DoTs out the wahzoo - HE, Borg 3pc, and WCE Cleanse
That's not saying you need to run the Borg 3pc, btw, it's just listing things that can help deal with what the Borg are going to be doing.
Then you think about what two of those are going to be doing - doing hull damage or increasing hull damage. So what's your damage resistance look like? What consoles are you sporting? What skills do you have? What Traits did you take? What heals are you running?
And you go through looking at everything you've got - what you're running - and - how it's actually helping you as opposed to how you may just think it's helping you.
You'll find that a bunch of the things that you do to help you with the Borg are also going to help you against other players. But if you can't even deal with the Borg, you don't stand a chance against the players...
It comes down to you have to be willing to try...if you're not, then it's pointless. Just complain then...see where it gets you, eh?
Scimitar can be really OP in the right hands and has the most damage potential, but is also very vulnerable when decloaked for very long, your fault for being decloaked a lot and not having a getaway mechanism for when you are decloaked.
We aren't there to specifically bully and interrupt you, we are there to PVP in an open PVP zone, which many feds seem to want as they only pvp and don't farm there. So we are just giving the Feds what they want so they don't get bored. However this is your second thread complaining about Kerrat, so don't be surprised if that does make you more of a target.
As for the exchange, you fed farmers generating EC by vendoring/discarding loot create inflation, which is bad for the economy, so we are just helping the economy too by PVPing there.
hmmm....i appreciate your advice but i must say that im more than capable of adapting to borg to stay alive just fine versus them. the only ones i ahve trouble with are tac cubes and thats because by choice i run sci team instead of 2 he to help combat the bopper harrassment i receive in my scimitar while attacking borg cubes. otherwise....see here http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/?build=jaydenomegav202_0
to say that undine are easy and i can sit there attacking them without ever using an ability is an insult to the game and why they brought them into it to begin with. i choose not to insult the game in such a manner but im not like all people......see above if you have questions or comments about how i can't build something to blow up some ships.
the switching zones is a big problem of ker'rat but why would you need or want to switch zones....cause there's a fedball or a kdfball looming on the horizon perhaps? yea probably. so why not jsut take the pvp out and leave it in the arena? simple fix. then too there might be more arena particiaption.
taking PvP out would result in the same sort of competition you would have in fleet actions: who could sink the most dough.
as long as there not messing with the one true farming zone in the game i could care less. ill be the first to say it in this thread...i don't go to the arenas much cause i don't care to pvp. just in ker'rat when provoked i will defend myself the best i can but again where else can i just farm...no where.
It's not our fault that you fly a Scimitar. Flying one puts a huge target on you. I mean, those monstrosities stick out like a sore thumb. There's only a couple players that I've seen fly a Scimitar effectively, and you never see them until you're nearly dead.
But please, quit coming to Ker'rat. My Fed will enjoy farming with one less person driving down the price of the farmed items. And my Klink will be happy to face one less ship in the fedball.
TT1, HY2, TS3, APO3
TT1
ET1, AtS1
PH1, TSS2, HE3
ST1, ST2
TS1, FAW1, APO1
TT1, FAW1
EPtA1, EPtS2
PH1, HE2, HE3, TR3
ST1
TT1, FAW1
EPtS1, AtS1
EPtA1
TB1, Tach2, TR2, CPB3
PH1, ST2, HE3
HY1, CRF1, APO1
TT1
ET1, AtB1, EPtS3, DEM3
EPtW1, AtB1
PH1, HE2
TT1, APD1
ET1, ExS1, ExS2, AtS3
EPtA1, RSP1, EPtS3
HE1, ST2
PH1
TT1, CSV1, APO1, APO3
TT1, TS2
EPtW1, EPtS2, AtS2
ST1, HE2
TT1, TS2, APO1, APO3
TT1, FAW1, FAW2
EPtS1, AtS1
EPtW1
HE1, ST2
TT1, TS2, APO1, CRF3
TT1, TS2, APO1
EPtS1, AtS1
EPtW1
HE1, ST2
You'll note that four of the ships only have 2x Sci BOFF abilities, one has 3x, two have 5x, and one has 7x. So pointing to issues with the Borg while running just 2x Sci BOFF abilities definitely struck me as odd...
Which is something that the OP is completely overlooking. You can't remove the PvP from Ker'rat. You could remove the shooting at one another, but the PvP would still exist.
The PvE aspect of the zone is not cooperative - it's competitive. Competitive PvE is still a form of PvP.
R.I.P
all the same stuff.....if you can't handle it then stay out of it but again i say to you where else can i farm? no where. there is another place for pvper's to pvp its called the arena. farming takes forever by doing stf's and the excess i cant do much with not to say i dont but just saying. i do a couple omega stf's the turn the marks in for dil ore yet get only 1 mk xii item to sell. do crystalline entity and the same. all those things have cooldown times too you know. so ker'rat is open season of farming yet with people people that like to repeatedly run up and gank to what test there build, run fed's out of ker'rat so they can farm, be mean?!?! i don't know...in all the time i've been going to ker'rat the only thing i can come up with is just to be mean but call it fun...seems to be true human nature. again...take pvp out of ker'rat leave it an open farming zone and if you want to test your build the devs need make strong npc's that can do all a player ship can so you can go there then go to the arena to be mean or have fun as some call it. cause otherwise ker'rat isn't relevant to the game at all...it does nothing for/from the storyline and is only there for asset collection because its a game.
Again, the rewards - the loot - in Ker'rat is based on the map being a PvPvE zone. If they removed the PvP, they would need to reduce the rewards. The Borg that are there would not provide the challenge alone to provide the rewards that Ker'rat does.
And there are plenty of places to farm that there are no CDs - there are plenty of places where even with CDs, you can farm across multiple toons, etc, etc, etc.