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salling2o2
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I have been working on four of my toons for the last three day at this event like any event i put the time in a help the team out.
But!! more and more players in the event are going to the side of the map and not take part in the event and they are giving rewards for others work at.
In my book this is a exploiting the game and the event
player play the events to get the rewards they put their time in playing the event and get the rewards for it.
the player exploiting the event should lose all the rewards from their exploit :mad:
But!! more and more players in the event are going to the side of the map and not take part in the event and they are giving rewards for others work at.
In my book this is a exploiting the game and the event
player play the events to get the rewards they put their time in playing the event and get the rewards for it.
the player exploiting the event should lose all the rewards from their exploit :mad:
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There is supposed to be an afk penalty.
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I don't think MU has an AFK or a leaver penalty, too much work for a seasonal event if I remember right.
I don't think Crystalline has one either.
Or you know they can put a proper AFK and leaver penalty into the game and let people play how they want to play... you know PUG. If Cryptic didn't want you to PUG they wouldn't give you the option, but they just need to implement it properly.
*blinks* Okay never mind... between Cryptic implementing something properly and forced socialization yeah... so never mind this post is probably you're best bet.
The Entire first half of the event the entire team can sit at the spawn point and do NOTHING. Then the Tachyon pulse fires the dread comes out and you go close a few rifts shoot down the ships and your done.
This was actually done the last time by a few groups just to test it and it still completed.
The further into the event you get the more this happens as people get burned out. Expect it.
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I already told my fleet last night, I am not pugging it anymore and will be doing it with them only.
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If it were, Cryptic would have done something by now... obviously the AFK penalty isn't working.
An autoboot for AFkers would be nice
Ouch. 300 seconds until post in the correct thread. :-/
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So much this.
Maybe people are just bored!!!!
I know by the end of the CE event I just more or less try and look busy and go AFK. I honestly never want to see Risa again.
Forced repeated missions aren't fun.
Really just wait for the dread to show up and kill it. No reason to do the first part over and over and over
Build an AP scim right and have redundant shields and quantum absorbtion going for a glorious thaleron pulse, with allies keeping grav well up.
Mwahahahahahahaha
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plus of course there wont be as great a team end score if half the team are not closing rifts, powering relays or defending the station.
they might think they are comming off better by avoiding the action but in actual fact they are loosing out.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
I'll never forget the royal face palming i did one IGE when the tac just loved swimming in the plasma in the boss room...either he loved it,'or kept thinking that it was a glitch/ thought he was too good for the damage...
Yea... Run didn't end well
Mwahahahahahahaha
look. all many of us need/want is the thingy for event rep. Since its timed, doing stuff has no effect on how long it lasts. 99% of the time we sit around for 5 minutes waiting for the clock to tick down even if you do stuff
by day 6 the event wears really thin. By day 10 its torture. By day 14 Im just going to die 30 secs in and go afk
Common lets not play stupid, all fleets suffer from the same thing.
I can pretty much bet that there are no Fleets out there that will stop what theyre doing to go start a private queue EVERY time a member logs-in to the game 24/7.
All of the Fleets I have joined are all the same. Once in a while youll get a few private queues going, but in general they pretty much do their own thing, like leveling a toon, farming for the fleet or themselves, getting ready to log off, or they have just spent the last few hours running queues.
All Fleets have slow or dead spots throughout the day, thats why some Fleets put up Calendars to let fleet members know when their fleets Hot spots are throughout the day
So even if youre in a fleet that doesn't guarantee EVERY member will be at your beckon call whenever you feel like it.
Eh, who cares?! I never leave. On Normal, it matters none, really. More XP for me, I figure. :P
We are forced to group with people from the Internet. and the internet is full of trolls. Cryptic doesn't even like dealing with them.
Who said anything about a fleet stopping what they are doing? The chat channel I frequent most of the time is public, even though it's fleet run. Start a private, put a call out, it fills. Yeah if its 3am it might fill slower but it fills.
Likewise. That's supposing I'm not intoxicated to the point I can't tell which direction my ship is facing, let alone whether or not the random people from the internet on my team are Nobel laureate winners.
Not only is it easy to leech, but its an incredibly boring and mindnumbling dull time-gated event, for no other reason than for it to take at least X amount of minutes.
First of all, Cryptic needs to get rid of that stupid timer and stop time gating the whole event.
Second, getting Defense Tier 5 should be a primary objective, not a helpful optional.
And instead of the timer, the event should progress to the second phase once Defense Tier 5 is achieved, but not before.
This gives incentive for people to pull together and work as quickly and efficiently as possible, rather than sitting around leeching.
Just like killing the Crystaline Entity as quickly as possible is an incentive to actively participate.
I'd say one run per toon would have been sufficient.
The assumed intent was to get people logged in...but after grinding this 4 times a day, I have little game time/energy left to do much else and log out...so that doesn't boost zen store sales surely.
Perhaps there's someone they report server populations to, and long, grindy, multi day (week) events ensure inflated numbers during the desired time frame? Your guess is as good as mine.
I know Asheron's Call and Anarchy Online handle holidays differently from what I just saw on Neverwinter...perhaps its a Korean Grindfest thing?
They make an event you have to do on a daily basis for 2 weeks per character that runs on a timer rather then just how fast you can shoot the enemies and people wonder why there are some who just want to afk through it? Anything is mind numbing after a few dozen times.
I hate these per character grind events, I really do.
I understand why they cant do this like Summer and Winter with the ships because they are awarding dilithium. Fine...can I just get the shotgun as an account unlock...keep the dil
I just fly out of the fray sat a timer for 8 min and come back for the boss at the end. I have no problem doing this, (particularly because I am running the event on multiple toons.)
During the last time the event ran I used to inform my team mates what I was gonna do and advise them to leave if they were unhappy about it.
This time though I've not bothered with that due to the abuse I got last time. Most people don't even seem to notice I've been doing it.
p.s. for the record I would normally not condone afking, but in this event I would encourage people to do it.
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
Never assume anything isn't an exploit from Cryptic, remember the flames after Dilithium Raging?
Oh and TRIBBLE that 300s post timer. FFS it's not even in the same thread!!!
"You don't have to do something again and again and again repetitive that doesn't have much challange, that's just a general good gameplay thing."