The Contested Zone: why does it has to be that inconvenient to get there?

plaztikman64

I've been wondering for some time now, why is there no shortcut to this Zone once you enter the Allied Zone, like there are for the Space and Ground Battlezones. Just saying, its a fun place to be... but I bet, since it's that "well hidden" most people don't know about it or simple don't want to go there because you either need to travel all the way via the Allied Zone (everytime), or beam down to the Ground Battlezone and then use the "leave Battlezone" button. Such a waste of rather good content actually

davefenestrator

It's annoying to me that you also can jump to the Undine zone right when you enter the sphere, but not once you move away from the entrance. Even if you return to the entrance you can't. Anywhere else it's faster to leave the sphere and re-enter, even though that means enduring 2 useless extra map transitions.

xyquarze

davefenestrator wrote: »

It's annoying to me that you also can jump to the Undine zone right when you enter the sphere, but not once you move away from the entrance. Even if you return to the entrance you can't. Anywhere else it's faster to leave the sphere and re-enter, even though that means enduring 2 useless extra map transitions.

Actually you can. The area where the option appears is not exactly at the gate but a bit east of it, though.

As for "knowing about the contested zone": most people should know since going there is required by a couple of missions from the Dyson arc. So they either forget or, and I think this is more probable, don't want to take the hassle of going there.

tigrovaya13akula

What really bothers me about it is when you're finished playing in the "Undine" Zone & want to go back to the "Voth" Zone, you either have to Warp out of the "System" (takes you to the Iconian Gate for Jenolan (spelling?) Sphere in Beta Quadrant OR Transwarp to the Sphere Allied Space (which is actually the Adventure Zone), THEN traverse ALL the way past the Minefield, THEN map transfer AGAIN to the Voth Contested Zone.

Since we CAN go directly from the Voth Zone to the Undine Zone, why can we not "Flip a U-turn" as it were, back to the Voth Zone?

kodachikuno

its finished content... yall have 3+ years to wait before cryptic even consdiers lookin at it for improvements

sirmayday

It's not a great solution, but if you take the Ground Battleground shuttle on entering the Dyson Sphere, and then beam up immediately from the Command Center map, you'll be in roughly the middle of the Contested Zone. It's still an extra loading screen, but it's still much faster than traversing Allied Sphere Space.