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tacticalrook
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Hardcore players are able to wait out this show-stopping lag situation, but casual players don't have that luxury. It is a bit unfair that many casuals will not be fortunate enough to obtain all of of the vouchers needed for this year's ship, due to the lag which is causing the game to be unplayable. There are only a number of days left remaining for the event, every last bit is needed.
Are there any plans to give casual players some relief with an event extension?
Are there any plans to give casual players some relief with an event extension?
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Anyway, good luck man I hope you get your ship (I'm in a similar boat).
And/or lowering the threshold to 800 or something.
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.
even if you could not play for over a week you still should have been able to collect 5 days worth of tokens in the two and a half weeks that the event has been running giving you enough time to finish in the time remaining.
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.
Your assuming everyone had time IRL to do it outside of those problem times. Not everyones free time is equal, some are able to play 24/7, others can only play a couple hours on one or two specific days a week due to kids or other commitments. Therefore, I'm sure there are players who have planned to get the ship all along, but due to their unique situation needed every single day of the allotted time, and possibly are going to miss out because the game was unplayable during one of their few times to play.
at the end of the day it is entirely up to cryptic if they feel responsible for the problem times, they are not however responsible for the other commitments that stopped you from playing outside of those problem times that is entirely down to you.
having said that I really do hope they extend the event, it will give me more time to get some more marks, dilithium and upgrades from the omega mission.
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.
if the map transfer bug has not been fixed and there is no acknowledgement about when a fix is due how is extending the event going to help, surely it would be better to finish the event on the scheduled day and rerun the event later in the year when the bug is fixed even if it is only the ship part of the event.
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.
... Are you serious?
There is another 12 days to go in the Anniversary event.
so basically answer the question "if the map transfer bug has not been fixed and there is no acknowledgement about when a fix is due how is extending the event going to help"
and there lies the problem, there have been other instances where some players were unable to play due to some outside force and cryptic didn't extend the event, the only time I have known for events to be extended is when cryptic is directly responsible and it effects all of the players not just the unlucky few.
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.
Besides, many of us haven't had a single problem with the server or map transfer so that indicates this is not a world spread problem, and thus not entirely Cryptic's sole responsiblity. If it was I bet Cryptic would do something about it. So... there could be many other factors involved as to why some people get these problems. If Cryptic kept extending the event for every single soul with disconnection problems we would never get any new content.
about the same as I said in a roundabout way, it always makes me chuckle that people instantly assume you don't have a life,work,family,commitments outside of sto just because you disagree with them in these kind of time related threads.
but to be honest after playing time and tide the omega trace mission only takes about 15-20 minutes a day and if you cant spare that amount of time even as a "casual player" perhaps you shouldn't be worrying about events at all.
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.
Okay, but, I'm not seeing the problem, at least on Cryptic's end. Does this cost them money or something to extend it?
If the server attacks have been enough to knock a player behind to the point they can't finish, I think the problem is that player's own ability to schedule time for the game. Sure, we all have IRL commitments, but a game isn't going to accomodate that - especialy not for a time-limited event. There will be times when, due to your own schedule, you won't be able to get the shiny thing being offered during a given event. That's just a fact of playing in an MMO. But no one's saying that someone's IRL commitments aren't valid. What's not valid is demanding additional time to accomodate individual IRL commitments, when extra time is already pre-built into the event.
This.
Every event no matter what it is, someone is asking for an extension because they have a connection problem or they mismanaged their own personal time. If Cryptic granted all these requests we would currently be on the 27th extension of the 4th anniversary event.
If it's something like server outages that effects the entire community, then I can see it, but extending the event because a few people have lag is frankly ridiculous. There is way more then enough time to complete the event as it is.
I could buy the 'everyone asks for extension in every event' argument to a point, but when technical difficulties occurred before, they did extend it and we have official confirmation they are having difficulties.
Issues from the player side, regardless of time management or technical issues from the players end is irrelevant because we talking about service to the game being down and being down often. If it's a hiccup once or twice, yeah no, fat chance the event is more than long enough it should be fine.
Can you please elaborate on this? because I honestly have no idea what you mean. I have seen no issues at all outside of the occasional DDOS attack. I'm sure that's not what you are talking about though since those have been no where near frequent enough to prevent anyone from completing the Anniversary Event.
What confirmed issues are you referring to?
no but it ensures players will attempt to get the reward within the time frame of the event, like has been previously mentioned just about every event that has been run since I started playing sto there has been someone asking for every one of the events to be extended.
the events are always run across extended time periods to allow for outside forces getting in the way of people getting the main prize in events, when the servers are down for extended periods cryptic will usually extend the event by a day or two but when outside forces are too blame for players not being able to play they usually stick to the original end date.
when you consider that most players completed the ship project by 11th of feb and the event doesn't finish until 24th of feb so you have almost 2 weeks over the top to allow for any outside obstacles that prevent you from playing I think it would be unfair of players not to admit that cryptic have extended the event by default to allow players that might have problems plenty of time already.
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.
and so we go back to my previous question yet again "if the map transfer bug has not been fixed and there is no acknowledgement about when a fix is due how is extending the event going to help".
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.
indeed as I said before, I am all for extending the event so I can reap more rewards but I just cant see a valid reason why cryptic should feel obliged to consider extending it as things stand at the moment.
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'm actually going based on confirmation from what Cryptic/PWE confirmed to be DDOS attacks (be here or social media) which appear to happen rather frequently during the event. Now whether the frequency of the occurrence and/or length of time this happen is enough to cause a disruption to the event that would prevent players competing the event is debatable.
I personally have no idea, but the OP is asking *if* there would be an extension provided by Cryptic. All I'm saying is:
1) There have been confirmed reports of interruption of the game, more than on one occasion.
2) What harm (be from the player or Cryptic's perspective) would there actually be to extend it in any way? Why such an up roar against it?
I'm actual just more than very curious on this. So far it's just 'get your life in order and work around it' or 'you don't get it...it's not Cryptic's fault, they gave you enough time' which I'm not saying is wrong to say, but doesn't at all answer my question directly.
Again, doesn't really answer my question directly, but I appreciate the reply anyway.
Interruptions may and usually will always happen with any sort of servers. However, companies usually only extend deadlines if it is a major server outage which I doubt they consider it to be this time, and I am on the same page there. I am not unsympathetic but I think players in this whole community generally expect too much regardless of what it may be and take things a little bit too for granted. Sometimes what they ask for is entirely justified but more so often it's more in the line of my wanting to put my hand on their shoulders and say, "Don't worry... be happy".