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Mirror Invasion Event!
pwlaughingtrendy
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The Mirror Invasion will be returning to Star Trek Online with a brand new reward!
Check out the details for the event here.
~Morrigan "LaughingTrendy"
Check out the details for the event here.
~Morrigan "LaughingTrendy"
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Real life stuff...
Burnout from Temporal event...
Dissatisfied with current practices...
13 characters...
'Shiny' reward is an Admirality card...
I think I'll try two characters, my main and my Temporal Recruit (who needs temporal marks), and see how it goes.
Not a happy camper with this.
Fortunately, I don't need the card. Got enough heavy tac ones for the admiralty system already.
Might to it on one or two toons if I can find the motivation, otherwise it won't be a real loss to me if I don't participate in it this time.
I mean, the Breach event also only rewarded a card, but at least, it was the first try at this kind of reward, and by itself the card could give stats around 100 for ENG, TAC and SCI, which pretty much allowed you to complete most admirality assignments.
Until they remove the artificial TRIBBLE time gates, I am ok with creating premade AFK runs. But otherwise TRIBBLE this event.
I usually do, unfortunately then I end up spending more time leaving team after team than I do playing the mission. So, you end up getting screwed over either way.
Good idea, but does that star your 30 min cooldown on the mission? I'm tempted to try this after the last event, but would be put off if I had to sit out another 30 min.
People are also talking about AFK premades on the reddit thread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/4zdyh0/mirror_invasion_event/d6v01sj
I'm guessing that Cryptic will eventually change the mission to make it no longer possible. Or maybe, they'll actually listen and make these rewards account unlocks like people have been requesting. Reading the comments about this event, I'm getting a strong sense of player burnout.
T6 TOS Mirror Connie.
To make things slightly more equal with the T6 TOS Prime Connie in the R&D pack, Mirror Connie:
-can only have a mirror hull material
-doesn't have access to temporal abilities
-doesn't have access to the refit and purchaseable costumes
-doesn't come with a TOS bridge by default
-has a Vic Mignogna sound file playing "THIS IS CAPTAIN KIRK OF THE ISS ENTERPRISE" every time you go in combat
There, that's how you make a more worthwhile reward.
I'd be good with either solution. I can't blame players for feeling burnt out, but I don't see why I should be stuck with holding the bag since I actually get a sense of enjoyment out of playing the mission.
Account-wide unlocks is something many players have been asking for... well... a really long time.
I totally agree with this. The TOS I.S.S. Enterprise would have been a great reward for this event. Plus, it could have been the consolation prize for not being able to get the Temporal T6 Connie. Definitely a missed opportunity.
The main reward--being the Admiralty Card or the special item associated with the event--needs to be an account-wide unlock, especially if the Devs plan on making the mission fail when the Starbase Hull reaches 0% to discourage AKFers. People with multiple alts cannot always do the mission with each alt. It's too time consuming, especially when the mission is time-gated. These events need to be similar to the way the Summer and Winter Events are done.
I already have over 100 Admiralty cards on my characters, so yeah, not putting myself through that queue again..
^ Cryptic needs to hire this person.
Oh good lord, yes, WE NEED ACCOUNT-WIDE UNLOCKS!!!!!!
Now if it's changed to move on right away if all the rifts are closed and all the ships are destroyed then maybe, otherwise I have much better things to do with my time than sit around for 10+ minutes with nothing to do waiting for a timer to run out because the enemies all got vaped by our power creep inflated DPS amounts.
I suppose the fact that it's too easy to get interrupted while scanning the portals doesnt help. (Like the Miranda that's 9 k away that shot a single photorp at you...)
Was kind of hoping for the breech though since i have that one incomplete on one of my chars with 2-3 days to go.
At least the reward, this time an Admiralty Card, is an account unlock. So I only need to run this event on one character to unlock it for all my alts. But, I'm looking forward to running this queue on all of my alts of appropriate level anyway. It's super short and not the least bit annoying, so running it 40+ times a day is far from a chore, it's fun.
And it's a good thing that there is a sizable Dil reward since everyone bought up those Dil Store uniforms and are likely running out of Dilithium.
This should also help keep the Dil/Zen market continue going down.
I'm just glad that they are spreading events out a little more now so that we players don't burnout. I would hate to see the days return where an event would end simply to have another start up the very next day. Or even worse, an event begin in the middle of another event.
As far as those people complaining about AFK'ers in this mission, I don't know what you're talking about. I've never seen anybody go AFK in any queue before, especially not one as awesome and beloved as the Mirror Invasion. It's the best event ever and the players love it.
Last but not least, I just want to say a big Thank You to Cryptic. They are in rare form and I look forward to what is coming next.
I apologize if I broke any sarcasm detectors out there. Also, this was the first .gif I could find in the extremely short amount of time I bothered looking that wasn't bright farking yellow.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
Instead we get the Mirror Invasion!!! Hopefully, they may still have some Event 50th Anniversary based. Of course the Calendar never would tell you that. We didn't even know about this until the day before. Too much is being kept close to the vest with all announcements these days. And this new tendency to give out Admiralty Cards instead of a Doff, Weapon, Kit Module, or something. But I guess there is less need to test out an Admiralty Card and no likelihood that some aspect of the prize would have a bug.
Three or four characters through this at most for me. These are just too long to push everyone through. The Crystalline Event is the best for alt friendliness. And even after all the complaints about down time and dead time in this Queue they don't address that at all. Must need a certain number of minutes running time for the Metrics.
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.'