Wait a minute, how can you be alive? You are a Vampire!!!
'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
Judge Dan Haywood
'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
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.'
I've skipped the last few events like this, and only run some before that on my main. I'll be skipping this one as well, though I may run it two or three times to get enough temporal marks to complete my tiers. As others have said, running it is a slog, and the reward too petty to bother with - Especially for a single-character unlock. Now if they were to compromise, and allow you to buy the reward with Dil per character once you unlock it once...
(That and I'm working ungodly numbers of overtime night shifts during the middle of summer when its actually hot for a change... Wahhh, self-pity! Wahhhh!!!)
It's amazing how over half of the posts (rough estimate) in this thread are begging for/demanding account-wide unlocks for the 'shinies', and there hasn't even been a 'No, we can't do this because reasons' response, much less the desired 'Okay, we'll do this'.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Wait a minute, how can you be alive? You are a Vampire!!!
Hmmm Salty
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
well, i'll be at conventions for 5 days of this. so we shall see. will try to do it for my new agent.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: "We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, it's all ancient history. Then - before you can blink an eye - suddenly it threatens to start all over again."
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I wouldn't mind getting an A.S.S. card for my chars. But if that means two weeks of grinding for all of them, no thanks.
I already passed on the Voth Citadel. And that was a much sexier A.S.S. card.
TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class. Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider. Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
First one forced, unskippable timer. Then another forced, unskippable timer. Doesn't matter if you close every portal and wipe out every Terran ship on the map, wait wait wait wait wait until a forced, unskippable cutscene. Then if anyone isn't AFK, maybe possibly pop the 'naught in time for a few bonus marks.
Cryptic, you've had a wealth of valid and constructive feedback as to why this mission design is bad and punishes players, turning the event into an AFK-fest that angers some people. You haven't changed anything, you've made zero improvements to what could be a fun event with a minor tweak.
Participating in this horrible timesink regularly on one character per day is too much. Doing it on several... nope. Just no. Pass.
Damn I still feel burnt out doing AoY..Which was somewhat of a grind once all the mission stuff was outta the way..I aint sitting in for another long grind..Sorry, but count me out..Not in the mood for grinding again..
Hm... the Event description in in-game calendar says the shiny from Mirror Invasion is Mirror Universe Agony Field Rifle...
If only that were true. I created my MU themed captain after that event, and it's character-bound not account-bound so I can't have one of my other characters pass the rifle on to him
I will do it but only begrudgingly. The overall theme of the mission is good and even considered fun the first xx times through, but the timegates and specifics are such that it is something I wouldn't run outside of the event even if it were available. The rewards/time is pathetic and needs a huge increase and/or decrease in timegates. The reason people AFK: they can because nothing will reduce the timegate and the negative aspects of going AFK are pretty negligible - either all the gates are closed and no more ships spawn for 1-5 mins, or they aren't and the pain ends at the same time anyway. Players are actually punished for doing this efficiently, in terms of being rewarded fewer marks! Making the card char wide (rather than account) just multiplies the effect and forces players to grind for the shinies.
Nope. Too tedious to run twelve characters through the gauntlet again for a single character award. Which is kinda sad, consider my temporal agent, KDF, and RRF characters could use the admiralty card. And the card isn't a reward that can be mucked with to appease the thin skinned and easily butthurt. But still too tedious for something that isn't fun to use and not account-wide.
- anoying 2:30 minute waiting period for the second phase to begin still in there? check
- enemy torpedoes fired from an already blown up ship hitting you and interrupting your attempt at closing the rift still happening? check
- nothing has been changed despite all the reporting, complaining, pleading and aruging since the last time this event was around? check
- all feedback pointless? check
- anoying 2:30 minute waiting period for the second phase to begin still in there? check
- enemy torpedoes fired from an already blown up ship hitting you and interrupting your attempt at closing the rift still happening? check
- nothing has been changed despite all the reporting, complaining, pleading and aruging since the last time this event was around? check
- all feedback pointless? check
You expect Cryptic to be reasonable? Most illogical.
I know... It's been asked for, multiple times... But can we please have the Time gate removed, when the objectives are completed for the first stage.
Ran it twice today, both pugged, and we ended up waiting 3 minutes for the timer to count down... As it was joked about in chat... "O.K. folks, get your doffing done now..."
Easily the worst event, for an admiralty card? There is no way this is worth the grind. Got away with the doff because it was still kind of new. For new players this event will do nothing but burn in the worst that STO has to offer.
Only doing it it to grind the temporal marks to turn into the crafting items to finish my ground set
"The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
It's worse this year. People are better at it. Yesterday, 10 chars, so 10 runs...
The one in which we waited the fewer time was 2 minutes. In one, it was 5 minutes....
There was one in which a player left because he/she thought it was bugged and wouldn't complete...
Seriously cryptic, ditch the time gate, you're actively encouraging people to AFK or just plain not do it. Of course AFKing is probably not a concern since it feeds your precious metrics.
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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.'
(That and I'm working ungodly numbers of overtime night shifts during the middle of summer when its actually hot for a change... Wahhh, self-pity! Wahhhh!!!)
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Hmmm Salty
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I already passed on the Voth Citadel. And that was a much sexier A.S.S. card.
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
First one forced, unskippable timer. Then another forced, unskippable timer. Doesn't matter if you close every portal and wipe out every Terran ship on the map, wait wait wait wait wait until a forced, unskippable cutscene. Then if anyone isn't AFK, maybe possibly pop the 'naught in time for a few bonus marks.
Cryptic, you've had a wealth of valid and constructive feedback as to why this mission design is bad and punishes players, turning the event into an AFK-fest that angers some people. You haven't changed anything, you've made zero improvements to what could be a fun event with a minor tweak.
Participating in this horrible timesink regularly on one character per day is too much. Doing it on several... nope. Just no. Pass.
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If only that were true. I created my MU themed captain after that event, and it's character-bound not account-bound so I can't have one of my other characters pass the rifle on to him
I'll pass, thanks.
- anoying 2:30 minute waiting period for the second phase to begin still in there? check
- enemy torpedoes fired from an already blown up ship hitting you and interrupting your attempt at closing the rift still happening? check
- nothing has been changed despite all the reporting, complaining, pleading and aruging since the last time this event was around? check
- all feedback pointless? check
Nothing has changed...
Players will still go AFK...
Sets phaser to max setting, points at own head
Join Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
You expect Cryptic to be reasonable? Most illogical.
Ran it twice today, both pugged, and we ended up waiting 3 minutes for the timer to count down...
As it was joked about in chat... "O.K. folks, get your doffing done now..."
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
The one in which we waited the fewer time was 2 minutes. In one, it was 5 minutes....
There was one in which a player left because he/she thought it was bugged and wouldn't complete...
Adu-Uss Firefox NCC-93425-F (LVL 65 FED AoY ENG) UR/VR MKXV Fleet Intel Assault Cruiser (July 2016)
Jean-Uss Seratoga Ravenna (LVL 60 FED Delta ENG) UC/R MKVI Bajoran Escort (April 2018)
Dubsa-RRW Mnaudh (LVL 50 FED allied ROM Delta ENG) Warbird (May 2018)
Marop-IKS Orunthi (LVL 50 KNG Delta ENG) BoP (May 2018)
Kanak'lan-TRIBBLE (LVL 65 DOM Gamma ENG) TRIBBLE (June 2018)