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jast1981
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I have been grinding Omega and Fleet mark missions this past weekend, today finished up 'Hive Assault' and as normal gave me the option to 'leave map' after destroying the Borg queen ship but gave me no marks or rewards. I returned to the menu to do another mission and got a message
'You have been temporarily banned from joining or creating public queues'
Any idea what is going on? I have been told this can happen if you quit out, but I had finished this mission. In fact, the only one I left was on Saturday morning when I was on a Borg disconnect' on the hardest difficulty setting and the entire team dropped out leaving me on my own in a no win situation.
Quite bizarre. Been like this for nearly 2 hours now.
'You have been temporarily banned from joining or creating public queues'
Any idea what is going on? I have been told this can happen if you quit out, but I had finished this mission. In fact, the only one I left was on Saturday morning when I was on a Borg disconnect' on the hardest difficulty setting and the entire team dropped out leaving me on my own in a no win situation.
Quite bizarre. Been like this for nearly 2 hours now.
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The ban is usually only an hour though. If it has been longer than 2 hours already, I'm not sure how much longer they are going to make you wait.
I mean, do I have to be in the game 60 minutes? I logged off when the message popped up I was temp banned and only went back on when I posted this and was still temp banned.
Well it would not be much of punishment if you could just log out and have fun with something else, and then come back later and go on...
BTW, chances are a heavy hitter was in the mission with you, and you got an AFK penalty for not doing proportionally enough damage.
Oh, yes. I think that you have to do something like 10% of the damage not to be counted as AFK. Last I heard Healing Others and Buffing/Debuffing did not count as participation, either.
Thanks, that's good to know since my character is a science guy and sometimes that is all I try and do is just heal others with my fancy shmancy sciencey stuff. Amazing, after almost 2 years of playing, and occasionally dropping real money into the game, I am just finding this out. The complexity of the game was one of the reasons I enjoyed playing it though, ironic huh...
i've have gotten several of those banns over the last few weeks allready.
Tholian Red Alert...
+ hitting the red alert button,
+ warping to the location,
+ engage!
+ loading the red alert area...
oh look, 4/5 and they're allready melting the last ship,
+ option to leave sector without any reward, and of course another temp. bann.
and i'm fine with not getting a reward here, hell, i even pass on all items from fights i didn't participate in too.
but this afk TRIBBLE should only work on players, that are in the red alert area right from the start and do nothing.
and when the great queue systems dumps you into a red alert, that is nearly done, then there should be no penalty at the end.
anyway, no one gives a damn about this problem.
- support only gives you standard text book answers, when you try to talk about it with them. i also asked to elevate my ticket, but let's be honest, it's probably going nowhere...
- http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1228394/pvp-warning-youre-temporarily-banned-from-joining-or-creating-public-queues nothing there either...
in short, Tholian Red Alert is in an unplayable state for me.
It's quicker to do from Sector Space as there is no warp-out.
It's 1% of the damage according to theory, but if you're late in through loading issues, yes it can be a pain, but this rarely happens, and to be honest, the AFK and Leavers penalties are there for a reason. When you've seen as many AFK'ers walking away with rewards and laughing about it, as I have, you'll be glad something is done about them. I do believe that no rewards are now given if you get such a penalty, which is great, but the system really should kick those that warp in and sit there till 'Trigger Event/Time Event', cause there is nothing worse than someone who refuses to pull his own weight.
I don't find that it comes up that often. It's not surprising that you haven't experienced it before.
My original character was a sciency heal bot, too. Of course back then the Skill Tree had you spec in to a specific ship, so you had better like your roll.
Not to mention, that when one or two players can melt through complete group content within mere seconds, they just don't belong there.
So yes, this one is actually on Cryptic.
No, it's on you.
If you can't do 1% of the total damage.. get better. It's not up to everyone else to come down to your level.
If you have lag or a technical issue, that's your own problem, don't blame other people for it. As Napalm said, it's not like there are Advanced or Elite Red Alerts.
The rest of us are not going to avoid the Red Alerts just because you happen to suck.
5 Minutes might be a big long considering how quickly some events end, but still it's definitely on the right track. It's a rational and fair attempt at a middle ground instead of the usual suggestion of simply trying to ban people from content because they do more damage then others. The suggestion is fair to everyone.
You and your pal still don't get it...
First, it's not just me, this TRIBBLE happens to other players often enough, that you can even read in Zone chat about it between all the daily/nightly spam.
Second, it takes 10-20 seconds tops from "Engage!" to being in the red alert, hence the "mere seconds".
Third, it's not like the whole game is completely bug free, so yes, there might be something going on here, and this might warrant some Dev having a closer look at it.
I mean, were would be the problem to actually accept, that there is an actual issue here, that this is affecting more then just a single player, and that the Devs should take a closer look and come up with a solution for it?
Besides, judging by other threads on this forum, may be it's time to come up with advanced/elite version of red alerts.
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So... If you get randomly teamed with a group where everyone else is capable of soloing the entire map and they take everything out before you can even get a head on the bad guys, that's somehow your fault, right? As if you subconsciously influenced the other players to join the RA queue at that exact moment just so your subconscious could troll you?
No, there are just instances where it's bad luck on teaming. No different than any other bad PUG run.
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
That would also allow using a sufficiently high threshold that you couldn't bypass the whole system by shooting something once.