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mjaybird
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I don;t think cryptic made the event for us to just AFK through it and then get the reward. Why are people doing this?
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if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
And they were not raised to show any consideration for others.
Ludicrous, I know, but that's how it's set up.
Pretty much this.
They want the reward without providing any effort. Me Me Me Me Me Me attitude.
now to be fair many of their parents/guardians/parole officers tried to teach em to be considerate. people just chose not to cause... hell if I know.
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
People are ignoring the optionals, because they're optional.
The exact same thing that happens if everyone jumps through the optional hoops while waiting. The timer runs out, the enemies and portals disappear, the dreadnought and attendants will spawn and the real mission begins.
It's a perfect time to do your doffing, admiralty, R&D, etc location-independent gameplay.
I understand why people choose to AFK but that doesnt mean I condone what they do in a group based combat related event. For the contact day thing I did a token gathering of the 3 parts then stayed int he middle and sorted my doffs and admiralty, semi afk but nothing I was or wasnt doing had an impact on other players especially as the effort bore little to no relation to the outcome of the launch.
For group content I don't afk and will routinely slap an ignore on those who leech off the folk making an effort. In theory I never see them again and thats fine by me.
Wonder how much hate would appear on the forums if the terrans decided to fixate on players who were inert, spawned portals around those that fly to the edge of the map or forcibly respawning the permadead with ever increasing repair bills.
That flyover is freaking annoying. Yeah I know you do it as you are too thick to realise you spent 15 minutes doing nothing but logging in and out or maybe you think we are dumb enough to think your wifis gone gaga as on some level you are ashamed of afking..
But please, just hide in a map corner and save us seeing your team leaving/joining flyover fify odd times!
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As to afking..in pugs, its a poor show but a premade afk (or a pug where everyone agrees)? Fair game. I attend afk premades (although I enjoy opening the gates of hell to not shoot stuff so I'm active in an afk match (its a glorious way to level ships considering the target rich environment when it goes fubar and the terrans blot out the stars)) and I have no issue as it was decided prior
There really is no excuse to afk a pug when merely offering an afk pug on a chat channel would net you an eager group.
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Why are you trying to get dilithium ore and a ship console if you don't like blowing stuff up when given the opportunity?
It is beyond me why you'd think the sration will survive if you absolutely do nothing.
Also, I was in a premade AFK run, the other day. We had all agreed to do nothing. MIA rewarded a measly 78 Marks. As opposed to the ca. 130 you usually get when you close around 30 rifts.
Draconian, yes. Since we can't court-martial Characters, this will get them to do their duty and follow orders.
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 don't think that this is really what's happening in those instances. It seems the messages come way too fast for it to be manually logging in and out, plus I've been seeing it on other maps where it makes less sense ever since Season 13 rolled out, and people "stabilize" or don't at random times, not just when the first phase is over. I think this is just a connectivity issue or a bug with the new season, but then again, I tend to give the benefit of the doubt in cases like this, so I might be a bit of a Pollyanna here.
If only it worked this way in real life, courts, for one thing, would be much more interesting.
Didn't know that about the Frigates.
Me, I usually just close rifts (when it's clear the team can't pull it); no need to bother with initiating power transfers: just cloak, fly to rift, close it. If you close >30 or so, you still come out very nicely, even if the station is dead.
Having the dreadnought spawn triggered by closing 30-40 rifts would be an idea I'd get behind. Could even have increasing spawns of either rifts or ships from them as more rifts are closed in a set time to keep folk on their toes.
I'd be tempted to suggest a three lives and its GG for the station but that would be open to abuse.
If we're in the business of handing out draconian punishments to people who don't play the mission like someone else wants...
They're going to spawn rifts now until the timer runs out after today's patch.
A team I was part of once closed 43 rifts in the first phase.
It makes zero difference if you kill the frigates or not. The rifts expand the longer they're left open, as they expand, the ships that spawn from them get to be larger. Smallest is 3 frigates, then 1 frigate and 1 generic escort/science vessel/cruiser, then 1 frigate and a Prometheus/Intrepid/Galaxy, and finally a lone Armitage/Chimera/Rhode Island/Command Cruiser.
Wait, you don't do the first phase because it's wasting time, but you don't want people to close the rifts in the second phase, which would ultimately make the second phase take longer? Closing the rifts in the second phase means that you don't have to wait for the thing to respawn twice, and chase it down to whichever rift it decides to respawn from twice.
Did you know you can do that event over and over and choose 1 package from each of the reputations and get a sizeable amount of reputation currency each time? This particular mission isn't just about that event it's about getting those reputation points for many of us. I do it and my teams have been pretty good so far I usually end up with 101 - 110 currency each time even after getting the 1 teleporter per day.
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.'
With a pug...always better to just shoot the dready instead of hoping the randos can get anything done in a timely fashion.