Elachi Red Alert and AFK penalty

fruitvendor12

AFK is bugged for the Elachi red alert. I took one of my higher dps ships today, screened the science ship and killed any number of ships, and significantly accelerated the gate drawdown. I killed at least another ten ships in the final stage.

But got the AFK penalty and got no rewards. Please investigate.​​

alexvio1

I've had that issue too on one of my toons. Very annoying.

fruitvendor12

Happened two more times today. I'm giving up, waste of my time ​​

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jaguarskx

I played the mission 22 times on my primary account and 6 times on my secondary account. I haven't come across this bug.

However, the game did crash a few times during the mission when playing on my secondary account. But that could be related to the new Radeon drivers I installed on that laptop yesterday. The game ran find when I switched over to using the integrated Intel HD 4400 graphics core. I am going to re-install the older Radeon Drivers later today.

aftulus

I think the problem is if you use proper team work and put 3 people on each node and you start pumping the objective but don't get damage and 2 other guys get all the damage people end up with afk for lack of damage. the system is flawed. the afk penalty needs to be disabled for this event.

In the OP's case were they small ships? It's a blue normal even so they could be like 2-5k hp ships. It might have still triggered the afk. But there is no reason for an afk penalty when the optimal way to play the scenario is to have several people potentially avoid combat.... The system is simply wrongly designed in this case. The event is simply not designed correctly. Or in this case the afk system to the event.

jamchemy

I guess I am not the only one experiencing the AFK penalty on the Elachi Red Alert. I single handedly close the gate and then engaged the final assault. I get no fleet marks and have an AFK penalty. How am I AFK when I use Star Trek online to be AFK from my wife. Now I have to sit here and listen to her since I have logged out from the game.

jaguarskx

Still no issues on my end. I have played the mission a total of 44 times so far...

jamchemy

So I get another AFK in the Sompak games. I actively ran around killing and end up dead. The rest of the team dies and when i come to I have an AFK penalty. Thats the second time in one day I have been robbed my fleet marks.

thunderfoot

Decided to see if I could help disable the gate faster. Which is something I had not done before. Didn't fire except at targets which attacked me. Which did not happen as I was drawing no aggro. Gate came down and - bam! - AFK Penalty. No rewards, either.

Oops. My bad.

Forgot the way these things are set up. The only thing which counts is how much damage one does. Had I shot at and damaged a few ships, the AFK Penalty would not have occurred. Upon reviewing the video, my assistance with disabling the gate did not seem to speed the process either.

I'm guessing the "You must do X percent of Damage or the game percieves you as AFK" mechanic is in place.