Bring back old Red Alerts please!

alexraptorr

I absolutely HATE the Queued Red Alerts, they are virtually the same but instead one has to wait for other players to join, rather than just hopping in and playing as soon as another one appears, its terrible.
Honestly I used to do Red Alerts all the time, but I barely touch them anymore since they became queued as they aren't worth the time spent "waiting" for other players.
Really disappointing that It ended up this way, as Red Alerts were one of the few pieces of random and dynamic encounters that made the game world feel a bit more alive.

So please, end this nonsense and bring back the old Red Alerts.

arionisa

I would love to see them go back to the old system. The problem is that they would also have to remove the AFK penalties. In the old system, numerous times I would join an RA just in time to see the final ship go boom, which would trigger an AFK penalty if they don't remove them. But removing them mean players will start AFKing them.

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trekpuppy

They also broke 21 accolades when they moved the Borg ones to the queue system. Would be nice to have those back. And while talking of that, why not bring back the old Deep Space Encounters too? Another 33 accolades that disappeared with them.

alexraptorr

I don't ever recall seeing an AFK penalty from Red Alerts, and I don't see any problem with players AFK'ing the Red Alerts, rewards arent th

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They also broke 21 accolades when they moved the Borg ones to the queue system. Would be nice to have those back. And while talking of that, why not bring back the old Deep Space Encounters too? Another 33 accolades that disappeared with them.

Completely Agreed! Let us play the game the way we want it and not shoehorn us into specific activities. I mean seriously, the rewards are so paltry that its not even worth the Queue time.

arionisa

Back when they were still actually Red Alerts, there was no AFK penalty, now that they are actually a que (though still called a Red Alert) they have an AFK penalty, at least according to all the Forums rants from people getting an AFK penalty while playing them. I personally wouln't care that much if someone AFK'd it if they went back to the old RAs. They were a quick way of levelling ship mastery, an a quick way of earning marks, and if you happened to be the first one in on a slow day, it was just that much more XP, although it was frustrating at times, I remember being the only one in an RA one time, in a ship barely capable of handling the the 4 groups, finally getting to the final boss only to find myself in a stalemate, I couln't damage it fast enough to counter the probe healing, and I couln't kill the probes fast enough to keep it from self healing, someone else finally came in....not much more powerful than me and time ran out before we killed the boss. A lot of time spent for no reward. Thing is, although also frustrating, it was actually quite fun, and although not the only time I had an RAs timer run out with no rewards, it was rare enough to not bother me.

Bring back the old RAs, let the few random people AFK em due to no penalty, it'll still be better than what we have now.

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dracounguis

I've not really seen much waiting for a RA to pop. As far as I can tell, they are the most populated queues since the are fast to do and give a decent amount of ship mastery and marks. (well, decent marks if you chose one that still has the daily bonus on it)

ussvaliant

Bring back the xp bonus. Tholian Red Alert isn't worth playing to level up starship mastery anymore. Not enough xp is rewarded to even level the 1st tier.

Days gone by Tholian would get you 2 to 3 tiers levelled.