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wylonus
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we all race for Q to get those new ships every year, i had been bump for "disqualified" as there were too many hailing to start the race in past, now most knew when to avoid and wait.
however, this year, (Player avatar description moderated out - BMR), just stood and i wait for him to hail since he was there first, then i got annoyed by waiting, then i hail and sudden he hailed just to get me disqualified and as he on the track, he intentaully went off track for disquailied, and i went to get fresh redo, and he was ready waiting for me to hail, in my thoughts, HECK NO, NOT AGAIN!, so i change the zone.
anyone been griefing lately just by taunting and repeatly get bump off, also been snowballed on tracks when there was no snowmen fight not up yet.
Devs need to fix hailing and not get disqualified, but to put in "Qued List" on whoever go on next, instead of returning to get fresh reset. or being told to wait and not get disqualified on the spot.
anyone been stop by grief-play recently, by same "dirty players"?
however, this year, (Player avatar description moderated out - BMR), just stood and i wait for him to hail since he was there first, then i got annoyed by waiting, then i hail and sudden he hailed just to get me disqualified and as he on the track, he intentaully went off track for disquailied, and i went to get fresh redo, and he was ready waiting for me to hail, in my thoughts, HECK NO, NOT AGAIN!, so i change the zone.
anyone been griefing lately just by taunting and repeatly get bump off, also been snowballed on tracks when there was no snowmen fight not up yet.
Devs need to fix hailing and not get disqualified, but to put in "Qued List" on whoever go on next, instead of returning to get fresh reset. or being told to wait and not get disqualified on the spot.
anyone been stop by grief-play recently, by same "dirty players"?
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To clarify: she was waiting near the start of the race but when they didn't proceed when it was possible, I waited a few seconds longer and then I started my race because other players were coming and I knew I would be waiting there for a long time if I didn't start then.
It's hardly something to get upset about.
Sounds like a pretty bad troll to me who's trolling himself as much as he's trolling others.
i can tell which was did by mistakes and those who waited on purposes.
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Most of the time it's just someone being rude (running up behind you, stealing your spot) or clueless (asleep at the green light, wakes up just after you've given up on them and hailed). I've only had a couple where I suspected trolling.
not right when they were there first and waited until i start hail race officer, i waited good 30 seconds/almost 1 min when they do nothing but trolling for hail baits.
They simply don't care to fix it.
there's so many things why they can't or haven't fixed it besides "just don't care" that to assume it as your first choice simply makes things take longer to fix.
2. The player has to stand at the start line anyway so any "preparing the track" could just as well be done then.
My choices don't affect the development of this game in the slighest.
When dealing with code it's often not as simple as "a trival fix by removing the hand-waving delay". I wish it were as simple as just flipping switches but it's often not. When dealing with code a single one or zero out of place can bring the entire code crashing down. With computer code you have to be extremely precise. Some of the more complex games like STO today can have multiple programming languages used for a single game. Trying to get those languages to talk to each other can be very tedious and depending on the severity of the issue can take weeks or long to fix. In my own case I've added some custom items to some of the old strategy games I play. In one instance I tried adding a weapon to some of the units in game. In doing so I had a single line of code out of place and it crashed the entire game. It took me about 5 days to find it and that's at the small time modder level. Now scale that up to a full on production like STO and it can be even nastier. Believe me I wish it were as simple as what you're suggesting but it's often not.
With that said folks this thread is getting off topic. As I said prior should you have issues I would advise filing a ticket should it become serious enough. Please keep any and all debates civil and on point to the post at hand otherwise I will lock the discussion.
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So far this year I have only seen one guy run up right when I was hailing the race official. Usually I look around to see if anyone is 'lurking' about (and no one ever is) before I hail the race official. If in doubt, just change instances. Solves everything.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone deliberately booting someone from the race, disqualify, re-acquire the mission and run back to do it all again. I've only seen people who just don't want to wait their turn.
And yes, people don't wait their turn like they should. Best to change instances and hope for less idiots.
> So...wait...how does this griefing work? If the person attempting this ends up in the race, he needs to wait for the race to start and run off the track and then go to the race quest giver to reset the race BEFORE you can go back and get the quest and come back and restart. You would literally have to be the worst pathing player for somebody to beat you for a second time. Now if you claimed that there was a group of 10 doing this in tandum I might have found it credible. But what you said just does not work.
Thank you, I was about to post somethimg similiar xD If the "troll" can wait four seconds and get the quest reset and be there in time to "troll" again something 's not right.
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Some people do it because it means they aren't rooted at the start of the race and can start to run the second they spawn on the track, some do it just to troll others.
The glitch isn't just tied to the first two players either, if you are fast enough to trigger it 4 or 5 players can activate the glitch, with the player that does it last getting placed on the track, with the rest having to restart the "quest".
Used it on quite a few line cutters last year, haven't had to so far this year.
Not really. Just didn't find it believable. Still, at the time I'm doing my races there are no others waiting to go or who run up to get their turn, so I've avoided that glitch so far.
Of course, if you see them do this, the smart reaction is to switch instances.
Alternatively, they can choose to run the race for themselves and gain a head start because they don't have to wait for the countdown. This method can also be used to intentionally help give your friend a head start if they're having trouble with the race. Just go to the podium together and tell them to click as soon as they see you wave hand.
Or if the middle players don't get rooted, they can jump on the track themselves and if fast enough, they won't get disqualified and can all run the race at the same time.
I just love it when people talk about the same stuff year after year after year....
Shows how old we are spending time in STO and it always the same logical solution...just change maps.
Dont' expect anything from Devs. Heck some of the maps in STO have been broken since game launch in beta.