AFK during the winterevent.

nemrodh

So I just did a Winter invasion. and i don't have a weapon from the shop yet so I'm using snowballs. and apparently because i don't have a weapon i wasn't getting enough hits every time i went after a mob it was dead. so i ended up getting a 2hr penalty. I was running and attacking as fast I can.. even hit the yeti and the boss but got afk penalty.. the system might need to be adjusted a little bit. its not fun when you get afked when you were doing your best.

jaguarskx

The AFK penalty is actually rather lenient, all you need to do to avoid it is to do at least 1% of the total damage. I have actually rushing into doing Winter Invasion with a few of my characters where I forgot to get my weapon from the character bank inventory so I simply had to throw snowballs while everyone else was using a weapon. I also created two new characters (in March & end of November)w ho had to throw snowballs while others were using weapons. I have never gotten an AFK penalty because of it.

The best way to get the Winter Currencies so that you can purchase a weapon that absolutely does not involve the need to kill anything in the Winter Wonderland are Winter related Doff missions. When you are in the Winter Wonderland simply click the icon to bring up Doff missions. From there click Current Map to see the missions; there are usually between 3 to 5 of them. There are additional Winter Doff missions that can be found on your Homeworld and Academy maps; they are mixed in with the other missions when you click Current Map in the Doff mission window. Even though my most recent character with only 100 Doff slots was able to earn enough Winter Currencies to buy a weapon on the 2nd day of the event.

There is a Pie Eating Contest in the Gingerbread Village. Speak to the Breen to begin and eat as many pies as you can. The mission typically rewards you with 4 (or is it 5??) random currencies. This mission can be repeated every 15 minutes. The Breen stands across from Neelix.

Neelix offers another way to get Winter Currencies without firing a shot. But you either need to buy recipes from the Exchange or collect them from the Winter Invasion (an optional objective). Speak with him with a recipe in your inventory and he will tell you to search for the ingredients in the Winter Map. Some ingredients need to be replicated. Yet other ingredients need to be found as random drops from outside the Winter Wonderland, or simply buy them from the Exchange (which will be pretty expensive this time of the year).

Worse case scenario... Buy enough Winter Currencies from the Exchange to purchase a weapon; you basically need 8 of each currency, except Sleigh Bells and Gratitude Beads which you need 5 of each. The currencies to search for are as follows:

- Vulcan Mediation Incense
- Bajoran Gratitude Beads
- Bolian Candles
- Targ Fur Earmuffs
- Andorian Sleigh Bells
- Terran Holiday Ornament

baddmoonrizin

Sorry to hear that, OP. But you only get an AFK if you fail to do 1% of the total damage during the queued event. Unfortunately, you're never going to hit that if you're just throwing snowballs while everyone else on your team has weapons. Fortunately, the AFK penality won't prevent you from taking part in the open missions in Q's Winter Wonderland, so you can still earn winter trinkets doing those, as well as DOFFing missions, and save up to buy weapons with which to run the Winter Invasion queue again. Good luck!

ashstorm1

baddmoonrizin wrote: »

Sorry to hear that, OP. But you only get an AFK if you fail to do 1% of the total damage during the queued event. Unfortunately, you're never going to hit that if you're just throwing snowballs while everyone else on your team has weapons. Fortunately, the AFK penality won't prevent you from taking part in the open missions in Q's Winter Wonderland, so you can still earn winter trinkets doing those, as well as DOFFing missions, and save up to buy weapons with which to run the Winter Invasion queue again. Good luck!

I never experienced an afk ban myself. Still... This is when that sort of stuff starts impacting something as trivial as the Winter Wonderland queue that you truly realize how much of an epic fail this afk penalty system is... <.<

anodynes

baddmoonrizin wrote: »

Sorry to hear that, OP. But you only get an AFK if you fail to do 1% of the total damage during the queued event. Unfortunately, you're never going to hit that if you're just throwing snowballs while everyone else on your team has weapons. Fortunately, the AFK penality won't prevent you from taking part in the open missions in Q's Winter Wonderland, so you can still earn winter trinkets doing those, as well as DOFFing missions, and save up to buy weapons with which to run the Winter Invasion queue again. Good luck!

I tried it yesterday with just snowballs, and I got my reward and no afk penalty. No traits or gear that would help me move faster or give me regen to resist being frozen. I definitely didn't use my Winter Trbble, either, though it's possible a teammate did. It's definitely doable with snowballs, even on a team where everyone else has weapons. Just keep up and really make sure to hit the big targets. The snowmen can basically be ignored, since they don't make up very much of the total health of all enemies on the map.