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Cryptic, You're SADISTIC! (Yamok Sauce Rant)

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I'm so mad right now! Cryptic, you are truly sadistic!

I get my first ds9 mission, worth 130ish skill points. "Well this can't be hard," I think.

So my mission involves convincing some dude to give up his land so the big bad Bajoran provisional council can build another temple. (Do they really need another temple!) I talk to the guy, and he tells me that he wants Yamok sauce for his land.

Man, this guy must really love yamok sauce! OK, so I go to the bar to get some yamok sauce.

Quark's doesn't sell it. WHAT? WHAT? Quark's, a bar inside a former Cardassian space station on the edge of Cardassian space, doesn't have good yamok sauce suplliers! Well, then, can I replicate some yamok sauce with the Cardassian replicators?

NO.

What is this? Gold Pressed Latinum? Why is this slug sauce so rare at DS9 of all places? If this was Risa, then I'd understand. But it's DS9, and although I can buy root beer, I can't get yamok sauce!!!!

OK FINE. I'll go find a vendor who sells this precious Cardiassian slime!

First I go to the Cardassian vendors. They just sell guns, armor, and uniforms. FINE! I'll keeping looking.

Finally, I find a vendor who sells yamok sauce.... but he wants entertainment provisions. WHAT?

"Ok, I'll go get you some entertainment provisions, you pathetic and lonely man obsessed with Vulcan Love Slave no. 9." This is getting ridiculous.

So, let's see.... back down to Quark's bar... it's only logical that Quark's would sell entertainment provisions for the holosuite....

BUT NO! Quak's bar doesn't sell either yamok sauce or entertainment provisions for the holosuite! What kind of rules of acquisition are these idiots using? Their business model is STOOOPID!

ARRRGH!!! Now, I'm getting angry!

Is there another vendor? Surely somebody else in the main entertainment hot spot of the Beta Quadrant would sell me some entertainment provisions! Dabo girls? Other Ferengis? NO. I have to buy them from a GORN in the promenade. Yes, a Gorn! Despite a war with the federation, the Gorn have a monopoly on our holosuites. WTH!

"OK, so give me the freaking entertainment provisions you lizard man so I can buy the Cardassian snot sauce!"

The Gorn, it turns out, sells the entertainment credits for regular provisions, which no one else at DS9 sells

I HAVE TO TRAVEL TO THE SOL SECTOR, find a merchant ship and buy the regular provisions! After a grad total of like 500 clicks of the mouse (yes, at least 500 repetitive clicks of the mouse), I head back to DS9, give the holoaddict his entertainment provisions and then speak to the guy who want his o so precious black-market yamok sauce...

"Thanks," he says, "but I also want 15 self-sealling stem bolts."

KHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cryptic! WHY! Dear God, WHY are you doing this to me! A Klingon pain ritual would be nicer! I'd rather mine dilithium for Cardassian overlords!

Are you sadistic or is this some kind of joke?

What were you thinking!
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Very simple explanation although I doubt it will get past the filters - "fetch, female dog" ;)

    p.s. CTRL+click on the BUY button to bypass the confirmation dialogue - freebie tip :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    ROFL! pure win!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Pyryck wrote:
    Very simple explanation although I doubt it will get past the filters - "fetch, female dog" ;)

    p.s. CTRL+click on the BUY button to bypass the confirmation dialogue - freebie tip :)

    woof woof lol. At least it isn't slaughtering droves of rats.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Use the exchange. Credits are worthless anyways.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    I remember Quark actually complaining he had to much Yarmok sauce after the dominion war in a Ds9 Episode. Maybe after not being able to sell it (with all those dead Cardassians not buying) He decided not to offer it anymore. *shrugs*

    How much Yarmok sauce does this guy want? Maybe he want's to be the only supplier in that area. XD Now I know not to sell or consume any of the sauce I get from drops. Thanks for the heads up. :)

  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    lol that episode of ds9 where Jake and Rom run around trading items for other items including stem bolts yamok sauce and land was in fact hilarious. This however doesnt sound as fun. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Yeah, this little fetch mission had me fairly annoyed by the end.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Nautuin wrote:
    lol that episode of ds9 where Jake and Rom run around trading items for other items including stem bolts yamok sauce and land was in fact hilarious. This however doesnt sound as fun. :)

    i bet it's that episode the devs got this from:D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    What I find particularly annoying about the mission is that only after I finish it, I start getting Entertainment Provision and Self-sealing Stembolt loot drops.

    Gym "The Loot Gods going, 'Neener neener neener!' and all that..." Quirk
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    I'm so mad right now! Cryptic, you are truly sadistic!

    I get my first ds9 mission, worth 130ish skill points. "Well this can't be hard," I think.

    So my mission involves convincing some dude to give up his land so the big bad Bajoran provisional council can build another temple. (Do they really need another temple!) I talk to the guy, and he tells me that he wants Yamok sauce for his land.

    Man, this guy must really love yamok sauce! OK, so I go to the bar to get some yamok sauce.

    Quark's doesn't sell it. WHAT? WHAT? Quark's, a bar inside a former Cardassian space station on the edge of Cardassian space, doesn't have good yamok sauce suplliers! Well, then, can I replicate some yamok sauce with the Cardassian replicators?

    NO.

    What is this? Gold Pressed Latinum? Why is this slug sauce so rare at DS9 of all places? If this was Risa, then I'd understand. But it's DS9, and although I can buy root beer, I can't get yamok sauce!!!!

    OK FINE. I'll go find a vendor who sells this precious Cardiassian slime!

    First I go to the Cardassian vendors. They just sell guns, armor, and uniforms. FINE! I'll keeping looking.

    Finally, I find a vendor who sells yamok sauce.... but he wants entertainment provisions. WHAT?

    "Ok, I'll go get you some entertainment provisions, you pathetic and lonely man obsessed with Vulcan Love Slave no. 9." This is getting ridiculous.

    So, let's see.... back down to Quark's bar... it's only logical that Quark's would sell entertainment provisions for the holosuite....

    BUT NO! Quak's bar doesn't sell either yamok sauce or entertainment provisions for the holosuite! What kind of rules of acquisition are these idiots using? Their business model is STOOOPID!

    ARRRGH!!! Now, I'm getting angry!

    Is there another vendor? Surely somebody else in the main entertainment hot spot of the Beta Quadrant would sell me some entertainment provisions! Dabo girls? Other Ferengis? NO. I have to buy them from a GORN in the promenade. Yes, a Gorn! Despite a war with the federation, the Gorn have a monopoly on our holosuites. WTH!

    "OK, so give me the freaking entertainment provisions you lizard man so I can buy the Cardassian snot sauce!"

    The Gorn, it turns out, sells the entertainment credits for regular provisions, which no one else at DS9 sells

    I HAVE TO TRAVEL TO THE SOL SECTOR, find a merchant ship and buy the regular provisions! After a grad total of like 500 clicks of the mouse (yes, at least 500 repetitive clicks of the mouse), I head back to DS9, give the holoaddict his entertainment provisions and then speak to the guy who want his o so precious black-market yamok sauce...

    "Thanks," he says, "but I also want 15 self-sealling stem bolts."

    KHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Cryptic! WHY! Dear God, WHY are you doing this to me! A Klingon pain ritual would be nicer! I'd rather mine dilithium for Cardassian overlords!

    Are you sadistic or is this some kind of joke?

    What were you thinking!

    Hahaha that mission was indeed a pain.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Yamak Sauce sucks Ferengi balls.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    I'm so mad right now! Cryptic, you are truly sadistic!

    I get my first ds9 mission, worth 130ish skill points. "Well this can't be hard," I think.

    So my mission involves convincing some dude to give up his land so the big bad Bajoran provisional council can build another temple. (Do they really need another temple!) I talk to the guy, and he tells me that he wants Yamok sauce for his land.

    Man, this guy must really love yamok sauce! OK, so I go to the bar to get some yamok sauce.

    Quark's doesn't sell it. WHAT? WHAT? Quark's, a bar inside a former Cardassian space station on the edge of Cardassian space, doesn't have good yamok sauce suplliers! Well, then, can I replicate some yamok sauce with the Cardassian replicators?

    NO.

    What is this? Gold Pressed Latinum? Why is this slug sauce so rare at DS9 of all places? If this was Risa, then I'd understand. But it's DS9, and although I can buy root beer, I can't get yamok sauce!!!!

    OK FINE. I'll go find a vendor who sells this precious Cardiassian slime!

    First I go to the Cardassian vendors. They just sell guns, armor, and uniforms. FINE! I'll keeping looking.

    Finally, I find a vendor who sells yamok sauce.... but he wants entertainment provisions. WHAT?

    "Ok, I'll go get you some entertainment provisions, you pathetic and lonely man obsessed with Vulcan Love Slave no. 9." This is getting ridiculous.

    So, let's see.... back down to Quark's bar... it's only logical that Quark's would sell entertainment provisions for the holosuite....

    BUT NO! Quak's bar doesn't sell either yamok sauce or entertainment provisions for the holosuite! What kind of rules of acquisition are these idiots using? Their business model is STOOOPID!

    ARRRGH!!! Now, I'm getting angry!

    Is there another vendor? Surely somebody else in the main entertainment hot spot of the Beta Quadrant would sell me some entertainment provisions! Dabo girls? Other Ferengis? NO. I have to buy them from a GORN in the promenade. Yes, a Gorn! Despite a war with the federation, the Gorn have a monopoly on our holosuites. WTH!

    "OK, so give me the freaking entertainment provisions you lizard man so I can buy the Cardassian snot sauce!"

    The Gorn, it turns out, sells the entertainment credits for regular provisions, which no one else at DS9 sells

    I HAVE TO TRAVEL TO THE SOL SECTOR, find a merchant ship and buy the regular provisions! After a grad total of like 500 clicks of the mouse (yes, at least 500 repetitive clicks of the mouse), I head back to DS9, give the holoaddict his entertainment provisions and then speak to the guy who want his o so precious black-market yamok sauce...

    "Thanks," he says, "but I also want 15 self-sealling stem bolts."

    KHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Cryptic! WHY! Dear God, WHY are you doing this to me! A Klingon pain ritual would be nicer! I'd rather mine dilithium for Cardassian overlords!

    Are you sadistic or is this some kind of joke?

    What were you thinking!

    This is a non combat mission. So there is no risk it just takes time to do.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Lol welcome to MMO land where in order to level up you must first obtain a b and c for quest giver 5 then d e f g and h for quest giver 4 in order to fast travel to the other side of the univese and find books for quest givers 2 and 3, at which point you can finally be told by quest giver 6 that the english muffin quest giver 1 is looking for is actually already in his toaster, and since quest giver 1 cant move out of his "spot" you must go into his kitchen and give it to him WITH jam that quest giver 4 provides only YOU DIDNT KNOW that back when you were talking to him so its first back to the other side of the universe to get jam tp spread on the muffin before finally giving it to quest giver 1.

    Its the classic time waster.. missions like these make $$$$$$ due to the inordinate amount of time that must be vested into them.. My advice?? Google each of these mission types before doing them so as to cut the time down on each of them.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    I rather enjoyed that irritating homage to the lack of business prowess on the part of Jake and Nog.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    I HAVE TO TRAVEL TO THE SOL SECTOR, find a merchant ship and buy the regular provisions! After a grad total of like 500 clicks of the mouse (yes, at least 500 repetitive clicks of the mouse), I head back to DS9, give the holoaddict his entertainment provisions and then speak to the guy who want his o so precious black-market yamok sauce...

    "Thanks," he says, "but I also want 15 self-sealling stem bolts."

    KHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!


    I just did this last night.. I couldn't believe it when they asked for the stem blots too....

    The real world comments about Ctrl-click (bypassing that confirmation), and just use the exchange technically make the mission easier.. but seriously that mission needs some adjustment...

    Sending me back to SOL for parts.. annoying.
    Doing it twice in a row..?
    The Khhhaaaaannn emote is really the only thing that sums that up...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    This is easily the worst actual mission (not including a random exploratory mission that makes no sense) in the game.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    The real kicker on that mission (Temple Blessings, or something) is that it won't complete for me. It shows completed, there's nothing left to do, but it won't complete. :mad:

    I bugged it and it's a known issue. So, do all that running around and then the mission doesn't work? I said 'Gosh Darn' a couple of times. ;)


    Z
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Gym_Quirk wrote:
    What I find particularly annoying about the mission is that only after I finish it, I start getting Entertainment Provision and Self-sealing Stembolt loot drops.

    Gym "The Loot Gods going, 'Neener neener neener!' and all that..." Quirk

    LOL, no doubt! :) I remember the first time I did this one, too. It was during closed beta, and I hated the back and forth of the fetch quest, heh. I try to remember all the entertainment provisions and (I think) industrial power cells (or whatever) for the stem bolts before I head to Cardie space for my new character(s).

    I try, but I don't always succeed. If anything, I always get the parts for the stem bolts when I'm getting the provisions. I think it's kind of nice the way Cryptic has the Commodities set up, but this mission is definitely not fun for anyone doing it for the first time (I would guess). :D

    (On a good note, I now always keep about 10+ of each type of Commodities, for the Aid the Planet exploration missions. Ever since I have, I haven't run into a single one of them, so that's a good thing.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    casper wrote: »
    This is easily the worst actual mission (not including a random exploratory mission that makes no sense) in the game.

    Those are fun because you get stuff like approach planet to investigate what happened to the base on the planet and the base just happens to be on a sun heh.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    zordar wrote: »
    The real kicker on that mission (Temple Blessings, or something) is that it won't complete for me. It shows completed, there's nothing left to do, but it won't complete. :mad:

    I bugged it and it's a known issue. So, do all that running around and then the mission doesn't work? I said 'Gosh Darn' a couple of times. ;)


    Z

    You need to go to Kurland in person to finish it.

    It seems he isn't overly fond of subspace radio, since there's a number of missions that he'll only talk about face to face.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    zordar wrote: »
    The real kicker on that mission (Temple Blessings, or something) is that it won't complete for me. It shows completed, there's nothing left to do, but it won't complete. :mad:

    I bugged it and it's a known issue. So, do all that running around and then the mission doesn't work? I said 'Gosh Darn' a couple of times. ;)


    Z

    it's one of a few missions that you actually have to visit the mission giver, in person, in order to complete it.

    Try visiting DS9 OPs by entering the big red flashing door near where you beam into DS9. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Gym_Quirk wrote:
    You need to go to Kurland in person to finish it.

    It seems he isn't overly fond of subspace radio, since there's a number of missions that he'll only talk about face to face.


    Well there is the Badlands mission where you have to use subspace to talk to the good Captain before you end your misison.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Gym_Quirk wrote:
    You need to go to Kurland in person to finish it.

    It seems he isn't overly fond of subspace radio, since there's a number of missions that he'll only talk about face to face.
    Pyryck wrote:
    it's one of a few missions that you actually have to visit the mission giver, in person, in order to complete it.

    Try visiting DS9 OPs by entering the big red flashing door near where you beam into DS9. :)

    Wow, that just chaps my azz (the fact that you have to turn the mission in in-person, and the fact that I apparently missed that in the mission text).

    Thanks for the info.


    Z
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Those are fun because you get stuff like approach planet to investigate what happened to the base on the planet and the base just happens to be on a sun heh.


    I think you need to turn your bloom effect way down, to maybe about 30%. I had that issue too, where planets would be blinding.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    this mission was so embrassing that i had to use a runabout because i wouldn't tell my crew that i need to fly back lightyears only to get some stupid provisions that are not even listed in my replicator.

    I told my XO that i had some super secret mission that i couldn't talk about :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    I'm so mad right now! Cryptic, you are truly sadistic!

    I get my first ds9 mission, worth 130ish skill points. "Well this can't be hard," I think.

    So my mission involves convincing some dude to give up his land so the big bad Bajoran provisional council can build another temple. (Do they really need another temple!) I talk to the guy, and he tells me that he wants Yamok sauce for his land.

    Man, this guy must really love yamok sauce! OK, so I go to the bar to get some yamok sauce.

    Quark's doesn't sell it. WHAT? WHAT? Quark's, a bar inside a former Cardassian space station on the edge of Cardassian space, doesn't have good yamok sauce suplliers! Well, then, can I replicate some yamok sauce with the Cardassian replicators?

    NO.

    What is this? Gold Pressed Latinum? Why is this slug sauce so rare at DS9 of all places? If this was Risa, then I'd understand. But it's DS9, and although I can buy root beer, I can't get yamok sauce!!!!

    OK FINE. I'll go find a vendor who sells this precious Cardiassian slime!

    First I go to the Cardassian vendors. They just sell guns, armor, and uniforms. FINE! I'll keeping looking.

    Finally, I find a vendor who sells yamok sauce.... but he wants entertainment provisions. WHAT?

    "Ok, I'll go get you some entertainment provisions, you pathetic and lonely man obsessed with Vulcan Love Slave no. 9." This is getting ridiculous.

    So, let's see.... back down to Quark's bar... it's only logical that Quark's would sell entertainment provisions for the holosuite....

    BUT NO! Quak's bar doesn't sell either yamok sauce or entertainment provisions for the holosuite! What kind of rules of acquisition are these idiots using? Their business model is STOOOPID!

    ARRRGH!!! Now, I'm getting angry!

    Is there another vendor? Surely somebody else in the main entertainment hot spot of the Beta Quadrant would sell me some entertainment provisions! Dabo girls? Other Ferengis? NO. I have to buy them from a GORN in the promenade. Yes, a Gorn! Despite a war with the federation, the Gorn have a monopoly on our holosuites. WTH!

    "OK, so give me the freaking entertainment provisions you lizard man so I can buy the Cardassian snot sauce!"

    The Gorn, it turns out, sells the entertainment credits for regular provisions, which no one else at DS9 sells

    I HAVE TO TRAVEL TO THE SOL SECTOR, find a merchant ship and buy the regular provisions! After a grad total of like 500 clicks of the mouse (yes, at least 500 repetitive clicks of the mouse), I head back to DS9, give the holoaddict his entertainment provisions and then speak to the guy who want his o so precious black-market yamok sauce...

    "Thanks," he says, "but I also want 15 self-sealling stem bolts."

    KHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Cryptic! WHY! Dear God, WHY are you doing this to me! A Klingon pain ritual would be nicer! I'd rather mine dilithium for Cardassian overlords!

    Are you sadistic or is this some kind of joke?

    What were you thinking!

    Heh - welcome to DS9..... :D

    Everything you need is in the exchange.... for a price, you see. You can't really get any more Ferengi than that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Haha, yeah I just ran that mission last night. My poor guildmates got an earfull about it. The stembolt part also chapped my hide...lol! While buying all the rations, I learned to position the Buy button right over where the confirmation button would appear, so it was just clicking the mouse button as fast as I could. :) LTB bulk-buy functionality, pst!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    OK, I can't believe I'm going to try completing this. Where do I get the Industrial credits?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Nautuin wrote:
    lol that episode of ds9 where Jake and Rom run around trading items for other items including stem bolts yamok sauce and land was in fact hilarious. This however doesnt sound as fun. :)
    Krenn wrote: »
    i bet it's that episode the devs got this from:D

    Of course it is. And this is the same scavenger hunt style mission, typically used in MMOs to get you to explore the new place you have just come to. All MMOs have them. In this case it's just a reason to get you run around DS9 and get acclimated to where all of the vendors are.

    :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    OK, I can't believe I'm going to try completing this. Where do I get the Industrial credits?

    Those are the things you need for the stem bolts, right? I got mine from Starbase 1, but you could get them from traders, too (I think).


    Z
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