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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited March 2010 in The Academy
I have never played and mmo before STO i do love this game but the only thing i find myself playing mission's almost always solo. I tried to beat the crystaline entity for almost 2 days now i travelled to the few instances to find a group battling the entity but i can only find about 5 per shards if they where all queued up together we have a team of about 20 players and stand a chance to beat it. Id love to have some type of queue like the pvp one for missions.

Does this make sence guys
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    no....your post makes no sense:D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Have you tried using Zone chat to find other players to group with?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    yes i have tried to no real luck can only get a few.

    but does having a queue for "some" missions make sence
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Well since they splitted fleet actions on based on your level rank, the general population of each seperate instance is also splitted, go figure.

    Back before, there were no shortages of 20 people zones mostly all failing to kill it.

    Plus some people might've stopped trying.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    sintri wrote: »
    ...some people might've stopped trying.

    OHH. ME!!!!!!!!!! THATS ME THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    last time i gave it a go, 20 of us brought it down to 20% health, but then it would heal itself, and we couldn't get it lower than that.

    it is also a matter of WHEN you play the mission too though.

    i want to ask once again- why did cryptic overbuff it again?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Interesting that the term you choose to use is "shard"... That's pretty much a holdover from older MMOs and or MUDs. Having claimed to never played an MMO before I'd wonder where you picked up that particular term.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    sintri wrote: »

    Plus some people might've stopped trying.

    Guilty as charged. Gave up awhile ago on the Crystal Entity.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Keshay wrote: »
    Interesting that the term you choose to use is "shard"... That's pretty much a holdover from older MMOs and or MUDs. Having claimed to never played an MMO before I'd wonder where you picked up that particular term.

    lol i picked that up from the forums :) i try to emegucate myself

    so i guess im not the only one having a hard time here with the CE i was using the ce as and example.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Pfft I gave up .... I tried every day for 4 weeks to get on a team to beat it and there was always a damn griefer :mad:

    I hopped in once since season one and it was a friggin joke :( One time had it down to like 3% (before Season One) and someone came in and just barreled right in and ruined it!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    thats the problem ,had it to about 20% also but we had some idiot dropping mines after we told him not to 12 times
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    linkdown wrote: »
    thats the problem ,had it to about 20% also but we had some idiot dropping mines after we told him not to 12 times

    That's why fleet actions should be done by fleets and not only by random groups...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Bismi wrote:
    That's why fleet actions should be done by fleets and not only by random groups...

    because im ltn cmdr im a little behind my fleet :) and i wants aware fleet was a prerequisite for the CE
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    linkdown wrote: »
    I have never played and mmo before STO i do love this game but the only thing i find myself playing mission's almost always solo. I tried to beat the crystaline entity for almost 2 days now i travelled to the few instances to find a group battling the entity but i can only find about 5 per shards if they where all queued up together we have a team of about 20 players and stand a chance to beat it. Id love to have some type of queue like the pvp one for missions.

    Does this make sence guys

    From trying to do the CE last weekend with my Capt level Cruiser, I believe it is now limiting the encounter to 5 player groups. At one point we had about 30 of us Captians and we were never able to get more than 5 in any single encounter. It kept splitting us up into 5's.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    The best way to beat the CE is to ignore it. Besides, once you're finished with the Romulan Front, it's off to Cardassian space and then the Borg - you'll never see the CE again ... except in your "Hail StarFleet" list. The CE is pointless and only for those that like to torture themselves.

    Cryptic should just delete it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    The best way to beat the CE is to ignore it. Besides, once you're finished with the Romulan Front, it's off to Cardassian space and then the Borg - you'll never see the CE again ... except in your "Hail StarFleet" list. The CE is pointless and only for those that like to torture themselves.

    Cryptic should just delete it.

    Except that if there wasnt a CE encounter people would ask for one. It is a Lore thing.

    They can fix it. It was way too easy in beta and they went overboard making it harder. They just need to adjust it again.
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