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Explore B'Tran (Vice Admiral) - The battle of the 5000

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Basically, the Vice Admiral exploration of B'Tran is PACKED. It's near impossible to get to systems/anomalies without 5 other people getting there first, there must be 30 people per cluster, and honestly, why are half of them Rear Admirals? This needs sorting to be honest, it's very annoying, and I think bugged, seeing as any Rear Admiral can access it.

Especially when the missions are so bugged it's unreal.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Fish Bowls need fixing.

    We want bigger fishbowls with gameshow doors. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    It is NOT just a Vice Admiral area, RAs can get there too.

    As for the situation, Cryptic will need to increase the respawn timers rapidly to account for the sudden influx of folks raiding the hell out of the area.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    One idea that's got no chance of being implemented soon.

    Instead of a fishbowl with magically appearing random missions / anomalies, have patrol missions in the sector you're in. You can incorporate the 5 types of explore missions as the patrol missions, just have them be region specific (Romulan enemies in rom space, cardies in card space, etc.). Just have a mission giver assign 3-4 random systems for the player to visit, then award them the same thing we get for completing btran now.

    As for the anomalies, there's always anomalies in the individual explore missions. I suppose it's not bad to add randomly popping junk in sector space. That's what DSEs are now! On second thought... randomly popping junk might be bad... :p

    It would create more immersion, as opposed to "go to fishbowl y, fly around, scan stuff popping up."
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    What would the chances be of Increasing the Size of the Fish Bowl, as was mentioned, from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean size? Then multiply the number of Anomalies to find to match that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I would rather deal with the fishbowl for 3-4 months and get Darren_Kitlor's exploration rebuild instead of wasting any resources to make the fishbowl bigger.

    Just me...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    B1g_Dav3 wrote: »
    Basically, the Vice Admiral exploration of B'Tran is PACKED. It's near impossible to get to systems/anomalies without 5 other people getting there first, there must be 30 people per cluster, and honestly, why are half of them Rear Admirals? This needs sorting to be honest, it's very annoying, and I think bugged, seeing as any Rear Admiral can access it.

    Especially when the missions are so bugged it's unreal.

    Rear Admiral Upper Half get the VA B'Tran missions from Lt. Karbo at RAUH 5.

    Since VA B'Tran missions give more XP than normal B'Tran missions...
    And most all the RAUH's want to get to VA...
    Seeing so many RAUH's in VA B'Tran is logical and should be expected. :)

    My suggestion to Cryptic would be to cap the B'Tran instances at 15 people and create more instances.. 30 people in 1 instance, fighting for random PvE missions, makes me feel like I am a Klingon. ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Could one of you please school me on the difference between the RA level and VA level B'tran cluster exploration missions? Is there a huge difference in the XP granted between the two? It might be worth my time there if there is. For now, I'm grinding on the RA version.

    EB
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    They need to fix the bug so we can team and do the mission
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    ebeyer wrote: »
    Could one of you please school me on the difference between the RA level and VA level B'tran cluster exploration missions? Is there a huge difference in the XP granted between the two? It might be worth my time there if there is. For now, I'm grinding on the RA version.

    EB

    For doing the VA lvl you get the emblems for VA gear and ships. Doing the Regular gets you the 5th order exploration badges
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    ebeyer wrote: »
    Could one of you please school me on the difference between the RA level and VA level B'tran cluster exploration missions? Is there a huge difference in the XP granted between the two? It might be worth my time there if there is. For now, I'm grinding on the RA version.

    EB

    I think the difference is 172 xp vs 189 xp. Not a big deal.. But around 17 xp extra is still 17 or so xp extra. :)
    Pogmahone wrote:
    For doing the VA lvl you get the emblems for VA gear and ships. Doing the Regular gets you the 5th order exploration badges

    Opps.. Forgot the daily rewards part.. Thanks Pogmahone. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Fish Bowls need fixing.

    We want bigger fishbowls with gameshow doors. :D

    and glitter falling down and a gigantinormous mirror ball drop with a very loud and obnoxious announcer yelling out who the winner is for getting to the anomaly first and what prize they won:D
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