Ever since the Dec 22nd Patch, I'm noticing people there is a massive increase in people having trouble between the two instances.
If you prechoose the VA/LG instance, you have to find a group at that level. If you have RA/BG, you have to find one at that level. But you can't have both. So players have to prechoose or else drop and risk hitting that long cooldown.
So Cryptic, I think you should really drop the 2 choices and make it just 1. It would be alot easier in finding groups that way.
My team had an issue with this lastnight. We all entered the VA instance and had one member crash out. They didn't come back so one of us (not team leader) left to grab someone else. When they returned, they were forced into another VA instance that required all of us to beam out and beam back in (as such having to make it from the mini-boss chamber back to the Queen Chamber) in order to merge the team.
I can't say for sure, but I think the fact some members might have both the RA and VA mission in their list might be causing this.
I agree with some of this. There should be one instance, and when it reaches max number of players (say ten or twenty), then a new instance is created. When the mission is completed, that version does not reset if another one has not reached max number of players.
OP is right, RA and VA versions of the STFs make no sense. One STF, one DIFFICULTY SLIDER (you can slightly gimp the rewards but not much).
Indeed. Ever since the Borg Gear was added and the "gold rush" began, 95% of everyone doing them was in the RA/BG instances, not the VA ones. Because people had enough trouble with the lower one as it is.
And yes, the Difficulty Slider would be perfect for this. For instance:
Normal Mode: (Most forgiving for new players). Borg use less abilities and assmilation is as deadly as in the single-player missions and they travel in normal Borg Speeds (slow). The Borg Boss in Infected has a different box configuration making it easier for players to jump to the platform. In Khitomer, the first part has less less Borg to contend with.
Advanced Mode: Similar to what we now in the RA / BG instances
Elite mode: Similar what we have now in the VA / LTG Instances.
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I can't say for sure, but I think the fact some members might have both the RA and VA mission in their list might be causing this.
Indeed. Ever since the Borg Gear was added and the "gold rush" began, 95% of everyone doing them was in the RA/BG instances, not the VA ones. Because people had enough trouble with the lower one as it is.
And yes, the Difficulty Slider would be perfect for this. For instance:
Normal Mode: (Most forgiving for new players). Borg use less abilities and assmilation is as deadly as in the single-player missions and they travel in normal Borg Speeds (slow). The Borg Boss in Infected has a different box configuration making it easier for players to jump to the platform. In Khitomer, the first part has less less Borg to contend with.
Advanced Mode: Similar to what we now in the RA / BG instances
Elite mode: Similar what we have now in the VA / LTG Instances.