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eristhevorta
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Meowies, I'm trying to mass-scramble the sensors of the enemy spawns in nowin scenario, butt they keep targeting the transport. My Aux is at 123 and I can scramble them for 29 seconds with my SS 3, with SS 2 (shared cooldown 30 seconds) I scramble 22 seconds long. It has no effect, also no effect on the probes and sphears in STF's. So, meow, is it buggified?
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Original Join Date: January 30th, 2010
Original Join Date: January 30th, 2010
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i believe they are immune since it's a 'simulation' and the odds are in the computers favor, hence they wont fire on their own.
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
....that sounds like poor game design to me.
Disabling/Situationaly nerfing powers and abilities that a player has sunk skill points into is bad level design practice that breeds resentment towards the "man behind the curtain". Highly resistant is one thing, immune is BS.
For this game it's even worse when Sci ships/captains have their iconic abilities "disabled", PWE is just taking away one of the few opportunities Sci ships have to shine.
I wonder if crowd and agg control abilities not working correctly is a major contributor to the declining popularity of "no-win scenario". I don't enjoy it anymore and I know only one person in my fleet that even will bothers with it now.
This is a stimulation where the ships are intentionally throwing impossible odds at you, purely to test your abilities, even if the outcome is decided before you begun. We're lucky we get to fight back fairly, which the show didn't let you get to do. Disabling abilities that might otherwise allow you to unfairly interfere with the ships ('cheat' in other words), is just common sense.
As for crowd control, I think Gravity Well and Tyken's Rift still work as designed. Not sure on the rest.
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
I totally agree. this is also the case for BORG npcs in the STFs (not assimilated ones) in that they have been made artificially immune to the phaser proc and antimatter spread. Weak.
This would be true, if the Kobayashi Maru was actually a test of combat ability. It was a test of character and command ability. The result of the test was decided the moment the captain makes the decision to respond to the distress signal and enter the neutral zone (war results in the aftermath of your destruction) or not (you leave the freighter and all aboard to the tender mercies of the Klingons knowing full well what will happen to them). Remember Kirk said he made it possible to rescue the KM, but he never specified how. For all we know, he programmed the Klingon BCs to shoot marshmellons instead of torpedoes *shrug*
However seeing as this ISN'T the KM and our "no win scenario" IS about the ability to push buttons...
SS is cheating.. but GW is not? In what way does GW not "unfairly interfere" with the AI's unrelenting mission to approach and destroy the freighter as opposed to SS? Or for that matter TB/TBR, VM, etc? I could make an argument that your phasers are unfairly interfering with the ships. :P
To make the scenario more "challenging" the AI is going to simply declare that you can't do that. Soon all AI ships will simply be immune to GW. And TB/R. And have 100% critical resistance. After all, it's "just a simulation". The AI sounds a lot like that petulant Dungeon Master you might have played with who hated to see his NPC monsters getting slaughtered.
For now.
Why do we feel the need to gimp players for using abilities in new, fun, and / or creative ways? Why not just make it so that you can only enter the NWS in a light cruiser.
Make the "simulation" more dynamic and performance based. The base difficulty remains the same across the board. But for those teams doing exceedingly well the AI can then choose to "decrease the chance of success" by doing things like increasing the variety and numbers of certain ship types, e.g. a squadron warps in composed of nothing but battlecruisers, dreadnoughts and carriers. Or suddenly an attack group from a different faction shows up. For example, the players have been fighting klingons and theyre loaded for bear with anti disruptor resistance and other klingon counter tech. It would be rather entertaining to see what might happen if a combined dominion / romulan fleet suddenly warped in. Too easy? Very well. Wave 10: 3 of 10 AND 8 of 10 of Unimatrix 0047 just warped in. Enjoy. Still too easy? Give them fleet support with 5-10 minute CDs. Couple of tac cubes and a compliment of regen / regular spheres should spice things up.
It's clear of your opinion, but you have to remember the devs have decided what's 'cheating' and what's not in this scenario. Is it wrong? Possibly, but only within a person's opinion... we can never know for sure, no matter what he think.
Not sure about how your suggestions would be implemented (sounds like advanced coding that would take time away from other things, at least to me). And frankly, some of that just sounds like enemy overkill lol
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
I've been playing around with SS1 in STFs and spheres shoot each other once then start back again at the human players. For an effect that's supposed to last 10 seconds with full aux it's rather a lame ability if it's working as intended.
No wonder people are saying sci skills are busted :S
Outside of it, Borg have high resistance to confuse effects, such as Scramble Sensors. As we saw in Best of Both Worlds, using an antimatter spread to confuse didn't work so well (and only for a matter of seconds at that).
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
I notice it too... also GW do not work against borg probes in KSAE. Many sci abilities do not work well or do not work at all.
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the idea dat SS do not work in no win scenario because it is a simulation, is a nonsense... Just because it is a simulation SS should work... if not, what are you simulating? something not real?
Playing STO spamming FAW is like playing chess using always the computer's suggested moves
If there was any justice, they would also buff Defense on allies in range and also reduce Threat on self/ally.
So that even if the primary effect of confuse failed, the victims would still have trouble hitting what they aim at and would be less likely to shoot at a specific given target.
For that matter, I wouldn't mind if the buff (Def/Threat Reduction) was the primary effect and confuse was a proc.
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If I remember the original, it was intimated he made himself such a renowned and feared Fed captain that the Klingons backed down and retreated.
In the reboot, he basically made them one-hit kills and gave himself a rapid-fire photon torp launcher.
Things like Jam will make a tractor beam loose it's hold but scramble does not.
It used to be I could get close to if not the full time of scramble to work. Now it seems to only be good for one shot and then they just target a different enemy. Not a good thing if you are one of those protect missions and there is only you and the target.