Currently this event is worthless to me as it never shows up in the few hours I get to play.
I have run this mission exactly twice since it's start.
Otherwise i get to warp in and then out again, and it stays active in the sector for a long time after it's in this "completed" state. It also throws me half way across the sector from where I was.
How about making it show up more and having it disappear from the sector alert once it's completed?
(And dropping us back where we were when it was started)
they are hard to catch. oddly enough when i have gotten into an active tholian red alert there are so few other players that we fall way short of successfully completing it.....very aggravating. i have only won it once out of maybe 5 or 6 times.
The devs should just make both the Tholian and Borg Red Alerts a PVE queue event with a 30 min cooldown. More omega marks would need to be added to Borg RA's and perhaps an elite version of each event.
I, like others, have given up on trying to run these as they're broken 99% of the time. having them as a PVE queue sounds like a good idea as they'd actually be doable then.
While this would take away from the 'red alert! - something awesome is happening now!' feeling the RAs were meant to inspire, it would be preferable to what we're currently getting from this event.
Tholian Red Alerts can be frustrating if I can't get in them quickly.
I have managed to be in 14 of them since they started. If I am looking for a Tholian Red Alert I jump from instance to instance until I find an alert. They often happen a few at once.
I then keep trying to enter the same instance even after it has kicked me out sometimes 5 times and then it "might" let me in.
If not I go to the next one. . . I give up after about 4 RA instance failures. So far it seems I have been quite lucky.
I've been able to enter two actual Tholian red alerts. The first had Tholians swarming all over the spawn point, about 2 minutes left on the timer, and the players who could do anything failed to complete it (I kept blowing up from the Tholians where I warped in). The second, about a week later I was able to play from start to completion. Every other Tholian red alert has been an auto warp back out.
those that can dothis red alert, are lucky i think
I, for one, cant even find it! does it really exist or is it just another anomaly in the universe of sto along with allllll the other anomalies?
I believe God created the universe, because he knew we wanted to explore. So, he made us a playground...
Has anyone actually managed to do some combat in one? If not, why has this not been disabled yet for tuning?
On the 15 or more Tholian red alert I warped in, only 3 were not bugged. I won one, lost 2. The time limit is really short, mostly because Tholian use the web CC and it's really annoying.
Currently it's not worth it. However, there is a use for it, since you'll probably warp out directly after joining, you can use it to fast travel from the "east" to the "west" side of Tau Dewa.
Has anyone actually managed to do some combat in one? If not, why has this not been disabled yet for tuning?
I have won 11 out of 14 of them mostly in tactical. They are like other RA's if the group knows what it is doing it is not that difficult. My first try was a disaster.
I don't know why the Tholian Alerts haven't been fixed yet. I imagine it puts a lot of people off with all the trouble getting in. Please fix them!
I actually have not experienced any issues with this particular RA. Well besides the occasional PUG of morons that decide to waste the majority of their ten minutes flying into the teeth of the Capital Ships over and over again. Otherwise I get into this RA rather easily and most of the time during my Tau Dewa Patrol Run in Japori.
I can't believe they actually fixed the Red Alert bug. False alerts since Borg Invasion 3 years ago, and they finally fix it.
What is the deal with the Web Mines. They can take my full health schimitar to dead in 5 seconds! Any counter?
Sheesh Louise, someone call the Zombie eradication squad.
As for counter to the web mines: Kinetic Cutting beam, tractor beam repulsors, Refracting Tetryon Cascade and some lobi store goodies.
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
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Hopefully they got a fix in the works.
I instance jumped into 6 of these "Empty Promises" today.
It might as well be removed in it's current state.
You got me beat. I have never seen this working.
I always wanted to finish defera for the faster remodualtors for my BOffs, but i might just wait to get the ground set that auto remods instead.
You'd think they would want missions to be easily accessable?
While this would take away from the 'red alert! - something awesome is happening now!' feeling the RAs were meant to inspire, it would be preferable to what we're currently getting from this event.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
either i do the PvE queue missions or fly directly to New Romulus.
i have seen the Red Alert Button TWICE so far and both times i warped in and warped out.
The same still happens in Sirius with the Borg Red Alerts.
Gozer said he knew what was wrong and wanted to fix it, but then he /quit
*shrug* figgures,
the ONLY new S7 Mission that gives Dilithium, and it's broken and popping up so random that i can't play it anyway...
That was yesterday, and I spent the first minute sat there shocked that it actually worked! :rolleyes:
I have managed to be in 14 of them since they started. If I am looking for a Tholian Red Alert I jump from instance to instance until I find an alert. They often happen a few at once.
I then keep trying to enter the same instance even after it has kicked me out sometimes 5 times and then it "might" let me in.
If not I go to the next one. . . I give up after about 4 RA instance failures. So far it seems I have been quite lucky.
Has anyone actually managed to do some combat in one? If not, why has this not been disabled yet for tuning?
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"Can anyone remember when we used to be explorers...?"
I, for one, cant even find it! does it really exist or is it just another anomaly in the universe of sto along with allllll the other anomalies?
Currently it's not worth it. However, there is a use for it, since you'll probably warp out directly after joining, you can use it to fast travel from the "east" to the "west" side of Tau Dewa.
u need some good dps while still staying alive.
Sirius - Tactical Kumari / Hatschy - Tactical Scimitar
lil - Engineer Corvette / Dark - Tactical Guramba
I have won 11 out of 14 of them mostly in tactical. They are like other RA's if the group knows what it is doing it is not that difficult. My first try was a disaster.
I don't know why the Tholian Alerts haven't been fixed yet. I imagine it puts a lot of people off with all the trouble getting in. Please fix them!
What is the deal with the Web Mines. They can take my full health schimitar to dead in 5 seconds! Any counter?
Sheesh Louise, someone call the Zombie eradication squad.
As for counter to the web mines: Kinetic Cutting beam, tractor beam repulsors, Refracting Tetryon Cascade and some lobi store goodies.