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Secret Of The Ancients....

o4q123o4q123 Member Posts: 72 Arc User
edited February 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
After hitting Tier 5 on New Romulus I received the mission "Secret of the Ancients" which instructed me to go to the Underground Ruins. Did that, and I have no idea where to go from there. The Romulan at the transporter only offered me the previous mission I had just done.

How do I get this mission started?
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  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99
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         Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    o4q123 wrote: »
    After hitting Tier 5 on New Romulus I received the mission "Secret of the Ancients" which instructed me to go to the Underground Ruins. Did that, and I have no idea where to go from there. The Romulan at the transporter only offered me the previous mission I had just done.

    How do I get this mission started?

    It's a side mission inside the T4 mission to get a cutscene from a console in the last room.
  • o4q123o4q123 Member Posts: 72 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    ooooooooh. okay, thanks.
  • foundrelicfoundrelic Member Posts: 1,380 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I was very disappointed.


    No Ring platform, No DHD, No Zero Point Module.


    Heck not even a Zombie box.


    The Ancients didn't leave any cool toys this time.
  • idronaidrona Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    foundrelic wrote: »
    I was very disappointed.


    No Ring platform, No DHD, No Zero Point Module.


    Heck not even a Zombie box.


    The Ancients didn't leave any cool toys this time.

    lol :D

    I'll hit tier 5 sometime this weekend hopefully.
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  • xlocutusofborgxxlocutusofborgx Member Posts: 1,376 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I did like the romulan eva suits, you could actually see through their helmets and see their faces, hopefully we can get some tech onto our sets like that :)
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  • flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    foundrelic wrote: »
    No Ring platform, No DHD, No Zero Point Module.
    Hah! Epic Post. :P
    foundrelic wrote: »
    The Ancients didn't leave any cool toys this time.
    Wait till Season 8. I heard it's going to focus on a Lost City under the oceans of New Romulus. ;)
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,482 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    stoleviathan99 wrote: »
    It's a side mission inside the T4 mission to get a cutscene from a console in the last room.

    Got to wait a few hours then. Bit of a letdown to be honest.
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    flash525 wrote: »
    Wait till Season 8. I heard it's going to focus on a Lost City under the oceans of New Romulus. ;)

    Unless it has a chair, and a Instant Skill up device, I am not interested.
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  • idronaidrona Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    flash525 wrote: »
    Hah! Epic Post. :P

    Wait till Season 8. I heard it's going to focus on a Lost City under the oceans of New Romulus. ;)

    Gungan City? .. Oh, no wait, mesa sorry.

    anazonda wrote: »
    Unless it has a chair, and a Instant Skill up device, I am not interested.

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    ..Win button.
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  • dm19deltadm19delta Member Posts: 206 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    What about the Sword of the Raptor Star? Wasn't it lost somewhere on this planet?
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  • hartzillahartzilla Member Posts: 1,177 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    dm19delta wrote: »
    What about the Sword of the Raptor Star? Wasn't it lost somewhere on this planet?

    And possibly found off screen sometime between your first arrival and hitting T4 as their analyzing what they think is the sword in the T4 cutscene.
  • sjokruhlicasjokruhlica Member Posts: 434 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    So the tier 5 mission is a rehash of the Tier 4? I can hardly keep my composure.:rolleyes:
  • rybrarianrybrarian Member Posts: 32 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Someone in my fleet Tier'd up to 5, but didn't get this mission or it skipped.

    Anyway to pick it up again -after- you get your Tier 5?
  • shrapne11shrapne11 Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Ok,

    Seriously this one is idiotic. You are issued a mission at Tier 5 and need to contact D'Tan but there is no way to simply contact him. I have been told by some folks that you have to re-run the Tier 4 mission in order to access the Tier 5 mission which is again silly. If you are issued a mission you should be able to run the mission. The hardest part of a mission should never be trying to start the mission.

    So I guess in order to run my T5 I need to re-run what? The Power Plant mission and it starts from within that mission? Not one of Cryptics brightest moments.
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  • nicha0nicha0 Member Posts: 1,456 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Its a disgusting design, if they couldn't get it done on time they had a month after to do it and put it in, but they didn't do that.

    Nothing really seemed to happen to the ancient sword arc or the mysterious creature that evolved all the animals in a specific way they hinted it at several times. Complete failure in the use of the zone, just like Defera, Nukara, and Bajor before it.
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  • commanderkassycommanderkassy Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    foundrelic wrote: »
    I was very disappointed.


    No Ring platform, No DHD, No Zero Point Module.


    Heck not even a Zombie box.


    The Ancients didn't leave any cool toys this time.

    If I could *Like* your post, I would.
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  • wfriedmanwfriedman Member Posts: 25 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    This was pi$$ poor......The tholians kicked us out of the main room....we defeated them, then a popup says mission completed.....We exit and nothing.....

    Nothing was ever said you MUST stay in the main room to access a console/cutscene...etc..... to wrap up tier 5.........

    Now I have to wait another 20 hours because of cryptic's laziness, and poor mission planning to try again???
  • darkenzedddarkenzedd Member Posts: 881
    edited January 2013
    shrapne11 wrote: »
    Ok,

    Seriously this one is idiotic. You are issued a mission at Tier 5 and need to contact D'Tan but there is no way to simply contact him. I have been told by some folks that you have to re-run the Tier 4 mission in order to access the Tier 5 mission which is again silly. If you are issued a mission you should be able to run the mission. The hardest part of a mission should never be trying to start the mission.

    So I guess in order to run my T5 I need to re-run what? The Power Plant mission and it starts from within that mission? Not one of Cryptics brightest moments.
    wfriedman wrote: »
    This was pi$$ poor......The tholians kicked us out of the main room....we defeated them, then a popup says mission completed.....We exit and nothing.....

    Nothing was ever said you MUST stay in the main room to access a console/cutscene...etc..... to wrap up tier 5.........

    Now I have to wait another 20 hours because of cryptic's laziness, and poor mission planning to try again???

    When you hit T5, you get the mission "Secret of the Ancients".

    You actually have to redo the T4 mission in the underground ruins. Complete it and in the main room you get a popup to signal D'tan to beam in. Click that and the cutscene begins.

    Technically there is no T5 mission, it is just a cutscene you can only access at the end of redoing the T4 mission.

    Hope that helps :D

    Not very good I know, but that is what we have.....
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  • lordhooklordhook Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    shrapne11 wrote: »
    Ok,

    Seriously this one is idiotic. You are issued a mission at Tier 5 and need to contact D'Tan but there is no way to simply contact him. I have been told by some folks that you have to re-run the Tier 4 mission in order to access the Tier 5 mission which is again silly. If you are issued a mission you should be able to run the mission. The hardest part of a mission should never be trying to start the mission.

    So I guess in order to run my T5 I need to re-run what? The Power Plant mission and it starts from within that mission? Not one of Cryptics brightest moments.


    YES! It is idiotic! The devs are really lazy!
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  • thepantspartythepantsparty Member Posts: 431 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    The Underground Ruins instance isn't part of T4, but it becomes accessible then. The entire T4 mission is to watch the cutscene outside the embassy.

    If you ran Underground Ruins at T4, you wasted your time because it wasn't required as part of that rep tier.
  • crusader2007crusader2007 Member Posts: 1,883 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    deokkent wrote: »
    Without secret of the ancients mission in your progress tab, it's useless to do the underground ruins mission. Unless you are really into the story and want to follow up on the Star Trek plot. Secret of the Ancients will give you the cutscene and it's what you need to get the huge reward everyone is talking about in the chat :D.


    Edit: Also, everyone that's whining they can't get the cutscene, you probably failed the mission by not being able to prevent the core from overloading. Save the two consoles and you will be fine (play on normal difficulty if you have to).

    Besides setting the difficulty to normal or going there with another team is there a better strategy to avoid the core from overloading?
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    wfriedman wrote: »
    Nothing was ever said you MUST stay in the main room to access a console/cutscene...etc..... to wrap up tier 5.........

    That was very clearly stated here.

    It's also in the mission journal here.
    deokkent wrote: »
    Also, everyone that's whining they can't get the cutscene, you probably failed the mission by not being able to prevent the core from overloading. Save the two consoles and you will be fine (play on normal difficulty if you have to).

    The mission doesn't fail if you don't stop the overload. You just miss out on ten extra Romulan Marks.
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  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    crusader2007 wrote: »
    Besides setting the difficulty to normal or going there with another team is there a better strategy to avoid the core from overloading?

    Away team with 2 engineers and 2 tacs. Drop chroniton mines all over the spot where the tholians beam in. Put turrets around the edge of the map. Park your away team in the middle of the platform with shield and medi generator (will get blown up but they can drop more) but spread out so single tholian mines won't take all of them at once.

    If you can't take the tholians, try to kill all but one minion of the first wave. Put your dudes on passive and wait out the timer (not sure if this still works haven't tried it since t4 was pretty new).

    Use a tac officer with stealth to get to the generators without tholian interference while your dudes handle the main room. Or as an engineer/sci just use your shield/self heals to survive incoming shots while you don't fight back.

    Alternatively, as mentioned, go ahead and lose the timed portion of the fight, then clear the room at your leisure and do the cut scene after. You just miss out some marks.
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