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Separating War Zones from maps with objectives
predcon
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Dear Cryptic/PWE,
Thank you so much for enabling PvP in maps with objectives. I really love fighting two-fronted wars between CPU enemies and griefing SOBs. Nothing makes my day quite like trying to scan a Borg Decryption Node when all of a sudden an enemy Rom captain decloaks and ambushes me. It's so much fun being mobbed by AI-played Borg Probes and Cubes when Klingon caps decide I'm easy pickings because I'm down to 1% Hull Points. I'm absolutely ecstatic that you've made it easy for the mentally juvenile to grief the hell out of an already tedious mission. Again, thanks so much.
Your pal,
predcon
PS, That was a great move on your part letting players block me in chat while they troll me in-game. It's absolutely super that I can't ask a player nicely to back the hell off while I'm being TRIBBLE(imilated)-***** by a million-and-one Borg.
Thank you so much for enabling PvP in maps with objectives. I really love fighting two-fronted wars between CPU enemies and griefing SOBs. Nothing makes my day quite like trying to scan a Borg Decryption Node when all of a sudden an enemy Rom captain decloaks and ambushes me. It's so much fun being mobbed by AI-played Borg Probes and Cubes when Klingon caps decide I'm easy pickings because I'm down to 1% Hull Points. I'm absolutely ecstatic that you've made it easy for the mentally juvenile to grief the hell out of an already tedious mission. Again, thanks so much.
Your pal,
predcon
PS, That was a great move on your part letting players block me in chat while they troll me in-game. It's absolutely super that I can't ask a player nicely to back the hell off while I'm being TRIBBLE(imilated)-***** by a million-and-one Borg.
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1) The Borg
2) Enemy Players
3) Friendly Players
As it is, the Klingon players are usually outnumbered in each zone. . .we're already operating at a disadvantage. Just stick with a group of Feddies who aren't incompetent, and you'll start to do somewhat better.
Ker'rat is indeed quite fun
An adventure zone? It's coming...
I don't mean an adventure zone per say. I merely mean Kerrat without PvP with different factions. There can be Kerrat with PvP with different factions as well. I'd like to see both.
This is the Klingon Empire and UFP war front and we have a Borg repair station as the focus of the battle!?! Seriuosly, that a big disbelieve for me.
A war zone should be about the war between the KDF and SF not the fight against the borg. Even if the concept is not that bad, I think this mission should stay bu only in PVE and moved to Omega sector.
Skanvak Drakken
http://lamaisondesdrakkens.clan-box.com/index.php
Ker'rat is a bit of a holdover from when the game was still 'young'. . .back when Cryptic actually cared that there was supposed to be a war between the factions. Now that they seem to be treating it as something that can be hand-waved away, Ker'rat makes less sense. As for the incongruity of having the Borg smack dab in the middle of Eta Eridani. . .well, the KDF apparently has large amounts of Borg in the T'Kanis Nebula, in Klingon space. It's never made a ton of sense, to be honest.
The war zone IS sorta about the war between KDF and Federation, though. Hence the PvP aspect. Ostensibly, both sides are supposed to work to beat each other to the completion, and blow each other up to delay progress. Since the KDF is usually outnumbered 2-3 to 1 in Ker'rat, it tends to be more about 'picking off Feddies to complete the kill mission and generally have fun'. Ker'rat is at its best when both sides are even in odds, imo. That's also when the KDF tends to start winning, oddly enough.
Tried it once when i was just starting STO, avoided it ever since. I knew i was bad and got my but kicked like i was made of jelly.
My new years resolution was to roll a new char with all the lessons i had learned. Lo and behold; i was able to tank! I was able to DPS! Ker'rat became fun!
It wasn't the farming why i got there (got around 3 XII stuff in the months i played there), no, the uncontrolled PVP dynamics, getting killed, doing the killing, being ignored because you've shot down a supposed ubership, getting in contact with other players and share idea's and builds... It's FUN!
I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
but especialy at lover levels i m usualy as klingon player alone against 5-10 ! feddies .... so is impossible 4 me finish all objectives in PvE part first , so then only alpha strikes against lone feddies left ..........
and yes , map reset is really fun .......1 against 10 usualy ..... and someone here in another tread want cloaking device for fed ships omg .......why ? we klingons are really outnumbered in game and cloak is our only advantage against feddies .......
i dont count romulans , their heavy warbirds with battle cloak make game really balanced ......
I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
i think only one is best (at low levels) - maximize dps , decloak , blast few feds , hit evasive + EPtE , cloak
Well, it's not necessarily as simple as that. Anyone halfway decent will know how to react (throw on Tactical Team, RSP, whatever) to effectively blunt your attack. Unless you're literally able to one-shot kill someone (like a supercharged BO3 crit or something), that will always be a concern.
It's all about timing, timing is very important when trying to use that kind of tactic successfully. Otherwise you'll be little more than an irritant that can be shrugged off time and again.
As a final act of Vengeance the one I killed managed to get a Emission Seeking Torpedo off, I had no speed buffs left and even all power to engines was not enough to outrun it so I just saw this beeping flashing bringer of inevitable doom coming closer and closer and there was nothing I could do. It hit me decloaked me and crippled my engines and then some defiant just decloaked and crushed me!
XD
If you dont got the stones for it theres always farmville
You know what would be perfect? Like 5 Kerrat dailies a day.
How about a new and improved Kerret:
-Buff the Borg, add an asteroid in the middle or something, make the map a little more interesting.
-1/3rd Romulan players, 1/3rd Klingon players, 1/3rd Federation players enter the map and a countdown starts that only Romulan players can see.
-Meanwhile all factions are joined in an alliance to defeat the borg. We're all one big happy family.
-The countdown timer is between 1 and 5 minutes from when the map starts, and it's randomized. Only Romulan players can see it. When the countdown timer is up the Romulan players become hostile to the Klingon and Federation players, vice versa.
It's called "Stab em in the back Kerret".
Yeah. It is so much fun. A lot more fun than standing around in a war zone feeling completely safe, because the AI won't hunt you down.
I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
An english officer once said "If you find yourself in a fair battle, some one has made a mistake at some point before."
Skanvak Drakken
http://lamaisondesdrakkens.clan-box.com/index.php
Why not. At least it will more feel like it. Why do you think the Romulan should betray the other...really?
Skanvak Drakken
http://lamaisondesdrakkens.clan-box.com/index.php
Time in this game, however, works a bit odd, as STO is a themepark and you can thus always return to the rides.
Also, Kerrat is great. Without Kerrat, I'd never really be able to get any PvP in at all, as the Arena format is utterly incompatible with those who don't have their own 5-man drill team on hand. If you're entirely fixated on scanning nodes to the exclusion of any murdering, well, you're missing the point of Kerrat. Go murder someone. Forget the silly nodes. You're doing it wrong, anyway.