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Maintenance (September 30, 2013) [Complete!]
pwebranflakes
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Hi Captains,
We will be bringing down Star Trek Online tomorrow, Monday, September 30th, at 7AM PDT (click here to view in your timezone) for maintenance and to apply a new patch that will address your feedback and concerns with our special Crystalline Entity event, as well as fix a bug with the IDIC Tribble. Patch notes can be found here, and we expect this maintenance to last for 2 hours. The test server, launcher and access to manage your account may also be unavailable during some portions of the maintenance.
Thanks for your patience and understanding,
- The Star Trek Online Team
We will be bringing down Star Trek Online tomorrow, Monday, September 30th, at 7AM PDT (click here to view in your timezone) for maintenance and to apply a new patch that will address your feedback and concerns with our special Crystalline Entity event, as well as fix a bug with the IDIC Tribble. Patch notes can be found here, and we expect this maintenance to last for 2 hours. The test server, launcher and access to manage your account may also be unavailable during some portions of the maintenance.
Thanks for your patience and understanding,
- The Star Trek Online Team
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will there be an "over-time" granted for people or toons that where not able to beat it by now due to the bug issue? half my fleet is having problems with this event in its current state.
as those may have just gotten the shard one time, and wont be able to finish it. as they lost some days.
i am aware that there are many players that CAN do it. me myself can do it., still its annoying. as it takes so much time i need for.... grinding or playing the game normally.
and there are people who are not able to. some of them my friends and fleet mates. and for those it should be doable also.
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If this event is now reliably puggable again I intend to run it on 8 characters
i dont care i love it the way it is, even if it lags sometimes and i have to queue up very often to get it as some pugs do use aoe attacks.
still half of my fleet is not able to. they struggle. becasue of their build or having other problems. extending the event the days it was bugged would be great for those
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I have consistently completed the event on elite each day with pug teams, and yes I am in a cruiser not an escort. Team work is the key to defeating the event.
Winston Churchill
1st Lt, M.A.C.O. Foxtrot Squadron
its also not the point that we can do it now also
the point is people HAD difficulties on normal playing this new event and for those it gets changed also some still have no shard, but even tried to get it every day. SO some have troubles with it. and for those it should be a bit fairer as we are a big community and some of those are newer players OR dont have the set up for the game.
i personally run the tal shiar adapted battle cruiser mostly with both borg sets. and 2 part rom weps. and fleet consoles and elachi beams. that works well for me here. STILL i see people blowing around me into bits no matter what they use. even i blow up when all mirror ships are triggered.
and thats the thing they should also attack other npcs and not just the 10 players. also the respawn time was to high.
just because some elite players now can play the normal event , doesnt makes it that everybody can play it..
i dont mind if elite stays the way it is even after the event. but normal should be changed due to the facts its an limitied time event and players want that dil. it should be doable by every lvl 50 player not just the high end ones. on normal i mean.
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Undoable and taking longer than normal are two different things. there is nothing wrong with my statement. the fact that since Thursday I have been able to do CC on 28 toons every day means everyone else can too. I have earned collectively 84 shards already, there is no reason no one else can not earn the 14 shards by the end of the event. There is no leaver penalty for leaving CC so if there are too many MU ships, LEAVE, requeue and do another one. easy peasy.
I agree. The elite can remain super hard, as long as the normal is fixed. After all, that is the difference between the two modes. Elite is very hard, normal is easy.
I think he is telling the truth because he has no life (Sorry
@silence1311 (Rex
and i dont want to spend my gaming time that i have left daily with endless re-queing to finally get a good group. i do it with one toon. and i beat i, also on elite, even with the nice and shiny shattered accolade... STILL i wont be a bugger about it and tell other people that just becasue i can they can also.. what sense in that?
some people have serious matters at hand without spending 24/7 in STO.
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Db, im not even on today lol. you did prove my point though, leave and requeue, simple. If you want to play the hero and try to kill the MU ships that's your own fault.
I went in CCN with one of my Sci toons with her shield tanking Wells class. It has the Reman shield, and is specced for shield tanking, and the appropriate consoles. That ship never goes boom in any of the ESTF, except Hive, but here with over 100+ Mirror ships, even that ship went boom fast.
So, glad that you guys hot fixed this.
They need a spinal lance of DOOOOOM to take out the AFKers/Leachers imo.
What bugs me is that people want to be able to do the Elite straight in with no work. I'm talking about teamwork here not ship builds.
So by all means make the normal version easy but leave a challenge for when you have mastered the first step. Just cause you can't fly solo into a team event and win, doesn't mean it is too hard, it just needs a different approach.
I mean we all started out as rookies, and frankly I enjoy a challenge rather than an easy mission. And yes I still get blow up from time to time.
Winston Churchill
1st Lt, M.A.C.O. Foxtrot Squadron
Nerf? The mirror ships were broken. Yes the event was easy if people actually focused on the entity, but they didn't.
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A) It's not their fault a good deal of their player base doesn't want to work with a group to take down a common enemy, listen to specific instruction(Can't tell you how many times I've begged in zone, local, and team chat to just focus on the entity and nothing else), or own their own fail. "I'm not good at this, what's wrong with the game?" seems to be the motto of the common player.
To those who want more from Cryptic after this fix, like to extend the event(which they already said they would) or to gift you some trinket to apologize for your ordeal, I say: Let it go, you're being unreasonable. The event goes on until October 17th. It is September 29th right now. You need 14 shards to complete the event. There is still plenty of time for everyone to get their shards, even if, for some inexplicable reason, you were unable to get yours in the last four days. I say that because I have 18 characters, and it takes me a little under 4 hours to get my shards for ALL OF MY CHARACTERS. I spend more time browsing funny cat pictures than grinding this event.
I'll leave you with this. One last time, to everyone who plays Crystalline Catastrophe in the queue system: FOCUS ALL OF YOUR FIRE ON THE ENTITY, DO NOT SHOOT ANYTHING ELSE! That's been the one issue that people have had with this event more than any other, since it was retooled back in May. Nothing is more frustrating than watching that rassum frassum snowflake go from 20% to 40% because half the fleet has ADHD, and has broken off the offensive to chase a shiny.
How about just managing your time better? I log in the same time every day to do my CC. I never have to do math to figure it out. Or, alternatively, you can make a mental note of the time you did the event in your head and say "Okay, yesterday I ran CC at 2pm. That means I can do it again any time after 10am."
I wish all NPCs would target leeches (including those that run from gun mount to gun mount in the Defera Invasion Zone, remodulating but not bothering to fight any nearby Borg; I just watch the Borg following them, like a comet's tail, sometimes a dozen Borg or more at a time; if a player doesn't want to fight in an invasion zone and does a remod to a gun mount just as the person that fought the Borg deserved to, I think they've gotten what they deserve, which includes zero sympathy from me). Then the leeches might change their tune ... or not.
Sorry for the rant. But it's something that's been bugging me for months and a dev can't fix it. It's human-oriented, not software/hardware-oriented.
If a match like this is changed I'd suggest including a small note in match note or in a blog alluding to a potential change in situation or tactics.
If there are massive Mirror spawns, people being forced out of matches when warping in (as what happened to me when the CE was reintroduced the first time), or people not getting shards then this really should be fixed.
I actually feel badly for Cryptic who might want to provide a challenge to some players but run up against other players on a tight schedule or those who want to jump into a match and blast everything in sight. But (and I am guilty of this myself in this case) Cryptic should not be held responsible if they provide in game direction and it is ignored by the players.
As for my experience playing CE this time around; I've been lucky and run only Elite matches by organizing groups on certain channels, including a public elite channel. I've always been in groups that competed the match. I hop in or organize one, share tips I've read on the forums and then proceed. Sometimes I've died a bit and other times not at all. All in all I have not had major problems, and the runs have been smooth, but this is not the case with others from what I read.
This said, I shy away from pugs for the CE event because I find that many times people do what they want in pugs and tune others out, often leading to failed optionals or missions, e.g. many, but not all, CSE pugs I've been in. I'll still pug, I just moderate my expectations.
After I posted this I ran with a CCE group that warped into a match with Mirror ships present from the beginning-meaning that we were greeted with Mirror ships as we left the warp out point. During all my other matches they spawned later during the match after the initial Tholian wave was dealt with. I died twice flying through the swarms to the CE but after 1.5 minutes only three players remained so we had to give up.
Got to the officer that gives the path to 2409 mission, queue and do the CCE event, then once you are out do the path to 2409 mission. The next day when you can do it again you will be able to get a shard in CCE. Another way is find a 20 hour doff assignment, once CCE is over start that assignment theres atleast 4 20 hour doff assignments in each sector.
OT: Looking forward to the fixes, finding a good no bug instance on 7 characters is not fun. Dying 10+ times does not always equal a good challenge, but it does make for bad design.
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Also on some characters I do it the same time as my rep. Once the 20 hour rep projects are done, you can do it again.
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The MU ships attacking players even when none of the players have attacked or damaged any MU ships is a bug as well--it's not reasonable to avoid getting aggro if they aggro to your mere presence within their detection radius. I am fine with them ganging up on the players when a player is stupid enough to shoot at them, but getting shot just for being there is not working.