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Guest Blog: Ker'rat Space War Zone
pwebranflakes
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Community Member Regulus has written a Guest Blog about Ker'rat, a PvPvE Space War Zone in the Neutral Zone.
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not since the Borg started doing the snake warp thing.....
and not since I lost the ability to replay the mission for Dili.... or replay the thing at all....
Has anyone ever solo-ed this? Any observations to share?
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Obligatory requests aside, nice blog!
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You bring shame and dishonor to your house and shall be hunted down like the Targ you are."
Added standard Fed reply.
The "spawn-camping" issue was recently addressed and should be resolved now.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
I applaud you on how accurate your quote is!
I wasn't aware there had been any changes. Thanks for the update.
Sorry, but I feel that most of your response is a load of TRIBBLE.
I go to Ker'rat often. It is rare that I see any spawn camping.
In any event... it is a persistent war zone. Which faction dominates it and the manner in which it is dominated is constantly changing. As it should.
Branflakes already provided some helpful info
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I more or less STOPPED going there about a year ago while playing my first KDF character. I got a mission that was basically telling me to die at the hands of another player 25 times to finish it. At the time I knew it was a PvP zone but with no one there it was difficult to finish that mission.
Until that is, one day (about a week after getting the mission) I found some other folks there actually PvP'ing. so I waded into the lot of them and dropped my cloak and let them kill me. Only 24 more times to go. Upon respawning I found someone camping the spawn point and they quickly blew me up again. I started thinking to myself this wil go quick and I can finally get this mission done. Respawn, dead. Respawn, dead. Respawn... eh, you get the point.
Anyway, with about 10 deaths to go the spawn camper sent me a tell saying they'd "let me go" if I'd just fight back. I responded and told them that I was simply trying to complete a mission that required me to die 25 times to another player. They lol'd and left the spawn point. I respawned and waited to be blown up again.
Nothing.
So I ventured out into the zone again and found where the main group of PvP'ers was and waded into the fighting. They all kept shooting each other, but none of them fired on me. After about 5 minutes of following the group around I received another tell from a different player telling me to leave. They said that the first person who sent me a tell informed everyone else in his group and told them not to shoot at me so I couldn't finish my mission.
Here I was, fresh meat WANTING to be ganked and blown up and they "trolled" me by letting me live. I switched instances in the hopes there was PvP going on in another zone, but no luck. I really hated to drop the mission, since it rewarded Dilithium and at the time I didn't exactly know how easy it was to get, but I was tired of going out of my way trying to finish the mission every day only to not be able to.
I normally wouldn't actively PvP unless I felt the rewards were worth it. The only reason I'd tried it here was because dying was the way to get the reward and I figured it'd be easy enough to finish. Guess again.
Oh well, for the folks who like PvP, enjoy.
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Given me the best LOL I have ever had in this game. I had just gotten my new (At the time ) Engineer a promotion and grabbed him a Galaxy from shipyard, wasn't really fitted, just the MK X weaps it came with etc and thought I would head ot Ker'rat since the PVP daily was up.
Few mins there and sure enough the big unaccompanied cruiser gets jumped by a wolfpack of 5 BoP's. They were throwing their shots and I was barely bothering to tank (Oddly enough there was no need) and in return was popping them off quite easily.
After a few rounds of this one of them pipes up in tell and starts accusing me of cheating and all sorts of abuse because there was "No way" I could stand that 5-1 assault so I have to be cheating blah blah. Blew him up again.
What I didn't have the heart to tell the mouthy little prat was he hadn't even bothered to install shields on his ship. He was flying bare hull, in a PVP zone and it was through miraculous cheats he was exploding. I was just too busy laughing to tell him.
Oh well daily was done now time to go back to regular dull - Warped out still laughing...
Ker'rat, might not be the best place if your ships not up to PVP standards, but it's great for the LOLz sometimes
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Lol! I just love how they pretty much ignore the broken-ness of the zone!
If something is quiet/completely dead, it's probably for a good reason. I.e. broken, unbalanced or just a load of cr*p etc.
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There's being a newbie, which is fine, and then there is active stupidity, which is not.
On another note, I have found that PvPvE zones tend to bring out the worst in players, in any game. There'll be the trolls spawn-camping and ganking n00bs because they find it amusing in their sad little way, there'll be some guy hopelessly trying to get stuff done and getting killed by the enemies and the opposing players over and over, and there will be about fifty other people throwing abuse at each other over zone chat.
It's the same in every game. No offense to the dev team, who I'm sure have worked very hard on Ker'rat, but I'm not going in there anytime soon. If I want to fight the Borg, I'll run Cure Found elites, which give me dilithium, marks, and neural processors which can be turned in for dil instead of just dil, and I'll visit the shipyard if I get blown to bits.
Also, we have our first gratuitous overreaction of the day! Deleted guy, if you violate the rules, the moderators and devs will take action as outlined in those rules. That's not communism, that's just competent forum moderation.
Off-topic, but needs to be said: I'm loving the new expansion. For all of its faults and bugs, it's made dilithium farming super easy. Thank you, devs.
On the other hand this constant and annoying 'warping in' by Borg ships still happens. You should concentrate your effort on fixing THAT.
I also feel like there is something off about how the borg absorb damage in the zone, like I have to shoot them at a diagonal to kill them? Hard to explain a "feel".
I usually fly into kerrat in off hours to farm mk XII gear. On the exchange, the disruptor induction coils I want go for a steep 28 million ec, so I'll probably be farming for a while.
Sometimes I just feel like I'm playing the game wrong.
Ker'rat would be nearly perfect if, not for those headache inducing warprepeating npc's.
It has nice tasty sweet bait to draw in prey for the predators. And predators are the only things worth hunting.
The thought that some players have, in that they should be able to graze unmolested in a war zone, makes me laugh sadly.
Nice.. something written about something that is years old. How about we have SOME kind of update to PVP. Our fleet is BLEEDING people to games that have more PVP. people are tired of the mindless grinds
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