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Why do you avoid the Q present boxes?
o0kami87
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I've noticed many people will walk away from the Q present game. I personally like it so I'm wondering why others don't like it. also would like to hear from others that do like it, what's good about it and what's bad. Personally I prefer it to mindless button pushing that was the ice race. I got to where I could watch tv or work on boff assinments and win that race from mussel memory at the same time.
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Well you wonder why others don't like it... And... An (as an educated guess based on image chat comments and forum posts) 99 % of the other ppl here wonder what you could possible like about it....
It takes forever and without using exploits it's sometimes impossible to q.
Add to that that it is sometimes hard to find/ get a party crasher in the first place and the fact that some ppl make this game for multiple characters, doing it 5 times a day is one thing, doing it 50 times per day another....
it's bright and colorful and keeps my attention :P but really, I do this for more than one character too, not 10 but lets see... about 7 though I've not had a problem getting a crasher in a timely fashion. I will agree with kestrellius that it's harder than it needs to be.
2.) If I have to wait more than 15-30 seconds each it will take more than 2 hours to get through all of them.
3.) Having to play the box game with q 50+ times strains my eyes.
4.) I don't skip so much as start multiple so I can "do more than stand there". (In low population instances so that I'm not affecting others.) And I try to clean up after myself, but after the 10th or so character it gets really old.
5.) Check out Priority One's podcast (Released yesterday, featured in site news today) where Mr. D'Angelo talks about repeatable vs replayable content. This is repeatable. It is not so much replayable. Chasing him is much quicker, if no less unfun/annoying.
If it was a per faction unlock as opposed to a character unlock and I only had to do 3/day, I would probably stick around and do them. As it is now, the ROI for the boxes is too low for me to stand around and do it.
Other valid reasons: Colorblindness (I'm not, but I imagine that the color choices for the boxes aren't particularly great for the people who are.)
You got some serious Downs going on if the Q boxes are challenging.
The old academy particle-scanning event had more challenge!
This is just sitting there for the better part of a minute watching boxes shuffle. Hell, you can activate 3 at once, run back to the first and just guess and the law of averages do the work for you.
There's nothing "challenging" about it, and it's certainly not fun.
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This can be just as fast as chasing down runners. One note: The boxes will go away if you don't choose w/in a certain time limit so you can't do too many at once.
If nobody is around I will start another one about halfway through, go back to the first one and finish, then get the second.
Most people seem to be doing it on multiple chars and lets be honest...it really isn't enjoyable. They really should have made the presents shorter. It wouldn't even effect the "challenge" of it anyway.
I skip over the presents in hopes of a runner but I try to make it back to my presents. Usually I get back and see Q at the very end but other times I just guess with mixed results. Either way it is pretty fast. I always go to the lowest instance and don't feel bad because there are enough Qs to go around.
About 9 days left to go...phew.
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crouch cheat? no wait don't tell me, I enjoy watching the red blue and green boxes jump around
-NPCs walk through the boxes while I'm trying to concentrate
-The boxes are not game content that I'm seeking out. This is a tool. It is a means to an end and that end is the ship. If there was no ship involved I wouldn't do the boxes plain and simple. This is a grind. Grinds are not fun. Therefore I want to minimize the amount of grind I am doing (again, 5 characters) so I can get back to doing team content with my fleet. Therefore the boxes are less desirable and less efficient than the runners.
They should make a 'grind' that's tied into doing a number of STFs or New Romulus content or Dyson content for their next thing instead of ice races or party boxes. At least that is content that people already want to do.
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may as well take the bait knowing you will likely catch something. but for this one i did it on purpose.
3 q chases or 1 q present?
you could be done and away to do other things before your fnished with the second q present. not impatience on my end, im currently doing the grinds, which means getting from place to place each day, and while your right it is inconsiderate, we are not the ones who created it like this. and challenges come in many forms, but other challenges take priority over this optional.
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the walking NPC's are also a pain if they get in the way.
As to walking off from the presents, doesn't bother me. What bothers me is when somebody runs up to a party crasher just as you arrive, triggers it and THEN walks off... Guessing though that that's their intent. Again though, easily avoided by just changing instance. The very full instances seem to contain a lot more people doing it just to annoy folks.
So, first thing I will do is find the instance with the fewest players before starting. Then, I will look for the ones that you chase Q in. After finding one, I will run back, and start selecting the different boxes. I do this to help clear them out faster for others also.
If this was something where we had a choice of which one we wanted to play, it would have been a lot better. Besides, they could have included the 40 Q commendations in the featured episode after the first play through. This would have allowed us to get an extra 80 Q commendations, and I would personally rather do that, instead of the boring grind.
It is more boring than the radiation scans on New Romulus.
so i'm not going to sit there and do it.
plus i like to do atleast 3 at a time if the mini-q's are close together.
so hows that for a challenge you nobs.
That's us told lol :P:)