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chalpen
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Please remove them from game and have them return for special events. Right now, it seems silly.
"Borg are attacking earth!"
"Can't help, need to surfboard on Riss"
Thanks.
"Borg are attacking earth!"
"Can't help, need to surfboard on Riss"
Thanks.
Should I start posting again after all this time?
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When the alerts came out, it was the first content sto had in years.
Years later, it seems silly to have these attacks.
Get rid of them and have them come back for a future grind.
E.g. deny starting of regular missions as long as the borg have not been defeated, extra rewards in those sectors in which Borg Red Alerts are more difficult (e.g. defera space), Random drops of borg gear or liberated borg doffs.
And so forth.
If anything needs to be removed it's the summer farce called Risa.
You know all cryptic employees do is play games that have those elements.
"We don't do immersion" is their mantra.
But I am talking about the empty Borg alerts.
I did one of those Borg Alerts. And didn't do it again, due to lack of players joined in. To fix that, they should have a button "team or solo" mission.
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Well, perhaps, if they could somehow make it so that when the Borg invade a sector map, the battle actually takes place in Sector Space rather than a mission that has to be accepted and then warp to a new map.
Sort of like how the Snowman Overlord appears in Q's Winter Wonderland:
Borg ships spawn in the sector and attack everything on the map. If you're transiting the sector at the time of the invasion, you are a target. Everyone has to fight or flee (preferably fight). Once X number of Borg ships have been destroyed, the Boss Ship spawns and everyone takes it down.
The Borg would need a buff so that it couldn't be too easily done (considering the number of participants would most likely be more than in the current Red Alert).
Everyone who participated gets some kind of reward.
(Actually, this gives me another idea...)
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its not possible to fight on sector space, its coded much differently then space mission maps.
Not just Borg? but maybe have an Undine one, with a Planet Killer in place of ther Unimatrix vessel?
Have them as thematic events? Improve the quality, and make them more insentivised.
Make it so that certain things in the sector are "locked down" while the borg are attacking perhaps?
Personaly i'd love to see those red alerts expand and include what is now the "unused" fleet actions like klingon scout force, Big Dig, Breaking the planet, ...
Give each sector block an alert that ties into the storyline in those sectors...Bajoran sector block, the DS9 feet action. Sirius sector block Starbase 24, Regulus klingon scout force, ...
instead of 10-20 man missions, make them 5 man.
This is a terrible idea.
I think you may be on to something there, At least that would give each sector a theme rather than doing the same thing at every red alert
I suggest there be multiple objectives to get the Unimatrix to spawn, rather then just pew-pew some Borg, as in...maybe a Lowbie can assist by scanning X while another escorts a civilian ship out of the combat zone.
On top of that, make the Unimatrixes harder as well, with multiple objectives and not just a pew-pew fest.
Reward experience points to the lowbies that scan/escort/etc as well.
Are you serious?
I can practically Solo a RA... Granted, I need some support for the final ship, but other than that, it's not a problem... And I remind you, I did this before I had fleet level gear.
This.
I solo them regulary.
My fleet tend to call those False Alarms. Kinda frustrating when you're in a sector block, the Alert pops up, you hit it... and somehow end up in an instance that is already complete.
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We're there already, aren't we?
At this point, space flight is just eye-candy.
So, are you saying that you'd be against them being upgraded to make them a challenge?
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This is definately a problem. LOwer level newbies get smashed to bits and can't complete the mission, but often a veteran player can come in and effectivly solo the map.
They need to add a bit more than "kill 4 patrols to spawn the Unimatrix", maybe saving some civilian transports from some probes or some thing a bit easier as an optional. That way if newer players fail the main mission they can still get a reward for something.
No I am saying that I find the notion that they need change because of low-level players silly.
Seriously: Half the people have NO-CLUE how to play end-game content, because they aren't forced to learn to work together during low level.
They have to stay, just the way they are... if anything, we need more content that low-levels can join... so that once they hit end-game, they won't be ******** that content is too hard and needs nerfing.
Sure, why not?
I am against removing them. They're kind of fun from time to time as they are, but I wouldn't be opposed to making them harder, either.
Your reading comprehension must be turned off.
Re-read the suggestions I gave instead of waving your stick around and bellowing "WELL I CAN SOLO ALL THE THINGS!!!"
So, what if the difficulty scaled to the lowest level player in the RA?
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How about we not touch them at all?
The Borg Sector Alerts are a good training ground for newer, lower level players. And they are another source of accolades and dil for players at both ends of the spectrum.
All of us upper level players already have a place to "farm". They are called "STFs".
Gotta wear some goggles (and take a vantage point) before that 60cm shell lobs off yet another bit of SS STO.