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admiralah1
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Hello fellow players,
In the last few weeks, I have noticed something I have not seen much over the years playing this game--rage quitters. In the last two weeks or so, whenever I've done an STF, within the first five minutes, even if everything is going well, it seems that half the team or more quits. Using public queues, I have not been able to complete a single match of Undine Assault, Viscous Cycle, or The Breach.
The Borg STFs are easy enough to get teams for through fleets and public elite channels, but the Borg STFs are boring these days, just mash spacebar for 4 minutes with your eyes closed essentially.
Something needs to be done about rage quitting. Something like a fifteen minute cooldown on ALL queues for those who quit a match early, perhaps waived if you are the last two in a match and it is now uncompletable due to a lack of a team.
This is frustrating, and behavior usually reserved for games a lot more competitive and challenging than this.
In the last few weeks, I have noticed something I have not seen much over the years playing this game--rage quitters. In the last two weeks or so, whenever I've done an STF, within the first five minutes, even if everything is going well, it seems that half the team or more quits. Using public queues, I have not been able to complete a single match of Undine Assault, Viscous Cycle, or The Breach.
The Borg STFs are easy enough to get teams for through fleets and public elite channels, but the Borg STFs are boring these days, just mash spacebar for 4 minutes with your eyes closed essentially.
Something needs to be done about rage quitting. Something like a fifteen minute cooldown on ALL queues for those who quit a match early, perhaps waived if you are the last two in a match and it is now uncompletable due to a lack of a team.
This is frustrating, and behavior usually reserved for games a lot more competitive and challenging than this.
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so your having a rage about ragequitters huh? you should quit while your ahead. you cant control how others behave nor should you be the one to say otherwise, pwe have the rule book its there as a guideline to follow, if you dont agree with it? theres that nice little neat rage box to scream into (as long as no one hears or reads about it) and a quit door behind it. :P
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Er, were you reading the forums over those years?
Edit: Ah you're referring to STFs.
I guess I haven't noticed this since I haven't ever quit out. The only times I've ever had to cancel an STF in progress were organized private ground STFs when we were restarting to try again at the bonus. I guess those don't trigger the lockout.
Ignore this then. Sorry to take up some space.
****ing morons basically that do this. They should learn better English if they want to play MMO's successfully, or simply stop mouthing off. If the cap fits, wear it.
If you are trying to do something specific, then say something before the STF begins, or if you cant be arsed to type it, don't start trash talking when it fails. In any language.
Infected ground, Kitomer ground and space, Cure ground and space... those need communication to really be successful. But most of the time... silence.
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I'll gladly take the leaver penalty and go to another character. I have better things to do, win, and be awarded than to stick around for failure.
*slow clap*
Wow, what a badass. Such a great attitdue for an MMO. Another F2P player filled with community spirit.
I can do all the STF's and optionals with my eyes closed, but that doesn't mean I think i am too special that i can't help newer or more inexperienced players learn the things i had to learn myself at some point. You know you can speak up in group chat right?
There is nothing in this game bar maybe NWS and two of the elite ground optionals that are even remotely hard enough to be this arrogant about.
In fact, I bet you are again one of these people who turns up, doesn't say anything at all, then if the team is performing subpar probably writes 'noobs' then leaves.
Get over yourself.
LOL, in reply...
I got better things to do than hang around for failures :rolleyes:
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If you PUG it, you really don't have that time to make out wonderful plans and ensure everyone knows what to do, and if they don't give out the instructions on how to do it. By the time you do that, the probes have gotten to the gate.
Then you have the *******s blowing up gens on the other side and all that, whether it was intentional or sheer incompetence, to me, it doesn't matter. I'm not hanging around for failure.
If you are in a premade, then the usual pre-instance chatter of assignments is usually enough to let you know who doesn't know what's up. Then you got a chance to straighten it up before going in, and even so, everyone knows to keep an eye out for the guy to lend him help if need be.
Yeah :rolleyes:
For all I know... it could be that kind of attitude that is stopping people, be it veteran or rookie, from communicating in any way. I've heard stories here on the forum of people asking for help, only to get told off by someone else in their group.
I for one would rather see it through even if the optional fails. Its just a game after all. Its not the end of the world if you don't get your optional bonus. TRIBBLE happens. Its how you deal with it that matters.
I was in an Infected Space run in the last couple days that went horribly wrong, and people dropped out, and were eventually replaced. We lost the optional, and it turns out someone blew two generators on the right while everyone was on the left. But three of us stuck with it to the end and still finished the STF, and got help from the two replacements. Everyone understood TRIBBLE happens, and I even got a friend request after some friendly banter.
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Well, you know pugging the instances are dicey. There are some days where it seems the pugs are on point and doing absolutely fabulous. Then there's those days that you wonder WTH is going on.
I got no problem helping people, but when the instance and shooting has started, there's no time. That's the situation you're in when you PUG.
Like in an ISE, we're working left side and there's someone on right doing it all wrong. I say on Team / Zone channel a correction (while I myself am getting shot at), but in all likeliness, it won't be read. Between their Chat box scrolling through whatever channels they participate in as well as instance updates, they're too busy fighting, or just don't give a ****, there's many reasons how this will be fruitless.
Again, once the instance is started, which is what a PUG scenario is, it's way too late to instruct. Because you know full well as I do that once it starts, it's fast move to the target ASAP and start shooting. You can fly in quickly to try to save the situation, but depending on how things are, it can be waaayyy too late no matter what. Or trying to save it yourself without any assistance may not be enough. Any form of CC like GW greatly helps, but not all builds have that in mind.
you shouldn't be puging then anyway...you are just part of the problem if you do queue up and bail.
quality in pugs has gone down since season 8 from the looks of it, when you play kas normal, no one even attempts to save the probes until its a complete threat to total failure.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
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Often they come back in and I know it was a quick gamecrash by the "sorry guys, gamecrash" post in team chat. But often they don't get back in before the end.
Either way I don't know why they left (unless it was after some rant), so for the most part its just a long and lengthy sigh from me before diverting all power to weapons and getting really stuck into it, secure in the knowledge that if they quit they now have the ban and that they will be replaced by hopefully another, better teammate in time.
In some ways its frustrating as the optionals are lost, but at the end of a hellride ISE or CSE when we (the ones who stayed) are victorious, I do feel great satisfaction, especially if we completed it with one player less in the team.
"If this will be our end, then I will have them make SUCH an end as to be worthy of rememberance! Out of torpedos you say?! Find me the ferengi!".
Exactly. I see a lot of people, not only quitting the match, but the whole game. Couple of minutes later they often come back, if it lasts long enough. Looks like computer or game crash. Obviously there is a great problem with general game stability these days.
Not rage quitting, but bad programming.
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I hold off on quitting though, because of the sunk costs fallacy.
But I still do not care. I can always take another character to play.
My character Tsin'xing
Why? I dont recall anyone leaving when I was in my scimitar do you? :P
They stay and then they write " Leave me something lol " ( we were 2 scimis when that happened though) :rolleyes: