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In order to add realism to the game, if players come too close to a moving random combat encounter, there should be a chance that they get caught up in that combat zone and are forced to fight an enemy ship. In order to avoid the encounter, the player would have to pilot their vessel around the zone and give it a wide berth. Would quickly put an end to zipping through the sector at warp 21 trick.
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LOL, i see a big problem here. The encounters are random, this means you can be flying along a sector and suddenly , a borg cube appears in front of you. So, no way to avoid it.
It was the way you are describing at the beginning, but it was a chaos, because you were forced to fight the enemies one time after another, and the game was literally stressing lol. They changed it for the health of the game, and the players specifically
And removed it, cause it was annoying and confusing to new players... (not a joke... that IS the reason)
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You'd be on your way to complete a mission but couldn't just plot a course and let it go because you'd get sucked into a DSE and have no choice but to fight it out.
Still, I wish we could get the occasional distress call or random spacial anomaly and then decide for ourselves whether it took priority over our 'current mission'.
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But then they'd also have to fix the Borg Alerts, because there's a chance one can come up... only to be an empty instance still.
Dang false alarms...
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As others have said, it's a problematic mechanic.
However, in threads past, it has been suggested that there could be an entirely new difficulty level.
Let's call it, for the sake of argument, 'realistic'.
Think of it as elite, but with the added terror of unavoidable encounters and random events.
And also remember, by constituting it as a difficulty level, it can be scaled at will.
Got time for the random this evening? Hit the realistic level and have at it.
Only got time for some quick housekeeping? Drop the difficulty and have at that too.
EDITED TO ADD: My perfect 'realistic' difficulty would also require you to travel to the sites of queues in order to be able to join them. It woudn't be for everyone, but its an interesting way to scale the challenge while avoiding power creep.
I remember they talked about those random red alerts coming up while traveling. They said you would sometimes get random mission assignments. This was WAAAAY back before beta.
They should have random spots on maps that have random missions. Like a mayday from a world needing help to stop pirate attacks, or maybe use this as an opportunity to return the First contact missions. But if it's too frequent, it will end up being as annoying as the old DSEs.
Eta Eradani Sector Block.
Distress Signal coming from a Ferengi Merchant. His Dilithium Tanks are threatened by True Way Terrorists.
Sh'Mar Distress Signal. Their crew has come down with some illness and cant get out of the area. True Way have been seen in the area and are likely to prey on a cargo ship stranded in the region.
My character Tsin'xing
Then I remember how annoying it was to have a random encounter attack you while you were hovering outside of the Sierra system and I don't miss them anymore.
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Oh thank you for the laugh! Making like those static, premade missions are real distress signal missions!
A real distress signal mission would be something unexpected that occurs while you are traveling.
Here is a thought;
Why not just have a setting in the options menu, off by default for all players, and those that want to 'toughen' up with an occasional interruption of a enemy hostile can have at it by checkmarking the box?
Yeah and they did away with the random encounters before DOFF assignments. Imagine the aggrevation if those were still around when Duty Officers first came out.
I loved it the old way. It was fun learning to outmaneuver the rogue KDF ships in Sirius and Regulus Sector Blocks. The Romulans in Alpha Centauri and the Terran Empire in Beta Ursae. Especially when a player accidentally/on purpose entered a sector block with content above their level. It was more about gearing for speed than anything else as you leveled and could use a faster ship.
The Borg Red Alerts replaced them, if I recall correctly.
Today, a variant of the old system would be that much more interesting with the Warp Cores in play. If the NPC ships were varied in speed as well. Perhaps not having as many of those wandering NPC's would keep it from annoying others. But think it was one of the interesting things about STO that I miss.
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Why are you not rejoicing?
used to have it but players used to complain about it because these random encounters would follow this player when in orbit of a system in sector space or another player minding his or her own business gets caught in one. it was removed likely because it was more trouble then it was worth. i frankly wouldnt want to see the system return.
its had its time on sto and it lost, move along.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Way I would do it, default to as it is now, and have the new randoms as an option. Makes it available for those who want it, and isn't forced on those who don't.
This was my original thought. It would be a low percentile chance. And I was actually referring to those zones where you can see swirling/moving combat areas. If you got too close to them, there would be a low percentile chance that you could actually be "attacked."
I think they should lessen the number of appearances of those also. Even now without such a possible unexpected/uninvited encounter, there are too many of those things floating around in a zone.
But I can see how the old way was annoying. I would reduce the encounter mechanic by a lot and get rid of encouters while idle or close to some star systems.
your last sentance sums it up.... and sector space would have to be cut up even more for it to work.
too much time and effort for too little gain.