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Power Board race needs a redo
gholendhor
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First,the unfairness of having an inferior board.Knowing your going to place last because you see everyone else have the super fast boards.How about having individual placing for each class of board.that way those who don't have the best board can still have a chance to place in the top three.The next thing is finishing,Last time I raced I got to the finish and the prompt to claim the flag never came up,I tried running around the flag but after a minute it just disappeared.I was never able to finish.Can't you guys just make it like check points so when you cross the finish line it completes the event?
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This means you didn't actually join the race. Sometimes I need to back away from the start area and then back into range and reclick join race. If its too close to the start time, lag can mean I just fail to be included.
All whining aside, if your game is running smoother than mine, I suggest simply hopping off your board when you're at the finish. If you're trying to get the flag while on your board, you might as well Austin Powers it. :cool:
Also, if you reached the finish, can see the flag but can't interact with it, it means you didn't join the race at the beginning. Be sure when you're at the start line to actually interact with the "join race" button or whatever the interaction button is for joining said race.
Oops, gavinruneblade beat me to it. Yeah what he said.
Which begs the question, why have the inferior boards in the game at all?
Personally I'd be extremely happy if they implemented a form of 'PvE' powerboard race, like the "Fastest Game on Ice" daily mission during the winter event, then the inferior boards could be of use, and players who are less experienced with powerboards or just don't like competing against other players can still go 'boarding'.
If that's the case, then you needed to rejoin the race. (Join it again.)
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I've been doing that race the first time ever, and by luck i was even 2nd. on some races. But thanks for that stupid flag i got only normal prize, just because there was nothing to klick on.
You got to search for a long time time to find such a stupid game mechanic in a game.
It's a real game (race) breaker.
Then that's your problem. Once you leave the course you have to rejoin, you're disqualified for that run.
Yeah. Only thing to do is either aim directly at the flag and franticly hit 'F' as you get near it, or hop off your board just as you get there so you can interact with it normally (and hope someone else doesn't steal your flag while you are doing this).
Honestly though, I'd be fine if it weren't for the lag. With decent graphics settings, by the time I've seen a corner, I've already beached myself on it. Tried again with the graphics turned down, my frame rate was OK, but only about half the circuit was actually visible. Didn't have this problem last year. Hoping it's just first day server trauma.
It's not ideal but I don't mind it. It adds some tactics to the endline.
Sometimes its worth pushing for first neck and neck with the other person and spamming the "f" key to hope you get it first. But if you're a bit back and you see three people ahead of you all doing that, aim to the side where the 2nd or third place flags will appear after the first is clicked and snag that one rather than nothing at all for 4th place.
I would prefer something different, but I can live with what we have.
Though I also really like the idea from higher up in the thread for different race brackets based on which board.
Anyway, I've had variable experience on this one, good and not so good boards, flag grabbing etc... Honestly just play the game, try the race, you'll at least get something. 2 tags for finishing and there's an accolade or something for doing 20 races or coming first once.
You are basically right, I just want to point out that you don't progress through playing in STO. You progress through repeatedly grinding the same tasks to earn currency to buy set items in a shop which are then only used to repeat the same things again...
Progress through playing would mean being able to complete sets and legendary items through drops, unlock the better board by completeing x races or earn new starships by completing missions instead of buying/eschanging/grinding them out.
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other than that the flag mechanics is fine by me, sometimes it lets me get better than 4th place when some of those superior board guys who hop to nearly empty instances to TRIBBLE with people with weak boards forget to grab it or miss it.
We fight them too. Entire armies spilling out of Volkswagens.
We do our best to fight them off, but they keep sending them in.
If you need the tags just wait until around monday and onwards and find low instance. I run probably the optimal course but have no interest in battling in this event for some reason. I enjoy the comparable race battle in winter. But on Risa I rather not stress.
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An improvement would be as all flags were present, not number one that spawns number two etc, Four flags, first, second, third an the rest. Some will be so stupid to grab the wrong flag. They will learn it the hard way, to do it right.
I have been disqualified twice for overshooting the flag. Lol, it was the fourth flag, was last and second last, still no reward for that character. I have run the race about seven times and only seen three or four ramps. The map is loading so slowly, I am most of the time surfing in the blind.
Yeah, that's the one that annoys me the most. Happened on my first attempt this year.... the click option didn't show up as I flew through the 2nd place flag, and (being on a superior board) before I could turn around I'd apparently gone far enough down to be disqualified......
Why is there even a DQ check at the finish line in the first place?
So nice that they added a new tier of board this year. Have superior boards on two characters - one of whom isn't bothering with the race this year, still has 600 tags from last year - but now there's another level. Whee!
...and ended up racing against 5 Targ boards in a group of 8 people. :P
Always good to mhave this reminder too. Thanks.
And SheldonCooper's advice about the race is solid also.
It isn't fine, but the problem isn't so much the unequal boards as that the course isn't challenging enough to require any skill to use the more difficult boards. It's three-quarters straightaways, and even the river section isn't very windy. The trade-off with the faster boards was supposed to be poor handling, but it just doesn't matter on a course like this.
The other problem that rarely gets mentioned is the speed boost glitch that causes it not to trigger if you're too close to the racer in front of you. This makes it impossible to pass anyone once everyone knows the fast route, unless a third person glitches the person you're trying to pass but not you.
As for the flags at the finish, I doubt the devs think this is a great way to do it either. It has to be a workaround for some limitation of the game, as others have suggested.
My advice to players experiencing their first ever STO Summer Event is to focus on investing in fast floaters for the Hunt first and don't bother with more than the basic hoverboard for the Race unless you've got nothing else to spend your favors on. Get the miniboard if you want to win (the medium boards and now the superior boards are completely pointless except for looks), but speaking as someone who owns the miniboard you're still not going to get much satisfaction out of racing with it. You're going to be racing a bunch of other players all with the same board all following the same route (once the new players figure it out after a week) and winning and losing is going to be determined by speed boost glitches and a lottery roll of who the server wants to give the 1st place button to first. I actually get access to the button faster on my slower computer with the slower connection, probably due to lower graphical settings, but I can't be bothered to switch computers or play with my settings just to win this race. Don't stress over it.
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Sigh more whining...
OP Just do the hunt for hogams or whatever the f they are called, build sand castles, do the dance party, run the race you get tokens just for finishing guy, and gee in a very short time you'll have enough for a fast board. Till then suck it up buttercup. We were all there with slow stuff at one time so stop your whining.
Yup, I spent Lobi to get enough to buy the 1500 board (the fastest one), there appeared to be zero point to buying anything below the best.
I want to get the Fed, the New Mini th e IDIC and at least one other Powerboard for my collection (can i store them on BOFFS)
Now i chenced the stats of each to see whci to get first.
AS i was hovering (with my mouse) over the IDIC Board it showed the same stats as other superior Boards (speed 60/turn 120) but i klciekd on it to see the tooltip and there the stats were different:
Speed 55, Turn 90
I play STO in german so it would be nice if someone could tell me if thats just a translation error or how fast that thing really is
In itself a good idea.
However... it usually takes anywhere between one and three (!) seconds before a "Grab the Flag" even appears for me.