So still no plans to at least make it an account unlock for just the weapon.
Typical of Cryptic. Create something new and beneficial for the players (account-wide unlock store) but never make full use of it as they said it would be able to.
Agree, we allready have the account wide unlocked Reclaim Store for "Event Ships" so i dont understand why this is not extended to also include "Event Items", fact is its a MAJOR Pain trying to get this / such Special items if one has more than a few Characters. In my Case 42 Characters times 20 Minutes (Plus / Minus) would be 14 Hours per day! And as much as i really would like to have that Gun (and all the other Special Items) there is just no way for me to do that, without ending in an Asylum.
So again PLEASE Cryptic, its JUST the Special Item, NOT the Dill Reward, NOT the Marks, make it Account Wide Unlocked / Reclaimable please. people who want the Dill and the Marks on all characters still can go through all their Characters if they wish to do so.
Seriously, thats not to much to ask for, and would make many People happy.
thegalaxy31: The exploiting has been going on probably since they came out with MI. People sit back and let the station go offline and not help those of us who are also in it for the marks. They come in for the thingy to get the prize with and nothing more. So we end up with just a few marks for our trouble.
I would love to see something done about it, but I don't see how you can light a fire under Cryptic/PWE to do it.
Now a LTS and loving it.
Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
I have come to the conclusion that I have a memory like Etch-A-Sketch. I shake my head and forget everything.
I hope they never run this again, if they do not revamp the mission so there's some actual sense in the mission.
At the moment it's just a bad time gated run that takes way longer than it should take.
So please do not run this anymore ever or revamp the mission. Thank you.
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So far this has been the worst event ever for me, a T1 kills me in a T6 ship, not like I was just sitting there waiting on him to take my shields down. Do the Dev's ever play what they create or is it meant to be like this? oh, lets not forget the 15 minutes it takes. The marks are good but I love to blow stuff up, might as well AFK and still get the marks.
The only way to fix the exploiting that i see would be removing the fixed timer for 11 or so minutes defending station.
A good team can breeze through Crystaline Catastrophe in less than 5 minutes. The Mirror Invasion always takes around 15 or so... but i need to do it on all my 16 toons day after day... i could learn to hate STO here
I may have missed this and if so I have no excuse. Why isn't the Agony Rifle an account item like how everything else is going? Would mean I only need to do it on one toon and not have to fly around on the adv one trying to keep my Command Battle Cruiser from getting blown to underworld by some T1 Miranda class ship on each of my toons?
I have to say that I do not enjoy this Mirror Invasion event. I'm doing it for the rewards (which are wonderful, btw), and I have to motivate myself every day to do it. The number of AFKers, people who drop group part way through, and folks who just don't understand what they're doing make this event a frustrating chore. Even if I get a good group, we finish with 5+ minutes left and have nothing to do but wait for the timer to count down so we can move onto the next phase of the event.
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So the people that drop group they also get rewards? 2 days ago we were doing the mission and halfway there when the time came to fight the dreadnought 2 people drop the mission, do they get rewards?
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Most unexpectedly, this turned into a flame-fest! Closed it goes!. /sigh What flamefestery is this? pwlaughingtrendy
So the people that drop group they also get rewards? 2 days ago we were doing the mission and halfway there when the time came to fight the dreadnought 2 people drop the mission, do they get rewards?
No, and if you crash for whatever reason, you can't get back into the mission (unlike most queued events). Very irritating, especially for my younger brother. He's actually been forced to leech in order to keep the game from crashing long enough for the mission to end.
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This is another one of those missions where the difficulty needs to be rebalanced. Two decent players can carry a PUG team through Normal and have all rifts closed with 2-3 minutes to spare, but on Advanced the same team gets slaughtered. Need a setting between drollsville and too much work for reward.
This is another one of those missions where the difficulty needs to be rebalanced. Two decent players can carry a PUG team through Normal and have all rifts closed with 2-3 minutes to spare, but on Advanced the same team gets slaughtered. Need a setting between drollsville and too much work for reward.
I play the advanced queue because it takes the same amount of time, has plenty of ships to shoot/avoid, and it pays out more marks even if you fail all the optional objectives. If they re-balanced it to let that weaker group complete it like they did on normal, then the rewards would most likely get reduced. I don't want that.
The only adjustment I would suggest is to make the timer auto complete if at least 10 rifts are closed and the defense has reached max level. Groups that want more points for closing rifts could slow down their defense level, while groups who want to rush through could still do so.
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We are the LEMMINGS. Bad DEVS gave us mirror event. We have NO CHOICE. We have to COMPLY and do it on all 40, 50 or so alts. Please bad DEVS, don't do events that can give tons of marks + some fancy gimmick anymore.
Really guys, I can't imagine how uniteligent and conformist and foremost greedy one has to be to wrote such nonsenses. We are humans, we have free will, U know?
NO ONE FORCE NO ONE TO PLAY THIS EVENT ON ONE OR ANY NUMBER OF ALTS.
Every day I think more and more that Q Continuum was right in ...All Good Things.
While an account-wide unlock would be nice, I really doubt the devs would go for it. I only do the events on one toon, anyway, so doesn't matter to me. I can't be bothered to do it on every character. The game is grindy enough already.
This event has one gigant problem. I did about... 42 Runs on my main alt.. and the only one i am doing it on.. and i got only like 10 of those things. and i know it is 1 a day.. but.. it keeps crashing and so and Srsly it is like a Gamble for me. i do usualy like 3 MAYBE 4 reruns before i hit it.
It is Fairly Obvious that They Don't Want me to Stick around.
This Event is getting worse and worse. I see way too many leechers on this mission. It definitely makes the fight a lot less enjoyable and after doing it 14 times per 8 characters, it really gets to you. Please figure out a way to fix this.
So still no plans to at least make it an account unlock for just the weapon.
Typical of Cryptic. Create something new and beneficial for the players (account-wide unlock store) but never make full use of it as they said it would be able to.
This is exactly like the Reputation System that is supposed to be "A replacement for the Fleet system for casual players."
I don't see any Fleet ships or equipment in the Rep system yet!?
I was just going through reclaimable ships for use in the Admiralty system and decided to check the promo tab in the C-Store and found an once per account claim "7 multidimensional transporters for use in the Mirror Event". It worked. Anybody know anything about this? Other fleeties reported they didn't have this option and I couldn't see any related news items at time of posting this.
So still no plans to at least make it an account unlock for just the weapon.
Typical of Cryptic. Create something new and beneficial for the players (account-wide unlock store) but never make full use of it as they said it would be able to.
This is exactly like the Reputation System that is supposed to be "A replacement for the Fleet system for casual players."
I don't see any Fleet ships or equipment in the Rep system yet!?
Would be nice to get some hybrid tech ship that gets a ship-exclusive bonus for using the Rep set on it. Such as a faction escort with undine armor plate growths on it. Or a science vessel with some Dyson detailing on it (esp. useful for all Factions). Or a cruiser with Tholian angles and planes. Different in outward design, but similar in core design. Heck; even if it costs a hefty 5k to 10k Marks, 25 Elite Marks, and plenty of Dil, it'd be a worthwhile alternative and another motivation to grind some of the dead queues.
As to the topic itself, I'll still hold out a faint bit of hope that the Agony Rifle and future MI rewards will become an Account Store unlock at the end of the event (minus all the other bonuses), but I won't be holding any expectations given that this is Cryptic we're talking about. Start something new and with potential, then just fail to follow through all the way.
So still no plans to at least make it an account unlock for just the weapon.
Typical of Cryptic. Create something new and beneficial for the players (account-wide unlock store) but never make full use of it as they said it would be able to.
This is exactly like the Reputation System that is supposed to be "A replacement for the Fleet system for casual players."
I don't see any Fleet ships or equipment in the Rep system yet!?
Would be nice to get some hybrid tech ship that gets a ship-exclusive bonus for using the Rep set on it. Such as a a faction escort with undine armor plate growths on it. Or a science vessel with some Dyson detailing on it (esp. useful for all Factions). Or a cruiser with Tholian angles and planes. Different in outward design, but similar in core design.
I made a suggestion about this before - why not make a visualization option for "Tholian Nacelles" that change outward appearance and shape outside of just texture and glow? this could be done for ALL ships, though it would take time.
I was just going through reclaimable ships for use in the Admiralty system and decided to check the promo tab in the C-Store and found an once per account claim "7 multidimensional transporters for use in the Mirror Event". It worked. Anybody know anything about this? Other fleeties reported they didn't have this option and I couldn't see any related news items at time of posting this.
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One pic as requested. Did I miss a related post or announcement somewhere in the STO forums? Normally my search-fu is pretty good and I review the forums daily.
I was just going through reclaimable ships for use in the Admiralty system and decided to check the promo tab in the C-Store and found an once per account claim "7 multidimensional transporters for use in the Mirror Event". It worked. Anybody know anything about this? Other fleeties reported they didn't have this option and I couldn't see any related news items at time of posting this.
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I thought the new way of doing these Events was have one "Captain" do the heavy lifting and all the the other Captains had to do the daily one time. That all the other Captains could get the rifle if the finished the event daily just once and use only one of the special items, in this case the Multidimensional Transporter, toward the Event Rep, and the special item, in this case the Rifle, could claim it immediantely.
It's only the case for winter or summer event. For crystalline or mirror universe event, every character has to do the event 14 times. Because 50 000 dilithium and tons of marks, you know.
One pic as requested. Did I miss a related post or announcement somewhere in the STO forums? Normally my search-fu is pretty good and I review the forums daily.
I was just going through reclaimable ships for use in the Admiralty system and decided to check the promo tab in the C-Store and found an once per account claim "7 multidimensional transporters for use in the Mirror Event". It worked. Anybody know anything about this? Other fleeties reported they didn't have this option and I couldn't see any related news items at time of posting this.
Pics Or It Didn't Happen. Heaven knows I'd like for it to...
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Agree, we allready have the account wide unlocked Reclaim Store for "Event Ships" so i dont understand why this is not extended to also include "Event Items", fact is its a MAJOR Pain trying to get this / such Special items if one has more than a few Characters. In my Case 42 Characters times 20 Minutes (Plus / Minus) would be 14 Hours per day! And as much as i really would like to have that Gun (and all the other Special Items) there is just no way for me to do that, without ending in an Asylum.
So again PLEASE Cryptic, its JUST the Special Item, NOT the Dill Reward, NOT the Marks, make it Account Wide Unlocked / Reclaimable please. people who want the Dill and the Marks on all characters still can go through all their Characters if they wish to do so.
Seriously, thats not to much to ask for, and would make many People happy.
I would love to see something done about it, but I don't see how you can light a fire under Cryptic/PWE to do it.
At the moment it's just a bad time gated run that takes way longer than it should take.
So please do not run this anymore ever or revamp the mission. Thank you.
"Use Temporal Skills to NERF EVERYTHING before it happened!" -Unknown source.
A good team can breeze through Crystaline Catastrophe in less than 5 minutes. The Mirror Invasion always takes around 15 or so... but i need to do it on all my 16 toons day after day... i could learn to hate STO here
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Most unexpectedly, this turned into a flame-fest! Closed it goes!. /sigh What flamefestery is this? pwlaughingtrendy
No, and if you crash for whatever reason, you can't get back into the mission (unlike most queued events). Very irritating, especially for my younger brother. He's actually been forced to leech in order to keep the game from crashing long enough for the mission to end.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
I play the advanced queue because it takes the same amount of time, has plenty of ships to shoot/avoid, and it pays out more marks even if you fail all the optional objectives. If they re-balanced it to let that weaker group complete it like they did on normal, then the rewards would most likely get reduced. I don't want that.
The only adjustment I would suggest is to make the timer auto complete if at least 10 rifts are closed and the defense has reached max level. Groups that want more points for closing rifts could slow down their defense level, while groups who want to rush through could still do so.
Squishing Bugs for a better future
Really guys, I can't imagine how uniteligent and conformist and foremost greedy one has to be to wrote such nonsenses. We are humans, we have free will, U know?
NO ONE FORCE NO ONE TO PLAY THIS EVENT ON ONE OR ANY NUMBER OF ALTS.
Every day I think more and more that Q Continuum was right in ...All Good Things.
This is exactly like the Reputation System that is supposed to be "A replacement for the Fleet system for casual players."
I don't see any Fleet ships or equipment in the Rep system yet!?
Would be nice to get some hybrid tech ship that gets a ship-exclusive bonus for using the Rep set on it. Such as a faction escort with undine armor plate growths on it. Or a science vessel with some Dyson detailing on it (esp. useful for all Factions). Or a cruiser with Tholian angles and planes. Different in outward design, but similar in core design. Heck; even if it costs a hefty 5k to 10k Marks, 25 Elite Marks, and plenty of Dil, it'd be a worthwhile alternative and another motivation to grind some of the dead queues.
As to the topic itself, I'll still hold out a faint bit of hope that the Agony Rifle and future MI rewards will become an Account Store unlock at the end of the event (minus all the other bonuses), but I won't be holding any expectations given that this is Cryptic we're talking about. Start something new and with potential, then just fail to follow through all the way.
I made a suggestion about this before - why not make a visualization option for "Tholian Nacelles" that change outward appearance and shape outside of just texture and glow? this could be done for ALL ships, though it would take time.
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Most unexpectedly, this turned into a flame-fest! Closed it goes!. /sigh What flamefestery is this? pwlaughingtrendy
Well, I just finished this event on my main, and when I went to do the mission on another Captain, the Rep says he needs anothet 13 to complete the Rep. Clearly I did something wrong or something was not explained correctly.
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