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Is this a Bug? Fast & Flurrious flags missing?
bulvyne
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Before I report it as a bug, I figured I'd post here asking if anyone else has heard of this or has an explanation for this.
I do really well at the PVP race. I finish 1st-3rd most of the time, and even when I am 4th or lower, I am right there with the group that finishes ahead of me. I enjoy the challenge of making every move, every jump, etc, without TRIBBLE up and going out of bounds or getting caught on scenery. Some people will laugh and say that's dumb - and that's cool.
What I've noticed happening with strange regularity is this. I'll get a good lead in some races, watching for anyone to pass me (like most people do) as I race around each turn, hit the jump and go through the last couple turns. In some races - probably 10-20% of the ones I race in, when I round the final turn in the lead, a 1st Place flag does NOT populate. Instead, the 2nd Place flag is already showing/glowing, as if someone had somehow passed me without being seen, and hitting the final straightaway and nabbing the 1st Place flag and leaving the area without anyone seeing them.
I am not accusing -anyone- of cheating/hacking. I am just curious - is this a known bug? I did a quick search through the forums and didn't see anything about it (I could have just missed it), but I am genuinely curious. Yes, I have the gear/reps, no, I don't do 'bunny hopping' (because it doesn't work for me for some reason). But I've beat plenty of hoppers (they could just be bad ones, I suppose, or I am just lucky). But for someone to zoom by me without being seen at all, and reaching the end/snagging the flag/disappearing before I even get to the last turn seems incredibly unlikely.
Any thoughts/ideas/info would be awesome.
Thanks!
-Tim
I do really well at the PVP race. I finish 1st-3rd most of the time, and even when I am 4th or lower, I am right there with the group that finishes ahead of me. I enjoy the challenge of making every move, every jump, etc, without TRIBBLE up and going out of bounds or getting caught on scenery. Some people will laugh and say that's dumb - and that's cool.
What I've noticed happening with strange regularity is this. I'll get a good lead in some races, watching for anyone to pass me (like most people do) as I race around each turn, hit the jump and go through the last couple turns. In some races - probably 10-20% of the ones I race in, when I round the final turn in the lead, a 1st Place flag does NOT populate. Instead, the 2nd Place flag is already showing/glowing, as if someone had somehow passed me without being seen, and hitting the final straightaway and nabbing the 1st Place flag and leaving the area without anyone seeing them.
I am not accusing -anyone- of cheating/hacking. I am just curious - is this a known bug? I did a quick search through the forums and didn't see anything about it (I could have just missed it), but I am genuinely curious. Yes, I have the gear/reps, no, I don't do 'bunny hopping' (because it doesn't work for me for some reason). But I've beat plenty of hoppers (they could just be bad ones, I suppose, or I am just lucky). But for someone to zoom by me without being seen at all, and reaching the end/snagging the flag/disappearing before I even get to the last turn seems incredibly unlikely.
Any thoughts/ideas/info would be awesome.
Thanks!
-Tim
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Hypothesis #2: It's the first instance of something going wrong at a Q-hosted activity.
Mirror, Mirror warns against a future where a Terran Empire ravages the galaxy led by the ISS Enterprise.
In the 2000s, the biggest space station we build is called the ISS.
I am concerned.
My guess is that is what happened.
Fleet leader Nova Elite
Fleet Leader House of Nova elite
@ren_larreck
What the OP described happened to me today and what was said in the quote about the bug allowing someone to get the flag that isn't really racing made me remember something. Last winter event I ran was 2 years ago (I had quit because of DR). There was a bug that people were exploiting to start the race from somewhere else then stroll over to the flag and get it within seconds of the race starting. They did fix it, that is if I am remembering correctly. I'm guessing they either didn't get all of it or it was un-fixed by something else.
Both the 'invisibility' issue, and the 'teleport' issue sound reasonable, especially if some of you recall a similar 'teleporting' issue from seasons past.
I am not saying that I am 'good' at the race, but I'm regularly with the leaders and to think that someone was -that- far ahead of us that they got the 1st flag and disappeared before we came around the last turn just seems wild. Still possible, of course, some people are REALLY good at the race and have all the gear/traits/skills to do it super-quick.
Thanks again for the replies.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10052253
Why are you not rejoicing?
I can't see how anyone could get such a lead without some massive exploit.
Fleet leader Nova Elite
Fleet Leader House of Nova elite
@ren_larreck
My character Tsin'xing
'Invisibility' isn't resonable version because I'm very fast at the PvP race but I had the issue with the 1st place flag 3 times yesterday and 1 time today. I do 20-25 races per day.
I don't see a fix of it in the previous patch notes, I think they just ignored that bug as many other bugs.
Honestly, what does it really matter? The only prize is just those silly epohh tags, and you can't use more than 6 of them every 20 hours, so who really cares? All you need to do is finish three times and you're golden. I suppose it's an epeen thing...
Not complaining, mind you, but I have been DQ'd for barely stepping/sliding into the snow on the side of the track sometimes. I just jog back up and try again, or wait for next races to come around if it happens in second race.
However, even if I knew exactly how the exploit works, I wouldn't use it. Like chastity said, the only prize is the epohh tags-no ornaments like you would get on Risa, where you get a few lolnuts even for finishing.
Don't tell us how bad the winter epohh tags are. Better tell us how you use the bug.
I just tested it, and this doesn't work.
Yeah, what does it matter, it is just a game. Let's say that about other game mechanics working as intended or not. The forums will get flooded with crying.
I have to say, I use the reputation speed boost, but I would not mind if all those buffs wouldn't work. Everybody the same speed. In that form it is one of the best PvP there is.
Anyway I can state is as official, there is a bug and there are cheaters among us. What's new?
Yeah, but you can at least see the green-blur folks, or the hoppers, or the every-trait-in-existance dudes.. run ahead and leave you behind.
Today, I got to the race start before it began, Joined when it became available, etc. I looked around periodically, to see who/how many people were there. It was just me, and two others. Race starts, I get a good lead, turn the final corner - and all the way down there at the finish, there's a 2nd flag. No one to be seen. And after I grabbed it, I waited and watched the other two folks who'd started with me get there and finish as well. So neither of them had somehow gotten past.
Well, it's a bit of an issue for alts. If you want enough tags to keep epohh missions going on several characters, doing three races for 2 each time, kind of sucks. (And those "silly epohh tags" are how I get marks on my alts who I'd never inflict on others in an STF.... Winter isn't quite as easy as Summer, but I do have four characters running those Epohh jobs)