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is "Flying High event" easy to do?
jim625
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I'm very keen to do the summer event this year and do a bit of grinding for two of my toons. My delta recruit is still trying to get that ferengi ship from last year and was wandering if this "Flying High event" is easy to do. I'm just not very fond of powerboard racing alougth riding on powerboards is fun just don't have the patiants for racing ^^;
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Make take a couple of tries to get a hang of it. The course is not that picky and very forgiving.
Dont pay attention to these people say they need an edge to pass or a strategy......if you have normal hand eye coordination then your set.
I didnt read your OP closely, your not doing the power board race for the ship, you fly with a jet pack and fly through hoops to get the ship. Its not a race, no other people with you.
If you need shooter mode to do this then your hand eye coordination is slow and video games arent your thing anyway.
oh yeah i remember the dyson sphere's mission
im doing it on two toons cos of the new vorgon ship this year and trying to get the ferengi ship from last year
If I am not mistaken, you not only cannot use the currency from this year to fill last years project, you also will not be able to buy last years currency with lobi this year. It's that whole stupid exclusivity thing.
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Yes, I use a mouse to aim in shooter mode. It requires no holding down of multiple buttons, makes it nice and easy. In a similar way, I can use the trackpad on my laptop, something that'd be near impossible if I had to hold down both buttons and track at the same time.
Ive NEVER used WASD, ever. Always moused. Is holding down two buttons on the mouse really that difficult? I would say your doing it wrong but, it each his own, i think your making it harder that it is and confusing new people.
Huh. Only ever used WASD on the ground, whether in shooter mode or not. Probably because I've been playing games that way since games have had mice. /shrug Holding down both mouse buttons to move sounds very odd, honestly. And a much more confusing way to do movement. But as you say - to each their own.
OP: yes, Flying High is really easy. Especially in shooter mode. Heh. Definitely easier than the winter race, since there's no way to go out of bounds, and there's no way to lose to an NPC. There is a time limit, but it's quite long.
That said, spending some lolwhuts, er, "lohlunat favors", into buying your own floater (as opposed to renting the really crappy one) is worth it.
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Otherwise, yeah, buy a floater just so you don't have to run and rent one every time, but the lower end ones are actually more quickly mastered than the high end ones, if I recall correctly. I find shooter mode easiest, but YMMV.
I use shooter mode and then make gentle steering movements on the mouse, I find that much easier than holding down two mouse buttons or working by keyboard alone. Keybord is doable if you absolutely have to eat pizza at the same time.
You can gain/lose height by steering plus, space bar for up, and deactivating the floater with F will send you crashing to the floor, which can be a quicker than steering in a sensible way.
There is also a floater event on risa, where you have to collect 15 favor statues, the favors can be sold on the exchange and pays big ec during the first few days/week, so it is worth getting the hang of floating, current price is about 10k each for 100 and each run gives about 100 due to a random element when discovering each statue - 1m per run, good flyers do 4 runs in 15 mins. The fancy floaters can only be bought with favors, similar for the summer event kit modules, hoverboard things and costumes.
Takes a little longer than the ice race in the winter event, but it isn't hard at all.