it could be the servers or isp playing up, when i get ui lag my dps drops between 10-20k.
got a ban y/day cause map would not transfer & had to reboot lol.
I did a cca yesterday with some fleetmates and was lagging badly. I didn't get a shot off, but got rewarded and didn't get a penalty. Working as intended?
I did a cca yesterday with some fleetmates and was lagging badly. I didn't get a shot off, but got rewarded and didn't get a penalty. Working as intended?
Oddly enough, if you lag bad enough, the game assumes you DCed and you end up getting rewards on certain maps...like CCA. I have had that happen before. Lag a little less and bam AFK penalty. It's a bit wonky I admit.
You can get a penalty just fine even if you actually DCed. The system is just totally borked.
I did a cca yesterday with some fleetmates and was lagging badly. I didn't get a shot off, but got rewarded and didn't get a penalty. Working as intended?
Oddly enough, if you lag bad enough, the game assumes you DCed and you end up getting rewards on certain maps...like CCA. I have had that happen before. Lag a little less and bam AFK penalty. It's a bit wonky I admit.
You can get a penalty just fine even if you actually DCed. The system is just totally borked.
Oddly enough, when you actually DC...you don't. Which is why most AFK penalties happen on DC . Yeah...not gonna argue with you on that aspect of the AFK penalty system being a bit borked (by a bit, I mean completely).
You get it if you relog fast enough that it puts you back in the mission. I've got it like that once. If you stay away long enough it's all over, you won't get it.
The penalty routines need do be looked at in some cases.
Yesterday my team and I decided to play STO beta tester for Undine Infiltration Elite. Nice of cryptic to issue a set of nerfs but leaving obvious bugs for moths in game. The Fires on that map can’t be extinguished for reasons unknown for the most part and the map can’t be concluded.
Believe it or not, I got a 2h AFK penalty (right along with a respective message of not enough participation).
To be clear on it, it was my own private match, I contributed by questioning 2-3 Bajorans. There was nothing to shoot at and the extinguishing did not work. After the time elapsed the ban was issued.
I just logged to one of my other 10 toons and kept on playing but still, this is cryptic bull.
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Does this happen in pvp or pve? My first impression is you MUST be talking about pvp, because there is NO WAY you can't do some damage in pve.
That being said, I've been playing this game only since 9/2016, but I've never played even one pvp match. For right now, cultivating nine characters, pve is enough to keep me occupied.
Does this happen in pvp or pve? My first impression is you MUST be talking about pvp, because there is NO WAY you can't do some damage in pve.
That being said, I've been playing this game only since 9/2016, but I've never played even one pvp match. For right now, cultivating nine characters, pve is enough to keep me occupied.
Up until yesterday’s experience I was under the impression this only addresses public PvE matches.
It also seems to address private matches and whatever criteria they use to determine an AFK pen I think some double check is in order.
I did 0 dmg but wasn’t supposed to do any; I could not do anything else and still got a ban.
I believe cryptic that they “mean” well with the system however I’d appreciated it if they would *do* well with it instead.
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Does this happen in pvp or pve? My first impression is you MUST be talking about pvp, because there is NO WAY you can't do some damage in pve.
That being said, I've been playing this game only since 9/2016, but I've never played even one pvp match. For right now, cultivating nine characters, pve is enough to keep me occupied.
Up until yesterday’s experience I was under the impression this only addresses public PvE matches.
It also seems to address private matches and whatever criteria they use to determine an AFK pen I think some double check is in order.
I did 0 dmg but wasn’t supposed to do any; I could not do anything else and still got a ban.
I believe cryptic that they “mean” well with the system however I’d appreciated it if they would *do* well with it instead.
The "AFK" penalty is a typical "do something" -fix. There was a time when some people were whining incessantly about AFKers that supposedly were everywhere (though I never saw any in the game) demanding Cryptic "do something" about it. Cryptic created this automatic penalty system to shut them up.
I don't believe they mean well with this system. They did the cheapest possible job just so they could say they have "done something" about the "issue" so people would stop complaining about it.
The penalty is useless, you can only get it by accident and the game would be objectively better without it, but they're not going to remove it. Because some people insist that since it's called an AFK penalty it therefore must stop people AFKing, even though it does no such thing.
Im not sure i can comment as im a total noob to mmo. Only started playing sto in october. Maybe a count of the number of commands given?
Ah right there is the reason. I hate to say it but odds are you are way under geared for the Queues you are entering. And that not only means weapons but impulse, shields and deflectors and warp cores. Have you tried evasive manuvers for the speed bump? Do you have a warp core that lets you do a Trajactor jump? These alone will help you get in range quicker. Are you doing advanced or regular PVE? ANd if possible avoid PUG's until you can really gear up your ship and game play try a private queue instead.
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got a ban y/day cause map would not transfer & had to reboot lol.
Yesterday my team and I decided to play STO beta tester for Undine Infiltration Elite. Nice of cryptic to issue a set of nerfs but leaving obvious bugs for moths in game. The Fires on that map can’t be extinguished for reasons unknown for the most part and the map can’t be concluded.
Believe it or not, I got a 2h AFK penalty (right along with a respective message of not enough participation).
To be clear on it, it was my own private match, I contributed by questioning 2-3 Bajorans. There was nothing to shoot at and the extinguishing did not work. After the time elapsed the ban was issued.
I just logged to one of my other 10 toons and kept on playing but still, this is cryptic bull.
Looking for a fun PvE fleet? Join us at Omega Combat Division today.
That being said, I've been playing this game only since 9/2016, but I've never played even one pvp match. For right now, cultivating nine characters, pve is enough to keep me occupied.
Up until yesterday’s experience I was under the impression this only addresses public PvE matches.
It also seems to address private matches and whatever criteria they use to determine an AFK pen I think some double check is in order.
I did 0 dmg but wasn’t supposed to do any; I could not do anything else and still got a ban.
I believe cryptic that they “mean” well with the system however I’d appreciated it if they would *do* well with it instead.
Looking for a fun PvE fleet? Join us at Omega Combat Division today.
I don't believe they mean well with this system. They did the cheapest possible job just so they could say they have "done something" about the "issue" so people would stop complaining about it.
The penalty is useless, you can only get it by accident and the game would be objectively better without it, but they're not going to remove it. Because some people insist that since it's called an AFK penalty it therefore must stop people AFKing, even though it does no such thing.
Ah right there is the reason. I hate to say it but odds are you are way under geared for the Queues you are entering. And that not only means weapons but impulse, shields and deflectors and warp cores. Have you tried evasive manuvers for the speed bump? Do you have a warp core that lets you do a Trajactor jump? These alone will help you get in range quicker. Are you doing advanced or regular PVE? ANd if possible avoid PUG's until you can really gear up your ship and game play try a private queue instead.