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Tzenkethi Battlezone Needs More Work
lopequil
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There's a healthy number of people in the battle zone today but even after the best part of an hour we're still waiting for the dreadnoughts to become available. The problem is the same as was brought up at the very start: the areas revert to enemy control far too quickly. We've spent a lot of time today at 80-90% completion but pretty much as soon as we re-capture an area another falls under enemy control; it's like painting the Forth bridge here!
Edit: now this really is taking the mickey. After eventually getting to attack the dreadnoughts and defeating all three within the time there wasn't even an elite mark drop!
Edit: now this really is taking the mickey. After eventually getting to attack the dreadnoughts and defeating all three within the time there wasn't even an elite mark drop!
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Evidently. There might be a fair few more there if it worked.
It works only so long as you have a player camped out on each of the points. Teamwork or no, asking on the order of ten people to sit still and do nothing while other players cap points is too much to ask.
I wasn't even on your lawn...
I could even see adding something like a combo-capping zone-wide system, in which if you cap a point within a certain frame of another point being capped the rewards are increased. THe way the zone is made the capping times are so long that you should be having multiple points being capped at a time, over using a roaming strat that has a single group capping one after another, which a combo-capping system would make players see the value of splitting up to cap several places at once as more rewarding mark wise.
Team work is one thing, expecting people who may not have a lot of play time throughout the week to basically just sit there and wait while others are playing is not a great idea.
And in most cases you need team work anyway as it's kind of difficult to, say,
- move all the asteroids alone while preventing the ships who are going in the opposite direction from taking other asteroids
- defeat ships from all directions in the hold-the-area points
- maintain the blockades on your own
All these things are probably possible to do alone, but it's much easier with two or three players. So team work already is being promoted here, no need to expect people to babysit points.
Besides, I've once babysitted an asteroid point and at a certain point it was immediately lost even though I was present the whole time. Though they may have fixed this immediate loss issue, I must admit that I haven't returned there with the Breach event going on (since I could get the marks there and didn't have much play time at all recently).
As for the Lukari mark thing: the Battlezone is of course still useful for that. Or try the Breach. It still gives out a choice of marks, although it is longer now. Which is a good thing btw.
Except that Borg Alert and other similar queues don't grant Protomatter Microcontainers. Therefore, you have to convert one once a day or deal with an Advanced Queue or suffer through the Tzenkethi Battlezone.
The Tzenkethi Battlezone does grant Protomatter Microcontainers some of the time. From my experience, it is about 25% of the time where it doesn't grant a Protomatter Microcontainer.
After all, I only played the Tzenkethi Battlezone and Breach Event to get all my Lukari Reputation equipment. 8 Protomatter Microcontainers were obtained through the Tier 5 bonus, daily reward, and conversion while the rest was obtained through torturous hours of playing the Battlezone.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Believe it or not, I visited the battle zone because I was bored and wanted to have a bit of fun. And, to be frank, the only reason I started the thread in General Discussion was because Gon'Cra is supposed to be the battlezone for this season but it's fundamentally broken. The way things seem to be going I doubt anyone would ever notice if it went in the Support forum.
It's nothing but a gigantic waste of time, even if you use 'teamwork' it still doesn't work half the time. The zone is about as well designed as a 1971 Ford Pinto.
Personally my feelings are it should never have gone live. Deadlines be dammed, if you have content as broken as it was it should never have been released.
This product survives on Consumer Confidence. And things like this severely damage that.
Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.
Agreed on every word.
While I have no doubt that it's sitting somewhere on the 'back burner,' the fact that it was released to the live server to begin with is simply ridiculous. Makes you wonder why they even have a test server if they're just going to ignore the feedback and release the content no matter what.
The new breach (not the event) is better, i got ussually 115 marks (on normal) of your choice, and with a good team, is quite fast..
My exact thoughts, man I moved on from this zone long ago. It was DOA. Shame too for its a beautiful zone, the work, the detail is breath taking. What a way to waste their time making it and then fracking it like they did.
Member since December 2009
Will there be an update in Season 13 perhaps? I hope so and not forgotten like some maps like Defera ground.
Original STO beta tester.