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  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,916 Arc User
    lightkeep wrote: »
    I missed last years event. Do you have to do the event each day of the event to unlock? I will be out of town one of those days at state park with no internet access.

    It says you need four of the 'special' tokens to claim the prize, so I think you'll have time if you just miss a day of it. There's like a week of the event.
    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. :D
  • captaincelestialcaptaincelestial Member Posts: 1,925 Arc User
    tigeraries wrote: »
    You guys need to do something about that statues fingers. :D

    It's one too many fingers... they need to fold the forefinger down... =)

    I thought he was a proctologist by day.... :no_mouth:
  • geezerpunkgeezerpunk Member Posts: 146 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    No, he was just measuring his tequila. Although he always seemed in the movie to be more of a three finger man.
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  • smokebaileysmokebailey Member Posts: 4,668 Arc User
    echatty wrote: »
    lightkeep wrote: »
    echatty wrote: »
    An event starting on my birthday! Yay! And account unlock? Sweeeeeeet!
    Happy early birthday. Looks like yours is the day before mine.

    Happy early birthday to you too :D

    ~places cakes on top of both of your heads~ :)
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  • tls1970tls1970 Member Posts: 42 Arc User
    I got my item I need to start first contact event but I went to put in the event in the rep. The event does not show up. Hope this is a bug.
  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    If being player 6 in a 5 player mode isnt permission to AFK the hell out of this I don't know what is.

    Happened a couple of times so far
  • saedeithsaedeith Member Posts: 628 Arc User
    tls1970 wrote: »
    I got my item I need to start first contact event but I went to put in the event in the rep. The event does not show up. Hope this is a bug.

    Hmm. Showed up for me.
  • iamynaughtiamynaught Member Posts: 1,285 Arc User
    tls1970 wrote: »
    I got my item I need to start first contact event but I went to put in the event in the rep. The event does not show up. Hope this is a bug.

    Yeah, I have the same issue. On my lvl 24 character, there are no projects in the event tab. It seems you either do it on a lvl 60 or don't do it at all.
    Hello. My name is iamynaught and I am an altaholic.

    Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
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  • yakodymyakodym Member Posts: 363 Arc User
    Sooo... Even with my workstation bursting into flames three times, I managed to get all purples in the end... And then the thing barely got off the ground and scored 21. So since apparently the results have nothing to do with the effort invested, what is the point of investing any effort at all? Totally not blaming any AFKers after this.
  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    Happy First Contacy Day Everyone!

    And now for the traditional FC greeting: May you never be assimilated.

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  • ambassadorkael#6946 ambassadorkael Member, Administrator Posts: 2,679 Community Manager
    Hey folks, if you're having trouble slotting the project, try slotting a project from a different reputation first. That seems to clear it up.
  • iamynaughtiamynaught Member Posts: 1,285 Arc User
    Hey folks, if you're having trouble slotting the project, try slotting a project from a different reputation first. That seems to clear it up.

    I'm lvl 24, I don't have access to any other reps until 50. Am I supposed to rush to 50 just to slot something that is supposed to work starting at lvl 10?

    Hello. My name is iamynaught and I am an altaholic.

    Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
  • dreamer#6364 dreamer Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    Still cant slot the project on my Level 21 character and don't have any others i can slot
  • garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    Happy First Contact Day ,you angry terrans of the sto forums^^


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  • shadada71shadada71 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    Awesome sauce!!
  • shadowwraith#9264 shadowwraith Member Posts: 379 Arc User
    i have 2 characters, a level 18 Gorn and a level 31 Reman that cannot slot the project, the project list after selecting a slot is blank, whereas all my level 60 chars are able to do so.
    • Draal - FED, Saurian, LV60 - TAC
    • Mirak - FED 23c, Vulkan, LV60 - TAC
    • Ascaran Bloodclaw - KDF, Gorn, Lv18 - TAC
    • Melchiah - KDF, Gorn, LV60 - TAC
    • Ne'roon - KDF,Lethian, L60, TAC
    • Turel - ROM-KDF, Reman, 30, TAC
    • Elric - ROM-Fed, Romulan, L60, TAC
    • Richtor Belmont - FED 23c, Human,LV20, SCI
    • G'Kar - KDF, Gorn, L10

    USS Sharlin NCC79713 B (part of sheridans access code) - T6, Hestia Class Advanced Escort
    USS Babylon IV - T6 Krenim Science Vessel
    USS Brakiri - T6 Elachi Escort
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    "I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star."
    "We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light."

    – Grey Council greeting
  • nunoespadinha#0711 nunoespadinha Member Posts: 124 Arc User

    I really liked wondering around the landscape after the mission though. It's a real gem. :smiley:

    Yes... i wish so much they can convert it into a social map...

    U.S.S. Achiever
    Junae, Girquay, Meman'Ikan, Deanna, Elisa Flores, Nuno Espadinha, Heidi, Kolez, T'Vrell, Zarva, Vocan, Oeshi
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  • iamynaughtiamynaught Member Posts: 1,285 Arc User
    I just got my second Hologram and I still don't have a project to put it into. Obviously there was no patch today to fix this issue and since it's Friday there likely won't be one until early next week, if at all.

    Is this going to be fixed before the event ends or are those of us with low level alts just SOL? I'd like to know so I can either keep going and collect enough Holograms for the reward or just stop wasting my time now.

    And yes, I know the unique reward is an account unlock but the Toy Rocket and shuttle Phoenix Hologram are per character unlocks and I would like to have those for this character.
    Hello. My name is iamynaught and I am an altaholic.

    Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
  • tyler002tyler002 Member Posts: 1,586 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    I like the event and minigame, though I can see why people AFK it; when the winner seems to be chosen at random and there's no rewards, why waste the effort by doing something worthless?
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  • ambassadorkael#6946 ambassadorkael Member, Administrator Posts: 2,679 Community Manager
    If you're unable to slot the First Contact Day project, hold on to your vouchers. We'll have a fix in next week, and you can slot them all at once.
  • iamynaughtiamynaught Member Posts: 1,285 Arc User
    If you're unable to slot the First Contact Day project, hold on to your vouchers. We'll have a fix in next week, and you can slot them all at once.

    Thanks for the update.
    Hello. My name is iamynaught and I am an altaholic.

    Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    garaks31 wrote: »
    Happy First Contact Day ,you angry terrans of the sto forums^^


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    He played many more aliens than that. :smiley:

    Here he is hiding behind a mustache.
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    And here he is again disguised as Archie Bunker's best friend.
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    What a clever little alien. :p

    Edit -
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    Sig? What sig? I don't see any sig.
  • yakodymyakodym Member Posts: 363 Arc User
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    I know this event only runs once a year so it probably doesn't have that much priority when it comes to technical perfection, but COME ON... Is it so hard to make sure that better models reach better distances? All-purple model scoring the same as an all-grey model is ridiculous. I don't even care about the fact that it doesn't factor into the rewards (or that there is no accolade/title or anything like that) - Just the token recognition for building the best model in the form of getting the best score would be enough for me, but apparently even that is too much to ask...
  • locutusofcactuslocutusofcactus Member Posts: 651 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    yakodym wrote: »
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    I know this event only runs once a year so it probably doesn't have that much priority when it comes to technical perfection, but COME ON... Is it so hard to make sure that better models reach better distances? All-purple model scoring the same as an all-grey model is ridiculous. I don't even care about the fact that it doesn't factor into the rewards (or that there is no accolade/title or anything like that) - Just the token recognition for building the best model in the form of getting the best score would be enough for me, but apparently even that is too much to ask...

    Lol. Green must have forgotten the rock and roll CD.

    Edit: great, now I have "magic carpet ride" stuck in my head.
  • vorwodavorwoda Member Posts: 698 Arc User
    yakodym wrote: »
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    I know this event only runs once a year so it probably doesn't have that much priority when it comes to technical perfection, but COME ON... Is it so hard to make sure that better models reach better distances? All-purple model scoring the same as an all-grey model is ridiculous. I don't even care about the fact that it doesn't factor into the rewards (or that there is no accolade/title or anything like that) - Just the token recognition for building the best model in the form of getting the best score would be enough for me, but apparently even that is too much to ask...

    +1000

    I had an all purple model blow up right off the pad, while an incomplete green beat everyone! I've been really participating (just like last year), but heck, I think I'll AFK the rest of this, since there really is not even TOKEN recognition for participation. This event is run in SUCH a slipshod manner that there really is no point in doing more than showing up. Which is a shame, as the mapmakers really did a GORGEOUS job. Too bad the programmers let them - and us - down with a bang.

    Ah well, 1 Spec Point per Alt for sightseeing isn't bad, I guess.

    Off topic, I wish Zefram Cochrane had been a Gilbert and Sullivan fan. I'm getting rather sick of Magic Carpet Ride by now. :)
  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    Run it on three characters each day so far on console (for the marks) and I've noticed that magenta rocket consistently hit 4 units off the pad before going boom regardless of the parts used. Far more consistent a result that the rockets with no parts somehow getting 100units from the ground and perhaps a solid indicator that the cryptic RNG machine needs a fresh set of batteries.

    And on console because the scanning game sometimes overlaps with the launch you can actually be swapping parts mid flight, although again because the flight is tied to RNG and not anything thats come before its a moot point.

    So many small ways to improve it such as.

    Fires on a bench should degrade the parts if left for too long, 30 secs after the warning purple goes to blue, another 30 blue degrades to green, then final 30 green goes poof.

  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    echatty wrote: »
    lightkeep wrote: »
    echatty wrote: »
    An event starting on my birthday! Yay! And account unlock? Sweeeeeeet!
    Happy early birthday. Looks like yours is the day before mine.

    Happy early birthday to you too :D

    ~places cakes on top of both of your heads~ :)

    I sense a William Tell type moment coming. ;)
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    Sig? What sig? I don't see any sig.
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