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New ground Battlezone
chrisevans34
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I really would like to see them add a new ground battlezone as the dyson one is good, (part from ALL the countless bugs with it) but Would like a new one, but man they cant TRIBBLE it up like they did with the Tzenkehi one. 
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Sad part is, functional BZ's are popular.. a new Ground BZ is a really good idea.
- zone recapture happens too fast and without much of a warning
- unresolved bugs, like people not getting rewarded for completing the zone or recaptures happening even when players arrived in time to stop it
- the "time invested / reward" ratio was too low to bother
I still don't understand why they would invest so much effort into creating a new innovative battlezone and then completely abandon it for good a few weeks later.
Yes a new ground BZ would be a welcome addition to the game. But I wish they would first fix the two existing ones. Both the Defera Invasion zone and the Voth BZ are riddled with bugs. And with ViL expansion coming up they probably won't get fixed anytime soon.
something like that would go over well, you just have to balance reward with time/difficulty.
- The Voth Battlezone is currently buggy, but at least in the STO Reddit forum there was acknowledgement from a Cryptic Dev that they are aware of the issue and are looking to resolve it.
- The Tzenkethi BZ has basically been dead on arrival. Unfortunately, Devs have remained silent on this BZ...
Good idea spoiled by poor or rushed execution, little to no QA testing period to spot the glaring hiccups and no attempt to sort any of the mess means we'll probably not see much in the way of fixes for it.
Hopefully the upcoming expansion isn't marred by this apparent cycle of work used at STO.
Victory is Life is coming with a new type of battlezone (sector).
Lessons have probably been learned from the TBZ but I don't think we can say whether they've affected the overall likelihood of getting more content in similar veins (be they adventure zones, classic battlezones, or this new thing.)
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Can't wait for it to bug out and prevent folk from getting into story missions.
What's so innovative about it? The mechanics are the same as all the other BZs. Hold area, use machines, push object. And then three bosses.
Anyway, abandoning gameplay content (unless players are successful enough to attract the nerfhammer) is pretty much Cryptic's standard procedure. They can do that because the gameplay isn't tied to the revenue generating systems much.
The STO side of the office is overly reliant on the players buying ships to rerun the same tired STF's. Old content in a new ship is still old content.
It felt like the feeling that athletes get when they do insane marathons the day that I finally received my last piece of equipment from the Tzenkethi Reputation. No person should undergo the pain and misery of the Tzenkethi BZ.
Final boss could have been a massive drop bear!!!
See when they did that whole Blog about the Tzenkethi and went into huge detail about the troops and the command structure and how they use the power packs of their fallen fellows etc..... it was extremly interesting and i was a lil hyped about them and the new battlezone i thought we were getting for them, then they announced the space one instead, dont get me wrong i was looking forward to, do love me some space pew pew, but then the mess they gave us instead.
Can only hope that they will go back to them and give us one.
Space combat here is so boring. Literally, the following is how you perform space combat anywhere ingame:
1) Enter combat area.
2) Make sure auto-fire is on.
3) Set weight on turn key.
4) Walk away.
5) Come to collect reward, and to make sure you haven't idled out.
6) Rinse and repeat.
As far as the STF's. Yeah, I don't think there is anything they could do to save them at this point. The best thing I can think of. Kick the choice mark reward entirely. Then restructure them to where they only give reputation appropriate rewards. Fleet marks, those will only be able to be gotten from events, and the fleet queues. This won't exactly save them. It will however break the routine of:
1) Red Alert
2) Red Alert
3) Red Alert
4) ISA
5) CCA
6) Rinse and repeat.
The next thing they should do, is let the fleet system die where it is. The game was just better before they introduced it. All it did was serve to make the game easier. Fleets have done nothing for the game expect, to set it on the downward spiral of super easy mode that we have now. Plus, letting the fleet system die, also means they now have more resources that they can dedicate to improving the rest of the game.
Then after all this. Rework what we do have to make it more difficult overall. To at least pretend like they're trying to present a challenge to the players. The main probably with all of this, is that everything scales to level. Which means the space and ground BZ, as well as STFs always hover around an average of level 55. With ViL, that might jump up to level 60ish. But, I don't foresee this making an overall difference is how easy the game is.
But I'm the odd one here. I never let the wool of, "Oh, new shinnies!" be draw over my eyes. I've kept my eyes focused on the overall game play. Which... well... it's in a pretty sorry state at the moment.
YAY! For forgetting to proof read and having to edit.
Give a Boff or 2 Timely intervention. Sprinkle in some Overwhelm emitters on other Boffs. Maybe some bombing strike. Then run into melee under all the fire with a Battleth & Shotgun.
Is this a sign of things to come when the blogpost bugs out?
Wonder if they are going to tweak this early warning announce thing to include flash sales rather than arrive too late for most to see then have them linger around like a bad smell afterwards.
> IMO, the Tzenkethi BZ had some very promising concepts and ideas. But there were three major issues that killed it off:
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> - zone recapture happens too fast and without much of a warning
> - unresolved bugs, like people not getting rewarded for completing the zone or recaptures happening even when players arrived in time to stop it
> - the "time invested / reward" ratio was too low to bother
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> I still don't understand why they would invest so much effort into creating a new innovative battlezone and then completely abandon it for good a few weeks later.
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> Yes a new ground BZ would be a welcome addition to the game. But I wish they would first fix the two existing ones. Both the Defera Invasion zone and the Voth BZ are riddled with bugs. And with ViL expansion coming up they probably won't get fixed anytime soon.
Those all feel fixable.
In fact most of the bugs are things that should never have come up since this was not the first space BZ put into the game so these teething problems cropping up indicates either more of a laziness in the QA control staff or an unrealistic deadline.