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First Day Contact Event - Total Joke DEVS- Please delete for 2020
bubblegirl2015
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There are other posts about AFKers on the First Day Contact event and this is not a rant. I'm not an AFKer nor blame them for what they do in the event. It is the way the event was originally designed so no quarrels about it. Don't rant or complain here but this is aimed to Devs to ask to delete or change this to another "FUN" event.
An idea would be to make next year's event so that we can get FREE tokens/statues from "visiting" a person or just going to Montana to witness an NPC event for first contact say something similar to the daily FREE box we get from Phoenix events (you get a free one just by talking to one of the NPCs daily).
or make the race more active...similar to winter/summer events so we can exchange real winnings (depending on rocket race ranking) for something else.
The current system obviously needs some more enticement to even participate or do any clicking on the event.
IMO, from a programming perspective it is a disaster and shameful that it is still running as is.
An idea would be to make next year's event so that we can get FREE tokens/statues from "visiting" a person or just going to Montana to witness an NPC event for first contact say something similar to the daily FREE box we get from Phoenix events (you get a free one just by talking to one of the NPCs daily).
or make the race more active...similar to winter/summer events so we can exchange real winnings (depending on rocket race ranking) for something else.
The current system obviously needs some more enticement to even participate or do any clicking on the event.
IMO, from a programming perspective it is a disaster and shameful that it is still running as is.
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It's already free.
It's a quick thing to do on a nice-looking map, and you only have to do it 4 times. And unlike other queued events, it doesn't matter if others AFK it.
If they put in even the slightest chance for even the worst possible player(s) to NOT win every single time, people complain it's "too hard." And for whatever reason, Cryptic won't ever just tell them to get better. So auto-win it is.
Meh, it's currently more like a PVE event even though some people want it to be PVP.
Parts do matter, as covered in the other threads. They just don't guarantee a win.
I'm fine with it as it is since there is no real skill involved with searching a junk pile.
Maybe if they'd put some effort into making a decent space TFO it'd have been different but as soon as I was done my reaction was "thank F thats over" and I'm not generally inclined towards swearing in that sort of context.
Simply beam down to it when in orbit of Earth.. It would be the best social zone ever.
Did I mention the map is awesome?...
Must be lucky....I haven't played it to much but I've only pulled like one purple part and today I spent the whole time not getting any purples from the junk experimenting
I like the map too and will run the event, but doubt that any of my toons will equip the Tommy Gun.
The Borg can't adapt to physical damage. Picard used a tommy gun in the First Contact movie where we met Zephram Cochrame.
I think the problem for most players isn't parts not mattering (they indeed do) but winning not mattering (same reward for AFK blow up and run-around all purple super rocket). Given that you have a 1 minute intro which you will force AFK, and no bad conscience because you don't ruin anybody else's chances to complete the queue, I can see people wanting to AFK it, and on average I'd say about half, maybe a little less, in my queues have been doing it. Add the above mentioned amount of special TFO events (3 weeks, 1 week break, 3 weeks, this one coming in parallel) there's also certainly a certain tiredness of doing event stuff instead of normal gameplay with some players.
Personally, I spend the first half (or a bit less than that) of the collecting period doing admiralty, still enough time to collect enough stuff to go all purple (luck dependent) and not run out of junk on the final part.
You did, but you were correct in doing so, it indeed is a very nice place to hang aroung and would be great to actually visit in a more touristy way.
If you hate it *that* much, there's nothing in the game forcing you to play it when it's going on. It's up to you to click that little box to get included. So, don't click the little box. Problem solved.
I love that plenty of sensible people like @echatty play STO.
The dramedy is strong with some people and reasonable discourse is a dying thing...
It is fascinating to me that so many people are trying to become 'binary' like computers about _everything_...
No in-bewteen, no reasonable middle-ground, either full on hate or full on love...
Useless dramedy, around and around in circles...ah, the Internet.
That just wouldn't be fun. Not to me. Others who are too lazy to even AFK it may feel differently.
It takes the same amount of time to complete no matter what you do.
No surprise people just stand around and do their doffing/admiralty during that time.
IMO, the event is fine the way it is. Better to have an event where AFKers have 0% impact on other's results than in the 14 day events where an AFKer can negatively impact the run.
What's the point of the Summer jetpack flight if it's almost impossible to lose and your performance doesn't matter?
It's fun for some of us, and Cryptic wants you to spend more time in the game than just login - click - logout.
Then why give a reward only for the "login - click - logout," instead of the something more they supposedly want us to do?
You get a Tommy Token for First Contact.
And with First Contact Day it's Login - Click - (( do event or AFK for X minutes )) - Logout
So not too different from the Summer event.
I'm fine with Cryptic changing First Contact to require actually building a ship to get your token, but I'm also fine leaving it as-is.
That's not to say the summer/winter token "races" are particularly engaging, either. But at least you do get rewarded for doing something, rather than just for being there.
My score was 19, the others either 18 or 4. It seemed broken during this run.
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.'
um.. because the tommy gun has been requested EVERY YEAR for 8 years??
Might be time to shut down this thread? Lots of emotional anger in here. After all this is just a game folks...If you don't like something nobody is forcing anyone into anything. I have been long enough here to see the doom and gloom when this game went F2P, Dead of PvP and Delta rising (gosh loved those signature postings) among other stuff that served to evolve this game.
Maybe is time to chill out, take a walk in the real world and worry about where things go into perspective. Just saying just a bunch of projected pixels not worth building a life around it. You can quote me on that one."
Hmmm...