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Why is AFK occuring in First Contact Re-Enactment
auctionman1
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I'm sorry but I have to vent (and it has nothing to do with being stuck at home, due to illness I have been mostly stuck at home for a long time, I hope everyone is okay as well). Why am I getting the really dumb AFK in the First Contact Re-enact TFO. I go out and get parts for all three (Engine, Hull and Stabilizer). I bring them back. As I go out for round 2 of searching, I see players who are standing at their parts assembly desk. They might have all uncommon, or a mix of uncommon, rare and very rare. I come back after 2nd round of looking and if time remains start a 3rd fetch of parts. When they say get back to desk, I click on the response. While at my desk I respond to adjust parts and do as many as I can in the time provided or till parts run out. I then click on the next prompt which takes you to the test pad. I then look up and watch 5 things going into the air and then explosions as the each one can go. Then I get the message choice of thank you, and leave now (can't remember at moment the 2 choices. I thank and look to see the choice of marks and none are shown. Only other choice is to leave map. I go into the TFO selection and look and it says I have been assigned an AFK Penalty of 30 minutes.
So my gosh what else do I have to do to avoid it while others just sit at their desk after they have at least all uncommon parts. It has happened to me twice in the period of this event. Is this just another bug that was never fixed? Is there something I am not doing to avoid it? I know my lag is not an issue (I have checked). I have made sure my files are fine. I have made sure I have plenty of ram memory and virtual memory free. I have made sure I enough temp space on the drive the game is installed to as well C drive. I have obviously signed in properly. SO WHY the afk? I am sorry about all caps but I sign on quickly as I am working on other things (like the update to my disability paperwork) and having to wait 30 minutes ro redo it and as it happened today, I got back to back afk. I respond very quickly to the mission countdown to accept. So someone, anyone tell me what is up. This is not a new mission so why have new bugs crept in and just remind me of every bug so far in this game from day 1 year 1 to year 10 or whatever year, I don't remember anymore, I log in, do the missions, do what my character needs, login to my other toons on the account do what needs to be done and signout. I lost track of the years (yes I know go look it up, well it shouldn't be an issue suffice to say these pesky bugs are really a downer).
So my gosh what else do I have to do to avoid it while others just sit at their desk after they have at least all uncommon parts. It has happened to me twice in the period of this event. Is this just another bug that was never fixed? Is there something I am not doing to avoid it? I know my lag is not an issue (I have checked). I have made sure my files are fine. I have made sure I have plenty of ram memory and virtual memory free. I have made sure I enough temp space on the drive the game is installed to as well C drive. I have obviously signed in properly. SO WHY the afk? I am sorry about all caps but I sign on quickly as I am working on other things (like the update to my disability paperwork) and having to wait 30 minutes ro redo it and as it happened today, I got back to back afk. I respond very quickly to the mission countdown to accept. So someone, anyone tell me what is up. This is not a new mission so why have new bugs crept in and just remind me of every bug so far in this game from day 1 year 1 to year 10 or whatever year, I don't remember anymore, I log in, do the missions, do what my character needs, login to my other toons on the account do what needs to be done and signout. I lost track of the years (yes I know go look it up, well it shouldn't be an issue suffice to say these pesky bugs are really a downer).
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The Penalty was added this year because in the past, people just stood at the table throughout the entire TFO and got the Rewards at the end. Unfortunately, they seemed to have mucked up this change. This change and the one for quality of parts affecting the blast off were not documented in the Patch Notes but in our Community Manager's Twitter Feed. That does not bode well for the implementation.
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.'
I had the backpack on this morning, collected all the parts, was at the adjustment part, at a certain point it glitched and the 'interact' stopped appearing. Was rewarded a lovely AFK for that.
But seriously, is this "AFK"ing in an event that's designed to just be a bit of fun such a big deal that they had to implement a shiny new system that breaks the content?
(Had a backpack too. ;-))
Normally, AFK penalty is for not doing a sufficient % of total damage inflicted by your team. The only combat in this mission is if spiders pop out of a junkpile. If that happens, chances are only the person who was searching that junkpile participates in the combat, (if one can dignify spider killing with that word).
You think maybe this is what's happening?
This sounds like a logical explanation for the issue, though you would think the Devs would anticipate this problem and plan accordingly ...
Explains why I like the new Patrol mission so much, you can't AFK that.
Finally, I played it fully trying to make sure I click every couple of seconds, in case the AFK penalty was bugged to need a constant stream of clicks, then I got the AFK penalty. I tried playing it normally by just clicking as I would from normal play, then I got the AFK penalty again. Seriously....
Yeah, I could just do the ground patrol, which is what I've been resorting to, BUT I like the rocket building. Also on First Contact Day, I played the rocket mission in honor of the holiday, and I got the AFK twice in a row, 30 minutes apart. I was quite unhappy.
First day I hard AFKed -> pen
Second day I soft AFKed -> pen
Third day I tried-> pen
Now I play the new patrol directly and avoid the rocket game altogether. -> works!
It’s a good map which takes about 8 minutes so workaround found. Too bad they wasted that stage to be just a limited time patrol. At least my boffs do a better job than my casual team mates do in PvE (not counting fleet mates and league admins of course). Think they are in for a promotion and some better gear in the foreseeable future.
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Still perhaps something they can investigate perhaps for next year?
@ambassadorkael#6946
I find the pewfest tfos boring, but I still participate in those. IF the devs hated afking, they wouldn't give you rewards for doing nothing.
I've waited for half the leave timer to run out, still no popup on the badge box. Nor reward indicator in chat. It just appears in my inventory. The Patrol get a popup as soon as the mark reward window pops up.
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.
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.'
I agree with you. Folk shouldn't get rewarded for AFK'ing, but at least they've actually done something about AFK'ing this time, even if it appears somewhat broken.
I've had the no backpack bug almost every day of the event so far on one of my two accounts, only gets annoying when you opt for the borg slaughtering while it cools down only to get hit by the bug it that which prevents you from neuralising the campers.
The afk penatly seems to be a coin toss though as I've been given it from building and launching a rocket with backpack, no backpack but applying parts to someone elses bench while at the same time doing those have resulted in getting it. Typical QA from cryptic so not something they can blame on a certain pandemic.
I've ran int to hat bug before. What I found to alleviate that is to approach from as far west as possible, usually at jog speed so all the talking can happen. You're pretty good to go once you here "What do you want?"
I've had the side meter thing bug out and not show up, so kept having to guess on what pieces I needed to try and improve. IT didn't show up until the rocket launch, then it was the distance one.
Worst decision I've ever made today, because:
Last time this happened due to DPS whackers, I gained an extra days worth of event progression because AFK queues don't count for the daily.
And I've probably gotten an extra day added due to this!!!!
Honestly, the reason I revile this mission so much is shown above, the mechanics are so flawed, the other 4 players are disabling all the parts piles repetively.
In a mission that grants a penalty due to inactivity, having outside interference could trigger the AFK software alert.
And I can personally assure you, I was doing something the entire time, even if it was just running around in circles because all the pools were disabled.
I figured I had to do something to avoid the AFK penalty, even though it didn't work, obviously!
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No sign of backpack bugs, or anyone else fighting the spiders, no problems with the adjustment stage, launched with purple parts for all 3 sections, and STILL got an AFK penalty - what can you do
The spiders will go away if you're close enough to the bench area. Just kite them in and poof. Further out, not sure if they actually have an aggro reset range. But they generally take very little to kill them.