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Do you get anything if your rocket goes the furthest? (First contact day rocket thing)
captiannemo117
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3rd year playing the first contact day rocket launch thing, have never won once. Is there any point in competing beyond not getting slapped with an AFK penalty?
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And knowing is half the battle!
21 'til I die!
And that's a good thing, because it seems to be largely randomly determined whose rocket will get the farthest. (Largely, because most times those who don't really build a rocket, will not get very far.)
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
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.'
And now some people are suffering from the AFK timer by being hit with a 30 minute penalty even though they launched a rocket with all purple parts.
My character Tsin'xing
I found it once.. nothing great, i think i got 2 purples or one blue and one purple... was the first time this event was introduced and i wasnt even trying to find it... but besides that, no, nothing to win... yesterday my rocket had blue engines and everything else purple.. and i won.. so no idea, really.. RNGesus??
First Contact Day Event:
Resolved an issue that would sometimes cause AFK status to be applied after completing First Contact Day – Model Rocket TFO.
Resolved an issue that would sometimes cause the end scores to be unreliable based on the parts collected.
First Contact Day – Model Rocket TFO, will no longer backfill the match if someone drops out.
Resolved an issue in the Patrol, “One night in Bozeman”, that would sometimes prevent progression on the “Defeat Borg” objective.
Unfortunately they didn't solved the AFK ban in the rocket TFO. Was the only with 3x purple and hit 332 distance and a AFK, no rewards
No the AFK is not being caused by incompetent programmers. Less name calling and more trying to help them to pinpoint the bug that is causing this behavior for some players. It has not affected me before and after this patch.
I only had one AFK, and was caused by lag, the rest of the time, no problem at all.. (just played with other char and problem solved.. but still)
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.'
In my case, never.. i try to get the best parts possible.. i hate to stand still doing nothing... unless i have a phone call or something..
There are no stupid questions
That was actually a good question, IMO.
I haven't ever AFK'd any event and haven't run into this one myself.
For an example I submit to you Commander Rojal, the NPC that was supposed to award Romulan Characters the T'Ress Maintenance Doff at New Romulus Command years ago. Code was implemented to direct Romulan Characters during the Junior Officers Appreciation Event to see Commander Rojal to be awarded T'Ress.
Problem was Rojal was never activated on-map. So Romulans could never claim T'Ress as Rojal was MIA, and were directed to their Allied Factions Academy to get the Allied Faction's Maintenance Doff instead. It was fully turned off thereafter for other JOA Events... except for some reason two months back the direction to Commander Rojal was back in the back-to-back JOA Events.
Now, my thought is that after a few years of people complaining about all the AFKers in the First Contact Day Event, last year they started to add code to award AFK Penalties to those that did. It was never implemented as it was too buggy, but a variable to indicate that a Character was AFK still was active, was set by the some remnant code and remained in place for that Character in the Characters database entries.
This year they actually implement AFK code in a different manner but that neglected variable still somehow triggers the new AFK routines. As that variable was not implemented in this year's routine it never gets cleared so while you are not AFKing according to this new code, that variable may affect that Character anyway either all or some of the time.
The only people that answered my 'stupid' question were those that NEVER AFK'd this Event in the past and have never received the penalty during this year, while mysteriously others get the Penalty even after fulfilling the obligations in the Event to avoid the Penalty.
Thoughts??
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.'
Their code is not as simple as that.
My character Tsin'xing
Is it supposed to be like that??