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just did event and it was bugged... no timer so it ran on till everyone gave up... 1 of the transport did not evac out... so... constant mobs and no end in sight.
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Did the ep once... was long... very long. to me anyway. also storywise it seems we are missing a huge chuck somewhere in between... they wrapped up what happened and wham it's over... feels like there is no story, all you get is the begining and ending and what's inbetween is chucked into the airlock and spaced.
did the que on other toons... ran better this time, no ships stuck during evac. they really need to put a timer on it or put in a kill count that triggers the end and not let it be dependent on all the transport leaving.
also I saw a NPC ship stuck inside the space station...
If they're already dead then they don't have to escape from anything, problem solved.
The TFO seems to draw some inspiration from Battle Royale stuff. One of the Devs was said to have been interested or experimenting with a similar system for STO. Full implimentation is unlikely, but based on this TFO at least some of that has been kept for use.
I have also heard that different size transports take differing amounts of time. So the question really becomes what's the best strategy to speed it up? Go for the smaller ones first or have people focus the bigger ones?
The Devs have said that average time should be around 16 minutes. Maybe with the right tactics that's true. But we've only had one day... and an unfortunately bugged release to judge it ourselves.
Perhaps with feedback once the dang thing's operational... they may tweak it to include phase advancement based on performance of the team.
Again note I haven't actually played the TFO and I'm just drawing on what I read from the dev blog and what I've heard on the forums. So I'm pretty much neutral.
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The average time of 16minutes is a false claim since everything is timegated in such an obvious way. 5 minutes before the first shrinkage, another 5 for the next and 5 more before the lane based escape mode cloned from starbase one (and every other tfo with lanes) begins. That's 15 minutes plus the 30 secs for the pre-tfo pause, leaving 30 seconds or less for the escape and very loooooooong pause between final transport and completion being awarded in order to get an average close to 16 seconds.
Whoever said 16minutes obvious didn't sit down and play it. IF they want to stand by that time then they need to go ahead and play it on the livestream and also upload the run to their youtube channel.
The only way of speeding up the run really does seem like it's best to sit and do nothing at all but a bit of autofire to keep the afk flag appeased. Nothing the player does will reduce the timer for the shrinky bit and the escape phase is down to the glacial pace of NPC ships moving or not.
Yeah, I'm veering towards the episode or basicly giving up on the whole event
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.'
As of tomorrow I'll be going ahead with my plan to group both my accounts and find 3 others to sit idly autofiring, I'm fairly confident that I'll find willing "participants" and that others will follow suit.
Perhaps, but with the mission you can just skip the dialog after the first run to shave off some time.
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Someone posted that you cant skip dialogue or you will bug the mission...
just multi box multiple accounts to do the que... have em on auto follow going auto pew pew to everything. (make sure everything is using carriers or ships w/pets)
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I heard this as well, but I was able to skip all cut scenes and advance through the mission with no problems today.
It's still a long mission, but it's easy and it's quicker then the TFO (barely.) Big thing for me is I don't have to worry about getting a bad team, I can just do it myself and be done with it.
(Of course I mean doing it with a group of fellow afkers)
Completed the TFO two times, and even with a stuck transport it took like 7 minutes longer than it should have.
Was also able to complete the episode just fine.
IMO there are worse problems with the latest update than the TFO/EP-related ones, and the "two active ships"-bug isn't even new, it was previously just incredibly rare. Now that all those tickets come in, it may finally be tracked down and eliminated tho.
Even a disaster has a bright side to it.
The stuck ships seem to follow that standard cryptic thing of ships being given a tiny zone for things like warping into sol that turns into a game of bumper cars as everyone gets shoved about and hangar bays docking command having to interact with a point inside the model to work.
It appears as though the area given to NPC's is far too small for the possible number of ships so as they go nuzzling away like piglets hunting a teat they end up shoving the runts about and clip them into the starbase model because the designated zone is also too close. If that's the case and I caught it after a few runs while bored out my skull then QA really need to pay more attention.
The first time you do these missions, they are a chaotic mess. It's like that for absolutely everyone.. just some people actually admit it and others don't.
When I did this for the first time, I was also completely lost despite listening to the entire briefing, that's normal. I did what I usually do, I flew into the first group of enemies I saw and unleashed as much damage as I possibly could, this prevents me from getting an AFK and then I started figuring it out. I started just beaming people up, putting them on ships and blowing up bad guys. When the area shrunk the first time, I had no idea.. I missed it and took a nice hit that dropped me to 3% hull.. lesson learned the hard way. Eventually, as it went on, I got my footing and now I know what to do.
Point is, you're not dumb because these queues are tough to figure out on the first go around. No one knows exactly what to do right off the bat, some people say they do but no one ever lies on the internet right?
Don't be so hard on yourself.