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Annoying, dancing Elachi
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Hey Cryptic, would you please remove this annoying, dancing Elachi from the "imperial rift set"!? For some, maybe it was funny in the first days but now I think it´s really enough. It´s not funny anymore just annoying. Is there anyone else with that opinion??
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Fun aside, i expect that the side effects of the imperial rift set will be toned down once the story progresses.
Possibly shortening the length of their stay.
agreed. almost as annoying as the disco balls
Quoted for truth.
Cirran
Msybe they should make a spawned Mirror Porthos rip them to shreds.
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.'
YOU may not mind them, but yet you pass on Devs trolling onto other players by keeping these stupid dancing clowns in everyone else's face in social zones by probably not clearing them. Way to go, and don't worry, I'm sure that reads as a 'challenge accepted' to whichever Dev is responsible.
Elachi are supposed to be creepy and imposing, and this is like the equivalent of summoning Iconians and making a parody of them too - by all means, go right ahead with that too, I'm just around to squeeze some last bit of fun left.
I wonder what PWE thinks when they see both their STO player base and income starting to dwindle as a result of these troll-type decisions, right up there with the incessant full screen strobe effects and endless visual spam. Perhaps, just perhaps, they'll consider screening for antisocial tendencies when employing anyone new.
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Absolute's quite a big word. The reality is neither you nor I can know for sure as we do not have access to real player population, spending, and actual quality gaming time (as opposed to mini-farms and AFK events). STO is not up there with the big true MMOs and so cannot afford to lose players to troll-type decisions such as these that compound over time.
I play another game where population is critically low, and Devs truly cannot afford to treat their few remaining die-hard members in such a manner. Appeal to ignorance fallacy. STO is in no danger of shutting down at present. -- WingedHussar
It's unbelievable how many social zones these tribbles linger in. And I won't post an example of the strobe effects as I have no intention of hurting people's eyes and risk causing seizures (unlike whichever dev thinks this is amusing).
Firing the 3/4 piece power from https://sto.gamepedia.com/Imperial_Rift cause a rift in space from which elachi can emerge.
If they do not emerge during space combat, they emerge on the first ground map thereafter.
Sounds like a silly mechanic to have a space set have effects on the ground.
They actually have something like that in Secret World Legends, a single-use pet that goes around killing all the other pets in the area until its time runs out. The idea is bizarre enough to be funny the first time or two but after that the ruckus is actually more annoying than the pets.
And the Warden's pets in ESO are more of an annoyance than the dancing mushroom men, especially the bear since it seems to like to stand right were it blocks other people from getting to workstations. People generally don't go bugnuts about them though.
> Reddit seems to hold similar disapproval of these, as with other 'questionable' (Troll) game content that keeps getting added.
That may be true, however the game has been around for quite a few years and they still are around and keep hiring actors from the franchise to do voice acting, and a few of those names won't be cheap.
I understand being annoyed, and that knowing people who quit because of it may seem this happens on a larger scale, but if the game was hurting as badly as people claim for tge last 12 years it wouldn't be around and kicking still.
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If things happen ingame that I don't like, I do the adult thing and deal with it myself by ignoring it and not complaining every time something in the game annoys me.
I gave my feedback, on topic. Call it whatever you like, and reap the consequences of your own self-centered actions.
I'm not here to make it better for anyone else except myself. You can do the same.
I just spawned in game on WW and 2 sets of elachi were in my face dancing around on the table. One despawned, another the player cleared them.
I never demanded you do anything. I'm giving valuable feedback about the topic, which is annoying dancing elachi, and this insidious level of trolling originating with whichever Dev that leads to players fighting each other in this very way to their amusement.
I've mostly left games over this type of thing, one in particular is Overwatch, because the gameplay aspects led to a sense of complete helplessness and of fighting your own team mates. Many have given feedback about this. What happened? Blizzard actually did a balance pass on all heroes, and introduced LFG-type class fillers to help ease the toxicity they never intended but was simply a consequence of the gameplay.
STO can either take our feedback, which it rarely does, or deal with the consequences of less income and fewer active players. Perpetually dancing elachi in social zones is one such annoyance compounding existing more severe annoyances of seizure-inducing fulll screen flashes, and blinding layers of effects with next to zero options to tone them down.
And i'm not even a RPer, can't imagine how annoying they must be for someone who's trying to RP a serious char.
Obviosly we 'could' just use another set on our ships, but c'mon, you don't spent tons of dil to upgrade a set to XIV for your twinks when you SPECIFICALLY did the grind for the one set that is Mk XIV without spending any extra cost.
TL,DR: It has been funny, now get rid of them, they've become annoying.