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annemarie30
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the team completely failled Jupiter. the station got breached and in the end phase one of the projectors was destroyed.. why? 2 AFKers...
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Done inside 10 minutes on normal and fun too, as it keeps going. Beats Infected 75 times in a row.
What's the point of playing the game if you aren't going to play the game? Are you going to get the ship and AFK in that instead guys?
Cthulu weeps.
And as much as we might like a vote kick... we all know it will be abused all to hell without the proper safeguards.
Sounds like bad luck on PUGs. Hopefully they got tagged as AFK by the system and didn't get any reward. Honestly times like that make me wish we could somehow draw enemies over to them.
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IIRC, there was little naming and shaming there, despite it being a very long thread. People generally observed that rule well, but it still allowed them to share their experiences.
well, one of them died fairly early on and stayed dead, so he/she/it probably got the afk penalty.
I've had players give me TRIBBLE in chat because I would do exactly that. I camped Alpha or Gamma. My GW Intrepid and the tact fliers are more than enough to keep it free. my response was, if you need help, ask but don't give me TRIBBLE
Usually players can choose their difficulty level (normal, advanced, elite). With events this isn't always possible but more often than not events are more timer based (i.e. close 15 rifts) so opportunities for players to do much in the way of damage is minimal.
It's not perfect, throwing end game players in with new players, but for the vast majority of the time it works. You can check this in-game yourself. I have.
When a queue fills up you get hailed and then click to confirm. Everybody starts the queue on an equal footing as players aren't transferred into a TFO until all 5 players have confirmed they're ready.
There's an additional pause build in at the start of a TFO so all players can read the objectives, launch pets, etc.
This is in place but pretty sure players are given closer to a full minute to acknowledge.
Anybody that accepts a TFO by acknowledging the hail has declared themselves ready.
Players have the option of queuing as a team whether they're in a fleet or not. Apparently there's some that can also be be queued as a single player.
Ups... I named and shamed.
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Pfft.. we carried you dude.
At least there was some poetic justice.
Still... deliberate AFKing soemthing like that is just... IMO a form of trolling in itself as they expect others to carry them so they can reap the rewards while putting in no effort to earn it. Almost feels like they're saying "Go forth my minions, bring me back cheezburger" as if they're royalty or something and couldn't be bothered to even fire a single shot themselves.
Now I'm not saying ALL AFK behavior is that bad. There are legit reasons to AFK, such as unexpected RL stuff getting in the way, but the deliberate AFK... yea that's a problem. God I remember some of the old queues where people would just OPENLY say they're gonna AFK it, like the old Mirror Invasion or some other event queues.
I do not sign up for a run to do the work of two ships... pull your own weight if you want the shiny.
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I dont think is forbiden to shame yourself..
Exposing them as pathetic pre-maders.
Real warriors don't shy away from PUGs, real Starfleet officers enjoy unexplored teams!
Is this sort of behavior really any different than when players fill all the Fleet marks in a project but don't contribute any energy credits, doffs, or Dilithium? They both want somebody else to pay for their cheezburger as if they're royalty and couldn't otherwise be bothered.
Exactly. When 2-3 people afk a Borg ground or other advanced queue it can often result in the remaining players having more fun due to the increase in hit points and enemies available.
If I recall players correctly determined that when playing the old Mirror Invasion nothing they did really mattered... no weight to be pulled OR work to be done.
So perhaps what's happening now that Cryptic has added consequences for afking to some of these queues BUT otherwise forgot to add any meaningful gameplay to them is players are just being left confused?
Being inspired to afk but compelled to do otherwise would certainly be a strange combination.
Counterpoint: We've seen just how EASY fail conditions can be weaponized by Trolls deliberately sabotaging TFO runs.
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But metrics top actual game experience it seems.
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I mean if "playing the game" is a time gate to someone then why are they playing at all?
> Is jupiter even time gated? seems to me that if you promptly close the rifts down it goes MUCH faster. I don't think it's a time gate as much as you have to close X amount of gates before they get locked down
15 rifts, if the team closes that many the final phase starts no matter what. It’s only a soft time gate if you will as the rifts don’t appear all at once.
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