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Cat hologram CHEAT/HACK in Winter event and other Events need to be Taken out
bubblegirl2015
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Cat hologram CHEAT/HACK being used in Winter event and other Events need to be removed. Cat has a buff for speed even superior to frost boots (intended for winter event) and used as a cheat. Needs to be greyed out like other toys.
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Yeah, I agree the cat charm is a big cheat for the Fast and the Flurrious event. I myself skip the race as I don't enjoy it, but I can see your point. However, it's a big help for The Fastest Game on Ice which doesn't affect other players fun.
"Resolved an issue where the Sylvia’s Feline Charm was usable in Q’s Winter Wonderland"
Patch notes 12/14
Original STO beta tester.
This is the same reason that nobody does PVP anymore. The Devs said they were going to look into F&F for next year ... something tells me I'll be quitting that myself.
the Sylvia's Cat Charm is no worse a "cheat" than taking a Jem'Hadar to do the race or any of the other speed-inhancing stuff the game has available (there is even a tribble that boosts speed from what I have heard).
One of the really nasty things about Defiance was all the howling and moaning about "cheats" every time something new came out that was not just some old standby with a different look, (and the devs there would usually then nerf it into the ground to the point where it was significantly inferior to weapons considered to be average in the game), when in reality the new weapon was usually balanced to begin with. I would hate to see that kind of knee-jerk nonsense polluting STO, especially since it does not have the kind of significantly large PvP population in the game that Defiance had.
Delta Rep also has a ground trait that boosts runspeed.
To be honest, I really don't care about any of them being used at all. It makes it more challenging, but also more enjoyable when you manage to beat someone that's going faster than you.
It makes sense to 'master' the race, using the terrain to your advantage and you soon pass all the folks that are using so-called 'speed hacks' when they slide around more than you.
If the cat transformation breaks the lock then it is a bug, which is a different matter (and should be fixed at the source of the problem, not the cat speed itself permanently banned from the winter event). Just outlawing it because of a perception of it being "unfair" because it is a speed enhancer (which is what most people talk about, this is the first time I have heard anything about it bypassing the starting gun lock) is ridiculous considering all the other speed enhancers in the game.
by the logic posted in the forum that i have seen by nerfing the charm because of pvp events that means those who have earned the new winter ship and the summer event ship this past year should not be allowed to do space pvp because those ships are not on mudd's market currently and are not readily available right this second when as i have been told that there is a good chance these ships will eventually make their way to mudd's as other event ships have in the past. the reality is they would have to nerf endeavors and all other gear as well which as i understand it some of that gear is hard to grind for when your first starting and endeavors even more so and i don't want to hear that any of that doesn't count because i have been personally dusted by friends by using the same gear as me and the endeavors alone was enough to leave me in the dust. as someone who just came on the game this past year i realize that one day if i actually put effort into the game i will eventually be on par or close to on par with those players who have worked and earned that gear. its 100% disheartening to see this is actually a concern on this forum that the things i will eventually earn and struggle for on the game will actually be seen as "cheating" to some when i EARNED that charm by doing the event there where some who earned that charm because they bought it and that is also a valid way of getting items in the game because they had to sacrifice real life time to earn the money to do so. all this is amounting to is punishing players for actually doing the events as intended and then using what they earned in the next event and rewarding those who actively choose not to do it. when these items will eventually be obtainable by new players over time. and thats my rant i will hopefully will not be back to be on the soap box and i hope all of the others who read this have a wonderful day/night