[SC] The Ice Asteroids do not belong to you!

I recently witnessed an FE player completely insta pop a noob for firing on an Asteroid. This is a winter event ppl. What makes some of you think that these NPC's belong to solely you? Stop the drama. If you want an Asteroid to yourself, go on out to 4-4 and kill anybody that comes near it. But as for your own company maps, leave your crosshairs on the Asteroid. This is a community event. Everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy it.

 

This is why I feel having ICY Meteoroids available only at certain times is bad for the game not only does it limit the people who can do the quests that are required for the winter gate, but it creates a UFE feeding frenzy on noobs trying to do the quests, as they think they own them ALWAYS.

 

It would help if players made friends. Also, if everyone in map goes for it, it will make no since for the UFE to try to hog it. Make friends with the stronger players. I am sure they would let you in.

 

I did personally witness the same thing in the last 2 Ice Meteoroid events. There are some players in my company that think the Ice is only their, and they didn't let me do the event until more UFE players came in to do the event. I am FE player, and they were UFEs and kept shooting on me every single time I approached the Ice.

I do think that the event really needs to last longer every day, because of this reasons. I don't really understand their "greedy" style of doing things. If I were UFE like them, I would never do it to any player, it's a Winter event, it's Ice Meteoroids and it's made for everyone to enjoy it. But, as long as there are no restrictions in lvl 20+ players shooting low level players, I think that this behavior won't change ever.

 

Very selfish mindset by those UFEs as I bet they wouldnt shoot other ufes off icys, just people they know they can overpower, despite them not needing the rewards as much as a regular FE or less player.

 

Exactly. I was waiting 40 minutes for other UFEs to come to the event, so they stop shooting FEs around. When others came, they stopped and I was happy to do the event for 2 hours and 10 minutes.. But till that moment, they were constantly shooting me when I approach the Ice. Really, really greedy players around

 

Part of the problem is you have a batch of UFE, both your company and enemies, that are travelling to each occurrence of these spawning and kill everyone already on it so they can steal the rewards from it. EVERY EVENT they have this type of MULTI PLAYER NPC and they are always being ruled by the UFE who kill every one who approaches it so they can not LEACH off their efforts.

Yes there are and try to kill Protegits while someone is killing the Cubikon, not attacking the Cube, and get shot for leaching. How is a noob supposed to get the Protegit quests done if everyone wants to SOLO Cubes and say they are their Cube. It was much easier when you had to be FE (ship and BIO) to solo a Cube, there were a lot more people willing to group up to do them then. Now every body and their brother can solo a Cube.

 

Ice meteoroids are ment to be a shared NPC but a lot of high level players want to solo it because of the rewards and shoot off others because of the limited time of the event this behaviour is all to common. The fact that high level players have a both hard and easy opptions for the winter event missions and can do both adds to the greed factor. DO have managed to yet again come up with a fail and seem to be going for a hat trick. The fact that there was no OA and the only info was an old thread from 2014 being revamped was the fist step on the slippery road to a fail, no sooner had the event started came the first glitch with the gate being available to those who had not compleated that mission last year within in the time span given. The fact that icys only appear for 3 hours a day at peak time and run at the same time as the normal events is yet another fail. easy missions are available for lvl's 6 to 15 there is no way a lvl 6 player can even do these missions it is just a lure to give ufe's mission fodder only FE's UFE's have a realistic chance to do the missions. All of DO energy seems to have gone into the failed kupier gate and just bringing back last years winter event and just dusting it off and recycling it. It is time that all the feedback be it posative or negative be listened to and not be put in the ignore file. In any bussiness customer care is paramount to retain custom and DO as failed in this.

 

This is related to the unilateral nature of the game. in GA3, three clans SOS, EA and SF all have an alliance and can field 90-100 UFE ships onto the maps. they camp every map, and blast you. if you are strong and can 1v1, they will call 6 friends in a hurry and make sure you can not do the event. This is related to my previous complaint, that BP has torched the game by not focusing on what matters, giving incentives to cause all out war instead of incentives to get players to gang up into 1 force until the game is essentially dead an unplayable. Its really just not a FUN game to play and hasn't been for a while.

 

Yes, for this reason I pick and choose my events. But the secret to survival in anything in this game is making friends. If you use the /users command in our company chat while icy's are out, you find around 20-30 players. The same 20-30 players, yet not all of them are talking. Also, there are even more that I see when flying through the maps. I realize a lot use TS, however, you have to make friends with as many as possible and communicate the issue in the chat for help to come, and it will come. The UFE bullies can't command the entire server during the entire event, at least not this one. I am just FE on my main and am keeping up. Dont' ask about my noob, it can't handle an icy without it almost getting popped so its not playing.

When it comes to Prots, talk to the player shooting the cube first. A hand full of prots has nothing to do with soloing a cube, and if you communicate your intentions, you "may" get a pass. The solo artist may even try to get you to go select all cube and prot missions you can and help you with them as they really love those stupid cubes. FWI, I only cube to clear the missions as I am sick of reading the drama.

 

A group of UFE shutting down an event for other players can be a problem - I've done it quite a few times in the past with my clan, which is also multi-company, in the past, so I guess I'm one of the big bad wolfs here x)
However changing the event wouldn't really prevent this, doing something like turning off PvP during an event wouldn't work well either since it is a PvP game after-all.

The problem exists for 2 reasons:

1. UFE are so much stronger then FE its not even a contest - this is a much bigger problem and a topic altogether which will take time to fix. Preferably by making it easier to become UFE, rather than handicapping already-UFE players.

2. Communication and numbers! The group of UFE 'ruining' events won't be the majority, neither will they be the strongest group. However they will be communicating and be a group of friends, all it takes is for players who don't like what they are doing to organise themselves to fight back.
They don't have to win, they just have to be annoying and numerous enough for the other group to think 'its not worth the time / ammo, it better to just stick to our own maps'. That's speaking from experience on what would make my clan decide to stop doing an event in enemy maps.

 

This is the first time I have seen an EVENT where they only spawn MISSION TARGETS at specific times during special days, all other events (recently) had a Primary and a secondary target with a countdown to spawn the primary target. IT was hard to be able to KILL the Primary but we could get to it and do some damage before the swarm came along and took it from us. NOW we have to be on during the same time every day they plan on having these out to try to find them and then hope we can get enough damage to them to complete the mission. Some of us have FAMILY TIME from dinner to bedtime and thus are not able to do these missions and this is where the problem comes in. WITH the ICY's on and scheduled the UFE/WALLETS are out in force to get all they can get from these and thus the noobs again lose out.