[TEI] Spring Sabotage Leaving NOOB Players in the Dust...

So who was this mission supposed to be for? Not the up and coming player, that's for sure.

Collect ore from destroyed ships in 4-5. You have got to be kidding me. Once again, not thinking about those that are getting smeared all over the orbit...

 

2.5k prom is a bit much to collect from the Npc's, youd need to do 100 boss mlords for it, and good jobs with the eggs, i know how much we all needed them credit rockets!

 

Yet again we have an UFE and wallet event leaving the lower levels being treated like the poor relatives of DO, it seems that the dev team have a very bad case of tunnel vision. The lower levels also spend money on this game but yet are left out when it comes to events, it seems that the feedback threads from previous events are just passed over and the game as become exclusive to those who have vast amounts of cash. If DO cannot develop a game that treats those with less cash with the same respect as the big spenders and continue with ignoring the lower levels even more players will leave the game. The up and coming players are your prospective customers and with out them you can only rely on return customers for income and return custom is a cow you can only milk so much before it drys up.

 

Dropping booty keys instead of cargo has always been an issue with quests for collecting from NPC's, but with a quest like this... After taking on a larger NPC to get more prom, having it drop a booty key is a huge waste of time. It seems like 1 in 4 isn't dropping cargo. It's turning a quest that doesn't look like any fun at all into a real grind.

 

could not have said it better myself, have decided the Events are just a waste of time and don't even get excited about them any more.

 

Im ufe and the 1st event quest just doesnt look to b worth doin, so I guess I wont do any oh well. Maybe I can hunt some noobs that are doing the event quests, thats always fun.

 

Went ahead and did the mission on my main and decided to try it in the Bigboy. Have UBER missions I am trying to work on anyways. Already popped once before I had 20, but have gone in for a second try. I think based on the 2nd mission, I may be retrying the first mission a third time after I do the 2nd mission Sunday. I am sure its going to take me all week to do it if I can dodge the enemy attacks.

 

Sounds too much like WORK and we are not supposed to have to work for pleasure in the game.

 

Its a lot of work but I figured I needed to do my uber missions anyways so two birds...

 

They should have easy and hard quests then so all players have a chance to do quests.

 

There used to be Easy / Hard quests but it is almost like it is too much work to put on a good event?

 

Yes it is HARD work to put on a GOOD Event and is why we used to only have 4-5 MAJOR events a year. Now with them having them every 2 weeks (so it seems) they can not work on getting past the crud they have to throw together. They commented (on TWITCH Stream) they needed more activity/support of the Events to continue giving them to us but them they forget 25% of their players do not do Quests 25% are too weak to do some of them, 25% think they are a waste of time (because of restrictions) and low rewards for completing, leaving 25% that might try to get them done.

They had to have some way to incorporate the release of the NEW Cosmetic Money Machine to the game and these LAME Events are the only way they figure to get a good reaction from the community, too bad they have backfired on them.

 

Ok, officially scratched the 1st mission off my to do list.

I have lots of uber missions to work on doing but this NOOB does not have the power to stay alive more than 15 minutes at a time. I will just work on what I can as I can and collect the rewards for my upgrade plan....

Stupid event...

 

You and your credit ship need to get your UFE friends to pop the NPC's and leave the cargo for you then you get the other targets as needed. BUT I knew my FE accounts were not going to waste our time trying to do them for the measly rewards they were giving.

It would be nice to get and actual REPORT from D O as to how many accounts COMPLETED the Event Missions compared to the numbers that TRIED to do them and the people who were active during the Event.

Would look like this;

Registered on Server Active In-Game Started Mission # (1-3) Completed Mission # (1-3)
50,000 10,000 1000 500 250 10 5 3

Granted this is my example but would be nice to see the actual numbers for every server (even if just once). Just to see how these Events are actually doing.

 

True and this is why I normally don't get into the event missions... Nothing for the new guys...

 

As I can feel your frustration on this mission delima, I have sent a message on to the DEV team addressing that first particular mission where as you have to collect 2500 promerium from destroyed ships in the 4-5. and then kill Uber StrueneR with rockets not lasers. In my defense I collected the rocks... and while protecting myself in a large cluster of NPC's I accidently killed an Uber StrueneR with lasers. The mission Ended. 3 1/2 hours wasted.

So I truly do understand the frustration.
I will report the problem please try to be understanding of the forums staff on this matter, as we can only report this matter.
We do not have the ability as volunteers to actually make changes within the game.

Thank you for your imput into this matter.
Have a nice day
Astraea

 

Thank You Astraea,

Feel Free to close this thread as I feel we have gotten the point across.

A number of players were able to do the mission I am sure but as a lot of threads go now-a-days, not to mention the point of this account, not everything is geared to help out the new players. While not a new player at heart, this account is set to stay in the new player strength.

When the dev team thinks of what new players can do, they should work with a ship similar to my bigboy with all credit gear as when new players join, they see the same announcements and events as everyone else and lets face it, they want try it. Frustration leads to anger and anger leads to less players and possible future revenue.

Fly Safe All

 

The biggest issue is the comment made on TWITCH was "we need everyone to participate in the Events" yet the Quests are so absurd that most look at them and don't even bother to try to do them as they know what a waste of time they are going to be. When I can save ALL the Daily Quests and do them in 1 1/2 hours (used to be 1 hour when the Strueners followed us) in a FE Leo without any Bio or Premium and collecting all the cargo and having to sell it in the middle of time, to collect a total (bonus) of;

• 96,000 Credits
• 400 Uridium
• 96,000 Experience
• 2400 Honor
• 6 Log Disks
• 1 Booty Keys
• 4 Repair Credits
• 10 Extra Energy
• 4 Jump Credits

Wasting over 3 1/2 hours trying to collect the bonus of;

• 800,000 Experience
• 1000 Uridium
• 1000 Honor
• 480,000 Credits
• 5 Booty Keys

in a map where I know I am going to be fodder for the NPC's (not to mention (on one account) I am not able to get to 4-5 yet) seems a little crazy. I could collect everything except the Booty Keys and Experience by killing things in the lower maps and not risking my ship to destruction in less time, killing all the NPC's and collecting Bonus Boxes (which are not available in 4-5).

Like PSK~SUNDANCE said maybe if the Event Dev Team was playing in a Nostromo or BigBoy ship (even if it was FE) trying to do the quests before they decided to release them they might get more people excited about their Events. It is already a known fact that most of the UFE players do not like to do NPC Quests (they prefer to Hunt Newbs), The ones who TRY the Quests usually fail as they are too weak or have wasted too much time trying and failed because of some stupid limitation (Kill Uber Struener without Laser) what about having to defend yourself(?), and if you were successful in completing it you had a group of friends that were helping you (which most of us can not get a group together to do anything).

 

Closed as requested by the OP.

Have a great Day
Astraea

 

LOL

*Checks Time*

*Thinks About it*

*Googles it*

Ok, somebody help me out and define close.