Sorry FDev, but you HAVE to be better than this...

[Xious]

Well, that's 5 hours I won't get back.

Five hours of touring 7 CZs, swapping modes, restarting the game and touring the same 7 CGs over and over again - always finding Ross 310 Progressives and Ross 310 Focus ships.

Found ONE CZ that included the Cartel ships, made Cr2.4m in bonds and the poxy game managed to "lose" them after a server error.

We all know ED doesn't always guarantee a return on the time and effort a player invests but that was the crappiest experience I've ever had playing the game.

Utter garbage!

Which CZ did you settle on?

 

[Globusdiablo]

He's here all week! Try the veal!

Laugh out loud!

...I have no words. [sad]

Thanks for bringing these issues forward Stealthie. You have my sentiments.

 

[Globusdiablo]

...It was one of his first times in a CZ and it was his first time ever in a wing. Which means he was probably pretty surprised when I shot him in the face with my healing beam.

Kinky.

 

[Arkadi]

Just another case to feed my suggestion thread:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/407339-Conflict-Zones-SC-scan-to-see-involved-factions

 

[zarking]

It is working fine, just took a few hours for the factions to update, but you'll find all of them are good now.

 

[Toxic]

In the stream they said it's because some other war just ended today and not every CZ is for the new war. I guess it should be sorted by tomorrow.

And why could FDEV not ensure the system and CZs would be ready for the CG ?

I spent over 2 hours flying around trying to find the correct ships to kill before I gave up. Could they not have at least put up a message telling us it would take time for the CZs to update or something. I swear at times it feels like FDEV intentionally want to waste our time.

 

[OBYOZ]

If I needed a decal so much, I'd rather just buy one, but i don't. Now if they offered paint jobs instead, it might be worth doing a CG.

 

[Shockbot]

Saw that the latest CG offers a decal as a reward.
Thought I'd give it a look.

Spent the last 2 hours flying around 6 different CZs in Ross 310, tried swapping modes and tried restarting the game.

EVERY CZ I visited spawns Ross 310 Progressive Party ships and Ross 310 Focus ships.
NONE of them are spawning Ross 310 Natural Services and Ross 310 Cartel ships, as required for the CG.

This is utter cobblers.

I don't know whether this is intentional, and it's supposed to be an effort to locate the correct factions, or whether it's just a screw-up, but it's just halfassed garbage.

Stuff like this ruins people's desire to play the game. [sad]

I thought I am to stupid after I wanted to collect the first bounty... logged off after that... thats really rude yeah. Hopefully weekly updates will bring more fixes and other things.

 

[Jerakeen]

Could they not have at least put up a message telling us it would take time for the CZs to update or something.

They did. In the very first post that announced the CG.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/419264-Support-Ross-310-Natural-Services-(Combat)

 

[Newt_Othis]

Come to Mobius.. We have cookies.

I do like cookies....

 

[Majic-12]

FYI - no matter what you did you will never get any hours back .. that's the way time works!

Looks like somebody doesn't have a time machine.

 

[Eidolon]

I do like cookies....

Me too.
*points dramatically*

TO MOBIUS!!

OT: Everytime I have tried to enter a war in a CZ over the last 2 years I take a Massacre Mission or three.
From my personal perspective, the game has never spawned in the target faction.
So I just gave up on it.

 

[Franc Kaos]

Sad face
FYI - no matter what you did you will never get any hours back .. that's the way time works!

Quantum Physics [might] [not] [will] have an issue with that statement.
https://curiosity.com/topics/this-quantum-theory-says-time-can-flow-backwards-curiosity/

[alien] 07

It also explains Star Treks long distance instant comms tech, route the signal between two distant particles.

 

[Toxic]

They did. In the very first post that announced the CG.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/419264-Support-Ross-310-Natural-Services-(Combat)

Yeah this is not in game though is it.

Also they mention a little while. I did not get on to play the game and reach the system until hours after the CG went live.

 

[Arkadi]

If we had more different scanners to work with, without them using a slot each, we could have some more gameplay - maybe even for non-combat multi-crew. Maybe a control-scheme for adjusting scanners and switching from exploration mode to space-vessel mode for subsystems, cargo-hold and wanted-status to space-debris mode for USS scanning to local-data-scan mode for security and trade data including war-status of combat zones and even more.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Haven't read all the thread, but to solve the Open only CZs, did anyone try this;

Fly to correct CZ in open.
Switch modes to solo.
Kill many ships without being murdered by players.
Profit?
...?

 

[Stealthie]

Haven't read all the thread, but to solve the Open only CZs, did anyone try this;

Fly to correct CZ in open.
Switch modes to solo.
Kill many ships without being murdered by players.
Profit?
...?

I was rotating between Open, Solo, my own PG and a couple of others for five hours and found exactly one CZ with the correct factions.

I guess swapping to Solo after finding the right CZ would work if that's what you were worried about but, for me, I simply couldn't find the CZs in any mode.
Meanwhile, people who could find the right CZ's were racking up millions of credits of CBs.

And then the game decided to "lose" the Cr2.5m in CBs I did manage to gather due to a transaction server error.

These are fundamental things which shouldn't be issues in a competitive event.

But hey, they fixed it a day after it started. [rolleyes]

 

[Xious]

I found that all 3 CZ's (2 low 1 high) just outside of Morey station had the correct factions... Natural vs Cartel

No problems, made plenty of bond money.

 

[Ralph Vargr]

In my very earliest days as a Traveller Referee, when I was annoyed at my group, I would keep rolling for pirate ships. I would chant "Pirate Ship! Pirate Ship! Pirate Ship!"

It got a good laugh from the group- but never the right encounter. My group stayed on for a long time, just for the laughs.

Frontier could learn something from that.