Klytemnestra Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 I wish there was a way that people who do not want to participate in the Rakghoul event can toggle a device to make it so we are not attacked every 10 or 15 feet walking through town. This whole event is designed to waste resources. If people want to participate in the event, that is fine. But, people should not be forced to endure the event (if your story arc takes you to the planet the event is schedule to be on) if they do not want to waste time and resources on the event. Now, I have to log out until Tuesday to avoid this stupid event. I am not very happy. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrr_hypernova Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 cry me a river, build me a bridge and get over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiamaraSimi Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 (edited) Do a space mission or two, maybe a couple warzones or galactic starfighter if your into pvp, do some flashpoints, roll an alt.. Oh I wait, I forgot, QQing is a much more productive use of your time... Edited August 9, 2014 by XiamaraSimi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TX_Angel Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 You two can bash the OP all you like... but one day Bioware will do something that YOU don't like and turnabout is fair play... The OP wants to be left alone to play, his solution is to stop playing for the week. This is a bad situation that is not good for the game or for business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallucigenocide Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 You two can bash the OP all you like... but one day Bioware will do something that YOU don't like and turnabout is fair play... The OP wants to be left alone to play, his solution is to stop playing for the week. This is a bad situation that is not good for the game or for business. cant please everyone.. besides the rakghouls give up fairly quickly if you just ignore them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiamaraSimi Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 You two can bash the OP all you like... but one day Bioware will do something that YOU don't like and turnabout is fair play... The OP wants to be left alone to play, his solution is to stop playing for the week. This is a bad situation that is not good for the game or for business. They do lots of things I don't like, but instead of petulantly throwing a tantrum like a two year old and threatening to take my ball and go home, I find something else to do.... I don't like pvp, and the Gree event is chock full of it, so guess what I do? I find something -else- to do in the game at that time and avoid what I don't like... hence the suggestions I made in my earlier post of other things to do instead of sitting around complaining... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonnn Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 For future consideration... If you're level 25+ you should have no problem doing Rakghoul dailies and working your way towards Newcomer Rank with THORN and then purchasing an Antiviral Kit MK-1 that gives you a 6-hour immunity buff any time you click it (it replaces one of your relics). Once you have that relic all your worries are over, and the MK-1 version (level requirement: 25) only costs 5k credits. Getting to Newcomer Rank should only require 2 full sets of dailies and twice to the SM Eyeless Operation. If you only have one character that's level 25+ then you can do 3 sets of dailies (over the course of 3 days) and once to the SM Eyeless Operation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klytemnestra Posted August 9, 2014 Author Share Posted August 9, 2014 (edited) No, I do not want to do the rakghoul event at all. I do not want anything from the event, nor do I want to spend time or money (wasting resources) to acquire a device to nullify the event. For the comments about doing something else. if I logged out to play another game, that is "doing something else with my time." And, I have 22 characters currently and have played the game since it launched. Also, I have every right to complain in whatever manner and method you disprove of. I pay for my subscription. Also, I am no man! Thank you. Edited August 9, 2014 by Klytemnestra Correcting some typing errors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith-Viscera Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 cry me a river, build me a bridge and get over it. Heck after he does all that he will need a fishing pole and tackle and some bait ( that i can sell him cheap cheap ) then he can fish off it instead of fighting Rakghouls and wasting his time as he puts it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwena Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I can kind of see the OP's point here. For the infection, sure, you can easily avoid it by buying the vaccine. But when I arrived on Tatooine to do this event for the first time, I was surprised by how Plaguebearers just kept popping out of nowhere and attacking me. Can't seem to go ten seconds without running into them! Now, I wasn't questing on Tatooine, so no big deal. However, if I was trying to do the quests that take place in town, this could be very frustrating (and potentially dangerous, if Plaguebearers attack while you have another mob engaged?). I have no solution to this, as the Plaguebearers really help add to the atmosphere of the event and make the event quest more lively. But if I had a character just arrived on Tatooine this week, I'd definitely leave 'em alone and wait until the event was over to do those quests in town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantazm Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 You two can bash the OP all you like... but one day Bioware will do something that YOU don't like and turnabout is fair play... The OP wants to be left alone to play, his solution is to stop playing for the week. This is a bad situation that is not good for the game or for business. Double xp week. I hated the idea but saw that other people really liked it. I just didn't play for a week with the understanding this game isn't made for me personally. I'm fine with that, it's called life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damask_Rose Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Hop on your speeder instead of walking. I have yet to be knocked off by one and they stop chasing very quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbfhl Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I fail to see how this is a suggestion. Looks like OP is just being a whiney crybaby who wants everything their way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theUndead Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 No, I do not want to do the rakghoul event at all. I do not want anything from the event, nor do I want to spend time or money (wasting resources) to acquire a device to nullify the event. For the comments about doing something else. if I logged out to play another game, that is "doing something else with my time." And, I have 22 characters currently and have played the game since it launched. Also, I have every right to complain in whatever manner and method you disprove of. I pay for my subscription. Also, I am no man! Thank you. You're right you do have a right to complain but we also have a right to call you out for throwing a tantrum. The truth is that, if you don't want to do content you don't want to do then simply don't do it. Coming here and complaining solves nothing and makes you look rather silly to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JattaGin Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 No, I do not want to do the rakghoul event at all. I do not want anything from the event, nor do I want to spend time or money (wasting resources) to acquire a device to nullify the event. . Forgive my question, but what exactly are you doing if it is such a problem getting infected on the fleet? Are you one of the hundreds of players standing around on the fleet all the time doing, well, nothing? Also, what do you mean that this event is "wasting resources"? I make some good credits with it. It's not the casino event. That is for wasting resources. Apart from that I understand that it can be annoying to get infected.But with 22 chars, 1000 credits for a vaccine once in a while should absolutely not pose the slightest problem in my opinion. Heck, I even offered free vaccine yesterday. Guess what: no one wanted one. But the chat was full of complaints about the infections. /facepalm at parts of the playerbase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucianthisis Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Okay while I'm fine with the Rakghoul event I must say how I first found out about it was shocking and kind of weird. I was shopping on the fleet and the person next to me EXPLODED, I'll admit I wasn't around for the last Rakghoul event so this freaked me out when a seeming random player just exploded all over me, and I look down and I have a new effect going (infection). And to the person complaining about the Gree event for comparison I would point out that event doesn't randomly effect you elsewhere in the Galaxy; I can see how if you don't want to do the Rakghouls it would annoy you to have to pay attention to every other player as a possible infection source, and your solution of buy a vaccine or equipment negates the point of just wanting to avoid the entire thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickious Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 For the record, these relics are far more use than a essentially a unlimited rakghoul vaccine. They are bind on legacy, and provide a crap load of more health and buff to your companions. Very useful to the altaholic. Well worth a run even if you don't like the event. It would only take you a few runs really to get newcomer status. Barely no time at all and well worth it. Oh yeah, btw if you are one of those people who just stands there for the past hours doing nothing, you deserve the plague. Its easy to avoid if you aren't idle in a crowded area. Many places you can go to avoid it. 4 different cargo hold areas, 2 different GTN areas (3 with VIP pass). Many people won't bother just going off after someone alone since they need to affect 3 people so you would be pretty safe just by a vendor doing whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danylia Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 To be fair, yes, the Plaguebearers can get annoying really fast, especially when you are doing missions in the Spaceport. I understand the concept - they add to the event's atmosphere, and they are "needed" for one of the Rakling pets - but I think the realization isn't as good as it could be. Suggestion: Change the triggers the following way. One will activate only each first time you step into the Spaceport (like a Companion dialogue/line), the rest will be inactive UNLESS you'll have the Quarantine daily active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeAlchemist Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 My only pet peeve with the event is that there is no 'opt-out' option that I can see without doing the event or ultimately paying for a vaccine/staying in a personal instance. I have seen people say that the best way to avoid the event is to get the special relic, but that isn't an opt-out option. It is an investment, regardless of how little time it might take to get that relic. There is no boundary to this event. Unlike the Gree event and the Bounty Hunter event, which you can choose to not participate in and not receive some kind of negative impact from it, the Rakghoul event is everywhere. I saw earlier where a commenter asked what someone might be doing that would cause them to stand on fleet for long frames of time. Some people will congregate in the cantina for RP purposes. I have watched groups of RPers get targeted and exploded on because they are standing still and haven't invested in the vaccine. Believe me, I understand the importance of events. Many people enjoy this sort of content, and I'm glad SWTOR has provided something for them to look forward to. But I also don't think it would be unreasonable to leave the fleet unaffected by the plague. There are plenty of places to congregate to farm Rakghoul DNA elsewhere (especially in the Rak tunnels). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacksonMo Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 It's fast easy xp. Just go down to the tunnels and run the dailies. Once you have enough rep you can buy the relics which give free immunity and the best stats for a leveling relic in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieKirby Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 They do lots of things I don't like, but instead of petulantly throwing a tantrum like a two year old and threatening to take my ball and go home, I find something else to do.... I don't like pvp, and the Gree event is chock full of it, so guess what I do? I find something -else- to do in the game at that time and avoid what I don't like... hence the suggestions I made in my earlier post of other things to do instead of sitting around complaining... Well, regardless of the problem, you tend to not be able to bring it here, valid or just a personal dislike, you get flamed into oblivion. I agree with the OP, i have been forced to avoid playing until this stupid event ends, they really need to make it a toggle thing...like the sprint ability, but hey, i am not being paid to come up with good ideas.....bioware is, so i am wondering where the good ideas are at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theUndead Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Well, regardless of the problem, you tend to not be able to bring it here, valid or just a personal dislike, you get flamed into oblivion. I agree with the OP, i have been forced to avoid playing until this stupid event ends, they really need to make it a toggle thing...like the sprint ability, but hey, i am not being paid to come up with good ideas.....bioware is, so i am wondering where the good ideas are at. Okay and how exactly would you design this "toggle" for events that you don't like? How do you think they could program a specific thing that blocks all events? I am really interested to know. And please don't say just add something in preferences, tell me how you would do it that it would shield you from anything to do with the event or events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainot-keel Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 For the record, these relics are far more use than a essentially a unlimited rakghoul vaccine. They are bind on legacy, and provide a crap load of more health and buff to your companions. Very useful to the altaholic. Well worth a run even if you don't like the event. It would only take you a few runs really to get newcomer status. Barely no time at all and well worth it. Those relics are worth buying per se, not just an effective way to get vaccinated at no cost for ever on any member of your legacy. I've been playing since launch and only few days ago my lowbies had 2 relics. Leveling relics suck, since they have alignment restrictions which I never seem to reach on those low levels. Also, those dailies, which you can do with your lowbies, give some good xp for the time spent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotharofxev Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Speaking on behalf of my guild, we participated (almost to the point of exclusion of anything else) the past week and we are RAKGHOULED OUT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starglitter Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Mmm... The difference between the Rakghoul event and others, is that you really can't avoid it for players are coming to you with it! The Gree event is easy to avoid, just do not go to Illum and more particularly the Illum area where the event is hosted at. But in the case of the Rakghoul it is not contained to a portion of a planet, but can be exercised anywhere in the galaxy, so how is one supposed to avoid it? There are several, sub-optimal solutions to this problem. 1) Buy for 2K a six hour or less if you die antidote; 2) participate in the event to such an extent, that then you can afford to not participate in the event; 3) Don't play SWTOR for a week. I trust, I have summarized all the possible avenues to respond to the Rakghoul plague threat, if I am missing anyone, please tell me so I can add it to the list of potential mitigations. Lets look at the first one, pay 2K every 6 hours. I don't know about you, but it strikes me as stupid in my opinion to have to do this in order to play the rest of the content of this game unencumbered by the disease. Perhaps if the original vaccination made immune for the rest of your life, might make sense, since normally most vaccines in real life are only needed to be taken once in our lives. Still there is the moral issue of one player being able to compel another into a 2K spenditure. Looking at the second one, you must participate in order to avoid the effects of the plague. Seems kinda dumb that you must do what you don't want to do, so you don't have to do it; frankly that strikes me as utterly stupid. While mechanicaly does work, its a fail, since it totally misses the point of not wanting to be a part of the event. The third one, don't play for a week. I can assure it does mostly work, but post infections by players goes on for a few more days or weeks after the event allegedly ended, all a player needs to do is to log out with one or more alts while infected, and a re-log with the infected alt any time afterwards, if working with another player to pass the infection back and forth, the plague can be kept up indefinetely. So not playing for the first week will protect you from the vast majority of the infections passed around during the event. But frankly, what kind of an answer is this? Do not play the game for a week? Really? From my end, I hate the safety of anonimity afforded to the infecting player, for myself loving to see balance and the old "For every action there is a reaction", I want to see a sense of balance, if I know who infected me, I now have a means to at sometime later return the favor; perhaps during an ops, I just keep not noticing they need a heal, or fail to notice their request to join me in an FP; oh the payback forms are just countless. I would even appreciate more, oh yes, much more if the player who infected me is flagged for PvP and I know who did this to me, oh I relish the payback, it would be even more sweet if the damage I did on the infecting player did cost him in the forms of repairs, now we getting sweeter here for now not only I have the means to know who did this to me, but a means to also make him spend as much currency as he made me spend, after all add here: "All the excuses why it is ok and not so bad to go infecting peple here" because they are just as valid the other way too. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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