Orb of Draginol ???

[mrmike_49]

Stats show only 0.2% of players have gotten this - or 99.8% of players have never gotten it even once. Assume that players play an average of 10 games, that means the Orb does NOT pop 99.98% of the time

SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS QUEST!!

No one seems to understand what to do, the very few people who have gotten the Orb aren't even sure how it happened and can't help others

[Supply Side Jesus]

The Orb of Draginol

I find this "quest" too confusing. First, it took forever (dozens of anomalies) to trigger. Second, after the initial event instructions are not clear. Do I need to conquer minor civilizations? Is there a way to know which one?

[mrmike_49]

Anybody understand this quest?
I had an artifact that opened a rift, and out pooped a bunch of red space monsters. Killed them, NOW WHAT??? nothing left, quest uncompleted

[Supply Side Jesus]

I agree, I had to search what to do and then was not able to complete the last step due to RNG. Very poorly designed quest.

[mrmike_49]

Actually found the Orb, on a class 2 planet that I had already colonized

So, NOW WHAT??

No way to "retrieve" it from a class 2 colony, can't assign a Gov to less than class 10

btw - I spent 10 minutes looking at EVERY SINGLE PLANET in 4 sectors before I found it, it's in the Orbital slot in the planet

[Manhattan]

killing the monsters is as far as I have every got. I am curious what it does and how to get it

[ghost88]

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

Actually found the Orb, on a class 2 planet that I had already colonized

So, NOW WHAT??

No way to "retrieve" it from a class 2 colony, can't assign a Gov to less than class 10

btw - I spent 10 minutes looking at EVERY SINGLE PLANET in 4 sectors before I found it, it's in the Orbital slot in the planet

I believe if you build the orbital it will finish the quest.
As for your OP I have not found it because I have had better things to do with my game time than to"chase" it.
It is hard to achieve and many players like me could care less about achievements.

[ghost88]

Merged same subject.

[mrmike_49]

Originally posted by ghost88:

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

Actually found the Orb, on a class 2 planet that I had already colonized

So, NOW WHAT??

No way to "retrieve" it from a class 2 colony, can't assign a Gov to less than class 10

btw - I spent 10 minutes looking at EVERY SINGLE PLANET in 4 sectors before I found it, it's in the Orbital slot in the planet

I believe if you build the orbital it will finish the quest.
As for your OP I have not found it because I have had better things to do with my game time than to"chase" it.
It is hard to achieve and many players like me could care less about achievements.

It was already built into an orbital slot

[mrmike_49]

weirdly enough< i just got it: playing as Iconians against the YOR, started the Orb quest, but got a message the YOR had already got it. Later on in game I conquered Iconia, and then conquered a minor world in same system that had the Orb, and it popped!!???

wtf, it it was that easy all the time, much more than 0.2% would have gotten it by now-

[ghost88]

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

weirdly enough< i just got it: playing as Iconians against the YOR, started the Orb quest, but got a message the YOR had already got it. Later on in game I conquered Iconia, and then conquered a minor world in same system that had the Orb, and it popped!!???

wtf, it it was that easy all the time, much more than 0.2% would have gotten it by now-

I skip this so do not even read the pop-up.

It is one per game is it not?

If so the AI just may be beating the players to it.

Then there are as I stated before players who do not care about achievements.
If I get one whoopee if I don't no bigee.

[mrmike_49]

I assume 1 Orb per game

If you go for a Prestige victory (or to deny it to the AI) you would start the Orb quest, as well as 4 or 5 more simpler quests.

Then when you stumble across the special Artifact that opens the rift, why not use it?

Seems to me that there should be anywhere from 2% to 20% of players getting that Orb by now, even without badge hunting, unless they're all ignoring the Prestige part of the game

I got it, don't know why it worked this time and not a previous time I conquered a world that had the Orb on it - pretty random

[ghost88]

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

I assume 1 Orb per game

If you go for a Prestige victory (or to deny it to the AI) you would start the Orb quest, as well as 4 or 5 more simpler quests.

Then when you stumble across the special Artifact that opens the rift, why not use it?

Seems to me that there should be anywhere from 2% to 20% of players getting that Orb by now, even without badge hunting, unless they're all ignoring the Prestige part of the game

I got it, don't know why it worked this time and not a previous time I conquered a world that had the Orb on it - pretty random

Are you saying Prestige Victory must be active?

If that is the case then the AI beating the player to the Orb and as many have said they turn off PV as it comes to fast could explain the low number.

[mrmike_49]

that's actually a good question!!

Prestige Victory was Active in all these games - even when I tried to turn it off in the "Victory Status" menu ( I would look a few turns later and it was back to ON )

Next game, I'll turn OFF the Prestige Victory during set-up, and see if that sticks. The in-game settings for Victory conditions do NOT work as advertised