So yeah, I'm getting into that hour mark...did I hear it wrong? Does it basically sound like the Delta Recruit will maintain certain benefits (even though the tasks, etc go away) so that a Delta Recruit character would actually be better than any character you've already leveled? And though folks won't be able to do Delta Recruits again, depending on how well this little experiment goes - they might do similar events in the future with different names, etc, etc, etc?
So uh...basically...are they doing the whole T5U/T6 thing to our characters? Only in the case of our characters, it's not just buying a T6 ship but for our "T6" Delta Recruit compared to our current "T5U" character, we'd have to rebuy everything which wasn't account bound - so all the Lock Box/Lobi stuff would have to be bought again, and once that was done...our "T6" character would be better than our "T5U" character?
They didn't use "T6"/"T5U" in what I'd listened to up to the point I decided to post this and go for a smoke...but uh, basically the Delta Recruit character's going to be better than our current characters? Is that what folks heard around that hour mark too? Or did I fall asleep listening up to that point and I just had a nightmare that's what I heard?
. They could have cut about twenty minutes by editing out the 'Huh, Uhm' from the Interviewer, and another thirty where hte interviewer mixed fanboy gushing with reiterating what Geko was saying.
Guess I toned out the gushing (and didn't catch the interview from the beginning) , cuz boy it was pretty bad there ... .
... one wonders if this is how we fans sound like when we open our mouths next to our beloved celebrities ...
Just finished listening to the interview. They could have cut about twenty minutes by editing out the 'Huh, Uhm' from the Interviewer, and another thirty where hte interviewer mixed fanboy gushing with reiterating what Geko was saying.
I damn near swallowed a burning cigarette when Geko said "...would be a GREAT time to play a Klingon character" in reference to Delta Recruiting. (At about the 58 to 60 minute mark in the recording.)
Truly, I did NOT expect to hear that from Al Rivera...ever.
Lol, I got to it around 1:02ish in...and...it was kind of funny how he said that about rolling a Klingon but quickly went into gushing about rolling a Romulan...meh.
So yeah, I'm getting into that hour mark...did I hear it wrong? Does it basically sound like the Delta Recruit will maintain certain benefits (even though the tasks, etc go away) so that a Delta Recruit character would actually be better than any character you've already leveled? And though folks won't be able to do Delta Recruits again, depending on how well this little experiment goes - they might do similar events in the future with different names, etc, etc, etc?
So uh...basically...are they doing the whole T5U/T6 thing to our characters? Only in the case of our characters, it's not just buying a T6 ship but for our "T6" Delta Recruit compared to our current "T5U" character, we'd have to rebuy everything which wasn't account bound - so all the Lock Box/Lobi stuff would have to be bought again, and once that was done...our "T6" character would be better than our "T5U" character?
They didn't use "T6"/"T5U" in what I'd listened to up to the point I decided to post this and go for a smoke...but uh, basically the Delta Recruit character's going to be better than our current characters? Is that what folks heard around that hour mark too? Or did I fall asleep listening up to that point and I just had a nightmare that's what I heard?
I didn't notice that they would be better...just different.
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"But this is the only time you can make a Delta Recruit, and once you've made that Delta Recruit, he'll always be a Delta Recruit, and he'll always have the Delta Recruit bonuses."
"But this is the only time you can make a Delta Recruit, and once you've made that Delta Recruit, he'll always be a Delta Recruit, and he'll always have the Delta Recruit bonuses."
but does that make them better?
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Character without bonuses.
Character with bonuses.
Yes. Assuming both characters were the same level, had the same skills, and the same gear, the one who has something extra that the other does not is "better". How *much* better remains to be seen.
They are remastering the missions and the Cardassian arc is next. They're plan is that no original content will be left.
Wow talk about wasting Dev time. Again not all the original missions were bad, and I don't understand why they don't retool what's removed from the main storyline as patrol missions in the Alpha and beta Quadrant areas. IMO they'd be a lot better than the generic Kill X patrol missions we have atm.
Talks about eventually adding the Gamma quadrant
And I'm sure when it (and Tier 7 ships) comes Mr. Lizard will again say "Gamma Monetizing is the BEST Expansion yet and the players love it as PWE/Cryptic endures another round of layoffs - and as they seem to go by seniority and NOT talent/ability, Mr. Al Rivera (Geko) will probably get promoted to EP.
Gateway development is on hold.
Is anyone surprised? The earlier line of "The Doff system revamp makes it easier to integrate it into the Gateway..." BS Geko was shoveling back when talking about the Doff system monetization and changes?
There's more coming on the duty officer/bridge officer system. It's not complete. There will be a reason in the future why you pick a First Officer and department heads.
I guess the system STILL isn't monetized enough for PWE's taste and bottom line. As for a 'reason to pick officers and dept. heads' - I'm sure the more they cost, the better they are to 'pick'.
Splitting ground and space traits
Wow. Steve Ricossa (Salami Inferno) must be able to get a word in edwise to Geko's 'MOAR MONETIZATION' agenda occasionally.
No plans for T5U ships get specializations. Its a T6 thing only.
No surprise here.
New Specialization in the works...doesnt say what it is. The plan is to keep adding specs.
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They thought about adding a new faction with Delta Rising but decided against it because DR is more endgame and a new faction is more for the start of the game. Adding a new faction is hard and expensive.
Yeah, right. More likely they LIKE the specialization grind paradigm better as it takes longer, and there's no new equipment/consoles they have to add, plus (unlike reputations) you can't earn Dilithium directly from any Specialization grind.
Delta Recruit will see new stories and cutscenes. Same content but slightly different experience. Delta Recruits will unlock benefits for all characters on account...benefits players who team up with Delta Recruits...players who team up with Delta Recruits will earn dilithium per kill....there will also be benefits to having Delta Recruits in their fleet. While it's for a limited time to make them...a Delta Recruit created on the last day will still be a Delta Recruit afterwards...the limited time will be for events related to them. Example given: If all the Delta Recruits complete a certain objective it will trigger a double XP weekend. Think of it like the Kobali found missions that trigger extra missions. There are three levels...including triple XP and some bonus events will run for a week...think Triple XP for a week for everyone.
There will be different events like Delta Recruits upcoming...other type recruits. He mentions this is a great time to try out Klingons since he knows a lot of players haven't played a KDF yet. Delta Recruit ties into future stories in 2016....which will be something big since it's the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.
Gotta do what they can to make the some of the playerbase want to make Alts again after increasing the Grind and lessening the XP reward curve to make players STOP bothering with Alts for the most part. Guess this is the 'We'll make STO more Alt friendly solution...' - Meh.
a Celebrity voice talent is upcoming....I think in this Thursday's featured mission. A recurring role.
Season 10 will intro one new celebrity and one guest celebrity (a celebrity guest character)...the
middle of season 10 will see a new Star Trek Celebrity and a new guest celebrity. There are plans for more Star Trek celebrities in Season 11 but it's all in the works. The Season 10 celebrities have already signed their contracts. His endgame goal is to get Patrick Stewart. Wants to get George Takei to play the current Sulu and Jeffery Combs as the current Wayoun....they wanted him to play Shran the Andorian captain of the Enterprise but they weren't SAG at the time. Talked to Felicia Day about doing voice work for STO.
Wants to do some Enterprise era missions or Wrath Of Khan era missions by using time travel.
Some Ferengi stuff is planed (I suspect it will have the Ferengi from actors from DS9). There was a big Ferengi story arc that featured them all (Quark, Nog...ect,etc,ect) that ended up getting cut.
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Nice they got PWE to agree to some recurring VO talent before the layoffs hit. I wouldn't expect any further former Star Trek actor talent tapped for VO unless CBS throws some money/clout at it to get someone special for the 50th Anniversarry of Star Trek in 2016.
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"But this is the only time you can make a Delta Recruit, and once you've made that Delta Recruit, he'll always be a Delta Recruit, and he'll always have the Delta Recruit bonuses."
The way I'm hearing it... and it could be wrong this is Cryptic after all...
Is that once you start a Delta Recruit you'll have access to whatever makes them special... but when the event ends the specialness wears off... unless you have something already slotted etc etc... in which case it'll continue until whatever trigger was supposed to make it end... makes it end.
From what I'm gathering is that if you have an exp bonus... you'll always have an exp bonus... with a trigger (say level 50 for example) that'll turn it off. So if you start a Delta Recruit and you stop leveling at 20.. then come back to it you'll have the exp bonus until level 50.
Don't know what the triggers are to be honest.
Also they can turn the trigger back on for certain special events and such..
So yes they'll be better... to a degree... but how much better they are... who knows... and the big question is.... are they better after level 50 or at end game... or do they just become regular captain schmuks.
well, one thing I took away from this is that the kdf is going to suffer with gekos plan of constantly adding new ships with different 'seats' (intel, command, etc).
and for another, it has been confirmed in my mind that delta recruits will be 'special' to the degree that it is intended to replace your main:
53:20: geko starts talking about delta recruits .
61:25: 'this is the only time to make a delta recruit, and once you've made that delta recruit you will always be a delta recruit, and you will always have the delta recruit bonuses.' he then goes on to talk about how not only does the delta recruit tie in well to the upcoming iconian stories, but the stuff they are planning to release in 2016.
(damn this guy doing the podcast is the biggest sycophant ever. its embarrassing just to listen to him)
They are remastering the missions and the Cardassian arc is next. They're plan is that no original content will be left.
Talks about eventually adding the Gamma quadrant
Gateway development is on hold.
There's more coming on the duty officer/bridge officer system. It's not complete. There will be a reason in the future why you pick a First Officer and department heads.
Splitting ground and space traits
No plans for T5U ships get specializations. Its a T6 thing only.
New Specialization in the works...doesnt say what it is. The plan is to keep adding specs.
They thought about adding a new faction with Delta Rising but decided against it because DR is more endgame and a new faction is more for the start of the game. Adding a new faction is hard and expensive.
Delta Recruit will see new stories and cutscenes. Same content but slightly different experience. Delta Recruits will unlock benefits for all characters on account...benefits players who team up with Delta Recruits...players who team up with Delta Recruits will earn dilithium per kill....there will also be benefits to having Delta Recruits in their fleet. While it's for a limited time to make them...a Delta Recruit created on the last day will still be a Delta Recruit afterwards...the limited time will be for events related to them. Example given: If all the Delta Recruits complete a certain objective it will trigger a double XP weekend. Think of it like the Kobali found missions that trigger extra missions. There are three levels...including triple XP and some bonus events will run for a week...think Triple XP for a week for everyone.
There will be different events like Delta Recruits upcoming...other type recruits. He mentions this is a great time to try out Klingons since he knows a lot of players haven't played a KDF yet. Delta Recruit ties into future stories in 2016....which will be something big since it's the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.
a Celebrity voice talent is upcoming....I think in this Thursday's featured mission. A recurring role.
Season 10 will intro one new celebrity and one guest celebrity (a celebrity guest character)...the middle of season 10 will see a new Star Trek Celebrity and a new guest celebrity. There are plans for more Star Trek celebrities in Season 11 but it's all in the works. The Season 10 celebrities have already signed their contracts. His endgame goal is to get Patrick Stewart. Wants to get George Takei to play the current Sulu and Jeffery Combs as the current Wayoun....they wanted him to play Shran the Andorian captain of the Enterprise but they weren't SAG at the time. Talked to Felicia Day about doing voice work for STO.
Wants to do some Enterprise era missions or Wrath Of Khan era missions by using time travel.
Some Ferengi stuff is planed (I suspect it will have the Ferengi from actors from DS9). There was a big Ferengi story arc that featured them all (Quark, Nog...ect,etc,ect) that ended up getting cut.
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New Specialization in the works...doesnt say what it is. The plan is to keep adding specs.
They thought about adding a new faction with Delta Rising but decided against it because DR is more endgame and a new faction is more for the start of the game. Adding a new faction is hard and expensive.
Problem is that I always encounter a hard times when I cant decide if Im supposed to laugh or rather cry. Delta Rising left "end game" in the worst shape imaginable if pve or pvp participation in public queues are any indication.
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Thanks for the highlights it helps sum things up in a nutshell instead of 2hours of listening. When they keep making out all is well in STO I really do wonder whether this is just spin how much is a matter of opinion. No bad news is ever mentioned or if it is it's barely acknowledged.
There looks like some stuff coming that I'd consider good though. I've said having separate space and ground traits was needed and knowing Cryptic needs to make money, I'd pay for that as an account wide feature or gold members got it for free otherwise players would be left with the system they've gotten now and are free to change as normal. Obviously if it's free great but just saying that's something I'd pay for and have other stuff in game free/cheaper.
Still so so much unkown about Deltra recruitment though. Not keen on yet more specialisation given the the amount of xp needed it feels like the rep system again where they just dump another spec tree and leave us to grind it. True there's that cap in place but I'm still wondering with so much to do with DR then s10 and Delta recruit it's more grind after grind and as mentioned in another podcast, fatigue will set in.
So yeah, I'm getting into that hour mark...did I hear it wrong? Does it basically sound like the Delta Recruit will maintain certain benefits (even though the tasks, etc go away) so that a Delta Recruit character would actually be better than any character you've already leveled? And though folks won't be able to do Delta Recruits again, depending on how well this little experiment goes - they might do similar events in the future with different names, etc, etc, etc?
So uh...basically...are they doing the whole T5U/T6 thing to our characters? Only in the case of our characters, it's not just buying a T6 ship but for our "T6" Delta Recruit compared to our current "T5U" character, we'd have to rebuy everything which wasn't account bound - so all the Lock Box/Lobi stuff would have to be bought again, and once that was done...our "T6" character would be better than our "T5U" character?
They didn't use "T6"/"T5U" in what I'd listened to up to the point I decided to post this and go for a smoke...but uh, basically the Delta Recruit character's going to be better than our current characters? Is that what folks heard around that hour mark too? Or did I fall asleep listening up to that point and I just had a nightmare that's what I heard?
This is what I have been saying about opening Pandora's Box
Our characters will slowly become T-5 characters..I doubt we will get the U option either
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some things are kinda exciting than other things are really bummer!
Make the damn Lobi store and items and ships "account wide" or something.. I know it would create an infinite loop of ships being able to be reclaimed and sellable all the time but darn it... it's just redicilious.. lobi store items are way way way overpriced in comparison to anything else in the game except for the "promo" packs I'd guess
(this is ofcourse only taking into considderation of lobi crystals as payment method) but DARN IT !! FIX THIS! ... other than that I have to say I'm curious about the goals for voice actors especially Patrick but we'll have to wait and see.
some things are kinda exciting than other things are really bummer!
Make the damn Lobi store and items and ships "account wide" or something.. I know it would create an infinite loop of ships being able to be reclaimed and sellable all the time but darn it... it's just redicilious.. lobi store items are way way way overpriced in comparison to anything else in the game except for the "promo" packs I'd guess
(this is ofcourse only taking into considderation of lobi crystals as payment method) but DARN IT !! FIX THIS! ... other than that I have to say I'm curious about the goals for voice actors especially Patrick but we'll have to wait and see.
Well if your a player with a lot of things already bought your enjoying the game but not spending CASH
Now if your character becomes second class.................You have to make a new First class character and buy all that stuff again !
Perfect World isn't it
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Jellico....Engineer ground.....Da'val Romulan space Sci
Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
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The way I'm hearing it... and it could be wrong this is Cryptic after all...
Is that once you start a Delta Recruit you'll have access to whatever makes them special... but when the event ends the specialness wears off... unless you have something already slotted etc etc... in which case it'll continue until whatever trigger was supposed to make it end... makes it end.
From what I'm gathering is that if you have an exp bonus... you'll always have an exp bonus... with a trigger (say level 50 for example) that'll turn it off. So if you start a Delta Recruit and you stop leveling at 20.. then come back to it you'll have the exp bonus until level 50.
Don't know what the triggers are to be honest.
Also they can turn the trigger back on for certain special events and such..
So yes they'll be better... to a degree... but how much better they are... who knows... and the big question is.... are they better after level 50 or at end game... or do they just become regular captain schmuks.
Yes and no. Based on what I listened to...Delta Recruits will always be Delta recruits...the bonuses stay with them...they also get a new trait....I think the trait was you and everyone in your team will earn Dil with each kill.
The xp bonuses are only for the event. I am not sure if you have done the Kobali home world missions but hey all have a trigger...complete the mission in a certain time and a bonus mission triggers. Example would be the mortar mission where if you complete us in a certain time is triggers the base raid where you can earn more xp.
The Delta Recruits will have certain goals to fulfill and if they do it triggers a shard wide bonus for everyone.
Example would be Delta Recruits have to complete the tutorial....let's say 25% complete the tutorial so it will trigger a .5% bonus in Xp.....50% do it and it triggers double xp.....100% and it triggers triple Xp...and that is for everybody...for a week.
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Well if your a player with a lot of things already bought your enjoying the game but not spending CASH
Now if your character becomes second class.................You have to make a new First class character and buy all that stuff again !
Perfect World isn't it
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But things you buy are account wide save for faction ships. I play mostly Fed. If I roll another Fed all of the things I've already bought are waiting for them....including 2 choices of T6 ship.if I decide to roll a KDF or Rom I'd have to save up dil for a T6 ship but most of the other stuff should be open to them.
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This is what I have been saying about opening Pandora's Box
Our characters will slowly become T-5 characters..I doubt we will get the U option either
Well once the expected awards to the Delta Recruiting becomes known , I expect ppl to demand / ask for / beg for an update token to D.Recruits .
(with the usual trolls ranting about entitlement and such)
Thing is , there is a 3rd option :
Between choosing to play a new toon that you have no attachment to , and leaving your "main" in the dust ... -- you can choose to delete your main and restart your main as a D.Recruit .
... considering the investment most put into their main toons , I do not expect this suggestion to be popular , but it is an option non the less ...
having deltas be better in individual performance doesnt make sense...how about characters made AFTER the event...new players coming in AFTER delta recruitment?
I hope the deltas only bonus is like that earning dill w each kill in the group type deal, and the capability to trigger server wide bonuses.
Beyond that every bonus has to be account wide, anything else is just ****ing stupid.
So they really are planning to make our mains obsolete, apparently with the hope that we'll simply spend tons of money on them again rather than simply saying F-this and leaving. Wish I could say I was surprised. Better yet, he even admitted that he's going to do so again later on with the next recruit type. Geko is so short sighted when it comes to monetizing things that it'd be hilarious if it weren't us he was TRIBBLE over. But hey, at least all this extra money is going towards getting more famous voice talent, that's totally worth it right? ...right?
Oh and also they're planning to split the traits so we can have space and ground traits without having to switch out all the time. £10 says we only get to have four of each after that goes live, rather than the nine we get now.
Well once the expected awards to the Delta Recruiting becomes known , I expect ppl to demand / ask for / beg for an update token to D.Recruits .
(with the usual trolls ranting about entitlement and such)
Thing is , there is a 3rd option :
Between choosing to play a new toon that you have no attachment to , and leaving your "main" in the dust ... -- you can choose to delete your main and restart your main as a D.Recruit .
... considering the investment most put into their main toons , I do not expect this suggestion to be popular , but it is an option non the less ...
Why does it have to be an all or nothing type deal? Why do we have to choose between our main or our Delta Recruit? Why can't it just be another alt?
The only person that determines who our mains are are us. They could come out with a playable Captain Kirk with a T20 Connie and my main will still be the first character I rolled. I have six characters and I may enjoy playing my RP character or spend more time on my Rom/ fed because he just got to the Delta Quadrant....but the character I created during Beta...who went down fighting the Borg on ESD when the beta set era went down....and who got recreated when the game went live....will always be my main.
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So they really are planning to make our mains obsolete, apparently with the hope that we'll simply spend tons of money on them again rather than simply saying F-this and leaving. Wish I could say I was surprised. Better yet, he even admitted that he's going to do so again later on with the next recruit type. Geko is so short sighted when it comes to monetizing things that it'd be hilarious if it weren't us he was TRIBBLE over. But hey, at least all this extra money is going towards getting more famous voice talent, that's totally worth it right? ...right?
Oh and also they're planning to split the traits so we can have space and ground traits without having to switch out all the time. £10 says we only get to have four of each after that goes live, rather than the nine we get now.
How does Delta Recruit make your main obsolete?
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Edited to remove original post- You know, on second thoughts, I'm not going to get in to an argument over this. Cryptic will either TRIBBLE people over or they won't, no amount of discussion on the forums will change their minds, certainly not at this point. We'll just have to wait and see.
The Khan5000 linki above is a forum post from there, breaking it down in brief.
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The Khan5000 linki above is a forum post from there, breaking it down in brief.
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So uh...basically...are they doing the whole T5U/T6 thing to our characters? Only in the case of our characters, it's not just buying a T6 ship but for our "T6" Delta Recruit compared to our current "T5U" character, we'd have to rebuy everything which wasn't account bound - so all the Lock Box/Lobi stuff would have to be bought again, and once that was done...our "T6" character would be better than our "T5U" character?
They didn't use "T6"/"T5U" in what I'd listened to up to the point I decided to post this and go for a smoke...but uh, basically the Delta Recruit character's going to be better than our current characters? Is that what folks heard around that hour mark too? Or did I fall asleep listening up to that point and I just had a nightmare that's what I heard?
Yeah ... , considering that Once Upon a Time they talked about a "Children of Khan" STF, but all we got was Khan's lousy t-shirt !
Guess I toned out the gushing (and didn't catch the interview from the beginning) , cuz boy it was pretty bad there ... .
... one wonders if this is how we fans sound like when we open our mouths next to our beloved celebrities ...
Lol, I got to it around 1:02ish in...and...it was kind of funny how he said that about rolling a Klingon but quickly went into gushing about rolling a Romulan...meh.
I didn't notice that they would be better...just different.
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"But this is the only time you can make a Delta Recruit, and once you've made that Delta Recruit, he'll always be a Delta Recruit, and he'll always have the Delta Recruit bonuses."
but does that make them better?
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Character without bonuses.
Character with bonuses.
Yes. Assuming both characters were the same level, had the same skills, and the same gear, the one who has something extra that the other does not is "better". How *much* better remains to be seen.
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And I'm sure when it (and Tier 7 ships) comes Mr. Lizard will again say "Gamma Monetizing is the BEST Expansion yet and the players love it as PWE/Cryptic endures another round of layoffs - and as they seem to go by seniority and NOT talent/ability, Mr. Al Rivera (Geko) will probably get promoted to EP.
Is anyone surprised? The earlier line of "The Doff system revamp makes it easier to integrate it into the Gateway..." BS Geko was shoveling back when talking about the Doff system monetization and changes?
I guess the system STILL isn't monetized enough for PWE's taste and bottom line. As for a 'reason to pick officers and dept. heads' - I'm sure the more they cost, the better they are to 'pick'.
Splitting ground and space traits
Wow. Steve Ricossa (Salami Inferno) must be able to get a word in edwise to Geko's 'MOAR MONETIZATION' agenda occasionally.
No surprise here.
Welcome to Grind Trek Online. Enjoyment is irrelevant; we MUST expand the Hamster wheel and keep players grinding to infinity and beyond (oops, mixed my franchises there.)
Yeah, right. More likely they LIKE the specialization grind paradigm better as it takes longer, and there's no new equipment/consoles they have to add, plus (unlike reputations) you can't earn Dilithium directly from any Specialization grind.
Gotta do what they can to make the some of the playerbase want to make Alts again after increasing the Grind and lessening the XP reward curve to make players STOP bothering with Alts for the most part. Guess this is the 'We'll make STO more Alt friendly solution...' - Meh.
Nice they got PWE to agree to some recurring VO talent before the layoffs hit. I wouldn't expect any further former Star Trek actor talent tapped for VO unless CBS throws some money/clout at it to get someone special for the 50th Anniversarry of Star Trek in 2016.
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The way I'm hearing it... and it could be wrong this is Cryptic after all...
Is that once you start a Delta Recruit you'll have access to whatever makes them special... but when the event ends the specialness wears off... unless you have something already slotted etc etc... in which case it'll continue until whatever trigger was supposed to make it end... makes it end.
From what I'm gathering is that if you have an exp bonus... you'll always have an exp bonus... with a trigger (say level 50 for example) that'll turn it off. So if you start a Delta Recruit and you stop leveling at 20.. then come back to it you'll have the exp bonus until level 50.
Don't know what the triggers are to be honest.
Also they can turn the trigger back on for certain special events and such..
So yes they'll be better... to a degree... but how much better they are... who knows... and the big question is.... are they better after level 50 or at end game... or do they just become regular captain schmuks.
and for another, it has been confirmed in my mind that delta recruits will be 'special' to the degree that it is intended to replace your main:
53:20: geko starts talking about delta recruits .
61:25: 'this is the only time to make a delta recruit, and once you've made that delta recruit you will always be a delta recruit, and you will always have the delta recruit bonuses.' he then goes on to talk about how not only does the delta recruit tie in well to the upcoming iconian stories, but the stuff they are planning to release in 2016.
(damn this guy doing the podcast is the biggest sycophant ever. its embarrassing just to listen to him)
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Same here.
Problem is that I always encounter a hard times when I cant decide if Im supposed to laugh or rather cry. Delta Rising left "end game" in the worst shape imaginable if pve or pvp participation in public queues are any indication.
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There looks like some stuff coming that I'd consider good though. I've said having separate space and ground traits was needed and knowing Cryptic needs to make money, I'd pay for that as an account wide feature or gold members got it for free otherwise players would be left with the system they've gotten now and are free to change as normal. Obviously if it's free great but just saying that's something I'd pay for and have other stuff in game free/cheaper.
Still so so much unkown about Deltra recruitment though. Not keen on yet more specialisation given the the amount of xp needed it feels like the rep system again where they just dump another spec tree and leave us to grind it. True there's that cap in place but I'm still wondering with so much to do with DR then s10 and Delta recruit it's more grind after grind and as mentioned in another podcast, fatigue will set in.
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Our characters will slowly become T-5 characters..I doubt we will get the U option either
Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
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Make the damn Lobi store and items and ships "account wide" or something.. I know it would create an infinite loop of ships being able to be reclaimed and sellable all the time but darn it... it's just redicilious.. lobi store items are way way way overpriced in comparison to anything else in the game except for the "promo" packs I'd guess
(this is ofcourse only taking into considderation of lobi crystals as payment method) but DARN IT !! FIX THIS! ... other than that I have to say I'm curious about the goals for voice actors especially Patrick but we'll have to wait and see.
Well if your a player with a lot of things already bought your enjoying the game but not spending CASH
Now if your character becomes second class.................You have to make a new First class character and buy all that stuff again !
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Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
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Yes and no. Based on what I listened to...Delta Recruits will always be Delta recruits...the bonuses stay with them...they also get a new trait....I think the trait was you and everyone in your team will earn Dil with each kill.
The xp bonuses are only for the event. I am not sure if you have done the Kobali home world missions but hey all have a trigger...complete the mission in a certain time and a bonus mission triggers. Example would be the mortar mission where if you complete us in a certain time is triggers the base raid where you can earn more xp.
The Delta Recruits will have certain goals to fulfill and if they do it triggers a shard wide bonus for everyone.
Example would be Delta Recruits have to complete the tutorial....let's say 25% complete the tutorial so it will trigger a .5% bonus in Xp.....50% do it and it triggers double xp.....100% and it triggers triple Xp...and that is for everybody...for a week.
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But things you buy are account wide save for faction ships. I play mostly Fed. If I roll another Fed all of the things I've already bought are waiting for them....including 2 choices of T6 ship.if I decide to roll a KDF or Rom I'd have to save up dil for a T6 ship but most of the other stuff should be open to them.
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Well once the expected awards to the Delta Recruiting becomes known , I expect ppl to demand / ask for / beg for an update token to D.Recruits .
(with the usual trolls ranting about entitlement and such)
Thing is , there is a 3rd option :
Between choosing to play a new toon that you have no attachment to , and leaving your "main" in the dust ... -- you can choose to delete your main and restart your main as a D.Recruit .
... considering the investment most put into their main toons , I do not expect this suggestion to be popular , but it is an option non the less ...
I hope the deltas only bonus is like that earning dill w each kill in the group type deal, and the capability to trigger server wide bonuses.
Beyond that every bonus has to be account wide, anything else is just ****ing stupid.
Ill never give up my main.
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Oh and also they're planning to split the traits so we can have space and ground traits without having to switch out all the time. £10 says we only get to have four of each after that goes live, rather than the nine we get now.
Why does it have to be an all or nothing type deal? Why do we have to choose between our main or our Delta Recruit? Why can't it just be another alt?
The only person that determines who our mains are are us. They could come out with a playable Captain Kirk with a T20 Connie and my main will still be the first character I rolled. I have six characters and I may enjoy playing my RP character or spend more time on my Rom/ fed because he just got to the Delta Quadrant....but the character I created during Beta...who went down fighting the Borg on ESD when the beta set era went down....and who got recreated when the game went live....will always be my main.
Let us explore it... together. Each man hides a secret pain. It must be exposed and reckoned with. It must be dragged from the darkness and forced into the light. Share your pain. Share your pain with me... and gain strength from the sharing.
How does Delta Recruit make your main obsolete?
Let us explore it... together. Each man hides a secret pain. It must be exposed and reckoned with. It must be dragged from the darkness and forced into the light. Share your pain. Share your pain with me... and gain strength from the sharing.
Edited to remove original post- You know, on second thoughts, I'm not going to get in to an argument over this. Cryptic will either TRIBBLE people over or they won't, no amount of discussion on the forums will change their minds, certainly not at this point. We'll just have to wait and see.
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