Strange/Powered Alien Artifacts

legendarylycan · May 2016

i'm sure there's quite a few players here who remembers these things and what they were used for - and with the advent of mark 13/14 gear and the upgrade system, they've pretty much been rendered all but useless, even for selling

so, i pose a question to the community; if you had the ability to do so, how would you make these items relevant again for today's game?

maina · May 2016

Collect 10 (or 50 or whatever), use to craft/change a mod on crafted gear.

Trade "X" amount, for lobi.

Use in new doff missions for fleet marks or Fleet dill vouchers.

Merchant on the captains table that will buy each one for 100K EC.

kitsunesnout · May 2016

Well, like most of my old stuff I can't find use of anymore, chewtoy!

Seriously speaking, some sort of fleet use actually makes sense, give a bunch of fleet credits when donated to projects needing R&D materials.

bergins · May 2016

A new DOff project that results in new consoles not available by other means.

samt1996 · May 2016

Just being allowed to re-roll a mod of your choice until you get the right one would be invaluable.

legendarylycan · May 2016

there's definitely some REALLY good ideas here so far; keep them coming and let your imagination run wild!

i also hope that @borticuscryptic, @crypticspartan#0627 and any other dev responsible for the coding portion of the game are seeing this thread so if they ever decide to do something with the artifacts, they have a handy pool of ideas to draw from

warpangel · May 2016

Those artifacts used to be the ONLY way to get mk12 consoles. That's when NADORC was the best doff assignment ever. Now, mk12 purple stock consoles are garbage that sells for peanuts on the exchange. Even if you wanted to upgrade one, it would be better to start with a mk2.

Obviously, to make them useful again they would have to be used for producing something top-of-the-line again. Whether that simply means raising the quality from mk12 blues/purples to mk14 ultraviolet/gold, replacing the stock consoles with items that are otherwise hard to get or even entirely unique items not available anywhere else, would depend on just how much the devs care.

legendarylycan · May 2016

warpangel wrote: »

Those artifacts used to be the ONLY way to get mk12 consoles. That's when NADORC was the best doff assignment ever. Now, mk12 purple stock consoles are garbage that sells for peanuts on the exchange. Even if you wanted to upgrade one, it would be better to start with a mk2.

Obviously, to make them useful again they would have to be used for producing something top-of-the-line again. Whether that simply means raising the quality from mk12 blues/purples to mk14 ultraviolet/gold, replacing the stock consoles with items that are otherwise hard to get or even entirely unique items not available anywhere else, would depend on just how much the devs care.

they weren't the only way; you could rarely get them as drops from level 51+ enemies too, which were only encountered in ker'rat/n'vak or in elite STFs (which, back then, were just the 3 borg ones)

sqwished · May 2016

They could form a catalyst in order to be able to change a modifier on an item.

tc10b · May 2016

Whatever it is, I'd like to be able to do the same with my Computer Core Fragments and other associated bits and bobs I have in my bank that can't be used anymore..

seansamurai1 · May 2016

Used as a universal craft boost.

legendarylycan · June 2016

just giving this a small bump to see if anyone's had any added ideas for how to make alien artifacts relevant to STO again, and to remind the devs that these really do need to be made useful again, as they used to be a very interesting part of the doff system - interest which is now sorely lacking with the addition of admiralty, which is superior in almost every way

tacticalrook · June 2016

They're old style purple data samples. The old zoo of white, green and blue data samples can now be used and will convert to white, green, and blue R&D mats. It seems logical that these old purple data samples be converted into purple R&D mats when used.

asuran14 · June 2016

I could see them being used in the crafting system to maybe apply some of the rep or lockbox weapon types to hanger-pets, omni-beams, and what not as a way of letting those that want to have a fully kitted out rep based ship have that option. As right now dual beam banks could use having a omni-beam variant that is tied to the rep-buff type thru crafting it with these, which is the same with hanger-pets. I also like the idea of needing a certain amount of them to re-roll a specific mod on a weapon.

lindaleff · June 2016

In fact, I still have several Powered Artefacts in my bank. To make them useful, just make the mission give XIV, and a Critical Success makes it Ultra Rare.

Strange/Powered Alien Artifacts

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