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Unlocking starship traits on ships you dont want to fly at all.

syrupofsquillsyrupofsquill Member Posts: 159 Arc User
edited April 2017 in Builds, Powers, and Game Mechanics
Earning experience in the game as been nerfed, Now takes hours to unlock a trait off a t6 Ship.

Any chance Ships could get an built in Experience multiplier of say 3x(I'd be more happy with 1000x) earned, just for the mastery, so it takes 1 hour and not 3?

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  • curmecurme Member Posts: 51 Arc User
    Takes me a couple of hours, not that long really. Buy a booster?
  • staq16staq16 Member Posts: 1,181 Arc User
    edited April 2017
    I agree with the point; events aside, T6 ships cost real money; even if you buy them using dil/zen trading or EC, someone has paid real money for it to be there. However, you then have to play out the trait. Sure, it's a couple of hours worth of gaming, but it's a couple of hours to earn something which has already had real money paid for it.

    It's a nuisance rather than a gamebreaker, but IMO a good QOL measure would be if the trait were unlocked alongside the purchase / box opening (like the Admiralty Card) and the learning curve for Ship Mastery bonuses just extended slightly.

    Why? Well, to me a big part of STO's fun is flying starships I like. By contrast, flying one which I don't care for is just a chore. I'm really not looking forward to the grind of unlocking the Ferasan Escort's trait on 4 alts, even though I expect the end gameplay results will be worth it.
  • salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    Ships take about 40 minutes to max out their mastery. I don't see a problem here.
    When you see "TRIBBLE" in my posts, it's because I manually typed "TRIBBLE" and censored myself.
  • syrupofsquillsyrupofsquill Member Posts: 159 Arc User
    salazarraze wrote: »
    Ships take about 40 minutes to max out their mastery. I don't see a problem here.

    Been playing game for years and lots of my toons still flying around without ewc, cos TRIBBLE takes more than 40 mins. Post a video of it only take 40 mins to unlock new ship trait without bonus exp or exp event please.
  • ussvaliant#6064 ussvaliant
    ussvaliant#6064
         Member Posts: 1,006 Arc User
    edited April 2017
    Levelling the ship is a nuisance esp across alts. If it has X trait why place it behind 2 walls.

    1. the purchase wall
    2. XP wall.

    The trait should be unlocked on purchase. Isn't it part of the selling point of the ship the trait. I mean consoles aren't locked behind a 2nd wall.
    It serves no real purpose to lock it behind a XP wall other than to make me have to fly it for x time. Time I could be spending running PvE queues instead of jumping in and out of Argala or Japori.

    Oh and trying to level a starship mastery via PvE queues GL with that, A thankless task to be sure.

    It can take less than 40 mins if you Kill the 1st 4 mobs in Argala and the 2 support craft but not the final boss. Leave the system and repeat. Its only killing the final boss that activates the 30 min lockout for that map. Same for the Romulan Patrols but with them you need to just leave 1 ship alive, leave and repeat. (Now wait for either a incoming XP nerf to these systems as its now decided to be an exploit or leaving the map begins cooldown boss killed or not)
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