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Age of Discovery, lack of new playable ships
freed89
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So quick question, am I the only one disappointed with the lack of new playable fed ships in age of discovery? I mean we get one new starter ship, but after that, you are stuck leveling up with standard TNG+ fed ships if you don't want to pay money for the Walker class that levels up to only tier 5. What's more baffling about this is that they have the models for discovery era ships in game. Why did they not implement the same system they did in the TOS expansion, at least one new ship per tier that was era specific, then add on a pack you could buy with all the tier 6 versions of the ships in question? I mean what's the point of a discovery character, when there really is only one (two if buy it) discovery era ships you can play while leveling up?
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Did anybody really expect a full Disco expansion a few weeks after ViL?
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No matter if tos Starfleet or jems or Disco, one does not simply get more leveling ships for free.
Dont worry, count on it that all Disco ships will be relased one by one. 3k Zen each.
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There might be more T6 ships added later, AoD is being released in pieces instead of waiting until next summer to release it all at once.
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Except the Connie, which will be in an R&D promo pack.
No one did, I was surprised they created discovery so fast, In fact, I was concerned that they were rushing it, which they were. I honestly think they should have continued expanding on ViL, and waited for discovery till next summer when they had a more complete experience, but that's just my opinion.
Yes I could just buy the pack, but part of the fun at least for me, is seeing reward as I level up my character. Getting a new ship each tier was a reward, making it feel like I was making progress as well as making the grinding aspect of the game not nearly as tedious in my opinion. Unfortunately with the Discovery Character, if I want stay strictly discovery ships, I am stuck with one ship (and I am talking about the Walker you can buy) until I reach tier 6. Unlike my TOS character which had one TOS ship per Tier. I could buy the standard fed or tos ship pier tier, but then to that defeats the purpose of a strictly discovery character. Anyways that's what I was trying to say, and that is just my opinion.
Any other TOS-related free ships were already there before the expansion.
Very true, thanks for the correction, however at least you could purchase the pack and level up with new ships per tier, AoD your stuck with one, that I guess is my point of contention. if they were not ready to release the ships with the expansion, I think they should have just waited.
The scaling ship (T1-4) was long overdue, and I'm glad they finally implemented it. I'd love to see them go back and give the same treatment to some of the other lower tier ships to give them more value for new players.
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There's also the matter of producing visual effects and gameplay abilities for said ships. Having the model in game is only one component of production. Now they're contracting out for some ship models they can have more of those added to the game but without concomitant increases in other designers and artists then playable ship releases won't necessarily scale up to the same degree (see. all the waiting ships in AoD) if for nothing else then to maintain a certain cadence in ship releases that satisfies player demand, and gets the most out of the effort, without overloading them in a short span (with less to look forward to later.)
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I hope future AoD ships will have similar options. Though I hope they also will come with a contemporary compatible skin, like the Nimitz/Europa.
I know one ship that looks like that, but it seems a rather small ship, so while having these two bays in the first place seems a bit excessive and makes me wonder what its purpose was - but the the bays itself aren't that big, just big in comparison to the ship.
Age of Discovery have barely even gone live. They are putting out things over time in phases.
Heck I recall they said they were gonna put out updates alongside season 2 of the Discovery tv series. Adding more content from the show.
And guess what? the Season 2 Discovery haven't haven started airing yet.
Also there is the roadmap https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11010493-star-trek-online's-2018/2019-roadmap!
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I like what I've seen so far. Might be hard to resist this if they release them in a bundle.