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I find it interesting that for all this year, we have been told how great things will be when this happens. There have been all kinds of reports since July about what is going to happen. In none of those reports did they say 'exploration missions will be dailies.'
I find it interesting that this important information was not made public until after the patch was release.
I find it even more amazing that no one at Cryptic Studios thought this was a 'dumb' idea.
So, not only are we limited to one exploration mission each day, but we cannot even get the reward bu once a day.
So, what exactly is the player suppose to do?
Story missions on their own will not provide enough income to acquire anything 'useful' in the game. And, so instead of doing exploration missions, we are stuck doing the same 'story-line' missions over and over again until we make enough money to update the ship and crew equipment.
So, now, we as a player base are now going to be able to sit back and see how long it takes the 'Sharp-minds' at Cryptic Studio to realize, this is a doomed effort.
I wonder if they even understand how this is going to negatively impact players response to the C-Store event happening this weekend? Or, will they be shocked come Monday, that it was a bad idea.
We will see.
The ship went from a small leak to a big hole and the water is coming in faster now.
Thank you.
I find it interesting that for all this year, we have been told how great things will be when this happens. There have been all kinds of reports since July about what is going to happen. In none of those reports did they say 'exploration missions will be dailies.'
I find it interesting that this important information was not made public until after the patch was release.
I find it even more amazing that no one at Cryptic Studios thought this was a 'dumb' idea.
So, not only are we limited to one exploration mission each day, but we cannot even get the reward bu once a day.
So, what exactly is the player suppose to do?
Story missions on their own will not provide enough income to acquire anything 'useful' in the game. And, so instead of doing exploration missions, we are stuck doing the same 'story-line' missions over and over again until we make enough money to update the ship and crew equipment.
So, now, we as a player base are now going to be able to sit back and see how long it takes the 'Sharp-minds' at Cryptic Studio to realize, this is a doomed effort.
I wonder if they even understand how this is going to negatively impact players response to the C-Store event happening this weekend? Or, will they be shocked come Monday, that it was a bad idea.
We will see.
The ship went from a small leak to a big hole and the water is coming in faster now.
Thank you.
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If you put too many hurdles on the track, the race stops being fun.
This decision should be rethought. Find some other way to keep exploration missions from being exploited, and return them to non-daily status.
I am totally against this move from Cryptic Studio. This is the defining moment for them, like NGE/CU was for Sony Entertainment with Star Wars Galaxies. SOE went to it's death with SWG swearing up and down it was not the NGE/CU debokle that caused the games demise. It was.:mad:
No exploration in Star Trek is like no force in Star Wars.
Up until this point, the testing was fun for me, now it is really upsetting me. I think whomever came up with this idea should decide to leave the game too.:mad:
If this was my company, I would have ended that persons tenure at the job with that idea. This clearly shows that the planners here, do not actually know how to play this game or to what kind of negative impact this is going to have to people who play and explore.
I think I am going to suspend any transactions with the C-Store Until I see the complete changes come January 2012.:mad:
Spending 12 dollars or more for only 15 minutes of play a day is not cost effective for my time. I am better off paying $69.99 for a box game. Or for that matter, 8 bucks a month I can watch all the Star Trek I want.
This is a mistake!
This ends testing for me this weekend...I will be back on Monday when hopefully they figure out how stupid this is.
The game is doomed and I am glad I play Guild Wars.
Really, they don't even need to do this.
You can only refine 8000 dilithium per day. It doesn't really matter how much you can farm, you still have to refine it. If the exploration sectors weren't dailies, you could all kinds of ore, but you'd still be limited to 8000 refined per day.
There's no need, or even much reason, to limit ore availability when refining it is still gated.
Another issue, they need to give us Mk 11 Crafting options. Please don't kill crafting. For Bridge Officer training, I also really hope they don't think its okay to lock out the ability to train officers. I know a number of people who levelled up 3 characters of all 3 classes specifically to train officers for people. Cryptic will really be insulting and nullifying all their efforts if they remove this ability. Tie it to dilithium if you must but don't take away that option from people. I realize that the DOFF system needs to be implemented but I should hope it doesn't completely derail efforts of the past. I have a feeling there are players who will quit the game over t his issue. I'll be writing more on the DOFF system in the near future. It has great potential and really allows for greater nuance in all kinds of missions. For instance, Crafting an item could tie into actually earning Engineering CXP potentially. Scanning plants, Anomaly scannig and archaeological investigations could all lead to Science CXP. Diplomacy ground missions could be limited to actual diplomacy. In other words, they could more narrowly define the parameters at which Diplomacy/CXP are earned based on what is actually done in a mission As I see it, the DOFF system should dovetail into the current system, it shouldn't squash a lot of it. It certainly is a more refined way to handle a lot of the noncombat missions that the Diplomacy exp was originally meant for.
I wouldn't be against making a 'fast forward to next theater' feature a Gold subscriber perk. I understand if they want to keep the chronology clear between various events, but most gold members will have experienced the content at least once and can just assume their current character has witnessed the appropriate events. Gives heavily invested players an incentive to pony up, but leaves everything still available for pay-as-you-wish players.
"Hi, kids, guess what? We are going to set a cap on how much dilithium ore you can refine in one day AND that cap is going to be set so low that it will take you for freaking ever to get anything of value. On top of that, we are going to so severely limit your ability to earn dilithium ore that it is highly unlikely that you will ever earn enough of it to even meet that daily cap! Doesn't that sound like fun?"
Currently we can completely out fit a ship in mk XI gear or exploration gear in a day. If anything remotely near these prices goes live we wont be able to do it in a month. And im not going to play Star trek the grind wars. I already did SWG the grind wars part 1 long ago.
And generally when you "refine" something you end up with less finished product then the raw amount you started with. So if they change the ratio to 1:3 they need to change the naming of the "refining" to something else.
More i test this stuff the more it seems to be poorly thought out and way over rushed. The doff system a lone could use a LOT of work. ATM this seems more geared to making people buy cstore points for DoFF and dilithum stuff then anything.
Cryptic you know better and us players expect better from you, time for everyone there to take a hard look at what your planning and the contriversy its creating even with most of your harden fans.
While this is true in terms of mass alone, the refined product is often many times more valuable than the ore. A couple of pounds of refined material can be worth over a thousand times the price of a single ton of ore.
Would be a fair compromise to getting gear quickly and long term. You could get green gear fast 1-2 days for full ship at max rank, and say a week or 2 for top end gear at max rank. Id say leave getting full rares below max rank at 1-2 days just because those will only be used basicly while leveling. Shame to have to invest weeks of effort into low tier equipment thats religated to oblivion once you rank up.
I don't so much mind them as dailys. I usually store them up on holodeck and complete them with a xp boost active. So I kinda do them as dailys live anyway.
please give back aid planet reward too.