Thank you for restoring the Excellsor back to it original default. The main reason I purchased the ship is for it's transwarp capabilities. This lessons the amount of time moving between sector space. Again thank you.:)
When you enter a map you will be prompted to spend your skill points.
If you do not spend your skill points you will be prompted on every single map to do so.
I have spent my skill points and yet I still get prompted on every. single. map. Other than that I quite like the changes so far, looking forward to what comes next
* When a player logs in for the first time during a dilithium refining day and they have dilithium ore, it will refine all ore up to the maximum possible since the last time they refined ore.
o For example, a player logs in on Monday and manually refines 2500 ore. They next log in on Thursday and we automatically refine 21500 ore
+ 5500 for Monday, and 8000 each for Tuesday and Wednesday.
and restoring the Excelsior back to the way it was is brilliant! This is a prime example of Cryptic listening to our opinions.
I just got promoted to Researcher in the science category and the Caitian officer popped up and said I would be rewarded with a green doff but I wasn't. I checked the logs and they agree. I don't know if this is a bug or if they just haven't gotten that far with the programming and integrating the doff system yet. Just wanted to point that out.
It is now unfortumenately possible to have 100 unuseable pionts remaining with the Skill tree revamp, and thus keep my previously LG character from being an LG again. She is now an MG that can't spend the 100 points left...
It is now unfortumenately possible to have 100 unuseable pionts remaining with the Skill tree revamp, and thus keep my previously LG character from being an LG again. She is now an MG that can't spend the 100 points left...
They raised the skill points by 50. You have to do a mission or DOFF assignment to make up the difference.
I have a feeling that when they add in the ground skill stuff, I might as well play all my missions on hard. Except for the occasional torpedo spread, I'm wiping the floor with everything. I am a RA tactical officer on Tribble, but still....
With each and every patch, this game gets farther and farther from the Star Trek franchise and the STO game itself that I came to love. Don't get me wrong, there have been some baby steps taken in the right direction, but they don't even come close to cancelling out the Olympic Games Record-breaking Long Jumps that have been taken in the wrong direction. I would say that I feel disappointed or underwhelmed but these words so ill-fit my current sentiments that they almost make me feel like I'm giving positive feedback on the changes. I keep looking at the calendar and hoping to see that it is actually April 1st and this has all been a very bad April Fool's joke, but its not.
and restoring the Excelsior back to the way it was is brilliant! This is a prime example of Cryptic listening to our opinions.
wrong, wrong, and more wrong. Apparently they did not listen to us "minority" who wanted the "nerf" to stay.
Since you can no longer buy the Excelsior for "free" (without resorting to the dilithium exchange), the Excelsior has become way overpowered, with its +1 turn rate (with engine power set to 30, I got a 15.1 turn, that's -1 the base turn of an escort!). I seriously have no idea what ya'll were thinking when you thought that only "losing" an eng console slot was unsuitable. Now you can put 4 eng console slots back in there. For all the b***** you people do about F2P you sure love promoting what has obviously become a Pay2Win cruiser...
(I didn't mention btw, that they are going to do something about the Excelsior to rebalance it but they dialed it back to what it was so they could back to the drawing board with it).
wrong, wrong, and more wrong. Apparently they did not listen to us "minority" who wanted the "nerf" to stay.
Since you can no longer buy the Excelsior for "free" (without resorting to the dilithium exchange), the Excelsior has become way overpowered, with its +1 turn rate (with engine power set to 30, I got a 15.1 turn, that's -1 the base turn of an escort!). I seriously have no idea what ya'll were thinking when you thought that only "losing" an eng console slot was unsuitable. Now you can put 4 eng console slots back in there. For all the b***** you people do about F2P you sure love promoting what has obviously become a Pay2Win cruiser...
(I didn't mention btw, that they are going to do something about the Excelsior to rebalance it but they dialed it back to what it was so they could back to the drawing board with it).
So basically you're complaining about nothing. Congrats. I don't PvP, so I don't care about PvP issues. I also don't care that I had to buy the Excelsior. I've owned it since they released it. I'm a ship collector. All I know is that there was a large section of the player base who really hated what they did with the Excelsior, and that there were a lot of people feeling that Cryptic wasn't listening to player feedback about the F2P changes. Hence my response.
Since you can no longer buy the Excelsior for "free" (without resorting to the dilithium exchange), the Excelsior has become way overpowered, with its +1 turn rate (with engine power set to 30, I got a 15.1 turn, that's -1 the base turn of an escort!). I seriously have no idea what ya'll were thinking when you thought that only "losing" an eng console slot was unsuitable. Now you can put 4 eng console slots back in there. For all the b***** you people do about F2P you sure love promoting what has obviously become a Pay2Win cruiser...
(I didn't mention btw, that they are going to do something about the Excelsior to rebalance it but they dialed it back to what it was so they could back to the drawing board with it).
The only Excel that's "free" is the Tier 3 one, which you only use for 10 levels and then becomes meaningless. As a long time user of the Tier 5 Excelsior I can tell you this. It's certainly not a "pay to win" cruiser and the extra degree of turn rate can hardly be noticed. Base 6 for Galaxy classes, 7 for Sovereign and Stars and 8 for the Excel. Even science ships blow this away, let alone escorts. This seems like complaining just for the sake of it to me.
You can't please everyone but a lot more people seem happy with reverting the Excel back to form than hate it. And that's about the best result you can hope for.
The amount updates you guys are releasing is quite remarkable. Clearly you are all working tremendously hard! Well done.
Thanks for fixing the Excelsior and reverting it back to Holodeck features. Getting unique Transwarp icons is a nice bit of polish. Thanks again!
The DOff System continues to impress. A Brig, Passenger Tab, Cargo Bay... Nice, nice, nice.
Wouldn't it be neat if those DOFFs actually appeared in your ship interior in those areas? (For example, you walk into sick bay, and a subset of your DOFFs currently in sick bay would be shown in the beds.) A technological leap would be required, I know - but it sure would be cool.
The only Excel that's "free" is the Tier 3 one, which you only use for 10 levels and then becomes meaningless. As a long time user of the Tier 5 Excelsior I can tell you this. It's certainly not a "pay to win" cruiser and the extra degree of turn rate can hardly be noticed. Base 6 for Galaxy classes, 7 for Sovereign and Stars and 8 for the Excel. Even science ships blow this away, let alone escorts. This seems like complaining just for the sake of it to me.
You can't please everyone but a lot more people seem happy with reverting the Excel back to form than hate it. And that's about the best result you can hope for.
When did Tier 5 Excelsior become unavailable for emblems? AFAIK that's still "free" in the sense that you are not forced to pay C-points to get it. However in F2P, it is only available for C-points (which if you wish I suppose you could wait 4 months to accumulate your stipend points or try to exchange for dilithium, which at current rates will actually take longer than 4 mo to trade dil for 1600CP).
Why do you think people keep trying to petition for +1 turn to Sov? Because they know once T5 Excel can not be gotten by just grinding emblems (especially for people who got the 250 emblem reward before Cryptic yanked that too), it becomes better than Sov - not to mention the more usefulness of the ltcdr tac slot (as opposed to ens+lt). If Cryptic isn't going to grant +1 to Sov then there is no reason to complain when they nerf Excel to bring it inline with other T5 cruisers. What do you think is worth more? +1 turn (bigger advantage) or 1 console slot that you already have 3 of?
So basically you're complaining about nothing. Congrats. I don't PvP, so I don't care about PvP issues. I also don't care that I had to buy the Excelsior. I've owned it since they released it. I'm a ship collector. All I know is that there was a large section of the player base who really hated what they did with the Excelsior, and that there were a lot of people feeling that Cryptic wasn't listening to player feedback about the F2P changes. Hence my response.
Using "I don't PVP so I don't care" as an argument is equivalent to Cryptic not listening to the other half of the playerbase. Same attitude if you ask me. You want to actually try to make the game work? How about leading by example instead of saying "well I don't do [insert activity] in the game so everyone who does doesn't deserve the same attention as me"
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I have spent my skill points and yet I still get prompted on every. single. map. Other than that I quite like the changes so far, looking forward to what comes next
Dilithium refinement changes for gold players:
* When a player logs in for the first time during a dilithium refining day and they have dilithium ore, it will refine all ore up to the maximum possible since the last time they refined ore.
o For example, a player logs in on Monday and manually refines 2500 ore. They next log in on Thursday and we automatically refine 21500 ore
+ 5500 for Monday, and 8000 each for Tuesday and Wednesday.
and restoring the Excelsior back to the way it was is brilliant! This is a prime example of Cryptic listening to our opinions.
They raised the skill points by 50. You have to do a mission or DOFF assignment to make up the difference.
I have a feeling that when they add in the ground skill stuff, I might as well play all my missions on hard. Except for the occasional torpedo spread, I'm wiping the floor with everything. I am a RA tactical officer on Tribble, but still....
wrong, wrong, and more wrong. Apparently they did not listen to us "minority" who wanted the "nerf" to stay.
Since you can no longer buy the Excelsior for "free" (without resorting to the dilithium exchange), the Excelsior has become way overpowered, with its +1 turn rate (with engine power set to 30, I got a 15.1 turn, that's -1 the base turn of an escort!). I seriously have no idea what ya'll were thinking when you thought that only "losing" an eng console slot was unsuitable. Now you can put 4 eng console slots back in there. For all the b***** you people do about F2P you sure love promoting what has obviously become a Pay2Win cruiser...
(I didn't mention btw, that they are going to do something about the Excelsior to rebalance it but they dialed it back to what it was so they could back to the drawing board with it).
I was very happy to see this fix !
One thing, the windows get screwed up when you mixed parts. Can this be fixed too please?
Any idea when this fix will make it to holodeck ?
So basically you're complaining about nothing. Congrats. I don't PvP, so I don't care about PvP issues. I also don't care that I had to buy the Excelsior. I've owned it since they released it. I'm a ship collector. All I know is that there was a large section of the player base who really hated what they did with the Excelsior, and that there were a lot of people feeling that Cryptic wasn't listening to player feedback about the F2P changes. Hence my response.
The only Excel that's "free" is the Tier 3 one, which you only use for 10 levels and then becomes meaningless. As a long time user of the Tier 5 Excelsior I can tell you this. It's certainly not a "pay to win" cruiser and the extra degree of turn rate can hardly be noticed. Base 6 for Galaxy classes, 7 for Sovereign and Stars and 8 for the Excel. Even science ships blow this away, let alone escorts. This seems like complaining just for the sake of it to me.
You can't please everyone but a lot more people seem happy with reverting the Excel back to form than hate it. And that's about the best result you can hope for.
Wouldn't it be neat if those DOFFs actually appeared in your ship interior in those areas? (For example, you walk into sick bay, and a subset of your DOFFs currently in sick bay would be shown in the beds.) A technological leap would be required, I know - but it sure would be cool.
When did Tier 5 Excelsior become unavailable for emblems? AFAIK that's still "free" in the sense that you are not forced to pay C-points to get it. However in F2P, it is only available for C-points (which if you wish I suppose you could wait 4 months to accumulate your stipend points or try to exchange for dilithium, which at current rates will actually take longer than 4 mo to trade dil for 1600CP).
Why do you think people keep trying to petition for +1 turn to Sov? Because they know once T5 Excel can not be gotten by just grinding emblems (especially for people who got the 250 emblem reward before Cryptic yanked that too), it becomes better than Sov - not to mention the more usefulness of the ltcdr tac slot (as opposed to ens+lt). If Cryptic isn't going to grant +1 to Sov then there is no reason to complain when they nerf Excel to bring it inline with other T5 cruisers. What do you think is worth more? +1 turn (bigger advantage) or 1 console slot that you already have 3 of?
Using "I don't PVP so I don't care" as an argument is equivalent to Cryptic not listening to the other half of the playerbase. Same attitude if you ask me. You want to actually try to make the game work? How about leading by example instead of saying "well I don't do [insert activity] in the game so everyone who does doesn't deserve the same attention as me"
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alltho, looks like a really big bug fix overall, u guys should keep up the bug fixing, don't bring new content without improving the game much further