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vkfphoenixlord
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Good afternoon. Was wondering what the 1000 day Veteran Reward is/going to be? Any help is appreciated.:)
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http://sto.perfectworld.com/community/veteran-rewards
A starship variant (most likely cosmetic)
A free starship slot (For those of you that just HAVE to collect them all)
An exclusive Forum Title
Cryptic and PWE, please note that these types of rewards do NOT encourage people to shell out 300 USD for a lifetime membership, or the equivalent of $0.50 daily in monthly membership fees.
Please find better ways to reward your Gold members than with beads and trinkets. This is not Manhattan and we are not naieve natives that you can fool forever.
Some possibilities for Gold member rewards, since I believe anyone who denegrates a system should have an idea how it can be fixed:
GOLD Master Keys - one free per month to all Gold Members - allows you to open 10 lockboxes of your choice.
Latinum Series Master Keys - available only to Gold members with 500 days or more - allows you to open any number of lockboxs of a particular series (Each series key sold seperately) - available for the price of a 10 pack of regular keys in the Z Store
Latinum Master Key - K Series - A reward at 1000 days - Bound to Account, so it can be traded across characters - Allows unlimited opening of all lockboxes released up to and including the 1000 day mark of the game. (This means that the K1 series released with the 1000 day rewards would open Cardassian, Ferengi, and Tholian Lockboxes.)
The Latinum Series Keys are purchaseable, but the Gold and K Series keys are not.
The Gold Keys have a limited use, but neither of the Latinum Keys do (They are permanent keys)
If you were to implement this in some form, you would ensure that your PAYING MEMBERS would be the ones actually grabbing lockboxes in the hopes of winning the top prizes.
Do as you will, but realize that the longer that these Veteran rewards are left as purely Cosmetic, the fewer new subscribers you will attract.
Sony does it with DCUO. If I could get some of the people I enjoy playing with in there, I would buy a lifetime sub for that reason specifically.
NO!!! You mustn't! It'll kill a lot of people and force a rather important person to survive by gnawing his arm off!
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Oh those darn Vogons... ;-) Their poetry is something to behold.
Why on earth would they give out stuff each month that costs more in the c-store than a 1-month subscription?
LTS, here since...when did this game launch again?
I certainly hope not. We have enough problems without "those people" messing around in our affairs.
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The Wells would be an awesome ship to have for the 1,000 Day Vet Reward. It would be the first time int he history of Veteran Rewards that Cryptic actually gave the playerbase something that they actually want.
And those lockboxes have a rarer drop rate and they are bind on pickup. Which is why I said at the current drop rate. I can purchase 1000 lockboxes for very cheap in this game without doing anything. For STO to do this, then the drop rate would have to be 1 or 2 every day or whatever DCUO's drop rate is and Bind on Pickup.
The most recent dev comment (32:30 from Salami Inferno Priority One #88 in July 2012) was they have no plans (keep in mind -- things can always change) to expand it beyond 1000 days. That doesn't mean gold subscribers won't get goodies, they just won't be time-gated -- for example, getting an invite to closed beta for Neverwinter for LTS.
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Though still odd we can't have old ships or have the Enterprise-J in the game, but it's okay to have 29th Century ships flying around 400 years in the past.
Talk to CBS for the old ships and the Ent J CBS is the one who said no to a Ent J not cryptic
and im glad they did say no
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Actually, according to Dan Stahl (get out your salt shaker), the J got nixed because its literally the size of ESD.
Now THAT would be a cause to go gold!
Of course, it might be possible that these ships are based on designs that the Department of Temporal Investigations and their KDF counterpart took on the Wells and Korath ships. So there will be some minor improvements that these ships have, but nowhere near what a ship 400 years in the future would have compared to present day starships.
Of course, it is more likely that these are npc models for a future time travel mission or a mission that has been scrapped and we will never see it. I have no idea what the 1000 day veteran reward ship will look like, but since it says starship variant, then chances are that it will be a retrofit.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=179670
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As I recall, CBS only said "no" to the Enterprise-J if it's less than two miles long. Cryptic is the one who said they had to make it smaller for gameplay.
I think it could be a hub. It couldn't be a ship because CBS wouldn't allow it to be downsized for gameplay reasons and Cryptic can't support a ship that is 5 times the Odyssey's size.
That's what Dan said. They agreed they wouldn't be making it "as envisioned." CBS said, "Make it as envisioned or don't put it in."