I'm playing another game in preparation for Season 7. One that actually allows me to play (grind) my own way.
I'm still checking in daily due to fleet matters, but I rarely do any play. For a set of Devs that seems to yak a lot about letting players 'do it their own way,' they have a pretty good game plan for making sure that we all do it the same way. I'll give Season 7 a fair shake when it hits, but until then, I have little time for STO. I will say that on the face of it, the continued grind for dils and higher costs don't look promising.
sto's version is pretty much the same, you're locked out of anything that costs dilithium unless you spend a lot of time grinding...or buy zen and sell it on the exchange. also wanting everyone in fleets, trashing smaller fleets even further, 20x cost on random doffs...(curtails imminent rant) meh no point getting stressed, games are supposed to be fun, not stress, not work. fun
Since when are you locked out when a starbase or reputation projet is updating or you are running out of Dilithium?
You can still play missions , foundry, pvp, stf's, dailys, doffs etc...
And even maxing out 8000 Dilithium per day means you are at least grinding 30 minutes per toon. For me, that's not playing. And nobody needs an starbase or the fancy stuff from STF and reputation.
PVE content is easy and PVP is a joke. It's nice that is there but I hope the dev's don't waste any ressources on it.
If STO should go down with this update. then I really don't care. :-P It's just a game. I invested something like 30? until now and I got enough fun for my money.
Since when are you locked out when a starbase or reputation projet is updating or you are running out of Dilithium?
You can still play missions , foundry, pvp, stf's, dailys, doffs etc...
And even maxing out 8000 Dilithium per day means you are at least grinding 30 minutes per toon. For me, that's not playing. And nobody needs an starbase or the fancy stuff from STF and reputation.
PVE content is easy and PVP is a joke. It's nice that is there but I hope the dev's don't waste any ressources on it.
If STO should go down with this update. then I really don't care. :-P It's just a game. I invested something like 30? until now and I got enough fun for my money.
...you're locked out of anything that costs dilithium...
i didn't say all content. and i would like to know your routine for a 30min grind for 8k dil in season 7...i think all players would. so post that would you? or was it just an exaggeration?
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i didn't say all content. and i would like to know your routine for a 30min grind for 8k dil in season 7...i think all players would. so post that would you? or was it just an exaggeration?
Damn you got me there -.-
With luck 30min was the absolute minimum before Season 7. At least for me. (Doffs, STF, Borg Salvage for Dilithium, Dailys)
Season 8 and the changes to Dilithium pro STF/Drop will change that.
Mmmh
I am grinding full Mark 11 sets in hopes I won't have to cash out, I am preparing for the apocalypse and deciding what gear I will get rid of. This is STO's way of saying, "You didn't build that, we did."
So what is everyone doing for S7? I would suggest cashing out most of your stf gear because this is gonna be STO's "Wall Street Crash". I still can't imagine the lag you will recieve when you go to DS9 to cash out :S
I am grinding full Mark 11 sets in hopes I won't have to cash out, I am preparing for the apocalypse and deciding what gear I will get rid of. This is STO's way of saying, "You didn't build that, we did."
^^
This, as quickly as possible so I can cash out, and opt-out.
all of my ships are in good shape. mk12 across the board, so i am helping out on the base and refining my 8k of dilithium per day.
most of my ships, not all, we borg 3 piece with maco 12 shields. i am converting my ships over to the 3 piece borg set, maco 12 set and i crafted an extra aegis set. i plan to try various sets on my ships to see what works best to get ready for season 7.
since i don't need proto tech anymore i cash all my EDCs, rare and proto tech in for dilithium. i figure you can't go wrong hoarding dilithium.
I'm monitoring the progress on Tribble, hoping that eventually I'll see something that I like. Hopefully, I'll see something sooner or later that will at least compensate for the stuff that I already don't like in Season 7...
Getting drunk with Morn until he tells me to bugger off.
Gonna be there for a while.........
Best Quote so far! I think ill join ya!
I have converted and will convert everything before the change. I dont like the idea that Cryptic will wrap it all up in a box, that i cant touch, till i hit t5.
Whats up with that?? Makes no sense to lock up something that a player has already earned.
With each of the changes through seasons 5-6, changes to the dilithium rewards/costs have always benefited the company and not the player.
Given that anything we save now will be boxed until we reach personal Tier 5, I am converting everything to dilithium before the launch of the season. I will keep a few things simply because I am curious how it will impact the game overall.
One complete Borg set due to it's low cost.
One each of the rare and very rare drops.
I have sold off more sets than I care to remember. It's been a great source of ec/dilithium and has helped fund my addiction. Funny though, my tac toon has generated more drops than all others, yet my sci toon can't seem to get 1 remaining piece (deflector). Maybe the new system will enable me to achieve it in a more reasonable way.
One last point - this should not be called a reputation system. It's a success tax.
EDC becomes Borg Doffs.
Salvage would become ship weapons, but I like the Acc CrtD CrtH modifiers I have and the MK XII weapons arn't much better than what other weapons I currently have, so prolly turning those into Dil.
Tech drops become Dil as well.
I'm never really been concerned about the STF sets. While my Borg set is going away (really? You guys say that the 3 piece bonus was unintended..and yet that's the bonus that it was designed with? That's lame and you guys know it), I've been running MK XII Maco Shields for a while and the rest of the set pieces don't interest me much. I'm planning on hitting the STFs hard this weekend to try to finish some accolades, but all of my stuff is being cashed out before Season 7 hits and we're got photon torpedoes shoved up our warp core manifolds.
Keep doing the missions to get caught up with the others. I'm closing up the gap. Farm crystals for some C store purchases. I still have a Tactical ship I want to do. And possible of buying a newer bigger ship than my Sovereign for my Engineer ship. However I'm still hoping for the Ambassador to come out soon. Since what choices I see isn't really there.
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The last of my borg salvage and tech has been traded in for dilithium.
No more STFs for me for a long, long time, unless I get bored in S7 and decide to grind marks for the Omega reputation.
- All armor drops are put on doff's (after they promised in the blog visuals are finally in)
- Borg space set for all ships
- Converting all EDC's to cash, might decide to get 1 officer I'd have to check the roster
- Everything else goes to dil (all my ships have everything anyway)
- Worked up a list of doff assignment I consider useful, getting the crew for it
- Doing colonization on all characters
- Rolled free klingon shadow alt's on all my characters and unlocked doff'ing on them, going to get the last free packs they have time for. If nothing else they are bankslots for greens.
Albeit for season 7 I plan to become an afk miner only playing doff for dil I buy zen items for.
- (might hoard some doff packs before groundzero)
/edit
Also trying to find info on the romulan set and trying to decide if I should quit if all new content comes through the reputation system
- got rid of all my EDC + STF stuff for Dilithium (gonna need dil for the rep system anyway, and at least i know what i get for it now)
- went to the upgrinder on KDF academy with all my KDF chars and turned every DOff i had up to Purple -> Fed side can get plenty of Purples by just playing the DOff System, KDF is really getting shafted by this 5000 dilithium cost because they don't really have a good alternative.
who the hell is willing to pay 5000 dilithium only to end up with another Purple Bartender anyway?
- trying to get some STF sets + gear completed before the gear is locked away for 2 Months PER CHAR.
although with 11 chars i will never get all the gear anyway... so i only really prepare for the next stage of grind WHERE I CAN'T GET GEAR instantly by doing STFs...
(and if i don't get all the gear i need i just buy Elite Fleet gear instead...)
+ asking myself why every new season comes with a *last chance to do X*-window of opportunity-ish ....kind of thing
Running the dailies from ESD (History 102 and quickie Office Reports) usually every night.
Then running my three main toons on the weekends, doing story missions on two of them. Taking a quick tour over Nukara, Tour the universe, and running the SFA Event, and doing longer dailies on my main Tac toon, for the SB.
Just wonder if you guys are working late tonight to get the next Tribble build out tonight, if you are you're our heros... if not well then you're not :P
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I'm still checking in daily due to fleet matters, but I rarely do any play. For a set of Devs that seems to yak a lot about letting players 'do it their own way,' they have a pretty good game plan for making sure that we all do it the same way. I'll give Season 7 a fair shake when it hits, but until then, I have little time for STO. I will say that on the face of it, the continued grind for dils and higher costs don't look promising.
Since when are you locked out when a starbase or reputation projet is updating or you are running out of Dilithium?
You can still play missions , foundry, pvp, stf's, dailys, doffs etc...
And even maxing out 8000 Dilithium per day means you are at least grinding 30 minutes per toon. For me, that's not playing. And nobody needs an starbase or the fancy stuff from STF and reputation.
PVE content is easy and PVP is a joke. It's nice that is there but I hope the dev's don't waste any ressources on it.
If STO should go down with this update. then I really don't care. :-P It's just a game. I invested something like 30? until now and I got enough fun for my money.
read carefully, i said
i didn't say all content. and i would like to know your routine for a 30min grind for 8k dil in season 7...i think all players would. so post that would you? or was it just an exaggeration?
Donate Brains, zombies in Washington DC are starving.
Damn you got me there -.-
With luck 30min was the absolute minimum before Season 7. At least for me. (Doffs, STF, Borg Salvage for Dilithium, Dailys)
Season 8 and the changes to Dilithium pro STF/Drop will change that.
Mmmh
Obtaining all the Mk XII STF gear I want while it's still reasonably obtainable. Selling any leftover data chips/salvage/tech for dilithium.
Once Season 7 hits, I may stop running STFs altogether.
^^
This, as quickly as possible so I can cash out, and opt-out.
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most of my ships, not all, we borg 3 piece with maco 12 shields. i am converting my ships over to the 3 piece borg set, maco 12 set and i crafted an extra aegis set. i plan to try various sets on my ships to see what works best to get ready for season 7.
since i don't need proto tech anymore i cash all my EDCs, rare and proto tech in for dilithium. i figure you can't go wrong hoarding dilithium.
I'm doing some last STFs to even out my EDCs to a multiple of 10 so I can spend all my STF loot now before it's boxed up and locked away from me.
And I'm simply unable to do anything else except hold on for dear life as we all get sucked down the sink in S7.
Heh, don't you mean 'flushed' ?
Awoken Dead
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Best Quote so far! I think ill join ya!
I have converted and will convert everything before the change. I dont like the idea that Cryptic will wrap it all up in a box, that i cant touch, till i hit t5.
Whats up with that?? Makes no sense to lock up something that a player has already earned.
With each of the changes through seasons 5-6, changes to the dilithium rewards/costs have always benefited the company and not the player.
Given that anything we save now will be boxed until we reach personal Tier 5, I am converting everything to dilithium before the launch of the season. I will keep a few things simply because I am curious how it will impact the game overall.
I have sold off more sets than I care to remember. It's been a great source of ec/dilithium and has helped fund my addiction. Funny though, my tac toon has generated more drops than all others, yet my sci toon can't seem to get 1 remaining piece (deflector). Maybe the new system will enable me to achieve it in a more reasonable way.
One last point - this should not be called a reputation system. It's a success tax.
Admiral Thrax
EDC becomes Borg Doffs.
Salvage would become ship weapons, but I like the Acc CrtD CrtH modifiers I have and the MK XII weapons arn't much better than what other weapons I currently have, so prolly turning those into Dil.
Tech drops become Dil as well.
I'm never really been concerned about the STF sets. While my Borg set is going away (really? You guys say that the 3 piece bonus was unintended..and yet that's the bonus that it was designed with? That's lame and you guys know it), I've been running MK XII Maco Shields for a while and the rest of the set pieces don't interest me much. I'm planning on hitting the STFs hard this weekend to try to finish some accolades, but all of my stuff is being cashed out before Season 7 hits and we're got photon torpedoes shoved up our warp core manifolds.
USS Casinghead NCC 92047 launched 2350
Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
No more STFs for me for a long, long time, unless I get bored in S7 and decide to grind marks for the Omega reputation.
- Borg space set for all ships
- Converting all EDC's to cash, might decide to get 1 officer I'd have to check the roster
- Everything else goes to dil (all my ships have everything anyway)
- Worked up a list of doff assignment I consider useful, getting the crew for it
- Doing colonization on all characters
- Rolled free klingon shadow alt's on all my characters and unlocked doff'ing on them, going to get the last free packs they have time for. If nothing else they are bankslots for greens.
Albeit for season 7 I plan to become an afk miner only playing doff for dil I buy zen items for.
- (might hoard some doff packs before groundzero)
/edit
Also trying to find info on the romulan set and trying to decide if I should quit if all new content comes through the reputation system
- went to the upgrinder on KDF academy with all my KDF chars and turned every DOff i had up to Purple -> Fed side can get plenty of Purples by just playing the DOff System, KDF is really getting shafted by this 5000 dilithium cost because they don't really have a good alternative.
who the hell is willing to pay 5000 dilithium only to end up with another Purple Bartender anyway?
- trying to get some STF sets + gear completed before the gear is locked away for 2 Months PER CHAR.
although with 11 chars i will never get all the gear anyway... so i only really prepare for the next stage of grind WHERE I CAN'T GET GEAR instantly by doing STFs...
(and if i don't get all the gear i need i just buy Elite Fleet gear instead...)
+ asking myself why every new season comes with a *last chance to do X*-window of opportunity-ish ....kind of thing
Running the dailies from ESD (History 102 and quickie Office Reports) usually every night.
Then running my three main toons on the weekends, doing story missions on two of them. Taking a quick tour over Nukara, Tour the universe, and running the SFA Event, and doing longer dailies on my main Tac toon, for the SB.
Just wonder if you guys are working late tonight to get the next Tribble build out tonight, if you are you're our heros... if not well then you're not :P