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Season 7 Dev Blog #40
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Lead Content Designer Scott "Goatshark" Shicoff shares details about the fourteenth Starbase Featured Project in this entry of the Season 7 News Dev Blog series.
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Really wish we'd get featured projects that allows the customization of the LOWER decks. "Ops" is looking more like a crew lounge (FED) rather than an actual OPerationS Center.
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I like the decor projects, but asking anyone to spend 20,000 dil on any one project is asking a lot. With a limit of 8000 Dilithium refined a day... and 480/Dilithium an hour as the average, means that a single person working on this project will take 41 hours, stretched over a period of a month or more given the average persons playtime being 1-3 hours.
All in all this equates to too high an expense for questionable content.
Give us stuff we can earn in a few days, not over a month of play. Give us stuff that does something for us... not content we have to grind repeatedly to earn minor bonuses and equipment that used to be free...
Develop don't rinse repeat reuse... we are gamers not recyclers.
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They're giving us what the other faction already has, only fair.
Make Friends problem solved.
Ha Ha Ha, Lead "Content" Designer,money for old rope more like
What does this do?
It doesn't remove the overall cost of Starbase and Embassy dilithium cost.
Even larger fleets avoid these 200k dil projects in favor of the 1 million dil Embassy T2 upgrade.
Considering these projects are nothing but aesthetics. My fleet actively avoids these projects, not based off our members count. We base it off we'd rather our members put dil into projects they can get something useful in return.
However the counterpoint to requesting the lowered cost is "Do fleets who have done this get a refund?". I would say yes, considering you can physically see how many projects are completed.
Here's how
Add a contact on the Starbase and Embassy, have them have the total dil refunded stored there. When you speak to the contact, that contact gives you a popup. You can then click "Fill active projects". The contact then automatically adds the dil in his storage to your current projects waiting to be filled. Just keep using the contact till his storage is empty, contact remains. Can be used in the future if Devs decide to alter Starbase related cost. Add a conversion table if needed to replace other input changes done.
I'm not a programmer, but the tech doesn't appear to be that hard to implement. It would benefit large and small fleets as a whole.
He is saying its hard to do alone, and if you're in a fleet alone then the price is not your problem.
It's simply an idea, my fleet found a solution to the high cost with low return. We just don't do them, as they are not needed to play.
Can you point out where my idea is bad and how it would destroy the game?
A fleet of 25 who actively contribute can go pretty far. As opposed to a fleet of 150 who rarely anyone is willing to contribute dilithium.
It cost a lot of cash but a single person whose willing to buy the dilithium can in fact do it alone.
That's my point if you're doing it alone, which the system was not meant for, expecting the price to be lowered because he decided to to go it alone is not going to happen.
Let me expand my thoughts on the idea from my point of view.
It's meant to be solely a method to refund fleets as a whole. Players cannot add to the storage. (closing the extorting loophole)
Example if cosmetic projects were to be cut in half to 100k. The "bank" would gain 100k per completed project.
Fleet captains would not be able to obtain the refunded materials for personal use. Only redirect recovered dilithium into other projects.
The system doesn't exist, hence why in my original post with the idea I mention adding the tech.
I'm personally not expecting the price to be lowered. Just saying it would be nice
Allow T5 bases to be persistent on the map, allow other people to visit them, maybe add public stores etc.
Give a reason to buy all those cosmetic special projects.
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2. WHADAYA MEAN FEDS GET BETTER LOOKING BANNERS!!?!?!?! :mad:
As said above, Klingons aren't really the type to display old clothes. Would've made more sense if they were busts of Heroes of the Empire or holograms of ships or weapons.
Another project, ill pass. Unless small starbases get a massive discount.
But I noticed on the Klingon TOS Uniform, it has the baldric that goes over the shoulder as per TOS. But how come players don't get that option to have it over their right shoulder?
BTW, that's not the TOS Baldric. You have the TOS Baldric under "Warrior's Sash" that players got for the 25th Anniversary. Worf wore the sash on his right shoulder (which is what the model is based off), but Kor, Kang, and Koloth wore theirs over their left shoulder.
DELTA PRICE RISING
Oh yeah - trees. Flower pots. Perhaps you can grab the puddle from SFA or Bajor and just slap it in there somewhere.
/ffs...
Come back in May, apparently. Frankly that's what about 75% of my fleet seems to be doing as we speak.
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Seriously, I hate to say this, but this is.... poor.