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Giveaway Ships Claim Change

silence1311silence1311 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited August 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Right, so I have a KDF Character who is level 22 and have no other characters (KDF) who are level 40. It seems that I can't claim my Marauder because my rank is not high enough. That means that I have to level up 18 Levels before Monday....And I am away on the weekend because of a trip. Is there no way for this to be claimable by and other means apart from leveling? I have a FED who is level 50 and I really don't want to miss out on this great giveaway but it looks like I will. :(
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  • rmy1081rmy1081 Member Posts: 2,840 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    silence1311 wrote: »
    Right, so I have a KDF Character who is level 22 and have no other characters (KDF) who are level 40. It seems that I can't claim my Marauder because my rank is not high enough. That means that I have to level up 18 Levels before Monday....And I am away on the weekend because of a trip. Is there no way for this to be claimable by and other means apart from leveling? I have a FED who is level 50 and I really don't want to miss out on this great giveaway but it looks like I will. :(

    Its possible to level to 40 on your kdf toon..but you'll have to devote most of the day to leveling and nothing else. If there's a Mirror event within the ship window I'd try to get in on that...you can get 5 levels easy in that. Good luck :)
  • sirokksirokk Member Posts: 990 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Same here. Level 22 Klingon. Family, Obligations, etc. Oh, well... Life goes on. :)
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Pattern suggests that something similar will come around eventually.
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited August 2013
    Just wanted to pop in and mention that the claiming period for the Day 5 giveaways is a bit longer -- you have until this Monday (8/19/13) at 10AM PDT to claim the ships. Hopefully you can level up over the weekend to claim them.

    These ships are the same as they were yesterday, just at a 100% discount during the Day 5 promotional period. Ships have always required players to be at the minimum rank to be purchased to ensure that they are not accidentally purchased when they can not be used at the time of purchase.

    Hope you're able to level up and claim these awesome ships!

    Cheers,

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  • alikainalikain Member Posts: 348 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I have to say I don't like rushing my gameplay. Couldn't you guy make it in a such a way that one can claim it but not able to use until the right rank. Ah well I think I have to pass on this one. Anyway thanks for the gifts.
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  • vocmcpvocmcp Member Posts: 1,134 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    silence1311 wrote: »
    Right, so I have a KDF Character who is level 22 and have no other characters (KDF) who are level 40. It seems that I can't claim my Marauder because my rank is not high enough. That means that I have to level up 18 Levels before Monday....And I am away on the weekend because of a trip. Is there no way for this to be claimable by and other means apart from leveling? I have a FED who is level 50 and I really don't want to miss out on this great giveaway but it looks like I will. :(

    Do the Mirror invasion events! Doing so, and with a bit of luck you can get around 4-5 levels within an hour. If you have equip doff's for bonus skill points (some consultants do that). As for doffing there are also some kdf doff missions that reward around 3000-4000 skill points upon completion. I found mine in Omega Leonis and Eta Eridani. I had the same issue you are facing. Using this method I got my Klingon from 24 to 50 in around 4 days. Just by doing Mirror Invasions and doffing. That's around 1-2 hours a day.
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  • tc10btc10b Member Posts: 1,549 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    To answer your question. No there is no other way, you need at least one character of the correct level to claim it. 22-40 isn't that much of a stretch especially if you get XP boosters from the Exchange and you run Mirror.
    You could even get some of your level 50 friends to help you out running story missions and such in order to gain XP.
  • jengozjengoz Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    need to level in a weekend?

    Maybe a six pack of redbull will help.
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  • eldarion79eldarion79 Member Posts: 1,679 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    jengoz wrote: »
    need to level in a weekend?

    Maybe a six pack of redbull will help.

    I would say two of them, a pack of xp boosts, and doffs will do it for ya. If you all remember that quote and then what happened soon afterwards, no wonder why we would even believe a word about anything that comes from cryptic.
  • erasmuskravenerasmuskraven Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    vocmcp wrote: »
    Do the Mirror invasion events! Doing so, and with a bit of luck you can get around 4-5 levels within an hour. If you have equip doff's for bonus skill points (some consultants do that). As for doffing there are also some kdf doff missions that reward around 3000-4000 skill points upon completion. I found mine in Omega Leonis and Eta Eridani. I had the same issue you are facing. Using this method I got my Klingon from 24 to 50 in around 4 days. Just by doing Mirror Invasions and doffing. That's around 1-2 hours a day.

    Totally agree.
  • jetwtfjetwtf Member Posts: 1,207
    edited August 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »

    These ships are the same as they were yesterday, just at a 100% discount during the Day 5 promotional period. Ships have always required players to be at the minimum rank to be purchased to ensure that they are not accidentally purchased when they can not be used at the time of purchase.

    Hope you're able to level up and claim these awesome ships!

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    During events like this the level requirement for the free ships should be set to T1 ship requirements to claim. This would be good for cryptic because someone might roll a toon for that faction for the first time when the faction is announced knowing they will get a ship for when they hit that level. This provides them the comfort of leveling the toon at a slower pace to enjoy the content. longer play increases the chance they will buy stuff for it.

    And even better would be to remove the faction requirement for the free items as well. That will increase the chance someone who plays one faction only to actualy roll another faction at a later date even if they dont do it during the event.
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  • shadokittyshadokitty Member Posts: 131 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I want the Nebula. Looks like I know what I'm doing this weekend, as my Fed is only Commander.
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Why waste your time power-leveling for a ship you probably wont' even like - or can get via Dilithium grinding at any later time? Just enjoy the content ride of leveling your Klingon and leave it at that.

    The same goes for guys wanting to power-level Feds. :)
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  • felderburgfelderburg Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    alikain wrote: »
    Couldn't you guy make it in a such a way that one can claim it but not able to use until the right rank.

    I'm in the same situation Klingon side, and I have to say that this would be nice. When I claim items on my level 50 Fed, my lower level Feds simply aren't able to claim the vessel. So there's clearly a way to activate things for an account but not a character.

    Or perhaps allow Romulans to "claim" the vessel too? My Romulan is sort of a 50 KDF, why not just allow him to click claim in the C Store, and when my Klingon levels up she can grab it?
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Being as the C Store has worked like this since Always, I would think players would have realized when Cryptic was going to give free items from the store you had to be a certain level to get certain items , as it's always been like that even when things cost Zen.

    I don't get why some people are acting shocked as if it's never been like that.

    All Cryptic did was change the price of the items
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  • topsettopset Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    alikain wrote: »
    I have to say I don't like rushing my gameplay. Couldn't you guy make it in a such a way that one can claim it but not able to use until the right rank. Ah well I think I have to pass on this one. Anyway thanks for the gifts.

    Are you completely serious? You don't want to get to L40 in 5 days? That's rushing to you?

    Just create a brand new character, rush through to L40 in what, 12 hours, claim everything, be done with it.

    Go back to the pitifully slow levelling of your other character.
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  • sunseahlsunseahl Member Posts: 827 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    alikain wrote: »
    I have to say I don't like rushing my gameplay. Couldn't you guy make it in a such a way that one can claim it but not able to use until the right rank. Ah well I think I have to pass on this one. Anyway thanks for the gifts.
    jetwtf wrote: »
    During events like this the level requirement for the free ships should be set to T1 ship requirements to claim. This would be good for cryptic because someone might roll a toon for that faction for the first time when the faction is announced knowing they will get a ship for when they hit that level. This provides them the comfort of leveling the toon at a slower pace to enjoy the content. longer play increases the chance they will buy stuff for it.

    And even better would be to remove the faction requirement for the free items as well. That will increase the chance someone who plays one faction only to actually roll another faction at a later date even if they don't do it during the event.

    This is completely possible as they already set claim requirements on ships anyway.


    topset wrote: »
    Are you completely serious? You don't want to get to L40 in 5 days? That's rushing to you?

    Just create a brand new character, rush through to L40 in what, 12 hours, claim everything, be done with it.

    Go back to the pitifully slow levelling of your other character.

    Someone's definitely a Trekker(mirror universe Trekkie) up in here... Talking about insta-grinding missions when most of us want a story... Not a grind.
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    drowrulesupreme wrote: »
    We don't want what the Feds have. We want the equivalent. We want fairer treatment. Concern, desire, greed to some extent, and passionate belief that the enough people would buy KDF items to make it worth Cryptic's while.
  • tc10btc10b Member Posts: 1,549 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    sunseahl wrote: »
    Someone's definitely a Trekker(mirror universe Trekkie) up in here... Talking about insta-grinding missions when most of us want a story... Not a grind.

    Doing the story missions can net you levels pretty quickly. You almost forget about the grind aspect and you level quite quickly too. Granted not as quick as bonus xp events, but it's still quick and fun.
  • sunseahlsunseahl Member Posts: 827 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I think you misunderstand what i meant....

    Sometimes those missions are dialogue heavy... and because of that they can take longer just by all the reading... THAT is what i meant... there;s a difference between "F"-ing your way through a mission as quickly as possible and sitting back to take in what's going on... there's some pretty damn good story going on in some missions.
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    drowrulesupreme wrote: »
    We don't want what the Feds have. We want the equivalent. We want fairer treatment. Concern, desire, greed to some extent, and passionate belief that the enough people would buy KDF items to make it worth Cryptic's while.
  • wobblesidewobbleside Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I pretty much agree. I had a level 50 Romulan and 21 Fed when this kicked off. I'm a pretty new player.. I grinded hard (despite not having a day off since the give away was announced) but missed out on the KDF stuff.. and I was wanting to make my next toon a KDF one.
    :(
  • jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    You can pop 10 levels in about 1.5hrs easy
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  • kyeto13kyeto13 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    Why waste your time power-leveling for a ship you probably wont' even like - or can get via Dilithium grinding at any later time? Just enjoy the content ride of leveling your Klingon and leave it at that.

    The same goes for guys wanting to power-level Feds. :)

    Agree Cosmic. My new KDF is only level 18. But I'm not going to lose sleep over it. It's not a ship I want to fly and the console is meh. I literally got the Fed ships for holding gear and nothing else.
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  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    kyeto13 wrote: »
    Agree Cosmic. My new KDF is only level 18. But I'm not going to lose sleep over it. It's not a ship I want to fly and the console is meh. I literally got the Fed ships for holding gear and nothing else.

    The marauder doesn't have a console, it has "unique" fighters that are meh.

    I say "unique" in quotes because they're not really that different from the boarding party boff power.

    Edit: That said, I do find the flight-deck carriers to be my favorite style of cruiser. Plus, there are lots of other fighters you can put into this baby.
  • mattachinemattachine Member Posts: 510 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Just wanted to pop in and mention that the claiming period for the Day 5 giveaways is a bit longer -- you have until this Monday (8/19/13) at 10AM PDT to claim the ships. Hopefully you can level up over the weekend to claim them.

    These ships are the same as they were yesterday, just at a 100% discount during the Day 5 promotional period. Ships have always required players to be at the minimum rank to be purchased to ensure that they are not accidentally purchased when they can not be used at the time of purchase.

    Hope you're able to level up and claim these awesome ships!

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    So this extended thing is only about the last ships? Not for instance the day 3 ships?
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  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    The ironic thing being I don't own too much fed stuff was that I overlooked that I didn't own the marauder I just had several of them from VA tokens years ago and that I owned the nebula was just way too weird how that worked out.

    Although I wish they would do another pass on how the marauder looks and possibly even though they said no to doing any future orion/gorn/nausicaan/etc ships they should change that view point unless they plan on reshapeing the story back to the condition of the alliance the federation and the Klingon empire had during the TNG/DS9 era where these current races were mostly never spoken of or when seldom seen or talked about were enemies of on unfriendly terms with both organizations.
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