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andrew1707
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I believe that the number of ship and account slots that can be purchased should be expanded. I understand about additional space on the servers, but many new items have been added to the game, and it would be good to keep them all. The number of maximum Bridge Crew is very high. What do you think?
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My KDF Tac. has damn near every ship available (T4+ anyway) and still has plenty of extra space IF I decide to buy any more.
I suppose for Fed there are 3 or 4 times as many, but unless you decide "I must have all the ships!" I don't imagine this being a problem.
I can't realistically see anybody ever getting more than 25 ships, unless they get & keep all of the lower tier ones...
The day will not save them. And we own the night.
When the "unlimited" was changed down to 28, the explaination given was that part of the problem with the game lacking, was because with no limtations, and the fact that all propeties associated with you are loaded into each map with you.
That means to properly be able to assign enough resources to each instance, they had to be able to calculate the max load on each of them.
Also... you don't need 28 ship slots, 28 BO slots, 28 Uniform slots yada yada yada... Really... You don't.
I don't support the F2P idea, so...
If people want it enough and Cryptic can manage it all, than so be it IMHO.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
The only problem I have with F2P is the people who don't play it properly. i.e. the ones who add to the server load for a few days till they get bored, never really contributing. And the increasing number of players who just cruise through and never quite get up to standard (gear & skill wise), who hinder PUGd stuff.
Other than that, F2P has saved the game from dying off, and resulted in much, much more content for us paying folk.
So, just out of curiosity, which would you prefer? STO with F2P, or no STO ?
The day will not save them. And we own the night.
I am not going into a F2P pro-con argument, as it's a simple matter of diffrence of opinion and we would never be done... You wan't to derail the thread, fine, go ahead...
But I am here to talk about why there can't at this time be more whatever-slots, and why I support that decision, not about the status of F2P.
The only things loading into the map with you should be the things you can see when you open the character sheet and personal inventory. But I understand that Cryptic got it all wrong.
This is all based on me remembering correctly, but I remember having the exact same thoughts when i originally read it.
Which was why another MMO added separate processes to the game to deal with those issues, only for it to eat up more memory on your HD.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
Well it dosen't have to... There are plenty of software that can load and unload data-arrays on demand, and then clear them out of ongoing process as needed.
I strongly disagree.
What left STO in a sorry state before PWE sunk their hooks into it, was the lack of funding Cryptic recieved from Atari to develop the game.
Atari which was facing bankruptcy was pretty much sucking up virtually every penny for themselves.
PWE saved STO yes, but not because it went F2P.
tbh the inventory system of this game is archaic at best.
there are only two reasons you are limited to barely anything in your inventory atm.
Firstly, cryptic cant code for **** thus they will have the aforementioned problems loading EVERYTHING up when you do if everyone has sizable quantity's of items.
Secondly, due to the amount of items in game and the instilled want to be able to have extra sets of items for trying different things for differnt situations not to mention the other currency's you need to keep with you and stuff you want to sell, they know that alot of people are going to feel the burn to purchase more inventory space netting them a sizable amount of cash from folks trying to fulfill a basic need.
all in all it wouldn't be hard to implement an inventory system allowing you to have as much as you want but it would mean going into some god awful scary and fragile code liable to break other parts of the game and i don't think cryptic employees are willing to quite draw straws on that or they already attempted and someone had a heart attack after looking at the code.
City of Heroes segregated characters by server though. Not an apples to apples comparison.
So you have no point. Cryptic planned for expansions of character slots in this game as well.
Unless the amount is "unlimited" there will always be people who want more. Up until now, at least, the industry standard solution has been to say "get another account." (Yes, this requires buying a whole new set of account unlocks. I don't think Cryptic minds.)
That's not correct. There are technical limitations as to the what amount of data is feasible to keep, load and move around on a per-character basis. While it's correct to say that those limitations were "chosen" when the initial implementation was made, there's very little choice involved three years down the line. Short of drastically changing the data model, there may not be any available room for expansion.
Yeah, you kinda do. There's a long-standing bug where discharging a ship causes ALL stations and ALL traybars of ALL your ships to become thoroughly messed up! (Likely because trays/station are done per ship-slot, not the actual ship). This has never been fixed; presumably on purpose (as PWE rather has you buy additional ship slots than be economical with the ones you already have).
So, unless they fix the bug, increasing the ship limit may indeed be called for.