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cybermudd
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Now that it has been decided that character traits and rep traits can be respec'd on the fly and for free, why not add skill respec to the mix and add a new career change token to the c-store? The reasoning behind this idea are as follows:
1. As a player, I am hesitant to purchase new ships that my character is not spec'd for (i.e. If I am heavily invested in tactical and engineering skills, I am not going to get into a science ship) without considering a respec.
2. The cost of a respec may make players stick with one play style and not deviate because the cost of experimenting is too high.
3. If a player can change skills on the fly, they may be more apt to try new gameplay (i.e. play ground missions a little more often if they can add some points to the ground skills).
4. The new career change token should help make up the lost revenue of the skill respec. Additionally, ship purchases may increase as players can now spec into cruisers, escorts, destroyers, science, etc. without having to pay for a skill respec.
5. Free skill respecs would help alleviate the grind feeling by allowing players to change their tactics (through new BO abilities, ships, and equipment backed up with character spec'd skills) on the same missions they play. It may also help populate pvp queues as player will now be able to spec for pve then switch to pvp for no cost.
I know I am beating a dead horse with a character career change token, but since one of the goals of the new trait revamp is to allow players more flexibility in gameplay and builds, it seemed like a good moment to bring it up again.
1. As a player, I am hesitant to purchase new ships that my character is not spec'd for (i.e. If I am heavily invested in tactical and engineering skills, I am not going to get into a science ship) without considering a respec.
2. The cost of a respec may make players stick with one play style and not deviate because the cost of experimenting is too high.
3. If a player can change skills on the fly, they may be more apt to try new gameplay (i.e. play ground missions a little more often if they can add some points to the ground skills).
4. The new career change token should help make up the lost revenue of the skill respec. Additionally, ship purchases may increase as players can now spec into cruisers, escorts, destroyers, science, etc. without having to pay for a skill respec.
5. Free skill respecs would help alleviate the grind feeling by allowing players to change their tactics (through new BO abilities, ships, and equipment backed up with character spec'd skills) on the same missions they play. It may also help populate pvp queues as player will now be able to spec for pve then switch to pvp for no cost.
I know I am beating a dead horse with a character career change token, but since one of the goals of the new trait revamp is to allow players more flexibility in gameplay and builds, it seemed like a good moment to bring it up again.
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^^This.
So you might see it in STO 2.
Other than that, no. Your career has absolutely zero influence in what your character can fly. Aka a tactical can fly a sci vessel safely, to add damage to the ship class. Just as he would add damage to the tactical vessels (raiders, escorts and destroyers).
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Kinda sounds like an easy bs excuse to me *shrugs* but I wouldn't want "class" change.
I thought WoW's forums had angry elitist snobs, but I never could have imagined the level STO forums has.
The suggestion says nothing about certain classes flying certain ships. The character reclass token is to help offset the lost revenue of making respecs free, which assumes that a lot of tokens are sold. Skill point allocation impacts ship and BO performance greatly.
as a programmer (and not knowing a damn thing about their base code) i want to say that this is possible, but not without an extraordinary amount of effort. The effort involved would is probably way to high in comparison for a return on investment.
I think the majority of people just roll another character for that class since it's easy enough to level.
I thought WoW's forums had angry elitist snobs, but I never could have imagined the level STO forums has.
Having to pay to respec kills ANY inclination I have to experiment, which sucks for new players because they won't have a clue regarding what things to go for. -.-
If the difference between 6 investments and 9 investments in a captain skill made any sort of noticeable difference then something to allow us to respec on the fly would certainly be very beneficial. But honestly this is not the case.
Going from 6 to 9 investments increases your sill point total by 15. 15 seems like it should be a big enough number to make a real difference, but the effect of individual points is so small that the opportunity cost is too grate to justify. Hear are some examples:
15 points in graviton generators adds 0.22km to the radius of a Gravity Well 3
15 points in particle generators adds 10.9 points of damage to each tick of Gravity Well 3
15 points in attack patterns adds 1% to the damage bonus of Omega 3
15 points in sensors adds 0.4% to the stealth sight buff from sensor scan
15 points in energy weapons specialization adds 0.3% to your critical hit chance
15 points in subspace decompiler adds 0.7 seconds to the duration of viral matrix 3
Now you might be looking at those numbers and thinking; 'Golly I am never going to be able to tell the difference between a player who has maxed a captain skill and one who has only taken it to 6.' But you would be wrong. You could tell the difference if you spent a lot of time testing with a parser.
So the question you have to ask yourself is, are you going to spend a lot of time testing with a parser? If the answer to that question is probably not, you don't need to respec for different ships and loadouts.
Just give your captain a generalist build taking no captain skills past 6 investments and you can fly what you like. You honestly will not be able to tell the difference.
Now im not saying that some one who prefers to limit one alt to one play style in one ship shouldn't specialize at all. In this situation there is no reason you shouldn't specialize a little. But is it honestly worth grinding for any more then three characters? that's a huge time investment for performance gains of 1% And if its not worth our grinding why is it worth taking a developers time from working on fun content or fixes.