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flash525
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Are you a Tactical Officer wanting to try your hand in Science? Maybe you're an Engineering Officer wanting a bigger Gun. Why not request a change of scenery?
Now, I know said requests have been made before in the sense that people would like the option to have a career changing token placed into the C-Store. I doubt that's going to happen, and I can understand the reasons why; nobody wants people changing their professions every other week (for starters, its likely to reduce the number of characters people have).
However, how would people feel (and would it be possible) to have an annual event (of sorts) that allows people to change their professions, once, on a yearly basis? It's somewhat of a compromise I'd think. I know I've several characters that I've invested a lot of time into, especially with the grind that I could do with changing. I'd imagine I'm not the only one. Furthermore there many be lock box ships opened (initially on impulse) that would better suit a character of a different career path, and cause ya'know, these ships are bound, players may be stuck with an unsuitable build.
Just an idea, and I wouldn't mind if said event costs dilithium/zen to complete (maybe through such an event into the reputation thing we currently use for the special events; completing said projects rewards said character with a token?)
I'm not willing to level up and grind new characters, but I am willing to grind for an event that comes around once a year to enable me to change a chosen profession.
Now, I know said requests have been made before in the sense that people would like the option to have a career changing token placed into the C-Store. I doubt that's going to happen, and I can understand the reasons why; nobody wants people changing their professions every other week (for starters, its likely to reduce the number of characters people have).
However, how would people feel (and would it be possible) to have an annual event (of sorts) that allows people to change their professions, once, on a yearly basis? It's somewhat of a compromise I'd think. I know I've several characters that I've invested a lot of time into, especially with the grind that I could do with changing. I'd imagine I'm not the only one. Furthermore there many be lock box ships opened (initially on impulse) that would better suit a character of a different career path, and cause ya'know, these ships are bound, players may be stuck with an unsuitable build.
Just an idea, and I wouldn't mind if said event costs dilithium/zen to complete (maybe through such an event into the reputation thing we currently use for the special events; completing said projects rewards said character with a token?)
I'm not willing to level up and grind new characters, but I am willing to grind for an event that comes around once a year to enable me to change a chosen profession.
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I think that is the closest we will get to open career chars. I am all for unified characters myself, but the way they have set the game up would not lend well to changing such coding.
Looking forward to that. Science Kit with room for a Flamethrower turret? Heck yeah.
As for a profession change, i'm not overly fussed. I'm still more interested in a species respec. Which I suspect will come if they plan to introduce new playable species, such as the Xindi.
In STO terms, they're not just Eng, Sci, nor Tac...they're...
Eng-Sci
Eng-Tac
Sci-Eng
Sci-Tac
Tac-Eng
Tac-Sci
They're more like how many of the ships are, eh?
Basic Examples:
Cruiser: Eng Heavy, with Star (Sci) Cruisers and Assault (Tac) Cruisers.
Escort: Tac Heavy, with Patrol (Eng) Escorts and Advanced (Sci) Escorts.
Sci Vessel: Sci Heavy, with Deep Space (Eng) and Recon (Tac).
That's missing from the characters themselves...oh sure, there are different professions within each of the careers - different ways you can play that career...but it's not quite what we've seen in Star Trek with the guy being Operations with a mix of Tac and Eng or being Operations with a mix of Eng and Sci...etc, etc, etc...
like - if you are lvl 50, you could invest your XP to skill into other class..
sci-tac, tac-eng, sci-eng
plus adding some skill points to the training..
imho a great idea!
Same way I feel about "Career Change Tokens" or any other such scheme: Hell to the no. If you can't pick a "class" and stick with it, you're obviously playing the wrong game. Move along, and don't let the transporter room doors hit you on the way out.
Based on ship switching, I therefore expect this feature to be implemented early in Season 10.
Throw in six new career paths, two for each profession.
Both of your paths are available to you and one of the pairs of the other ones.
My character Tsin'xing
Changing classes is canon. You're obviously watching the wrong show.
i dont see the difference and as you have already answered it yourself, why would i need to comment on it?
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
You don't see the difference to what? ...because I want to know what other people think rather than just myself?
And...? I don't see how this differs from dozens of other games with classes, aside from it taking a laughable pittance of time to max one out in this game. That laughable pittance means there's already a class change built in: delete, restart, have new level 50 in new class in 2 days if you're slow.
Yeah I'm more interested in this myself.
What I would like to see is the ability to change race but this is the roleplayer in me. For example, take a Nicor bioship. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense for a Klingon to be flying one, but an Alien with Psychic powers might be able to pull it off.
Frankly if I had it to do over again, no matter what faction I chose, I would create a Alien simply because you can pretty much make them appear to be any race which really makes it much cooler from the roleplay/suspension of disbelief standpoint.
They said they weren't planning cross kits immediately, but they distinctly said that it wasn't off the table.
So yeah, we just need to wait for a slow fiscal quarter.
That's been adressed by the Devs already:
Worf changed profession from security to command.
Bashir took engineering extension courses at the Academy.
Paris took some kind of medical courses to be considered for the nurses position on Voyager.
Cross training, in my opinion, is very Trek.
try got promoted when he went to DS9
system Lord Baal is dead
He was promoted to full Commander in "Generations" when he was still part of the Enterprise crew as tactical.
Sisco suggested changing career paths when he transferred to DS9. As far as I know he never made captain.
So did Geordi.
go watch again
just to save you sum time
In 2371 he was promoted to lieutenant commander (Star Trek Generations)
system Lord Baal is dead
WOW! My bad, he was NEVER a full commander. No sarcasm, I was wrong. I guess just wishful thinking that such a great character, that they spent 2 series developing, would have made it to full commander.
His final promotion was still with the Enterprise D. Sisco never promoted him, he encourage a career change into command (yellow to red).
well not going to lie i thought he had made to to full commander but on DS9 i know he was never going to make it to captain because of that one ds9 EP
system Lord Baal is dead