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ruffgenius
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I played this game just around 2 years ago and although it was fun at parts with all respect it sucked. the missions were repetative and it was just a cash grab.
I came back to the game about 2 months ago and it has improved in spades I dont mind grinding I come from playing EVE online so I am used to being patient.
The most recent episodes are far better written and executed the game is alot smoother infact around 60 of my fleet members from EVE have came over to this game.
Things for improvement;
Dont put ships in the lobi store that was avalible for free from missions especially locking off bits of sets Dyson ship comes to mind. Make a way of getting the consoles with out expecting us to pay x $100 to get, you are charging 5000zen put the extra console (Warp drive) in with the set.
A little risk is a good thing. If you ships takes damage or to much put a timer on how long it wiill take to fix like 24/48h this would make things far more interesting and people would actually use the whole set up of Tank, Healer and dps for fleets.
Big welldone and I look forward to the next 2 years of improvements.
I came back to the game about 2 months ago and it has improved in spades I dont mind grinding I come from playing EVE online so I am used to being patient.
The most recent episodes are far better written and executed the game is alot smoother infact around 60 of my fleet members from EVE have came over to this game.
Things for improvement;
Dont put ships in the lobi store that was avalible for free from missions especially locking off bits of sets Dyson ship comes to mind. Make a way of getting the consoles with out expecting us to pay x $100 to get, you are charging 5000zen put the extra console (Warp drive) in with the set.
A little risk is a good thing. If you ships takes damage or to much put a timer on how long it wiill take to fix like 24/48h this would make things far more interesting and people would actually use the whole set up of Tank, Healer and dps for fleets.
Big welldone and I look forward to the next 2 years of improvements.
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I also agree on the "death penalty"...right now it gives no incentive to make a ship more durable. The damage to the ship can be healed instantly with parts (you don't even need to have in your inventory, the bank is sufficent) and a 15 sec respawntimer isn't an obstacle either.
Personaly i'd prefer a mechanic that would need somebody else to repair you (similar to ground combat) instead of massive cooldowns for repair.
Also the damage should be more severe...if you repair your ship, you never get critical dmg, and even if, you still don't really feel crippled by those destroyed systems.
All in all, a more severe penalty for dying should be in place.
it will be interesting to see if they ever put something in the game that involves risk.
I hope not and i doubt they will, its the one thing that puts me off eve. I know thats eve's thing but its been there from the start. i dont think it would suit a game thats been here for 4 years and has a reputation for being casual, and able to keep what you buy.
there may be smaller things like item degradation over time but nothing where you lose what you have.
Nope, just look at the Trek movies...no matter how many times James T. Kirk wipes and blows up the USS Enterprise it always respawns with full health. :P
Also on klingside and romie side these missions need the update. SO Dev team get a move on LOL !!
"Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
EVE is the exteme of risk.
A game needs risk otherwise it get stale fast! Whats the point in science ships if all you have to do is respawn? as the game stands they aren't needed. This can be casual also I work 50 hours a week so i am in no way a hardcore gamer but still like to be challenged.
Maybe there can just be a difficutly inscrease because the Elites aren't hard enough as it stands.
Thanks for the imput.
Lol even in the movies/series they talk about how the enterprise spent 2/3 weeks in space dock but thankfully for our benifit they cut the wait for us. Voyager was getting smashed to pieces for 3 years and was never repaired.
There is still more to come this year though so we will see what comes with expansion II. The R&D needed a overhall plus the new ships look pretty awsome.
Fly safe
Welcome Back! And as for hard content, No Win Scenario is fairly diffilcult, and the devs have said that with the expansion in the late fall they are planning some more high difficulty content.
For an idea of what the last expansion added:
Playable Romulan faction (with its own ships, missions and hubs), Klingon missions for levels 1-20, Nimbus Adventure Zone, UI revamp, New equipment slot: Warp Core
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Legacy_of_Romulus
Heh, how is new content not improvement? You take any game, there are several snapped up release that are typically the same engine with new content.
Take leveling alternates: I can....
Do story missions, and get some good gear
Do foundry missions with the hourly, and get plentiful dilithium
Do system patrols which are quick but only give skill points/exp
In addition....
I can supplement these with queued mission dailies, borg alerts, deepspace encounters
Endgame: For the romulan reputation for instance:
I can explore new romulus
I can tag eppohs
I can rescue romulans or remans in a number of scenarios
I can patrol the territory of the Romulan Republic
Omega:
I can fight the borg through a large set of space and ground scenarios.
I can do a deepspace encounter in Gamme Orionis once per day
I can visit the Defera invasion zone
If you go looking, this game has SO MUCH content to offer you.
And content is improvement, id rather see tons of content and one system overhaul per season, than a whole season devoted to systems.
Agreed and "No Win Scenario" is what we have been running and it would be nice to see more like this and for them to take more of an advantage of the tank, healer and dps set up we have in game, we have been running "No Win Scenario" with fleet.
Also doing the elites in the nx ships is alot of fun.
I dont tell the guy who sells me a car "ow, that car has wheels, that is an improvement".
Heh, i might just have to get an NX and run that
I get the regular life cycle of an MMO just fine. All im saying is that without new content the game would die off. I do agree that improvement is making things better, while you and I tend to disagree on what does improve the game. I respect your opinion, im just stating that in my opinion, large content variety is making things better.
I think it might stop people from just rushing in and play more carefully and tactfully.
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Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians
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I agree. if you put a loss penalty in you will lose 99% of the game population. besides, how could you possibly justify the chance of a player losing a ship they just payed $25 for?
Maybe your right like I've said I have just came back to the game.
An overhaul is new content its different maybe you just dont like the R&D side of the game and that is your right.
I dont think you quite understand though how long development takes, it takes alot of time not something you can do over night voice acting, scripting, coding, debugging. Creating a single ship can take months.
Also someone has said previously in the post there is another expansion due late this year and we are already more than half way though the year with lots of new content for you to get on with.
You get new events most seasons "summer event" there is a tone of content especially for a FTP.
Coming from EVE players are also responsible for making content from them selfs just as your would for fun in real life get your starter ships and go run some elites if you die start again.
Maybe take the cost that the components to repair your ship would have cost, and multiply it x10. Certainly not a large cost, but its something
This....so much this.....people really dont understand how much work goes into these things, and they whine endlessly about it
lol Voyager would get smashed and then suddenly a wild temporal anomaly appears!
I didn't say anything about loosing ships. No you shouldn't loose your ship perminantly. but if you loose your ship so many times in a period of time lets say 3 times in 12hours you get a timer for that ship being repaired for 24/48 hours. If it is your best ship you will do more to keep it alive.
Cryptic does everything to get people to log in this game.
That would just do the opposite.
We are talking about devs thinking that people are getting lost in exploration clusters. I really don't think serious damage to ships is something they would do to their supposedly brain dead customers...
Lol, I dont see how adding a challange to a game stops people them from logging in and if thats the case thats just sad! let just hope they never have to do a degree.
Well, if you take away the favorite ship (and perhaps the only usable one) of casual player Bob for 12 hours, Bob won't adapt to that. He will most likely quit the game. For at least 12 hours.
Even if that wasn't true, I think that's how Cryptic thinks.
Well there are other reasons too besides player skill. STOs combat engine isnt setup for 'hardcore' type gameplay. Think of how EVE combat would be if ability use had crappy input response or if players or NPCs could occasionally one shot your un-oneshottable ship with stealth torpedoes. Basically the enemy NPCs wont always follow the same combat rules as you do in STO.
I believe the feeling of risking something makes the reward so much sweeter. I also wouldn't mind a time penalty to repair ships based on Tiers.
Maybe a half hour or an hour per damage/repair needed. That way you can still go into an STF but have to be more careful on the next one since your still damage. Let's be honest even Belana, Scotty, and Geordi needed a few hours to repair a ship!
Fleet Leader of:
Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians
U.S.S. Liberty, NX-42813-L, T-6 Legendary Odyssey Class
Game Handle: Grayfox@GrayfoxJames
Website: https://www.libertytaskforce.com
Armada (STOFA Member Fleet): https://www.libertytaskforce.com/stofa
Discord: https://discord.gg/bGp9N7z
Twitter: STOFA@LTFGrayfox
Email: CSDynamix@Hotmail.com
Well by the time you reach level 50 you have 5 ships, ok not all of them are best of the best nor should they be. Better ships should be earnt. Who in the game only has one ship anyway?
You shouldnt be able to do elites the minute you turn level 50, a game needs progression and if bob quits he will have is little child tantrum and come back to the game once he has had his afternoon nap.
I think you should give EVE ago there are 100s of thousands of players that undock in ships with the cost eqivilent to 1000s of $/£ they loose them and come back to the game. That game has been going strong for 10years.
thanks for the imput btw.