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Freighter and Cell ships are left behind
leod198
Member Posts: 101 Arc User
With all the latest improvements to the game, Freighter and Cell ships are left behind.
With introductions of load-outs (love this option, when it not bugged) Ship selector on both ships rendered useless.
With removal of commodity requirements for reputation projects (thank you), commodity broker on board is less useful.
R&D console is obsolete now, with new R&D reboot.
With the removal of exploration clusters , you severely limit use of invite future. Ship invitations was used by "Doffing" community in spirit of cooperation.
Please consider:
Give a research bonus for using R&G consoles on both ships and on the Fleet Star-Base.
For both ships "parked" next to exploration clusters, add exploration cluster contact to DOFF console.
Thank you.
With introductions of load-outs (love this option, when it not bugged) Ship selector on both ships rendered useless.
With removal of commodity requirements for reputation projects (thank you), commodity broker on board is less useful.
R&D console is obsolete now, with new R&D reboot.
With the removal of exploration clusters , you severely limit use of invite future. Ship invitations was used by "Doffing" community in spirit of cooperation.
Please consider:
Give a research bonus for using R&G consoles on both ships and on the Fleet Star-Base.
For both ships "parked" next to exploration clusters, add exploration cluster contact to DOFF console.
Thank you.
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Oh I did find a use for the ship selector for us. Its a limited use, but we can use it to switch ships in the Dyson sphere, with out having to go to a base. We have to go about it the old way of going to the bridge of the ship we are on then switching to the Tuffli/Cell, then going to the bridge but It does work.
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I do like your suggestions. Crypic seems like they intentionally slowing down doffing especially the colonization chains, so I doubt the exploration cluster console. They could throw us a bone with the bonus on R&D. But then again, someone at Cryptic hates the Cell ship.
Colonization chains actually got a double whammy from the cluster popups. No more department head 2nd chance and bridge invite, but also a change from 4 hour local maps timer for rotation to the 20 hour department head timer for the colonial/operations that appear in the cluster popups. Oh, and this latest 20 hour rotation 0 fed supports and 1 kdf support.
With the TD aid mission still broke, about the only advantage for a cell is the personal officer upgrinder/downgrinder, but most fleets have there own personal officer upgraded to do the same thing and you can get fleet invites easy enough to those holdings.
Guess there is the trader doff missions for things like Nardoc and Haggles - but with half the haggle locations gone since the cluster popups and all the fleet console and now crafting ones - not a lot of call for a totally random mission the likely result is a green or blue console.
Maybe if they modified the transwarp to cluster to allow you to summon a friend to your location if your near a cluster it would make up for the lack of bridge invites for support missions.
Anyway, you could call them to you (perhaps in more places than the other dude), use them like any other trader, only with your killer discounts and so forth.
AND, you had an option to swap to its bridge from that same menu.
Bonus points if it was also available to team members in range.
They are sub par in terms firepower, hull, shields, bridge officer powers . . . They are not fighting ships, the are . . Or rather were civilian ships with unique amenities . . . These were in lieu of being a ship of the line.
I found the arguments regarding the forward weapons and dervish poor. But regardless, players should want these freighters buffed, it is better for all. I personally offer bridge invites all the time but now there is less reason to do so
It is unlikely that they will add Bank, Exchange, Mail to all ships anytime soon. That should be nice to have without having to wait for the Azura II CD, and you get discounts too, I believe.
I don't own either one but they definitely need some love from Cryptic.
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That also be a cool thing to update freighters with. The R+D bonus (time, cooldowns, dilithium cost, crafting materials gained from doff missions, what have you) would be a major plus but its not so easy to justify those improvements as "frieghter stuff" (though maybe if you go heavier on those with the suliban cell ship no one would notice. :P) The extra and expanded call function is on the other hand particularly appropriate, so yay to both ideas.
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Add stacks of 10 or 20 white/green/blue components to the Consoles/Crafting Areas on the Freighters and the Starbase(i'm sooo tired of klciking 15 times for one warp core)
I'm not going to even say I told you so...
What I'm sure is good natured, jestful rib-poking aside, OP does have a point.
These ships are VR drops from packs that are more expensive than lock boxes, but they don't have anything particularly special about them.
A cool look and a unique bridge, but they're losing appeal factor after appeal factor.
If they're going to stay VR, then they need something to justify that status. And that something is not "well it looks different..."