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Lifetimer accounts and the new R&D

curedmencuredmen Member Posts: 215 Arc User
edited July 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
So what ever happened to head start on players on r&d who had it maxed out on the old r&d system? Did i miss out something?

And why there is only one research project line? is it being unlocked after the 20hour project that i qued, or is there going to be zen-store unlocks for more assigments slots on the r&d? and WHY? is the memory alpha closed? couldnt enter it today...

I dunno why it came to my mind but i kept thinking over and over why didnt Cryptic add something special for lifetime members in the new R&d system?

I would like to see new benefits being a lifetimer. The old perks just simply aint worth buying it.
Give us a good reason to wear lifetimer combadge again.
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  • kwyjenkwyjen Member Posts: 133 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    :cool: as lifer, I would like to see it also :rolleyes:
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    As a lifer I can not approve of this.

    Having a blue name does not entitle us to get a headstart or preferential treatment beyond what we have already gotten, and those of us who finished the old system DID get a ferengi DuOff..

    NO... No preferential treatment for lifers.

    Edit: Also, you you move your eyes to said "Lines", there are some symbols... those symbols are letters telling you how to unlock them.
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  • asindar1asindar1 Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    For maxing old crafting you get a rare (blue) Ferengi Doff named Gumarre that is a Research Lab Scientist with a R&D trait of Aegis for making the Aegis set stuff at rank 15 crafting.

    As far as crafting schools, they unlock as you level up your schools, 2nd one is obtained when you get 1 school to level 2, then another unlocks at level 4, a 4th when you level 3 schools to level 5, the last one when you get a school to level 15, for a total of 5 active crafting queues.
  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Sub status has nothing to do with this..
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    There are two titles and a duty officer that specializes in crafting the Aegis set that were given for maxing out the old crafting system. You got Dabbler for dabbling with the old crafting system and Genius for maxing it out. The devs were never going to let us get a headstart for maxing out the old system. The systems are just too different for that. The reason why they allowed Diplomacy to transfer progress was due to Cryptic adding additional commendations to the systems and Diplomacy had powers and rewards that unlocked through progress while the old crafting system had no rewards and there was no individual progress.
  • siotaylorsiotaylor Member Posts: 296 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    asindar1 wrote: »
    For maxing old crafting you get a rare (blue) Ferengi Doff named Gumarre that is a Research Lab Scientist with a R&D trait of Aegis for making the Aegis set stuff at rank 15 crafting.

    Mine was white, not blue!
  • olivia211olivia211 Member Posts: 675 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    siotaylor wrote: »
    Mine was white, not blue!

    The pack of white R&D doffs is extra. You should have gotten a blue ferengi if you were maxed previously in the old crafting system. Perhaps you are getting them mixed up?
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  • derrico1derrico1 Member Posts: 282 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    i maxed out all my toons on the old system .now i got to start all over which is not fair . atleast cryptic could have done was progress the toons half way through the new system for all of us who maxed out the old system .....
  • blassreiterusblassreiterus Member Posts: 1,294 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    curedmen wrote: »
    So what ever happened to head start on players on r&d who had it maxed out on the old r&d system? Did i miss out something?

    And why there is only one research project line? is it being unlocked after the 20hour project that i qued, or is there going to be zen-store unlocks for more assigments slots on the r&d? and WHY? is the memory alpha closed? couldnt enter it today...

    I dunno why it came to my mind but i kept thinking over and over why didnt Cryptic add something special for lifetime members in the new R&d system?

    I would like to see new benefits being a lifetimer. The old perks just simply aint worth buying it.
    Give us a good reason to wear lifetimer combadge again.
    You may want to know that the slots that you unlock in the R&D UI is unlocked as you craft your way through the system... for example, the second slot is unlocked when you reach level 2 in any of the school, third is unlocked at level 4 (of any school), etc. You don't have to pay real money to unlock the slots.
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  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,535 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    curedmen wrote: »
    So what ever happened to head start on players on r&d who had it maxed out on the old r&d system? Did i miss out something?.

    yes got that on my characters, or at least i got the accolades for it, cant see what differance it made yet but i guess there is some.

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  • siotaylorsiotaylor Member Posts: 296 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    olivia211 wrote: »
    The pack of white R&D doffs is extra. You should have gotten a blue ferengi if you were maxed previously in the old crafting system. Perhaps you are getting them mixed up?

    Nope, a white Ferengi who's text says he was Aegis' assistant.
  • rynohawkrynohawk Member Posts: 66 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    derrico1 wrote: »
    i maxed out all my toons on the old system .now i got to start all over which is not fair . atleast cryptic could have done was progress the toons half way through the new system for all of us who maxed out the old system .....

    Twenty minutes of work maxing old crafting down the drain. :P
  • shandypandyshandypandy Member Posts: 632 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    rynohawk wrote: »
    Twenty minutes of work maxing old crafting down the drain. :P

    This. Maxing old crafting skill took absolutely zero effort.
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  • blevokblevok Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    rynohawk wrote: »
    Twenty minutes of work maxing old crafting down the drain. :P

    only noobs did it in twenty minutes. most of us spent weeks flying around collecting particles to slowly work up to max level. and i dont know about anyone else, but i only did it so that i could craft the best items to sell to a vendor for EC so i could buy a new ship.
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  • gagocashgagocash Member Posts: 150 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I did not receive any "special" crafting doffs and i have max skilled the old crafting system. all i got there this 20 bound common lousy hologram doffs. so where is my aegis crafting doffs gone?
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  • lowy1lowy1 Member Posts: 964 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    anazonda wrote: »
    As a lifer I can not approve of this.

    Having a blue name does not entitle us to get a headstart or preferential treatment beyond what we have already gotten, and those of us who finished the old system DID get a ferengi DuOff..

    NO... No preferential treatment for lifers.

    Edit: Also, you you move your eyes to said "Lines", there are some symbols... those symbols are letters telling you how to unlock them.

    Why not? Hell, if they would have advertised "Buy LTS Now and get 3-4 schools of your choice unlocked to level 5 when R&D goes live." I bet they would have sold more. I's bad enough that the Vet Rewards are utter garbage. Right now there is no incentive to have a LTS other than it becomes a better deal once you had it over a year and ACTIVELY played.
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  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    For being a liftime sub? Hell no. We get plenty as it stands.

    But as a player with nine level 50 characters, a maxed-out old Crafting system and a waning interest in the game as it is, i'm annoyed that i'm now only able to craft stuff that neither I nor anyone else wants, and i'm expected to hang around for another eleven months before i'll be capable of crafting good stuff, assuming I don't fall for Cryptic's little game of "buy your way to level 15".

    Say what you will about STO and it's gameplay - the new Crafting system is the epitome of "pay to win".
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  • ussinterceptussintercept Member Posts: 627 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    derrico1 wrote: »
    i maxed out all my toons on the old system .now i got to start all over which is not fair . atleast cryptic could have done was progress the toons half way through the new system for all of us who maxed out the old system .....

    Had they let you skip to the end I suspect youd be crying that there was nothing new to do. All the while taking advantage of the current blitzkrieg of expensive crafting items on the exchange.
  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    As a lifer, I get 500 Zen a month to do with as I please... and if it pleased me, I could exchange it for dil to blow on Finish Now.
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    lowy1 wrote: »
    Why not? Hell, if they would have advertised "Buy LTS Now and get 3-4 schools of your choice unlocked to level 5 when R&D goes live." I bet they would have sold more. I's bad enough that the Vet Rewards are utter garbage. Right now there is no incentive to have a LTS other than it becomes a better deal once you had it over a year and ACTIVELY played.

    No one would buy the LTS for the whole get to Level 5 in 4 Schools. It is just not worth it. It takes 16 days to get 4 schools to level 5 for doing less than one minute of work each day. Getting to Level 5 in each school might have been a decent reward for maxing the old crafting system, but the Aegis doff is more useful since it is just 24 days to get every school to level 5.
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