Doubled the amount of rewarded Skill Points for all Delta Quadrant patrol missions.
Thats mean they only want us to do patrol mission, over and over again !!
Want to know the funny part? During the Priority One Podcast 200 Episode Geko said patrols aren't meant for leveling in any way.
Want to know the funny part? During the Priority One Podcast 200 Episode Geko said patrols aren't meant for leveling in any way.
Everything is awesome!
Apparently, anything used for leveling in the game...
IS AN EXPLOIT!!!
:rolleyes:
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not worried about leveling, it's what is at the end of the stick, once anyone that was coming out of 50 with everything (episodes and sides) done, who got into this area hit the wall, leveling was not TO slow, it was the SP grind, the XP ran out WAY to fast and argala was a well oiled hamster wheel lol, it wasn't fun anymore.
well, then there where the level gaps, between missions
Want to know the funny part? During the Priority One Podcast 200 Episode Geko said patrols aren't meant for leveling in any way.
Everything is awesome!
Then I'd looooooove to know how we are supposed to level. Somebody said we're supposed to level for every 3 real missions we run, which means those missions should be paying out 50k each, but they seem to come up just slightly short of that. We never had to seriously work at anything before (even a full rep you could get the marks for in a weekend if you gamed it right, 10 alts in about 2 weeks) and could just do what we wanted when we wanted however we wanted, so why start now? The very idea of working at a video game is ridiculous on its face.
Basically, "we goofed our numbers while nerfing the leveling we left in the game while developing the expansion because we were solely focused on the 50-60 leveling process. we're sorry that we're bad at math but we're really just posting this to try to smooth things over with the playerbase even though we're truly intending to keep the progression rate the same. feel free to sift through the entire post here and try to understand that even though it was our fault on two fronts you won't be compensated for your losses."
Guess this will be a additional nerf. They are so trying to force people to play DQ content because it's so awesome.
I want skill points to be at the minimum 2s or 2.5x across the board period. It allows growth and slow down levelling just a little but not enougth to turn people into this.
Yeah that mention in the patch notes is incredibly un-informative. I'm not sure if it's a way of curbing people who instance hop to only get the Dinos at the end, or if it's just a general wipe to XP gained from playing the zone. If previous patches are anything to go by, it's probably the latter.
The game is getting ridiculous. Where has the fun gone?
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
At first, people teamed up and had a lot of fun TOGETHER in Tau Dewa (Japori ect), this got nerfed...then, Argala, the last straw, people teamed up again but it was not the same anymore. Teaming up used to give more XP which has been nerfed and getting a group together into Argala was hard enough anyway. Now everyone is on his own...endless grinding... and bored to death pretty soon.
This is a MMO after all right Cryptic?
Then PLEASE, for gods sake, get your things together, give the players more rewards across the board, and most importantly, when they TEAM UP!!!
I'm more and more speachless about the decissions beeing made...
More shoddy patch notes. I'll be fair but blunt, there's some good fixes in there. However it is hard to take seriously when they are still trying to get away with ruining the game by trying to shoehorn everyone into playing their frankly boring and repetitive new content that is just not fun to play.
I am calling for all experience gains to be significantly increased across the board, not only so that everyone can choose to play the game as they see fit and have fun doing so but also to bring some kind of harmony back so that casual and serious players have a competitive chance with each other, not to say this is the only problem stopping that but it would be a huge step in the right direction.
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. - Euripides
I no longer do any Bug Hunting work for Cryptic. I may resume if a serious attempt to fix the game is made.
Yeah that mention in the patch notes is incredibly un-informative. I'm not sure if it's a way of curbing people who instance hop to only get the Dinos at the end, or if it's just a general wipe to XP gained from playing the zone. If previous patches are anything to go by, it's probably the latter.
The game is getting ridiculous. Where has the fun gone?
You don't get that much XP from playing ground ...
At first, people teamed up and had a lot of fun TOGETHER in Tau Dewa (Japori ect), this got nerfed...then, Argala, the last straw, people teamed up again but it was not the same anymore. Teaming up used to give more XP which has been nerfed and getting a group together into Argala was hard enough anyway. Now everyone is on his own...endless grinding... and bored to death pretty soon.
This is a MMO after all right Cryptic?
Then PLEASE, for gods sake, get your things together, give the players more rewards across the board, and most importantly, when they TEAM UP!!!
I'm more and more speachless about the decissions beeing made...
...everything is awesome!!!
Well they CANT give more xp for teaming up and the CANT give more critter kill rewards because they have ( Finally ) found out why there content is so easily exploited by small groups of players
Romulan SROs
Scimitards and a few other romulan ships
Some of us have told them over and over how OP these SROs are in space but they didn't believe us, However the The Elite PvE channel boys finally rubbed it all over there Faces in public with DR
Other very powerful items also are hugely TEAM exploitable by the same groups for DPS and critter kills and cryptic is stumped as to how to deal with it because 2 or 3 of these ( exploitable ) things can be used to carry a group way too fast through content
If you had too much xp on kills these 2 or 3 players would suck all of the xp in a stf away from the other 2 or 3 members so they put the xp reward on the mission completion
In the end its all cryptics fault allowing such powerful items to be available to a single ship or a single player race
That's why the rewards cant be balanced because the player races are not balanced in DPS and as we all know the PvE content is ALL DPS based especially patrol type content
If Geko had any game Mastering experence he would see this like a turned on flashlight in a dark room
And to head off the Na sayers
5 man Team Fed character /ship DPS.................poorest...........
5 man Team Klingon character /ship DPS............2nd best.........
5 man Team Romulan character /Ship DPS..........Best DPS..........By leaps and bounds
Want to make this even worse make these teams all new players without access to plasmonic leach 40 million ec console
Add another wrinkle limit it to green only space Doffs so aux to batt isn't as effective and the xp gap gets even wider
A large portion of noobs are Feds and FTP players who wont spend the CASH to upgrade a plasmonic leach and don't know how to get purple Doffs so they do 5k- dps
End if the story is cryptic does not understand its player base so they cannot balance their content due to this information not being easy to see or impossible to add to there metric spreadsheet and lack of in game knowledge of their own game
Jellico....Engineer ground.....Da'val Romulan space Sci
Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
JJ-Verse will never be Canon or considered Lore...It will always be JJ-Verse
All this sarcasm will do nothing to help anyone's cause.
People know that. People also know Cryptic especiallly Geko does not care. After he stated his rampage of alienating the player base calling names. I think the players are just a tad little pissed and making their money a tad bit useless.
One rule of they teach in college in all business courses starting from high school.
Don't alienate your customer base. In Cryptic case, their player base.
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A large portion of noobs are Feds and FTP players who wont spend the CASH to upgrade a plasmonic leach and don't know how to get purple Doffs so they do 5k- dps
End if the story is cryptic does not understand its player base so they cannot balance their content due to this information not being easy to see or impossible to add to there metric spreadsheet and lack of in game knowledge of their own game
with this I agree... and Mr. CombatLogReader is my witness...
Not enough people to complete it either this morning. This has never happened since the battlezone opened - regardless of the time of day. Pretty shocking really.
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There it took 1 hour and 10 minutes to complete the battlezone.
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Not enough people to complete it either this morning. This has never happened since the battlezone opened - regardless of the time of day. Pretty shocking really.
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There it took 1 hour and 10 minutes to complete the battlezone.
Just think of the forums as the new end game. I'm not sure about specialization points anymore after 60.
Apparently, anything used for leveling in the game...
IS AN EXPLOIT!!!
:rolleyes:
Nice meme dave, was going to one similar with one of the old pics of the huge crowd listening to the speech but thought it a bit over the top. Glad you found that happy medium.
My guess is "hope" keeps people not playing but posting on the forums. For others, its a path of sad realization and closure. Grieving takes time. The worst "haters" here love the game, or did at some point.
My guess is "hope" keeps people not playing but posting on the forums. For others, its a path of sad realization and closure. Grieving takes time. The worst "haters" here love the game, or did at some point.
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Want to know the funny part? During the Priority One Podcast 200 Episode Geko said patrols aren't meant for leveling in any way.
Everything is awesome!
Apparently, anything used for leveling in the game...
IS AN EXPLOIT!!!
:rolleyes:
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
well, then there where the level gaps, between missions
Then I'd looooooove to know how we are supposed to level. Somebody said we're supposed to level for every 3 real missions we run, which means those missions should be paying out 50k each, but they seem to come up just slightly short of that. We never had to seriously work at anything before (even a full rep you could get the marks for in a weekend if you gamed it right, 10 alts in about 2 weeks) and could just do what we wanted when we wanted however we wanted, so why start now? The very idea of working at a video game is ridiculous on its face.
I should probably take the Vulnerability Exploiters off my Phantom then, before the man gets any more idea. :P
I don't think anything can catch us out of left field at this point after all the flogging lol
Note: borg invasions looks good
Borg Red Alerts now set Captains and enemies to level 50.
Basically, "we goofed our numbers while nerfing the leveling we left in the game while developing the expansion because we were solely focused on the 50-60 leveling process. we're sorry that we're bad at math but we're really just posting this to try to smooth things over with the playerbase even though we're truly intending to keep the progression rate the same. feel free to sift through the entire post here and try to understand that even though it was our fault on two fronts you won't be compensated for your losses."
Yeah that mention in the patch notes is incredibly un-informative. I'm not sure if it's a way of curbing people who instance hop to only get the Dinos at the end, or if it's just a general wipe to XP gained from playing the zone. If previous patches are anything to go by, it's probably the latter.
The game is getting ridiculous. Where has the fun gone?
This is a MMO after all right Cryptic?
Then PLEASE, for gods sake, get your things together, give the players more rewards across the board, and most importantly, when they TEAM UP!!!
I'm more and more speachless about the decissions beeing made...
...everything is awesome!!!
lulz
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I am calling for all experience gains to be significantly increased across the board, not only so that everyone can choose to play the game as they see fit and have fun doing so but also to bring some kind of harmony back so that casual and serious players have a competitive chance with each other, not to say this is the only problem stopping that but it would be a huge step in the right direction.
You don't get that much XP from playing ground ...
Well they CANT give more xp for teaming up and the CANT give more critter kill rewards because they have ( Finally ) found out why there content is so easily exploited by small groups of players
Romulan SROs
Scimitards and a few other romulan ships
Some of us have told them over and over how OP these SROs are in space but they didn't believe us, However the The Elite PvE channel boys finally rubbed it all over there Faces in public with DR
Other very powerful items also are hugely TEAM exploitable by the same groups for DPS and critter kills and cryptic is stumped as to how to deal with it because 2 or 3 of these ( exploitable ) things can be used to carry a group way too fast through content
If you had too much xp on kills these 2 or 3 players would suck all of the xp in a stf away from the other 2 or 3 members so they put the xp reward on the mission completion
In the end its all cryptics fault allowing such powerful items to be available to a single ship or a single player race
That's why the rewards cant be balanced because the player races are not balanced in DPS and as we all know the PvE content is ALL DPS based especially patrol type content
If Geko had any game Mastering experence he would see this like a turned on flashlight in a dark room
And to head off the Na sayers
5 man Team Fed character /ship DPS.................poorest...........
5 man Team Klingon character /ship DPS............2nd best.........
5 man Team Romulan character /Ship DPS..........Best DPS..........By leaps and bounds
Want to make this even worse make these teams all new players without access to plasmonic leach 40 million ec console
Add another wrinkle limit it to green only space Doffs so aux to batt isn't as effective and the xp gap gets even wider
A large portion of noobs are Feds and FTP players who wont spend the CASH to upgrade a plasmonic leach and don't know how to get purple Doffs so they do 5k- dps
End if the story is cryptic does not understand its player base so they cannot balance their content due to this information not being easy to see or impossible to add to there metric spreadsheet and lack of in game knowledge of their own game
Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
JJ-Verse will never be Canon or considered Lore...It will always be JJ-Verse
People know that. People also know Cryptic especiallly Geko does not care. After he stated his rampage of alienating the player base calling names. I think the players are just a tad little pissed and making their money a tad bit useless.
One rule of they teach in college in all business courses starting from high school.
Don't alienate your customer base. In Cryptic case, their player base.
with this I agree... and Mr. CombatLogReader is my witness...
It's already a legendary quality C-Store console without any passive stats.
flow cap :P Other than that, no idea really... gingerbread perhaps?
just another nerf
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There it took 1 hour and 10 minutes to complete the battlezone.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
Just think of the forums as the new end game. I'm not sure about specialization points anymore after 60.
Nice meme dave, was going to one similar with one of the old pics of the huge crowd listening to the speech but thought it a bit over the top. Glad you found that happy medium.
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Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
I really not in the mood to grind daily patrols in the DQ.
Is this what STO has become?:mad:
Since DR I spent more time in the forums then the game.
the end of the game?
Well, forum PvP is the only PvP queue that ever runs anymore.
The forums should just be renamed Ker'rat at this point.
Well I have no idea what you are talking about... *Fires Torpedo Spread III [QQ]x2 [Nerf]x1 [Xp]-10,204* Wonder if I get a Critical?
*Your Torpedo Spread III does over 9000 forum damage to Jornado!* Critical hit averted by helmet....