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A simple question to Geko on skill points
smokeybacon90
Member Posts: 2,252 Arc User
Geko, since you seem so confident in the absolute disaster you have created here, I'd like to ask you a simple question:
Log into the game, and based on the current skill point rewards from doffing, patrols, queues and mission replays, please tell us, how do you expect a player to reasonably level his spec points and alts?
Really, just tell us. Because not only have you minimized the options available to us, you have then relentlessly nerfed those few remaining options to insignificance.
Please don't quote some fantasy maths you thought up in your head or jotted down on your brainstorm meeting flipboard, please go in game and use the actual numbers we are being given.
Then maybe the full scale of what you have done will come clear. If you can't see it after that, then I will be lost for words.
Log into the game, and based on the current skill point rewards from doffing, patrols, queues and mission replays, please tell us, how do you expect a player to reasonably level his spec points and alts?
Really, just tell us. Because not only have you minimized the options available to us, you have then relentlessly nerfed those few remaining options to insignificance.
Please don't quote some fantasy maths you thought up in your head or jotted down on your brainstorm meeting flipboard, please go in game and use the actual numbers we are being given.
Then maybe the full scale of what you have done will come clear. If you can't see it after that, then I will be lost for words.
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I'd love to see Geko's reaction to this...
"You don't have to do something again and again and again repetitive that doesn't have much challange, that's just a general good gameplay thing."
Free Tibet!
They've sort of morphed into a sullen collective Dev creature....
Free Tibet!
Perhaps if he sends a mail in the morning systems can gift him a premade toon or something ?
I also suspect this is their logic, however, unfortunately for us (and indeed them) it is flawed.
The system (along with the gear upgrade costs) has pretty much killed off alts. Plain and simple.
Dead.
The same armies of alts that STO as a game has nurtured for over 4 years. The same alts that were created in the long content droughts of S1/2 and have been lovingly cared for since that time. The same alts that people have invested time and money in creating and getting to decent levels with.
I now have one toon. He is a Fed engineer and he looks like me. He is my main, the one and only. The others are off. No progress, no nothing.
So when a new ship comes along, like the intrepid I ask myself - will my single character fly it. And the answer is no, as he already has more ships than he can point a stick at. Also it would never suit his playstyle.
I do have a science fed toon that it would suit, and I would have bought it for her. Only as previously mentioned, she is dead.
So no purchase for me.
Same for event ships, same for gear pieces, same for everything in this whole game. I now focus on one toon rather than 10. That makes me precisely 10 times more likely NOT to spend money or indeed continue playing.
Flawed logic.
...#LLAP...
Resign please.
Regards
Players
Tacofangs is one of the very few Devs I still trust, and whose contributions to the game I actually like.
Indeed, it feels like they are so focused on the single character accounts, they couldn't care less about the multi-character accounts.
You would assume that they would figure out what the optimal character amount is for spending and base it on that, unless they did that and got out the answer "one" which would surprise me quite a bit, because at the very least there's be enough people running several to raise the average up a bit, even if most did play one.
Unfortunately at the new rate most will earn maybe 1 per week. Before I was getting 2. I don't grind patrol missions.
I was hoping to have all my characters at level 80 by anniversary (ignoring the demolitions on all but 1). Now it's more like summer if the server is still up then.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."