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timelord79
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I just thought that a lot of people don't level alts anymore because the task of getting them to 60 + doing specializations on each one is a pretty heavy task.
But we had the same problem with reputations before and it was a great solution to put the sponsoring system into the game. I was immediately motivated to work on my alts again.
Has anyone thought about doing the same for specializations?
So as soon as I max a spec tree I unlock an account wide boost.
Since we can't get a permament 200% XP boost obviously, maybe any spec point earned on another toon gets me a bonus point for the same tree.
For example:
My Main has Pilot tree maxed.
My secondary character earns now a spec point plus gets a bonus point for pilot as well.
I can now spent 2 points into pilot, or 1 point in pilot and one point in intelligence or commando.
If I have on the other hand 2 specializations maxed, let's say i ntelligence and pilot, my secondary now gets a bonus point in each of those speciilizations.
I can spent 1 point in any tree, or 2 in pilot and one in intelligence, or 2 in intelligence and one in pilot.
If my main has all 3 trees maxed my secondary can spent 4 points total. one bonus point in each tree plus one point in any tree.
That should help a great deal with leveling and speccing alts and alleviating the grind, don't you think?
But we had the same problem with reputations before and it was a great solution to put the sponsoring system into the game. I was immediately motivated to work on my alts again.
Has anyone thought about doing the same for specializations?
So as soon as I max a spec tree I unlock an account wide boost.
Since we can't get a permament 200% XP boost obviously, maybe any spec point earned on another toon gets me a bonus point for the same tree.
For example:
My Main has Pilot tree maxed.
My secondary character earns now a spec point plus gets a bonus point for pilot as well.
I can now spent 2 points into pilot, or 1 point in pilot and one point in intelligence or commando.
If I have on the other hand 2 specializations maxed, let's say i ntelligence and pilot, my secondary now gets a bonus point in each of those speciilizations.
I can spent 1 point in any tree, or 2 in pilot and one in intelligence, or 2 in intelligence and one in pilot.
If my main has all 3 trees maxed my secondary can spent 4 points total. one bonus point in each tree plus one point in any tree.
That should help a great deal with leveling and speccing alts and alleviating the grind, don't you think?
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... A bit. Maybe. But as with reputations, I'd rather go with a "one character to unlock them all!" approach, only requiring one character on an account to complete. It's one of the things TOR did right that STO did not.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Heck, it's a pain to just level up to 60 from 50...
If I do my specs on one toon, why should I have everything handed to me on potentially 1-40 other toons without spending a single additional minute playing those characters?
It doesn't make sense from a business perspective and frankly, my progression on other toons get reduced to upgrading gear which is boring.
However I think the starship traits which I unlock with each tree could and maybe should be account unlocks.
So with bonus spec points plus account unlocked traits it would very much be similar to the legacy system in TOR.
Last time I checked (which has been a whilem granted) TOR doesn't hand you everything on a silver plate either.
I think we should have some kind of R&D sponsorship too, although it's obviously less critical, since most of what you can make can be easily transferred to alts.
Joined January 2009
Time will only tell!
Just to make clear what I mean.
If I have a spec tree completed on one toon, another toon will earn a bonus point for the same tree with every regular spec point the secondary toon earns. Not just a single bonus point for the entire completed tree.
That would mean you could level the same tree twice as fast or level 2 trees simultaneously at the same rate.
that's a catch 22 situation there, if they play their alts they would get specialization as a natural course of play and if they don't play them then having specialization would be of no use to them anyway.
why not just doff your alts while playing your chosen main and by the time your main completes his spec tree your alts will be up to level 60 through doffing alone and ready to start maxing out their spec tree, then just give your main a rest and just doff with him and just one by one play your alts until they have filled their tree.
and what about ship mastery if you are not playing your alts even if you are getting free specialization on them the only way you will get ship mastery is to play space based missions with them and ship mastery is at least as important as specialization anyway.
in any case once you finish the tree on your main I think you will find that the end result is not such a big deal everyone seems to think it is and you wont be in that much of a rush to get it on all of your characters in any case.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
if you level up all your toons at the same time, this won't help you much, but if you start one toon later it will be that much easier.
Also you could at the same time level 2 or 3 toons each in a different spec tree and then swap after you got the sponsor benefits to then level the other ones at twice the speed.