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Bring back exploration clusters!
jkwrangler2010
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It's getting boring just grinding away for reputation marks and specialization points. At least the exploration clusters allowed you to blast away enemies and was a good testing ground for new ship loadouts and ground weapons.
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Yeah, nothing else exists in the game to allow you to do this.
Warp to random system, couple of space scans, maybe deal with an occasional raider force, and in STO's case, beam down to the planet and take scans; pretty much like the New Romulus homeworld mission.
The most they could do to vary it up a bit is probably tie in a bit of the ancient Vulcan civilization sideplot to some of the exploration clusters, as well as relics of a few other ancient space-capable races (like that one race that reverted back to a tribal lifestyle in one of the Fed missions).
Such as every few dull clusters triggers access to an ancient civilization "discovery", mainly to break the monotony, before going back to the usual boring exploration until the RNG deems you worthy of accessing anther ancient civilization "discovery". And say there's 3 available ancient race side-plots you can explore on your own time. Each with maybe 5 dialogue-heavy missions, with a chance of accessing one being at 5% or so, up to 20% with maxed out Exploration.
But it'll still be boring, and eventually repetitive due to the lack of focus they would get compared to usual updates.
Kill, scan, repair, ... 5 something was pretty much as engaging and exiting as watching Big Brother reruns.
No, now we just get really boring kill 5 waves of 5 hp sponges with Delta Patrols.
Yeah, because they are never encountering hostile species, cataloguing gaseous anomalies, conducting planetary surveys, studying nebulas or stars or exploring the ruins of ancient civilizations. :rolleyes:
Then they released Delta Rising - which includes four missions that each involve four boring exploration cluster type patrols.
Makes sense to me.
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Or fighting T-rex with lazerz on their heads, having entire fleets of "fed/KDF" aliens vessels around Earth/Qo'nos (including Scimitar with Thalaron weapons that could potentially nuke the entire planet in mere seconds), is more trek.
Or grinding marks/dil/R&D resources/reputation to upgrade your ship/component. Like you know, Picard. Perhaps you remember this episode where he complain he can't upgrade his phaser banks to MK XIV because he doesn't have enough dil, and how he want to kill the crystalline entity again for it.
Yeah, right. We encounter a lot of civilizations in STO. Most of them ends up dead after the meeting.
Exploration clusters were not that great, but they were as trek as pretty much everything else in the game. Perhaps even more.
I know not everyone liked them, but it was content.
Content should NEVER be taken out unless there is something BETTER to replace it.
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They were almost as boring as Argala.
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Liked: It was something different each system you did. From doing supplies drop off, to scanning, to combat.
Hated: Not enough different missions, so many became a repeat. Bugs galore! Many times I couldn't finish the darn mission due to the problems. Either the enemy target was getting stuck, vanish, or map itself. To where even my own character and Boffs was getting plagued with issues. This is why I stopped doing them and ignored them.
IF they bring it back, revamp the entire thing.
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And removing content is "never" a good thing.
Star Trek always had some other story going on with those episodes. It is why they are there, but plays only a minor part to the story.
Yeah I hope they remove the klingon faction soon as well. I mean its not like they do anything with them anymore. Dont you just love it when content is removed from the game. Who cares if some people liked it and it wasn't really hurting anything having it there. Less options and verity FTW
This a million times over. Don't take something out of the game unless you have a better replacement for it. It was a kneejerk reaction that made little sense even if they were super boring because it's the only exploration we really have in the game.
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Sums it up quite nicely ...
At least there was some Variety in Clusters ... Ground Missions, Scan 5x Missions, Deliver Commodities ... DQ - Patrols on the other hand are all "Kill Kill Kill 5x Waves of Enemy XY in Space" (ok to be fair there is one Shuttle Race)
It's the backwards Definition of Insanity ... doing different stuff (at least in theory, according to the "Story"), but always gettin the same result ...
=> So yes please, bring them back please, we all know there's no mystical Revamp on the Horizon (except hooking up Clusters with Foundry Doors, which barely anyone uses) -> is it gonna happen, though ? -> doubt it ...
PS : Remember all these "Don't worry they're gonna bring back Exploration in DR, it's the perfect opportunity, what else would you do in an Delta Quadrant - Expansion" - people ? ... funny funny stuff, in retrospect ...
Because they're different ... how ?
Give the players enough "fresh" stuff to do (that means stuff that does not involve the "Repeat" button) and they won't have time to complain on a XP / char maxed playcurve designed for a universe so far bigger than STO is right now BUT actually should be by now.
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yep, and threads like this one are pretty much the reason for that...if people cry about bringing stupidly repetitive and boring content back to the game, cryptic will do it. Delta rising patrol missions are proof of that.
If people champion so enthusiastic for ****ty content, they will get ****ty content. pretty simple logic.
Delta Rising patrol missions are pretty much as repetitive and boring and predictable, but they are atleast fashioned around the story and they are not as bug ridden as explo cluster garbage was.
The clusters themselves certainly were not the best content, but I still found myself doing the daily every now and again to change things up a bit.