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Not again... New lockbox escort screws old ones again
samt296
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I recently happily purchased the Contortrix escort a few weeks ago and was loving the hell out of it, being superior to pretty much everything including the much vaunted bug ship. Now a new ship comes along that is the exact same type of escort but just a touch better at everything! One point higher turn rate, one more BOFF slot, slightly better shields etc.
WHY!?!
I will probably ending up buying the new escort eventually since I compulsively collect and own the best escorts, but I'm still pissed the hell off at cryptic for TRIBBLE my poor little Contortrix right in the arsehole!
I thought yall were trying to be creative and original when making lockbox ships, usually you make something new and interesting for us to play around with. Not a slightly better clone of something else...
WHY!?!
I will probably ending up buying the new escort eventually since I compulsively collect and own the best escorts, but I'm still pissed the hell off at cryptic for TRIBBLE my poor little Contortrix right in the arsehole!
I thought yall were trying to be creative and original when making lockbox ships, usually you make something new and interesting for us to play around with. Not a slightly better clone of something else...
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You wanted to know why... and there is your answer.... power creep plus people not paying with their pocketbooks... equals Cryptic doing this over and over and over again...
Until you and everyone else stops paying Cryptic for doing this.... they'll keep doing it because it's a blank check for them that they're already walking to the bank with.
You answered your own question.
That is kind of like how it is in STO. Newer, shinier ships coming along all the time. Always for a another price tag. But you don't need them to crush your enemies. Until you learn to do 40k dps in a Galaxy R, you still haven't peaked. You still have untapped potential just waiting to be exploited. Hone your skill to perfection. Cryptic can't put a price on that.
^^ This ^^
(applause)
Well said. I don't need to spend $200 or 550 m EC to have "the best" ship just because it might be slightly better than the ship I fly now. Play for fun, not to show off your gear.
I have news for you:
The quest to have the best toy in an MMO is a never-ending one. No matter how great your toy is, a new toy which is objectively better will eventually be introduced. This reality is not going to change. It is the very nature of a living MMO.
New content=new toys
You'll be much happier if you stop trying to keep up with the Jones' and instead focus on just having fun.
This, this, this. They are going to *keep* treating the players like addicted marks until they start speaking with their money.
You answered your own question OP. Stop spending and let Cryptic figure it out on their own if they care to.
Nice analogy there, made me smile.:)
There's something else Fox and STO players have in common now, we're all doing barrel rolls.:D
And I'm sure there was plenty of rage and spite from players prior to the Contortix appearing who were pissed when it first came out as well, that their formerly legendary/newfangled/escort was suddently outdone and outgunned by a faction-less ship.
On the bright-side; at least it isn't capable of even OsS and IT1, much less SS1.
And on the brighter-side; some future Primary Specialization will have a escort to beat the Vaadwaur escort. But at least it'll still be T6. Just with a different specialization seat.
And on the sunny and rosy side; the same will happen for many other ships if it hasn't already (technically, Eclipse and Qib pretty much take the lead in combat-oriented cruisers).
And on the sunny side of Mercury, it's practically guaranteed that new ships will be released that outdo the old standard. Unless you're Romulan or KDF, upon which you might never see a new T6 Sci ship. Which is still higher than ever seeing a Bird of Prey descendant/successor.
Slight sarcasm aside; nothing stays at the top forever, unless the game is dying, close to dying (those MMOs that shut down their cash shops or made them all free until the servers go down), or undead (one of the other PWE games, IIRC). The sooner you get used to that fact; the happier you'll be as far as MMOs go.
The new Vaadwaur escort? The 5/2 set-up is nice, and so is the extra boff slot. I could use the intel seating. The turn rate buff and mastery trait are meh. That it's not a fed ship and I kinda like having a fed ship on my main toon is bad. The lower hull and lack of lt comm tac seat are deal-breakers.
Still waiting to replace my little tempest....
And oh yeah ditto on what everyone else on the thread is saying. If people didn't spend enormous gobs of real world money for keys to get a *chance* at winning one of these ships, then Cryptic would stop making so many. Even if you buy them with EC (and I have too, not judging), then you're driving up the price that some people see on the exchange that motivates some of them to buy keys.
Xindi-Reptilian Contortrix Escort was annoying has hell anyway, with that ridiculously long tail, constantly TRIBBLE with your camera pos (unless you zoom out real far).
It looked cool on the teevee, but what does that tail even do?
Um, hywat?
Vaadwaur escort has Lt Intel / Sci slot so it can at least slot the first two abilities. Arguably the Phantom has an edge thanks to its stronger Intel abilities.
Anyway, @OP; unless your skills are top-notch, all your gear is gold, and you're a PVPer, then the qualitative difference is academic. Pretty well any decently-handled T5U escort will kill all nonPVP content - the rest is overkill.
I do like this one though it's lack of cloak means it's a bit more risky to use.
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