K, for free, spending ZERO cash on the game ( NO OFFENSE CRYPTIC ) i made 426 million EC in a just a couple of days, watching netflix while crafting and selling on the exchange.
I did this without needing to rotate my 37-38 toons. WHILE maintaining dilithium to upgrade. ( i would do the contraband when i wanted to, NOT EVERY DAY I PLAY... Mind you. )
I wont sit here and explain exactly how i do it on the forums, but it is simply just from crafting. No exploits no bugs, ZERO GRINDING. The only grinding i feel i do is when i need to Master a ship. I am a 30k Dpser no problemo, i am satisfied with that.
Call me nuts, aside from the glitches regularly found in a MMO with a weekly update, this game has seriously IMPROVED from a FLEET LEADER position of an ACTIVE tier 5 fleet. ( NO WE ARE NOT RECRUITING, WE ARE AT MAXIMUM CAPACITY AS OF LATE.)
The whole fleet thing? You guys actually brought fleets closer teamwork wise, who didn't run from the change that Delta rising brought.
In the end its about perspective, how you perceive your play style.
I support Cryptic 100% as well AFTER READING THIS THREAD-
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1162461
You want to know why? If you actually READ IT, the devs answered a lot of questions i needed answered about the stability of this company and the game, before i invested time going into my fourth year playing.
I may not agree with everything new content wise, But after my personal experiance HATING Delta rising, then actually playing it, believe it or not it made me think i AM actually a better fleet leader in my own eyes, because of the fact Delta Rising content actually makes me think about shtuff, for my people.
( something about 9.5 still bugs me, but i cannot remember ATM lol. )
I am also one of those players that agreed pre-delta rising the game was to fricken easy to play.
I dunno, but im gonna tell yah this... everytime i see some whining about how "bad cryptic is" i am going to point them to that thread because BOOM, They answered everything i personally needed to know, and yes, i do see a bright, FLASHING future for this game, if the devs and cryptic maintain course, and stop fighting amongst themselves. This is an obvious issue plastered all over the internet.
Because of the staffing changes, i am sure Cryptic is all over fixing that problem though which is a great thing. I do really love this game. It has been a part of my life going into a fourth year in June.
About the buisness model, Cryptic has going, you have to remember this is a F2P game. They DO need to make money to pay their employess, and server costs and such..... so stop whining about the fact they charge 2500 zen for a ship that is better then a 3000 zen ship... it isnt the case the 2500 ship is better or worse, its all on how you percieve your own play style, and where you find that level of, okay, im good with 30k dps, lets go do something else.
Also remember, YOU DO NOT NEED TO pay anything on this game, if you are patient. Don't expect everything handed to you in a week or even a month playing this game... its challenging, and has a GREAT FUN, Learning curve.
It is all about how YOU the player percieves things. If your not enjoying the game, you can always change your perspective, before you change games. Expecially if you like Star Trek Online.
Yet again, i say thank you Cryptic, for the outstanding job you guys CAN do when you want to. You as employees of a company need to WORK TOGETHER BETTER AS A TEAM. That is all.
Thank you.
Tamujiin.
P.S. CRYPTIC, HERE IS MAH MONEY! TAKE IT!
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I havent made one, and i only played that idiotic mini game from the particles once lol... the mini games in any game are not for me though. Never have been because of the grind in final fantasy 7( snowboarding) i did to perfect that thing HA!.
That was free basically from a glitch pre-LoR, cryptic BTW did not ban everyone for exploiting, and no i dont use them to exploit the market. Like i said i barely do anything with them now, and cryptic knows this, in the end that is all that matters to me about that fact. :P
By all means i don't work for cryptic, i invite you all to come see what we do. Id be willing to share our teamspeak 3 info, and invite you to our fleet channel in game to check us out, as long as your smart enough to know how to get ahold of me in game, due to trolling issues and such. Right now the market is dead because people don't know the real value of the crafting system when it comes to easily making a build with a viable 10k-50k Dps build.
Yes, i would equally agree with cryptic saying lets get rid of the doom sayers and whiners and replace them with positive players. Look at how a simple praise on the forums turned into me somehow working for cryptic.
I am a fun guy. I run an ACTIVE fleet, always have, without unnecessary BS. IF all you "doom sayers" say the game is dying, then i say this. Your not getting the full experience because your fleet is being lead poorly. I don't lead my fleet. My friends i have met and learned from myself playing this game lead my fleet. I listen to them. I am the central motivator yes, that is it. Without your fleet members all you have is a dead fleet. You have to groom them, and show them the interesting parts of the game and have fun with it, because in the end, we can get a group together on a good night and run everything flawlessly. On bad nights its prolly because we are all drunk, or simply put it doesn't work out that night. Its all about playing the game to have FUN.
The key is we learn and have fun playing the game with out a OMG attitude towards cryptic because they use micro-transactions. We constantly are trying to find ways NOT to spend money on the game. Although some of us do, to either support cryptic, or because we want something, saying TRIBBLE cryptic why yah doing this to meh....
By the way im 33 married, i work, go to college, get good grades ( 3.0 fine with me... ) have kids, i don't play all day long, that is why i find out the things i like too find out. I don't advertise them on the forums because if everyone did them it would ruin how i do things. I share that stuff with my fleet members.
As i said the 37-38 toons i simply leveled with a glitch cryptic knows well about. As i said as well i dont play them anymore since delta rising launched do to the Rnd System, because i dont have to, because what i see is people do not know BOLD face 80% of the game, know the actual VALUE to your account of the RnD system.
When it comes to rep, you need to run 5 simple 5 minute missions a day to get your rep marks on a toon for 3 days, as long as you get the bonus box, this hardly sounds like i play 24/7.
You run into the voth battle zone, clear one section BOOM, marks, easily for days if your leveling up your rep for dyson marks, same with the undine space battle zone, then run a CCA, A romulan tau dewa daily.
Maybe ya all dont know me cause i dont flash what we all do as a fun friendly group around the internet. I am 1000% confident, that we could. With who leads my fleet. Me and My friend "run it".
Then, there is the Slick man, who runs stuff with meh. We always dont think the same way on things, but we can always come to some form of idea what should be done fairly if any issues arise period. We also talk about shtuff, and not get butthurt over things, cause we are just hip, and cool like that. We also regulate this down the ranks.
Last but not least, your needs for I NEED IT NOW SO I PUSH THE GRIND makes no sense because i have everything in the game and feel 100% satisfied. I seriously have felt no grind in this game, since DR launched, if your smart and do it right. And no way in hell would i advertise how i do it on the forums, because then everyone would do it. Well look, now i did i guess. Oh well.
Im ranting..... Adios.
Edit: Tonight, i remembered, my own personal grind. Opening 30-60 lockboxes a day because of RnD making me rich.... good enough for me.
Most of the mats for the RnD grind (basics anyway for me) came from the previous samples and such before DR.
I haven't see him Grind or exploit anything. The biggest issue I see in this game is the h8ers and those that are dps only... You have all forgotten it is a game and you need to have fun. You don't have to spend money on this thing.
In my opinion, if you don't like the game, then leave. Find another. He is crafting his backside off and selling in Exchange and in Trading Channel.
Cryptic has issues, plenty of them. But they are getting better in many ways. Remember, every time you give them money, you are sending them your approval. Be patient, and have fun!
So haters are gonna hate. Stop the hate and start having fun.
Yawn. So you craft and sell weps. My, aren't you special.
'Positive players', like yourself, you mean? Nah. I've seen braggers like you, times a dozen, when I was still playing EvE. Thing is, in here, some just like to show off their new DPS records, and others, like you, flaunt their alleged economic prowess. Again, yawn. Only difference is, that you'd like to get rid of other people in the process, while you're at it.
he is no troll, I have played with Tam for years, one of the best players, and fleet leaders one could ask for, this is not a troll thread- read and learn.
Yes and for some reason i have noticed, negative players like yourself, come over here from eve and compare the two games. The games are two different games.
I dont need to flaunt my wealthyness. I am not trying to impress anyone. The point being is, a lot of NEGATIVE TRIBBLE WHINERS play this game. And ***** about something they CANNOT comprehend.
"Yawn. So you craft and sell weps. My, aren't you special."
This is just simply all around a negative comment, explaining my point. Yes i do sell weapons, and make EC of them, YAWN... ITS NOT HARD. WHY DO PEOPLE CRY ABOUT IT......?
Nope. I'll tl;dr your start post for you:
"OMG! I'm so awesome!"
"OMG! You all totally suck!"
Kudos to you for making weps. Several of our Fleet members do too, and are extremely proficient at it (not me, btw). They usually don't go posting about it, though calling others "NEGATIVE TRIBBLE WHINERS" who "***** about something they CANNOT comprehend." That part is just you.
If you had made a helpful first post, on how to craft properly or something, that would have qualified yourself for 'positive player' status. Coming in here, however, telling us you're God's gift to Earth, belittling everyone who can't do the same, no, that's not positive at all.
I am not the best fleet member in my fleet either. Nor am i the richest. You, like twisting what you read because you are simply a negative person.
"OMG" i am not better then anyone.
"OMG" I am not the richest player.
I can say, i am one of the more HAPPIER players in this game. And one of the more HAPPIER fleet leaders because of the members i have.
BTW i am the chimpanzee on ESD all the time. I run around looking like that because i am a "positive" person and i like to have fun.
Simple as that.
In no way is this game perfect. As i said before, it has STAFFING ISSUES, and INFIGHTING with-in the teams developing the game. In reality EVERY company has issues like this. The issue here is i think KIDS like to make comments on things, they really do not know anything about.
With the amount of NEGATIVE people on these forums, i choose not to use them as often as i "could" or "should.
Instead of being so close minded and NEGATIVE, maybe you should like take a chill pill, and ask yourself, if you are so UNHAPPY playing this game, go play something else, BECAUSE YES, you will be replaced. By someone more POSITIVE about the game, then you.
FACT- The game has issues.
TRUTH- The devs work on those problems. And with the amount of BUG FIXES in the last two patches, i have to praise them for ACTUALLY going in the direction the game NEEDS, and fixing some things.
Things dont happen over night, and yes, certain things need to be worked on, that take TIME.
As the FCT thread says, the DEVS and the Community Managers ARE people who have FEELINGS, and you should at least RESPECT that by showing some form of positivity.
If my reputation is making you do this, it is probably because i did troll you, because you are a NEGATIVE PLAYER picking on someone in game, or were one of the RUDE players on ESD. I am sorry if you can't take a minute to get to know someone, because your world is centered around YOU.
My apologies you must feel this way. My intention was not to make you feel so negative, or whine like you are.
Good day.
I don't know; they've had half a decade live so far, and one of their more recent design pushes was to start stripping out as much already existing content from the game as they could manage.
I don't know that given a further decade, the game would change all that appreciably.
I'd worry about a company which needs to turn to its customers to help boost morale.
Makes you wonder how little they pay the guys who actually keep the game operating, and how much they overpay the executives who can always be counted on to nickel and dime the playerbase whenever they need a new Porsche.
If they want their hand held, there are ways to go about it, but blaming the players isn't productive.
I can't recall Blizzard ever getting upset about negative opinions, and it sure doesn't seem to keep them from making boatloads of profit.
In terms of regulars, I'd say the white knights have the numbers. Most of them probably don't even consider themselves as such, but they'll defend the status quo all the same.
Considering that he just strolled out of the woodwork and banged his chest while complementing the (F.C.T) thread , can we say both ? :rolleyes:
Well if that's not enough , here are more pearls of wisdom he shared in the friendliest and most charming way possible in another self idolizing thread he started :
... dance monkey , dance !! :cool:
Okay, sorry... you are awesome! you are the bestest! Someday I want to be just like you! I'm clapping, really. You are so awesome I'm sure you can find me in game and you will see me clapping for you there too.
Better?
I will take time hgere to note that I am unfortunately out of work right now (Curses, CURSES!!!) so I do have far too much time to play the game, my experience likely reflects that in part.
By actually playing the game as opposed to logging in to slot some DOff's and run whichever event, I've gathered quite the nest-egg of Dil - Somewhere between 1.8 & 1.9 million in the last few months, which at the current exchange rate is (conveniently) around the 10,000 Zen mark.
People go on about how there are nerfs on earning Dil, but it was only yesterday that the first of my characters who partook of the Dil week ran out of unrefined Dil, (and today the second character), Even my new Klingon who has only been played for a few days has already refined 50,000 Dil, and I'm deliberately avoiding most DOff missions with him - Only going for the mission chains, contraband & 50 Dil payouts. (Mind you he has done the available Empire Defence missions most days (Only just unlocked the Borg one), so that's been an easy 1,440 (or 2,880) Dil daily to date. The 500-odd Dil for completing missions has been very tasty here.
Experience... For pre-existing characters, getting to 60 was a slog, and extremely irritating to do whilst trying to complete the DR missions, but as I mentioned at the beginning somewhere, my new characters both hit 60 long before that was an issue, and my Klingon looks like he'll be the same. For spec points, aye, it does look like I won't be maxing them out for any of my characters any time soon, but as I don't feel the need to crush everything before me within a second, that's fine. They'll come as and when they do (Mind you, I haven't spent any of the points I've earned on any of my characters yet as I've yet to really look into what each specialisation actually does), though I know not everyone feels that way, and the rate of gain is set a fair ways too low. (I also wouldn't mind if they awarded a Spec Point for completing each mission arc)
Anyway, enough rambling on... My point was... was... Did I have a point? Ahh yes! The game has a great many flaws. I could list them, but I haven't got all day, and enough people rant about them all anyway, but things aren't nearly as bad as some people make out. At least not if you actually play the game (or spend money).
The game is Free-to-Play. That means (to me) that you invest either time or money. If you do, you get rewarded. If you aren't willing to do so, why do you expect something for nothing?
Well hell, By the looks of this thread i think i found the issue with this game.
See half you cannot read, the other half who comment on the forums wont. I compliment Cryptic for doing a good job for once, and now i am automatically a troll, or come off arrogent.
Sorry i type with my brain and have some knowledge about a game i like.
I wont be sharing diddly on these forums anymore. I have maybe used these 4 or 5 times.
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The reason i don't is look.... i was just bullied out of the fourms for giving the game a COMPLIMENT.
Thats the issue with the game.... the NEGATIVE PLAYERS. Read the comments.
MODERATORS. PLEASE CLOSE THREAD.
Remember what Q said to Picard in "Q Who?":
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
^^ Best applicable quote in this thread!