So if I'm reading this right, all I have to do is basically level up a single Delta recruit and get a single one of her crafting schools to 5, and then each of my characters across my entire account, current and future, gets:
- 850 rep marks
- essentially 7 free R&D packs
- 650 fleet marks
- Improved Temporal Insight
- customizable photonic boff
- 6000 usable-for-anything dil
- 5000 fleet-only dil
- a ground team rez device
- a space cooldown reduction device
All I have to say to this is, hell yeah. This kicks serious butt.
Just waiting for a confirmation / and / or a "subject to change" note ... .
The event is surely nicely-thought out for new players, so I can imagine there hasn't been a better time to bring your friends, to give them a kick-start. Which is great, and for that, my kudos to the devs.
However, from the position of literally enjoying one character (well, make that two, KDF was rolled just two weeks ago), both from story-wise point, as well as investment in terms of time & efficiency - I have over 20k unprocessed reputation marks on my main. There has been huge requests for XP, and I humbly feel that is quite relevant, for all of us.
A well-established character has no problem getting more reputation marks at all in fact.
I guess I personally would feel more excited about the event, if I could just literally re-create my main and play it as part of different faction, which has always been something I wanted to do; but obviously, the species choice doesn't allow for that. <.< >.>
Not trying to be negative; again, some of these things are really nice, especially for those, who have friends who they can bring to the game or for those, who are looking to make a nice alt-for themselves, and I do know couple of altoholics who'll be thriving and all fidgety for the event to start, and I'm happy for them
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I noticed that the reward for Completing all storyline episodes includes a fully customizable Engineering PBOff. Any chance of making the old Science PBOff fully customizable during this event, too, please?
They haven't gone into the sever wide rewards that Delta Recruits can get...one of these is double and triple XP
As I understand it, the XP rewards for the weekly event will be of the "if you play during this period", but if I'm busy playing my Delta Recuilt, I won't be able to play my main during the bonus period.
Now if they give away XP Boost devices I can hold on to and play later, that might be useful...
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well looks like i will be retiring my current mains if im going to invest time and effort into this delta recruit thing im either "all in" or not at all.:rolleyes:
Perhaps this will be explained in a future blog, but how are these bonus objectives going to happen? Will we be doing a mission, like rescuing the Azura, and our mysterious benefactor will contact us at some point and ask us to hack this console and then we're done?
I noticed that the reward for Completing all storyline episodes includes a fully customizable Engineering PBOff. Any chance of making the old Science PBOff fully customizable during this event, too, please?
These two Boffs are built using completely different costume/species methods. As such, they are totally unrelated to one-another. Allowing the Photonic-Sci to become customizable would be as much of an effort on its own, as creating an entirely new Boff.
After reading the rewards, I'm giving serious thought to deep-sixing some more of my less-used characters and going for complete re-rolls. Like the ones that are level 50 and under.
Up till now, I'd only planned on having one per faction. Now, I might just double up if I have the slots for it.
I can only actively play one at at time, of course. The others I'll just shepherd through the tutorial and save for future runs.
There's the added bonus of getting to reuse some of those old C-Store ships on my account.
Curse you, Cryptic, for aggravating my alt-itis!!!
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So if I'm reading this right, all I have to do is basically level up a single Delta recruit and get a single one of her crafting schools to 5, and then each of my characters across my entire account, current and future, gets:
- 850 rep marks
- essentially 7 free R&D packs
- 650 fleet marks
- Improved Temporal Insight
- customizable photonic boff
- 6000 usable-for-anything dil
- 5000 fleet-only dil
- a ground team rez device
- a space cooldown reduction device
All I have to say to this is, hell yeah. This kicks serious butt.
Where do you see that? All I see for getting the crafting school to level 5 is auto setting one to 10 for the recruit (along with Gumarre and 5 other DOffs from rank 1) and equivalent of 5 R&D packs (plus 2 from the rank 1) for all characters.
I'm surprised this hasn't been said yet, so I'll say it now.
Each of the factions have missions that are not already shared between them. We know that we won't be able to unlock the account rewards more than once, which means we do not need multiple recruits. However, because of these unique missions, we don't know if there will be things that we might miss if we don't play as a recruit for one of the other two factions.
Bort, can you find out if there's new faction specific dialog vital to the upcoming story?
Might I ask why? Locking it male is... well, deeply disappointing. Especially since the BOff is a hologram.
How long has it been since a special BOff has been female? I don't recall any from DR.
All the customizable Borg boffs, with the exception of Reman, and that's only for Romulans, are female (to my disappointment) ... so there's that. <.<
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Is there a massive advertising effort on this to attract new players? If not then this just looks like another attempt to generate sales, new character slots.
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The only answer I need now is the gender of the photonic boff reward. Hoping for selectable.
It's also nice that there's no limit to complete Delta Recruit tasks, letting players complete their Delta Recruit characters at their own leisure.
Just waiting for a confirmation / and / or a "subject to change" note ... .
... oh wait , we already got that note ...
However, from the position of literally enjoying one character (well, make that two, KDF was rolled just two weeks ago), both from story-wise point, as well as investment in terms of time & efficiency - I have over 20k unprocessed reputation marks on my main. There has been huge requests for XP, and I humbly feel that is quite relevant, for all of us.
A well-established character has no problem getting more reputation marks at all in fact.
I guess I personally would feel more excited about the event, if I could just literally re-create my main and play it as part of different faction, which has always been something I wanted to do; but obviously, the species choice doesn't allow for that. <.< >.>
Not trying to be negative; again, some of these things are really nice, especially for those, who have friends who they can bring to the game or for those, who are looking to make a nice alt-for themselves, and I do know couple of altoholics who'll be thriving and all fidgety for the event to start, and I'm happy for them
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I noticed that the reward for Completing all storyline episodes includes a fully customizable Engineering PBOff. Any chance of making the old Science PBOff fully customizable during this event, too, please?
As I understand it, the XP rewards for the weekly event will be of the "if you play during this period", but if I'm busy playing my Delta Recuilt, I won't be able to play my main during the bonus period.
Now if they give away XP Boost devices I can hold on to and play later, that might be useful...
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I can answer that one. No, you must complete the tutorial in order to play a Delta Recruit.
The who-the-what now? Where was that in the blog? I may need to make some space ...
I guess so, if you really want to. A lot of character-bound rewards would go to waste, then.
Afraid not, sorry. He will use male costume options.
These two Boffs are built using completely different costume/species methods. As such, they are totally unrelated to one-another. Allowing the Photonic-Sci to become customizable would be as much of an effort on its own, as creating an entirely new Boff.
There will be different locations, in different maps, spread throughout the entire leveling process from 1 to 50. There is no single central location.
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Up till now, I'd only planned on having one per faction. Now, I might just double up if I have the slots for it.
I can only actively play one at at time, of course. The others I'll just shepherd through the tutorial and save for future runs.
There's the added bonus of getting to reuse some of those old C-Store ships on my account.
Curse you, Cryptic, for aggravating my alt-itis!!!
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No never!!
Where do you see that? All I see for getting the crafting school to level 5 is auto setting one to 10 for the recruit (along with Gumarre and 5 other DOffs from rank 1) and equivalent of 5 R&D packs (plus 2 from the rank 1) for all characters.
Might I ask why? Locking it male is... well, deeply disappointing. Especially since the BOff is a hologram.
How long has it been since a special BOff has been female? I don't recall any from DR.
The dead girl was a female... I mean, I didn't check or anything but she looks like a she. Can never be to sure with aliens though.
Each of the factions have missions that are not already shared between them. We know that we won't be able to unlock the account rewards more than once, which means we do not need multiple recruits. However, because of these unique missions, we don't know if there will be things that we might miss if we don't play as a recruit for one of the other two factions.
Bort, can you find out if there's new faction specific dialog vital to the upcoming story?
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Delta Recruit is still a character, so it should be able to claim any account reward that is unlocked.
I mean - all photonic boffs are male now....