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- Hit Fire at Will with the nerfbat to bring it in line with scatter volley.
- Rebalance all the existing abilities to make every single one appealing and not useless (Aceton Beam much?).
- Increase the XP gain by x2.
- Remove the T5U thing and straight make a ship upgradable to T6 capabilities (minus the trait), making their Lieutenant seats hybrid universal.
- Hit AtB with the nerfbat by allowing to slot only one of those doffs.
- Hit Romulan Boffs with the nerfbat to bring them in line with other factions. (It's not possible that my Scimitar has 1/3 crit chance, 33% and unspeakable CrtD).
- Give innate resistance to energy damage on hull to give torpedoes a reason to exist.
- Give some basic matchmaking to PvP matches and make them more rewarding by increasing the awarded XP and adding an Advanced R&D Pack Reward.
- Bring Mark XIII and XIV weapons in line with the damage scaling of lower marks. (click to see the brutal increase put on a cartesian graphic).
- Change the game's ISP.
- Give NPCs an Artificial Intelligence worth of that name by making them use more advanced tactics rather than being hitpoint bags.
- At Mk XIV, if upgrading again to improve the mark of an item, make it a 100% chance to happen.
- Rework the Cardassian Arc, it's some tedious firing practice.
- Make Starship Traits account wide.
- Go full force on making an update aimed to address long lasting bugs and issues.
- Stay more in touch with the community with in-game Dev sessions rather than excruciating long podcasts.
Feel free to add. :cool:
EDIT: And see this post. ~ Bluegeek
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You'd have to ban everyone. To be honest, I'd prefer a team of... uh... anything else is better.
Twice.
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Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
lol thanks. That was original.
Making ship traits accountwide reminds me of spec unlocks, make those accountwide and refund any duplicates.
On exp, perhaps reducing the amount needed per level by half and increasing the rewards per mission by 25% and for each ground kill in line with space kills of the same level.
This basically boils down to Cryptic spending some time on QOL and balance for a bit rather than lock boxes and more broken queues.
FAW, CSV, and TS all need to be hit with the nerfbat...
Some of that gets more into content than anything.
Why?
Why?
Why?
A 2x Tac/3x Other Rom can have 7.5% CrtH / 18.8% CrtD more than a KDF/Fed.
The resistance is already balanced.
Bring the PvE afking to PvP?
That ignores the cost of upgrading from Mk XII to Mk XIII to Mk XIV...they should have gone with Geko's original posted amounts rather than what they delivered.
Mk I - XII provided +10%.
Mk XIII was supposed to give +20%...it's giving +40%.
Mk XIV was supposed to give +40%...it's giving +70%.
Isn't the sole cause of various issues and isn't an issue for some folks at all.
This is an extremely casual game...that would kill the game off.
The cost of the upgrade would have to be normalized to take into account the previous costs.
Different people enjoy different things.
Why?
They do need more staff, imho.
I hate podcasts.
This.
Track individual accounts on the STO forums and if they haven't touched the game for months, but persist in trolling and flaming? Remove them.
If individuals on the STO forums posts feedback on changes in the game without actually testing/playing it for themselves, remove them.
If individuals have a track record of displaying gross insanity who have completely lost their grip on reality, remove them -- or at least flag their accounts for the public to see just how insane they are.
Remove the name and shame policy for the forums, hold individuals accountable for their actions and what they say. If they can hold a grudge against Cryptic for saying this or that and not delivering, we should be able to give STO forum posters the same latitude.
Also, everybody gets a pay raise.
Some of us have multiple monitors and browse the web/forums while we wait for ****ty small timers to pass. Timers such as 5 minute beam craft timers, 20 second craft timers, 5 second mark conversion timers. STF cooldown timers. Transwarp timers. And so forth.
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It is a peculiar phenomenon that we can imagine events that defy the laws of the universe.
Hrmm, I'd rather they hired more folks than pay the folks they've got more money...well, outside of normal bonuses for jobs well done and things like that. Honestly, I just don't think they have the people they need to keep up with their production schedules without having to drop too many things and not being able to squash as many bugs as they could. Hell, I wish they'd higher more folks instead of adding more VO...get things normalized, then have the profit/revenue stream, and then look at adding the VO.
Well, if I'm only the Lead Dev for a day -- I'm under the impression there is a whole lot of nothing I can get done in a single work day (even accounting for working overtime).
I can't hire a whole bunch of people on the spot in a day, so if I'm going to make a strong impression on the development team, it'll be with the complete disregard of budgetary constraints.
Fixed that for you.
Developers code.
Designers create ideas.
You can make awesome ideas and implement terrible code.
You can make horrible ideas and implement perfect code.
Cryptic could be doing better in both fronts.
That said, I'd rather be a Designer than a Dev. Then, I'd need way more than one day if I ever want to make a difference.
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Your cartesian plane doesnt have axis descriptions. I presume "y" is damage, I have no idea what "x" is, nor is there anything that would make sense to be there, other than mark level, but its obviously not mark.
player traits stack with everything... but only 1 bridge officer trait.
for consoles... no more console stacking. so if you want you can do +beams and +specific energy but not 5 copies of a specific energy type.
yeah I would give hulls innate energy resistance as well... unless they rework torps to remove the shield resistance.
remove shared cool downs on torps.
Make both TS/HY duration buffs like CRF/CSV/FAW/Surgical (as well as making BO a duration buff).
It's time...
If I was lead dev for a day, I would lock people who only talk about killing PvP into only being able PvP.
Wrong fix.
Y axis is damage, X axis is for showing marks. Wanna be more specific? Sure.
between MK XI and XII damage, there is around 4,5% difference.
between MK XII and XIII damage, there is around 15% difference.
between MK XIII and XIV damage, there is around 21% difference.
between MK XII and XIV damage, there is around 32,5% difference.
That's for base stats provided by Dual Heavy Cannons of same rarity, with same mods but different mark.
That makes even less sense. Time is a constant, not a variable for a measurement like this. According to you chart, the lower level equipment is getting less time to generate damage . Its not an apples to apples comparison. Try using the same time for ew h weapon and find a new "x" that is a viable factor, and maybe you have a point.
Also, I'd give every player a (Dilithium, Zen, EC, Latinum, Lobi, Mark and even Grind) free space pony.