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Is it time to remove food items from drops?

pappy02upappy02u Member Posts: 141 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Is it time to remove the food items from the drop tables and replace them with EC drops? I get most thing like healing and weapon power ups but food item? If you use these items they would still be available from chefs/bartenders/replicators, just not dropped from enemies.

I just vendor trash these things and most of the time when they drop they make no sense. I mean a Haggis from a Borg Drone? Romulan Olso from an Icoina? Catfish sandwich from a Voth?

I also realized half the time the weapon drop don't make sense either but I don't think pure EC drops are the answer either.

Woulda made a poll but don't know how.
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  • dirlettiadirlettia Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    And why exactly wouldnt an Undine like to carry around its pet Tribble, or a Banana split? Seriously trivial drops like this are only ever intended for us to have a wasted drop from the loot table.
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  • sdkraustsdkraust Member Posts: 524 Arc User
    People still pick up loot?
  • banatinebanatine Member Posts: 250 Arc User
    Agreed. Those food drops are an even bigger waste of time and space than a singularity.
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  • nathraelnathrael Member Posts: 264 Arc User
    They are-unless you are KDF or Rom with KDF alliance. Then they are readtion mass to feed tribbles for your Cannibal Tribble.
  • welcome2earfwelcome2earf Member Posts: 1,746 Arc User
    What? You mean you don't like seeing Banana Splits and Croissants being dropped by Borg drones?!?!?
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,647 Arc User
    Some of the rare ones are needed for anyone who wants to do the chef or bartender doff chains, but I suppose Cryptic could add them to vendors.
  • pappy02upappy02u Member Posts: 141 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    nathrael wrote: »
    They are-unless you are KDF or Rom with KDF alliance. Then they are readtion mass to feed tribbles for your Cannibal Tribble.
    Forgot about that, and I actually do that on my KDFs. But they could add Doff missions that gets you food items. Like the Authorized shuttle to suppl Gak (or whatever the title is) mission. That would actually make me do those missions

    welcome2earf wrote: »
    What? You mean you don't like seeing Banana Splits and Croissants being dropped by Borg drones?!?!?

    Don't mind it much from a newly assimilated drone. I figure it's a "If I'm going out I'm going to have one last...".
  • jasonyeefongjasonyeefong Member Posts: 105 Arc User
    But Trendy never got her Bacon added to the game yet. So I doubt they will get rid of it. :lol:
  • kyrrokkyrrok Member Posts: 1,352 Arc User
    Yes! Those food drops got to go.
  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,476 Arc User
    Only way the food drops can stay is if they sell for 100k-1M EC each​​
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  • sle1989sle1989 Member Posts: 552 Arc User
    You all want to starve the poor tribbles? Genocidal maniacs!
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  • goodscotchgoodscotch Member Posts: 1,680 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Rare foods like the Cardassian Taspar Egg or Tranya might still be ok. But a Catfish Sandwich drop is a let down. I make sure that my BOFFs are well supplied because they may end up on an away mission. I often switch up the landing party before beaming out. So if something drops that's the food item of choice for any given BOFF, I will resupply them from those drops. But that stuff is so inexpensive, it's kind of a waste of a drop. At least if a common ship or ground item dropped, that could be sold even to a vendor for a decent amount of EC.
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  • kyrrokkyrrok Member Posts: 1,352 Arc User
    I feed the tribbles, by proxy of course to the mastiff. He has to eat too =)
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    Some of the rare ones are needed for anyone who wants to do the chef or bartender doff chains, but I suppose Cryptic could add them to vendors.
    Yeah really. Some food items still sell for nice prices on exchange. why? because random drops are the only place to find them.

    As for "junk drops".... why not get rid of small power cells too? :p
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  • protogothprotogoth Member Posts: 2,369 Arc User
    jasonyeefong wrote: »
    But Trendy never got her Bacon added to the game yet. So I doubt they will get rid of it. :lol:

    We need pizza, too!

    I like the food drops. I say keep them.
  • supaj1m#6776 supaj1m
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    I havent picked up a "drop" in a looooong time
  • ladytiamat666ladytiamat666 Member Posts: 276 Arc User
    Agreed. And it's funny because i was thinking exactly the same thing in game today.
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  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    welcome2earf wrote: »
    What? You mean you don't like seeing Banana Splits and Croissants being dropped by Borg drones?!?!?

    I once caught the borg trying to assimilate hot chocolate. They'll never live that down, "Embarrassment is Irrelevant" my TRIBBLE. :p

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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    But what do we feed our Tribbles with then?


    Oh, wait... Awesome idea.​​
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  • necaradan666necaradan666 Member Posts: 83 Arc User
    They have a purpose, they take up valuable inventory spaces. WAI, if only good stuff dropped there'd be less grind and that's a bad thing for cryptic.
  • goodscotchgoodscotch Member Posts: 1,680 Arc User
    protogoth wrote: »
    jasonyeefong wrote: »
    But Trendy never got her Bacon added to the game yet. So I doubt they will get rid of it. :lol:

    We need pizza, too!

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  • royalsovereignroyalsovereign Member Posts: 1,344 Arc User
    kyrrok wrote: »
    I feed the tribbles, by proxy of course to the mastiff. He has to eat too =)
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    Why would they do that?
    Seriously, what is wrong with this playerbase, always wanting to have less of anything/everything in the game?
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  • bioixibioixi Member Posts: 764 Arc User
    It's time to remove drops and raplace them with energy credits.
  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    ohh please yes...maybe get rid of loot drop completely and just add a certain EC amount to the kill XP. What I really hate though are not the items themselves, but the glowing loot containers.
    And the fact that nothing actually useful can drop anyway just makes the elimination of loot drops even more sensible.

    "Why would they do that?"

    because random loot drops has zero relevance in STO. You can't even resell anything that droped on the exchange.
    Mission rewards and other rewards provide items anyway...and past level 10, you are probably never gonna actually equip something that was a random drop.
    It is mostly worthless food or consumeables anyway. In space it is not much different either.
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    baudl wrote: »
    ohh please yes...maybe get rid of loot drop completely and just add a certain EC amount to the kill XP. What I really hate though are not the items themselves, but the glowing loot containers.
    And the fact that nothing actually useful can drop anyway just makes the elimination of loot drops even more sensible.

    Some of us actually do still turn in everything for EC that we can get our hands on. And my fear is that like a lot of things, Cryptic would take the opportunity to nerf the payout compared to what we get on the random draw. Especially for players who do not spend money on the game, this would be cutting off a fairly significant source of income and I for one would NOT appreciate it. Better to leave it alone and hope for this area NOT to receive any further "attention."

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  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    as I mentioned, killing NPC would require to "drop" EC and mission rewards would also need to include EC besides the items and XP.
    ofcourse it would be bad if those rewards were significantly less than what you get now, but if loot was gone, the glowing containers would be gone and the loot role window too.
    Did I mention that I hate the glowing loot containers?
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  • svindal777svindal777 Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    We all know that the Borg drink unhealthy amounts of Chatueu Picard, so naturally a bottle or 2 drops when you kill them.
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    baudl wrote: »
    as I mentioned, killing NPC would require to "drop" EC and mission rewards would also need to include EC besides the items and XP.
    ofcourse it would be bad if those rewards were significantly less than what you get now, but if loot was gone, the glowing containers would be gone and the loot role window too.
    Did I mention that I hate the glowing loot containers?

    I understand what you're trying to do. I just don't trust it to be done without being accompanied with a nerf. :( Better to leave it alone and lie low.

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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    svindal777 wrote: »
    We all know that the Borg drink unhealthy amounts of Chatueu Picard, so naturally a bottle or 2 drops when you kill them.

    They call it Unimatrix Locutus, however.​​
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