Idea: ship that levels up with you?

mrtrexy

We already have some gear with the "infinity" symbol that levels up with you. What about a ship that levels up with you and has new weapon slots and boff slots that unlock as you rank up?

[Deleted User]

They already exist. Every T6 ship and lockbox ship or lobi store ship levels up with you from 50-60

tymersto

theunknown0#4185 wrote: »

They already exist. Every T6 ship and lockbox ship or lobi store ship levels up with you from 50-60

I believe the OP was looking at something that like that, but from the get-go.
Short answer, I imagine, would be no. Something like that wouldn't give Cryptic too many opportunities to sell ships.


Thank you for the time...

cbrjwrr

sophlogimo wrote: »

The problem with that is that the game wants to condition you into buying new ships. Doing such a thing as you propose would potenitally damage the business model.

Yep; they already know that they can make the T1-4 version of a ship, offer a refit within the tier of origin for it, then offer a T5 retrofit, then get a Fleet T5, then FT5-U, then T6, and FT6. To their position, offering the T1-4 and then having it level up represents a big loss of potential sales.

There's also the fact they don't want people to view the ship as an extension of the character, they want people to view the ship as another piece of gear. The idea of a ship that levels up with you isn't going to encourage such an attitude...

starkaos

The actual reason is that ships can't be upgraded. Each ship is restricted to a certain amount of weapons, base shields, base hull, amount of console slots, amount of device slots, and amount of bridge officer slots. When you are upgrading from Tier 5 to Tier 5-U, you are not upgrading your ship, but discarding your Tier 5 ship and getting a brand new Tier 5-U ship. So in order to upgrade a Tier 1 ship to a Tier 5 ship, Cryptic would have to make a Tier 2 version, a Tier 3 version, a Tier 4 version, and a Tier 5 version.

It is just easier and more profitable for Cryptic to sell a Tier 6 version and allow you to use the original ship's look on the Tier 6 ship. Just like what the devs are doing with the Temporal Pack.

officerbatman81

Small craft do this,

rattler2

officerbatman81 wrote: »

Small craft do this,

Technically. No they don't. They don't get more weapon slots or console slots. And stock Shuttle gear levels I believe, but only to a point like any other leveling weapon.

evilmark444

If you ask me all ships should have always been this way, or some variation of this. But that would have only worked if it was that way at launch, we are too far into STO's lifespan for this to ever happen.

talonxv

Never going to happen. Though they should of made tier 6 ships that didn't have to be bought. That and i'd love all tier 5 ships to be able to be used at RA now.

echatty

I'm with everyone else. This is not gonna happen. For reasons stated. It would be bad for business.

I understand what you're proposing, it's just not likely to ever happen. Besides, I like to try new ships, wouldn't want to be stuck in one type of ship.

I'm interested in the new Risa giveaway ship, actually. Have a Tac toon running for the unlock.

Actually, I think that would make the game more boring if there weren't other ships to try out. It's always interesting to figure out what works and what doesn't work for you