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Congrats on making the TOS storyline unplayable.
fatherrock
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Did anyone even bother to calculate the effect
of advancing EXP gained on lowbie toons grinding through the new story line ? NOPE GUESS NOT !
Tangled web is almost uncompletable, at best you will die 50 times.
why ?
It was designed around the idea that you would be 8th or so level
and the enemy would be level 8 or so
Did it before the EXP Bonus..np
now you added the exp bonus, what changed ?
You are still STUCK with a noob lvl 1-5 ship...same limitations, HP shields etc.
the enemy...well, they are now in level 20 ships, with lvl 20 power, lvl 20 abilities
they one shot your NPC help forcing them into repair mode, then
you spend a long time trying to not get hit by their main weapon that...one shots you.
you will spend 10-15 deaths grinding through that, you get on the tholean ship..np
you get to fight on the ground at lvl 20
back outside....vs a lvl 20 dreadnought warps in ... game over.
nobody even gave it a thought of what happens when you
do not let players use the proper ship for their lvl, but allow the enemy to do it.
glad I pushed a toon through before the exp bonus
When you put an artificial limit on players, you had better consider
what unintended outcomes you will produce.
of advancing EXP gained on lowbie toons grinding through the new story line ? NOPE GUESS NOT !
Tangled web is almost uncompletable, at best you will die 50 times.
why ?
It was designed around the idea that you would be 8th or so level
and the enemy would be level 8 or so
Did it before the EXP Bonus..np
now you added the exp bonus, what changed ?
You are still STUCK with a noob lvl 1-5 ship...same limitations, HP shields etc.
the enemy...well, they are now in level 20 ships, with lvl 20 power, lvl 20 abilities
they one shot your NPC help forcing them into repair mode, then
you spend a long time trying to not get hit by their main weapon that...one shots you.
you will spend 10-15 deaths grinding through that, you get on the tholean ship..np
you get to fight on the ground at lvl 20
back outside....vs a lvl 20 dreadnought warps in ... game over.
nobody even gave it a thought of what happens when you
do not let players use the proper ship for their lvl, but allow the enemy to do it.
glad I pushed a toon through before the exp bonus
When you put an artificial limit on players, you had better consider
what unintended outcomes you will produce.
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Tangled web die 50 times?!
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still be the POS noob ship and they will be level 20 ships...enjoy.
now if you did it when this first started, before the bonus, ya easy enough.
real easy solution. HIT SKIP. go to ESD in 25th century. Get tier 2 ship, go back, complete missions. EASY.
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these missions were designed to be played at a very specific level.
by speeding up the xp gain with the recruitment event it screws up
the NPC scaling and increases the difficulty of the missions beyond
what was designed. the worst part is this sloppy design gives
a bad impression to people trying the game for the first time.
@tacofangs did people even test out these missions with this NPC scaling boosted before they went live?
that is only "easy" if you are a vet who already knows how the game works.
if you are a new player that has no idea that you can even do what you
just said, it is just bad game design. cryptic did not anticipate that the
recruitment event would increase the NPC difficulty in the missions that were
only designed to be played at those very first low levels. this is a great example
of how you make people think your game sucks by giving them a bad first impression.
fairs no better against 20th lvl enemy ships.
they offer no other ships at the starbase.
you cap the level of enemy in the TOS storyline to level 9
You can not get a tier 2 ship while in that storyline so the enemy should
be limited since you are.
but I am not holding my breath
I will likely delete the toon and start a new one, but do nothing with it until the bonuses
and such expire
you cannot, I levelled to 10 and avoided the battle for caleb so I could ship myself and friends 23c mkI white gear. You do not get promoted, and are not allowed better ships(even if you own them in the zen store). You can, however, level up your items to mk IV
did yours actually level tho? Mine stayed at like 84dps right up until I could upgr them to mkXII
It's a fair point though that the free starter ship is not going to fare well against level 20 enemies.
They should disable XP boost for TOS captains until they move to the 25th century. This will keep happening in future XP boost events.
double xp barfs up Romulans bad too, and to a lesser extent, Klingons. They aint fixed it yet, not likely gonna start now.
Instead, when I actually play during these types of events (which I am skipping on this go around), I run lvl 60 characters and get more/faster Spec points and ship mastery. Considering how fast you go from 1-50, you don't need bonus XP and still end up out leveling stuff.
I suppose lvl 51-60 it wouldn't be too bad but, meh...
They brought the Feds (at least TOS Feds) in line with the Klingons and the Romulans.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
But the devs actually care about TOS captains
Poor KDF players can't get their new free ship until after The House Always Wins, and many don't know that they should buy the Vandal for the Plasmonic Leech.
I don't know, I tried to claim my account-wide Rhode Island and the whole "different faction and not allowed to own Starfleet ships" thing kicked in banishing me to whatever T1 I had my hands on / available.
Didn't buy the temporal agent pack, so I can't tell you whether you can jump into the Daedaelus or not before the time warp... I know my Rommies who get XP boosted too high in the tutorial has to grab their Daehlan instead of the "freebie" T2 if they're "qualified" before the mission tells them they can own a better ship.
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kodachikuno posted above that you can't claim anything except the Connie, IF you bought it. That would give you a fighting chance though since it has better hull and your phasers would be mk III or V.
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lol sure but do they do it with T1 weapons that are common? Your stuck with a T1 ship with T1 gear with no traits and space abilities... your not twinked with UR or Epic gear or Lobi Gear or anything but common stuff that came with the ship...
And new players will have all of that and know all the game mechanics to work their way through the problem... Clearly you're not cluing in to what the real problem with this is.
and or have access to better gear.
New players do not, if a noob went on right now
and tried a TOS they way it is, At the tholean mission, that would be the end of it.
they would quit and uninstall AND tell their friends what a piece of TRIBBLE
the game is.
Who could blame them ?
Message to cryptic, FIX it...yesterday.
either exempt new TOS toons from the Exp. boost or level cap
the enemies in that story line, or make the TOS tier 2 ship FREE
and available with a promotion. (doubt that)