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jarfaru
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Not everyone is in a guild that plays this game. The one thing i think its time to do is strip weapon buff items of their singularities. Just make them all universal so people can make unique builds if they want. Right now everyone is running around with the same builds and its so boring. Why have say a console that buffs beam damage and another one that just buffs a certain type of beam damage too. This will never make sense to me having both. For me i look at episode mission rewards and most of them are useless unless you are geared to use them. There is so much that needs to be done to improve this game and make it more new player friendly because getting to end game is fun but once your there its freaky boring unless you like grind.
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If they were all universal so that anyone can use them, then that actually decreases the number of unique builds because every will be using them. So basically, it will increase the number of same builds and make the game even more boring for you.
That actually increases the number of unique builds in the game. If I wanted to focus on disruptor weapons rather than polaron, then I would get House Martok Disruptor 360-Degree Energy Weapon from "Brushfire" rather than the Omni-Directional Chronometric Polaron Beam Array from "Time and Tide".
What about the Kelvin Phasers? They don't even fire beams at all but function as beams.
As it sits right now, you can pick Tactical Consoles that boost a specific type of damage, you can also go with +Beam consoles that boost any beam. The trade off is that the boost gained from the +Beam are less then focusing on one type of energy. This creates a choice, makes you decide which trade off is worth it to you. Do you take less damage but be able to swap builds on a whim? Or do you maximize your output and commit to one type? That's up to you.
Honestly, the notion that everyone is running around with the same exact builds just shows how little you understand about the current state of the game. There are tons of different builds out there and tons of ways to change and adapt them. Yes, there are players that will just look up someone else build and copy it exactly and if that's what they want to do, then that's fine too. But the notion that everyone has the exact same build just shows that you frankly have no idea what you're talking about.
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
I love my Kor. My primary KDF tactical character has basically been flying T1 thru T6 BoPs from February 2014 thru the end of last year. I finally switched to other T6 ships to gain their mastery traits.
At end game, yea, players all out of sudden have to actively “play” and/or “pay” for a satisfactory game experience. If they do all is cool; if they don’t then boredom sets in soon. Perhaps cryptic should change their policy a bit and instead of selling new ships and power there they should simply place the next FE Episode featuring a Trek Star behind a huge paywall? I refine 80k Dil/day and I would like that better than to chase the next build item squeezing out 3k DPS more. Would you too?
Also build variety is pretty much the only winner of the balance check made in S13. Yea, not everything is perfect yet but it’s as easy as ever to make a build that is competitive and suited to your personal preference at the same time. Believe me for us veterans this balance check cost quite a lot.
“Something that needs to be done?”
In my opinion they have done enough!
Now it’s up to you to step out of our comfort zone, do a little research how to and then start playing Star Trek Online.
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Likewise I'd not complain if they revamped command spec and expanded it to work better with carriers. Although that might also mean having to work command seats into existing carriers. And of course they'd likely break hangar pets yet again.
As for build slapping any old junk on a ship is a build, unrefined and not very optimal but it's a build nonetheless. IF you lock yourself into dps dps dps then thats down to you as a player. Nothing in the game really needs facemelting dps races and personally I find tac dps setups really quite dull after a few fights.
I would not say that c-store ships are a failure as many do buy them, and yet I do agree they could do a with a rework to the pricing scheme they use for them. I have bought many ships that I liked that got an updated tier version (like the gal-x), but I will say with the current price of 60 dollars for a tier six is about the highest I would buy even a ship I like in the store. The issue is more that the price of ships keep going up without any reduction in price of the lower ships (outside of ship sales), and the cap on what players are willing to pay for ships even with added bells an whistles on them has a cap to it. It would have been nice an I think appealing if when a new tier of ships came out the previous tiers had a price drop making buying the older ships a bit more appealing, while also keeping the price of the top tier ships static in a place that players actually would find the price for what is presented as appealing.
I have to agree.... Players get spoiled in the free game.... I loathe F2P but I concur Cryptic is far too generous with most things. Likely because it is expected the bulk of revenue will be via keys; most people will gamble but many wont pay for content. It is strange thinking on the part of players such as that would leaves me perplexed often...
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Wow you have to be new.. when they went to tier 6 ships the forum fires were out of cotrol. expand to anther tier already and thousands of heads will explode.
you don't need 750,000 dps to beat end game (Maybe discounting elite stf stuff)
Yeah I was thinking the common 60 dollar bundle packs, most of the top ships are 30 dollars, but even at 30 dollars that is about the top most players would pay for a single ship.
$60 for a T6 ship in the C-Store? What are you taking about?
A T6 ship in the C-Store sells for the equivalent of $30 (when there is no sale). A 3 ship bundle sells for the equivalent of $60; which basically means you are paying for 2 T6 ships at $30 each and the 3rd ship is free.
The price of ships in the C-Store has not gone up since October 2014 when the T6 ships were introduced. That was about 2 years and 10 months ago. Cryptic has also stated they have no plans on releasing anything beyond T6 ships (at least for now). While it would be nice if Cryptic actually dropped the on C-Store ships a little bit, I suppose everyone has gotten accustomed to it including me. I just hope $30 is the cap for a very long time.
Just one conductive rcs with turn can get most of the big ships drifting and powersliding with ease, even the barges like the jupiter and vonph.
Strafing run in a cruiser then spinning about and keeping the fire going while you slide away target backwards makes escorts seem bland.
As for reducing console variety... what? lol.
Spot on. Some of the worst players that whine the most, tend to be using some build they copied from a forum. No creativity = boredom.