Kael already confirmed no T7 planned for this Expansion, so they'll be no T6-U either. Not that they haven't been powercreeping the heck out of ships and calling them 'T6' anyway before this Expansion.
Did they confirm that there will be no T6-U? That is only one upgrade token. It could be easy to implement. Some more hull and a universal slot. Just like the miracle worker ships. They could sell lots of upgrade tokens.
*slaps you so hard the taste comes out of your mouth*
Why do people run around waving burning piles of cash at cryptic? Jesus.
The whole T5U thing went over about as well as a World War so lets not rush to repeat said stupid mistake.
So no new content for existing characters ... can't say I'm surprised after AoY's underwhelming amount of content.
Literally what? Where are you pulling this **** from?
Announcement blog.
"You’ll be able to play as a brand new faction, the Jem’Hadar; experience six new episodes in the Star Trek Online story"
Worth noting the semi-colon, faction and six listed episodes are separate. Most likely, the setup to VoL will be similar to AoY (with a short mini-faction story line and new end-game episodes.)
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So no new content for existing characters ... can't say I'm surprised after AoY's underwhelming amount of content.
Literally what? Where are you pulling this **** from?
The same Well of Whining that claimed people hated LoR, and that provides the constant claim that our sister game Champions Online is "dying".
LoR? Wasn't it Delta Rising that cost the game so many players? LoR was a good time for the game whereas DR had huge XP gaps, a massive enemy difficulty increase amongst other things. According to one dev though it was the best expansion ever and the players loved it.
Kael already confirmed no T7 planned for this Expansion, so they'll be no T6-U either. Not that they haven't been powercreeping the heck out of ships and calling them 'T6' anyway before this Expansion.
Did they confirm that there will be no T6-U? That is only one upgrade token. It could be easy to implement. Some more hull and a universal slot. Just like the miracle worker ships. They could sell lots of upgrade tokens.
T5-U was introduced specifically to bring T5 ships in line with T6. If there's no T7, then T6-U is almost certainly not in the cards (what exactly is it upgrading to if not the next tier?)
Kael already confirmed no T7 planned for this Expansion, so they'll be no T6-U either. Not that they haven't been powercreeping the heck out of ships and calling them 'T6' anyway before this Expansion.
Did they confirm that there will be no T6-U? That is only one upgrade token. It could be easy to implement. Some more hull and a universal slot. Just like the miracle worker ships. They could sell lots of upgrade tokens.
T5-U was introduced specifically to bring T5 ships in line with T6. If there's no T7, then T6-U is almost certainly not in the cards (what exactly is it upgrading to if not the next tier?)
And before anyone gets their hopes up for [insert super-weapon in ship form here], leveling brings new abilities and boff rewards in addition to new ship classes (1-60). I'd set my expectations for a new captain trait and maybe some extra crew, no more (from just 5 levels) until we hear more about the new feature planned (could be something like a ship modification system that opens up +60, or something completely different. We'll have to see.)
Just watch all the new Dominion ships will come with a universal slot like the miracle worker - I call that T6u -everyone will either buy the new ships for the power or they can then sell upgrades to your favorite ship === $$$$$$$$$ - you can call them T whatever - they will probably get the extra slot.
LoR was a good time for the game whereas DR had huge XP gaps
Depends on your preferences, personally I enjoyed the story to DR more than LoR (which I felt was a little perfunctory). Tip for commentary: don't try to speak for anyone but yourself or use perceptions of a forum as a proxy for the reaction of the entire community (that way, madness lies. We're a vocal minority and threads have an inherent confirmation bias.)
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I can't help but think the people that keep calling for T6U/T7 are the same people who have more cash than brains and don't like sharing builds with 'plebians' whether or not said 'plebians' used the same sources of information they did and the same level of agency to get there. I for one think even the level cap increase is a bit much for reasons already stated. It could be the level cap increase is more to mask the general lack of substantive content in the expansion than anything else.
Yes, but as you pointed out, the blog lists the 6 new episodes as being related to the new faction,.
No, it literally doesn't lists them "as being related." They're listed in serial.
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The people wanting level cap increases and new ship tiers are players who actually want to play the game more and progress farther in it, as opposed to "get it over with."
It says "Jem’Hadar" faction not "Dominion." I'd expect just jemmies and vorta. In fact if we were to go with canon, the captain would always be vorta and the crew jem'hadar.
Point of interest is how they fit into the two-faction system. Do they get to choose like romulans or get defaulted like TOSsies?
You start at L60... so yeah you need to pick a side at the end of the day. Will go Fed since they have more ships.
I can't help but think the people that keep calling for T6U/T7 are the same people who have more cash than brains and don't like sharing builds with 'plebians' whether or not said 'plebians' used the same sources of information they did and the same level of agency to get there. I for one think even the level cap increase is a bit much for reasons already stated. It could be the level cap increase is more to mask the general lack of substantive content in the expansion than anything else.
And I have to ask our levels are tied to our ranks, we are already Fleet Admirals, what will we be head of starfleet, president of earth, ruler of the alpha quadrant, i mean come on we are maxed out we dont need more do we?
LoR? Wasn't it Delta Rising that cost the game so many players? LoR was a good time for the game whereas DR had huge XP gaps, a massive enemy difficulty increase amongst other things. According to one dev though it was the best expansion ever and the players loved it.
Depends on your preferences, personally I enjoyed the story to DR more than LoR (which I felt was a little perfunctory). Tip for commentary: don't try to speak for anyone but yourself or use perceptions of a forum as a proxy for the reaction of the entire community (that way, madness lies. We're a vocal minority and threads have an inherent confirmation bias.)
It certainly does depend upon you preferences. The rest of my comments on DR stand and it's effect upon the playerbase and why are well known. Thanks for the tip.
The people wanting level cap increases and new ship tiers are players who actually want to play the game more and progress farther in it, as opposed to "get it over with."
There is a lot to do after the level cap. In fact, most of the game is after the level cap. What are those 5 levels going to add other than a pointless grind? The illusion of progress?
The people wanting level cap increases and new ship tiers are players who actually want to play the game more and progress farther in it, as opposed to "get it over with."
I'm such a player. I've done everything (outside PvP, I hate PvP in general so I've no desire to take part in it here) I can think of, gotten all the parts and upgrades I want for my ship while keeping in the theme I've given myself, so on, so forth. For me to 'play the game more' I'd need content. Missions, episodes, story (yes, I get the irony there)! You don't need 'bigger, badder' ships or 'higher, haughtier' levels to do that with.
I can't help but think the people that keep calling for T6U/T7 are the same people who have more cash than brains and don't like sharing builds with 'plebians' whether or not said 'plebians' used the same sources of information they did and the same level of agency to get there. I for one think even the level cap increase is a bit much for reasons already stated. It could be the level cap increase is more to mask the general lack of substantive content in the expansion than anything else.
And I have to ask our levels are tied to our ranks, we are already Fleet Admirals, what will we be head of starfleet, president of earth, ruler of the alpha quadrant, i mean come on we are maxed out we dont need more do we?
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[Ie. new end-game missions, not just new faction missions (just like AOY).
Yes, which exist beyond the 6 missions the new Jem'Hadar faction will get.
Direct quote again:
"This brand-new expansion will bring Captains to the Gamma Quadrant and beyond, in a new story kicked off by the invasion of the mysterious Hur’q. You’ll be able to play as a brand new faction, the Jem’Hadar; experience six new episodes in the Star Trek Online story; and interact with ten of the original cast members from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."
The six new episodes are not listed as being for the Jem'Hadar (any more than the ten cameos...oi.) At present, we do not have any information on what the Jem'Hadar faction will actually entail.
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Sounds interesting but the Jem'Hadar will fade after its initial story line and then follow the fed point of view in generic missions that is exactly the same for all factions, just like the Romulans and the KDF. So I am not sure what the point is in investing in a another faction. Just my opinion. I am just hoping they do not repeat the same mistake they made before.
When the went to tier six ships they, pissed allot people off, who invested in picking up all tier five ships, as a result people did not buy in to the tier six like they had for the tier five ships. I hope they do not up the tier of ships to tier seven, I would rather keep the ships at the current tier of six.
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*slaps you so hard the taste comes out of your mouth*
Why do people run around waving burning piles of cash at cryptic? Jesus.
The whole T5U thing went over about as well as a World War so lets not rush to repeat said stupid mistake.
Announcement blog.
"You’ll be able to play as a brand new faction, the Jem’Hadar; experience six new episodes in the Star Trek Online story"
Worth noting the semi-colon, faction and six listed episodes are separate. Most likely, the setup to VoL will be similar to AoY (with a short mini-faction story line and new end-game episodes.)
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T7's will come when they come and until that happens everyone at the company will insist they'll never come, just to keep us buying T6's.
Anything the developers make it to upgrade to.
Just watch all the new Dominion ships will come with a universal slot like the miracle worker - I call that T6u -everyone will either buy the new ships for the power or they can then sell upgrades to your favorite ship === $$$$$$$$$ - you can call them T whatever - they will probably get the extra slot.
Depends on your preferences, personally I enjoyed the story to DR more than LoR (which I felt was a little perfunctory). Tip for commentary: don't try to speak for anyone but yourself or use perceptions of a forum as a proxy for the reaction of the entire community (that way, madness lies. We're a vocal minority and threads have an inherent confirmation bias.)
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No, it literally doesn't lists them "as being related." They're listed in serial.
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You start at L60... so yeah you need to pick a side at the end of the day. Will go Fed since they have more ships.
And I have to ask our levels are tied to our ranks, we are already Fleet Admirals, what will we be head of starfleet, president of earth, ruler of the alpha quadrant, i mean come on we are maxed out we dont need more do we?
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I hate the idea myself also.
There is a lot to do after the level cap. In fact, most of the game is after the level cap. What are those 5 levels going to add other than a pointless grind? The illusion of progress?
The blog says 6 episodes, your comment which I quoted said the Jem'Hadar faction is 6 episodes long.
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Seeing some (or probably most) of the DS9 characters in STO will also be awesome. DS9 had some of the best developed characters imo.
Direct quote again:
"This brand-new expansion will bring Captains to the Gamma Quadrant and beyond, in a new story kicked off by the invasion of the mysterious Hur’q. You’ll be able to play as a brand new faction, the Jem’Hadar; experience six new episodes in the Star Trek Online story; and interact with ten of the original cast members from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."
The six new episodes are not listed as being for the Jem'Hadar (any more than the ten cameos...oi.) At present, we do not have any information on what the Jem'Hadar faction will actually entail.
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When the went to tier six ships they, pissed allot people off, who invested in picking up all tier five ships, as a result people did not buy in to the tier six like they had for the tier five ships. I hope they do not up the tier of ships to tier seven, I would rather keep the ships at the current tier of six.