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Any benefit to rolling a Discovery toon?
koppster
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Not logged in yet and didn't see anything in the patch notes, but I'm wondering are there account-wide benefits/unlocks associated with levelling an AoD character?
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I'm still grinding on my Gamma recruit.
From comments on a recent Ten Forward Weekly, it does take a fair bit of work hooking up a recruitment event. And that's any recruitment event (topic was a Temporal re-run.) A new AoD event would have also required some dev time making new rewards. They're certainly willing to put that effort into an expansion, but for a season release it's probably a stretch (on top of everything else.) The principle function of DSC characters is to give a special entry point for new fans coming in from DSC (but are perhaps less attached to the rest of the franchise) while giving something nominally new to established players to vary their FED characters. It's accommodating new interests.
That said, there is something AOD characters can earn through leveling: all the rewards you've earned through the last 3 events (potentially a huge pile of swag.)
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There was one good thing about this release, the idea of the Walker Class growing with the character. That's how they should have handled the starter ships for all the factions.
I'm with Warpangel. I'm pretty disappointed about it. I was looking for an excuse to level a new toon, but with no account benefits I will not be slogging through the same old missions AGAIN (haven't played my gamma through the old missions either because there is no benefit). Hopefully, they will eventually have a recruitment event that will include DISC toons. Maybe when they add DISC Klingons? Otherwise, I'll never level a DISC toon.
Back to my regularly scheduled only logging in running the event or featured episode and logging out.
I'm willing to bet they definitely missed out on considerable "played time" metrics by not including a recruitment event with this one. Hopefully, they are just holding off until there is more DISC missions and species in the game.
I think for the foreseeable future, I'll log in and run my dailies and then log out. I'm not overly interested in doing anything else as it stands with the game now.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
I am okay with them not adding another Recruit event at this time. However, I also don't see any reason at all to start a new Discovery captain. Jem'Hadar captains already feel like a major ripoff, seeing as they miss levelling/promotion unlocks, they miss the levelling ships (for Admiralty, if nothing else), get no Vet ships, they miss the bonuses for completing 3 reps... I honestly feel that I might just unlock the basics for my Gamma recruit and then just leave him as storage.
Existing captains can run Discovery content 'as historical simulation'. There is no interesting new race, or even interesting *old* race; there is no extra/bonus trait or other distinguishing feature; and they haven't even hinted at '"we'll add something cool for Discovery captains in a later release!". I'm having difficulty justifying grinding out reps, spec points, missions, gear etc. etc on yet another race-limited, Fed-locked captain.
I understand that limiting them to Fed and a few races may be story/show related - though surely there were more than Humans, Vulcans and Aliens? They had more than that for AoY and in Enterprise. With 4 Fed captains and a Fed-Rom already this lack of options fails to captivate me.
The gamma recruit got the laziest selection of timesinks for uninspired rewards so for mine they'll be done sometime, maybe.
Yeah, not a fan of the forced tutorial. It's ok for the first time to see what they did with it but I'll only roll one Disco toon because of that.
The Phaser array and ground weapon animations are nice.
I'm personally waiting till people start leveling some characters and see if they get any new toys or if it's like AoY characters were they still have the same stuff like same 25th century drones and 25th century photonic fleet.
If they have new stuff this time, may be worth it to me personally...as it's some new flash instead of more of the same old.
"It appears we have lost our sex appeal, captain."- Tuvok
But ... yeah ... the tutorial is just a reskin of the Fed Tutorial ... I'm not playing the game again for a new toon.
Well to be honest, from the way they talked about things on the weekly livestream, it seems like the AoD character stuff was made pretty much for new players that come in from watching Discovery.
Now if only they would add the warp effect to the Science Vanguard....
This is true. And some mighty sweet swag at that!
And knowing is half the battle!
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Thankfully. So I'll feel free to make one play though the starter part and then delete. Because I really really don't need another toon hanging around.
Not sure if I will ever play him/her though.. might keep them around to play here and there, but I doubt it. Sometimes it's fun to play lowbie missions and doesn't hurt anything just having the character hanging around.
The DSC character will be my 9th character.. you can only go through the process so many times before it makes you want to tear the skin off your face.