T6 Scaling Conversion Progress

sylveriarelden

Any word on ETA for the T6 ship scaling for the remaining existing T6 ships?

None of the newly introduced ships really interest me that much, and I've a ton of existing T6 ships I'd love to be able to utilize on alts. I know it takes time, but would love some sort of ETA or news update. Last thing I read was "very soon" and that was almost a month ago, IIRC.

maniac20

T6 ships becoming scaling is suppose to go live tomorrow with rise of discovery.

sylveriarelden

Ah, good to know.

I know it's a bit much that they just remove tiering altogether (which I'd love to see) and just make them all scale to rank, but one can always hope. Maybe they'll come to their senses and finally realize that selling the ships for Zen makes more sense if the ships themselves are attractive enough, instead of gating them behind tiers based on rank- which make the ships themselves obsolete once you've exceeded that rank. Alternatively, it would give those Captains who've reached Admiralty (I won't go into the ranking disparities, as it's a completely different but relative issue) status a reason to fly "lower tier" ships if they're essentially "retrofit-scaled" to their current rank.

Never made much sense that they'd keep introducing "tiers" unless they kept increasing them commensurately- and the only real way that would work is if they weren't limited to military rank structure, considering the limitations. It's definitely going to be a game-changer for leveling characters... for existing max-ranked characters I'd love to see the alternative retrofit scaling introduced that scales a "lower tiered" ship upward, but not holding my breath on that one. It would give max-ranked Captains a reason to fly older ship models again, however, considering they don't all have T6 versions released. (and make it easier for Cryptic/PWE to introduce ships altogether instead of creating different "tiers" for each new ship)

leemwatson

sylveriarelden wrote: »

Ah, good to know.

I know it's a bit much that they just remove tiering altogether (which I'd love to see) and just make them all scale to rank, but one can always hope. Maybe they'll come to their senses and finally realize that selling the ships for Zen makes more sense if the ships themselves are attractive enough, instead of gating them behind tiers based on rank- which make the ships themselves obsolete once you've exceeded that rank. Alternatively, it would give those Captains who've reached Admiralty (I won't go into the ranking disparities, as it's a completely different but relative issue) status a reason to fly "lower tier" ships if they're essentially "retrofit-scaled" to their current rank.

Never made much sense that they'd keep introducing "tiers" unless they kept increasing them commensurately- and the only real way that would work is if they weren't limited to military rank structure, considering the limitations. It's definitely going to be a game-changer for leveling characters... for existing max-ranked characters I'd love to see the alternative retrofit scaling introduced that scales a "lower tiered" ship upward, but not holding my breath on that one. It would give max-ranked Captains a reason to fly older ship models again, however, considering they don't all have T6 versions released. (and make it easier for Cryptic/PWE to introduce ships altogether instead of creating different "tiers" for each new ship)

All this is moot as they've made T6's scaling. They've 'come to their senses'. They're not going to change the lower tiered ships with the exception of re-pricing them.

baddmoonrizin

Tomorrow. /Thread