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So like many people I have my standard characters that I play with, but we now just had the Klingon and now Delta recruit characters/events.
Speaking only for myself, I would rather NOT have to make a new character every time a Recruit event happens, unless its part of a new story/faction like the Dominion.
I would rather be able to take my older characters and have them do it, I would find that personally more fun and less of a pain in the A using a different character that I didn't even want in the first place.
Granted I am not forced to do the recruit event, but that means I miss out of any number of possible items that would enhance my play.
I know I am not the only person that Dislikes having to make the new character, a number of us did converse about it in chat the other day and the mentioning and supporting idea of converting an older character into a recruit was much more appealing.
Thoughts?
Speaking only for myself, I would rather NOT have to make a new character every time a Recruit event happens, unless its part of a new story/faction like the Dominion.
I would rather be able to take my older characters and have them do it, I would find that personally more fun and less of a pain in the A using a different character that I didn't even want in the first place.
Granted I am not forced to do the recruit event, but that means I miss out of any number of possible items that would enhance my play.
I know I am not the only person that Dislikes having to make the new character, a number of us did converse about it in chat the other day and the mentioning and supporting idea of converting an older character into a recruit was much more appealing.
Thoughts?
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The stumbling block that I can see would be that this would only really work for Delta because it is the only recruit that can be any species from any faction (except Dom). KDF recuit could also work, but things like the Temporal recuit would not because it is Fed only, but not only that, it is limited to a select few Fed species (Human, Vulcan, Andorian I think). So you would only be able to convert a character that is the correct faction and correct species.
Also, didn't we just have a thread about this topic after the Delta rerun announcement?
This, might as well add this to the FAQ thread Mods.
There might be another thread about this, I would be surprised if their wasnt.
It is not like anyone has to dump their main character (if they have one) and switch to nothing but the recruits in an effort to get everything done before the event ends, I know people with AoY recruits who still don't have everything done and that event only ran once, way back in 2016 for instance. A few people I have talked to just ran them through a few missions (enough to get the device and be an official recruit) and let them sit for years.
I have a Gamma recruit that is in a similar limbo, I cannot get into the head of the Jem'Hadar so I ignore all the ground stuff and just did the things you can do with the ship (including crafting since the event ran not too long after I came back to STO and some of the starter crafting levels were higher than anything I had on a real character) and I have not touched the thing since.
In that respect, making new characters for Recruit rewards doubles as an opportunity to use account-wide unlocks I haven't used in awhile or barely touched at all. I can also try out new races, combinations of build, and all sorts of stuff.
But I am also very much an altoholic by many definitions. Character creation is actually one of my favorite parts of RPGs, especially one with this much tailor customization option. Plus I wasn't around for many of these recruits, so I rolled a KDF Recruit earlier this year, then 3 Deltas, and hit was my character limit at 14. So naturally I bought a pack of Character slots so I'd have enough for the Temporal one later. Then caved and rolled a 4th Delta as a placeholder, knowing i won't get to her for a long time, purely for fleet donation purposes later (so I'd have the same amount of recruits in our KDF fleet as our Starfleet one.)
Me too, I can spend hours in a game's character creation, character creation is usually the best part of any video game, I'm currently waiting on BG3 and TES6, I don't know about you guys but I'm drawn to fictional races with pointy ears.
I have more than twenty on my main acct and will still make a new one for a recruit event if I don't already have a recruit. For instance, I didn't have a KDF or Fed Delta recruit on my alt acct, so I made a Fed one since I had just made a KDF recruit for that event. When it rolls around again I'll likely create another KDF Delta Recruit.
I think that it would be more practical, to simply change an existing character into a delta, at least as an option.
NEVER delete a Recruit...like EVER! Just as they did with Delta, they may add new rewards. I still have all my originals. Yes they don't do much now, but Dil farming Randoms, but I'm glad I never got rid of any.
I'm in the same boat.
when the next recruit event comes, I may have to buy extra character slots or delete characters that I currently have.
at least this way, if there was an ability to change a character into X recruit, either option would not be a problem.
If I was to delete a recruit it would be the Gamma since I have absolutely no use for the thing as a character and the crafting and ship-only stuff is done. The thing is, there is little reason to do that since it is so cheap and easy to get character slots in STO compared to most other games so I usually don't bother deleting even one as useless as that one.
I can't bring myself to delete any others.
That's good to know since the Delta re-run is starting on console in a couple of weeks and I have no recruits there.
I just want to make sure that I understand that correctly.
Yes, for completing faction-specific story arcs, that's what @corinthalas is talking about above.
It's just minor dil or marks boxes though, nothing special like a bat'leth or other weapon.
Talk about sick of grinding, I just took a new Delta though three or four back to back runs of Time and Tide collecting set items and that one has a long cutscene that cannot be escaped out of so it is doubly annoying.
Most of the rewards being just marks and dil never really seem all that rewarding, especially for the stupid timesinky nature of ranking up in admiralty or doffing. But those things aren't really close to proper gameplay so I suppose the rewards are in keeping with the effort required.