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I really hope Cryptic answers these few questions......

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So, I'm Captain 3, probably on my way to Admiral 1 by this weekend. I have not rushed at all and I've enjoyed all the story lines. One thing worry's me tho is lack of content at Admiral. I know Cryptic has plans for Borg space "soon™". My problem becomes, what am I going to do once I hit the level cap? From what I hear, the story line ends. The only missions I will have will be explorer and defends.

I am an experienced MMO player, I have countless hours playing MUD's before most people even heard of the internet. I know what it takes to keep "my" interest in a game. I have played countless new MMO's, only to see them make the same mistakes over and over again. And then fail horribly.

All in all, I hope a Dev can answers these few concerns and maybe shed some light to the people who are crying all over the forums.

So, here we go!

1. Admiral content ETA? People are going to get bored REAL fast without anything to do. MMO's require Time sinks in order to grasp peoples attention span. Which, all in all, is short.

2. Level cap/Skill point Cap? Maxing out one skill at Admiral is lame. Cryptic designed the skill point cap to be continuous. Maxing at level 45 with no more skills will mean people will get bored with their Admirals. This seems like a no brainer to me. Remove the cap on skill points will insure that people don't get board with their characters and continue to play. If you keep this cap people will most likely leave in bulk. Keeping this cap will only hurt STO in the long run.

3. Crafting update? Any chance to getting some information on this? We really need to be able to see our progress at Memory Alpha. Also. everything I've seen from tier 2 at Memory Alpha isn't very good. One of my guild mates opened up Tier 3 and most of Tier 3 isn't very good either. For the time and price is costs to get through this, it should of been much, much better. Again, this is another "Time Sink" that will keep people playing. We need someone to open up discussion on crafting because badge gear from Exploring and from PVP are superior as it stands now.

4. Klingon Content? I know this has been said already and that Crypic is working on this. Lets get an ETA on when we will see more content here. We need more Klingon content to bring in more people so i can blow up their ships. :D

5. Captain/Admiral Fleet Actions? Why do Fleet actions end at Commander? I mean would it be really hard to set up to add a Jem'hadar fleet action? Or something in Cardassian space? I know it's probably planned but I'm shocked that they just END.

6. Respecs ETA? I know it took a few weeks to add it in Champions. I know it was buggy at the beginning as well. It needs to come pretty quickly. People, like me, have made mistakes on their skills that they wish they could redo. This should be a priority. People want it.

This leads me into the last few questions I have about skills.

7. Low level Ship Skills are pretty much useless at High Levels? Example: If I spend points in low level escort skills, this doesn't help me in the high tier ships? Why would I want to spend points on these then when I could just max out everything else. HELL, I could fly any ship then.

8. Total Ships 5 or 6? Seriously? I'm not allowed to own more then 5 or 6 ships? So I have to either Delete some of the old or more novelty ships in order to get more then 5 or 6? (I say 5 or 6 because I have heard both are the limit. I have not tested this yet to know the facts.) I want to keep my old ships!

Anyway, I know this was long and stuff, I just hope that someone can look at this and take the 10 minutes out of their day to help clear up a few things. As this game stands right now, I will have a hard time justifying spending 15$ a month when there's not going to be a lot to do right now. Don't get me wrong, so far I am having fun. I really love a lot about this game. I just don't want this to get stale too soon.

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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I agree with you on the part of Level cap..They made it too easy for people to climb the ladder to admiral,then they left them with nothing to do..In most games Ive played..it took a long time to get to a lvl 50 or whatever..

    suggestion for starting out in STO..

    1st make all a grunt..you fly in a shuttle ie a runabout (eng) fighter (tactical) science (basic shuttle for science stuff)

    then all the missions should be in a sector (ONE) for basic fighter to fighter battles and get some skill pts for and in between do planet missions..not just collect 4 out 4 things then beam up..it should be like a MMO game on one planet, battle this then go here and then move on to this area..battle that..

    then ,after 10 ranks you are promoted to ENSIGN..and get your 1st command on a 20 man crew starship...
    then the sector turns out to TWO areas and planet sector explore expand slowly for the player..

    the game has sort or the right idea..but it needs work on alot of things ...reaching skill..is the main thing..Ive been doing the same..taking time and doing the missions,reading them,getting into the game..all this since launch of beta and headstart..Im aready a CMDR 3 ...less than two weeks since the games been out..and Im almost there...

    thats my 2 cents
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I think it's safe to say they won't be changing any starter missions or the way the game is played at this point. While a TON of stuff is either broken or incomplete. Cryptic needs to really start thinking about longevity. Which, as far as I can tell right now, isn't in the game.

    Successful MMO's all have one thing in common. They keep peoples attention with "Time Sinks". I know it's a dirty word. Either it's Crafting, PVP or end game content. All things that are really lacking right now, with the exception of PVP.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    /agreed ... I'm RA5 and bored to death. Every BO I have is maxed out and I still have 20,000 BO training points. I have no where to go and nothing to do. How many times can one do the B'Tan cluster before not logging in anymore. I was contemplating buying the lifetime subscription, but as it stands right now why would I ? I have nothing to do and it's only 2 weeks in.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Selectone wrote:
    /agreed ... I'm RA5 and bored to death. Every BO I have is maxed out and I still have 20,000 BO training points. I have no where to go and nothing to do. How many times can one do the B'Tan cluster before not logging in anymore. I was contemplating buying the lifetime subscription, but as it stands right now why would I ? I have nothing to do and it's only 2 weeks in.
    The game will never be able to satisify you. Even if they doubled the current amount of game content in a patch tomorrow, you'd still be out of content in another 2 weeks. Cryptic has zero chance of staying ahead of the power-gamer, and they don't even try. Sorry, but that's just the way it is.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Selectone wrote:
    /agreed ... I'm RA5 and bored to death. Every BO I have is maxed out and I still have 20,000 BO training points. I have no where to go and nothing to do. How many times can one do the B'Tan cluster before not logging in anymore. I was contemplating buying the lifetime subscription, but as it stands right now why would I ? I have nothing to do and it's only 2 weeks in.

    Do me a quick favor and port your time played. It can be accessed by typing /played in the chat window.

    I am not trying to bash you but I would really like to know how long it took you to do absolutely every mission in the game.
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