Now that The Captain's Table will be getting less exclusive and become more of a hub for more players, Cryptic should act to make sure that it is utilized more than it currently is, and to motivate people to stay subscribed so they can gain access to a more meaningful TCT.
Specifically, it should receive all the amenities that it currently lacks but are included in Earth Spacedock. Specifically, TCT doesn't have boff trainers or exploration mark vendors. Since TCT is lacking those things, not many people go there anymore. Loyal monthly veterans deserve better than to be handed the keys to a ghost town.
Since we want people to be excited about their well-earned veteran rewards, let's all convince Cryptic to make TCT every bit as useful and functional as Spacedock, so it's a draw to subscribers who wish to have their veteran rewards be more useful.
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Reading is fun-da-mental!!
Oh, and the tailor we have to customize our uniforms does not have any kind of lighting for the character preview.
Its ripping us off, its lies, and false advertisement.
SHAME ON YOU CRYPTIC.
So long as I'm a player, there will be NO normal players in OUR lifetime sub station!!!!!!
I suggest that cryptic build a new base, just for the veterans.. Lifers included.. But that the PROMISED SANCUTARY OF CAPTAINS CHAIR REMAIN JUST OURS.. IT WAS PROMISED..
Wake up cryptic.
Yeah, that attitude is exactly what we need. :rolleyes:
As a lifer, I'm pleased that vets will be getting some of the stuff that we do, because now it means there's more of us in the same boat. We care about the game, we're in it for the long haul, and we can work together on initiatives like this thread, to make TCT useful for all of us.
Even allowing us to use our normal Transwarp ability to go to any Starbase would be a step in the right direction. There's nothing interesting or appealing to sector space at all. In some other MMOs the world that you get to travel is fun and interesting and dangerous, but in STO you just have to watch an Excel spreadsheet fly past for ten minutes between missions. :rolleyes:
I do, however, think Cryptic should move the entrance out of Sol, and give it an entry point directly from sector space.
I'm not sure if I should take your post seriously or not. You seem to have a valid concern but your use of caps lock throws me off and screams "troll" or "all eyes on me, I'm self important".
But I will rebuttal in a cordial manner. First, they have to have been with the game for 400 days (about 1 year and 1 month). While it seems a little low personally, I don't see why this shouldn't be a valid vet reward as by that time 1) The Captain's Table might very well be completely dead and 2) They will have put in almost as much money as lifers did up front.
It isn't lies (unless you can provide a link to a page where Cryptic said it would be exclusive) and certainly not false advertising.
Saying that so long as you are a player that there will be no non-lifers there holds no water unless you have power over Cryptic marketing or dev team or programming. You can say you'll quit over it but really, rage quitting over something so miniscule would just make you look very childish by most people's standards.
I do however insist it a) become fully functional, and b) become accessible from the bridge, as was given in the book.
As someone who took a chance and invested in this game EARLY and OFTEN (double lifer here, both CO and STO, both when they were still in Beta), I *do* want to remain unique in some way, and recognized/rewarded for my faith and my willingness to take a chance on Cryptic. But the table is not something we asked for, and not something we were promised, and as such, not something I am concerned about losing.
If you want to give them Borg, fine, but do so in a manner which still sets us apart.
If you want to give them MU, fine, but try to keep the "Spock" MU top sacred. They can have the Kirk one (seeing as I'll get it too)
If the latecomer Lifers get the title, thats fine too.
Just set us apart, as promised, and fairly, in some fashion. But demanding TCT be Lifer only is silly - we didn't ask for it, we didn't think we were getting it, not at first. Open it up, thats fine. Make it useful, though.
Every terminal, every vendor, every purchasable item, every function on every other station, in one place. Maybe reserve the "door appears" bridge/captain's chambers bit for the lifers, that would be nice, but not necessary.
Not all blue names are against it. Particularly those of us who became blue-names for the betterment of the game, not because of an inflated sense of self-worth and self-centric demand.
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Captain's_Table
It's a trap.
http://startrekonline.com/node/1401
The Captain's Table - A special area exclusive to lifetime subscribers. See below to learn how to claim this perk.
EXCLUSIVE.
It might be interesting to see an iconic Captain there from time to time, telling a story - just have a Kirk bot telling a tale about the first time he met Carol Marcus, as an example. Not particularly functional, but adds a lot to the atmosphere.
I've read some of the bio's that folks have for their characters, so there's a segment of the player base that likes to write about their toon. Perhaps the writer enthusiasts could email a tale to a console on the Captain's Table, where others could read it? After all, in the books, the only payment for coming aboard was to tell a tale...
Exclusive for now doesn't mean exclusive forever.
For example, most films are released exclusively to theaters.
They they go to DVD/video release.
That said, everyone in your anti-non-lifer thread stood against you. Let it rest!
The comparison doesn't work. The Captain's Table is based on a bar in a series of star trek books.
It's a bar. That's all it is. And is supposed to be.
But you could get to it from anywhere...
Um you can't cancel a life time sub or get a refund.
On a more 'up note' if The Captains Table had all the amenities of Earthdock it would become a social hub for Lifers and Veterans. We might be able to hangout with ST fans while we play and not be bothered with those players with very little interest in discussing anything except where an NPC is, where they get ships, or telling intelligent conversationalists that all non-game discussion belongs in private channels or outside of 'an MMO.'
Look, ma, I can color, bold, and italic my text too!!1one!one1!
The Captains table is for one thing. And one thing only.
Ironically asking where Sulu is.
That is it. :cool:
Full functionality means it becomes a replacement for SB1 etc. and separates vets from the community. Whereas accessing it from your ship fits the lore behind it better and gives it an alternate, convenience based functionality as a place to do some basic vendoring and exchange work but keeps you going back to SB1/DS9/Omega Fleet for everything important.
This.
Usable ship interiors, combined with some sort of portal to CT, would be awesome. It's still two loading screens away from any location. More or less comparable with flying to the nearest starbase, timewise!
I said it once I'll say it again "Club Exclusive doesn't mean Empty Club" IMHO the vet rewards are fair and they deserve it.
Back on topic
/signed, I would like to see more functionality at the Captains Table
This is just how I have typed on these Forums for about two years. Nothing special about it really, I just like the way it looks.
That may in fact be the point, as monthly subs generate constant income, whereas lifetime subs eventually play for free. If everyone currently playing this game had a lifetime sub, and everyone that picks it up in the future bought a lifetime sub, then the game would eventually die because they are no longer making money from it. It does not mean 400 *consecutive* subscribed days, it means 400 *total* subscribed days. If people want to quit after a month and continue paying for a year afterwards, they are stupid.
Since everyone was nice, I will be mean,
I have a hand grenade, a splintery stick, and your head, guess where I want you to shove them?
Get off your damn I am better then everyone high horse, or at least pretend that your ego does not rival the collective ego of every dictator over the last 40 years.
BTW: Getting angry over digital art which was underused because few people had access to it? You need serious perspective.