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So, is the excitement of Fleet Projects gone already?
dracounguis
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I was all excited about the fleet getting together and building a starbase. That was until I see how it's executed...
1.) You have to race your fellow Fleeties to contribute materials to projects. And it's an unfair race.
2.) The fleet ships require you to spend $20 after loads of mats spent on projects and grinding thousands of Fleet Marks. Come on, Cryptic. It's GRIND or PAY, not both.
3.) Fleet ships are just rehashes of OLD models with a barely noticeable new skin; & did I mention you have to spend $20 for them?
So for much grinding, maybe getting lucky to hit the project time just right to contribute something 'easy', & paying $20; I get the honor of running a re-skinned old ship model that has an extra console slot over other T5 ships. Did I miss anything?
1.) You have to race your fellow Fleeties to contribute materials to projects. And it's an unfair race.
2.) The fleet ships require you to spend $20 after loads of mats spent on projects and grinding thousands of Fleet Marks. Come on, Cryptic. It's GRIND or PAY, not both.
3.) Fleet ships are just rehashes of OLD models with a barely noticeable new skin; & did I mention you have to spend $20 for them?
So for much grinding, maybe getting lucky to hit the project time just right to contribute something 'easy', & paying $20; I get the honor of running a re-skinned old ship model that has an extra console slot over other T5 ships. Did I miss anything?
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Oh, it's more than just a grind.
It's also a horrid resource sink! Yay?
Charging RL money *on top of* the time and resource dump is a bit (putting it nicely) greedy.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "I weary of the chase. Wait for me. I shall be merciful and quick."
the accad missions DO NOT START
Seriously. While I dont agree with alot of it. What else is there to do in end game?
And who's to say they wont release NEW ships but in order to buy one you gotta have fleet credits AND ship modules in the future?
The amount of griping on these forums is getting out of hand. Hell they just ripped me off for $10 charging me a sub I didnt ask for(And only had active for 2 days), yet I still find all this griping a little crazy. If your not happy move on.
And posts about you didnt even bother to join a fleet? whats the point in an MMO if your not in a guild of some kind?
Other then Dilithium, you get more credits turning if fleet marks anyways over all the other "Easy" stuff.
Only gripe I have is outta the 8 ships I bought from the C store only one of them has a FLeet version. But having something for the fleet to build up and dump resources into is great.
I came from an MMO where you handed out resources to build up your Guild to get people to help. Here its hard to even get the chance to use them up as most easy turn ins are spammed as soon as they appear. Prob simply because they added a Leaderboard to it giving people credit for doing it, since mostly all you need is 20k for ships. Which again I see as a HUGE Possitive. Making people want to do it.
I see it as a heel of a start that will prob just get better as time goes on. If anyones actually thinking there will be a Free to play game thats fun that will NEVER have anything worth buying with real money, then its time to look for a new hobby.
But? BUT? That's exactly how it is at the moment.:eek:
I gave my starbase windows. Then I realized that the only thing I got from the "special fleet project" were 200,000 fleet credits that are way too easy to get. No XP for the starbase, nothing. I spend 200,000 dilithium for something I can do with the press of a button on my Constitution bridge. Opening the windows. Oh by the way, with another press of the button I can close them again there.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
they say they have a requirement (always the same for all of them)
and it doesn't matter how many of the required officer you have you CAN'T start the mission
Not like I expected it to be easy (that would be disappointing) but at least I thought we would be able to choose whithin a range of possibilities for donations.
Join date 20 Sept 2008
Are you griping about people griping on the forums??? If "your" not happy with people griping, why don't "you" leave the forums or ignore posts about people griping.
Sorry, I must have missed the Memo, where does it say I have to join a guild in an MMo?
Can someone help me out here on understanding that?
Tell that to the Klingons. They have no discounted ships at all. Even for feds that's a minority of ships, since it only counts for T5 C-Store unlocks. No vet reward ships, no lower tier ships you paid for, only T5 and only if you already paid for it once.
Make it so everyone can see before hand.
The OP still has it right, its grind OR pay, not both.
The way it usually works is:
Want something free = Your gonna have to dump a LOT of playtime in.
Want something quickly = Cash please!
Expecting both is just plain greedy.
Please excuse this aside but if you know where the button is, please share. There's another thread discussing this and we haven;t found it yet.
I did them all . . . once.
Now they have been grayed out for about 3 days. All the info I can find says the CD is 24 hours, definitely been longer than that.
Max of 16 every 5 days, wonderful. . . .
The general recruitment one that gives you the 5 pack is shorter than the rest.
Which I always found to be weird....
how ever if they add a fleet kar'fi i would get it.
cant wait to have the base kitted out sit in front of the fireplace and drink to glory of the emipire
It gave me something fun to do for a few days until Foundry returns. But it's not something that I'm going to fully participate in.
I'll contribute some dilithium and supplies here and there, but unless my fleet has a few masochists, the whole project is going to fizzle out.
And, unless some major changes are made, I can't imagine the starbase really becoming a social hub for the ugc community.
Maybe if they do something with the holodeck that doesn't involve mindless grinding, then it might have a longer shelf life for me.
Most of us hang out at the starbase as well so it is indeed a hub already even though there is nothing to do yet. I'm not sure what the rest of you were expecting, what other way could they have done it that didn't involve grinding, welcome to every MMORPG endgame. At least it involves doing it with a bunch of friends and fleetmates and not by yourself in some closed off instance with strangers.
The contribution problems are going to disappear in a few weeks once we get to around Tier 3 when the amount required to start a project exponentially goes up and I'm looking forward to it.
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