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theanothername
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Pushed aside? Nobody wants it anymore?
Take the recent released EV Suits in the C-Store. I really love the look of them. One of the first things in my mind when I saw the first Nukara NPC with such a suit was "Where to get THIS?"
Now its out in C-Store as a item=visual suit. Why can't I (when I bought it of course) customize my current EV suit to look like that? Get something like a EV suit tailor in game, that would give me a good reason to buy it & use it for my Tholian-Set Suit. Same for body armor. There are some with a style I prefer above the ones I use for stats.
I mean seriously: You can get make-a-wish creative variations of whole big military space ships but a single armor/ EV Suit is a nono; who do you try to kidding?
Yeha, yeah, "No tech, cannot do, yadayadayada"
I know you dont have that yet, go make it; and don't try to sell us you don't have the basics of that in a virtural drawer already.
Time for my first coffee today.
Take the recent released EV Suits in the C-Store. I really love the look of them. One of the first things in my mind when I saw the first Nukara NPC with such a suit was "Where to get THIS?"
Now its out in C-Store as a item=visual suit. Why can't I (when I bought it of course) customize my current EV suit to look like that? Get something like a EV suit tailor in game, that would give me a good reason to buy it & use it for my Tholian-Set Suit. Same for body armor. There are some with a style I prefer above the ones I use for stats.
I mean seriously: You can get make-a-wish creative variations of whole big military space ships but a single armor/ EV Suit is a nono; who do you try to kidding?
Yeha, yeah, "No tech, cannot do, yadayadayada"
I know you dont have that yet, go make it; and don't try to sell us you don't have the basics of that in a virtural drawer already.
Time for my first coffee today.
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They don't actually seem to give a toot about what the playerbase think/want. They just want to ream us all for every penny they can get.
Sure businesses have to make money...but the ones that make money consistently for a long time are the ones that care for their customers needs (or at least manage to convince the customer that they do).
So...don't expect much, since PWE took over the focus seems to have -very- much been "Money! Money! Money!".
/endmytuppenceworth
Why would they when they make a simple EV suit and charge us 700zen and give it no customisation, all simple add more and more gambling to the game.
TBH customisation stopped after the first few months of the games release really.
Seems like whenever customization comes up, they him and haw around the subject. Fleet logos on starbases was asked about recently and the response basicly was "Well if we have the time..."
You could theoretically have the glass helmet be transparent for species that have reasonable head restrictions.
Or simply require people to use reasonable head restrictions if they opt for the transparent glass choice.
I Compleatly Agree with this but instead of all of us
Crying about the TRIBBLE Cryptic is doing with things such
As this why doesn't the player base just Simply take a
Stand like myself and 70 others and Refuse buying Anything
From the CStore,because in all honesty until all of us as a player
Base Continue to buy Cryptics Worthless TRIBBLE from their Highly
Overpriced CStore thus continuing to give them our money for Overpriced
Items and Worthless and Empty Promises and Constant Excuses they always
Give us all they Will Not Change,Let's start making Cryptic Start Loosing Money
In their Precious Cash Cow CStore and Stop buying their items all together and
Then let's see how their tone with their player base is, cause if it wasn't for their
Player base they wouldn't be making Any Money at all...just my 2 cents
if you could customize your suit you wouldnt have to buy several of them......
its another way for them to tug at your wallet......
join date: Jan. 2012
With EV Suits & Armors I was more thinking in line of an appearance tab or WoWs transmogrification. You can only have one "whole" suit to show, but you can choose to have it look either like the crystal suit or the last known canon suit.
No, thats silly. Right now there is no reason for me to get it since it would rip the set bonus. Others might think the same. Also there are probabaly players with a purple EV suit with random stats that fits their playstyle better, so no reason for them too to get it (outside of collecting of course).
If you could use the visual on whatever EV suit you're wearing as soon as you buy it there are suddenly much more ppl which would have a reason to do so.
So its quite the opposite of what you're telling. Its another way for them to pat your back and say "Keep your money"
Either of those require programming time, which is precious and rare. Opaque EV suit likely did not. In addition, it's not just head size/shape. Andorians for example couldn't use it if things were restricted.
This makes no sense to me. How does limiting customization mean you buy more?
Ah, I see what you mean now. Like, buy the "Combat EV Suit" mechanic, and then apply whichever suit's visuals you want to use? One problem might be recognizability. Currently, if you see a First Contact suit, you know what it does. If you could swap it out, you wouldn't know at a glance whether someone had the extra bits or not. Dunno, just speculating. The concept sounds feasible.
Or the other way around, exactly!
Seriously, would you care so much (and have all the time the stats of each suit in your mind) what some dude (or dudette) wears to sacrifice such an awesome feature?
Chances are if you click at somebody on Nukara in an FC EV Suit that 50% of the time its name is either "Security Escort" or "Mirror Whatshisname"
Its an EV suit. Are you really supposed to know whats under the hood anyway?
I get that. It comes down to how much you plan to use them, how much you plan to make off of them, and when they'll be out.
I think the big thing that has me second guessing this is the 700 ZEN EV suit. When it was a freebie not even tied to a mission reward, I thought of it as a gimmick. With Nukara Prime, my expectations went up. Then I see a 700 ZEN per suit EV suit and my expectations went up more.
C'est la feature creep.
EV suits sit in the Armor slot, which can be turned off visually, and judging by the players I see running around ESD and SFA, most do. There are so few EV suits, and with the opaque glass face shield, it really does limit customization when using a EV suit, its just a bunch of clones running around
It would be nice if there were ways to customize the EV suit like we do our uniforms, even if more limited, like colors and badges.
Honestly, with the way we currently have options to turn off all the visuals on both ourselves and our ships, recognizability doesn't have the same weight in this game like it might in other MMO's. I would really like to see more of what we have with the STF ground sets unlocking tailor options for not only things like the EV suits, but also for the starship sets. It would be nice to use, say, the Reman shield effect while actually having the MACO shields equipped.
I play ground pvp and I would. It's a bad feature, don't be selfish, think to balance...
God, lvl 60 CW. 17k.
Or at least it does on the KDF side, don't have one on the Fed but I'd assume it's the same there.
As another player noted:
You can disable suit visuals and all anyone will see is a grey EV suit.
You can also simply not activate the suit and it won't display as an EV suit at all. (Far as I know, activating it only protects against toxic environment insta-kills and lets you jump waypoints. So there's no reason to activate it in PvP anyway.)
Really it isn't the same as changing the entire structure like you can with many of the non-Cstore, non-lockbox ships on the fed side (again, KDF is just SOL with that). I mean, you can add different shields and get different visuals too, that doen't mean the same as changing types of nacelles or saucer sections.
Honestly, I think the majority of the ship customization came from the old Starship Creator game anyway so the art department didn't really have to do much.
Not sure if serious...
I remember I was able to choose between several customization options with my KDF gorn boff and even if I don't have it I was under the impression that there where customization options with this new light escort-carrier.
I do not think cryptic has given up on customization, otherwise I would not have bothered to bring up that topic.
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and next month in the C-Store:
http://www.imagebanana.com/view/ji16qodg/EVA.png
(read the text in the picture)