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Season 7 Dev Blog #17
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Executive Producer Daniel Stahl discusses and answers questions about the Season 7 Dilithium changes in this entry the Season 7 News Dev Blog series.
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you guys are so close...
"You know what storm" in 3...2...1...
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1) Teamwork and timing is #1
2) You cannot "Kirk It" in every ship
3) You are going to die, just get back up
You can engage in as much "internal deliberate" all you want, this is TRIBBLE, and if you don't know it's TRIBBLE, you don't deserve the income you're receiving and to be called game designers.
Ha, nice freudian slip there.
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Eh. In-game it says 5 processors for 1000 dil. Can't even get your facts straight on this, or is this yet another blind change after much 'deliberate'? :rolleyes:
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Before, we got 1100 dilithium ore, plus tokens for gear.
If you thought we weren't refining enough before, I quite think we'll be refining less now.
I'm also very glad I just downloaded Guild Wars 2 this weekend.
"People are refining a lot less Dillthium than we expected... Let's remove it directly from STF's, make it take a lot longer to get via Foundry, and remove the extra 1440 from B'tran. Now they'll refine a lot more!"
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I'm not even going to try to make sense of any of this nonsense. It's all lies and bull****, because they just want us to buy dilithium with zen. Everything else is just blah blah blah.
I've been defending season 7 since it was announced, but you've been constantly out-right lying to is. It's bang out of order, and I feel like I've just had a backhander to the face and told it was for my own good.
No. Not on PWE. I will not give you any more money, I will still play - I'll use up as much resources as I possibly can on your servers, but I will NOT pay you.
Kirk's Protege.
THIS!!!! .... Otherwise anything less than a Mega fleet will never EVER advance in this game.
Dstahl / Devs ..... You don't have a clue about your own players.
Stop looking at the reports and listen to your PLAYERS.
You have lost sight of the HUMAN players in this game.
BAD BAD BAD business.
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I'm not affected though, in any way, and since this forum will be full of opinions for the next few days... I'll simply be enjoying the game during much of that time
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
100 dil. The project is meant to be 10 BNPs for 1000 dil
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WTF? I play this game versus specifically because it DOESN'T require hours of time investment. I like that about this game. And so does everyone I know who plays. We all have kids and jobs and don't have the time to invest. Making us work harder for things isn't going to make us play more, its going to drive us away from the game.
I really, really hate that mentality of game designers. It's a GAME, not a job.
What really boggles the mind is this:
Most players DON'T convert very much dilithium. So you're going to make it HARDER to get it? Why? How does that make any sense what so ever?
I hate conspiracy theories but those that claim this is just a scam to get us to buy Dilithium with Zen don't sound so crazy now.
On live it tells me that I get 1000 dilithium for 5 BNPs instead of 10.
Still bad either way.
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Exactly. Completely contradictory.
Edit - Actually perfect timing because SWTOR goes f2p so its a good excuse to pass the time while not playing sto while the devs look at themselves and change back the stfs rewards.
Thanks Mr Stahl, for lying through your teeth, and TRIBBLE over your player base yet again. Although I guess I shouldn't be too surprised when you insist in the latest Massively interview, that KDF were always intended as PVP only faction. Jack Emmert says otherwise...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcAn3nhf97Y#t=01m48s
Mr BranFlakes; Feel free to take whatever disciplinary action you deem necessary against me. I'm done jumping through Cryptic's hoops. Spent the better part of 3 years on this game, and hundreds of dollars. So i've been plenty screwed over already. This is the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
3 actual foundry missions is at least 1 hour of play, and more like 2-3 hours if you're going by what is popular and well-rated.
1 15-minute Starbase 24 = the same rewards.
Maybe I have the details wrong, but the reward for playing 3 foundry mission is not "balanced and consistent" with other content. Cryptic content is far more efficient. Your stuff rewards players at an "aberrant rate" compared to our actual content.
And we provide stories.
If you're quote is honest, then you should care about that. The foundry wrapper is violating your standards.
Still, the blatantly contradictory statements of this posting are troubling. "We want people to refine more dilithium, so we're removing the largest sources of it." Excuse me?
I think Cryptic is way too caught up in what I call wikiality, the desire to balance, retune, and recapitalize old content. Nothing is ever done and so no nothing is ever moved beyond.
Oops, that old design is out of whack.
Even the "finale" of the STFs ends with a big shoulder shrug regarding the fate of the Queen.
Oops. She got away. Oops, we killed her a second time but she'll always be out there as long as there's a single Borg.
Everything is repeatable and repurposable. Nothing is DEFINITIVE.
This all goes back to the problems Cryptic has had ever since Enhancement Diversification in CoX.
Better design, bad rollout of better design. You shouldn't re-design something because the old design is bad. You should work with your game more the way your community plays it, not continually yanking it back to the way you want it played.
When I queue for SB24 now, I queue solo and only focus on trying to place first so I can get the bonus loot instead of helping anyone else.
Elite STFs were a much more enjoyable way to earn dilithium.
"Lets take them away from the missions most people run then!"
"Brilliant!"
I commend STO on its ability to make a grind even more of a grind while claiming to make it less of a grind. People did not think you could make it even more so but you did. :rolleyes:
Having said that, kudos on giving us other outlets that are more fun to do to rank up Omega Rep rep. Though, I guess I still am going to have to explain to people that only "Elite" people are assigned helmets in Starfleet.
Good-bye, DevSlayer title, you will be missed.
Still Waiting on: Archer and the Ultimate Ninja!
Any chance we can finally get the vibro sword laser sword skin?
"CO once had devs, but they all fled to STO and NW because they feared Caliga." -matixzon
You limit ways to get Dil, you increase the amount of time it takes to grind.
Stahl your math is wrong, I was able to do 8k easy on each toon in 1-2 hours. That's across 6 characters, mostly through STFs (Converting Salvage, Tech, and EDC). Being a LTS member I could even earn more than cap and not have to log onto a toon for a few days.
The system worked, people that didn't have cash... could grind and trade for Zen. People that had cash and no time could buy dil with Zen. In some cases myself included, I grinded dil for ingame things and purchased Zen when needed for the C-store.
This is a play to drive up the cost of Dilithium in the exchange, it will fail. The economy is STO is optional, it doesn't provide food, water, or shelter. At some point the market will bottom out as the conversion hits a point that isn't worth it to the player.
I hope you adjust the Marks to Dil rates....
I've been a Star Trek Fan since 1987, I was 7 years old when I first saw TNG. From that moment on I was hooked. This game is making me hate Star Trek.
You guys flat out lied to us.... we won't forget that.