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I'm against a raise in the level cap!
twg042370
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Because my powers tray is already full and I've had to get rid of a couple if things to get the useful stuff in there. Ten more level is jus more powers to jam in there!
I mean, sure, no one uses abandon ship. But the bottom of my screen is really cluttered and all them small buttons can get confusing to parse with bad eyes after a while.
"Shields! D'oh! That was Polarize Hull!"
It can happen to you...
I mean, sure, no one uses abandon ship. But the bottom of my screen is really cluttered and all them small buttons can get confusing to parse with bad eyes after a while.
"Shields! D'oh! That was Polarize Hull!"
It can happen to you...
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Some players have spent thousands of dollars on ships and should not be forced to pay more money.
I will be carefully watching how they handle this.
Ehn, all they need is some slightly gimped version of the VA ships for free. Any new ships will be in a Lobi or Fleet store regardless so it won't be much different than it is now.
1. Where could I put it? (I already told myself the joke) The sides are cluttered as well.
2. There's a vertical power bar?!
If I remember correctly, go to Re-arange UI, and on the floating power bar there is a button add? or something to make the vertical one visible.
Also there is a UI revamp in progress, so that might solve a few issues (and I am sure add some back :P)
Edit/ Jumped by an Australian Ninja
Almost all of the content is super easy, adding more powers/skill points will just water the difficulty down further.
In all likelihood it would also lead to whole new tiers of ships, consoles, ground equipment, etc. for Cryptic to make money off of. This doesn't really appeal to me and I would feel compelled to refit most of my characters if I continued to play.
Sounds like it's gonna happen, so I'll just hope for the best.
The one thing that did sound interesting, is the possibility of getting to crew up our old ships and sending them out on missions, like a real Admiral.
Mode 4 is less than useless on the action bar it actually reduces available action bar space rather than expands it
The Boff skillbar and ship weapons and shields controls should be able to be keybound independently, not shared with those of the action bar.
In the end it isn't a level cap that's needed, it's a revamp of the user GUI.
Some of these comments make it sound like this is in the works for Season 8? Where is everyone getting this information, cause either everyone is WAY jumping the gun here, or I missed something.
But I would detest a raise of Mark in gear. I have spent millions buying Mark XII gear and so have lots of other players. Could you imagine all your Very Rare Mark XII's becoming obsolete overnight? Or the resulting crash on the Exchange?
Tears of Grief. That's what would happen.
From this month's Ask Cryptic
While it might be possible that a level cap will be in Season 9, there is no way that there will be a level cap to Admiral in Season 8. The assumption is that Admiral is at level 60 and it is possible there is a minor level cap to level 55 in Season 8. Most likely, 2014 or later is when we will get access to Admiral content not this year.
The new missions should reflect the side that plays them. Federation having diplomatic and exploration missions with no combat involved. Klingons having missions combat oriented would be fine. Would be nice to have a mission or two specific to a science officer a engineer and a tactical officer. Having a couple new missions against the Borg as well would be welcome.
The game and the character feels pretty balanced to me. I don't need more skills, more talent points to become a jack-of-all-trades AND master of all. Less is more at some point.
Becoming an admiral and commanding a group of ships, a task force, is a nice and welcome feuture, but it can be achieved after a line of missions, and or a small reputation system. There is no need to add levels for that.
The game could be expanded with different career options, task force fleet admiral is one, but a section 31 official would also be nice. Take my Orion raider that calls himself a business man. There is lots of endgame possibilities here.
They also could add new low level content especially to make a different level path for the classes. So that leveling another class actually lets you play in another way. The problem, I see, with all MMO'S is the fact that there are different classes, but they all have to be pushed through the same game content, which makes the point of having different classes rather moot.
Tacs could just punch everything. Eng builds mechs. Sci points its sonic screwdriver.
Do it Cryptic!
Currently the average Vice Admiral or Lieutenant General is plenty powerful enough as it is, and I don't see a need to make us any stronger. Doing so would just make the game too easy for it to be entertaining.
The only way I can see this working is similar to the Romulan rep system. As you level up new Admiral/General content is made available to you, like dailies or some mini episodes that have you commanding a fleet or some task befitting of the rank.
That would be enough.
A new tier of ship is welcome though.
MK XIII+ gear is not. However, if Cryptic get us a "refinement" system to upgrade the grade of items from common -> uncommon -> Rare -> Very Rare -> The new grade of "ultra rare", then I accept the new grade of "ultra rare".
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"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
-Michelangelo
Raising Levelcaps in MMO is usually being done to reset progression and give players something to do for a few months to re-earn pvp-ranks, equipment, level profession skills etc...
So if they implement it, there should be a huge jump in equipment requirements between lvl50 and lvlXX content, so that everyone had to start at 0 again. Otherwise they could just leave it at the current levelcap and just add more STFs and reputation factions.
Do you honestly trust Cryptic to do that without completely and utterly TRIBBLE over every player?
Oh, and raising the Bridge Officer rank/skill cap would be most welcome.
And if I wanted to fly a task force of npc ships. I'd dust it off and go and play Armada. Well all know that the NPC AI is not up to par so what would be the point? Yes it sounds cool, but I just don't see it working.
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