Well, it's not entirely true that it will take small fleets "forever" with a reduced cost/increased timer project. Small fleets are taking longer regardless. It's a question of where/how you want to spend your time. Would you rather spend your time waiting on a project to finish or would you rather spend your time in an endless grind for resources to put toward projects? Smaller fleets are taking longer due to the time involved with farming resources, especially dilithium with it's 8K per day cap. It's easier/faster for a large fleet to contribute the 200K for special projects. A fleet of 200 people can each contribute 1k and move on. That's a single daily missions worth. A fleet of 5 people needs to contribute 40k a piece, which will take those members longer to obtain.
Were costs reduced, you could move on to do other things while waiting for the timer to finish. I seriously doubt Cryptic will be interested in reducing costs without some method of adding to the completion timer as the length of time required to fully level a starbase was on of the design goals. Reducing costs with while increasing the completion timer doesn't give any fleet an unfair advantage over the other.
Here's another idea: All fleets get a daily stipend of dilithium that go towards projects, say 10,000 per day. This would be a trivial bonus for a large fleet but a great one for a small fleet, yet still fair since ALL fleets get the same stipend. Think of it as your starbase has a "miner" working for it in the background to accumulate dilithium specifically for projects. Cryptic can still sell us lots of dilithium for other stuff, like all that expensive fleet gear!
They should make the projects scalable by fleet size. The smaller fleets should have to gather less items while large fleets have to gather more items in order to complete the projects.
So? It's still free money you can use toward fleet project just for creating a fleet.
What good is a fleet to a single person? What would he or she really get for "free" by building up a starbase using a small stipend alone? It would take a single player a very very long time to get access to anything at all. Even with a stipend building up a starbase is still a grindfest, but a little extra dil would take the edge off for smaller fleets.
Congrats to Levi3 for completing the second upgrade of the T4 starbase solo! Now you have the Eng Fab to go - then the actual tier upgrade if you are crazy enough to waste another 1.8 million dilithium
Crazy - the 3 T4 upgrades themselves are 900k x 3 = 2.7 million - cryptic must love you!
You're still asking for Cryptic to give away 'free money'. A fair amount of free money really, that's 70k Dilithium a week.
Not really, but this thread does support my argument that smaller fleets are suffering due to the inequity of effort needed to build up a starbase. People are abandoning their fleets to join larger ones to avoid the heavy grind.
By the way, I just offer ideas because it's an interesting topic and I like this game. I myself don't run a fleet.
all of my toons are in a relatively small fleet of my choosing, only my 2 PVP toons joined a BIG FLEET.
these 2 toons also contribute to that BIG fleet, play the fleet actions and STF's, chat with folks, and now i have access to everything i want from their shops.
Also, i've found a couple of very nice guys there, which also like PVP, and came to have respect for the leader.
btw - there is the possibility to post to ANY channel with ANY toon, so if you want, you can chat with the folks from both fleets.
also a big fleet holds more surprises in terms of nice people! (at least on KDF side)
all of my toons are in a relatively small fleet of my choosing, only my 2 PVP toons joined a BIG FLEET.
these 2 toons also contribute to that BIG fleet, play the fleet actions and STF's, chat with folks, and now i have access to everything i want from their shops.
Also, i've found a couple of very nice guys there, which also like PVP, and came to have respect for the leader.
btw - there is the possibility to post to ANY channel with ANY toon, so if you want, you can chat with the folks from both fleets.
also a big fleet holds more surprises in terms of nice people! (at least on KDF side)
it is only as difficult as you make it.
Yes and only about 40 days for that nice Fleet B'rel - funny - what will hit first the Rommie faction of Orion's T5 shipyard - darn that 14 day cooldown!
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Here's another idea: All fleets get a daily stipend of dilithium that go towards projects, say 10,000 per day. This would be a trivial bonus for a large fleet but a great one for a small fleet, yet still fair since ALL fleets get the same stipend. Think of it as your starbase has a "miner" working for it in the background to accumulate dilithium specifically for projects. Cryptic can still sell us lots of dilithium for other stuff, like all that expensive fleet gear!
The stipend would be allocated to the fleet itself. A player could not use it for anything but a fleet project.
What good is a fleet to a single person? What would he or she really get for "free" by building up a starbase using a small stipend alone? It would take a single player a very very long time to get access to anything at all. Even with a stipend building up a starbase is still a grindfest, but a little extra dil would take the edge off for smaller fleets.
You're still asking for Cryptic to give away 'free money'. A fair amount of free money really, that's 70k Dilithium a week.
Crazy - the 3 T4 upgrades themselves are 900k x 3 = 2.7 million - cryptic must love you!
Not really, but this thread does support my argument that smaller fleets are suffering due to the inequity of effort needed to build up a starbase. People are abandoning their fleets to join larger ones to avoid the heavy grind.
By the way, I just offer ideas because it's an interesting topic and I like this game. I myself don't run a fleet.
PVP in a mostly PVE game could get expensive.
here is how i did this:
all of my toons are in a relatively small fleet of my choosing,
only my 2 PVP toons joined a BIG FLEET.
these 2 toons also contribute to that BIG fleet, play the fleet actions and STF's, chat with folks, and now i have access to everything i want from their shops.
Also, i've found a couple of very nice guys there, which also like PVP, and came to have respect for the leader.
btw - there is the possibility to post to ANY channel with ANY toon, so if you want, you can chat with the folks from both fleets.
also a big fleet holds more surprises in terms of nice people! (at least on KDF side)
it is only as difficult as you make it.
Yes and only about 40 days for that nice Fleet B'rel - funny - what will hit first the Rommie faction of Orion's T5 shipyard - darn that 14 day cooldown!