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with the expantion coming next month, all ships will require a warp core. does anyone have an idea of the cost of these warp cores and what currency are we going to need? energy credits? dilithium? fleet credits? zen? sometype of marks or gold pressed latium?
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Better warpcores will be available via the dil store. There will be different warpcores for each level but the lv50 cores will cost about 30k dil.
Warpcores will also drop from enemys via standard gameplay but I don't think the droprate has been told to us by Cryptic.
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Ok.. I will bite...
Warp-cores are another element of your build, that will be introduced next month with the LoR expansion (also known as "not-season-8").
Warp-cores / Singularity cored add another level of personalizing and customizing your ships power-output and distribution.
Some warp-cores add bonus to system X, some to system Y, others allow for faster power transfer (if memory serves)...
If what cryptic is telling is true, there are several thousand potential mods for the cores, all altering your build in one way or another.
As far as high level rep/fleet/etc warp cores. I have not heard anything, which leads me to believe at launch there will be no Fleet or Rep level cores. I know they said that set bonus ones are not currently planned, but I imagine they will pop-up somewhere down the line.
bottomline is like any item in the game (Shields/impulse engines/deflector dishes) you don't have to buy anything to "Have" a warp core, but chances are if you go that route, you aren't going to have a particularly great or helpful warp core.
Also, synergy bonuses give a bonus to one system's power level according to the other's power setting, so if you have a [W -> E] core that gives +7.5% synergy and 125/100 Weapon power, you'll get a 7.5 bonus to Engines.
When Legacy of Romulus hits, all your current ships will be awarded a Common M/AM Warp Core Mk X, and the best warp cores available for purchase will be Rare Mk X cores. Your ships will perform as before (excepting other LoR balance tweaks).
I haven't had a chance to do a full survey, but it seems Singularity cores give Science bonuses rather than engineering. I have seen [EPS] on singularity cores as well as Grav Gen, Particle Gen, and power insulators.
I have yet to see a single Very Rare QS core. (haven't seen any Very rare M/AM cores either, though. Seeing as I have only collected a few common cores so far, I doubt I will ever see any before this goes live)
Common Cores are free.
Uncommon are purchaseable at the Shipyard for EC.
Rares are purchaseable at the Dilithium Store.
And lets not forget that they are drops as well, so be worth it to do Events and STFs, you might get a Very Rare one as a reward.
I would like to see what Rare Mk XI cores are available on the Dilithium store, though. Somehow I doubt they'll have the best combinations up for sale (like +5 to Aux, Warp Core Efficiency, and Bonus Weapon Power from Aux power).
While I don't mindh having to work to get good gear, I have seen maybe a half dozen white cores playing on tribble thus far. Now, while I am not on every day, in the same amount of playtime, I have seen that many blues and greens of other items.
This is escpecially bad since we should be testing on triblle and it';s hard to get our hands on said items in order to actually do that.
That really depends on what price people set for the Warp Cores.
As Cryptic said, there will be tens of thousands of combinations. Given the apparent drop rate, the likelihood of finding the awesome combos like I said (basically, the BIS cores for Escorts, Cruisers, and Science ships) are quite low.
It's entirely possible that the Very Rare Mk XI cores that you actually want will cost tens, or possibly hundreds of millions of EC, nevermind the Mk XII cores.
Obviously this all depends on the drop rates, and exactly how much benefit some of the core stats really have. Still, just buying cores off the exchange could be tricky if the price for the core you want becomes comparable to Lockbox ships.
Why not have the MK XII cores only be in lock boxes?
That would generate a lot more money for PWE.
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Also, on tribble, the exchange is worthless.
I also think it might be nice to have alternate sources of cores. Crafting needs a revamp for starters, and I would love to see fleet versions with unique affixes. I also think they should add set piece cores and move the sector space bonuses from the impulse engines.
Bad idea, even as a joke, is still a bad idea.
Sector space bonuses still exist on impulse engines (like the Borg or MACO engines)?
I thought they were moving those bonuses from the engines to the warp cores.
Yes they said they were doing that, but I haven't seen such a change hit tribble yet. hence adding set warp cores. For example, add a MACO warp core and remove Asynchronus warp field (warp speed bonus) from the Impulse engines and add it to the new MACO warp core. Now, the only sticky bit is how to fit Rumulan Singularity cores in with the sets (they could make Omega sets M/AM cores and the Romulan and Reman Sets QS cores, but that might cause problems. If they did do that, though, I vote for the Borg core being a Transwarp coil that fits to EVERY ship in the game, regardles of whether it uses M/AM or QS cores).
If they don't remove the sector space bonuses from the engines we end up having the same proble the devs are trying to fix: an impulse engine for warp travel and one for actual combat.
That, and the Warp Cores are supposedly what's meant to determine our Warp Speeds, with Warp 10 becoming equivalent to, what... Warp 17 now? -- so we'll only be going even faster now with a Mk XII core and the Borg engines.
Actually I was being serious.
The more money PWE makes the more factions we get?
If so, Mark XII warp cores should be in lock boxes.
It's not like we have anything useful to use master keys on right now anyhow.
I'm on the fence about this.
This is a good idea for the next lockbox if it's an OPTION to get them this way.
Namely that they add in good Mk XII warp cores, allowing them to get spread through the game more quickly. BUT you could still get them normally through other means.
If they did that, it wouldn't be so bad. People would get plenty of cores very quickly, and it would keep the price from being quite so ridiculous at the get go.
Having them ONLY in lockboxes is bad though, because it's already easy to say something is 'pay to win' in this game sometimes, and we really don't need more reasons to say that.
Seriously, it's a bad idea... Not just unhelpful... It's a baaaaad idea.
I'm not THAT difficult to please, I just have a very low tolerance threshold for stupid BS! - George Carlin.
Common and uncommon cores sound easy enough to get. Rares will likely drop as loot. The day they start dropping you are going to see them in the exchange for absurd prices. Wait a couple of weeks and they will be cheap. Look at how Dominion Lock Boxes started at 50K on day one and now you can get 20 boxes for less than 5K.
If purple Mk XII cores were lock box only, how much of an improvement is that over a blue Mk XII core? Not a lot. Yet there are people who MUST HAVE the best of everything. If that generates hundreds of thousands in master key sales for PWE then for the rest of us it means free expansions.
Really, unless you are a PvPer, against PvE having just blue Mk XII equipment is enough. If lock boxes paid for LoR and then some, why not keep the gravy train rolling for Cardassians and what not.
I won't mention a Borg faction since that causes great grief for LTS people.
Like shields and deflectors they go 1, III, V, VII, and IX last I saw with top price about 40ishK same as impulse engine/deflector/shield more or less that you get from that store.
Again there basic but maybe something to start with or to try out. The 'free' warp core has a special ability that allows you to travel Warp 10 in sector space. Er, that's it.
the EC ones give you an ability/power boost but the MK IX only allows sector space travel Warp 9.4. roughly the MK equals sector speed travel.
I believe Driver coil still affects this but am not sure of the sector space mechanics there tweaking with to say for sure.
The name sounds cool and all, but what would it do?
Actually, I wonder if it would be possible for them to include special cores on lockbox ships retroactively (ie. give them to everyone who has already claimed their ships)
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I have no problem with SPECIAL warp cores being in the lobi store as part of a set or somesuch, or coming with a ship, but they shouldn't be overpowered.
We shouldn't have to pay for basic gear though regardless or rarity and mark.
Nope. That's not how that works.