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Legacy of Romulus Dev Blog #36
pwebranflakes
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Lead Content Designer Charles Gray shares details about the fourth Dilithium Mine Featured Project in this entry of the Legacy of Romulus News Dev Blog series.
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Also - I know I mentioned it a few times - but it has been tradition to have a master key sale toward the end of a lock-box - any hint hint's - wink wink's?
http://tinyurl.com/lcc6cwh
not the word I was thinking :rolleyes: :P
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True. We haven't completed the last project yet. This is a bit too fast.
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I will not let the childish acts of a criminal ruin this game for me.
-The actions of Cryptic, on the other hand......
Seriously, this must be the most stupid sounding project to date. -.-
Where's the Beef !?
I'm fortunate enough to be in fleet that has somehow managed to work up the millions of dil to complete all these projects across several 500 member branches (all while I'm shaking my head each time our leadership queues them up), but I feel so bad for smaller fleets that can't keep up with them.
Bottom line: STO will be far better off without this special project nonsense. We've had it for a more than a year and enough is enough. This is not good business or game design. It's time to listen to the customers and come up with new (and useful) ideas.
I cannot wait to see what they come up with next ? , 200k to have the stars above your head while mining dilithium anyone : :P:D
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They've never listened to the customer,no matter how much they profess to do so...
Like everything else about these projects,given enough time,they hope the fuss will just fade away ( abit like our hopes and aspirations for this MMO )
What do you mean you can't afford it? All you have to do is pay real money to get Zen and then convert it to Dilithium. I mean really it's not that hard. (heavy sarcasm)
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I think that would be the Dilithium Mine discounts. Which to be honest is a poor excuse if it is. I consider Dilithium an end game currency and it seems to be used for everything......... vanity projects should not be lumped in, especially at full price or the discounted price.
I'd still like to know when Cryptic are going to re-run these projects at half price like they originally said when the Fleet Starbases first came out.
QFT, when they said they would be doing something to help small fleets I was quite happy as I am in one my self but all the mine has been is another sink which is hurting small fleets - I know you can join a super huge fleet but the one im in is super friendly and everyone gets on well and would not want to join a faceless fleet where people hardly know one another.
I wish thy would stop throwing these cosmetic enhancements at the mine every 2 weeks, be different if they actually did something, for example
The last one with the miners - why cant they actually mine Dilithium for the fleet and have a central "bank" where it goes and can be contributed to the projects for no FCs, even 100 Dilithium an hour would be acceptable
See that is a fantastic idea. Unfortunately it seems that Cryptic tends to avoid ideas that require common sense. I understand a business needing an income, but there is such a strange thing as customer service too lol
"any1 that can trow an invite to a t3 mine plz?!?!?!"
Shhhhhh ! They're listening :eek:
:: UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR :: So, the idea is to spend 200,000 pieces of dilithium, so that you can get a dilithium cosmetic makeover to the dilithium mine.
*crickets*
The idea behind that is to make someone feel forced/compelled to pay real money for it if they want them all badly enough :P
That's a really common PR tactic used worldwide of just letting the anger die down on its own while the customers that have a deep love of the product (or the Star Trek IP in this case) continue to foolishly buy into their high-cost-for-low-return scheme. It's wrong, but it works. Morality has no place in capitalism of this caliber, am I right? If this game did not have Star Trek attached to it, you could bet Cryptic would've been forced to shut it down by now. With the Trek name, they can get away with almost anything, and still be profitable.
I hate to say this, I really do since I think Cryptic has some wonderfully talented people in its employ and that I think Jack Emmert did a real nice thing by saving Champions Online and expanding the studio into Cryptic North, but when it comes time for CBS to decide (if they haven't already) who gets the rights to develop STO2, I sincerely hope it isn't Cryptic/Perfect World that wins the bid. Very sorry to say, but the business practices (which may coincide with Cryptic's low BBB rating) has caused so much disappointment across the entire community since STO went F2P. They ignore that disappointment, and focus on only the bottom line, and play up the few bits of exaltations they get from the minority of easy-to-please customers.
Honestly, though, I would love to be proven wrong and have more faith in Cryptic's ability to carry the game into the foreseeable future (I have defended Cryptic's methods in the past in front of my fleet so much to the point I used to be called a Cryptic apologist, but not anymore), but I've seen little to keep my hopes up.