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darthmeow504
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As I feared and predicted, Risa is abandoned once again now that all event content has been stripped from it. What was a fun social map is now a ghost town inhabited only by NPCs. It's a shame to see such a nice map that was worked on so hard by the devs sit empty and unloved.
My suggestion to fix it is to bring back the non-Corvette related activities. Bring back the dance party and hor'gahn hunt, bring back the floaters and birds and costumes. And utilize the fun and impressive looking Flying High event as a daily dilithium mission. Perform the event just like before, get 480 dilithium, come back tomorrow and do it again. What's the harm? There are already plenty of ways to earn dilithium in the game, more variety to choose from won't hurt. The refining cap will not change, so it won't be adding more dilithium to the game or it's economy. It'll merely be adding a different way to get it so there's more variety in the missions available to earn it with.
Going to Risa now, with it utterly abandoned and nothing happening, is kind of depressing. It's like visiting a closed summer camp. I say bring back the party!
My suggestion to fix it is to bring back the non-Corvette related activities. Bring back the dance party and hor'gahn hunt, bring back the floaters and birds and costumes. And utilize the fun and impressive looking Flying High event as a daily dilithium mission. Perform the event just like before, get 480 dilithium, come back tomorrow and do it again. What's the harm? There are already plenty of ways to earn dilithium in the game, more variety to choose from won't hurt. The refining cap will not change, so it won't be adding more dilithium to the game or it's economy. It'll merely be adding a different way to get it so there's more variety in the missions available to earn it with.
Going to Risa now, with it utterly abandoned and nothing happening, is kind of depressing. It's like visiting a closed summer camp. I say bring back the party!
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Also the bird raising could be brought back. If someone runs it at full capacity on a character you get a max of 100 marks per day. Given that this requires you to permanently fill 4 doff slots this is not too much I'd say.
Plus people beged for them to keep the map and not remove it, thread after thread to keep the map, and they kept it, and now no one goes there. Yeah, just because people scream, and moan on the forms don't mean the whole player base cared if the map stayed.
Plus no prize no one is going to go.
We have the winter event in 3 months, and a FE, and season 8, 4 year anniversary, and next thing you know summer is back.
Those floaters need love and a map to be used on, they are just that lovely.
The map is still there.
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It is correct since KDF could not go to Risa before until they had Raiding party up, sooo nothing changed really.....and it's not up to max just Rank 3 to get to Risa
To be expected though. Lockbox ships and reputation grinds are not enough to keep casual players entertained, especially when there are numerous other f2p games out there right now...
I was going to suggest this, you beat me to it! Definitely one of my favorite parts of the Summer Event. It would give me something constructive to do with the floater I bought. You could make it more interesting by awarding additional dilithium for completing the courses under a certain time.
Which means that it can't be very effective as a social zone, except for Feds. The most popular social zones seem to be those which can be accessed by any faction. So without the transwarp to Risa for KDF and KDF-allied Romulans, the diminished activity ought to have been expected.
Mind you, there should be something to do there besides the standard bank, exchange, mail, Dabo, or else other social zones will continue to be preferred. I tend to go back and forth between Drozana, New Romulus Command, New Romulus Staging Area, Nimbus III, Ganalda Station, and Qo'noS First City/Academy/Shipyard on my Romulan, the same places minus the Command Center on my Orion, and ESD, Drozana, New Romulus Staging Area, and various starbases on my Vulcan. There's not much to do in any of those places, apart from Drozana, Nimbus III (which lowers your level when you go in and gives rewards commensurate with the reduced level, which, while they can be sold for a little EC, are not worth the time to collect, leaving only a few occasional dilithium missions) and the Staging Area, and the occasional foundry mission. Floating around Risa, while entertaining, won't hold most people's attention for very long unless there's something else to do there. It wouldn't be too crazy to put a cross-faction mission or two in the zone which cannot be accessed from the PvE queue but can only be accessed in that zone. It would of course need to match the players' levels, rather than shoot us all down to a lower rank like Nimbus III. The area on Risa which has been there for ages is even more dead, because it's barren of any useful or enjoyable content.
It might allow for us to practice that in preparation for any future event involving the floaters, so that would be good. However, several players (myself included) never could see the entire pathway for the event -- so I did everything else (and I mean everything else, dancing, Horga'hn hunting, bird raising, and accolade gathering to the point that I got the queen of laziness accolade, "Master Relaxer" or something like that) in the Summer event, but could not do the Flying High mission. In other words, they need to fix that if it's to be a lure to come to Risa, because some of us wouldn't be able to do it.
Bringing back the transwarp would be a good start, but again, it wouldn't resolve the issue unless something else can be done there.
On the other hand, those NPCs are pretty glad to have the nut-job PCs off their island.
wonderfull holiday planet with sexy girls etc!
ok here comes MY SUGGESTION to Risa:
When we complete missions events and stuff we get holiday points
and we can fly to risa to turn those points in for a stay on it(for limited time)!
and can enjoy some action there
++ also a good place for role players!
what do you think?
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Bring back the transwarp, it will still be empty.
And honestly, I'm not complaining. As someone mentioned, we are KDF/fed/rom captains, Risa is for off duty, vacation. Vacations ended. Back to the frontlines.
Later this year we will have the new mission, then later the winter event. This year we had 1 event/3months, which is fine IMO, and that's not including the halloween/friday 13th special mission, and various other events (giveaway, soon lobi store sale...). And the seasons release.
So yeah, I think it's fine.
Within a one and a half year period, I spent around $280ish dollars on Star Trek: Online. If it was not for the game's social aspects, I would have left Star Trek: Online six months ago. Cryptic did a great job on the Romulan missions, so they do deserve a chance to make changes.
My endless grinding days are over.
I want to have fun again.
that is what made the LTS at launch so appealing. spend 200 bucks, then play in spurts as I feel like it with zero costs thereafter. I haven't spent a dime since the game went live. monthly stipends give the ability to get cool stuff periodically via the shop which is a nice bonus.
pretty sure the LTS has paid for itself easily by now.
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Risa was originally intended to be shut down after the event ended, similar to shutting down Q's WW after that event ended.
People complained, and Cryptic decided to leave it open.
And instead of thanking Cryptic, you ask for more?
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I enjoy the duty officer part of STO but they could have perhaps made it a bit more interactive and with more reports on why missions failed or why they were a critical success.
If we are talking about good mini games in MMO's I would have to mention Diplomacy in Vanguard Saga of Heroes, I really like how it can effect nearly everything in the game and it can be extremely useful in many different areas of the game, it could be a bit less of a grind but that part of it could easily be fixed ...
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What they need to do is to allow players to trade in left over items from the event like bird eggs. I am not one of the people but I sympathize. It is pretty short sighted move on their part.
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There are a lot of good maps in STO, like Risa, Vulcan, Bajor, New Romulus or Nimbus III. But after you have completed the story line, there is nothin else to do. No further missions, no mini games or objects for interaction (except Nimbus III and New Romulus).
Give players a reason to go back to the wonderfull places in the galaxy. Sometimes i go back, visit Bajor or Vulcan and go for a walk...
I do though like the idea of other games being put on Risa. I like it as a summer event place to keep.
My other suggestion then would be to make the winter event place be in KDF space.
PW could see if people are generous with RP/DI so others can get to these area when events are not on. I mean RP/DI is really only used for the tour, and speed, but few people give it out. Maybe that is a change they may have to look into. Games outside the events that require co-operation would be cool.