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fletch57
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I hear STO sometime later in 2014 might raise the cap level to 60? I don't know if I will like this.I have spent alot of time [and alittle money] building my tier 5 ships.does this mean they will be useless and outdated?can someone explain please?:eek:
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However, they have said various times that they probably (with the big-ol Cryptic asterisk there) won't actually create a new tier of ships. Alternatives they've tossed around range from new progression systems to new crafting systems to new gameplay mechanics. Lots of ideas with no details generally means it's still in the "meeting room" phase of the dev process we've seen in a couple blogs.
The idea of a potential level cap increase has been in the upcoming content ideas for years. There is no plans to actually implement it, probably never will be... the REP system has taken place of rank advancement at level 50.
"Q: (cbp4964) Will we ever be able to send out bridge officers off on separate missions, or have them accompany us to battle in ships we assign them from our own selection?
Dstahl: We have some pretty awesome plans for when we increase ranks to Admiral level 60 which make good use of your bridge officers, ships, and crew. We ultimately want full Admirals to command their fleets. You?ll have to wait until at least Season 9 to get more details though."
"Q: (zalenrose) Can you give us more insight on the possibility for 1st Officers as playable characters and any plans for more depth in the Doff system like specializations or 1st Officer abilities?
Dstahl: The ability to convert your First Officer to a playable captain is something we?ve wanted to do for some time, but is not on any current schedule. We?re planning to revisit this when we eventually increase the level cap to Full Admiral. As far as Duty Officer improvements, we do plan on making some improvements to the system in 2013, including improving the UI and adding more functionality."
Obviously plans are subject to change and what Dan Stahl might have wanted could be counter to what Stephen D'Angelo wants. So the new EP could scrap certain plans that Dan Stahl was working on like introducing a level cap increase through some Admiral system that lets us control our own fleet, but without dev confirmation, there is no way to know what is scrapped and what is kept.
Nothing is official until it's on a Dev Blog, and even then it's subject to change.
As I mentioned in my last paragraph.
ahh yes another one of stahls crazy plans failing to materialize. thats nothing new.
when the level 60 cap comes we will know of it, untl then, whats the point in speculating about it.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Yeah, I really don't care about increasing the level cap until there's actually a challenge worthy of the current gear. Elite STFs are already a joke with a coordinated group.
A lot of newer games remove leveling from the beginning and that's for the better in my opinion.
I'd prefer more additional profession through the rep system, if that were handled better.
And for the "if we become full admiral", I know I'm alone on that... I don't want to be full admiral. I dont even want to be vice admiral. I want to be captain .Rank and level should not be connected at all...
The damage is already done, retroactively making this change would just confuse players.
Besides, the whole rank system is pretty ridiculous in terms of story anyway. Cadet Snowflake never would've been given command of a ship no matter how desperate Starfleet was for Captains, neither would some random Romulan farmhand. The Klingon story is the only believable one.
It's just a game.
Please no. Because that means we will now outrank every mission giver in the entire game apart from Fleet Admiral Quinn, Chancellor J'mpok, and D'Tan. And that just makes the railroading even more ridiculous than it already is.
As highlighted in the recent FE, in fact. I, and every other O-9 player character in existence, was getting unavoidably ordered around by an O-5 (Subcommander Kaol), a gaggle of O-6s (the flagship captains) and an O-7 (Tuvok). Military ranks do not work that way.
Sorry, Tuvok, but being a better-written and -acted character than anybody else on VOY apart from the Doctor does not mean you get to order around somebody who outranks you by two pay grades. If I'm going to have to be an admiral, I want to be ****ing treated like one. Otherwise Cryptic should have just capped ranks at captain.
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Either way, as others have mentioned, until it shows up in a dev blog, until it's actually being tested on Tribble, it isn't going to happen and I for one would really hope that they at least spend some time looking at the growing list of bugs before they bury them even deeper under more content with more problems.
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I don't understand it on the basis that unless level 51-60 are paced very, very differently from the current it would be a major overhaul for what- 2 hours of time from the servers going back up to everyone making 60?
Seriously, currently "leveling" is all but a joke anyway, why would we want to extend the punchline? And that's without even getting into ship tiers/obsolescence, moving Reps and every other "endgame" activity to 60, and the Klingons still having to get to level 24 before they can start mining. -snicker-
At most they'd add in a new "upgrade" feature that would allow you to buy a preset number of ship upgrades bringing it in line with what you'd expect a highly decorated Admiral to be flying.
Which means Cryptic will figure out the polar opposite and do that instead
One way I could see it working well is the way you get a "Tier 6" ship is you take an existing Tier 5 endgame ship class, then do a special rep project and/or get an upgrade package for it in the c-store/lobi store.
It ties the current ships integrally into the newer vessels, as opposed to just making the Tier 5's all obsolete. That would indeed be a horrid thing.
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He orders you around because the Joint command structure is NOT the starfleet command structure, Kaol, Regardless of your respective ranks, is in command of the operation , and thus, you will do as he commands while conducting operations in the Dyson Sphere
"The concept of chain of command also implies that higher rank alone does not entitle a higher-ranking service member to give commands to anyone of lower rank. For example, an officer of unit "A" does not directly command lower-ranking members of unit "B", and is generally expected to approach an officer of unit "B" if he requires action by members of that unit. The chain of command means that individual members take orders from only one superior and only give orders to a defined group of people immediately below them."
If an officer of unit "A" does give orders directly to a lower-ranked member of unit "B", it would be considered highly unusual (a faux pas, or extraordinary circumstances, such as a lack of time or inability to confer with the officer in command of unit "B") as officer "A" would be seen as subverting the authority of the officer of unit "B". Depending on the situation or the standard procedure of the military organization, the lower-ranked member being ordered may choose to carry out the order anyway, or advise that it has to be cleared with his or her own chain of command first, which in this example would be with officer "B".
In this instance, You are in command of your ship unit "A" and you will approach Tuvok, commander of unit "B" before commandering whats left of his team, since your not his teams commander, they are not necessarily in direct command of Tuvok and cooper