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New crafting? Not at Memory Alpha please.
newplayerguy7
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Memory Alpha is supposed to be a galactic library, not a weapons R&D facility.
We should be able to go there to look up ANY lore item (like Academy mid-term test information, History of New Romulus, read The Path to 2409, etc., etc.) and any other activities that have to do with the stored knowledge of the entire galaxy.
Utopia Planetia is a wonderful location that would be a perfect venue for crafting starship items. As for ground items, I'm not sure, perhaps a new R&D section on ESD?
But I am certain that Memory Alpha should NOT be turned into an R&D facility. It's a LIBRARY.
We should be able to go there to look up ANY lore item (like Academy mid-term test information, History of New Romulus, read The Path to 2409, etc., etc.) and any other activities that have to do with the stored knowledge of the entire galaxy.
Utopia Planetia is a wonderful location that would be a perfect venue for crafting starship items. As for ground items, I'm not sure, perhaps a new R&D section on ESD?
But I am certain that Memory Alpha should NOT be turned into an R&D facility. It's a LIBRARY.
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we also need to keep the KDF in mind. personally, i've always disliked the medieval forge on qo'nos as their crafting center. i mean its great for batleths, but come on.... you dont forge a shield generator out of a steam furnace. this is just an example of the sort of stereotyping cryptic has given the klingons that is just wrong. war-like, not barbaric. i'd love to see a new KDF map for crafting. a less dark and moody space station for research and development.
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If the crafting location does change, maybe something can also be done about those "crafting" consoles in New Romulus command while they're at it? Those weren't even updated with the new kits; seems like the devs forgot they exist.
People are on ESD anyways (or Qonos / Romulas) it makes sense to put it there for convenience sake. And Memory Alpha was a library not a future sweat shop!
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Thats really not a good solution...
Crafting should be convenient (i.e. not out in the middle of nowhere) and accessible to everyone (not just the super lucky or super rich). Look at WoW and ToR. WoW has crafting stations available in every major city, and ToR lets you do it on the fly anywhere you please.
I sincerely hope that this revamp relocates the crafting area as well.
Throw together a new interior map using existing elements, lay some cosmetic versions of weapons and gear around and bam.
Home system crafting.
The Romulans get a little screwed in this unless there's a room/door at New Romulus command that's not in use right now.
Romulus Command already has crafting areas set up. in in the area left of the central courtyard.
SHIP INTERIOURS
... for crafting.
Starships usually have industrial replicators and stuff and are able to craft their own stuff. Even some of the ships parts.
But that would give interiours actually a use wouldnt it? We better avoid that so we can still use our "Interiours are never used by players" excuse for not making new stunning interiours like the Galaxy, Sovereign or Voyager Interiours.
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that is not a crafting area lol...ist a basic vendor for each career to mk 7
I will just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrY0xGeh7kI
Ah...the 90's.
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Leave Memory Alpha (hopefully with a facelift) as the training ground for crafting where you have to complete the basics.
Once you are done, you can decide on your specialty and your ship gets outfitted with the necessary labs and you can do it in your ship interior anyway.
A single character should probably not be a master crafter in all specialties at the same time, though it should be possible to retrain and refit your R&D lab.
Back in the day when ppl actually crafted , there was a nice "buzz" there , and that map is still nice looking .
On the Mem-A map, I don't like it, it doesn't feel at all Federation, if anything it feels like a Romulan installation that was invaded by the Feds.
That said there is now a lore excuse for moving it to the various academies for security reasons.
actually going by the story and the reason for the change lore wise. crafting is changing because of spies. now why would you put all your new stuff in an even more accessible area for the spies than it was before?
This is going to make me want to craft again. As it stands its more meh.
This is cryptic new grind system.
Most of us are done rep... or have done all we care to bother with.
Most of us have ground our doffs... or have done all we care to bother with.
Most of us are done our bases... or have done all we care ot bother with.
Many of us have multiple lockbox and fleet ships...
You get the idea... the grind is slowing down because the core of the game is done or mostly done the current grinds.
This will look like Doff System 2.0. We will start crafting missions from our grind window...
So expect long time gates... expect NEW doffs with New traits, to that will be required to crit stuff. You can also expect plenty of new things on the Cstore... likely a Ship Crafting module... as well as space / ground gear items.
Likely we will be looking at 250-500 zen for each piece of space sets... perhaps just a bit less for ground sets. Then there will be weapons and who knows what else... and it will all require some do-dad from the cstore mos likely.
You can be sure as well... that the new gear is going to be slighly more OP then the fleet stuff. It won't be an either or situation. We are done with bases... so bring on the personal grind now.
In fact... I will place my EC on it now... in 9-12 months from now We will get Crafting 3.0 / Star Base 2.0.... community Crafting. (we'll get to craft junk for projects which will unlock even better crafted gear produced by special fleet aquiared doffs or some such sillyness).
The grind must continue.
Question, what does ToRs crafting system have to do with STOs crafting system? Why even bring it up?
It will likely look very much like it in a lot of ways.
In Tor you send your companions on missions... they return with good to craft with or finished goods that have been crafted.
STOs new system will very likely be almost the same idea. With doffs being sent on crafting missions.
I am not sure if they will go so far as you don't craft anything yourself your "Companions" / "Doffs" do... I wouldn't be shocked to see them go that way though. Much easier to time gate it that way. The main reason Bioware did it that way. They timed everything during beta... so the average person crafting and leveling a toon at the same time would have everything timed together. So you hit level 30 and your time gates on your crafting have you right around the same area. Honestly would be shocked if Cryptic didn't basicly just knock off the tor system. Dragging things out to an specific time frame is what they like... it gives them plenty of time to invent the next grind to replace it when everyone is done.
That said, there could be a place for a 2-tier system to reflect the difference in capabilities of the 2 paths (field vs permanent lab), with commensurate differences in value, tradability, and device capability. I would prefer not to see the revamp be complicated by such an option, however, since what has already been proposed by the dev's will be hard enough to implement successfully. :eek:
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