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Starship mastery on a per ship basis
vocmcp
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I'm really excited about todays news concerning the ships.
What worries me is that starship mastery is on a per ship basis. If I'm an escort captain and want to switch to another escort I really don't feel like having to level another ship. Admitted I have no idea about the details but it worries me. Something to alleviate this issue could be:
- per category leveling except maybe Master level 5
- very fast leveling
- make sure this is not bound to the actual ship but the ship class (e.g. if I discard my defiant and get a new one later on I'd like to keep mastery for it.... this is especially true for fleet versions of ships if I owned the zen variant before)
Otherwise this will really kill experimenting with ships. We have the rep grind. We don't need an extensive new grind for ever single ship we fly.
Thank you.
What worries me is that starship mastery is on a per ship basis. If I'm an escort captain and want to switch to another escort I really don't feel like having to level another ship. Admitted I have no idea about the details but it worries me. Something to alleviate this issue could be:
- per category leveling except maybe Master level 5
- very fast leveling
- make sure this is not bound to the actual ship but the ship class (e.g. if I discard my defiant and get a new one later on I'd like to keep mastery for it.... this is especially true for fleet versions of ships if I owned the zen variant before)
Otherwise this will really kill experimenting with ships. We have the rep grind. We don't need an extensive new grind for ever single ship we fly.
Thank you.
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with that there will be plenty unique ships for next decade.
dont really understand this. so there will ne one new new specialist and one new old specalist?
I agree with you there, the information we've got right now doesn't explain how fast, how frequent and how powerful the changes are for a levelled ship vs a fresh ship. I'm a ship hopper myself and I really do feel that this is a very stupid move on Cryptic's part as well. Consider this: Let's theoretically say that it takes about 10 days of casual play to level a ship to max level and obviously deck it out a bit etc. You get used to said ship and get attached to it. Lockbox or ZEN ship comes... it looks appealing but you simply don't feel like grinding another level/equipment ratio again for a new ship. I'd figure that there'll be people out there that won't bother changing ships that much any more so it could actually play a disadvantageous role towards Cryptic's income from lockboxes or ZEN. Won't be much but still something to consider maybe?
Sure it's another "grind", but it sounds like you get "free" abilities or bonuses the longer you fly each ship. Would you rather Cryptic just kill the idea of "ship mastery" so all ships will have the same inherent abilities / stats on day 1 as on day 300?
i guess trere will be lots of new buttons to press:D:D
and looks t5 will be really obsolete with t6 having so much new on them. ot at least we will need traits from t6 ships.
Truth be told, I couldn't really understand your sentence, but what I took from the line you quoted:
All of the T6 ships that come with the launch of DR will have a specialist slot, but some other T6 ships in the future won't
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Makes me glad I don't own a single lockbox or Lobi ship. Or have ever been interested in getting one.
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If I have to choose what ship to level with. I will rather pick one of my current favorites and go from there. I won't bother with the new ship.
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Also, how does leveling per ship force you to buy all the ships? That makes no sense. Correct me if I am interpreting the complaints wrong.
Current clues we have would be this: Which means that our current ships can use traits.
And maybe this: Depending on the class of ship this could be referring too, that's arguably not that much more powerful than what we have now.
On a somewhat related note it seems that something ship related is coming on Thursday. The Operations Report mentions that REDACTED is being released that day along with a Utopia Planitia Ship Report. there is also a picture of an Intrepid above this so its a safe bet to say that this is the revamped Intrepid. There is also this: I personally think it would sell better if we knew more about the supposed upgrade.
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Wait, so they are trying to limit the ship you fly... by providing you with a reward for flying different ships... That you can then use with any OTHER ships...
Rrrriiiiiiiiiiiiggghhht...
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That would be one simple way of 'upgrading' at least some T5 ships to be competitive with T6 ships, seems to me. It doesn't make sense to me that only T6 ships can do that, if the intent is that T5 ships don't suck in comparison. If the crew gets efficiencies with a ship they're used to flying, they should be able to do that on any ship. We're just talking about passives, right?
The blog doesn't really explain upgrading existing T5 ships, so we'll still have to wait and see what they intend to do there.
Speaking as a certified sufferer of altitis syndrome, I can say that I have favorite ships for each alt and they're not necessarily the same. I have zero intention of trying to level up every ship on every alt, so the per-ship basis doesn't bother me a whole lot.
I probably won't play "gotta have 'em all" where T6 is concerned, either. I do expect I'll want to pick up more than one, provided they aren't all three ship variant bundles.
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Dunno. Ship XP would be interesting mechanic.
It will be hard, but I can pick a ship and go from there. Until I can get the rest built up.
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...is the bit from the blog about the mastery.
Given that we don't know how long it will take to level a ship, we may be a bit premature here.
All that being said, I do share some concerns, But I find worrying about things we can not control, or do not yet know the full picture, causes us more stress than Cryptic.
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That makes it sound intriguing, but also at the same time there is a grind associated with instead of just getting the console.
Just a thought...
it said well earning skill points... so anything that get you skill points should be good. if nothing else pvp quests should allow you to. though it may take more time.
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That means all ship have theiir own askills bus ships of same class like battlecruser have only 5 skils that only battelcruser have while escort will have their owns.
I think you're panicking over nothing. A level 0 T6 ship is still going to be more powerful than a T5 or T5.5 ship so if you switch from one T6 ship that you fully mastered to another T6 that you haven't, you're still going to be
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