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What Is The Point Of Owning So Many Ships In STO?
maximusdecimus88
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If you are a tactical officer or any officer, what is the point of owning so many ships? Gear matters more than what ship you use in STO, so for me as a TAC officer, I don't see the point in owning so many ships, just a cruiser and 1 escort is all I need, why would I need more?
No one uses default gear, all your ships would end up being almost the same since you would use the best gear for pvp.
What other stats are unique for a ship that can't be changed? All I can think of is Hull Strength.
STO really needs a pvp game mode where it sets your ship to its default weapons/shields etc, but it would allow you to add consoles but that is it. I would really enjoy this, games would be more balanced. I really hope the devs add a pvp game mode like this eventually.
No one uses default gear, all your ships would end up being almost the same since you would use the best gear for pvp.
What other stats are unique for a ship that can't be changed? All I can think of is Hull Strength.
STO really needs a pvp game mode where it sets your ship to its default weapons/shields etc, but it would allow you to add consoles but that is it. I would really enjoy this, games would be more balanced. I really hope the devs add a pvp game mode like this eventually.
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Others set up alt ships with full loadouts for when they feel like playing slightly different. For example, my main flies an Assault Cruiser Refit, but I have a fully equipped Steamrunner for when I want to fly an Escort instead of a Cruiser.
cryptic is killing said fun bit by bit.
old ships generally need a2b to be effective, and cryptic has been trying VERY Hard to kill it, and have stated they intent to do so(probably because its the only build that doesn't require lockbox doffs).
and now you have T5U/T6 stuff plus weapon upgrading, which is going to cost insane amounts of dil.
more and more cryptic seems to be pushing its players to use a single ship and nothing else.
Why pay for more bank space when you can dump gear you are not using into your old ships
For some people, there's the Pokemon aspect. I sometimes feel like Jay Leno with all the ships I have in my garage.
My PvE/PvP hybrid skill tree
Generally, it's for fun and to break things up a bit. For example, sometimes it's nice to break out the Andorian escort for a bit, but if I'm grinding marks I'd sooner be in the tankier Avenger. My Romulan science toon generally is in a Daeinos Destroyer, but in Dyson uses the Voth-specific Dyson ship.
It started by wanting to experience the different types of ships and get a feel for them so I could speak on different ships (and their novelties) from experience, but now there's a "Collection" aspect to it, as well as differentiation of toons by ships (my KDF, ROM and FED tacs all perform differently), and to avoid monotony. Plus, sometimes, one ship isn't very useful but the console itself is valuable. I hardly ever use a Regent but the Oddy certainly benefits from that wide-arc quantum.
They have more than they could possibly ever wear.
Yet insist on storing them, and continuing to buy more.
But its so cute, I say nothing. (or is that I not DARE say anything)
Either way, it keeps things peaceful.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
If Cryptic offered a service where I could *sell* back some of these ships...even for a loss I'd do it. I originally had plans to make all kinda of alts but after seeing how things go there isn't much I can do without all of them being so similar.
Right now I main two characters...a Rom Sci and a Reman Tac...the Tac is in a Recon DSD and the Sci is in a Tulwar...I'm happy where they are and I could live with returning most of the other ships I have bought in the past.
so this and the bigger the ships..... the happier they'll be....maybe I don't know lol
Paying Cryptic's bills.
Alas, that is not likely to ever be.
I've been thinking the same thing.
likewise if you are playing an stf or no win where you would be using a tier 5 then you would have to keep a tier 5 for that.
then each mission or pve would state the tier required for that content just like if you play a shuttle event for example where it states you must have a shuttle to play this event so it would say you must have a tier X to run this mission.
then there would be a good reason for keeping at least one ship of each tier at the ready.
also there could be some content where you can use a range of ship tier so it might state to run this mission you must use a tier 3 to 5 for example.
and with DR content it might say tier 5 to 6 then for the later more challenging missions T5U to T6.
alternately you could have it where you could opt for the ship scales down to the level of the mission if you cant hold many ship types so a T6 ship could end up with T3 stats when playing T3 content.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
Unique Stats: Hull, Special Abilities, Bridge Officer Seating, Console Layout, shield modifier, turn rate, weapon layout, power levels
also with the coming T-5U/T6: Starship Mastery Traits, and another BOFF type
Add a mechanic for counting the classes of ships you have in your drydock. Cruisers give hull point boosts, Escorts a damage boost, and science class ships a shield boost. Ships of mixed heritage like the dyson give small boosts to both stats. And the amount of the boost is tied to the level and quality of the gear on the ship. So ToS Connie in the yard with mk XII very rare gear still counts as a full cruiser.
This way players are given an incentive to collect ships and keep them loaded.
Give the lobi ships a better/different bonus so you still want them in your collection even if you don't fly them.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
What is the point in having the latest car or smart phone?
Do you really NEED it? Probally not
It's the prestige of having it and the ability to show it off to other people
It's trophy displaying at it's heart
Cave men used to do it
Why are men so obsessed with the size of what's in their pants?
Ego boost baby
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