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aspartan1
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So I went to the Captain's Table for the first time in four years. I did so since I saw it advertised on the launcher. Silly me I thought something was finally done with it. Yet once I got there nothing seemed different than I remember. Sad really....
It has so much potential and could be a driving perk for people to step up and get the LtS if only something was done and getting to it was not so cumbersome....
What do people think it really needs to be attractive and worthy of the cost if this F2P game? :eek:
It has so much potential and could be a driving perk for people to step up and get the LtS if only something was done and getting to it was not so cumbersome....
What do people think it really needs to be attractive and worthy of the cost if this F2P game? :eek:
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All the game's vendors, everything easily accessible.
But! Link the captains table zone chat with esd chat. (and kdf equivalent).
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Yup.. + the possibility to transwarp to there (list) and from there (gate).
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Link it up to ESB zone chat? Only if the Tailor there is giving away free, Lifer-only tinfoil hats to wear when returning to the Troll Zone known as Earth Starbase :cool:
If they made it so you could transwarp there then I think it would see a lot more traffic.
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ummm no... in fact - HECK NO!!!!!
The only point in visiting it now is to avoid all the fools in those chats to begin with. There have been times when all 8 of alts were there at the same time, so i can grind their rep points in peace.
and OP, the devs did have a "wishlist" thread for us on changes we would like to see there as part of their efforts to make lifetime subs more attractive a few months back. changes should be coming, but haven't hit yet.
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^^^ THIS!
The place needs to have access to all of the facilities that are aboard ESD or on Qo'noS. Ship selectors, Boff trainers, the vendors....the whole pack. Only then it could be properly utilized by lifers and veterans. As it stands, you can do some stuff there and escape to peace from the trash that is zonechat, but then have to go back to a central hub to complete other things. This makes it redundant.
1) Relocate all Veteran Rewards there; Veteran Boffs (inc Android)
2) Have a special Shipyard Contact there (players would need to talk to him in order to acquire their Veteran Ship)
3) As already mentioned, take the location out of Earth/Qo'nos and have it as 'Warp Too' without a cooldown
4) Input a daily there which rewards a small amount of dilithium and your choice of marks (I'm talking minimal amounts, but enough that people would travel their on a daily basis)
5) Rotate interactive guest characters; one day you'll go there and you'll be able to interact with Neelix (visiting), another day it might be Tuvok, another day it might be Worf, another day it might be Captain Shon (etc)
Nearly everyone here year one thought it should have all special vendors as well as normal ones conveniently located there as well as special missions and BO offerings and other things currently handled by fully developed T5 fleet holdings and of access to every DO mission available. {If anyone from Cryptic is reading this please take a minute and consider this elegant idea}
Furthermore, one idea I suggested, and really liked obviously, was a game currency conversion vendor. You see at the time we had lots of different game money and one could not do any trading with it; just like now sadly. I figured that alone would be worth the price of admission for many people but clearly Cryptic thought/things otherwise.
Of course now that we all have the asinine rank of Admiral and Fleet Admiral it should maybe renamed methinks. The rank thing is my biggest peeve about the leadership of this title. Star Trek has ALWAYS been about the captain(s). Ergo any rank above Captain should be community based fleet ranks in my not so humble opinion. Hell I can even see the rank of Commodore being earned after maxing out all character levels but I digress.....
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These are great ideas. This along with having access to all the other facilities would make the place worth visiting. I went there a week or two ago and thought exactly the same as the op, had not changed even a little in three years. There is literally no reason to go there whatsoever.
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Those ideas coupled with it serving as a fully functional T5 fleet service asset (star base, spire, embassy, mining facility) without being a fleet and even having a veteran dilithium processor there for an extra thousand a day would rock hard and I think be a major selling point for people especially new players the primary target methinks.
Furthermore it is would also be nice to have a lobi store vendor there with a perma sell price for none sell-able items.
Finally for me at least a currency conversion at say 2/1 ratio would be a big huge attraction for sure.
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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.
You, me and everyone else I have ever know in game whom has a LtS account.
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As it has been mentioned by others, there's no point in goin there. Alot of npcs you'd want in a social hub like ESD are simply missing and besides the few that are there it's empty rooms with a few non interactable NPCs.
To give you a concrete answer: don't bother, it's not worth your time.
I've been there 4 times in the four years I've been playing. You're not missing anything.
For sight-seeing, it's okay. But it serves no purpose.
Unfortunately, it's a "feature" of the Veteran rewards and the Lifetime Subscription, so Cryptic can't remove it. And it's just a poor investment expanding it in any form, since so few players could use it.
So true!
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Remember, this place [Captain's Table] is so desolate that upon entering the Aenigma Nebula you will be prompted with a warp out box because the game thinks you flew there by mistake.
LOL.
all the veteran reward contacts
the mission contacts who are there working as themselves
Q or the ilk when there is a Event putting them on ESD/Qo'nos/New Rom
fleet mark turn in, equivalent to 40% normal value of fleddits
unlimited transwarp power + free mission transwarp while in the nebula
rotating rare goods sellers, selling bind to toon/account things like civi outfit pieces, old mission items or rewards (eg. Harg'peng device) changing once a month/fortnight
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And that new club at ESD is still in the pipeline too.
"What happens in the pipeline, stays in the pipeline!"
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Seriously, Captain's Table could use a serious overhaul.
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If it had a updated Dilith and energy credit store a lobi merchant. Regular meetings of lifetime and vet players.
Or special lifetime subscriber PVE missions then it would worth the $199 you shell out for access.
Right now it is below the current standards for content.
You can add.
Wolf 359
Vulcan
Risa
Andoria
Bajor
Delfarie system
All these areas need to be revamped with special race specific ships and weapons. So if your a Vulcan you can get a vulcan phaser rifle or pistol and have access to Vulcan specific ships.
Wolf 359 Could allow you to salvage a Old named star ship for Dilth
Bajor could have weapons and ships specific to the race.
Right now you cant even sit at the Captains table.
You are making way to much sense, we cant have that around here. Sarcasm alert of course.
No doubt right, the person you quoted stated it nicely.