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All this "chance" nonsense...
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Chance when you hit someone in a fight, chance for an assignment to be successful, CHANCE to upgrade an item...why can't we just have straightforward success when we put the effort in this game?
In the same way we level and get specializing skill tokens once we've reached 60, why not give us an upgrade token, similar to the reputation system...you might need so many to upgrade a ship or a weapon, but at least it's a guarantee, because this chance business, I think, is what's driving people away.
In the same way we level and get specializing skill tokens once we've reached 60, why not give us an upgrade token, similar to the reputation system...you might need so many to upgrade a ship or a weapon, but at least it's a guarantee, because this chance business, I think, is what's driving people away.
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When spending so many resources crafting/upgrading, one should at least be able to simply chose the desired modifiers IMO.
I was Klingon before Klingon was cool.
The rarity increase/initial rank should still be luck based.
They removed the luck based STF reward because it sucked. And they added much worse with the r&d and upgrade system. Cryptic =/= logic.
I DESPISE gambling. There is something about it that just does not make any sense to me. It does not attract me in any way and this whole change thing to get what I want is really frustrating. They could fix a lot of this pretty easily. I don't mind working towards something but I want to get what I work towards not some random thing and roll to try again.
I have seen people do an upgrade and have a critical failure though and have a part not work although usually you just send it back and have it replaced at no cost.
I have even seen some people that should NEVER be opening up a pc manage to crack a motherboard and sheer the pins off a cpu for a different kind of critical failure.
However in the end you get exactly what you are trying to get. There is no real randomness to it and I am getting tired of the randomness in this. Why not just allow us to choose our mods. Upgrade to the next rarity directly and for a specific cost etc.Also stop making this such an extreme grind. There is no real reason the grind needs to be so bad to do upgrades.
"You don't have to do something again and again and again repetitive that doesn't have much challange, that's just a general good gameplay thing."
I personally know people, some of them with really good jobs, who's live got ruined by gambling, even with strict legislation on it.
There is at least a weakness in the psychological nature of human kind in gambling, spending irrationally much/fast on it. And I think, Craptic is using this weakness to the full extend for its profits. A shame, they cant run a game without turning it into a virtual casino.
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Cause LIFE is chance , or call it fate ,destiny, doom ,fatality , karma , w/e you want. Don't you think STO is a easy enough game?
Because chance makes money.
I fundamentally disagree with this. Life is not chance. The VAST majority of what happens to you is not chance it is the work you did that go to that point. Many people walk by opportunities every day because they are not prepared for them. Most of the people that make it rich are not based on chance, they are based on a LOT of VERY hard work that paid off.
I am not saying there is no chance in your life it is just that usually chance has a minimal impact. When we design and manufacture new drugs there is little chance involved when it comes right done to it. You an say someone is lucky they discovered the molecule but they where also working on it very hard and knew what they where looking for.
RPGs have been chance-based for decades, long before they made the leap from physical tabletop games to PCs, much less went MMO. What do you think all those funky-looking multi-sided dice are for? :P
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I don't want to have to gamble for every damn thing. Ironically it's the opposite of Trek lore, unless the Ferengi's took over
"You don't have to do something again and again and again repetitive that doesn't have much challange, that's just a general good gameplay thing."
So you would make a very rare item, upgrade it to epic, upgrade it to mk xiv and then put whatever mods you want in it. So go craft 4 CrtD and put them in if you want or anything else. We are crafting, chance should really not be part of it.
That's an insanely appealing idea, truthfully. It's something I'd actually get tingles reading about if it were added to the game, even with restrictions like a cost to remove mods, or mods being permanent.
You should make a separate post on this in suggestions, it's a fantastic idea IMO.
chance has a huge impact on our life , not anything goes as we planned , and not everything is easy , i agree with you , we TRY to make our lifes better , and work for it , but that dosen't mean it will be , or that it will be as we imagine .
And the example with the drug , is irrelevent , they did tests untill that drug is in fact what they wanted , but life , is life , not a drug , a game is allsow some kind of life (for some XD) , and not everythig works as planned , we test everything everyday
Still this is just a game , and it should be hard , to make you play it ... people are used with the old STO , where you could max everything in 3 months? or even less ... and get bored , and ask for new content ... and new content is hard to immagine , and even harder to make it in practice ... think like that , the devs need 3 months to think at something ok? whats is use if you get bored in 3 months ?
In any game there is a progression of the caracter , and there are games when you can max all in 5-6 years , so consider STO a good game.
There is a chance they might read this post.
Well, as an experienced overclocker, every time I build a new computer or upgrade my CPU, the overall performance of my system is completely a game of chance.
Some people can easily push their Core i5-2500k's to 5GHz on air with minimum power settings. My CPU on the other hand was one of the unlucky ones that can't get past 4.2 GHz and liquid cooling without becoming unstable and requiring dangerous core voltage levels.
While true, that work works, luck can bypass it. Life is based on luck. Luckily proteins formed. Chance is the fundamental of life: There are chances which combination of genes you get. Good ones, or something that will be fatal? Something that will let you grow normally, or something that will cripple you. Does your immune system work or does it go against itself. Chances have a greater impact on life one might (and want to) imagine.
Chance is, you go out of the house tomorrow and a brick strikes you down. If you went a second later or earlier, it wouldnt happen.
However, that natural chance is unrelated to STO and gaming, as those are manufactured games and thus have manufactured chance. So at least something like Crafting should work "what you want is what you get" and not "maybe you are lucky".
In fact, that's how I would classify Earth instead of "Mostly Harmless."
Humans are much more Ferengi than they would like to admit.
The other "human thing" is that they only respond to abuse when correcting their actions.
So appealing to their "good sides" will have no effect unless the other devs or a strongly personal dev thinks it's "cool" and pushes for the change.
Forum posts should be worded accordingly.
Instead of trying to demonstrate why something is bad, try to show that it's opposite is "Cool."
Lockboxes... I don't mind so much having a chance to get some of the shinies, but I think the ships should have been put in the C-store instead of lockboxes. Had the ships been in the C-store, I'd happily fork over money to get some of them. Of course, Cryptic/PWE will keep the ships in lockboxes as a marketing ploy to get people to continually buy them just for the chance to get the ship.
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Why should I care if someone else gets something also? Why does it impact me in any way?
I also dispute the chance thing. How proteins interact, how your immune system works is not chance. At a high level it looks like chance, when you study it in depth you realize it is not chance, it is just very complex and we don't understand it very well yet.