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Just an opinion, The trait system needs changing.
stuart1965
Member Posts: 691 Arc User
As we all know, theres 9 slots for the traits up to level 60.
I think we should be allowed to make full use of traits for both ground and space, in the form of 18 slots instead of 9. 9 space and 9 ground.
It is a right royal pain having to alter traits like when you want to go from space to ground, or visa-versa.
Some will probably say, divide the traits equally for ground and space in the 9 slots?
My answer is, why can't we have the full benefits of 9 space and 9 ground?
It would make things alot easier and quicker to do, and give added fun as well.
After all there is a long list of traits , to allow us to utilise more of them at the same time would be great.
I think we should be allowed to make full use of traits for both ground and space, in the form of 18 slots instead of 9. 9 space and 9 ground.
It is a right royal pain having to alter traits like when you want to go from space to ground, or visa-versa.
Some will probably say, divide the traits equally for ground and space in the 9 slots?
My answer is, why can't we have the full benefits of 9 space and 9 ground?
It would make things alot easier and quicker to do, and give added fun as well.
After all there is a long list of traits , to allow us to utilise more of them at the same time would be great.
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I agree I made the same suggestion when the currently active revamp was in development.
After all they did do the same to the reputation unlocks, there we have slots for ground and space seperately.
Doffs are for ground and space seperate.
The current system is kind of extremly anoying. I end up spending a lot of time switching the trait arround every time I do a ground map (and do far less ground then I would otherwise because of that)
That could seriously mess with a lot of people's play styles but that seems to be the trend these days, change things how we'd like them but nerf at the same time.
And their excuse will be to level the gap between newbie Lvl 60's and veteran players, or some nonsense like that.
However....if they didn't go that route and went 9 + 9 i'd fully support it.
I also favor making species trait selectable.
Since a proper re-species would be technically challenging, what I'd favor is instead having them sell a bundle which unlocks access to a species trait and a dropdown option in the tailor to switch a costume slot's species.
That would likely mean giving aliens a default "All Around" trait.
Then have your character info display the species costume slot you have active. Maybe your species trait defaults to the species selected in your current costume slot.
But then if you switch to a costume slot you've tagged as "Vulcan" the Vulcan species trait automatically activates while that costume is selected and you have Vulcan species options in that slot.
Traits used to be a choice. Getting everything isn't an interesting option.
But I completely agree with the OP's sentiments.
I think it has to do with how the underlying code works, and that it would be a major change (and major undertaking) to establish separate ground and space sets which would change automatically.
Retreating between 9 space and ground is a pain, but it's do-able.
The title said changing not nerfing....
Current separation doesn't serve any purpose.
On the other hand if cryptic were to drop the amount of trait slots that is for example 6 space/6 ground or something I rather stick to the current one.
It is 10 space + 10 ground or 10 universal. Nothing else should be acceptable.
Five and six slots of each would not be nerfing. 5+5 = 10 > 9.
Before you could change traits at will you had to use a respec to change them. You could still go all space or all ground but it'd cost you to switch between the two.
Anything less than 9 + 9 (10 + 10 for Aliens) is nerfing. That's what we have now, just with the hassle of manually switching them when doing ground or space content.
Remove the switching, keep the slots.
Trait system is fine. You don't need all the space traits and all the ground traits.
Shouldn't you be asking for 9 space pvp trait slots and 9 ground pvp trait slots as well?
How about 9 solo space slots and 9 ground slots?
A set of slots for every team size?
Oh, better get a set for teaming with other races.
Give us a "clear all" button. I know what traits I need for a specific build, ship, or ground scenario I just hate having to scroll through my list first to remove them all and then again to add the changed ones, or play the deactivate this, activate that move.