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Anyone else tempted to make their Delta their main
roadghost
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So back at the end of Beta I wanted to be all true to the idea of Star Trek and made my first character a Vulcan scientist. He lasted up until STFs came along and the shortcomings of the science class in PVE were exposed.
I next made a liberated Borg engineer. She quickly became my main. Can tank anything. Can fly into the middle and just sit there and take the hits (space and ground). Does decent DPS usually first in pugs, but really will never be 'uber'. Just rock solid and not have worry about respawning in the middle of a fight.
About a year ago I bought my kid a lifetime subscription and made a tactical for myself for when we team. It doesn't get played that much. Took a year just to reach 50, so really not something I have a feel for.
Well my Delta I decided to finally take tactical seriously. I hit 50 today. Holy TRIBBLE, I didn't realize.. I mean, I knew.. but really didn't take into account what all the bonuses were going to be when added up. Basically with my current main giving reputation sponsorship tokens for everything, by the end of the event my Delta will be close to my main in everything except Doff'ing and accolades. With all the buffs in place for ships defenses, I think I could probably not have to worry about being a scared little bunny in fights.
I'm starting to think that my Delta might not end up on the dust pile after all. Anyone else bonding with theirs?
I next made a liberated Borg engineer. She quickly became my main. Can tank anything. Can fly into the middle and just sit there and take the hits (space and ground). Does decent DPS usually first in pugs, but really will never be 'uber'. Just rock solid and not have worry about respawning in the middle of a fight.
About a year ago I bought my kid a lifetime subscription and made a tactical for myself for when we team. It doesn't get played that much. Took a year just to reach 50, so really not something I have a feel for.
Well my Delta I decided to finally take tactical seriously. I hit 50 today. Holy TRIBBLE, I didn't realize.. I mean, I knew.. but really didn't take into account what all the bonuses were going to be when added up. Basically with my current main giving reputation sponsorship tokens for everything, by the end of the event my Delta will be close to my main in everything except Doff'ing and accolades. With all the buffs in place for ships defenses, I think I could probably not have to worry about being a scared little bunny in fights.
I'm starting to think that my Delta might not end up on the dust pile after all. Anyone else bonding with theirs?
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I would have to be high on drugs to make a Delta Recruit/Operative a main. My mains are so far ahead and considering the costs in game resources and time to get them there, I'm not fond of repeating that process. Once I got what I wanted from this Delta thing, these new characters are going the way of the Meat Grinder.
If I was a new player it would be different, but I'm not. I have characters that have been around since this game launched and are light years ahead. I'd be insane to make Delta Recruits/Operative be mains.
I felt like I needed to rush to get to at least 50 so I didn't miss out on the Romulan Navy set.
I realize now that ship packs are just a waste of money. You buy the ships, but, the 4th console needed to complete it is from the anniversary and my recruit will NEVER get that. Same thing happened with the Dyson ships. I wanted the Kobali set for my Delta guy, but, can't. NO.
Can't have Kobali, can't have Dyson, what ship pack is next that I can't have?
Grinding all those reps is mind-numbing not to mention that it's next to impossible now to get things like the Borg Neural Processors, etc. So, getting nice sets are out. NO.
Crafting AGAIN to level 15? I'm not even done with my main yet! NO.
Grind all those command points, AGAIN? seriously? NO.
Spend millions in Dil. on fleet projects? NO.
Please, give me a real reason to use this tool as my main.
Total waste of time. I wish they would just let us designate a toon for Delta Recruitment and let me complete it at my own pace.
Waaaaaaay to much of everything invested in my main over the last 3-4 years for the thought of replacing him to be even remotely conciveable. Only reason I do DR to unlcok the photonic officer and trait for him.
The "Delta" character will be relegated to the waiting room until my 3 mains of each faction and all characters that I made before are "finished". Which by my estimate, with the current pace of the game, will be in the year 6478.
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in somewhat the same boat...my DR is my first Tac on the fed side and I think i'm going to start "chasing DPS" with this one.....I have a pretty good head start too
I'm thinking about it and my Deltas will stick around for a while.
I would make one my main IF there were some future content that are Delta-exclusive.
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But I've already spent more time working on my recruit's bio and imagining what a fully-realized Joined Trill would be like in this game. All those reputation traits, ship mastery traits, and specializations... when I reach that point I'm going to pretend he was like that all along, with several lifetimes of experience under his belt. No small wonder he's able to become a Fleet Admiral in a year.
And he will.
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Almost the same. I will finish the arcs then out. Right now 52 and still have Cold Storage and the Cardassian Struggle that I skipped most of those awful missions. So I'll probably get close to 56 if I do those during the double xp week. Funny how the later missions give better xp than Cardassian and are better missions too.
Then Romulan recruit will finish the Romulan arcs prior to the ally merge. And the KDF will do those mission arcs up to what they have to unlock.
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sure I will keep him around for occational use but that will be all.
if you are having fun with yours and intending to use him as a main that's fine but I don't think many will go that way.
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.
My recruits are nothing but Contraband farmers when I'm done with them. :P
Well you can purchase the Dyson ship with Lobi and I imagine eventually will be able to do the same with the Kobali...
To answer the original question, I just may do that...it has been a long time and think its time to get back to my favorite ST race. I haven't seriously played a Romulan since Pre-DR...I gave in and picked up my old Fed again...just because they get everything.
But no, it's time to get back to Romulans and my DR may very well be my new main.
If more things like traits were account wide once unlocked it'd make that kind of transition much more accommodating. But as it is, the Delta rewards would have to be 10x greater to entice many players to switch mains.
I had one before, made before I had figured much out, didn't know the difference between battle cloaks and cloaks, and didn't enjoy it much. While they have a pile of unused event ships they also have a lot of baggage the DR KDF doesn't.
I don't go for BiS slot as much as GEiS (Good Enough in Slot) anyways.
(Probably Kynda. KDF life is fun!)
even without considering all engineer versus tactical thingie things I already know about what and where I can have from the mere fact of Aerar being romulan it seems that after all she will be just doing better what my current main was doing.
especially considering that when I'll get her on ship I planned for her she will easily outperform what I planned for my current main (basically after all it seems like this ship was warbird copypaste of what I wanted to give to my fed engi main but with strapped singularity powers unique console that makes set with guns from earlier zenship for even better dps and hanger bay just on top of it..... ah and it rotates faster)
Would simply take way, way too much time and rescources to bring him even closely en par with the other chars. Weapons, gear, rep, costumes, ships, special boffs and doffs, skill trees, crafting, accolades...no way the Delta recruit will ever be able to catch up, even if I'd solely focus on him. I'll probably just gut and delete him when this is over.
What the whole recruitment event really showed me so far is, that I'd hate to be someone just getting into the game.
It earned it's place in the ranks, and will remain my character until the day that STO dies.
And even when that happens, I hope we will be allowed to get a stand-alone server, so he can keep on living
There is a small chance a Science Romulan I rolled could overtake him because he'd have access to less starships. (Meaning I'd stop changing my mind and commit to a ship.)
Plus there are less Romulans so I'd feel more Heroic as a Science Commander. (Cool ranks too; Sub-Commander.)
I didn't look at anything I was doing, I was just racing to the finish line as fast as I could with no thought of ever taking this thing seriously... just enough to survive and kill enemies
My main is my main for a reason
My main has hundreds of thousands of dilithium invested in equipment upgrades, maxed out reputations, some lockbox and lobi items that aren't shared between characters.
I just don't see myself swapping mains at this stage.
If accolades were account-wide and I could transfer or reclaim old event rewards on a Delta toon...then maybe.