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Ship Slots, pretty please?!

meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
edited May 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
So yeah, when will I be able to purchase more ship slots? You guys keep popping out 3-packs; and I keep buying them. But I reached max ships now (including all lockbox ships). And I recently had to discharge several ships, some of which can't be reclaimed.

I know this has come up before. And it's usally followed by something like "Yeah, we know. Too much data in our database. We'll be sure to look at it one day, maybe." Well, perhaps it's time you start looking into this *now*?! At the rate you're popping out ships, I can't be the only one running out.
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  • jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    At the rate you're popping out ships, I can't be the only one running out.

    Nope you iz not the only one myself and other peoplez i know are running out of ship slots and at the rate they keep spamming out 3 packs .....we need ship slotz.
  • bernatkbernatk Member Posts: 1,089 Bug Hunter
    edited May 2015
    I dunno, buy 2 char slots and start an alt?
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  • pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I cannot define what it is. But I do know there is a solution that will be coming.
  • jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    I cannot define what it is. But I do know there is a solution that will be coming.

    Awesomesauce with a side of bacon :)
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    I cannot define what it is. But I do know there is a solution that will be coming.

    Thx, Trendy. :) That may well save my, erm, bacon. :P
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  • entnx01entnx01 Member Posts: 549 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    I cannot define what it is. But I do know there is a solution that will be coming.

    Trendy, do you always multiply your forum replies by a factor of AWESOME? :)

    *please let it be reclaimable Lockbox ships. Please let it be reclaimable Lockbox ships!* :P
  • pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    entnx01 wrote: »
    Trendy, do you always multiply your forum replies by a factor of AWESOME? :)

    *please let it be reclaimable Lockbox ships. Please let it be reclaimable Lockbox ships!* :P
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    I do what I can.
    For science.
    And the forces of darkness.


    If it's all the same to you, I rather see it NOT be reclaimable lockboxes. I mean, would be nice, but I much rather just have the extra ship slots. Especially, what with the advent of endless new ships and all, I'm thinking it would be good if the issue got resolved, once and for all, in a 'scalable' fashion (so that we won't be having the very same talk next year).
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  • makocallowaymakocalloway Member Posts: 455 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    I do what I can.
    For science.
    And the forces of darkness.

    ALSO UNRELATED JOIN MY AMA TOMORROW! :P

    Oh I see what you did there GlaDOS, very clever. ;)
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  • quintarisquintaris Member Posts: 816 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I heard something about bacon?
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  • jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    I do what I can.
    For science.
    And the forces of darkness.

    ALSO UNRELATED JOIN MY AMA TOMORROW! :P

    AMA?

    American Music Awards ? :eek:


    OMG!! TRENDY IS GETTING A MUSIC AWARD ASWELL?

    How awesome can one person be to be the best forum mod of all time and YET have the time to win a music award also :eek:
  • thlaylierahthlaylierah Member Posts: 2,988 Arc User
    edited May 2015
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  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    If it's all the same to you, I rather see it NOT be reclaimable lockboxes.
    I'm betting(hoping?) they'll be re-packable in ship boxes. Hopefully extended to even non-lockbox non-Cstore ships like the starter ships. Every one of my characters have them, but none use them...
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  • cypherouscypherous Member Posts: 183 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Well, logically speaking, if its a DB issue then storing the extra ships in a separate DB would be a fairly simple "fix" so i would "assume" that this new system will be like a space "garage" where you just drop a ship in to a different inactive state which would essentially free up a slot, the issue with this system is that PWE would still want to make money from it so i expect them to start rolling out garage slots aswell, but this is all just a hypothetical scenario and is probably not what they are planning on doing, i would imagine that they would want to timegate such a feature to prevent people just abusing the poor machine it runs on

    I guess i'll see how close i am when they eventually roll out whatever it is they have planned :P
  • khamseenairkhamseenair Member Posts: 2,640 Bug Hunter
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    I cannot define what it is. But I do know there is a solution that will be coming.

    It's a server wide ship wipe isn't it? You're taking back all our ships and making us buy them again with a new colour of paint!

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  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    cypherous wrote: »
    Well, logically speaking, if its a DB issue then storing the extra ships in a separate DB would be a fairly simple "fix" so i would "assume" that this new system will be like a space "garage" where you just drop a ship in to a different inactive state which would essentially free up a slot, the issue with this system is that PWE would still want to make money from it so i expect them to start rolling out garage slots aswell, but this is all just a hypothetical scenario and is probably not what they are planning on doing, i would imagine that they would want to timegate such a feature to prevent people just abusing the poor machine it runs on

    I guess i'll see how close i am when they eventually roll out whatever it is they have planned :P

    Its not just the database. Its that the database was designed... Oddly. As borticus and gecko described it on priority one podcasts (different times) all your ships, even the ones you aren't currently using, are fully loaded every time you zone. So each time they have managed to make the database more efficient they have been able to increase slots available. But they can't just give us more slots because the inactive ships impact game performance.

    Based on that, I think if they made a second storage as you suggest, wow, that would almost certainly free up a lot of capacity. I can also imagine it would help server performance, which might be why it is happening now.
  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    khamseenair wrote: »
    It's a server wide ship wipe isn't it? You're taking back all our ships and making us buy them again with a new colour of paint!

    [/joke]

    On the plus side, the new paint job looks like the iconian rep armor and has nifty glowing from lines you can turn on and off in the ship tailor.
  • khamseenairkhamseenair Member Posts: 2,640 Bug Hunter
    edited May 2015
    gavinruneblade wrote: »
    On the plus side, the new paint job looks like the iconian rep armor and has nifty glowing from lines you can turn on and off in the ship tailor.

    Hahahaha, attack of the plastic disco ships!
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    jorantomalak wrote: »
    AMA?

    American Music Awards ? :eek:


    OMG!! TRENDY IS GETTING A MUSIC AWARD ASWELL?

    How awesome can one person be to be the best forum mod of all time and YET have the time to win a music award also :eek:
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I agree, with all these ships coming out. We need a better solution. Specially if we want to keep using the others we already have.
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  • makocallowaymakocalloway Member Posts: 455 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    bergins wrote: »
    American Medical Association. If Trendy gets enough people to join the AMA, she hopes to get her Bacon-Coffee Breakfast Beverage endorsed as a health drink.

    Why would you even tease us with such a drink that would cause a rip in the time continuum out of sheer awesomeness?
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  • rmy1081rmy1081 Member Posts: 2,840 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Character unlocks for fleet ships would be awesome :)
  • swamarianswamarian Member Posts: 1,506 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    I cannot define what it is. But I do know there is a solution that will be coming.

    Ship Fusions? As in the Persona games?
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    swamarian wrote: »
    Ship Fusions? As in the Persona games?

    Not sure what those are, but personally I was more thinking along the lines of ship slot 'sets', as it were. Aka, you're presented with a default ship slot set of, say, 50 ships. And if you need a ship from another set, you select the other set first (like flipping thru pages). That way you get a system that scales near infinitely, yet would put as good as no significant extra strain on the database.
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  • swamarianswamarian Member Posts: 1,506 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    You take 2 ships, and combine them, getting a combination of their stats, so if you combined a Galaxy X with a bug ship, you could get a tactical Galaxy, with better seating than either original ship. Of course, you lose the original ships in the process.
  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    makocalloway wrote: »
    Why would you even tease us with such a drink that would cause a rip in the time continuum out of sheer awesomeness?
    So join the AMA and help make this dream a reality.

    On a side note, I've actually had a Bacon-Donut Beer. As far as Bacon flavored Brews go, it might be paving the way for others...
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  • hojain2020hojain2020 Member Posts: 417 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    If they arrived at say 250 zen a slot I can alt- afford them. Good idea
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  • corelogikcorelogik Member Posts: 1,039 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    I do what I can.
    For science.
    And the forces of darkness.

    ALSO UNRELATED JOIN MY AMA TOMORROW! :P

    Does that come with a neat new gun? Hehe.
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 11,072 Community Moderator
    edited May 2015
    gavinruneblade wrote: »
    On the plus side, the new paint job looks like the iconian rep armor and has nifty glowing from lines you can turn on and off in the ship tailor.

    Hey! I have that paint job on my ship NOW! Can't turn the glowing lines off, but nonetheless... :D
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    sopwithsnipe wrote: »
    I hope that solution includes more character slots. Cuz I haz money and I need more. :D

    Well, I hope it doesn't. :) Seriously, extra character slots is not going to help me one iota on my main.
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