Introducing the Admiralty System

pwlaughingtrendy · September 2015

During your captain’s meteoric rise through the ranks, you have taken command of dozens of different starships! Put them to use in our new Admiralty system!

Learn more about the Admiralty system here.

~LaughingTrendy

ynrocjd · September 2015

T6 Gal-X (official) confirmed - 2nd picture ^^

antonine3258 · September 2015

Is that a upcoming ship hint I see below the Hestia?

EDIT: Oh, the admiralty system looks neat too, but T6 Gal-x!

rogue6800 · September 2015

Fantastic, hopefully romulans will get their own campaign.

beraht · September 2015

I've been wanting something like this for a long time, since Doffs came out.

thay8472 · September 2015

Space Doffing!

gilion · September 2015

Ya I also noticed what looked like a T6 Gal-X :P
Also I cant wait for this, looks simple, but I could have some fun with this, finally have a use for the stupid amount of ships I own. Also, I think that a high end reward, maybe a crit for a last mission should be a T6 ship. Giving players access to a T6 ship in game thats not part of a timed event would be nice. And I mean flyable T6, I see you get Admiralty ships as a reward for some missions but I mean something players can fly themselves.

martakurill · September 2015

Yup, someone put the T6 Dreadnaught in there. Ladies and gentlemen, commence salivating!

EDIT: Should we be concerned that THIS is the only part of the blog post everyone seems interested in?

sunfrancks · September 2015

Well at least the T6 Galaxy Dreadnought is official now.

alcyoneserene · September 2015

Not looking forward, as DOFFing across alts for XP is a grind already, this will add another 8 selection choices per character meaning 28 selections times however many characters you have, plus R&D, plus reputation. I'd rather go download and try other games that offer, you know, 3D gameplay with other people and with PVP from start to finish.

What would have been great is some RTS (Real time strategy) or turn-based environment which involves other people on a map where you decide where to position your ships, what systems to explore, discover profitable trade routes, allocate all ships account-wide without toon-hopping to defend/attack areas, and make the warp travel last days for each ship so it is epic, doesn't interfere with normal gameplay, and progress can be checked wherever. Of course that would be asking for a whole new simple game, which would detract from profits that I bet don't get reinvested into the game to expand its appeal.

shineshadow · September 2015

With the launch of Season 11, two Campaigns will be available immediately:

United Federation of Planets
Klingon Empire

Well, that's just asking for us to complain. C'mon.

swamarian · September 2015

So, for my Fed Tac to use a Nebula, which I've unlocked, he needs to claim it from the C-store (and optionally dismiss it)? Does the game remember ships that I dismissed years ago, levelling up?

johnwatson71 · September 2015

I am so looking forward to this! And may I just see, me and people in my fleet had some fears that failed missions would result in ships being destroyed in the way that DOFFs can die. And I am so glad that is not the case. Bring it on!

guljarol · September 2015

I'm not sure how I feel about it. Doffing is not my favourite part of the game, but this does look interesting. I may find it fun as a novelty, but could get bored quickly. We'll see. For now, I'm looking forward to it.

I'm also looking forward to Romulan Campaign, tsk tsk! We're going to get it, right? RIGHT?

saurializard · September 2015

shineshadow wrote: »

With the launch of Season 11, two Campaigns will be available immediately:

United Federation of Planets
Klingon Empire

Well, that's just asking for us to complain. C'mon.

The RR is too busy trying to figure out where Sela went, right now, to care about admirality missions. At least, that's what I think is the explanation.

borticuscryptic · September 2015

Does the game remember ships that I dismissed years ago, levelling up?

You'll need to re-commission the ship at some point while the Admiralty System is active. You can dismiss it again afterwards, and retain access to your Admiralty Ship.

saurializard · September 2015

borticuscryptic wrote: »

Does the game remember ships that I dismissed years ago, levelling up?

You'll need to re-commission the ship at some point while the Admiralty System is active. You can dismiss it again afterwards, and retain access to your Admiralty Ship.

Miranda-class: "Finally! Finally, I shall have my revenge!"

Also: "establish trade blockade on un-allied planet"?
The Federation is taking notes from another Federation in a galaxy far, far away.

lucho80 · September 2015

And here is the solution to the slow XP progression problem given the generous XP rewards shown and considering the crit rewards.

The other funny thing is that post:

This includes all commissioned starships, and you will retain access to Admiralty Ships for starships that you dismiss from your active roster.

So it is possible for the devs to give us a system to access dismissed lockbox ships since they can clearly keep track of ships we've obtained.

omegasprime · September 2015

borticuscryptic wrote: »

Does the game remember ships that I dismissed years ago, levelling up?

You'll need to re-commission the ship at some point while the Admiralty System is active. You can dismiss it again afterwards, and retain access to your Admiralty Ship.

Thanks for the information and the confirmation on T6 Galaxy-X!

borticuscryptic · September 2015

lucho80 wrote: »

So it is possible for the devs to give us a system to access dismissed lockbox ships since they can clearly keep track of ships we've obtained.

We're not tracking/remembering anything like this. We just don't remove Admiralty Ships based on your commissioned ships.

zeatrex · September 2015

No one cares about this, everyone only cares that we are getting a T6 Galaxy.
So much for spilling the news.

tigeraries · September 2015

borticuscryptic wrote: »

Does the game remember ships that I dismissed years ago, levelling up?

You'll need to re-commission the ship at some point while the Admiralty System is active. You can dismiss it again afterwards, and retain access to your Admiralty Ship.

What about mission reward ships from Temporal Ambassador... that T3 ship we got as Fed/KDF... it's long since been dismissed. Or the T1 to T4 free ships you can get while leveling up... can you flag all those ships as on our roster to use from the start?

centaurianalpha · September 2015

Another copy/paste game function, sadly. I feel bad for new players, since the Admiralty system is additional layers of complexity that really has nothing to do with Trek-like space action. Where is the exploration system that Cryptic's own poll revealed to be the most-desired STO feature??

And it's just sloth on Cryptic's part not to include a Romulan campaign from the start. IMO, the Romulan campaign would be the most interesting, since it would naturally involve subterfuge, deception, and scheming to increase their influence...

borticuscryptic · September 2015

What about ... [ships] ...

Let me sum up:

If the starship isn't actively commissioned in your ship roster at some point after the Admiralty System goes live, you will not have access to it's associated Admiralty Ship.

danpmk · September 2015

"Captains will only ever have access to a single Admiralty Ship per class of ship they have access to, but “Fleet” and “Mirror” versions of existing classes are counted as separate classes for this purpose."

If I'm reading this right, this means that Refit and Retrofit versions do not count? With the Akira for example, there would be 2 possible versions to obtain? (3 if there were a Mirror variant)
1) Heavy Escort / Heavy Escort Refit / Heavy Escort Carrier / Heavy Escort Carrier (T6)
2) Fleet Heavy Escort Carrier / Fleet Heavy Escort Carrier (T6)
Or do T6 versions count separately as well?

saurializard · September 2015

centaurianalpha wrote: »

IMO, the Romulan campaign would be the most interesting, since it would naturally involve subterfuge, deception, and scheming to increase their influence...

Someone definitely hasn't followed what the Romulan Republic is about.

borticuscryptic · September 2015

danpmk wrote: »

"Captains will only ever have access to a single Admiralty Ship per class of ship they have access to, but “Fleet” and “Mirror” versions of existing classes are counted as separate classes for this purpose."

If I'm reading this right, this means that Refit and Retrofit versions do not count? With the Akira for example, there would be 2 possible versions to obtain? (3 if there were a Mirror variant)
1) Heavy Escort / Heavy Escort Refit / Heavy Escort Carrier / Heavy Escort Carrier (T6)
2) Fleet Heavy Escort Carrier / Fleet Heavy Escort Carrier (T6)
Or do T6 versions count separately as well?

Refits and Retrofits have always been separate Classes, so that distinction was assumed for the purposes of this Dev Blog. I guess we know what assumptions get ya.

In this example, there are 6 valid Classes that fall under "Heavy Escort" -- all that you've listed are separate Admiralty Ships.

captainmd10 · September 2015

A question of clarification related to this statement: "These availability lists are defined per player (not per map like with Duty Officers) and will persist through map changes, logouts, etc." When it means "per player", does this refer to the single toon, or all toons on the same account?

suaveks · September 2015

Question time!

How exactly are those admirality ships claimed? Do we have to claim all the playable C-Store ships we own one by one to our ship roster to get the admirality ship card, or will those be available to us automatically?
Because I can't imagine claiming and discharging all the C-Store ships I own on all my alts just to get the cards...

Are the admirality ships claimable per character, or per account? For example, if I own a Fleet, Mirror, or Lockbox ship on one character, will I be able to get the admirality ship on another?

Will admirality ship cards be trade'able? Or, are there plans to release admirality ship cards that are not tied with a playable ship (like the Tier 10 Epic reward)?

Are ships assigned automatically to any given assignment, like doffs, or do we have to assign them individually ourselves?

Will shuttles have an admirality card?

Are T5 and T5U considered to be the same admirality ship? What about Bundle ships (like, Eng Vesta and Tac Vesta)?

Will Romulans have access to T1-T4 admirality ships of their allies?

KDF and ROM are clearly at a disadvantage when it comes to the number of T6 ships, when compared to the FEDs. This is especially the case when it comes to Science ships. Can we hope this will be addressed in the future so that the factions will have similar chances at different assignments?

How the system is planned to be monetized, aside from the ships themselves?

sheldonlcooper · September 2015

I like it. Looking forward to this very much. Many ships to claim and unpack!

ddesjardins · September 2015

borticuscryptic wrote: »

[snip]

In this example, there are 6 valid Classes that fall under "Heavy Escort" -- all that you've listed are separate Admiralty Ships.

Great news! I've dropped most of my Mirror Universe ships (boo) for space concerns, but the above more than makes up for it. I have a tonne still in-box - could be interesting for my new-ish Delta Recruits who have yet to work through all the ships they have access too.

https://twitter.com/BorticusCryptic/status/648889899324567553

Great news - even if it's TBD.

I wonder - will Cryptic be publishing a complete list of all the ships values for admiralty program, or should the community start to build it? (No issues with doing it, but if we could get a data dump it would be a great start).

Introducing the Admiralty System

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