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Who wants a Re-Everything Token added to the Zen Store?
strorus
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Would you like to see a Re-Everything token added to the Zen Store? So a token where you could change, your species, career, gender and name?
I understand that at the moment Cryptic have more opportunity to make money off of new characters (you know having to purchase all the services for a new toon such as bank, doff etc slots, lockboxes for all the traits, ships etc for that toon) But other games offer this service and I think Cryptic would make more money allowing people to buy Re-Everything tokens.
I understand that at the moment Cryptic have more opportunity to make money off of new characters (you know having to purchase all the services for a new toon such as bank, doff etc slots, lockboxes for all the traits, ships etc for that toon) But other games offer this service and I think Cryptic would make more money allowing people to buy Re-Everything tokens.
Who wants a Re-Everything Token added to the Zen Store? 76 votes
Yes - I wanna change my male Sci Borg into a female Tac Joined Trill now! :-)
23%
18 votes
Yes - I would be happy with a only tokens that changed certain elements, ie, species, gender and/or career.
46%
35 votes
No - I'm happy making and leveling a new character everytime I want a change.
30%
23 votes
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theres a few others out there that don't, but none of the franchised ones minus this one
EQ series has it
Star wars has it
Final Fantasy has it
hell im pretty sure WoW has it too?
never ever played and still wont.
Change the char would save your skill level, EC, ZEN, Dill all other stuff like items, ships, Bridge Officers all items in the bank will be lost when changing your char.
Something like this ??
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And i will pay for that alot ZEN...
The big "new species" I'm shooting for is a Cardassian. The trouble is, I've had an alien-gen Cardassian as my main since I started the game right after F2P and rerolling, re-grinding, and redoing EVERYTHING I have done for him would take way, way more time than I consider even remotely feasible. If a respecies token were offered, though, after the Cardassian species became playable Fed-side, I would consider a species change token if the trade-offs of doing so looked reasonable.
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WRONG....
Don't know what "Star wars" you referring here. If SWTOR...then you can't either:
https://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/33k5q8/gender_change/
I'd love to be able to make my Trill science officer a Joined Trill. This of all possibilitys seems very logical to me canonically speaking, and I am happy to pay for the luxury of course.
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As logical as those are, given that they are basically just jobs and changing jobs is a common thing, that is the one thing I don't see happening even if species and gender changes are made possible.
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My personal opinion is - as another poster said - "suck it up" and I would add the sarcastic bit to it "you aren't going to get first place in the dps race even after you changed everything"
What I would welcome, however, were free respecs or at least respeccing with in-game currency (no RL money equivalents) - that's pretty standard for MMOs. What I also would like is a "inheritance" option - delete a character and a certain amount of character bound equipment is transferred to a new character or to a account "chest" that you can pick stuff from when creating a new chracter. This way you don't lose unique items when you delete a character. This function could be limited in the amount of times you are allowed to "inherit" an item.
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Despite the fact that I like the OP’s idea I’m not optimistic here as well.
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there is a simple alternative, make sure the character you create is the one you want in the first place.
what I would like to see is the ability for your character to learn other professions so you could effectively end up with a character who is tack/eng/sci and can complete tasks for any field.
the goal of the Starfleet philosophy is for people to better themselves, what better way to do this then to learn new abilities.
why should a scientist not also be a proficient engineer and tactician.
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The reason I am suggesting re-species be allowed is that if you have created an alien-gen toon, and that species then becomes playable on your faction, all you would really be doing is acknowledging the choices you already tried to make but we're not yet offered as options. I'd just like to make my Cardassian-alien an actual Cardassian someday if the species becomes playable Fed-side. There are a few changes between alien-gen toons and standard species (1 less trait slot but the addition of inherent species bonuses) but all in all, re-species would IMO be far, far less disruptive to the game than being allowed to change careers at will.
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I wouldn't need it, but why restrict the option for others who would, and who otherwise wouldn't re-roll a main character ever, and therefore be stuck with a character they don't fully enjoy?
The only reasons I could see it being a more restrictive token is so PWE/Cryptic doesn't loose out from investments going into multiple toons/factions/fleets, unless of course such a re-everything token would be so expensive and predictably so popular as to more than offset the potential loss. Multiple toons have their own benefits as it is, so that element shouldn't be too bad.
That's perfectly understandable and I wouldn't oppose to such a token or whatever mechanic for players like you. It's just that I personally wouldn't use them and I think the amount of players having alien characters that suddenly get a proper playable race when regular players didn't get a new playable race in five years (LoR excluded) doesn't seem very likely. If it happens, though, I understand your wish and wouldn't oppose.
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Career tokens is NOT a good idea. Everything that directly affecting you fighting skills (except existing skills and other respecs) should remain unchanged.
I like this idea better, it's easier to do. On most reputation tabs (in my experience) every time I start a project, most of the reward box items are bound to character. So what I end up with, are ship phaser weapons on my Klingon toon, and ship disruptor weapons on my Fed-aligned Rom! Can I just exchange their stuff please?