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jasonmccord
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Rant on - Where to start:
1. After playing PVP today and discovering that my only advantage was now stripped away thanks to gravity wells and tyken's rifts forcing you out of cloak, that I am hanging up my Star Trek hat once and for all. That was my best build and the enhanced battle cloak it's primary advantage and you just took that away. It seems every time I get a good build worked up, the game designers adds something to TRIBBLE it up and counter it with some obscure duty officer or trait that is robs you of that ability. It was bad enough that some of the missions took away the advantage of cloak, but now you did it with PVP. So there is no longer any point in having the enhanced battle cloak at all. It's just not fun to go into a PVP and die within a few seconds now matter how what you do. PVP was so much more fun when no one ship or character type had such overwhelming advantages and dps was not so ridiculously high that you actually had to work as a team to win. The game designers refuse to do anything about it so I refuse to spend one more dime on this game.
2. The game is no longer challenging thanks to the excessive dps players have even from my own characters. The only challenge left now is just getting the opportunity to actually target and hit something. Targets die so fast now that it you don't even have a chance to use some cool abilities because they take took long to deploy and too long to reach the targets.
3. Missions - There is also way too many targets in some matches over more challenging targets to kill. At times you are overwhelmed with an excessive number of targets which is really more annoying that fun to destroy. The game was a lot more fun early on when there were fewer targets that were more difficult to kill. The Borg STF's especially were more fun when it really took team work to get thru the missions.
4. The grind - there is just way too much stuff to grind out now - from duty officer projects, to admiralty, to dilithium, to reputation, there is just too much to deal with and it takes way too much time to do. You can literally spend all of your time doing projects over even playing a mission. Every new season seems to add more stuff to grind over content.
5. Resources for Star Bases - this is really aggravating as it takes way too much dilithium, and not enough fleet marks. Those that control what projects are done in the fleets are about the only people who get to put in fleet marks because they fill them up as soon as they start them. And the projects don't usually call for very many of them so they fill up fast. Or those in the fleet that start the projects won't start the projects where you can enter fleet marks. It would be a lot better to have the projects start automatically and randomly so people do not abuse this situation.
6. Ships - If the game designers were really true to the game, the big cruisers would be the ships to have because they would be the most powerful, and the most challenging to take down. Instead, you've got it where the small escorts have all the firepower. Or it's the box ships that are the only ones you can get any really big firepower out of. For a fed character, it seems like you can hardly find a true federation ship that is really any good. As a life-long fan of Star Trek, I would prefer to use a ship that is recognizable and an icon from the series, rather than one of the many alien vessels or ships that hardly even look like one of the more iconic ships such as the Constitution, Miranda, or Nebula class ships. While it is nice you have the Intrepid class, it's just not that great of a ship overall.
7. Time and money - there is no telling how many hours and how much money I have spent on this game to end up feeling like I can never get my builds up to the level other players seem to be able to achieve, and I am tired of trying.
8. Certain abilities and set-ups are grossly overpowered, while others are grossly underpowered such as Fire At Will where all you have to do is put a bunch of single beams on a ship and let that one ability do all the work. Do an Aux-to-bat build, and you can get FAW to go off every 10 secs or so. And yet you can hardly get any affect from abilities such as Target Subsystems, Tachyon Beam, or Countermeasures. When a target gets hit with Scramble Sensors or Jam Sensors, FAW should be wiped out from being able to hit ANY target until the debuff is cleared. This would allow some pets and targetable weapons a chance to work.
In all, the game is just no longer fun to play.
1. After playing PVP today and discovering that my only advantage was now stripped away thanks to gravity wells and tyken's rifts forcing you out of cloak, that I am hanging up my Star Trek hat once and for all. That was my best build and the enhanced battle cloak it's primary advantage and you just took that away. It seems every time I get a good build worked up, the game designers adds something to TRIBBLE it up and counter it with some obscure duty officer or trait that is robs you of that ability. It was bad enough that some of the missions took away the advantage of cloak, but now you did it with PVP. So there is no longer any point in having the enhanced battle cloak at all. It's just not fun to go into a PVP and die within a few seconds now matter how what you do. PVP was so much more fun when no one ship or character type had such overwhelming advantages and dps was not so ridiculously high that you actually had to work as a team to win. The game designers refuse to do anything about it so I refuse to spend one more dime on this game.
2. The game is no longer challenging thanks to the excessive dps players have even from my own characters. The only challenge left now is just getting the opportunity to actually target and hit something. Targets die so fast now that it you don't even have a chance to use some cool abilities because they take took long to deploy and too long to reach the targets.
3. Missions - There is also way too many targets in some matches over more challenging targets to kill. At times you are overwhelmed with an excessive number of targets which is really more annoying that fun to destroy. The game was a lot more fun early on when there were fewer targets that were more difficult to kill. The Borg STF's especially were more fun when it really took team work to get thru the missions.
4. The grind - there is just way too much stuff to grind out now - from duty officer projects, to admiralty, to dilithium, to reputation, there is just too much to deal with and it takes way too much time to do. You can literally spend all of your time doing projects over even playing a mission. Every new season seems to add more stuff to grind over content.
5. Resources for Star Bases - this is really aggravating as it takes way too much dilithium, and not enough fleet marks. Those that control what projects are done in the fleets are about the only people who get to put in fleet marks because they fill them up as soon as they start them. And the projects don't usually call for very many of them so they fill up fast. Or those in the fleet that start the projects won't start the projects where you can enter fleet marks. It would be a lot better to have the projects start automatically and randomly so people do not abuse this situation.
6. Ships - If the game designers were really true to the game, the big cruisers would be the ships to have because they would be the most powerful, and the most challenging to take down. Instead, you've got it where the small escorts have all the firepower. Or it's the box ships that are the only ones you can get any really big firepower out of. For a fed character, it seems like you can hardly find a true federation ship that is really any good. As a life-long fan of Star Trek, I would prefer to use a ship that is recognizable and an icon from the series, rather than one of the many alien vessels or ships that hardly even look like one of the more iconic ships such as the Constitution, Miranda, or Nebula class ships. While it is nice you have the Intrepid class, it's just not that great of a ship overall.
7. Time and money - there is no telling how many hours and how much money I have spent on this game to end up feeling like I can never get my builds up to the level other players seem to be able to achieve, and I am tired of trying.
8. Certain abilities and set-ups are grossly overpowered, while others are grossly underpowered such as Fire At Will where all you have to do is put a bunch of single beams on a ship and let that one ability do all the work. Do an Aux-to-bat build, and you can get FAW to go off every 10 secs or so. And yet you can hardly get any affect from abilities such as Target Subsystems, Tachyon Beam, or Countermeasures. When a target gets hit with Scramble Sensors or Jam Sensors, FAW should be wiped out from being able to hit ANY target until the debuff is cleared. This would allow some pets and targetable weapons a chance to work.
In all, the game is just no longer fun to play.
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Unless you delete your stuff, it'll be here if you decide to come back.
Meanwhile, "I Quit" threads aren't allowed, so expect this to get closed, knowing it won't be anything personal.
You don't speak for me. I care. Quite a bit, actually.
Jason, I'm sorry the game is no longer fun for you. I've been there myself. Why not take a break for a few months and come back refreshed? I've done that and I've found it helpful. Heck, if you take a long enough break, Cryptic will probably give you a free T6 ship and spec points!
Hope to see you back again someday, my friend.
In before the lock to protest the lock.
Rayzee
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torgaddon101
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I don't think I can go long without blowing spaceships up whilst shouting Pew Pew at my screen and rubbing my hands in glee, love this game
Defending The Galaxy By Breaking One Starfleet Regulation After The Next.
At least bjorg87 didn't use one of his typical "I farted" posts. Genius material, that.
TBH that's really in line with the canon. Crew's life was always in peril and danger of imminent death and destruction. Alien designed ships were almost always more powerful. Prime timeline and alternative timeline, too.
You forgot to say about the community of this game and we know the answer.
Bad? Sensitive? Unhelpful? Oh you mean Zone chat? I was thinking about the forums. Never mind.
Darn I was gonna say that.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
Nah thats just the poor writing. besides federation captains were obsessed with running into the unknown with shields down as to not seem threatening lol.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
As someone else said the majority of the player base won't care and cryptic certainly won't care. You are merely one player among thousands and it won't even scratch the money they make.
But can I haz ur stuffs anyway?
I am surprised you still played pvp, I thought it died a long time ago, due to balance TRIBBLE ups.
^this
I agree with a lot of your complaints but as said, no one here cares, and cryptic least of all
"After playing PVP today and discovering that my only advantage was now stripped away thanks to gravity wells and tyken's rifts forcing you out of cloak, that I am hanging up my Star Trek hat once and for all."
I stopped reading after the first sentence. He is going to stop playing because using mage powers will drop his cloak, so thats enough to drop the game. Wah wah, the game does something reasonable i dont agree with so frick this i quit.
And used his very first post to rant. Forum noobs are like mosquito's, they'll buzz around your head straight from the cocoon and bite you for your first meal, then after meal they get swatted and killed (by Trendy the fourm noob exterminator).
There needs to be a maturity test to post here, you must be this tall to ride sorta thing.
Aaaaaaaand in before lock.