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snowwolf
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Dear Developer or whoever it may concern.
In the early days of Star Trek Online. Everything was re-playable, this included mini missions like "Trade Deal" on Starbase 39-Sierra and "Temple Offerings" on Deep Space 9. It also included all the system patrols spread throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.
For some reason all these mini missions and patrol missions was turned into a one time thing. That was a bad decision in my eyes as a lot of these patrol missions have good and beautiful maps and fun to do missions that are short and easy to play.
With the removal of the replayability of these missions you loose a great deal of content to replay, you loose a great deal of maps, NPC's and just in general things to do.
There are so many planets you can do system patrols in, so many NPC's to interact with, so many mini missions and just fun small patrol missions. Being limited to only playing these ONCE per character is rather foolish.
Being a Star Trek game one of the most fun things I experienced when this game was released, was being able to travel throughout the Alpha and Beta quadrants, exploring the Roddenberry universe and do these patrol missions, and just looking around on the various surface maps you have created for these missions. Some of them are very pretty and interesting.
And the NPC's and mission itself can be quite fun, even though they just contain small references to Star Trek events. My point is that all these small patrol systems is what made this game into the one Star Trek game. Where as advertised, the Star Trek universe truly is displayed on a large open world scale.
This is the only game where you can actually explore the Roddenberry universe on a large scale, being able to only explore 90% of the places ONCE is rather foolish.
So therefor I ask you Cryptic, Developer or whoever it might concern. Please read this and please take it into consideration. Make all the fun mini missions and the patrol missions all over the Alpha and Beta quadrants replayable once again.
So we players can enjoy these fun small missions, the NPC's and the beautiful maps over and over again.
So we can explore the large Star Trek universe you have created for us... More than once.
If you are worried about grinding, you can do so when the mission is being replayed there is no reward. Or you can put a cooldown timer on it or something. Just atleast allow us to enjoy them again and again.
Thank you!
- STO fan since Beta release.
In the early days of Star Trek Online. Everything was re-playable, this included mini missions like "Trade Deal" on Starbase 39-Sierra and "Temple Offerings" on Deep Space 9. It also included all the system patrols spread throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.
For some reason all these mini missions and patrol missions was turned into a one time thing. That was a bad decision in my eyes as a lot of these patrol missions have good and beautiful maps and fun to do missions that are short and easy to play.
With the removal of the replayability of these missions you loose a great deal of content to replay, you loose a great deal of maps, NPC's and just in general things to do.
There are so many planets you can do system patrols in, so many NPC's to interact with, so many mini missions and just fun small patrol missions. Being limited to only playing these ONCE per character is rather foolish.
Being a Star Trek game one of the most fun things I experienced when this game was released, was being able to travel throughout the Alpha and Beta quadrants, exploring the Roddenberry universe and do these patrol missions, and just looking around on the various surface maps you have created for these missions. Some of them are very pretty and interesting.
And the NPC's and mission itself can be quite fun, even though they just contain small references to Star Trek events. My point is that all these small patrol systems is what made this game into the one Star Trek game. Where as advertised, the Star Trek universe truly is displayed on a large open world scale.
This is the only game where you can actually explore the Roddenberry universe on a large scale, being able to only explore 90% of the places ONCE is rather foolish.
So therefor I ask you Cryptic, Developer or whoever it might concern. Please read this and please take it into consideration. Make all the fun mini missions and the patrol missions all over the Alpha and Beta quadrants replayable once again.
So we players can enjoy these fun small missions, the NPC's and the beautiful maps over and over again.
So we can explore the large Star Trek universe you have created for us... More than once.
If you are worried about grinding, you can do so when the mission is being replayed there is no reward. Or you can put a cooldown timer on it or something. Just atleast allow us to enjoy them again and again.
Thank you!
- STO fan since Beta release.
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Bringing back those patrols means people will spread out in Sector Space more.
The ability to play these missions and just explore the Roddenberry universe is what made this game soooo fun. Don't get me wrong, the Episode Missions and stuff are great too.
But only being able to play these patrol missions once, and even the mini missions for that manner.. It's just such a huge restriction on such a huge universe. Remove it and let us fully enjoy every bit of the Roddenberry universe you have presented on a grand scale!
A Romulan Strike Team, Missing Farmers and an ancient base on a Klingon Border world. But what connects them? Find out in my First Foundary mission: 'The Jeroan Farmer Escapade'
What they SHOULD of done, was have system alerts where the Iconians had attacked say Betazed. Admiral calls in and requests all hands to Betazed to fight off the Iconian attack.
Start with a space fight, and you have objectives, achieve it, and you stave off the attack, fail it turns into a ground campaign. Fail there you get kicked out of the system and now you have to go in reverse order to kick the Iconians out, and the Iconians are now dug in and are even harder to evict.
Should give some rewards, more for repulsing the Iconians, but you give some for going back in and pushing the Iconians out. Ofcourse it would be across multiple instances so more players could play.
But something like that to actually have the feel of a Galactic war, not just, oh we attack here and there, but there is no urgency, no real feeling of "Hey these guys are just kicking us down across everywhere! FIGHT BACK!"
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Even assuming this is true, so what?
DOWN with the "everyone should play the way I want them to play" mentality. DOWN!!! :mad:
A Romulan Strike Team, Missing Farmers and an ancient base on a Klingon Border world. But what connects them? Find out in my First Foundary mission: 'The Jeroan Farmer Escapade'
Also another thought to encourage players to play different patrol missions why not make the wrapper missions (those non-repeatable missions in the Delta Rising Arc for the patrol missions) repeatable and make the rewards for them those rare items used to obtain MK XII gear from different reputation, so for example if I did one wrapper mission witch would have 4 or 5 systems to patrol in Borg Space I would not only get the Omega Marks from each system but once the wrapper mission is finished I would earn a Borg Neural Processor, they could have a 20 hour cool down on them so not only would they not get abused but encourage players to play the other wrapper missions to.
- Jean-Luc Picard
We had something like that back in the Beta Days, Captain Sulu would give you missions to "Patrol the bla bla bla sector", then you had to patrol like 3 or 5 star systems in order to complete the mission.
Wait, where's Sulu??
It's pretty much this hard to keep just one timeline intact. ♪
They would most likely have the same cooldown timer as the Tau Dewa and Delta patrols.