Until they run out of T6 ships to sell they have no need for T7. Actually they don't even need T7 yet then as long as enough players buy enough of the existing T6 ships.
Sure, T7 will happen someday. But someday we're all gonna die. You'll have time.
Mind you, there was no need for T6/T5-U until they made things harder, so who is to say?
Technically there is still no "need" for T6/T5-U, "all" content can played and completed with plain T5 and Fleet T5 ships, including elite queues.
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Nope, it's not time for T6-U. It will never be time for T6-U.
It wasn't even time for T6 in the first place, but "Delta Rising is the best expansion ever and the players love it!".
If each "step" in the ship power progress chart is supposed to represent a 10% increase from the "previous" level, then applying an upgrade token to a Fleet T6 would result in a ship that's "30% stronger" than the last "freebie" ship everyone receives on their account - the "baseline" T5...
Math? T5 base, +10% for T6, +10% for Fleeting the T6, then +10% for the upgrade token.
Can you write content that will "challenge" these FT6Us and be beatable by a "Casual" T5 "freebie"?
Thusly, I'm not worried about an upgrade program for T6s till they start issuing "free" T6s as part of the levelling process (or some universal dealie like a remains in story-arc mission), which will be a key sign that T7 is "on it's way"...
Detecting big-time "anti-old-school" bias here. NX? Lobi. TOS/TMP Connie? Super-promotion-box. (aka the two hardest ways to get ships) Excelsior & all 3 TNG "big hero" ships? C-Store. Please Equalize...
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How about no more tiers since the designs have become less than stellar and there is no way in hell I'm going to continue to pay for more overpriced pixels to replace my current overpriced pixels. I will probably drop the game at that point.
I agree with @zarato4218. That assessment is pretty accurate. There's potentially no end to T6 as long as Cryptic can keep coming up with new Specializations and Ship Traits. They'd have to come up with a completely new concept for ships to justify T7.
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T7 ships would require a level cap raise. I don't know but I don't think we will ever see a level cap raise in the rest of the lifetime of this game.
I might be wrong though. If they do a level cap raise it'll probably just be numeric levels and no rank. I mean we're already Fleet Admirals and Dahar Masters. You might just get level 65 or 70 Fleet Admirals and Dahar Masters. But even then I suspect we won't see a level cap raise.
Not sure where you are getting this from...but they don't NEED to do any such thing. If they think they can make money by reselling you the same ship with a bit more HP and 1 boff seat and console space for 35 bucks...they will...without a level cap...in a heart beat. That is what they are SUPPOSE to do as a buisness. The thing is, they know that doing that will hurt them...like DR hurt them...probably worse actually. This poll shows that pretty clearly.
The game is set up in such a way that Tiers are every ten levels. For there to be a Tier 7 you need to be able to level up past 60. In other words, a level cap raise.
I'm sure this has been said by others, but just adding my voice to it:
The Game's content is achievable with current ships;
Power creep is unnecessary;
Changing the game's content to challenge current T6s, let alone T6U or T7s, would essentially make the last free to play base T5 ships unable to finish end-game content. That is a very big bridge to burn.
There arent enough designs for new Tier 7 ships, which would imply the need for T6U (manyT5s havent got their T6 variants yet);
I really, really dont want to rebuy all my ships again
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Sure, T7 will happen someday. But someday we're all gonna die. You'll have time.
Just no.
Just in case:
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Technically there is still no "need" for T6/T5-U, "all" content can played and completed with plain T5 and Fleet T5 ships, including elite queues.
It wasn't even time for T6 in the first place, but "Delta Rising is the best expansion ever and the players love it!".
If each "step" in the ship power progress chart is supposed to represent a 10% increase from the "previous" level, then applying an upgrade token to a Fleet T6 would result in a ship that's "30% stronger" than the last "freebie" ship everyone receives on their account - the "baseline" T5...
Math? T5 base, +10% for T6, +10% for Fleeting the T6, then +10% for the upgrade token.
Can you write content that will "challenge" these FT6Us and be beatable by a "Casual" T5 "freebie"?
Thusly, I'm not worried about an upgrade program for T6s till they start issuing "free" T6s as part of the levelling process (or some universal dealie like a remains in story-arc mission), which will be a key sign that T7 is "on it's way"...
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Oh haaaaaaale no!
nope there are 2 yes votes
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In a serious note... No, that'll indeed make t5 and t5u obsolete!
Only reason why T6-U ships would be released is if there were T7 ships out.
There are at present no T7 ships.
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I might be wrong though. If they do a level cap raise it'll probably just be numeric levels and no rank. I mean we're already Fleet Admirals and Dahar Masters. You might just get level 65 or 70 Fleet Admirals and Dahar Masters. But even then I suspect we won't see a level cap raise.
Or "moar poweeer creeeeepppp" post?
Either way HELL NO!
And a month later come out with T-11s and T-10Us
Only stipulation is , every ship in the game gets replaced by kittens our phaser turned to walkie talkies and our torps now fire tribbles lol
No but HELL no to the Ops idea