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Hello all,
Started playing this game this summer and it's been a steep learning curve at times but generally quite enjoyable. I've reached the Endgame for all 3 of my characters and as I have been researching high DPS builds have learned that many Starship traits, consoles and bonus event items are fantastic for Endgame but were time limited in terms of availability for specific event periods. For those that received these event items, kudos for spending the time to acquire them! I'd like to suggest to the developers the idea of making these event items and bonuses available for those that were not playing Star Trek Online and thus did not have the opportunity to earn these items.
I myself purchased a Lifetime subscription this summer after about a month of playing as a way of catching up; access to content and perks to speed up the grind. I also purchase the Delta Rising and Temporal Agent Founders packages. Currently I find it a bit frustrating to learn that there are quite a few items, traits, ships and recruitment bonuses, etc that are a big asset in the Elite and Advance queues that are unavailable due to not having started playing the game when they were available. Speaking for myself, I'd be more than happy to pay a small premium to have the chance to earn some if not all of these items, traits and bonuses that came before my time in Star Trek Online.
I realize that Star Trek Online is a business for Cryptic, hence the suggestion to make this content available for Lifetime subscribers at a small premium as a way to offset the cost of the effort to implement making that content available(Nevermind providing added incentive to purchase a Lifetime subscription and support Cryptic's efforts in this game). If some of the content could be made available via lockbox perhaps that would also be a possibility so that the whole community could also benefit.
I'd welcome any ideas and any discussion on this matter.
Thanks for your consideration!
Started playing this game this summer and it's been a steep learning curve at times but generally quite enjoyable. I've reached the Endgame for all 3 of my characters and as I have been researching high DPS builds have learned that many Starship traits, consoles and bonus event items are fantastic for Endgame but were time limited in terms of availability for specific event periods. For those that received these event items, kudos for spending the time to acquire them! I'd like to suggest to the developers the idea of making these event items and bonuses available for those that were not playing Star Trek Online and thus did not have the opportunity to earn these items.
I myself purchased a Lifetime subscription this summer after about a month of playing as a way of catching up; access to content and perks to speed up the grind. I also purchase the Delta Rising and Temporal Agent Founders packages. Currently I find it a bit frustrating to learn that there are quite a few items, traits, ships and recruitment bonuses, etc that are a big asset in the Elite and Advance queues that are unavailable due to not having started playing the game when they were available. Speaking for myself, I'd be more than happy to pay a small premium to have the chance to earn some if not all of these items, traits and bonuses that came before my time in Star Trek Online.
I realize that Star Trek Online is a business for Cryptic, hence the suggestion to make this content available for Lifetime subscribers at a small premium as a way to offset the cost of the effort to implement making that content available(Nevermind providing added incentive to purchase a Lifetime subscription and support Cryptic's efforts in this game). If some of the content could be made available via lockbox perhaps that would also be a possibility so that the whole community could also benefit.
I'd welcome any ideas and any discussion on this matter.
Thanks for your consideration!
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I do admit though that I feel putting setpiece items on a limited reward ship is a bad move. The Kobali core from the Samsar is a pretty nice one, and the full Kobali set could be in the running for tank builds with the added heals it provides. Yet that piece was ONLY available on the Samsar. Having some way to complete these sets would be nice, but I don't think a Lifer perk would appease the masses. The forums can ignite into a firestorm pretty easily.
Lockbox might be the lesser of the evils in this case, and would also mean a bit more money in Cryptic's pocket for development of new things for us to play with.
And maybe they'd finally let Tacofangs have a go at DS9.
Cryptic wants the ships to be exclusive to events, so that players do not take the events for granted and fail to show up for them. This keeps that, while letting people complete their console sets.
We only have about... what? 3 times a year or so when the Infinity Box drops?
I'm not intending to start a firestorm but can see how that might come about. I suppose the idea to have the rewards available to Lifetime Subs is more about maintaining the exclusivity of the Event content but making it available to those that are willing to pay a premium for it as a benefit of subscribing, keeping in line with having full veteran benefits retroactively. I think it would be great if event content would be available via lockbox for everyone but that might be a long shot.
Tacofangs?
My suggestion for a solution, is to make all items and content freely available via the C Store, that way a player can see what's available, then decide if they want it or not... If they want it, they buy it... If they don't, then they ...don't
Hear, hear!
Ok though im not a DPS junkie i do know a few tricks
1) get a plasmonic leach
2) FAW is your friend
3) Mix and match your gear and setups to maximise the damage you do and how fast you can do it
4) Try a rainbow build they can be brutal though an eyesore for sure lol
5) The type of ship can play a role so be mindfull of what you want and which ship will get you there for DPS get a escort or a cruiser with atleast 4x tac consoles bare min.
also try getting the info for the DPS league chat channel you might be able to learn more from those players who ARE dps junkies , well anyways op theres a few things to help ya and good luck
However, restricting old event rewards to Lifers is something that should be avoided like the plague. Either everyone has access to the old event rewards or no one does.
the thing is every T6 ship has a trait and you will find it very costly to buy every c-store T6 ship there is so you will be "missing out " on a lot of traits there also.
add to this the fact that some traits are faction specific so you cant use these on all of your characters.
when you also consider that you only have a limited number of starship traits you can slot anyway (each player has four trait slots available; 1 extra slot is purchasable at the Fleet Research Lab.) and you begin to see how unimportant it is missing out on the small number you will never get due to event exclusivity.
therefore my advise, stop worrying over traits you don't have and just use the ones you do have.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
Obvious incoming sarcasm aside, I just became a LTS member myself, finally after 2 years (Cha Ching, YES! I have the delta and temporal recruit rewards!). Anyway, bragging aside, I would really like to see more exclusive LTS stuff, I was rather disappointed with my first trip to the captains table.
I do, however, disagree with the OP. It's like saying, I demand the same pay as the person whose been working here for 20 years even though I just got here. Not really fair to the person that has been here for 20 years.... yeah yeah, another "job" analogy, but not really a bad one either.
Yeah, and every poker player ever would go all in if the new every other player was bluffing. Lock boxes is a gamble, you're not suppose to know what you're going to get, otherwise everyone would be opening them, or not... if they knew what was inside that box. Then again, in a stack of 20, how do you know which box you open? Could be the top box, bottom, or one in between.... oh well now I'm just getting silly, good thing I'm not the only one.
I checked the Dyson Bundle and it has a part of its set in an event ship, same with Tier 6 flagships.
These old event ships + consoles are literally the only thing a LTS can miss.
Sure all these event ships, are cool and strong but over time newer and better stuff comes out.
They dont really care giving it to lifers as lifers already payed to stick arround for the next cyle(s).
It's not like "lifers" get a back pay of every event ever or any at all for that matter. The unique thing about events is, they come and go, hop on the bandwagon when it comes around or you'll miss it, if you miss you do not get another chance to get it, lifer or not. Us lifers only get a select FEW things that non-lifers do not get. A couple ships, uniforms, a BOFF, a unique very sexy ship skin and a few others including the benefits of having a subscription without paying monthly for it, we just get a few extra bonus for paying a lump sum. However, to attract new lifers, especially noobs with a burning wallet, they should add some more enticing stuff.
Well you do this today with console packs available from different lockboxes at times, these offer starship trait's often from enemy factions starships that are available in the CSTORE.
Guess the idea could work in theory. However, those who actually can afford 1m of dil are most probably the ones who have played every T6 ship rewarding event and won't pay for it, so dil isn't sinking.
I disagree with the premise of the thread title that it should be specifically for LTS. If it's introduced, it should be for everyone.
i agree, for the most part lifetime rewards are intended to give you things you cannot and never could get in the game, you can have more bank slots and inventory slots then any non lifer can have, you can have ships and other items that non lifers can never have and so on, lifetime rewards are not meant give you things you could have got if you had been playing longer.
also adding things to the lifetime rewards is not only meant to reward new lifers but also long term lifers, adding rewards for new lifers to have access to past event rewards does not reward long term lifers as much as it rewards recent or new lifers so this would be grossly unfair to long term lifers who paid years ago when cost of living made the lifetime package relatively much more expensive then it is now.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
If you search REWARD PACKS you find some of the more recently awarded Starship Trait's people are selling from lockboxes if you search Rare Rewards for "Trait".
so in other words "if I cant have it no one can"
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.