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nickodaemus
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Dear Devs -
Please add a way to "Skip All" episode missions once a player has levelled their character to 60. I have no desire to replay much of the early content, and usually move on to doing the queues once I reach 50 anyways. The tangle of content I have skipped through from getting to 50 makes it more difficult to go back and replay missions for specific gear I might need for a particular build. The singular form of the "skip" button is often not highlighted (who knows why) and it compels the player into aspects of the game they may not enjoy.
Thanks in advance.
Nick.
Please add a way to "Skip All" episode missions once a player has levelled their character to 60. I have no desire to replay much of the early content, and usually move on to doing the queues once I reach 50 anyways. The tangle of content I have skipped through from getting to 50 makes it more difficult to go back and replay missions for specific gear I might need for a particular build. The singular form of the "skip" button is often not highlighted (who knows why) and it compels the player into aspects of the game they may not enjoy.
Thanks in advance.
Nick.
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Just play a different game. That way you bypass everything in STO.
TY.
Considering how many players bypass teamed PvE at endgame and are still able to max out their toons I find the request to skip story content and using other stuff to gain SP perfectly reasonable.
I know that story content is cryptic’s only premium content but think it is highlighted more than enough with the sick “play the FE three times the next few weeks and that with all your toons” reward structure.
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There's quite a few times where I want a piece of gear for an alt, but I have to manually skip one-by-one to get to it. The random 'you must go through this mission' sections are just another block that isn't really helpful when I've already played any given mission quite a few times on my other characters previously.
"So, you want to skip the work the devs did because of reasons? That's very fine, we have a button for that, you'll just have to do a very quick mission to activate each arc and then click the skip button of each mission you wanna skip, nothing serious.
What's that? That still isn't enough? Spending 3 minutes, the most of it spent to travel in sector space, to complete the mission, then keep clicking the existing skip buttons is still too annoying? You want a "skip all" button... Sorry, but like everything, there are limits to what you can take before someone tells you "how about you give a little, first?". Consider it the limit here."
I really see no reason why alternate toons couldn't skip every single episode mission.
If they want to incentivize people to run their alts through story content, perhaps they should add a global/general Recruit reward system to every toon. Similar to Delta and AoY rewards.
Because for me it's not appealing to keep doing these story chains over and over again, for every new toon I create. I avoid such activity wherever possible on my lesser alts.
The only characters I've run through all the story content with is my first Tac, Sci, Engi, and Delta/AoY recruits (a RomFED and a LibBorgFED).
And tbh that was already way too much, even before we got Delta and AoY.
The AoY grind in particular killed a lot of the motivation I have to play this game.
I barely scrapped my way through it.
I have no desire to do this again on my other 7 characters.
Once was enough to be completely honest.
Especially since you need 2-3 Replays on many of the missions now days.
I really wish they'd spread out the mission reward items so you didn't have to replay single missions over and over again.
Like, we have plenty of missions with garbage rewards... so there is "room" to shuffle the mission reward items around a bit.
Why concentrate 3-4 episode rewards into one mission anyway ?
..On a brand new mission, sure, it's okay I guess, I can understand that tactic... But once the new arc has come to its conclusion, the rewards should be redistributed equally throughout the arc (if and whenever possible to avoid burnout).
Getting through "Dust to Dust" three times (for the Kobali set) makes me want to blow my brains out, for example.
I'd have to agree on the basis that it would might take more effort by a dev than it would ever save in the community. Skipping missions is a one-time process per character that only requires the consistent application of one button. If you wait until the last minute (ie. refrain from mission content, only look to skip everything at level 60) then it'll be the long application of one button but that's more a lesson against procrastination than anything else.
I don't see this QOL feature as bringing anything substantive to the game. Other areas could use the dev time a lot more.
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We could have a "get char to lvl60 immediately" button. For free... for as many a toon as we want. And tradeable Reputation Sponsorship.
last I checked those were all: get mission, go to *blank*, say hi, turn in misssion.
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No, the Kobali missions aren't.
*checks* guess I was wrong.
work round time. next FE do it on all characters, you can now do any missions that come later. the only real loss at this point is the entoil and Chronometric Calculations sets.
edit: oh and the Quantum Phase sets... ok it's actually fairly annoying guess I was wrong about that too.
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Question: Why, on planet earth, would i want to replay ANY STO mission?
And because if i replay a mission around 12 times i am gonna get a space set or a ground set, or something cute anyways. Yeah, and that's the only way to coerce someone to replay a long and boring mission, and that is IF one actually wants to get the reward.
in case why would want to play any of them?
I assume you enjoy sto, if so replaying most content should be fun not a problem, I mean yeah everyone has missions they don't like and would skip but over all it should be painless at worst.
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Most content is awful. The story arc is TRIBBLE. PvE is something, but most STFs don't get played at all, PvP is unknown to me and you just stack dill to buy stuff to be a space barbie... and play PvE. It's just that all other mmorpg are far worse.
see this where you uninstall and never look back. and maybe stop playing mmos, there are probably single player game that are a better use of your free time... hell there are probably mmos that are a bettr use of your time.
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if you not enjoying it at the very least take a break. I've done it several times. sto is ftp so you can always come back to see how things are going if you want.
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Actually, i find it kinda strange. There are around 40-50 STFs? And 3-4 are being played atm. Somehow they didn't figure it out well there in Cryptic.
My main issue is with being forced to repeat 4 and 5 and 6 times, missions long, annoying and boring, and quite frankly, insulting. Few, if any, missions have anything to do with Star Trek. Most of them are you, playing the galaxy's NATO.
I hate to tell you but start trek is, quite frankly, a terrible ip for a mmo. most of the storylline are either personal drama or some version of natural disasters in space. neither being good for mmo missions. so there isn't enough to do but so many "star trek" missions.
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Having to fight here and there is also part of Star Trek. Intergalactic wars are also part of Star Trek. There were episodes with fighting and war, and if you want, half DS9 is about war between interstellar states. But from that, to being an oppressive power that polices the galaxy, binds other states with treaties, and goes to war everytime someone gets out of line.... well, it's too much.
keep in mind most of the "wars" in sto aren't really much of anything. and thats pretty much how starfleet work they devour territory under the banner of exporation and peaceful cooperation til the hit someone big enough to kick them in the teeth. than fight a war tell they get a treaty that give them enough territory. and when whoever the run into that can't kick em in the teeth. well how do you think federation space got to be so large.
I've said it before if magic ever wants to do a white/blue bad guy group starfleet would be a great thing to base it on.
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