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Brainstorming: Improving the Captains Table
dukedom01
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Since it is slightly lacking in appeal currently.
Absolutely minimal work that needs to be done is to add all the regular hub amenities. Shipyard, dabo tables, contraband kitty, the whole nine yards. And please please please with cherry on top make sure 'all' those interact buttons are instant and NOT limited to one player only. (sidenote a 'lot' of the old kdf hub amenities deserve that treatment too. nothing says geko hates you very much like that shiny three second waiting time opening bank, or exchange, or mail when you are kdf)
Once that is done we still have the problem of accessibility. With all the stuff we already have taking up our precious inventory space some gadget to transport your captain right there should be possible.
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Now the various brainfarts I came up with to make it a choice to hang around.
- A hall pass for non-lifers. Pay 500k dili with your lifer, give it to your non-lifer friend for a two hour hall pass to the captains table. Once the time runs out he gets removed.
- A tailor with all those annoying costume limitations removed.
- Exchange with a 50 item cap instead of the usual 40.
- Remember those old veteran bridge officers some of us got back in the day when dilithium was introduced as a currency? Recruit more of them for 2m dilithium each.
- A doff store where you can exchange unique doffs from one faction to another. (Unique as in Graga Mal for example. Not the regular run of the mill doffs). Maybe even allow the old super rares to 'actually' become ultra rare quality for real. I am looking at you Kel the Retributor!
- A way to sort our doff bag manually again. Because OCD.
- An easier way to see which ASSCARDS you have not claimed yet without having to go through half a dozen different windows. Maybe even claim them that way.
- An easier way to see which shiptraits you have not earned yet. Because the only thing worse than going through hundred ships to see if you have its admiralty card is to see if you have the trait unlocked.
- An option to 'buy out' ship traits you already unlocked on another character for like 10m EC each because you simply cannot stand to drive that horrible ship again. (Obviously only for account earned ships)
- A GPL slot machine where you can win the various non combat vanity pets and other vanity items (all account bound so whoever at cryptic is insisting those have to stay lobi only doesn't have a seizure).
- Access to your various fleet holding stores without actually having to go there. Or with a twist increase access levels to your armadas alpha fleet if your own fleet has not earned those yet (SLACKERS).
Enjoy
Absolutely minimal work that needs to be done is to add all the regular hub amenities. Shipyard, dabo tables, contraband kitty, the whole nine yards. And please please please with cherry on top make sure 'all' those interact buttons are instant and NOT limited to one player only. (sidenote a 'lot' of the old kdf hub amenities deserve that treatment too. nothing says geko hates you very much like that shiny three second waiting time opening bank, or exchange, or mail when you are kdf)
Once that is done we still have the problem of accessibility. With all the stuff we already have taking up our precious inventory space some gadget to transport your captain right there should be possible.
---snip---
Now the various brainfarts I came up with to make it a choice to hang around.
- A hall pass for non-lifers. Pay 500k dili with your lifer, give it to your non-lifer friend for a two hour hall pass to the captains table. Once the time runs out he gets removed.
- A tailor with all those annoying costume limitations removed.
- Exchange with a 50 item cap instead of the usual 40.
- Remember those old veteran bridge officers some of us got back in the day when dilithium was introduced as a currency? Recruit more of them for 2m dilithium each.
- A doff store where you can exchange unique doffs from one faction to another. (Unique as in Graga Mal for example. Not the regular run of the mill doffs). Maybe even allow the old super rares to 'actually' become ultra rare quality for real. I am looking at you Kel the Retributor!
- A way to sort our doff bag manually again. Because OCD.
- An easier way to see which ASSCARDS you have not claimed yet without having to go through half a dozen different windows. Maybe even claim them that way.
- An easier way to see which shiptraits you have not earned yet. Because the only thing worse than going through hundred ships to see if you have its admiralty card is to see if you have the trait unlocked.
- An option to 'buy out' ship traits you already unlocked on another character for like 10m EC each because you simply cannot stand to drive that horrible ship again. (Obviously only for account earned ships)
- A GPL slot machine where you can win the various non combat vanity pets and other vanity items (all account bound so whoever at cryptic is insisting those have to stay lobi only doesn't have a seizure).
- Access to your various fleet holding stores without actually having to go there. Or with a twist increase access levels to your armadas alpha fleet if your own fleet has not earned those yet (SLACKERS).
Enjoy
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Now as for the rest...
That would be interesting. Although I can see some people screaming bloody murder if its not marketable on the Exchange. You know how Ferengi get about monetizing everything, even if the intent behind something is NOT to make people more space rich. Frankly just having a Tailor at all would be an improvement. Just having an Exchange would be an improvement. Don't know how to respond to that one. Maybe actually give us a source of DOffs that help with particular crafting schools? There was a way to sort them in the first place? Depends on the person I guess. Might be an interesting QoL thing for people with lots of alts. I know my Fed alts would go nuts over all the traits I got on my main, but the problem is a few are from character only ships like the Kelvin Connie, and a couple are lockbox like the Fed version of Honored Dead. You'd have to differentiate between account unlock and not. Code wise probably a nightmare. Pet Tab first. Then we can talk more pets. Would kinda make even having fleet holdings pointless for veteran players. In this case probably gonna have to disagree.
All in all... we just need stuff to DO at the Captain's Table. No one hangs out there really because there's nothing there except Peace and Quiet. And even then... that's easy to get anywhere just by turning off Zone Chat.
- Unrestriced access to something similar as phoenix upgrades (only the upgrades). Same base price 4.5k ea / 40k for 10. To keep it for personal use only it needs to immediately bind gear to account however.
- A slight bonus to upgrading items in there so lifers don't have to wait for the next upgrade weekend all the time.
I'm pretty sure it used to refine it all based on the number of days you were away.
If they put an NPC in the Captains Table that could refine dil beyond the normal cap I would stop in every day.
Can't see anyone burning half a million dilithium to give someone access to the table, certainly not in its current state of abandonment, perhaps as an ec sink but dil is way to useful to be wasted on frivolities.
To expand on the tailor idea have a ship customiser with the ability to display cosmetic effects on the ships in the players active roster. An have the option to purchase them for the requisite marks or tokens as applicable similar to how the physical tweaks to ships gives the option to buy the ship the hull parts are tied into.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
I agree it needs a LOT of work, but tbh, there's more important things to fix first.
So I agree that there should be some kind of purchasable pass to enter it for non-lifers. (500K Dilithium seems a bit high, though. 500 Dilithium or 5.000 Dilithium might work)
And then add something that it enticing to players. But it can't be excessive. Maybe a vendor or DOFF assignment that awards a limited amount of Phoenix Boxes all year around. Or some place to turn in Dilithium Mining Vouchers and get a better deal or at least something extra.
Some more outlandish Extras:
Based on your Fleet Holding Idea: If you're on the Captain's Table, you can do a special task that allows you to make a single purchase from a fully leveled fleet once a day. You still need the Fleet Credits, Dilithium and Provisions, but you don't need to wait for all holdings to be maxed out. Maybe you don't benefit from Fleet Discounts, or it's otherwise more expensive than the regular way.
A place to purchase account-bound boxes for copies of Lobi, Lockbox, Promo Ships and Event ships you own. Maybe make it expensive, like 200,000 Dilithium + 50,000 Fleet Credits +5 Fleet Modules expensive, but it's still going to be cheaper for most then buying extra copies from the Exchange.
Or, if that is too much, at least the ability to purchase account-bound versions of consoles and traits from such ships.
I THINK there is an Aenigma Nebula entrance at New Romulus... just not near the warp in point.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Perhaps someone will find it, if it's there.
Also just reskinning Club 47 won't work honestly because the map would just be too small. Also Club 47 is kinda connected to ESD so unless you want to fully reskin an ESD map...
At least let Tacofangs and his team have a crack at tweaking the interior though. Make it pretty.
This subject has been debated ever since the CT was introduced.
I'm pretty sure They don't see any Monetary Value in expending the time and effort to fiddle with it.
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For example, the Discovery tutorial uses a 23rd century version of Starfleet Academy that’s styled like the show. There are also other locations that I won’t go into, just in case I'd be spoiling the Age of Discovery storyline for any of you, but suffice to say that whilst the content would be limited in scope compared to what’s available in the 25th century, I personally think it'd be pretty cool.
It could also provide a doorway to buying old equipment that isn't available from the Lobi Crystal Consortium, and allow us to recruit bridge and duty officers from other timeframes. Plus, maybe this could be somewhere where we could change a bridge officer’s faction to that of our own. That way, 25th century recruits would use the same equipment as temporally displaced characters, such as when my post tutorial officers have to revive me using a 25th century tricorder, which happens... a lot. lol
I feel like this is a non-issue because the game is extremely clear cut on which ships are account unlocks.
Correct. The only thing where this might become an issue is with event ships. And in my opinion if you are a lifer and have gambled yourself an epic phoenix voucher the trait is the least thing your other chars should get.
Another brainfart:
- NPC(s) where you can queue up exclusively for space rTFOs and vice versa for ground rTFOs.
there was, when they wasted all the time with the club 47 reskin. Club 47 is like the captains table itself. no one goes there because you can't DO anything there and the music is frankly annoying
- Add a Dilithium processing NPC that lets you process another 4k (or more) dilithium ore per day. Right now the limit is 8k per day via inventory screen (not worth the daily trip to get the extra 500 per day that you can get from specific NPC). I have over 500k ore sitting on some chars and it will take months to process it all.
- Add some atmosphere, like a bar with dancing Orion girls.
- Add an elite-mark exchange vendor that lets you trade 5-to-1 (i.e. trade 5 iconian probe datacore elite marks for 1 temporal buffer elite mark, etc). Hell, even a 10-to-1 ratio would be good for getting assessed strategems.
The above items + some of the ones listed in prior posts might even be enough to persuade some to get lifetime/gold member in case Cryptic needs any extra incentive.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
At least it can't get any more boring and useless, and no Cryptic this is not a challenge
this isn't totally impossible however it could run afoul of the age rating (STO is T-rated in US or 16 under the PEGI rating), so this could be considered improper content for that rating (also not all players might want a bar like that)
There's always a balance to be had here, while you want to have incentive for being LTS you don't want to seem like you have to buy it or you're playing an incomplete game. SWTOR had this exact issue when it went free to play where the free to play was seen as playing an incomplete game and you pretty much had to sub to play the game as intended.
As current nothing in STO C-store is a "must have" as in you absolutely need this thing to play the game and changing LTS to be a "must have" would most likely kill the game in long term as those who couldn't afford/justify buying LTS would quit signifigantly reducing the playerbase (as yes even those that don't spend money matter as they make the game seem alive)
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