I would like to see an actual T6 Ambassador and T6 Kamarag for the 10th anniversary rewards. The skin for the Ambassador and Kamarag ships are very nice and are decent free ships.
I would like to see an actual T6 Ambassador and T6 Kamarag for the 10th anniversary rewards. The skin for the Ambassador and Kamarag ships are very nice and are decent free ships.
I like the kamarag, there is a T3 version and a fleet-only T5(U)
I have been here since mid alpha testing and for what little my opinion is worth I say bring it all back. Everything that was given as a pre-release bonus and other items given as featured rewards and all the others stuff. This game has changed so much especially after the TRIBBLE F2P conversion that such things lost any functional value and are nostalgic at best for the ol' timers.
I'm all about player options and fun and speaking just for myself a decade of exclusivity for all those pre-release items and well over half a decade on the other stuff has been more than enjoyable and I absolutely got my shiny and dare I say elite as well as I'm special thrill value out of them. It is time for a new generation of players to experience the same fun I say!
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I would like to see an actual T6 Ambassador and T6 Kamarag for the 10th anniversary rewards. The skin for the Ambassador and Kamarag ships are very nice and are decent free ships.
I like the kamarag, there is a T3 version and a fleet-only T5(U)
There is a stock T5 version of each as well that was a reward for an anniversary event. At one point, T5U couldn't be claimed by Romulan's. I don't know if that has changed but I had the T5 claimed on one of my Romulan's back when it was available as a reward for the mission with Yar. Still, the ships are awesome and deserve a T6 and T6U/T6F versions. I would gladly purchase them from the C-Store, if they were made available. Every ship class of the Enterprise needs to be represented at T6 and T6U/T6F.
There already is a T6 and T6F for the Ambassador. It is called the Narenda.
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So anyways, back to the 10th Anniversary suggestions:
Someone suggested a mega-event which allows people to unlock anything from the past. Good basic idea, bad timing in that if someone misses that one event they get nothing (which just adds to the 'exclusive timed event' problem).
How about if each of the 'ship' events in 10th Anni year (Anniversary, Summer, Winter) had an option for a 'choice pack' box that unlocks one of the past event ships? You can run the event on multiple chars so each character could unlock a different ship for the account.
This would potentially lead to more logins, more characters playing each event, possibly even to char slot sales and new characters being created. Also, if Cryptic let it be known that this would happen on every '5th year' anniversary, people would still be motivated to play 'each event as it happens', but also know they had a catch-up mechanic in the future if they should miss something. That would in turn lead to players thinking longer-term in their STO plans (which might encourage life sub sales, since the frequent question there is "will I still be playing/game still be here in 2+years?").
So, win-win, and should be doable in terms of Cryptics programming ability since it is in effect just a box of event reward boxes. It could even have reduced Dil/Mark payout since it is an 'extra' event task.
I like this ideal a timed rerun as it were. +1 For me on this ideal.
Not that i can effect it in any way but this and reuse maps already made First ESD the shipyards and such several areas that could be used to even run a mission that is no actual mission more like a Endevor you go there pick up a task that at some random point in playing you get the needed item take it back and get a token a counter or what ever. After the amount is reached you get the ship, weapon, trinket and so on.
Have this needed for 100 days or 365 or 600 depending on the item. And lock it to each toon means you would see people loging in to work on several to earn it. Time in game = more need to do things = option to spend money to get gear speed up play and so on.
In the end players can get items if willing to work for it. Cryptic should only need a copy past of the cupon setup to log progress and a small ui change. As to what to get make it like the endevor use in game stuff to effect the progress or random % drop why playing as loot from other tfo's/missions. In the end i see that type of access providing a bonus for everyone but i am guessing some one else has already said this before. And i don't know what the answer was other than i am guessing no as its not in game or on the road map.
For any one reading this sorry for the wall of text i tend to get long winded when typing in or out of game.
I too would like to see all the old missions, events and anniversaries become available again. However, I would assume the work needed to make all those old assets working with the current version of the game engine is beyond reality. A suggestion would instead be to setup a temporary shard for each event with a snapshot of the game code from that date. They have done this before so we know it can be done. If they're low on server resources they could cycle through one event at a time over the year. We could logon to it and do the old stuff there and when we're done, our accounts on the current live shard could be updated with whatever unlocks, gear and accolades we earned there. This way no dev time would be needed to fix all the old assets. Some dev time to configure the temporary shard and to define what account settings would be updated and how would be needed but that should probably be a more reasonable task.
I would like to see the return of the republic day, klingon empire day and original First contact day quests. Because I i'd like to meet the respective crews as I've never been able to do them. I think.
What I'd love to see would be some acknowledgements of how far the game has come. For example, they could temporarily pop the original/1st STO ESD in orbit for us to visit.
wow!, I don't remember this esd, when it was removed?
Exactly why they should bring it back for the anniversary.
They swapped it for the 'mushroom' shaped one around the first anniversary.
oh! i had totally forgotten. indeed that would be very interesting to visit this "old" esd, which is nicer than the current one.
I liked it. Current ESD is based on one from the show that really isn't big enough to use as an orbital shipyard. This one actually had the size to be a proper shipyard/trade hub.
i would like them to bring back the original ground combat for a month so new players can experiance the game when ground combat was actually a challenge minus bugs ofc =p
I have been here since mid alpha testing and for what little my opinion is worth I say bring it all back. Everything that was given as a pre-release bonus and other items given as featured rewards and all the others stuff. This game has changed so much especially after the TRIBBLE F2P conversion that such things lost any functional value and are nostalgic at best for the ol' timers.
I'm all about player options and fun and speaking just for myself a decade of exclusivity for all those pre-release items and well over half a decade on the other stuff has been more than enjoyable and I absolutely got my shiny and dare I say elite as well as I'm special thrill value out of them. It is time for a new generation of players to experience the same fun I say!
^So this, have been a Beta player and lifetime since launch with Collector's Edition and I believe to keep new people coming in you need to make this 10 year event the biggest event since launch. If the 10 year event is lackluster, than don't expect this game to see even another 5 years.
Yep! Yep! Redo it all from Day 0! Why not? It would be an industry first and given the current F2P development paradigm it would only add additional monetary, social and dare I say cultural value to arguably very low usage long finished work which is essentially what any truly good Frenegi really wants amiright?
If you are looking for an excellent PvE fleet consider: Omega Combat Division today.
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World of Warcraft, I believe, just set up a server with the original code when they released.
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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.'
Being able to reclaim or get "older" items would help level the playing field in some respects when it comes to certain consoles not being available because you weren't on STO the time the event took place. As far as the grind goes: it is true that you get a "discount" if you have completed a reputation on another character; but, the time it takes to get a new toon running in the reputation system is frustrating at times. Yes, I can under a brand new player being "put through the paces" of learning the reputation system and what each trait does or offers; but, players who have been in the game for a while shouldn't have to deal with a 20 hour cool down on reputation tasks. In my opinion: it should be 8 to 10 hours at most for a cool down. The reason I say this is that many players are in active fleets who run TFOs, missions, etc together as a group. Allowing the reputation system to cool down faster would allow newer toons to be able to "keep up" with their other fleet mates on older toons and also be able to possibly "try out" various traits without having to do a complete TFO or PVP match for those who do PVP. No, I do believe that there should be a time out even for new toons being created by "seasoned" players; but, 20 hours is a bit excessive. Also, I think that event reward tokens should be account bound and not character bound. If you are doing something on one toon: you have stop, switch character because of whatever reason, run the event, and then switch back. STO has TOO MANY things that are character bound when they should be account bound: i.e. Lobi consoles as an example. Yes, I know Lobi is a cash draw because you have to get keys some how to open lockboxes to get the crystals. But, there should be a Lobi Store Reassignment option to allow you to move individual pieces or ALL of your lobi gear to another toon. I know there have been times that I have started a new toon as really wished I could pull a Lobi console for a toon that is not played as often to the new toon. Perhaps a Lobi Bank would be a option. That way you can pull Lobi consoles, weapons, etc from one toon and put them on another toon. I think this would help with the grind issue as well since players can use ship equipment they have already upgraded on newer toons. I have toons now I that I don't play for various reasons; but, I don't want to delete them as they have maxed out consoles and gear; but, can use on another toon. I have been told that the ability to reset a character is something Cryptic will never do: so, it would be at nice to at least let use get that gear from an older toon to a new toon.
I'm hoping for a massive event. New missions, ships and up dated pre order items. I never use mine anymore. They r outdated so fast. Need T6 for the original cryptic designs (deep space science vessels, star cruiser, patrol escort,) and a T6 titan
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I like the kamarag, there is a T3 version and a fleet-only T5(U)
I'm all about player options and fun and speaking just for myself a decade of exclusivity for all those pre-release items and well over half a decade on the other stuff has been more than enjoyable and I absolutely got my shiny and dare I say elite as well as I'm special thrill value out of them. It is time for a new generation of players to experience the same fun I say!
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There is a stock T5 version of each as well that was a reward for an anniversary event. At one point, T5U couldn't be claimed by Romulan's. I don't know if that has changed but I had the T5 claimed on one of my Romulan's back when it was available as a reward for the mission with Yar. Still, the ships are awesome and deserve a T6 and T6U/T6F versions. I would gladly purchase them from the C-Store, if they were made available. Every ship class of the Enterprise needs to be represented at T6 and T6U/T6F.
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 like this ideal a timed rerun as it were. +1 For me on this ideal.
Not that i can effect it in any way but this and reuse maps already made First ESD the shipyards and such several areas that could be used to even run a mission that is no actual mission more like a Endevor you go there pick up a task that at some random point in playing you get the needed item take it back and get a token a counter or what ever. After the amount is reached you get the ship, weapon, trinket and so on.
Have this needed for 100 days or 365 or 600 depending on the item. And lock it to each toon means you would see people loging in to work on several to earn it. Time in game = more need to do things = option to spend money to get gear speed up play and so on.
In the end players can get items if willing to work for it. Cryptic should only need a copy past of the cupon setup to log progress and a small ui change. As to what to get make it like the endevor use in game stuff to effect the progress or random % drop why playing as loot from other tfo's/missions. In the end i see that type of access providing a bonus for everyone but i am guessing some one else has already said this before. And i don't know what the answer was other than i am guessing no as its not in game or on the road map.
For any one reading this sorry for the wall of text i tend to get long winded when typing in or out of game.
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Oooo. that is nice o.o
oh! i had totally forgotten. indeed that would be very interesting to visit this "old" esd, which is nicer than the current one.
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Yep! Yep! Redo it all from Day 0! Why not? It would be an industry first and given the current F2P development paradigm it would only add additional monetary, social and dare I say cultural value to arguably very low usage long finished work which is essentially what any truly good Frenegi really wants amiright?
ingame: @.Spartan
Original Cryptic Forum Name: Spartan (member #124)
The Glorious, Kirk’s Protegè
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.'