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Star Trek Online crafting System needs more choices from different Eras
nightsnake3
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Why can't we craft Weapons, Science Components and Engineering Components Technology from the 2270 era for a TOS Characters.
if we have Discovery era characters we should be able to craft their Technology and Equipment from 2256.
these crafting systems shouldn't look the same.
if we have Discovery era characters we should be able to craft their Technology and Equipment from 2256.
these crafting systems shouldn't look the same.
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You can get TOS items from the exchange and Fleet Starbase K13 already. DSC items are also available from the exchange. There's just no need to rush putting them in crafting, but it would be nice to have craftable Omni's. Your easiest route however is to buy the items on TOS and DSC toons before you transit to 2409 and transfer them.
TOS Phasers were originally tied to the T1 Connie and one time travel story episode, but since TOS characters can buy mark 1 white now I agree we should be able to craft TOS gear.
It would be better to characters to choose the version they want though: a TOS captain might want modern Phasers on their new ship.
Also TOS era weapons can also drop from anything TOS related.
We should be able to at least craft TOS equipment with a TOS toon or character cause that would make sense in their era.
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I buy lock box weapons just for the visuals, to fit a theme. Since Space Barbie is the real endgame my guess is that I'm not alone in that.
Being able to get Vaadwaur Polaron or Herald AP visuals for free would cost Cryptic sales, so no chance of that happening.
Sure, you could leave your toon in that era indefinitely and grind up to high level. But that's not intended. So it makes sense that it's also not intended for them to have decent crafting abilities while in the past.
I really do wish they would allow toons from the various "eras" the ability to craft equipment of/from those eras. It would also give an incentive for players to roll up toons for the ability to make such equipment.
The whole STO story conceit (which is not enforced by the Devs anyway) and we HAVE characters and ships from all the eras running around the STO universe and the continue to create and sell ships from the various eras) that as soon as a character form a different era hits the 24th century, he/she/it adopts 24th century uniforms and ships to 'fit in' and 'not contaminate the timeline' is ridiculous because honestly, most don't.
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Type: Beam Array
Damage: Phaser
Visual: TNG (default STO type), TOS, DSC
Can also do this for disruptors as well. And to a lesser extent Plasma. And Plasma Torpedos would have the default and TOS options as well.
Isn't the default plasma torp look already "TOS style" apart from the color (plasma torps in TOS were red while the in-game ones are green), since in TNG the rom torps (when shown) were photon torps set to green.
EDIT:that said I wouldn't mind a selection for visual styles, at least for the different main eras (as some energy types have countless visual styles).
"Apart from the color" is a huge difference if you want to match an era's visuals.
TOS Phasers are blue. Orange isn't "almost the same"
As for the console I can't say atm as the wiki is essentially down due to leading to a "accept cookies" promt you cannot dismiss.
EDIT:I checked the T'varo (the T1 version) in-game and it doesn't say anything about having a torp console, The T6 maybe I can't check that.
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I would be satisfied with characters crafting things with the appropriate looks for their particular era even without a choice dropdown, it just makes sense that way. Or if they did have a choice having a simple toggle for 2410 or their native style.
In the case of Klingons that would take a new sound effect at least (they had that kind of rising wail sound similar to Herald beams on overload when they showed any sound at all), and they could use the ferengenar plasma cannon visuals with maybe a slightly different shade of green. The magnetic pulse weapon just looked (and probably acted) like that white bubble that one of the confuse science powers (I forget which at the moment) produces ingame so that not an issue.
Actually TOS phasers are at different times (or settings most likely) different colors with the blue being the most used (though the remastered ones may be different and just use blue instead). Just behind that is red (they used the red beams to kill Vaal and destroy Apollo's temple for instance), and while they never showed green beams firing from the ship itself, in "A Piece of the Action" they produced a green pulse of light on the ground when set to area stun (which is the same as the handheld phasers btw, they make a green flash and "yelp" noise on the equivalent setting).
The real world reason was that they used several different sfx houses to do the effects in order to get everything done in time and they all interpreted the instructions in their own way, but one of the better theories for it in-setting wise is blue for disintegrate, red for heat, and green for stun (though it is not that consistent in the show itself). The way the compositors were set up though it was easiest to produce pure red, green, or blue, the TNG orange (which I am not a fan of) would have been an expensive pain in the rear to produce at that time.
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Ideally however since TOS and discovery gear treated as standard gear they should be added to R&D, adding them would only take a few minutes, since they are adding existing in-game items to the R&D menus as for the requirements they just need to copy the requirements of the existing gear and add them to the discovery and TOS gear.
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