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Cross-faction consoles need to remain available
fleetcaptain5
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If I'm not mistaken, cross-faction consoles packages were removed from the infinity lockboxes. The reason for this is that Klingon and Federation ships can now be played by all characters - and their consoles thus obtained through the C-store.
What was either overlooked or ignored, is that many of the consoles available through these packages, have never been available through other means than those packages. You can't buy a poloymorphic probe array, a plasma wave or a sticky web console through the C-store.
These consoles were cheap ways, especially for newer players, to basically add another tactical console to your ship. It helped make certain builds viable on ships that don't have that many tac console slots. Besides that, some could find them to be fun to use.
They need to be made accessible again. Already, their prices are increasing and supply on the Exchange is clearly diminishing - it'll likely be only a matter of time before they become too expensive and inaccessible for the average player.
Yes, the alien consoles can still be obtained by buying the ships or maybe by opening the old lock boxes that they first appeared in. But the ships are way to expensive (no one should be expected to pay a couple of hundreds of millions of EC when the consoles used to cost only a couple of million EC) to be purchased just to get a console. And the old lock boxes also suffer from diminishing supply issues since they no longer drop.
Please consider putting the alien consoles in the C-store, the Phoenix store or re-add cross-faction console packages to the infinity box drop table, if necessary without the Klingon- and Federation-specific consoles.
What was either overlooked or ignored, is that many of the consoles available through these packages, have never been available through other means than those packages. You can't buy a poloymorphic probe array, a plasma wave or a sticky web console through the C-store.
These consoles were cheap ways, especially for newer players, to basically add another tactical console to your ship. It helped make certain builds viable on ships that don't have that many tac console slots. Besides that, some could find them to be fun to use.
They need to be made accessible again. Already, their prices are increasing and supply on the Exchange is clearly diminishing - it'll likely be only a matter of time before they become too expensive and inaccessible for the average player.
Yes, the alien consoles can still be obtained by buying the ships or maybe by opening the old lock boxes that they first appeared in. But the ships are way to expensive (no one should be expected to pay a couple of hundreds of millions of EC when the consoles used to cost only a couple of million EC) to be purchased just to get a console. And the old lock boxes also suffer from diminishing supply issues since they no longer drop.
Please consider putting the alien consoles in the C-store, the Phoenix store or re-add cross-faction console packages to the infinity box drop table, if necessary without the Klingon- and Federation-specific consoles.
[4:46] [Combat {self}] Your Haymaker deals 23337 (9049) Physical Damage(Critical) to Spawnmother
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
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^ this
Throw in a little player greed and dilithium exchange being near or at cap...bam you got the situation
Do you think people care about new players? All they care about is old players buying their new recruits these items. New players don't have much EC so they don't matter...plus Devs would be all too happy if they opened their wallets to make everything easier
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Infinity_Prize_Pack:_Cross-Faction_or_Salvaged_Console
It's the same pack. Klingon, Federation and all the other consoles came from the same package, which has been removed from the infinity box.
Which is especially problematic for the consoles near the bottom of the list on that wiki-page, since they are only available from discontinued boxes now.
Yes, the consoles are still available. For now. Because there may be some players who still had some packs lying around. But what I'm pointing out here, is that supply has dried up. There is no influx of new consoles. Anyone who wants to get a Polymorphic probe array a couple of months from now will likely have to spend unreasonable amounts of EC or get his hands on some discontinued Herald boxes and open those.
They're not even available from ships as I mistakenly assumed. That means supply is not just limited temporarily, but permanently.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
New players certainly don't have the tens of millions of EC that these consoles will soon cost.
They used to cost a couple of million EC. That's doable, everyone can get that amount with a few days of endeavours. If greed is anyone's concern, they should oppose this change because it's only good for those who have these retired packages and who will soon make a fortune out of a single console - it's bad for the rest of the players.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
Also, I may be wrong about all of this. I'm basing this thread on this announcement:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11483253-command-any-ship
which is not very clear. Either they entirely removed the 'Cross-faction or Salvaged console' pack that could be obtained from the Infinity box, or they only removed some consoles that were inside that pack.
If anyone can confirm that they can still get a polymorphic probe array or a sticky web console for example, from the infinity box, all is fine. If not, they need to address this issue.)
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
Ok, but does the pack that rewards these consoles also still drop when you open an infinity box?
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
Yes.
Ok, that's good to know. Thank you.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.