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Is there a way to collect the new gold USS Voyager Admiralty card on non Delta recruits?
indyshark
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I was able to claim the USS Voyager on my old Delta Recruit, but not on my other toons. Is there a way to do this?
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This is all the announcement says:
It doesn't specify that it's account wide, but many (like me) assumed it would be since every other Admiralty Card recruitment reward has always been account wide.
Hoping it's an oversight that will be fixed, but of course getting an answer out of Cryptic is just about impossible. I guess we'll find out next patch, but right now it looks to be a reward for the Delta Recruit only, which absolutely sucks.
Hopefully indyshark is correct & it will be made available to other non-Delta recruits via Phoenix or something not too price-gouging.
gold Admiralty cards are ALL or Nothing type things to me, 3 cant have it if all 15 cant.
Seriously? I find that hard to imagine...
This was my assumption as well, but Cryptic has been silent on this, so as always we're just left to guess.
That seems a bit excessive.
Of course, even before this, my characters all had different sets of Admiralty cards - characters with lockbox/lobi/reward-pack ships had the card while everyone else didn't. (Pre-"Fly Anything!")Fed characters didn't have KDF or Rom, KDF didn't have Fed or Rom, etc. The ones who searched out that ship in sector space had it, the other alts didn't. The ones who had done missions that awarded cards had them, the others didn't. Leveling reward ships were only on the specific characters who got them while leveling. Etc.
So, yeah - characters not all having the same set of Admiralty cards is pretty much how the system has been since it began.
(that said, all the other Recruit Reward cards were account-wide, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was fixed in the future.)
I've got a ton of characters, and doing admiralty on them, I go through ships expecting to find certain ones when I see certain missions. If I want to slot a certain card and its not there, then I end up scratching my head, double check the roster, and then head to the shipyard if it is one of those that needs to be manually claimed. On the flip side to that, those characters that have a box ship and the card, they may as well not exist, because I can't remember this particular character has that one card none of the rest have that would be useful in a certain admiralty mission.
Basically, when you get used to using a certain card for certain types of missions, it throws you for a loop when you find out you don't have that card on a character.
Sooo...you didn't do admiralty at all before Fed & KDF could fly Romulan ships, and now everyone can fly everyone?
*puts helmet on*
Voyager is strictly a Delta Recruit reward and currrently NOT account unlock, so only Deltas can have her.
I don't know if that will change in the future or not but... there ya go.
No need for the helmet.. Killing the messenger isn’t really our style.
I would say I was disappointed, but my expectations were low to begin with so I just don’t care anymore. It’s just such a silly and nonsensical decision that all I can do at this point is laugh.
Thanks for passing it on.
Sure.. that would be a great option for people that didn't do the recruitment event. It's silly that those who did would still have to resort to the Phoenix box for alts. Especially when every other recruitment event that offered Admiralty Cards offered them account wide.
It's literally just an arbitrary decision made with no rhyme or reason at all. Not a big deal, it's just an admiralty card and hardly the end of the world.. but silly nonetheless.
That probably means Cryptic already had a plan to somehow monetize the Voyager Admiralty Card using some currency for all our other toons.
At least now we know. Thanks, rattler2, for enduring the tinfoil helmet.
I mean, really, a RARE Admiralty Card.
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 they plan to introduce it to Phoenix, along with a few other limited Rewards in time?
Can't really be certain, I just try to do what I can.
It will be part of a Mudd's Store bundle with extra stuff you don't want tacked on.
This exactly. Folk seemed to have missed that the KDF Recruits have their OWN J'Ula's BoP Admiralty Card that was also Character Locked.
The J'Ula BoP Admiralty card is account unlocked if you mean "J'ula's Right Hand Bird-of-Prey (T6)" that has 40/28/40 stats.
The Voyager Admiralty Card probably should've been made to be account-unlock achievable.
Now I would agree with them eventually adding it for non Deltas to get, but I'm not going to assume anything nefarious. MMOs have had exclusive items for events and stuff in the past. While STO has moved away from that years ago, perhaps they decided that in this case having at least one exclusive item would make creating a Delta Recruit more desirable.
Luckily I already have 3 that met the requirements to get said Admiralty Card, so... its honestly just a wait and see. Perhaps after Delta is done they may consider ways to unlock Voyager account wide. But again I am not just going to automatically assume pure greed as the driving force.
I can ask Kael more about the Admiralty Card, and if there are plans to make it an account unlock down the road, but the last word I got is what I relayed earlier.
I am inclined to agree, the per character reward does nothing to encourage making a Delta Recruit, at least not for me anyway. I already have one, he’s max level, I have had him since the original event. Once this rerun dropped I just went in with him and claimed my reward. There is no reason for me to make yet another Delta Recruit now, if I did I would still only get the card for that one guy. It does nothing to encourage Vets to make a new DR, I won’t make some new character just to get him or her a character specific reward that doesn’t benefit the rest of my account, I don’t think anyone would.
There are some recruits that have per character rewards, yes.. the Klingon Recruits for example got the UR Energy Weapons officer just for them so it’s not the first time we have seen something like this, it’s just the first we have seen of it with an Admiralty Card. The trend to this point was that Admiralty Cards were account wide hence the disappointment with the change. I don’t personally feel that one extra admiralty card makes the recruit ‘special’ but apparently, Cryptic sees it differently.
Not every Admiralty card is account wide BTW - for example: You need to fly every character individually to the USS Sally Ride to the that Admiralty card awarded on the character. So there is a precedent for not every card being 'account wide'; or having specific steps each character on the account has to go through.
They may have decided the Voyager card is a actual Delta recruit character only card.
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Nowhere has anyone said "every Admiralty card is account wide", but "every recruitment Admiralty card so far has been account wide", so bringing up the Sally Ride, which is not connected to any recruitment or any other event, makes little to no sense.
As for the Voyager card, tbh while I hoped it would be account wide, I'm not surprised that it's not.
We'll see it either in the Phoenix Store or in the Mudd's Market for some absurd prices.
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- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
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