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Possible Dil sink idea - vanity transporters
flintl0ck33
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I noticed that with the new temporal recruit that they have unified the transporter effects for beaming. This made me wonder about having a slot on the ship to go with deflector , shields etc.. that would allow you to choose your away team beam effect. I have never liked that depending on you away team selection, you beam up with different transporter effects.
They could sell these per character for dilithium and players could choose the One that best suits the ship and / story that applied to them
They could sell these per character for dilithium and players could choose the One that best suits the ship and / story that applied to them
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WoW might have spare developers they can assign to "would be nice" tasks but STO has a much much smaller team.
At my work (not Cryptic) some of us have 100+ item long task queues, with the "would be nice" ones forever getting pushed lower as newer more important tasks get added.
This is speculation:
Dil sink = invent new ways to give pure F2P players a chance to get C-Store items paid for by paying players who want more dil.
Endless sales = cash directly from those paying players based on selling them things they already want
The dil sinks do benefit Cryptic so they probably do want them, but the sales are an easier and faster way to get the money.
"Why not both?" is probably on their to-do list, but keeping the paying players happy with new stories, TFOs, events and ships to buy to play them with is likely a much higher priority because it pays off better for them.
Demanding that they stop the sales is effectively like asking them to stop ALL progress in game to fix all the bugs. Its not possible because
A: STO is an MMO, a constantly evolving creature of a game. The next time something is updated or added, a bug can occure. So there is no such thing as a bug free MMO.
B: Funds are needed to keep the game running in the first place.
Just because they don't just snap their fingers like Q and solve the problem instantly doesn't mean they're not working on it. They have to assess what can be done, balance it with other factors in consideration, and also see how effective it is.
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Pretty much my thoughts. I've also noticed that as they've gotten more celeb VAs, the player character's importance to the story has dropped significantly. That is not a good thing.
This is absolute fantasy. They can't just click their fingers and have a viable Dil sink appear. They ARE working on something, but it will take time.
This. Add to that the fact that ever time they've introduced such an alleged sink, they've run yet another sale, rendering it moot.
No such thing, you cannot just copy and paste between two different engines. And starting up a game on a new engine takes almost as much time, effort, and money as making an entirely new game.
That's because it's tied to your character's faction, not your boffs faction.
The first three Kelvin Timeline ships override faction warp out effects. At least that's true of everything but Discovery. I'll have to try on a DSC character.
However... the ONLY thing that changes with say a Kelvin Connie is the warp trail and warp flash. Compared to the normal TNG style used by normal Feds, its an incredably minor alteration because we go to a more particle based warp trail rather than the solid, and the flash is round vs diamond shaped.
Pretty much just a ship based reskin of the normal TNG warp out.
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But I respawn
I am duranium!
THAT SAID, you do hear the 25th century sounds first in addition to the nacelles occasionally glowing blue for a split second.
Even if it's hardwired, it can get overriden anyway, but it comes with a few hiccups.
And there is the transwarp spore-drive effect of the Crossfield.
Well... they did recreate the Wrath of Khan transporter effect with the Genesis Device. But yea... there aren't that many effects. Theoretically they could make several Fed variations beyond the TOS, DSC, and Voyager styles as TNG had a different one, Enterprise had a different one, and the movies had a different one. But there would be nowhere as many options as the vanity shields.
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Sometimes, it's gigantic ships on the space maps that are quickly fixed, but other times, it's VFX that take MUCH more time to be fixed... if they get fixed.
I've kinda only seen that in Sector Space.
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I've seen that on certain ships. I've also noticed some ships have transwarp effects that are not scaled to the ship.
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I suspect that the Q transport effect isn't overriding the default transporter effect, but rather that it uses the ground version of the "transwarp" hook and that it is set to the Q flash on all factions.
Amen +10! The Player captain should be the star of STO, not the guest stars. Basically all your character does is stand around and agree.
But that's not a new problem. That was one of the major complaints about Tovan Khev. He ran your ship, and you just stood by and nodded. Because he had a voice actor, and you didn't.
If the Devs would stop focusing on voices, and pay more attention to writing quality, it would be a better game. A MUCH better game.
Eh, I never noticed such a problem with Tovan.