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It would be nice to be able to make a Discovery Era character for the TOS recruitment event. It's nearly the same time frame as TOS and they are currently the only ones that have no recruitment event available.
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The temporal recruitment event centers around interference by the Temporal Liberation front with enemy factions themed to the AOY expansion (where the recruitment event launched). Ie. being in the same general time frame doesn't actually help because what we do isn't related to 23c. These story points are capitalized on by later missions like Core of the Matter which riffs on more Na'Kuhl interference with TOS visual settings. The recruitment objectives are additive worldbuilding specifically to the TOS arc and AOY expansion. DSC characters are pushed forward in time but for completely different reasons and with completely different points of story connectivity, outside Daniel's handwaving the paperwork and orientation to 2409. Give them Na'Kuhl devices to track down and what you've added is a tangent that complicates the presentation of their initial arc that new players have to juggle along with everything else the DSC arc is on about. Ie. it's not good story telling.
Plus, hooking up recruitment objectives is a big task and that effort would be better spent with a new DSC recruitment event, the opportunity for which will come if they ever get another species option (in the same mold as the Klingon recruitment event). See. DSC Andorian or Kelpian. Ie. don't settle for a compromise when choice A is still on the table.
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yep, J'Ula is their villain, therefore they should have an recruitment event related to tracking down J'Ula, however Klingon recruitment is the closest thing to a potential DSC Recruitment event.
There are good ways of getting a DSC recruitment event, but trying to super glue the TOS/ENT/Na'kuhl themed AoY event onto the DSC narrative isn't such a way.
IMO that makes it a model to use for the objectives/premise. It's a new event otherwise. You can't re-use KDF for the DSC given the reward theme (simply not appropriate) and episodes involved (no access to KDF intro arc). That means you're not saving on any real dev effort. But at least the "what does this thing at the most basic level look like" is answered.
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Yep.
The game actually forces you down to the level of the missions as well, which means a level 65 player repeating "Battle of Caleb IV" will be playing it as a level 9 character.
(XP boosts don't seem to kick in on that mission line either.)
Yes, that is when you get it. It sort of makes sense since the devs would have wanted to point out the fact that the Temporal agent contacts are there back when it was something completely new.