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baddmoonrizin
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The Experimental Ship Upgrade path has opened even further. Now you can apply more tokens to your ships, and get even more device, console, and trait slots!
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11553083
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11553083
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Would have preferred it being only one token to go through each level. This proposed system could get expensive when we're talking T6-X3+ etc.
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It is bad to see that Cryptic uses Beer Math to come up with the token costs per upgrade.
Upgrading a T6 ship to T6-X requires 1 Experimental Ship Upgrade Token
Upgrading a T6 ship to T6-X2 requires 2 Experimental Ship Upgrade Token
Upgrading a T6-X ship to T6-X2 requires 1 Experimental Ship Upgrade Token
Fixed it for ya!
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HARD PASS! Costs enough for the single tokens as it is, not gonna waste my time trying to get 2 for what only 1 gives me.
At least, it's not yet another different thing to buy to improve your stuff.
We'll just use the old tokens most people have a few extra of and they will look out for themselves and stifle it.
Whatever I'm glad their isn't a new token... I also assume like Tx6 this is an account unlock. It doesn't specifically say it is.
If its using the same system, then yes it will be account wide.
I assume so as well... but it makes me wonder when they don't mention a fairly important selling point.
Its coming with the Incursion update on Sept 12. It's not in game yet.
> Its coming with the Incursion update on Sept 12. It's not in game yet.
to be fair they did use the language "now" in the post so I thought the same thing and stared at the Manage Ships person very angrily lmao
(It makes perfect sense to me that we pay a higher price to get the extra stuff, so I don't see why folks are complaining over this.
After all, it's just exactly the same in most other MMO's!)
I can't help wondering though, given all the attempts to allow T5 ships to remain competitive, firstly with T5-U and then T5-X, do they get the chance to go to T5-X2 as well? If not, it's quite disappointing...
We fight them too. Entire armies spilling out of Volkswagens.
We do our best to fight them off, but they keep sending them in.
Agreed. This new upgrade is too expensive.
BTW: When does this go live? Because I can't apply an upgrades to my T6-X ships, but everything is worded as if this is already available in the game.
Thanks. I read that the first time, then forgot and didn't see it again when I skimmed through it.
Yeah...it's totally greedy of them to throw so many free upgrade tokens at us on a regular basis as well eh!? They probably make literally next to nothing with C-Store token sales because they have been so generous. SMH
> I really don't think limiting players to an even smaller selection of ships they can realistically have at the highest power level is a good idea.
It's possible that this might discourage people from buying new ships because of the expense of upgrading to max (1 fleet ship module and 2 upgrade tokens).
However I doubt it'll have a massive effect, as most players probably only buy a small handful of ships max, and there are plenty enough upgrade tokens to cover that.
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We fight them too. Entire armies spilling out of Volkswagens.
We do our best to fight them off, but they keep sending them in.
Say a new player comes into the game and they really like X ship. So, they buy it from the C-Store for 3000 zen. Then, they find out there is a fleet version - so they're up to 3500 zen. Then, they find out they have to upgrade it twice more with 3 X tokens - meaning they find out they have to pay 5500 zen for that ship. Telling a new player they have to pay $55USD to fly an un-gimped version of the ship they enjoy is probably going to be a pretty hard sell. They're being nickle-and-dimed for almost the entire cost of the T6 ship by itself. (It gets even worse if that player wants a promo ship.. and learns they have to shell out even more to fully upgrade it once they do actually manage to obtain "one".)
Obviously, it's less of an issue for established players, and I suspect the exponential upgrade cost is aimed at this demograph who are sitting on piles of upgrade tokens at this point. However, it is still a pretty alarming price hike if you're looking at it from the lens of the C-Store/zen cost. If the exponential upgrade cost continues, it's going to get very ugly, very quickly.
I mean 2 tokens for yet another trait slot is worth it, alone. Let alone another console slot. You know how insanely broken ships have already become with the the amount of ship trait/console slots we have now? Yet another ship trait and console is bonkers.
It's the same in almost all other MMO's out there that further unlocks tend to cost more.
What we should be worrying about is the pattern that's started here. Will it be:
or
Also when does this roll out, i cant seam to upgrade past the T-6X i have a number of T-6X but there are some i want to go further with.
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