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C-Store idea: Change Captain's Species Token

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
So I've been playing a bajoran tactical officer. I've gotten her upto Captain 1 and then suddenly decided I wasn't really into the whole bajoran thing. The funny part is that this is how most of my 'alts' are made. Often I get sick of a species and end up wanting to re-roll my character to my new fad for the month. Luckly I've gotten most of these impulses under control and as such I have 1 VA eng, 1 captain KDF Sci off, 1 captain SF Tac officer and now a commander SF sci officer. The truth is though I'd have a VA of every class and almost every faction if I could just buy a c-store token which allowed me to change my toon's species.

With that said I'd like to petition Atari and Cryptic, could this be made available for us via the c-store. Changing a characters name is a huge identity switch so why not your species or even your gender. Infact you could create a 'package' deal that allows players to redesign their characters all at once, just add up the cost of each token and there ya go.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    They've been talking about this for a while.

    I'm pretty sure it's already in development. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    would be cool.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    As much I would like it, I would not support this.

    STO is already forgiving enough. You get to Rename & Retrain already. If we see a re-species, I would expect a re-career and re-gender soon after.

    What will be the incentive to create a new character and keep people playing for months, to financialy support the game?

    I feel some choices should be permenant.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    jkstocbr wrote:
    As much I would like it, I would not support this.

    STO is already forgiving enough. You get to Rename & Retrain already. If we see a re-species, I would expect a re-career and re-gender soon after.

    What will be the incentive to create a new character and keep people playing for months, to financialy support the game?

    I feel some choices should be permenant.

    That's what the C-Store is for. :p

    As an aside; we lifers have given all we are going to give with the exception of C-Store purchases, so really there is no incentive for people in that category other than the C-Store.

    So something like this would be great. I only would hope that it would come with a rename as well.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    jkstocbr wrote:
    As much I would like it, I would not support this.

    STO is already forgiving enough. You get to Rename & Retrain already. If we see a re-species, I would expect a re-career and re-gender soon after.

    What will be the incentive to create a new character and keep people playing for months, to financialy support the game?

    I feel some choices should be permenant.

    Why not give them the choice? Maybe initially they wanted to play as X race for a month or 2, decided they did not like that and want to be another race?

    Changing race I support.

    Changing your class however, in STO...I don't know about that. I can't really see a need to want to change our class unless you were completely oblivious to what that class was about.

    Changing sex, eh, don't really care about this. If you want to change your sex on your STO character, why not?

    It all goes towards financing STO anyways.

    I hate to bring up WoW, but they're pretty much on top of doing Microtransactions along with a subscription. Race, Faction, name, gender & server. The only thing they don't have(and most likely won't) is class change, but that's for pretty obvious reasons. STO isn't as restrictive with the items as WoW is.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I would like to see this eventually as well but I do understand both sides of it. If Cryptic decided against it, it wouldn't bother me one bit.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    A re-race would be excellent, i had many characters fairly far developed by the time i first start checking out the c-store, because of this i never picked up any new races since it would have required deleting other characters and starting a fresh in their char slot!

    If we magically got re-race/trait tokens i would instantly go and grab a bunch of cstore races and remake all my characters!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    i would support this, ive found i like the alien race creator alot more since i can redesign my character after my own ideas.

    so a c-store race change would be a nice addition.
    if we are to look at some concerns that has been brought up, then they could make it have a 2 month cooldown before you could do it again.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    T-child wrote: »
    i would support this, ive found i like the alien race creator alot more since i can redesign my character after my own ideas.

    so a c-store race change would be a nice addition.
    if we are to look at some concerns that has been brought up, then they could make it have a 2 month cooldown before you could do it again.

    Why would you give someone an artificial limitation like that? Paying to change your race is its own limitation. If you don't have the money, you can't do it. I see no real need to put in place a CD like that.
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