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When they aren't making money on it anymore. The thing is, the number of people playing the game isn't representative of the number of people giving them money. A small number of people pump unholy amounts of cash into the system aka "whales", and THOSE people probably don't even care about the queues because they have…
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What sort of game forbids and censors negative feedback in their community, to the extent that people are forced to make an active effort to post while moderators are away just to be heard? You don't have to answer. Just think about it for a bit.
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I spent an evening downloading DR. Fired up the game. After finding out with shock and horror that all my super expensive lobi/lockbox ships are now in the same not-T6 trash tier as everything else, I fired up ISE just to warm up. Or whatever ISE is called nowadays. Imagine how much fun I had, how excited I was to find…
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Already working on it. I wasn't paying much attention to STO since I played last campaign missions, and this time around, with Cryptic kicking me in the teeth and obsoleting everything I played over a year for, I don't have any incentive to participate even that much.
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This is a very insightful thing. Moving the goal posts away from players is one of the most demoralizing things ever.
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NEW lockbox ships will be. We're talking about the old ones. But, I don't see any incentive to spend that much for a single character-bound ship if it isn't an investment. Come back in a year, if the game lives that long there will be T7 you can just get one of those for a lot less than a "special" T6 lockbox ship.
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You're sending mixed signals here.
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Let's raise the dilithium refining cap to 10K per day. You have to pay 30$ to unlock this service. Everybody who has a lifetime sub will get a Free Upgrade to 9K per day. Their initial investment is, after all, old and obsolete so they don't deserve the full package. This is what you are arguing for. My point on the other…
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Mirror ships are cheap as chips. I am referring to the "grand prize" ships when I say lockbox ships, like the Galor, D'kora, Heavy Escort Carrier, etc. Especially time-limited or otherwise crazy rare ones like the Jem'hadar Attack Ship and Voth Dreadnaught. I'm sorry if this was not clear.
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I'm not even talking about the new ones. (facepalm) Apparently I am vastly outnumbered by whales that enjoy buying disposable things over and over instead of being able to invest in nice things for the long term. I sense a lot of Stockholm Syndrome in you lot. That's assuming any of you even have a valid opinion on the…
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Would you ever invest that much in another ship, if you knew that Cryptic will arbitrarily yank the rug out from under you at some point in the future?
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So your T5-Mediocre ship has ship traits, intel officers, and other things that a T6 ship should have? If no: it's not better. It's not comparable.
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If you're going to come in and say this idea is silly, tell us how many lockbox or lobi ships you own. And no, "mirror universe" ships don't count. You seem to be missing something; some people get such ships "cheap" with good rolls, and other people have to invest a lot more due to bad rolls. Don't act like the randomness…
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I was going to come and complain about this actually. Advanced takes several times longer than the old Elite, they're harder to do because now the optionals aren't optional, and to top it off, we get kicked in the teeth at the reward screen.
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While you're waiting for censorship be delivered, assess how you would think about a hypothetical game where posting valid criticism is not allowed because it apparently comes up too "frequently".
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I find it deeply amusing that several of you have elected to attack my post based on whether or not it constitutes a declaration of quittingness and thus should not be allowed to be said, instead of trying to refute the points I raised. This kind of censorship is a strong symptom of a game community that is deeply…
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What you just described is the literal definition of Pay2Win, and needs to die in a fire.
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A better analogy: in order to be eligible to win the Pulitzer, you also have to have already won a Nobel. The two awards have absolutely nothing to do with eachother, but for some reason somebody decided they should be connected. Owning a Bug doesn't let you fly a Dreadnaught, and owning a Dreadnaught doesn't let you fly a…
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Probably because if non-damaging Science powers were boosted to the level that they were as useful as raw DPS for running PVE missions, the PVP people would cry bitter tears about being debuffed and disabled and crowd controlled so that highest spike DPS doesn't automatically win. Wait, what? People complains for years…
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Elite scorpions are MUCH superior for fighting the Borg, and fighting against anybody else gets fighters murdered wholesale. Which is why I want the frigates that I am supposed to have.
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Probably the same person who said STO was real life and should be run as such, i.e. an idiot. Let me know when you find that person so we can mock them. :)
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Lieutenant? (Sir?) The universal translator seems to be malfunctioning. Get a team to run a full check on it. Nope. Tholian Recluse also has two types of carrier pets, and it gets to use both kinds when you own the ship. Jem Dreadnaught situation still unfair.
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Thanks for those pointed out the change in name, this functionality is indeed now part of the "Omega Graviton whutsit" trait. As for why nobody is cranking out AKs to fight the Borg, there is no logical reason. Lack of mass production is a pathetic attempt to rationalize this obvious oversight, in a canon where people can…
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Cryptic murdered the EC market. Fleet gear replaced selling rare drops, since nothing that drops was as good as fleet gear. They butchered Touring The Galaxy as an EC source. They started adding more and more really great duty officers, which come from "packs" and cannot be farmed. Basically everything that high level…
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I haven't played STO in a few months. And honestly I see no reason to come back despite my massive time investment to the game. New season? A new lockbox that will require grind to earn keys for, a few new ships that will require epic grind to buy off the exchange, a new reputation that will require grind to rank up and…
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Personally I try to steer clear of anything that has a chance of happening. I would rather have a good ship that is RELIABLY good than a ship which can hypothetically be better but only when the dice roll in my favor. These would have to do something like: 100% chance to gain bonus magnitude on any shield healing ability:…
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Melee weapons are indeed insanely effective on Borg. The Borg's greatest advantage (hax) is their ridiculously strong shields and proper melee weapons have 80% shield penetration. The bat'leth and lirpa are more complicated really all you need to know for swords is to mash your primary attack. The 1-1-1 combo does: *…
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I'd be more inclined toward consoles that give special super-pets. My suggestion was to make a C-store variation of the Vo'quv carrier that has a console which spawns a Vor'cha. However, in order to actually be a gameplay feature, Cryptic would have to stop making console abilities suck: The vast majority of consoles that…
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Does it seem to anybody else like there's been a lot of threads these past few weeks trying to get people interested in PVP? Is there some kind of pyramid scheme that launched? For every 5 fresh meat you recruit to the PVP community you get 100 zen?
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Science captain in a Recluse is a great mix for being the mensch of your team. As others have said, the ship is incredibly tough and the Mesh Weaver pets are near the top of the list if they aren't the best in the game. I don't know if APB stacks in the way you think it stacks, but stuff definitely dies faster when there's…