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Yup all your fault, you terrible person! No seriously, it should be obvious that these threads attract engagement from those that desperately want PvP in STO to fail and die. There's no denying STO PVP isn't in a great place, but when someone like you comes along and tries to breathe some more life into it you get the…
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You seem triggered that these things do exist in the game, why is that? If those things didn't exist Cryptic wouldn't release traits and consoles behind paywalls that are obviously targeted to such players. Combined with "space barbie" stuff that's where the money comes from for Cryptic. Look people talk about pay-to-win,…
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I'm not sure I agree with this statement. I suppose it's determined by your definition of winning. If winning to you is cruising through PvE content and having fun, then the statement holds true (You could do that with a T3 ship and random drop gear). But really "winning" infers competition, and in the aspects of STO where…
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Yeah the best Endeavor Arena matches are those that have a mix of players on both sides. Even still it could be greatly improved if the system didn't essentially reward players for repeatably destroying the weakest players on the other team. Having a system where as the match progresses a players performance determines the…
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Well like most things Cryptic sells it's better to buy in a bundle and during a sale. In which case it would be 650 Zen per character, which isn't nearly as far off what you think it's worth than 1500 zen. That said I agree this isn't a good move by Cryptic, it adds nothing to the game. Just a pure vertical power boost for…
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A fair bit to unpack here... I think our use of the word interest isn't all that divergent. You have an interest in not seeing more PvP content added to the game, because one you don't like it and two you feel (probably correctly) that there's very limited dev resources and you want a larger slice of that pie for the…
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The MMOs that are built from the ground up around PvP are far and few between, and all had their own problems. And PvP games that aren't MMOs are completely different game play in most cases. Everyone has their own preferences as to what they enjoy, I don't think any are more valid choices of entertainment. Even though I…
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OPer is talking about Warzones, not the Arena which you could already join from anywhere.
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I don't think this change would create any appreciable increase in participation, just convenience for those who already participate. Although I could see potentially negative unintended consequences as well given it would allow easy fast reinforcements. STO is always going to struggle with PvP participation numbers, and…
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I'm sorry but I think this is a flawed idea. The biggest problem is this notion of "fairness", essentially it's already "fair" everyone can access whatever gear, ships, traits they want if they work towards it. People will often say PvP is "pay-to-win" but that is isn't really true, if you actually play the game over time…
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Totally Agree, Cryptic should sell single Legendary Ships, with an extra ship slot, and the upgrade token as an option. But they would also have to make it more expensive relative to the big bundles. I don't mind this latest legendary bundle so much, I may buy it just for the traits (ships are too slow for my liking). But…
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Your describing the classic problem of all MMORPGs. How to allow a player like yourself to have ways to keep advancing your character without creating ridiculous power creep over time. I suppose many would argue the power creep ship sailed long ago in STO, but I'd still like to try not to make things even worse. Your right…
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I guess you could tie Vortas into it somehow, but my idea has little in common with Gamma Recruits. Gamma recruits start at level 60, pushing the player into the existing "end game" more rapidly. My idea makes the earlier part of the game far more challenging, and delaying the character from reaching the existing "end…
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Well if you had fun you can't really say you did anything wrong. I couldn't give a PVE build for the Oberth let alone a PvP one. You joined the Arena "solo duo" match, I wish more people would do that. Cryptic should guide people to that ground and space PVP match for these endeavors rather than the standard one where you…
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Your whole account benefits from all sorts of things from these recruitment events, not sure why the Endeavor system has to be singled out as some sort of exception. I would also think that someone who's prone to "lose track of time and are having fun" while playing STO would care that much about their recruit progress or…
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If it was a ship I really liked and my played characters would actually use I would buy it with my stored up Zen. but I have no played Fed characters and don't fly Fed ships, so clearly no in this case of the Nova. Might have considered the Legendary B'rel if it was packaged alone. Also, the level to 65 thing is completely…
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Yup, Int and pilot (double Int team, double APL, plus Exitus) is my favorite combination. While it's more a PvP setup it works great for PvE as well, perhaps better since there's ways for players to overcome the combo, but AI isn't going to adapt. Only times I typically take a lot of damage in space TFOs is when my boff…
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I'm a KDF aligned only player, so no interest in flying Fed ships. I only like flying fast ships, so that only leaves the Legendary B'rel which may be a very slightly improved version of one of my favorite ships the Na'kuhl Raider. No interest in any of the fluff. Even if I wanted all four ships it's too expensive, and I…
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People say that because new content and story line heavily favors the Federation (except that you go around killing hundreds of people which is much more KDF than Federation). The new Anniversary Ship bundle being a recent example of Fed content, to my knowledge they're all Fed Ships. Another factor is the player base…
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So those who have the Discovery Constitution, how good is the ship trait?
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Most likely no one is responding because it seems like a troll attempt. PvP off switches in places like Ker'rat, that's what your suggesting? Come on that's ridiculous. If you don't want PvP just don't go there, very easy.
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No, for me to cough up 1 billion + EC for a single character to get a ship, that ship has to be awesome to me. Which is to say I need to love the ship's aesthetics and for ship to be ideal for the way I like to play STO, and these ship are so far from that for me I wouldn't even buy them if they were in the Zen Store at…
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And yet CBS has said no to cross faction use of FED/KDF ships in STO. I'm pretty sure they would have something to say about flooding the Federation with Klingons, Gorn, and Orions as well.
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And yet every Star Trek TV series and movie has conflict with non Federation groups or individuals. If you took the conflict out of STO there would be no game other than the tailor. Who knows maybe Picard is all about him managing his Vineyard and STO will not only remove PvP like some of you want but also most PvE.
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No, No, No. We have been hearing about the death of PvP in STO since I started playing, it's not any closer to "death" this year than it was last year. All that being said the existence of PvP is not the only reason the factions are separate. Klingons and the Federation have very different lore and flavor. Every time I…
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Low skill spam weapons should never compare to the damage of weapons that require some piloting ability to use. Dual Beam Banks could probably use a little love from Cryptic, but not Beam Arrays and FAW. If anything spam weapons in PvE (FAW, CSV, TS, GW) could probably use a nerf. However, rather than nerfing their damage…
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So you're a player who primarily plays KDF, your main character is KDF, and you disagree with my points? If not can you point me to these people?
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Your last paragraph is wrong on a number of levels. 1. Klingons have got new ships, it's some Romulan players that have been complaining of late, because to my knowledge Discovery has no Romulans yet, thus given Cryptic's focus on Discovery content there's been little new Romulan content. 2. I don't know of any Klingon…
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Conflict is often a part of story, and PvP is conflict. To be clear I'm not saying this big change has anything to do with PvP. In fact I'm almost certain its not.
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Yes when this first cropped up I noticed the twitter comments were much more constructive and on topic. Haven't checked since as I don't use Twitter. But it's probably reasonable safe to assume if the Developers read this thread at all, they stopped following it after the second page. It's been completely over run with…