Petition for DB to release ship abilities with new crew stats...

{DD} Smelly

Is it just me or does it seem absurd that they don't give us info that could potentially be a HUGE selling point for those of us that thrive on skirmish events? If I could go back in time, knowing what I know now, I would have totally dropped $100 on the Killy event deal during her event. So my question is, would you like to know ship ability along with crew stats when that info is released?

DScottHewitt

Yes, I want to know.

Voted. But it is pointless. They will just say what they said in the face of overwhelming player opinion on the Janeway thing.......

{DD} Smelly

Yes, I want to know.

DScottHewitt wrote: »

Voted. But it is pointless. They will just say what they said in the face of overwhelming player opinion on the Janeway thing.......

You might be right. However, I posted another poll quite a while back, asking if players would like to see more rerun events. The overwhelming majority (something like 98-99%) of responses were yes. After that mega is when DB started their regular schedule of reruns after every Mega. So all hope is not lost.

{DD} Smelly

Yes, I want to know.

EDITED: Never mind. My brain hit a slick spot. Carry on.

Mirror Cartman

Other (I'll explain my position below)

I am ambivalent. Ship abilities are not the most important thing for me. If I want the card it is because I want the crew, or want their main skills. The only time I have taken ship abilities into account was when I levelled 4* Spock when he dropped from a voyage.

I do understand why others want this, but it is just unimportant to me.

When Killy was for sale, I paid for her 2 copies, plus another 4 from the packs from the offer. So I have her at 5/5FE and 1/5FE. I bought her because I enjoyed the portrayal so much on Disco, I did not even take into account her ship abilities, and did not realise how good she was until I used her.

If I did not have Killy, I have enough other crew to make skirmishes easy, e.g. 5/5 T'Kuvma

{DD} Smelly

Yes, I want to know.

Mirror Cartman wrote: »

I am ambivalent. Ship abilities are not the most important thing for me. If I want the card it is because I want the crew, or want their main skills. The only time I have taken ship abilities into account was when I levelled 4* Spock when he dropped from a voyage.

I do understand why others want this, but it is just unimportant to me.

When Killy was for sale, I paid for her 2 copies, plus another 4 from the packs from the offer. So I have her at 5/5FE and 1/5FE. I bought her because I enjoyed the portrayal so much on Disco, I did not even take into account her ship abilities, and did not realise how good she was until I used her.

If I did not have Killy, I have enough other crew to make skirmishes easy, e.g. 5/5 T'Kuvma

That's fair enough. But as someone who pushes as hard as I can in skirmishes (and is my new favored event type,) I did some math that I'll share with you... by shaving 2 seconds off of each of the ship battles I run in skirmish events, I save myself 2.5 hours per day. So ship abilities, to me, are now the most important consideration when deciding what and when to spend. DB is missing an opportunity to get more of my money.

Jedzrilanna Croishven

Yes, I want to know.

I voted yes but i think they do that on purpose as a sales strategy. If they put out stats for every ship and crew they may make less money bcuz ppl wouldnt buy lower stats crew or ships. U dont know untill the purchasing has already been done.

AviTrek

Yes, I want to know.

Yes, and this is different for Janeway. Providing ship stats early means players know if they want to compete. A crew with good ship stats will encourage extra event participation and more boost/shuttle sales as a result. Not knowing means players will sit out an event and then DB can't monetize the competition.

[7TW] UnkieB

Yes, I want to know.

More info is always nice. It's been asked for more than once and Shan always says she doesn't have the "bandwidth" to provide them so I don't know that it'll ever happen.

Captain_Who

Jedzrilanna croishven wrote: »

I voted yes but i think they do that on purpose as a sales strategy. If they put out stats for every ship and crew they may make less money bcuz ppl wouldnt buy lower stats crew or ships. U dont know untill the purchasing has already been done.

This is clearly the case. DB intentionally withholds them because they mistakenly believe it makes them more money.
Whatever, DB will DB. My apathy will continue to grow.

Flemming

Intentionally left blank

Ironagedave

Yes, I want to know.

I think they should at least be released if the card is due to be a skirmish bonus event crew. I honestly don't see the problem releasing it at the same time of stats release.

Jim Steele

Other (I'll explain my position below)

They should, but they also need to give the 1/4 / 1/5* FE stats and the 4/4 and 5/5* FE stats on the pack buy screen. Its outrageous that often the packs are released without @Shan confirming the stats on the Forums as technically you don't know what you are buying.

Ishmael Marx

Yes, I want to know.

When you buy something, you should know what you're paying for. It's not any more complicated than that.

{DD} Smelly

Yes, I want to know.

I'm also going to add that for DB to just pretend like ship abilities are irrelevant after designing an entire event type based on ship battles just seems so bizarre to me.

Shan

I understand that this is something a good majority of you would like to see along with the other stats when they are posted on our forums.
However at the moment I do not have an easy and quick way to provide this unfortunately.
I hope that this will change at some point.

Yateball

Yes, I want to know.

Shan wrote: »

I understand that this is something a good majority of you would like to see along with the other stats when they are posted on our forums.
However at the moment I do not have an easy and quick way to provide this unfortunately.
I hope that this will change at some point.

This is a strange thing to be complicated as you suggest. In order for it to be difficult to communicate to us it would have to not be communicated to you by the staff releasing the new crew, and for them to not be able to tell you the ship ability when they're sending you the base stats suggests that they too do not know the ship ability, suggesting that upon release of new crew, a dart is simply thrown at a dartboard and randomly picked upon the crew's release?

Seriously, the design team clearly provides you the base stats which you put into a forum post, how in the world is it complicated for them to also provide you the ship ability to throw in the post as well? Trust me, I want to understand, I just cannot

WaldoMag

Yes, I want to know.

I think they said they couldn't handle the extra bandwidth.

Shan wrote: »

I understand that this is something a good majority of you would like to see along with the other stats when they are posted on our forums.
However at the moment I do not have an easy and quick way to provide this unfortunately.
I hope that this will change at some point.

I would suggest the easiest might be a picture. The only problem is the First to Max.

Edit: a picture of a 1FFE crew only problem would be Common crew.
Thus, unfused stats and ship abilities could be pictured

{DD} Smelly

Yes, I want to know.

Shan wrote: »

I understand that this is something a good majority of you would like to see along with the other stats when they are posted on our forums.
However at the moment I do not have an easy and quick way to provide this unfortunately.
I hope that this will change at some point.

I have to agree with Yateball above me. Your explanation, on its face, really just falls flat. How about this... instead of you coping and pasting the stats, can you just ask the design team to send you screenshots of a 1/5, 5/5, and their ship stats? Then you could just post those? Bam. You'd make a lot of us very happy and be my personal hero.

Shan

Having access to crew stats is one thing, transcribing it in text form for the forums is another. It is indeed a question of bandwidth.

{DD} Smelly

Yes, I want to know.

Shan wrote: »

Having access to crew stats is one thing, transcribing it in text form for the forums is another. It is indeed a question of bandwidth.

Screenshots. Easy peasy.

We don't WANT to make your job any harder than it absolutely has to be. But, like I said, you guys have released an entire event type based on the info we're requesting. It is essential info now. It wasn't before. But it certainly is now. Please, make this happen for us.

{DD} Smelly

Yes, I want to know.

@Shan , I saw your Fugitive Spock announcement and I just wanted to say... Thank you, sincerely. You're awesome, you're my hero, and I greatly appreciate your help in this matter.

Drone_one

Yes, I want to know.

@Shan Thank you!!!

{DD} Smelly

Yes, I want to know.

P.S. I would like to celebrate this momentous occasion by throwing money at a Killy deal. If there's anything you can do to make that happen, my head would probably just explode. Thanks again!