Feedback Poll: bonuses to enhance gameplay

Prime Lorca

I looked through Shan's post:
https://forum.disruptorbeam.com/stt/discussion/14749/feedback-request-in-game-bonuses-to-enhance-gameplay/p3

The top mention was HONOR.
So DB, please include honor in any reward table. Seriously. It's mentioned in over half of the posts.

But what is your next choice?
There was only room for 10, so I'm sorry if your idea was left out. It was not intentional.
I scrolled through and these were the other top mentions:

ursine cotcher

Slots

Thanks for helping keep the conversation focused.

Banjo1012

Lifting the star base cap is a bit much. I could donate about 100,000 items right now

Prime Lorca

Voyage revival tokens

Banjo1012 wrote: »

Lifting the star base cap is a bit much. I could donate about 100,000 items right now

Without knowing what it would take to earn the rewards, I left quantities off. It could be a small bump to 750/day or a big bump to 1,400/day. It depends on what's equitable.

÷ ursine cotcher wrote: »

Thanks for helping keep the conversation focused.

Thanks. I was afraid two polls in one day would make me look... obsessed or something.

Prime Lorca

Voyage revival tokens

Banjo1012 wrote: »

Lifting the star base cap is a bit much. I could donate about 100,000 items right now

Oohhhh... I see it now. I should have said "raise" instead of "lift".

Sovinox

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

Legendaries! Seriously, we have 100s sitting at 1 Star mostly useless especially the older ones. Something needs to be done to make them more useful.

Banjo1012

Prime LorQa [10F] wrote: »

Banjo1012 wrote: »

Lifting the star base cap is a bit much. I could donate about 100,000 items right now

Oohhhh... I see it now. I should have said "raise" instead of "lift".

Ah gotcha. It does take a really long tine to level up a room

Ishmael Marx

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

Nearly 3 years in, and I have still not frozen a legendary. There are plenty of candidates among the 186 on my roster. The most worthy are cards I will never use honor to cite, and likely never pick in a behold either. It's quite the conundrum. Build a discounted decrepit legends pack and/or put them in voyage drops after 8hrs.

Honorable mentions: slots and dilithium. Everyone (or at least 99% of us) can always use more of both.

Eponymous Honorable mention... Honor. But @Prime LorQa [10F] already covered the interest in this one.

HaBlack

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

Well since the honor is without question most sought here, then I chose to get odler legendaries. They can be included in Voyages, as cheaper begold in honor hall, or whatever else comes to mind

Ren~

Slots

Adding older legendaries to voyages (and moving purples to the 4h mark) is an excellent suggestion, but it needs to come after crew slots, not the other way around. I don't mind paying for crew slots but as it is, they're too expensive, even with a 50% discount. Without the discount, I can get a great meat at a restaurant. I mean come on...

Emperor Borg Drone (SC)

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

I agree on honor being the first choice, but my second one are old legendaries. I don't think they would necessarily be a huge problem for crew slots. Assuming that as a bonus they would drop more often than newer legendaries do in packs, it wouldn't feel wrong to airlock them occasionally. On the other hand, it would give us an actual chance to immortalize them. For many players an immortal 5* will still be useful, even if it's a weak one. And those who have a very strong crew roster could finally freeze them, which actually frees up crew slots.

I like the fact that they are selling 1/5* and 4/5* for 9,99 in weekly offers and campaigns, but so far those have mainly been newer and strong legendaries (which is obvious, given that they want to sell them). It would be nice to finally have a way to obtain older legendaries too.

shadow8803

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

I LOVE the suggestion of adding a pool of older legends to drop after 8hrs in a voyage. That seems completely reasonable. I mean...one of my first legends was Enterprise E Picard, and though he kicked butt for me in the early game, his 1/5 self is now sulking next to Qod, Tenavik, and the like. I don’t want to airlock any legend...especially considering I’ve spent good money to get them.

The Line Must Be Drawn, HERE!

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

Definitely adding a pool of older legendaries. My 1* Founder still sits around, idling away....

Shan

Thank you for creating this poll

[NDQ] Joker41NAM

Dilithium

Honestly, I'd rather have a way to get honor faster, than any of these listed...

Webberoni

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

Honor is by far #1, and could easily replace useless bonus rewards that game evolution has outgrown (ie: trainers in gauntlet).

I chose getting more opportunities to acquire older 5* crew, as my roster (245 slots) is now flooded with lots of weak 1/5 and 2/5 crew that are completely useless. I'm down to about 20-25 active 4* crew, with another 5-10 slots that are open or hanging on to decent duplicate 4* crew. The rest are 5* crew, who can't be cited fast enough.

If I had a second vote, it would have gone to voyage tokens. Of the 6 x 4* crew I'm missing from my roster, 2 of them are the 3-dilemma voyage-exclusive crew (Picard & Worf). More voyage tokens would make it feasible to do more long (ie: 30+ hours) voyages, in pursuit of even a first copy of these elusive crew.

Prime Lorca

Voyage revival tokens

[NDQ] Joker41NAM wrote: »

Honestly, I'd rather have a way to get honor faster, than any of these listed...

Honestly, that is already assumed to be #1.

Prime LorQa [10F] wrote: »

The top mention was HONOR.
So DB, please include honor in any reward table. Seriously. It's mentioned in over half of the posts.

But what is your next choice?

Thank you, @Ishmael Marx and everyone else who read the bold print.

So far, legendaries and voyage things are winning the day. Thanks for all the votes! My game priorities are events, then voyages. Seems that I am in good company.

RaraRacing

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

I like a bonus to AM for voyages ... as well as getting in extra tokens ... might one day get the 3-part 4*s that way ... but honestly ...

I would rather be able to immortalise those "decrepit" legendaries in some manner that makes them at least a tad useful ... now, if they are available after 8+ hrs. on voyages, or if we can gather resources as a Fleet to get the opportunity to all do a pull from that pool of crew etc. etc. ... I'm not really bothered what the solution is that DB come up with, as long as it means that on a (semi-)regular basis we can add stars to crew issued in the first 12 months of this game.

On the negative side ... this does not benefit those players who have put a lot of money into the game, as they probably already have those 5* crew immortalised by now.
Whereas, voyage boosts would benefit all players.

MirrorVerse Jc

Dilithium

My vote was for di since it is only given for achievement or collections. It is the least avail currency but the most need especially for low-mid lvl players to get 4 shuttles and crew slots.

But as a vet, my (2nd and 3rd) FIRST choice lol is decrepit legendaries,
And instead of giving more honor, reduce honor hall cost. If the cost cannot be reduced then yes increase dismissal honor and honor earned to be more balanced with honor hall cost.

Capt Ajamm

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

I'd like to see the older golds added to voyages...

Prefer combining getting old golds to voyages..if not I'd vote for AM

[TFA] CaptainObvious

How are decrepit legendaries even supposed to work? I have my share of useless golds, but I don’t have Ent-E Picard, Martok, Tora Ziyal and many others, partly because I’ve been actively avoiding them. Statistically, I would much sooner clog up 10 more crew slots with useless 5* before I could immortalize my Dr. Soong.

Other than that, I read the call for ideas more along the lines of “What other game mechanics could we increase by small percentages?” I don’t think legendaries qualify.

Prime Lorca

Voyage revival tokens

[TFA] CaptainObvious wrote: »

How are decrepit legendaries even supposed to work? I have my share of useless golds, but I don’t have Ent-E Picard, Martok, Tora Ziyal and many others, partly because I’ve been actively avoiding them. Statistically, I would much sooner clog up 10 more crew slots with useless 5* before I could immortalize my Dr. Soong.

Other than that, I read the call for ideas more along the lines of “What other game mechanics could we increase by small percentages?” I don’t think legendaries qualify.

Decrepit legendaries would be a pool of legendaries from the first year (or whatever time period) of the game. Rewards would be randomly selected from that pool.

It sounds like you would not like this option. (Though the 550 honor might appeal to you.) You should probably vote for a different option if neither the cards nor the honor appeal to you.

@R@ Jorge

Slots

I went with slots since honor was a given. Difficult to implement effectively but very handy for the plethora of crew that keep descending.

Emperor Borg Drone (SC)

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

[TFA] CaptainObvious wrote: »

How are decrepit legendaries even supposed to work? I have my share of useless golds, but I don’t have Ent-E Picard, Martok, Tora Ziyal and many others, partly because I’ve been actively avoiding them. Statistically, I would much sooner clog up 10 more crew slots with useless 5* before I could immortalize my Dr. Soong.

Other than that, I read the call for ideas more along the lines of “What other game mechanics could we increase by small percentages?” I don’t think legendaries qualify.

It's not very clear though. Shan spoke about a generic bonus of a new game feature, if I remember well. The term bonus made me think of an ingame currency, but then in the starbase it's skill and proficiency bonuses, extra replicator rations and so on. The achievement rewards could also be considered bonuses or the collection rewards and those include all sorts of things. So reading it as a generic new reward table, why shouldn't it include a decrepit begold or a legendary?

I have at least 20 of those in my crew at 1/5* or 2/5* from the first year when I was playing and they were still useful for me or because I got them as straight drops in merit pulls, as threshold rewards in reruns or in all-useless begolds. I also really want Arachnia and I can't see her being in a 9,99 offer or in a campaign anytime in the future.

If this new feature had decrepit legendaries among the rewards, they would probably become easier to obtain than normal legendaries, which means that there would be better chances of immortalizing them, but also that it wouldn't feel so bad to airlock them. I can't see what would be wrong with that. Worst case scenario, it's 550 honor.

Prime Lorca

Voyage revival tokens

Just under 100 votes and Decrepit Legendaries have a good lead. Dilithium and slots are up there, but voyages got a lot of votes - mostly Antimatter, but revival tokens got some votes.

In another poll about new types of events, voyages came in second place. Voyages will certainly be a good place for DB to focus future resources.

dext74

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

OG Legendaries for sure.

Weyoun 69

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

Definitely the ability to fuse / use or freeze old 5* Legendries. I know on the old forums there was a list of launch day 5* that were released first, but I cant seem to find it there on the wiki.

Would be very interesting to see this early list as leading contenders for potential voyage reward additions, check the stats then leading to the stat creep to today.

Ren~

Slots

Prime LorQa [10F] wrote: »

Just under 100 votes and Decrepit Legendaries have a good lead. Dilithium and slots are up there, but voyages got a lot of votes - mostly Antimatter, but revival tokens got some votes.

In another poll about new types of events, voyages came in second place. Voyages will certainly be a good place for DB to focus future resources.

The thing is these old legendaries would probably be a better fit for the free campaign tiers as tier 101 over the course of 4 or 5 months or for the very much needed login rewards overhaul but DB is as usual focused on new features and tends to ignore older ones (klingon collection when?) or nerf them (voyages) and it's not their style to hand out several copies of legendaries like that, even if they're old and barely superior to the latest purples.

It's also difficult to back up suggestions like that when Shan explicitly talked about "in-game bonuses", which tend to indicate a simplistic and rather generic feature like starbases 2.0. My bet is on personal quarters, STTs version of housing, and we'd get permanent bonii for donating like 10k DS9 hyperspanners or something like that.

LeadHead

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

First year legendaries without a doubt. There’s so many cards I’d love to make good use of, across all star ratings. Too many characters or versions of characters that I like end up being not worth upgrading or get frozen for the sake of space, only to be thawed for a brief event, then straight back to the freezer.

V.

Decrepit (first year) legendaries

I must have at least 30 1/5's. and maybe 10 2/5.

eXo | SilverRose (retired)

Dilithium

Weyoun 69 wrote: »

Definitely the ability to fuse / use or freeze old 5* Legendries. I know on the old forums there was a list of launch day 5* that were released first, but I cant seem to find it there on the wiki.

Would be very interesting to see this early list as leading contenders for potential voyage reward additions, check the stats then leading to the stat creep to today.

I'll try to do it from memory, but I may miss / mess up a few, so feel free to pounce:

Launch Day OGs (original golds y'all)
Alternate Future Bashir
Arachnia Janeway
Captain Scott
Captain Sisko
Changeling Founder
Commander Troi
Crell Moset
Enterprise E Picard
Grand Nagus Rom
Judge Q
Locutus (debatable... he had a major stats overhaul prior to gauntlet launch)
Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax
Lt. Commander La Forge
Mirror Intendant Kira
Mirror Regent Worf
Mirror Spock
Mobile Doctor
Seven of Nine
Scientist Degra
Shinzon
Tempted Data
Wrathful Khan

Not Quite Launch, but Other OGs - first 6 months (roughly) of game
"Dark Ages" McCoy - Event
1701 Sisko - Event
Abraham Lincoln - Limited Time Portal
Admiral Janeway - Limited Time Portal
Bashir, Julian Bashir - Limited Time Portal
Dr. Soong - Limited Time Portal
Frank Hollander - Event
Gangster Spock - Limited Time Portal
Kal-if-fee Kirk - Event
Mademoiselle de Neuf - Limited Time Portal
Mirror Kirk - Event
Phoenix Cochrane - Limited Time Portal
Ushaan Archer - Limited Time Portal
Ushaan Shran - Limited Time Portal