Roadmap Snapshot - 2025.02.27
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Is that Continuum Mission Crew hint suggesting we are getting a certain hairy, lactose-intolerant Crew?!?!?
Also, the Voyage Crew sounds like the kidnapper aliens that took people in their sleep in TNG.
This is a huge fundamental change, and it will create a lot of agro from the players.
Well done on an engineering crew for the current objective event. I was going to suggest medical crew next, but it looks like you are already planning that.
Also, the frustration of yet another out-of-reach voyage/gauntlet exclusive crew is tempered by possibly having a way to earn them through effort/new currency. Just don't make the build up take six months of hard work; make it more like the chance of success with scans and less like Quantum recharge in CR (and definitely no longer than Quantum recharge rate).
Has been suggested before by other players. At least one of which financially supported the game, and who quit playing because of the frustration.
And I am cautiously optimistic about Galaxy 2.0 - the mindless tapping for little reward has had me at 130k and out on 1.0 for a long time.
I usually do the same. 130k is more than enough grind, in the grindiest Event type.
Looking forward to the enhancements - even though I’ve been pretty fortunate as far as getting Voyage exclusives (finally got Vori Defender Chakotay the other day so now I have at least one copy of them all) my luck in getting the more recent Gauntlet cards has been pretty bad so maybe I’ll start playing that more often soon.
Don't change what's not broke. You will have unintended consequences which is usually player disengagement.
No one requested removing pre-farming. But if this shifts the event from mindless clicking to something you have to plan, that's a better way to stop macros than any bot check.
I have 0 faith they know how to build an engaging new event using strategy, but I can hope?
Agreed. It was also really unclear what exactly a new server and game rebalancing was referring to.
Sadly, there was very little in the list of that particular question that I had any real appetite for. As I read the list, my response to most of the options was "why?".
A new server means a new instance of the game where everyone starts from 0. No more new players competing against players with 8 year old rosters. Everyone starts from scratch. Maybe they tweak the stats of older cards or make other game breaking changes that they've wanted to but couldn't in the existing game.
They would keep the old server up for people that wanted to keep their existing account. If you believe the current team could support and develop two versions of the game at once, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Yeah, to me it seems like it would just eventually phase out the legacy server, overall just sounds like an extremely lazy idea.
It might be better to just offer a “catch up” pack to new players, that maybe gives you all 5 year old and older crew (maxed with all items), maybe sets your crew slots to like, 200, and just charge $24.99. One time buy.
The whole second server thing is just, i mean what exactly is it accomplishing? People who want to start from scratch can just make a new account. It dosnt take that long to get to a spot where you can do decently in events, but maybe the whole issue is that new players have to invest a lot of time to catch up.
Just thinking it through makes me realize that if the best that is being offered is essentially a voluntary purge of “elite” accounts from the competitive pool, its just, whats the point? Do it all over again? Spend tons of money and time to acquire the same crew you already have and compete against the same people you are already competing against? It wont do anyyhing to curb pay to win events……and wont do anything to bridge the gap between whales and casual spenders.
Seems incredibly stupid.
Saves me money, I guess.
A "New Players Catch Up Pack" sounds like a much better solution. Good suggestion, Guest!
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It's a shame that this comes after most, including myself, have already checked out, literally and figuratively. I am trying to be open minded and optimistic, but have been burned too many times to be fully. I look forward to more details and hopefully better communication like this.
So I'd suggest the devs be very cautious about changing too much. Yes, STT is aging, but there are still a lot of very active players, and even if they bring in a bunch of new players by altering the game in several ways, I fear they'd lose a lot of us veterans in the process.
Perhaps a compromise of sorts can be reached. Not saying anything like allowing people to yo-yo back and forth between the old and new servers, but maybe a restricted ability to go between. Or some sort of design that allows both servers to be part of the same "event" on occasion, so there is some interaction where all are included. Or perhaps both.
Or maybe something else entirely. I'd be open to them trying something new, as long as it didn't have the effect you're talking about. The game has gone stale for most players, and something to freshen it up is desperately needed.