OP for what..? Level 1 - 29?? lol..
I mean, I'm sorry, but.. who cares.
I don't want to actually buy my levels, like they do in Champions Online.. I still believe leveling up to learn, at least the base stuff, about my newbs, is the best possible way to get the inside feel of them - by actually playing them and leveling them and struggling with them, some. Learning my capabilities a little at a time and not with all possibilities available at once is the old way, and, I still think it's the best and most rewarding way..
But..
I'll take twink gear like account bound slightly OP ships (and only OP up to level 30) that level with me so I don't have to redo ship hotkeys every couple hours or less. As soon as they make an Escort version : ) I mean, with a ship like this, we just have to redo hotkeys at 30, 40, 50 & whenever we get a new T6. Less required trips to ESD.. Much, much better.
Edit: Oops.. No need to do hotkeys at 30, since this is a level 30 ship! when it maxes.. So.. we only have to buy and make hotkeys for this ship.... an Event T6 at 40... and a real T6 at 50. Now tell me, that does not sound better than before! Making hotkeys has to be one of the crummiest parts of leveling in STO. Plus, and a big plus, we get nothing but top quality ships, all the way to 65.. for the price of 2 C-store ships. The cost of this new ship, and a T6.
All my twink stuff is OP for its level. That's what makes it great twink gear : ) I did not have a twink.. ship, up until now, though.
They could make plenty more newb ships like this to suit me. Starting with a totally OP Escort : D
That's not why I'm here, though..
Tomorrow's the 9th!!
Are you excited?
I am, a tiny bit... This looks like a good update. The Rep system (<3) is getting what sounds like some significant luv, the queue system (<3) is getting luv.. gah I know I'm forgetting a big thing or two..
There's a somewhat tantalizing new Battlecruiser just announced today.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11007803-the-stats-of-the-europa-class%21What I don't get, is... this is the second ship I've seen that the Fleet version is better than the C-store version... I don't get it....?
Edit, once again....
While this is interesting. It is also flawed.
Could be said about this post, too.. My jab to Champions Online Levels Buyers kinda falls apart pretty fast now that I realize I am basically buying a few newb levels with this ship. What do we get when we level, mainly? More (powers) Boff slots.. With this ship we are getting level 30 (powers) Boff slots at level... whatever the level is we get out of the tutorial.
I think I would rather have the console slots scale with level, just like the shield and hull does - based on the fact that I don't want to buy levels.. I just want to skip all the shipbuying and hotkeymaking that feels like it comes with every ding as a newb in STO. Especially if it's a double XP weekend. Well, and I want a top ship - asap, always. With this new ship type, it's all top tier ships from level (whatever it is coming out of the tutorial) to 65 in a much more... efficient/painless way.
I mean, those ships from level 1 - 40 are not memorable, to me.. (Except the first time I flew the Enterprise looking ship!) And then there's that long slog from 30 to 40 for an Event ship. What's memorable is all the crud that goes into getting them and hotkeying them. What's memorable is the slog from 30 to 40, so I can start using the sweet ships - Event T6's, and then real T6's. The real ships. The ships all your toons have right now.. except.. *maybe* one, or two.
But.. yeah.. I want to have twink Gear, not buy Levels. Will I still buy the Escort version? Hmm. Yeah, probably : D I guess that makes me a hypocrite - but, in my defense, if they had a version of the ship that had consoles slots that scaled with level - I'd get that one. I don't want to buy levels but if they had a sweet escort version I'd probably get it due to all the reasons, above.
