I don't believe the XP shifts in any way.

But I see chances for Crit - perhaps the Skill is the only bonus you get from that?

...well I had the aegis on one of my toons and was procrastinating on a 2nd...so that sucks. I'm now done with the crafting system in STO.

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sorry, 'mirror' as in 'mirrored site' - and it's a personal site, so it might've been hit by bandwidth. I was just able to access it, though.

I haven't seen anything published anywhere for mirror universe, though.

They need something skimpier for Mirror universe men. I'm offended that we can't ogle male flesh like they allow for female flesh.

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Wait...they're resetting our current crafting levels?

Yeah, all of the work on the four toons I had at max levels for crafting, and they come and use the Krenim time weapon on it. At least I got the Aegis set on most toons before this, a couple of them before the dilithium suck.

Where do we send the buy in for the bingo game?

So, as you can imagine, I've been doing a bit of crafting, but I'm a bit confused by the XP vs Skill. I've been mainly doing the research projects white reward some 6k XP, but also 30 - 15 Skill.

Does anyone know what the difference is? Seems like an odd separation.

I will log in at 9:00 pm eastern as well. I'll ask if there's anyone on needing an invite to KOS in the Kos chat channel. Hopefully, I'll be able to catch you and we'll get your toons invited. See you in a bit. :)

nice..//!!! and that voice....! :woohoo: :evil: :P

Aha! I just discovered that: we're on TeamSpeak now. I'll set that one up, then.

I guess that's what I get for missing staff meetings. Wait, wrong franchise. How about:

"I'm out of it for a little while, everyone gets delusions of grandeur!"

:laugh:

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I should be on after 7PM PDT tonight on the Rep and Imp side's. Mostly rep, though. We don't have Vent anymore, we have a Teamspeak server now and you can find the info on it here. KoS works across all planets so you don't have to be on the same planet as others in the channel.

Cool! Now we just need to decide on a night that would work for people. I'll try to be on tonight (Thursday) from about 7:00-9:00 Mountain Time (6-8 Pacific, 9-11 Eastern), and I'll pay attention to the chat channels.

I have more Republic characters, so I'll probably start on on KoS, and if nobody is around switch to LoS. If you log on, just say hi on the appropriate faction's channel.

Wait, does the /cjoin KoS channel work across all planets, or do we have to be on the same map to see each other? I can't remember. Or should I just reload Ventrilo?

There seems to be bonus xp on crit on the 20h projects. It's not been a lot yet (only 1k on top), but I'm also ridiculously low level comparatively. I'm wondering if we're not seeing an acceleration factor as we start blowing past the 40 skill "needed". And +1k on crit is a drop in the bucket comparatively, but I'm wondering if there's higher crit rewards?

I know, I know. Having played MMOs this long and still having faith in the devs knowing what they're doing is very pollyanna, but...

(For the record, having had capped crafting under the old system, I'm still grumbling about their "reward".)

sorry, 'mirror' as in 'mirrored site' - and it's a personal site, so it might've been hit by bandwidth. I was just able to access it, though.

I haven't seen anything published anywhere for mirror universe, though.

I think they mean it's a mirror link if you have trouble opening the first one. Same content, different way to access it.

There's certainly a lot of dumb to go around in the whole 9.5 update. This table is specifically about the patch that prevents multiple instances of the same research project, though. The reason that specific thing bugs me so much is that out of all the broken crap in the new crafting system, the one thing that merited an emergency, "gotta fix it immediately" day 2 patch was the one thing that already kinda did what it was supposed to - the reward schedule. And it was replaced with something woefully broken. That is indicative of the complete lack of thought that seems to have gone into the whole mess that is R&D.

And to clarify, the problem with the patch is not that the whole shebang takes about a year to complete. (220 days only gets you level 15s.) The overall time sink was unchanged by the patch. The problem is that the system as it was launched gave you regular rewards spaced about a month apart, and that had to be "fixed" to a total content desert with one oasis of actual progression bizarrely stuck smack in the middle.

They already did in the 9.5 patch.

Wait...they're resetting our current crafting levels?

My essential point is that for all the things that are not well-designed for R&D, the projected timescales are one of my least concerns.

Taking three months actually seems awfully skimpy in my eyes - especially for a content-lite game as STO.

I'd much rather address issues I see as more fundamental - non-transparency, disparity in material and leveling. But the system taking a few months?

I think it's actually easier, given that the core of the system is basically set-and-forget auto-levelling.

That chart and the fact that they reset all of the work we already out into crafting is pretty demoralizing.