The 'promotional point' are Cryptic Points and they don't expire. You can use them on anything in the C-Store and, if you don't use them, they'll slowly build up.

But I think 400 Cryptic points is pittance. I think that Lifetime members should get more then 400 Cryptic points a month. If I wanted to be the Guramaba class starship, it'd take me 5 months to save up the points! I don't see us getting anything more than the monthly subscribers get.

Locking the Klingon content is rather bothersome. That's gonna really piss of some Klingon players. But if I get to start them at level 25, it won't be such a grind to get them to BG1.

I'm interested to see the new currency system, Dilithium. There for a minute I thought that was going to include Energy Credits as well and I was all "Hello no!". But I've been an advocate of getting ride of all the marks, emblems and badges for a long time.

grrr...I'm so jealous I couldn't make it...sadly, the date wasn't worth it :(

Congrats!

Today, for my Massively.com Livestream, Josh@six-of-nine, Dominic@Nerapane, Denis@SBOSlayer, Ben@quick_ben and I completed Terradome in 50 minutes.

I uploaded the video so you can see it :)



Gratz fellas!

I guess I'm most interested in the currency side of things too. I intend to keep my subscription so I hope the monthly stipend is cstore points or whatever equivalent it might become. Also keen to see how the in-game currencies get streamlined overall cos I think there's far too many of them to keep track of easily. Why can you buy some things with energy credits, others with merits, yet others with badges and yet others with emblems?

I am mainly concerned in how the new currency system will work with buying ships. It may still need so much dilithium to buy one that you need to spend C-points to get enough from other players.

On the C-point note I also hope that the 400 'Promotional' points are not just that. Promotional screams 'for a limited time only' in my eyes.

As a Lifetime subscriber, I'm pretty happy with this. I just hope that 'Promotional points' is just another name for C-store points, and it isn't a different type of currency that is severely gimped.

SiranNataan - From the STO FAQ:

Q: If I decide to downgrade from Gold to Silver, what happens to all my stuff?

Characters will remain when switching from Gold to Silver. However, players will not be able to play them until either they re-upgrade to Gold or convert them individually into Silver characters in-game. The exact conversion process is still being determined. Please note that we never delete character data. If a Gold Member cancels his or her subscription and decides to restart it at a later date, all of that Member's characters and associated items will be intact.

SiranNataan - Good question. No idea. Might lose access to one of your characters until you buy an additional slot or go Gold. Highly doubt it'll be deleted.

Aym - I guess I understand the concept, and I guess if the existing content will provide enough gameplay for 25-50, might finally give me a reason to roll a Klingon. Interesting that all of the "early" level ships are essentially drydrocked until they add content to decrease the starting level.

I'm almost afraid to look at the STO forums. I'm all but certain to see countless "locked" threads in the Dev Digest now.

Trying to make myself clearer:

When I was in game, I had five slots--my two that I got automatically, the one I unlocked, and two I bought. However, when I rejoin the game at F2P, it sounds like I'll only have four slots for my free subscription--two for Silver, two I bought. So I do lose one slot.

Right? On the surface they're claiming a better, shorter, Klingon gameplay. But I have serious reservations about the clunkiness of creating a lvl 25 klink from scratch, and the added commitment to a Fed toon before creating a Klingon. Seems to me this will reinforce the view of Klingons as alts instead of mains. I don't know, maybe I'm being pessimistic and this really is just a holding pattern while more klingon content is added and the level-floor lowered.

I mean, purchase slots for already-created characters to make up for the loss of slot (I think it's going to be one) I'll have once I rejoin the game free-to-play.

Bah, I'll just buy them anyway. Like I said, I'd already created in my head half the crew for the slot for my 300-day reward that I'm not going to get now.

anything you have already paid for will not be going away :)

If you've already purchased them, then they should remain as purchased. There'd be a heck of an uproar if Cryptic/PW tried to take away items already bought.

What if I purchased slots?

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Klingon play at 25? That doesn't sound like it's good news for Klingon content or new Klingon players.

Yeah, this kind of shocked me too. What's the purpose of creating a Klingon Academy if they are doing away with the ability of starting a new Klingon from the very start?

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Guess I'd just have to buy the extra slots and rebuild them all from scratch. I'm not going to let them die like that.

At least, as I understand it with Champs, I have several characters that were there prior to the F2P changover. They still exist if I want to go back, but I will need to "convert" them to the new archetypes for the Free-To-Play or go back as a subscriber.

I suspect it'll be similar with STO: no character will ever be deleted, but you may lose access to a character until you are a paying subscriber again.

Klingon play at 25? That doesn't sound like it's good news for Klingon content or new Klingon players.

Yup, read through it carefully. And do hover-overs on the question marks. Some things that look like you wouldn't have as a Silver you actually do if you've EVER had a subscription. So some things aren't quite as bad as they look at first blush. I still might lose a slot, though.

F2P Official Link (Got this link from Priority One on Twitter @stopriorityone)

http://www.startrekonline.com/f2p_features

Magic word for us lifers....STIPEND!!! Read the whole thing though. Knowledge is power and all that garbage.

Guess I'd just have to buy the extra slots and rebuild them all from scratch. I'm not going to let them die like that.