CBS's 2-year deadline wasn't enough time to even attempt to create a new engine capable of capturing the feel of Star Trek, so Cryptic had to settle for capturing some of the look and back story. The whole game is a parody... Star Trek should not have this classic MMO-style economy... Latnum (preferably pre-measured and pressed into gold for easy handeling) is the only real currency, everything else is socialist or bartering when you don't have enough fuel for whatever quality of synthesizer you have access to.

I'm realitively new to MMOs, the only one I have played for more than a few months is Ultima Online. However, this parody is entertaining enough for me to buy a Lifetime Subscription, I only hope that Cryptic would swallow their pride and admit it... then maybe start a 3 to 5 year development project for STO2 that is funded by STO's proffits.

BOE is necessary, otherwise everyone and his brother would run around in "hand me downs" and good items would have no value anymore, no one would feel as if he gets appropriate rewards from quests and loot anymore.

So, please leave BOE in game, thank you.

Hand me downs to officers are necessary, of course, and welcome.

i vote ditch bind on equip. it is so anoying that we cant sell our used geer to lower level players, having them available will keep prices nice and low and prevent higher lvl players from spamming the market with rare item drops the rest of us cant get.

remove bind on equip please

you have my vote, its a retarded waste of code that could be best served adding content

Removing BOE would kill the game, believe me.

So introduce equipment destruction and/or loot drops from players... Solves the death penalty problem, solves the "game getting flooded with rare items problem", removes the need for BoE and will a great boost to the ingame economy.
Ofcourse it would probably cost cryptic most of their subscribers so it won't happen
But one can dream...

I don't LIKE it , but I have no problems with it. Gear is easy enough to get, and the really nice stuff is a BoP anyways, which is good cause it keeps it on the characters that earned it. ( PvP gear )