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Originally Posted by Kirkfat
So, here is the idea for consideration.
Season 7: Back to Basics
1. There would be no new projects under development. Instead, the team would focus on polishing existing systems, fixing things, adding consistency, and doings stuff like making diplomacy match doff integration. It would be another season of polish, but with no big ideas and impending deadlines. The focus would be on improving existing systems, from crafting to PVP.
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I'm all for a mass extermination of bugs, but not to the detriment of new content.
You would see a lot of people stop playing since it would be obvious nothing new was coming, again.
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2. No FEs. Instead, Cryptic would give us 10 remastered Foundry spotlight episodes. These missions would be hand-picked by the devs, given over to their control, and then remastered with a little bit polish and maybe some cutscenes and VOs. There would be some rewards for playing them.
So, here is the bargain: You guys and gals will get more quality content released at a much faster rate. Meanwhile, the game would get a much needed set of fixes.
Additional perks:
Half of the Foundry spotlights will go to the Klingon faction as added PvE content, thus helping to more fully flesh out the Klingon side.
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Instead of 2 FEs, 10 missions for everyone, there would be 5 missions each per faction. That seems to be a step that does nothing towards Faction Parity.
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Cryptic chooses 5 player-made maps and adds PVP functionality for inclusion in the PVP maps.
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+1 to new PvP maps with objectives.
but the PvP content will be biased to to the persistant lacking of KDF content to attract players to the KDF.
When there is a healthier balance of Fed-KDF players this will help PvP.
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Cryptic picks 10 non-combat diplomacy missions done in the foundry to add as diplomacy missions. Minimal work and no remastering will be done.
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So basically feds would get 15 new missions based from the Foundry, while KDF got 5.
This would bring the Feds Diplomacy mission total up to 23+, while the KDF still has no Maruading Missions.
This is a big step backwards from faction parity.
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Cryptic picks 10 patrol-worthy missions to add to clusters, which helps to revamp exploration. Minimal work is done being adding these to the game.
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Would these be added to the "random" map/mission selection of the existing system, or independant mission that happen to be found in starclusters only?
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You might think of other ideas here.
But, basically, the result of a season that is focused on polish, upgrading existing systems, and adding foundry content as in game content could be the BIGGEST expansion of this game for season 7.
What do you think?
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KDF needs a substantial amount of content to bring it up to parity. Start there.
KDF needs about 20 Storyline missions, 10 Maurading missions, plus 2 Starcluster Maurading type missions and fixing the Breen Connection to award Maurading xp.
90 Patrol missions.
If these missions are drawn from the Foundry, cool.
If these missions are Dev originals, cool.
Which ever makes it happen.
Now don't get me wrong.
I'm all for Polish.
We just need more KDF Brand(c) Red Polish than Fed Blue.
This game has so much fed Blue that it's positively Smurfy.