"Please play PVE-missions and buy dilithium with Zen. Do not do PVP, have we not made it clear yet as to what we want you to foucus on?"

Not really a quote but...

OH and:

"Please don't craft your own weapons, please buy weapons with dilithium. Have we not made it clear as to what we want you to focus on?"

Again, not really a quote.

We'll see if pvp and crafting ever get the focus.

crafting...lol

free aim ground mode...lol

How many projects have they buried themselves into for months just to release and forget about? These were major season releases, and they are a joke now. How about S8 "a season of balance" where they actually concentrate on fixing all the broken stuff and getting balance back to the force?

now that's constructive feedback... tell me... why are you writing in this forum at all? You appear to have no wish or hope for the future of STO, and now you just want to drag as many people as you can down with you? Wouldn't it be better if you just moved on to "that better game" and started posting in it's forum instead?

I'll be checking out that game when it officially launches and is out of beta. I wanna enjoy it without the beta-period bugs and revisions

These changes appear to only improve those that are willing to do scores of grinding and PVE related content. It was kind of good run, but frankly, the game has consistently went downhill since S3. I won't say I'll leave the game outright, but I don't have the time or energy to work on this new method of conning people out of the little resources they get from the game and potentially RL cash for a game that has no interest in improving the only aspect I enjoy.

It's the same garbage as the fleet shipyard crap. KDF has **** ships as is, so hey, let's add a ridiculous grind/resource grind so that player base, that has been f-ed-in-the-a since launch, can finally get comparable escorts to the feds, but still not ... It's been real fun.

This new grind is on a pure character basis now, (much like the fleet ship purchases,) thus making it impossible for someone with multiple characters (say 11,) to reasonably grind this new system. That would, effectively, ruin the fun of having multiple characters.

To end, time will tell, but I don't really see anything good coming from these changes.

As I understand it 2.5% chance for bonus Kinetic damage with the Kinetic damage having 100% shied pen. Base damage does not turn into Kinetic or get 100% shield pen and the Kinetic damage is tiny (m my numbers showed at around 30damage per proc). So it is kind of like a Plasma proc to hull only not DoT.

The one that worrys me is over 1k shield hitpoints every 6seconds. So that is 666.6dps you can tank without factoring in resistance. EDIT: then add the one that makes 50% of crit hits heal you!

that kinetic damage can be speced. we see what happends with phasers being 2.5%

a good example is my fleet defaint with no rsp or even tss2( only sheild heal atm is brace for impact and borg proc) can solo a doc killing all npc and cube with out dieing. i dont even need the extra sheild hp per sec. tho that might be a better choice for a person that only grinds stf. the dem and plasice passives will not help you in stf but would be uber in pvp.

your going way to far i think. this new rep system is very good. with just i think they said 1 hour a week will get you to t5 in 90 days. this rep system is much better then the luck drop gozer gave. also kdf has awesome ships. what they are lacking is skilled players that dont use p2w. they are also lacking uni and skins and story lines.