Game Design 101, guys. Never take away items from your players (or lower their effectiveness) and then force them to re-grind to get back to their previous power level. If you want long time players to grind again, offer something new and better, not the same-as-you-just-had-lol.
How hard can a global database change from [Borg] to [Acc] be?
If [Borg] never worked, how are the devs taken something away? All the wasted time for the borg weapons.
I would be happy to have my [Borg] changed to [ACC] but that would be unfair to new players .
As a side note i find it very entertaining that for almost three years people are grinding for weapons that do not work....and noone bothered to FIX it
More accurately, it didn't work as designed, if/when it worked at all. For Season 7, it was redesigned as the T4 passive Kinetic proc. With slotting it into an ability slot, we no longer needed to sell the items.
So, can you please tell us what will happen to the current borg weapons?
Suggestions:
1) change [Borg] to something else, I promise I will not ***** if I do not like the modifier, because something is better than nothing.
2) refund in something (purple weapons, dilithium,...)
BTW: You understand how people who take this game seriously are pissed right know, do you?
If you offered them and the [Borg] modifier practically never did anything, then why keep them in the game?
Could you at least consider working on the [Borg] weapons to make them work for those of us who thought they did? Either that or perhaps put an NPC at DS9 where we can convert our [Borg] weapons into Dilithium and/or Marks so we can rid ourselves of our "malfunctioning" equipment?
More accurately, it didn't work as designed, if/when it worked at all. For Season 7, it was redesigned as the T4 passive Kinetic proc. With slotting it into an ability slot, we no longer needed to sell the items.
actually they do work, just that people do so much damage no one ever notices the
1,000 kinetic damage.
Each of my toons has one ship that is geared for STFs. Each of my toons has a ground set that is geared for STFs. This includes several different weapons of differing types to be sure that I didn't have to remodulate as much.
Telling me that all of these become useless, that I ground all those missions for nothing, is heart breaking.
If I am going back to square one, then I will probably be doing it in another game.
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Each of my toons has one ship that is geared for STFs. Each of my toons has a ground set that is geared for STFs. This includes several different weapons of differing types to be sure that I didn't have to remodulate as much.
Telling me that all of these become useless, that I ground all those missions for nothing, is heart breaking.
If I am going back to square one, then I will probably be doing it in another game.
I wouldn't say useless.... It's still a purple rarity weapon...
Actually... what Bort said sounded like they're simply not selling weapons with [Borg] in the STF store and existing weapons will be unaffected.
Outside of STFs and other content they have always been effectively blue quality weapons.
It's a bummer that they are not as effective against Borg as they should be, but they are more or less free gear anyway. And blue Mk XIIs are not THAT bad.