Commander
Join Date: Jul 2012
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# 41
11-06-2012, 02:11 AM
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Originally Posted by atomictiki View Post
/facepalm Cryptic

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 .
Captain
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 2,192
# 42
11-06-2012, 02:26 AM
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
Ensign
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 6
# 43 Official response
11-06-2012, 04:55 AM
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Originally Posted by borticuscryptic View Post
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?

Thank you in advance for answer.
Calfen
Career Officer
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 772
# 44
11-06-2012, 05:03 AM
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Originally Posted by entnx01 View Post
QFT

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?
Precisely this.
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Captain
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 1,642
# 45
11-06-2012, 05:03 AM
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I made a thread using a clip from DS9 to sum up the relationship between Cryptic and the players:

In the DS9 video the doctor and Garak are having a talk:

Imaging that you are the Doctor(player) and Garak is Cryptic - It's titled "Especially the Lies"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t02v9...eature=related

It's a beautiful clip and one of my most favorite of all time(espically today on election day in the US - but that is another story)
Lt. Commander
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 210
# 46
11-06-2012, 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by borticuscryptic View Post
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.
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 752
# 47
11-06-2012, 08:18 AM
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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Rihannsu
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# 48
11-06-2012, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by crusty8mac View Post
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.
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# 49
11-06-2012, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by markhawkman View Post
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.
If a proc isn't working, your pruple Mk XII weapon becomes a poor Mk XII blue one. That makes a huge difference.
Career Officer
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Posts: 619
# 50
11-06-2012, 09:19 AM
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.
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