Well that explains many things. I'm downloading TOR at the moment ... if this change makes it to holodeck I'm gone. Best of luck to those left behind, I feel for you, I really do.

Doing the same myself actually.....the fleet mark removal is a dork move, totally "What-the-heck-are-you-thinking-thats-so-dumb-I-have-lost-all-faith-in-your-competence-as-a-rational-being" experience.

Grats Cryptic, only 2 other developers have ever made me feel that way....and one released The War Z.

And on the note of the Temporal torpedo oddness - when they were last "fixed" to a Chroniton type instead of tricobalt, they probably did a spaghetti code kitbash bandaid fix, hence the current bugginess. Grats again Cryptic.

To boldly code what no coder would dare to compile.

I sincerely hope Cryptic employees are continuing to read this thread. If I were them, I might interpret a lot of this thread as whining and crying, but really there is a lot of justified outrage being posted in this thread over the "11th hour" nerf to fleet marks. It would be a serious mistake to ignore what people are saying here.

I've read a lot of posts in this thread that were excellently written with great ideas, concise criticism, constructive proposals, and so on. So I won't really attempt to say much more because everything that needs to be said HAS been said in this thread.

Repetition is necessary though. Unless Cryptic is forced to see the same logical arguments over and over it will be easy for them to continue ignoring the player base and continue to show a lack of respect for communication with the players of STO like myself. Our money keeps them alive, and we should expect a measure of respect in that regard.

--- A major change to the fleet mark system like nerfing Foundry missions should have been tested first. There is a reason you guys have a test server. Start using it more.

--- A major change should provide ample advanced warning for the players.

--- Removing fleet marks from Foundry missions without creating new content or altering existing content to offset that major loss of fleet marks will create a major problem for players and fleets.

--- Existing PVE/PVP content is insufficient for the farming/collection of fleet marks. It has been said that existing content is very limited. There have not been new PVE missions for a long time. Colony Invasion is relatively worthless for time spent. Longer 20-man queues are very difficult to pull a queue together. I personally have never been able to play Big Dig. By nerfing Foundry fleet marks you are:

--- Forcing people to grind the same, extremely limited content over and over and over is not only painful, it easily leads to "burn out." Why would people continue to play a game that becomes boring and unfun when there are new/existing games out there that can easily provide more entertainment?

The point everyone is making isn't that a change to Foundry/fleet marks is the end of Star Trek Online. Part of the point is that there simply isn't enough content. Many players are clearly feeling like all you care about is our money. You don't seem to care about fixing major bugs, errors, server problems, game play issues, adding new content, fixing content, or balancing existing content.

We understand that you need to make money, and we enjoy STO... but please show us some respect before you think about making game-altering changes like the one about to be immediately implemented without testing it first. Please.

Dont hold your breath,nobody's listening,nobody's bothered in craptic.Play the game how "they" want you to play it,proven track record for these peeps...

I feel I should point out 2 things:

1. The changes mentioned n this Tribble topic are being pushed to Holodeck tomorrow.

and

2. TORs F2P model is no better than this one. If anything its on par with this one and in some ways worse.

can I havz your stuffz

see ya don't let the door hit you .. you know in that spot

its worse it really feels like a pay-to-win option more than a F2P option IMHO if you want any end game gear you have to pay to get it on your toons but again thats my opinion

uhuh....

well i am positive that your Datamining will show soon enough that Starbase Progression will slow down to a full stop if you guys go through with this.

People are sick and tired of replaying those old Season 6 Fleetmark missions, the KDF queues aren't moving anymore either...

Within a week you will do something to make people earn more Fleetmarks again i am certain of that.

But don't take my word for it, just keep your eyes on your Dataminig machinery and facepalm hard about your decision later when you notice that we can't buy the Fleet Ships you try to sell to us, if we can not progress in the Starbase System.

Is there a weekly "Let's See How We Can Piss Off The Customer Base" meeting at Cryptic? It seems like everytime things get settled down from the last F-You they pull, something like this happens. It happens too regularly to be coincidence. In the past, I have spent way too much money on this game. Thanks for solving that problem for me, Cryptic.

O well .....