Lemur Lad

Unlikely in the extreme. Do what I did and wait for them to add more to the existing pools. I was thankful to have all that stuff sitting around when new Lore pets came out, and I'll feel the same when there are new Judgements or Destiny powers.

No. You're twisting both the intent and outcome of what he's saying. They know we want it, and they are still saying that. They're not even saying we will look into putting it on the schedule, which is what they do when it is in the realm of possibility.

As the other quote says, this is an alt friendly game, and even a paid for feature that depresses the need to make alts is antithetical to their main goal, which is to keep people paying and playing. When Posi says he doesn't know what they'd charge to make it worth it, he's thinking of all those hours and time people invest into a new alt when something new comes along.

So you can move on to your speed STF and speed LRSF and get them all done in slightly more time but with more drops and Merits than your lown "shard ITF"

You will always get more by doing multiple TFs than you will by dragging out a single TF. Always.

FYI- it isn't. That phenomenon is related to a bug with cutscenes. When I'm forced to watch MM's boobs, I get what you describe. When it gets skipped, I don't.

Who said the game couldn't support it? I've run full BAFs with no appreciable lag. There are other times I've had lots of it. But the simple fact that there are times when it works fine trumps any argument you can make that the game needs an arbitrary lowering of the limit.

If it never ever ever worked right, you might have a point.

I like to not see big screen TVs up on the wall when I go out to eat as it distracts me from my girlfriend. But I know if we go to a Sports Bar my chances of that not happening are next to nil.

Same thing applies when you make the choice to browse the forums.

Real world paradigms aside, I always tended to see the way Starfleet handled things to be somewhat similar to Ender's Game. Everyone is given the same initial training, then tracked into whichever advanced program their talents show they belong. Often with those steps happening simultaneously or even in reverse (Bones being a doctor before he joined, and presumably getting basic training at the same time he was learning everything a fleet medical officer needs to know).

Engineering
Science
Command

I got no issues with them rapidly advancing the Command school grads they've been grooming for the chair, and I consider Kirk's promotion to be in essence a battlefield commission. His Academy training virtually guaranteed he'd end up there eventually, and exigent circumstances and meritorious service both meant skipping steps was a valid call.

In certain strict caste societies, the captain/crew relationship tends to border on captor/hostage in terms of psychology. Even in a nonmilitary working ship, an extended voyage can lead to some really funky attitudes when all your societal rules and upbringing center on accepting authority.

Don't think of a Romulan crew as you would a crew on an American vessel with American ideals and norms. Think of them more like a Japanese crew in WWII, which would put them at the borderline fanatic position on the spectrum. While Vulcans curbed their raw violent tendencies through analysis and logic, I get the impression that most Romulan societies did it by instilling strict discipline and obedience. In Trek Romulans are seen as warlike, but not barbarically so.

Besides, we don't really know how different Nero before the destruction was from Nero after. Nor do we know precisely how much information the crew had been given. Given all these things as a baseline, it's actually pretty easy to think that a crew would have absolute faith in their captain and follow his orders.

On top of all that, we as viewers tend to develop a pretty jaded view of time travel when watching Star Trek, and it's easy to forget that to the universe at large, it is considered impossible, or at least wildly misunderstood. A Romulan miner doesn't have the level of intellect or training to wrap their head around things the same way a fully trained Vulcan Science Officer with top security clearance would.

Why enforce a cap when all a leader has to do is decide they want less than the maximum.

Just like TF minimums annoy players, low max limits on participation do too.

You have the choice available to you now. Just exercise it.

I'm generally of the opinion that new players aren't any stupider than existing players, the only variable being time. Most of them will be able to figure it out. Especially since it's actually the exact opposite of the old "Kill X in Y neighborhood" problem, which was overly specifc, and "new players" ran into issues figuring out why their kills didn't count.

Basically people will go after the first ones they see. If they have to run a little bit before they find some, that's no big deal, AP is a pretty small zone. In essence, people's default mode of play will lead to mission success, as opposed to having to actively sort something out. If a high level griefer is spamming AoEs, all the new player does is have to run around a couple corners and there will be more targets.

I've done them on Mercy and it's fundamentally the same thing. I ran into no issues even when things were very crowded. While they lead you to a specific area, the area where there are foes that count is usually quite large with really fast respawn and low perception radius.

I don't deny it's possible, but I'd bet money it's hard to keep people from completing their missions for any length of time. At the very least it won't take people any longer than it does hunting over a wide area for uncommon mobs now.

If it does turn out to "need" a solution then all the devs need to do is make use of the phasing technology so that people beyond a certain level can't even see the mobs.

How are higher level characters supposed to get into the tutorial?

Not to mention that in the "zone event" section of the tutorial the conditions aren't personal. Anyone makes a kill, everyone gets credit.

Besides, it's not like the tutorial is always going to be jam packed with people after the first month or so.

agreed

Scanners don't work in Atlas or Galaxy. If you're in King's Row and it says that, then I was correct in the post above and you need to work for level 5 before it will work.

That's not an either or. He has to sweep until 5 because they won't give out a scanner or intro him to another below 5.

ummm not at all (again). Right now, there are only paying subscribers, and they are the only ones with access. Again, we know nothing about the future. This discussion is just about how they plan to test the account tier system.