Nukara Strikeforce Reputation

[T-Jericho]

Legacy of Romulus Dev Blog #5 was posted today:



Nukara Prime is as inhospitable as a war zone could possibly be. Between the toxic and irradiated environment and the ever present threat of the Tholian Assembly, only the boldest dare step foot on this Y class “Demon” world. That’s where the Nukara Strikeforce comes in. This organization fights the Tholian threat on Nukara Prime and anywhere else they appear. As one could imagine, they have their hands full and welcome assistance from both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Defense Force. Those daring enough to lend a hand will be greatly rewarded for their efforts.

The Nukara Strikeforce Reputation will be introduced with the launch of the Legacy of Romulus expansion this May. Players will be able to aid the Nukara Strikeforce by completing missions that help eliminate the Tholian threat. These missions and events will take place both on and off Nukara Prime and completion of them will reward players with Nukara Marks. While the list of content that will award Nukara Marks has yet to be finalized, chances are if it’s intended for level 50 players and it involves Tholians, players will be able to earn Nukara Marks. Players can spend their earned marks to complete reputation projects that will allow them to progress through the Nukara Strikeforce Reputation and earn powerful new gear and powers.

Like the New Romulus and Omega Task Force Reputations, players who progress through the Nukara Strikeforce Reputation will be rewarded with new passive power options (and one new active power) and a wide variety of both starship and ground equipment options. By completing a wide variety of projects, players can earn:

• Two new ground equipment sets
  
• Two new space equipment sets
  
• A suite of Antiproton “Anti-Tholian” ground weapons
  
• A suite of special “Refracting” Tetryon space weapons
  
• New combat pets
  
• A vanity pet
  
• Very Rare EV Suits
  
• Rare, Very Rare and Ultra Rare Tholian Widow hangar pets that can be used by any starship with a carrier slot
  
• New captain powers, including a devastating Tetryon area-of-effect starship attack!
  
• And more!

In addition to all of this, players will be able to run special one-time projects that reward them for hard work already performed on Nukara Prime. The first set of projects allow players to exchange pieces of the levelless Tholian ground set, earned from Tholian Equipment Requisition boxes, for 50 Nukara Marks per piece. The second set of projects allow players to “register” their Mk XII Lobi Store upgraded Tholian ground set pieces. By doing so, they’ll receive 50 Nukara Marks per piece and get the ground gear back.



The rewards on Nukara Prime are also getting an overhaul. Some rewards will be removed and others will be replaced. Below is a list of the changes happening on Nukara Prime:

• Missions on Nukara Prime will no longer reward Tholian Equipment Requisition reward packs. Instead, these Missions will award Nukara Marks.

• The levelless version of the Tholian Ground set will no longer be available; however, players with existing pieces of this set can exchange each piece once for 50 Nukara Marks.
  
• The Anti-Proton weapons that dropped from these reward packs will be made available via Store Unlock projects in the Nukara Strikeforce Reputation. These weapons will be available in Very Rare Mk XI and Mk XII variants.
  
• The Environmental Suits that dropped from the Tholian Requisition packs will be made available via Store Unlock projects in the Nukara Strikeforce Reputation. The EV Suits will be available in Very Rare Mk XI and Mk XII variants.
  
• All of the above items are bind on acquire.

• The Lobi Store reward “Tholian Ground Set – Crystalline Nanofiber Augmentations” will no longer be available. This upgrade pack would convert the levelless Tholian Ground set into a Mk XII version.

• Players who purchased this upgrade pack can “register” each piece for 50 Nukara Marks and will also receive the item back.
  
• The above upgraded Mk XII Tholian Ground set that was previously only available in the Lobi store is now available as a high tier reward project in the Nukara Strikeforce Reputation.

The Nukara Strikeforce Reputation introduces a slew of new exciting rewards for both space and ground combat that weren’t previously available and will be released with the launch of the Legacy of Romulus expansion. We cannot wait for you to be able check it out this May. See you in-game!

Phil "Gorngonzolla" Zeleski
Systems Designer
Star Trek Online

[Morgan Shackelford]

I'm not sure if this is exciting or not.

[EvildeadXL]

sparrow794 wrote:

I'm not sure if this is exciting or not.

I know what you mean, after reading this it just seens like all the random junk in boxes will now cost dilithium and a ton more grinding. At least that is how it sounds to me. Although i would wager that tholians are going to br more prominent in the expansion possibly?

[Anton Mercer]

EvildeadXL wrote:

sparrow794 wrote: I'm not sure if this is exciting or not. I know what you mean, after reading this it just seens like all the random junk in boxes will now cost dilithium and a ton more grinding. At least that is how it sounds to me. Although i would wager that tholians are going to br more prominent in the expansion possibly?

This^^ I do not see why Cryptic is making more Dil sinks. Starbase projects alone take up most of one's Dil to complete(for those who do not grind, cpoints, etc.) and the ways to get dil, in my opinion at least, are either not enough or take too long and considerable grinding to see big returns to justify so many sinks. This is all just my opinion please no bashing...

[VADM pRett]

Because dil sinks means greater demand for dil, which means zen to dil exchange rates will trend upwards (less dil per zen). This, in turn, will probably cause more people to buy more zen to get the same amount of dil as they did before.

[Anton Mercer]

Capt pRett wrote:

Because dil sinks means greater demand for dil, which means zen to dil exchange rates will trend upwards (less dil per zen). This, in turn, will probably cause more people to buy more zen to get the same amount of dil as they did before.

touche

[Morgan Shackelford]

On the one hand, I prefer a less random system. Earning a currency form, and being able to exchange that currency for the end game gear that you want, is one of the best things to happen in MMO's. I will never forget running Scholomance 120+ times trying to get a stupid set helm to drop.

So, it's nice to know that if I want the set piece I'm missing from the Nukara ground gear, there is a definite path to follow that will get me there where I am not relying on a quasi random item generator to determine if I get what I'm after. I think my biggest frustration is they are, again, changing horses mid stream. Hopefully this won't be an issue going forward, but it's frustrating as a player to operate under one system, get halfway to your goals, then have the entire system revamped and you're basically starting over from scratch. This was obviously a big deal when they revamped the STF's - you either had to rush to finish whatever you were working on before the changes went live, or you if you hadn't made a lot of progress to begin with, there was no point in trying until things were changed over.

[EvildeadXL]

sparrow794 wrote:

So, it's nice to know that if I want the set piece I'm missing from the Nukara ground gear, there is a definite path to follow that will get me there where I am not relying on a quasi random item generator to determine if I get what I'm after.

Don't get me wrong, I love this idea as well. I hate random drops. My only complaint is the lack of (as far as I know) desirable gear in the nuk rep tree. I am hopeful that more information will be released later, but this dev blog didn't do much to wet my appetite for this specific addition.

[Elthiar]

So from what I understand, not only do my auto level bits I do have get turned into MKXII bits, I don't even have to finish grinding for the set. I'll be able to grind to buy the bit I'm missing and turn the rest into the MKXII set, and buy all those antiproton guns that you can get off the exchange for ec instead of dilithium...unless they are changing the stats for the ones you will buy with dilithium? I'm so confused right now.

[Morgan Shackelford]

EvildeadXL wrote:

Don't get me wrong, I love this idea as well. I hate random drops. My only complaint is the lack of (as far as I know) desirable gear in the nuk rep tree. I am hopeful that more information will be released later, but this dev blog didn't do much to wet my appetite for this specific addition.

There are two new space sets and two new ground sets. I've heard good things about the space sets.

[Anton Mercer]

Heres the full list they gave of new items...

Two new ground equipment sets
Two new space equipment sets
A suite of Antiproton “Anti-Tholian” ground weapons
A suite of special “Refracting” Tetryon space weapons
New combat pets
A vanity pet
Very Rare EV Suits
Rare, Very Rare and Ultra Rare Tholian Widow hangar pets that can be used by any starship with a carrier slot
New captain powers, including a devastating Tetryon area-of-effect starship attack!
And more!

[Mark Speed]

Hopefully they've crafted the second ground set (assuming the first is the current one / MkXII version of it) to be more useful in missions not involving Tholians. I find my MACO ground set is pretty good against any ground opponent, whereas my Tholian set is really only useful against Tholians (and perhaps not even so on New Romulus in areas where you don't need the EV suit).

[Elthiar]

Did some running around Tribble last night (love the slick new hud interface) not sure how much of it is going to make it into the coming release, but took a couple screen caps for any one that is interested.