ShardWarrior

These may or may not be true, but reports are cropping up that Kurtzman is out from Star Trek. Take it with a grain of salt until rumors are confirmed or not. I will say that if this is indeed true, hallelujah! It will indeed be a great day when the utter sewage of the Kurtzman era is erased from canon and forgotten.

Amazon MGM Studios has greenlit a new Stargate series for Prime Video! It will be an all new series. I must admit, I am giddy to hear the original crew is going to be involved! I would love for them to do a proper series finale for SGU.

Again, old Anniversary badges can only be purchased from a vendor. That is the only way to obtain them. Most every other badge in the game does not require purchase from a vendor and has to be earned by completing an in-game activity. There is a crystal clear distinction.

I mean this with all due respect as I can empathize you are upset with how you feel things are handled here, but you can quite clearly see the inflated sense of entitlement in this response. Your analogy here is that everyone who ate the restaurant did not like the food. Some people might have liked the food. Some people may see the potential in the menu and will give the restaurant time to make adjustments after they have opened. What about their positive feedback? Or are you suggesting that ONLY the people who did not care for the menu are deserving to be listened to and their feedback is more important than anyone else? This is exactly what you are suggesting here. Your time was not wasted. You tested the set and provided your feedback. You have done your part. HC did not listen to you and that is what is upsetting you. You may want to consider that shouting into the wind is not helping and you are not going to get the results you are after, most likely ever.

If you can point to a post where a GM or HC member specifically told you not to post your opinion, please do share it. I have yet to see the exact words "do not post your opinion" by them. The fact that your thread is still here with GM and HC replies is evidence that your assertion is incorrect. You are absolutely most welcome to hold that view in my opinion. It may surprise you that I completely agree with your sentiment. With that said, I learned long ago that this group, for better or worse, will do what they want no matter what our feedback is. Your thread here and the general feeling behind it is not anything new and is a viewpoint many have expressed over the years. What I propose to you is that perhaps accept the fact that this is how HC works and they are not going to change their way of doing things. You may save yourself a lot of future aggravation. Taking that out on HC and others does not seem to be helping or having the result you are after.

No one has suggested that people should not voice their concerns. No one. What has been said in this regard and what "if you do not like it, do not play it" actually means is that all of the complaints and forum posts and rantings about Attune or whatever other complaints have not convinced HC to change their minds. The set is going to be released as is and will be addressed at a later date. HC holds all the cards here and they are not going to budge. They have a schedule they want to keep and they are going to stick to it, simple as that. There is no changing it at this point, so further complaining is not solving anything, and at least to me looks as if this has done little more than to cause HC dig their heels in. Until such time the set is fixed later, you have the option to play the set or not. If you want to keep shouting into the wind hoping someone will hear you, go right ahead. Personally, I do not see it moving the dial.

There is no slippery slope. The badges in question are already only obtainable by purchasing them with merits from a vendor. All the suggestion is for is to lift the narrow window of when they are available for purchase. That is a very far cry from "make all badges purchasable".

Correct. Quite clearly shows like Discovery and Strange New Worlds were made for an audience that did not include me, so I did not watch them. Nor did I demand the producers listen to my feedback. I did not cry and stomp my feet and whine on the Star Trek forums complaining to the producers that they did not listen to me. I very much doubt anyone involved with the production of Star Trek visits these forums. I just did not watch the programs. It really is not more difficult than that. Again, please contain your inflated sense of entitlement and your issues with the HC people in the Sonic Melee thread. There is no need to derail this thread with it. Thank you.

Correct. If it is not to my liking, I will not watch it, just as I stopped watching Discovery after its first season. See how simple that is? Please contain your inflated sense of entitlement in the Sonic Melee thread. No need to play the wounded puppy.

I have no disagreement here. I was merely speculating that perhaps badges are not the great incentive that some feel they are. I fully admit I have no idea on whether this is true for anyone. I was just thinking out loud. No disagreement here either.

There are many sets that under-perform compared to others. It has not stopped people from playing them. Bugs that take out a server or crash the game? Absolutely those should be addressed quickly. Those that are not earth shattering? They can most likely wait. Correct. The HC folks have asked for player feedback. Some have done their due diligence and thoroughly tested the new content as best they could and provided feedback. Whether or not the HC people decide to take that feedback into account is absolutely entirely up to them. It seems to me the confusion with these posts that crop up every time new things are released for testing stems from people who appear to have a strong sense of entitlement. HC is under no obligation to make changes based on every piece of feedback the players provide. HC is not a commercial product. There is no money for profit changing hands, so there is no strong incentive to keep a paying customer base happy. It does not need any of us here. We are nice to haves, not necessities. We can all disappear tomorrow and the HC team will still have their servers for themselves, friends, family and those still interested playing the game. They can turn off all servers any time they like. It seems to me that the HC folk have acknowledged that Sonic Melee is not in the best state it can be, but will release it as is and fix it later. What more are you looking for them to do? If it is not going to crash the server, then let them release it. If they do or not fix it later is up to them. Correct. It really is not more difficult than that.

The HC folks can set their own schedule though. They determine how much or how little time they want to take. This is no longer a commercial product, so there is no need to rush things out, especially if they are in an unfinished state. If that is what they want to do, then they certainly are welcome to do so. As I said earlier, those who do not like the new set do not have to play it.

I disagree. It is a bad thing and please, no more reboots. Star Trek had a very successful 18 year television run from 1987 to 2005 creating new series with new characters with their own stories to tell. We do not need yet another rehash of TOS or TNG.

Like most of the slop that J.J. Abrams writes, neither of these were an original idea. They were very poorly contrived rehashes of far superior characters and stories that had been done before. The basic foundation of the setting may be in place (eg. future, Federation, Starfleet etc.) That is a very long way from the other world building and character development that needs to take place. Look at the growth of the characters on TNG/DS9/VOY over seven years and 4 years on ENT. That is a very tall order to fill in a single film.

From what I remember, the people who post on the forums are a "fraction of a fraction" of the overall player base, so using that as a measure of what most would want does not hold water. I find this very dubious. There are so many different in-game activities to earn badges that come along with doing "normal" activities. If you could unlock badges account wide, you would never ever run any TFs/SFs again on any alts? What about when they are a WST for the extra merits? You would never sell anything on the exchange or craft anything on alts? Never defeat any enemy NPCs? Travel around the city? What exactly would you do with your alts then? Park them and never play them at all? To some, yes. Most people I know have one "badger" character whom they will chase all the badges on. The rest of their alts they only get whichever they get by playing content. See the above "mind numbingly tedious dreck" comment above. If there are as many posts complaining about badges that you have suggested there have been, then perhaps they are not that good of an incentive? Just a thought.

After reading many posts about this topic over the years, I had thought that the general consensus of the "no" crowd was that running the content was its own reward and the badge did not matter? With that in mind, what difference would it make if you unlock a badge once for all alts? Would you never run a particular favorite story arc again? I am not so sure I believe this would prevent people from running story arcs any more or less than they do now. I will add I agree not all badges should be account wide unlocks. Some yes like the aforementioned Anniversary Badges, most others, no.

I am not so sure I agree. What made Star Trek successful (meaning everything Alex Kurtzman was not involved with) was allowing for the television series the time to build the universe and flesh out the characters. Introducing a whole new cast of characters and trying to give them all enough screen time in a 90 or 120 minute film is a tall order, especially when there is an overall story to tell. This concerns me in this case as it would appear they have not yet learned their lesson from the Kelvin movies - Star Trek is far less about the visual spectacle and giant flashing VFX space battles than it is about the characters and their stories.

Synapse is not my particular favorite TF either and I would agree, the first set of defeat all missions could use some pairing down. With that said, I invite you to transfer your character over to Torchbearer and join us for a run on the Saturday Night Synapse (SNS) League. The wonderful @Kalikamata hosts this event every week and it is Saturday evenings starting at 8:00 PM EST. There is usually two leagues (sometimes a third) running it at the same time, and we coordinate all teams to spawn and gather all of the Babbages to fight them at once. So far, the record is 37 Babbages! You can transfer back to Everlasting once the TF is over. Quite a fun event with some friendly people. There is usually a Kronos Titan or five before the SNS league starts. It does make a very boring TF a much more fun time when running it with good people.

I will echo @Snarky's sentiment. I would also suggest, those that do not like the new melee set to simply not play it.

Both the Smack and Slap emotes are very much necessary. I need them to keep my pet Monkey in line.

Rather than removed, it would be nice if it were and option (along the lines of Swap Ammo or Staff Mastery) we could select whether we want KB or KD. The biggest problem with KB in my experience is all of the geometry errors throughout the game on various maps. Enemy NPCs get knocked into the geometry and get stuck.

The only things I would change about Empathy is to convert CM from single target to AoE so it is applied to anyone in range, and reduce the truly absurd long recharge time on Resurrect. Other than those two things, I think Empathy is fine as is. It is a very fun and very beneficial set to have on lower level content. Most all support sets in general suffer from the same issue in my opinion - they become superfluous at higher levels. That may change now that focus is being put into higher difficulty settings and content.

This sorting and organizing can already be achieved using the existing objects. Cosmetics are dependent on whether the builder(s) want to display the beacons or hide them. I think it preferable to have single teleporter objects that are automatically tied to every zone as that eliminates placing any beacons and multiple teleporter objects. Essentially, just take the LRT code and attach it to a teleporter base object instead of a power icon. Just my personal preference, but I would like to see future base editor work focus on reducing item counts. On the very remote chance new objects are added to the editor, someone is in there anyway to add the new items. Updating tags can be done at that time.

This has nothing to do with asking for instant level 50s. People will ask for this regardless. Instant level 50s via Temporal Warriors were already implemented for PvP players. Surely that is more of a "slippery slope" than what the OP is suggesting. I agree there are already ways to achieve what the OP is asking for, which makes the request ultimately a moot point.

Systems such as converting EMP merits to Transcendent Merits to be shared among characters on an account were put into place specifically to help reduce some level of tedium. The aforementioned Temporal Warriors were put into place to reduce some level of tedium. Perhaps I am misunderstanding here, but I do not see anyone suggesting that players should get instant level 50s here.