Star Trek Online....

I've been really enjoying the new TFO, Operation Riposte (way more info). Thankfully it still has two weeks until it's over(as a daily reward). It's got a good combination of Space interactions. It's Federation war with the Klingons. I'm not concentrating on the type of Klingon ships involved. The less I think about ST:D the better.

I was in a good run of the event the other night:

A Casual Carebear

Having an optional daily is a million miles apart from an in game system that requires a daily logon and action. It's a fine line between incentive and grind. I've said before that I've not really felt any grind within STO. There was a bit of a grind with one of the reputations but overall there's been more fun in doing than monotonous grind. The new T6 ship reward event that requires daily TFO completion for vouchers over multiple months is............ questionable; Yet not a grind in practice so far. I'm a bit conflicted about its longterm meaning for the game.

All that said I'm making good progress on the remaining event rep rewards.

And a third the way through the T6 tokens due to the boosted weekend/promotion.

There's a change in the management mindset behind the game in what feels like a lowering of the bar for the common denominator. Which feels like a watering down of my own limited efforts of the past. Will this make certain T6 ships the go to ship for all class's?
The T6 for all levels change, makes me think it will take away a lot from the game. The game is/was all about levelling up to gearing up both player and ship, working towards the next level of ship for your rank, working reputations and events. Getting Zen to buy ships was for the wealthy or free zen for the persistent. For me, doing seasonal events for the better ships was worth it. More so before I became a lifetime member. I now get free Zen to shop T6 ships but my main still uses an event ship. Free event T6 ships to be used by a character from day one, feels strange. Great for the majority of established players but feels 'off'. Is it an empowerment? Am I reading all this right either way? If the game removes the established players from the normal character levelling re ships is that going to diminish the active interactions between newer and older players to the game....... What about the in game exchange? So many questions.

The spread of the ST:D infection in Trek Online goes on. Unfortunately. I'm well beyond being numb towards this content. I have no choice but to accept it's there. I'm experiencing it as my STO character's in game interactions. Like I said above, the TFO is to fight against Klingons no matter what the ships look like. A target is a target the rest is white noise. 

Rise of Discovery's launch on May 14