Admiralty system: Don't throw away your Miranda classes!

Cryptic has come out with more information about the Admiralty system set to launch with Season 11 (October some time). More information can be found on this Reddit thread where one of the devs participated.

Here's the short version:

-The admiralty system is like doffing but with ships.

-You get an admiralty ship card (like a doff) for each ship you own. You do not lose that card even if you dismiss the corresponding ship.

-You can only have one card of a kind, so you can't dismiss and then reclaim a ship a bunch of times to get a bunch of cards.

-But fleet, retrofit, refit, and mirror versions of ships are counted separately. So you can have cards for the Patrol Escort, Patrol Escort Refit, Fleet Patrol Escort Refit, and Mirror Patrol Escort at the same time. (I can't find anything about t5 vs. t5u counting as separate.) [Edit: Actually, Bort says no, they don't count separately, right in that Reddit thread I linked.]

-Also, ship packs with 3 similar ships (like the pilot ships) count separately. But you will need to claim each ship to get a card, just like you'll need to claim each event ship to get a card for that toon.

-If you have dismissed a ship before the admiralty system launches, you will not get a card for it. So don't dismiss any more ships that you can't reclaim, at least for the next month!

-Small craft will not be part of this system at launch, but Borticus says there are plans. Take that with a grain of salt.

-There will be two assignment chains (campaigns) at launch, one KDF and one Fed (although everyone can do both). There will be a unique card for completing them.

-You have an unlimited number of slots for cards (unlike the DOFF system) and 3 assignment slots that can be expanded to 8 by completing assignments.

-Rewards for admiralty assignments are more generous with specialization XP than DOFF assignments, at least in the screenshots that have been released.

So those of us who dismissed the ships we got while leveling can all grumble, but we're going to have to pay dilithium to get them back. It costs 6800 dil for a t1 ship (Miranda class for feds), 12,750 for t2, 34,000 for t3, 68,000 for t4, and 102,000 for t5.

I also remember that we all have access to a T3 ship from the Temporal Ambassador episode, and we can get it back with replay according to STO wiki. [Edit: Just went back and did it on my mains and I got the ship for all of them. It sits in a box that I won't even open until the Admiralty system launches. Also, why did they age Tasha Yar like they did Sela?]

Now I'm glad I finished the grind for the Risian Luxury Cruiser this summer even though I haven't flown it once.

Thanks for the quick version! As for the old ships dismissed and not getting a card, the reason for this is that they were not tracking what you purchased and discarded, so while unfortunate it was not some money-hungry attempt at you shelling out dilithium for your old ships. My guess is that with the assignments you'll see, plenty of the ships you have now will work just fine.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

With 3 to 8 assignment slots we won't need to purchase every ship in the game to be able to participate.

Although they could give us a T1 Miranda, T'liss, or B'rel card to start. They know that we had those ships.

Good point. Just asked Bort about that: https://twitter.com/bfelczer/status/649269269054689280

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Yay! My TOS Connie, NX, Oberth classes & everything else tiers 1-4 I got to strip consoles will have new purpose again! STO Pokemon here I come!

Seems like a nice system. Too bad for me I am an old fashion gal. I'm a one ship one captain space explorer.

Yeah, I'm like you Jamie.. I like having my active ship roster clear of any ships that I'm not flying: one ship and one shuttle only. Luckily, you don't have to have any of these ships sitting in your dry dock. So long as you've bought or earned the ship at some point,, you'll still be able to send it on assignments, even if you've dismissed it and it's not in your roster :)

Not accurate, unfortunately :( They had no need in past to track what ships you had and dismissed, so only ships in dry dock will get you a card. You can reclaim your Cstore ships and get card and dismiss again, but ships not reclaimable won't get card.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Ah yes, this is essentially what I meant... that you don't have to keep a whole roster full of them to be able to use them :D I don't mind reclaiming them and then dismissing them. I was concerned that I'd have to keep them in the roster and fully geared up to be useful.

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Ah yes, this is essentially what I meant... that you don't have to keep a whole roster full of them to be able to use them :D I don't mind reclaiming them and then dismissing them. I was concerned that I'd have to keep them in the roster and fully geared up to be useful.

Ah, I see what you meant and how I misread. :)

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

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Yeah, I'm like you Jamie.. I like having my active ship roster clear of any ships that I'm not flying: one ship and one shuttle only. Luckily, you don't have to have any of these ships sitting in your dry dock. So long as you've bought or earned the ship at some point,, you'll still be able to send it on assignments, even if you've dismissed it and it's not in your roster :)

I think if I only had one active ship and shuttle I would cry. I need then to allow more than the max ship slots so I can reclaim a load when this comes round! I've been maxxed for months now

I just regret equipping all these ships the past month thinking that gear would somehow affect the ships performance :-(

BUT, I am glad I can dismiss most of them upon getting the cards. I am a one ship kinda guy

Sigh. Sign I may be looking forward to the Admiralty System too much:

I'm going to replay Temporal Ambassador 5 more times. (Once per alt). Just so I get another tier 3 ship card.

Well played Cryptic, well played.

Now if you could only do something about the ships I dismissed to make room. ( I'd be fine with just getting the special ships back, i.e. mirror universe & base model odyssey)