Badge vs TOS communicator

[rnyboy]

How do you get the badge communicator? Since I started last August my toon has had the TOS communicator but there is also other players using a badge communicator. How does one acquire one of those? Or did/do you have to be a very early in the game or subscription player before is was FTP?

[Steelmax]

For TOS tricoder you need to start a new 23c character, which is pointless now as you can't progress the TOS event. Right now, they are basically the same with Fed, with the only exception to some fancy animations and a different GUI. Oh, and an awful introduction.

[Vellari]

Correct, it is not an item. It reflects your faction.

For example the beam out animation (which I guess you are referring to):
23rd century TOS captains will talk to the old style communicator and have yellowish beam effect.
24th century captain will tap their combadge and have blue beam out.
Romulas will tap their wrist communicator and have green effect.
Klingons wrist aswell and red effect.

[Mr. Fibble]

Originally posted by Steelmax:

For TOS tricoder you need to start a new 23c character, which is pointless now as you can't progress the TOS event. Right now, they are basically the same with Fed, with the only exception to some fancy animations and a different GUI. Oh, and an awful introduction.

To make sense of some of the references (like the thingamybob scotty produces) you have to have played the 23c tutorial. The whole arc has the vibe it was thrown together in an afternoon by folk who never really paid much attention to time travel in scifi.

[Vellari]

Originally posted by n3mes1s:

Originally posted by Vellari:

For example the beam out animation (which I guess you are referring to):
23rd century TOS captains will talk to the old style communicator and have yellowish beam effect.
24th century captain will tap their combadge and have blue beam out.
Romulas will tap their wrist communicator and have green effect.
Klingons wrist aswell and red effect.

Well, this is the theory. The game is so broken that some transporter animations always are mixed and wrong.

Ground beam outs (which I guess was being talked about here) are fine to me anyway. Space warp outs on the otherhand are all over the place.

[Vellari]

Ah, boffs have the wrong ones. That's true.