I don't know if TPG uses SSS for building their Trids but I don't think they do so they shouldn't drop things like FFSSA or FCP. Instead I think there should be hive convoys with 1 or more queens, several transports, guardians and maybe some assaults. The hive must build more levis and queens so why shouldn't they use the same stuff as we do for our Trids? Maybe regular queens and hs queens can drop FFSSA, FCP and SSS too? This would make more sense to me.

Really, this comes down to a plea by the players to make Trident crafting easier (in terms of the huge effort required). Several different suggestions have this same underlying objective.

Allow me to wrangle this thread.

This is not about making cap ships easier to build.

This is about creating a new incentive for CtC to motivate player participation as the previous incentive is clearly not working anymore.

Initially I suggested cap ship parts or avalons because I believe those are the objects in high demand at the moment and would dramatically increase participation in CtC. I'm open to other ideas.

Most people playing this game right now have never seen CtC with 8+ players, all online at the same time, actively participating on each side. It's one of my fondest memories of this game and is hugely entertaining. It can easily be entertaining again if the rewards were updated to be more desirable.

It seems to me the real problem is that someone's looking for a permanent fix. There is no such thing. After a while whatever replaces the current ctc prize will become old hat, and there will be just 2 players on each side fighting for it. It needs to be changed often so it's constantly fresh.