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Q: KBFLordKrueg Now that we have a beautifully redone QonoS, can we hope for more Klingon missions soon as well?
Long Answer:
A: With launching Season 4, the entire team is focused on adding new content over the months ahead that will utilize all the new cool features and combat updates in this release. We are currently in development on the following content: Featured Episode Series 4 which will take place around Deep Space 9, Special Task Force updates to improve and balance these missions into something fun and/or challenging to play, Borg Invasion Events which will include a weekly ground assault on a to be announced species homeworld as well as hourly Borg Deep Space incursions into all sectors, new locale flavored neighborhood missions for social zones, OpenPVP Encounters, and four new Fleet Actions (1 exclusive ground and space FA for each faction). So yes. We absolutely plan to release some great new content to show off the new combat updates in Season 4. All of this content is currently scheduled to release at various stages in Season 4 between now and October.
Dstahl sounds like a politician, scary. Short answer seems pretty simple: No.
Q: Diceberg Why can't I as captain have at lest one universal BO station on each ship?
A: Once we get the feature completed, our intention is that you will be able to select one of your experienced Bridge Officers and promote them to First Officer. A First Officer then opens up the universal slot on your ship (that they sit in), opening up the seat that they normally took for another officer. So we plan to do this just, however the "universal" slot is really you deciding which of your officers you want to be "First Officer" and they become the extra slot. We've scheduled this to be functional before Season 5 launch.
The sheer amount of short shortsightedness demonstrated here is mind boggling. I guess we know how 'Pengs got through the QA process :rolleyes:
Q: farscape-one The new Enterprise class ship - it would be nice to have all universal bridge officers like the Klingond so anyone (class) could fly it.
A: Great suggestion! I'll talk to the ship design team about this to see if they'll consider it. It may be that we could at least offer different "flavors" of the ship to different classes, if not make it universal.
Well, isn't that something....
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- Tomax
My newly created Federation Klingon can now look forward to:
1. Awesome BO setups at end game with the new Enterprise class ship!
2. Tons of content to go through
3. New shooter mode to help me PvE
In spite of three FE series that didn't, in spite of ship and costume options that didn't, in spite of two sorties with a daily, in spite of six dailies from the FEs, in spite of everything KDF players have been saying for more than a year now.. They seem determined to cling to that sad, flawed, false belief.
I makes me sad for the future of the game. If they continue down this path, and then try to release a Romulan Faction treated the same way, then I see STO and the "Broken Faction Syndrome" entering the MMO lexicon alongside SWGs NGE as one of the classical mistakes no game will ever want to repeat.
i understand that the ask cryptics are never realy that useful but that one thing would have saved this one for me
While that sounds great if you're rolling a Federation character, I'd only expect that the same treatment is given to the KDF.
Seeing as there is already such a limitation to KDF ships at end game, the natural evolution or stopgap would be to introduce some of the existing ships with universal BOs, like the Negh'Var, and Carrier. I really can't see Cryptic being able to justify rolling out a single-faction Tier 6 ship with all the trimmings, could you?
I think we've crossed paths on the battlefield many times. I'm no Feddie or PvE sympathizer, but it would be a blast to have a very powerful ship before leaving this lol-balance? game for TOR.
Yes we have faced each other and ten-two-one you nearly always left me taping my ship back together afterwards
I support Uni-boffs for both factions - but I think that as a testbed it should be introduced in phases starting with the Cmdr Boff spot. See how that fairs and if there is a positive response to it roll it out for other ranks and then if things are problematic, the roll back is not too great. Perhaps I could be wrong. (Almost certainly!)
season 4 better be the mutts nuts and cos decorating my school books never improved my grades and neither will cryptic redecorating qu'nos improve there standing by much for so long. so yay they have done the new ground update but it is in no way fps or anywhere near fps, the use of kits and spells are bulky an incoherant. they should have just ditched the whole ground combat and rebuilt the ground game from the floor up instead of trying to adapt an rpg version into an fps version.
ask yourself this, if this wasnt star trek and we wernt klingons,orions,nausicaans,gorn and letheans would you still be here cos we got launch wait for season 1 for us to fix, then its comimg s2 then s3 then s4 now just after season for and for sure it will be in s5.
Here your short answer was incorrect. Dstahl's lengthy answer addressed the issue raised on a number of different fronts and answered unequivocally that yes, there would be new missions for Klingons.
That might be an interesting thought, or a disappointing one. Why do you think a Universal BOFF station for every ship based around the new First Officer System is short sighted?
Maybe, maybe not. Seeing how he did not say the new Enterprise would have universal consoles and in fact provided reference to another means of making the Enterprise appealing to a range of captains that he also did not say they would implement, I'm having trouble seeing this as 'something.' If you explained your thinking here we might not be left scratching our head and wondering about what you're supposed to mean.
Sure its got its issues, its got its LONGGGGG standing bugs, but WHAT GAME DOESNT? My brother has been playing WoW for over 5 years and he said when he first started even that game had its issues.
All you people who BASH Cryptic for no KLINGON content need to get over yourselfs!!! Maybe the Klingons where an afterthought, maybe the game wasnt QUITE ready for release, Maybe lately there has been no REAL content additions: SO FRACKEN WHAT!
I have 4 fed characters and two klingon characters to keep me busy, and you know what? i dont RUSH to get to max lvl just so i can COMPLAIN about the lack of content, i actually PLAY the bloody game!!!!!!!!!
IN closing, to EVERYONE who thinks cryptic isnt doing a good job with this game here's an idea: START YOUR OWN GAME COMPANY AND SEE IF YOU CAN DO BETTER!!!
$100 bucks says YOU FAIL!!!!!
To the Cryptic team ( not that any of them will actually read this ) KEEP up the good work and dont get discouraged by a few malcontents who will probably NEVER be happy with ANYTHING in there miserable lives.
THank you and Carry on!
One more thing: THis is not a PERSONAL attack on ANY who posted on this thread or in the forums, its just me expressing my frustration for the negativety that CONSTANTLY shows up here.
Aye, and I could still best a son of Khaless with my claws tied to my feet.... using only my teeth!
Humor aside; I think Cryptic is missing what I call the theory of player entropy (I'e heard the same basic thoughts from plenty of players but that's just my name for describing it in my words.)
The theory of player entropy states that a player of a given faction or who is introduced to a certain faction first tends to remain more attached to that faction unless given good incentive to branch out.
What does that mean practically?
What it means is that despite the Klingons having *Access* to things like FE series, that most people just do the series on their Fed character and there is no real draw to bring anyone to the Klingon side.
Or in other words, leveling may be less painful now thus eliminating some of the stigma that would turn players away from Klingons, but eliminating turn-offs isn't enough, positive draw must also exist.
The logical conclusion?
The faction needs more *unique* Klingon *only* accessible content in order to generate draw.
In a perfect world both factions have access to shared content and to only faction specific content, thus enticing players to spend time on both sides of the divide, and causing the ones who gravitate to a single faction to distribute more evenly.
That's the theory anyways.
For the record I assume content to be defined as a mix of;
*good enjoyable missions
*faction-only gear
*and robust choice/customization of ships/Characters.
For the record, I also want to state that I'd postulate Cryptic is in something of a bind here; because the primary playerbase resides with the Federation.
If they pull the majority of the team to bring the Klingons up to spec with the Federation then the Feds will experience a content drought.
My guess is that Cryptic is worried such a drought would drive off enough players to upset the bean-counters/the budget.
sorry im losing track on your rant. your bashing cryptic bashers for bashing cryptic for no content, or your comparing cryptic to blizzard now activision-blizzard, in which you vear off to bugs as if they are actual content or your challanging people who do not like the state of kdf to go out and create a multi million pound/dollar company to create there version of sto with a better build and gameplay for the kdf, apply for licensing and go into direct compotition for star trek ip against cryptic who have the licenseunder contract from cbs and if they fail you want them to give you $100.
i think you best go sit back in the corner and put that tin hat back on that the doctor gave you to keep the aliens out and read this before piping up http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=217322
:eek:I only want is to use one ship for my Alts (Tac,Sci,Eng),And i think the klingons should get a flagship to match the new fed one:o (I play on the klingons side):D
I thought we lost all the negative Klingon players. They should have quit ages ago.
If you want to play a Klink with lots of PvE content roll a Fed Klink, at least for now. ( It will be like the shows and movies then)
I am sick of this from my fellow KDF extended family.
SO for the last time...PLEASE...... understand the following....
1. KDF player base is small and is never...NEVER.... going to come any where near the Federation player base. There are some wanting to be KDF but even those Fed's who would dabble and roll a KDFer are small.
NO amount of game material, content, ships, environments or cool story arcs will change that. It would be like adding a Vulcan sub-faction or Andorian sub-faction on the Fed side. We are a niche, even on our own side I see more Aliens, Gorns and Orions than Klingon toons. All the other empires and races will always be niche player bases. I bet if they made a faction with nothing but merchants, with Feregi, Orion, Aliens and Humans it would still be a niche faction.
PS....That was how they got the second faction player base up by adding in Orion and Gorn players as well. Does anyone actually play a Nausican or Lethian?
2. The KDF is not like other MMO's second faction....Cryptic's one mistake was trying to sell it like it was. The KDF was enemy of the week in Star Trek but as their story grew in the canon material it made no sense for the KDF and the Federation to even fight. The Story line that STO relies on for this war is thin and sad.
ex...The Federation does not believe the Undine infiltration is a threat to the galaxy? The Undine?!? who were holding the Borg in check, the race that scared the boogey-monsters of the Federation. What Star Fleet Command suddenly forgot the power the Borg displayed at Wolf359? And the Voyager crew are the ones investigating from the Fedside..... (Sorry I digress...:(.)
3. THERE IS NO PARITY IN CONTENT AND SHOULD NEVER BE. (SORRY>:mad:)
The KDF is never going to have a massive number of varied ship designs. If we are following the way a Klingon thinks there is no reason for it ..if it works USE IT, if it stops working make a new version.
Small ships like BOPs and fighters are always the main stays of the KDF captain corps. There is no honor or advancement to be gained as the 15th gunner on a NegH'Var.
I do think we need more costume bits though the KDF captains tend to be given more latitude in style of dress than the Federation. Plus we have so many non-Klingons in our faction. (I'll give this as a given form all the players though.)
Remember this as well:
This game is made by a company, they do not do this for free. Cryptic and the Dev's have proven they are not doing this to punish or abuse those who choose not to play Fed characters. If that was the case they would have folded this faction ages ago just to stop the whining and bad taste on the Forums. If there was such a massive demand for KDF over FED content any company that wants to stay in business goes to meet the largest demand they can. Sadly KDF is not that largest demand, but they keep getting us stuff so be happy.
Also for Content if DStahl comes across with the remastered and enhanced PvE leveling system for the KDF side, plus all the future faction-neutral content, plus the ability to team with Feddies for STF's and a new tutorial missions. I think I will be more than happy, I'd be estatic.
What the un-happy members of our community need to ask themselves is what will satisfy them?
Is it a realistic demand or is it based on ideas that are never going to materialize?:D
I mean heck there are still threads constantly complaining that you can't fly your ship from your captain's chair. What an absolute waste that would be, its like fighting while looking through a tube, and if all you want to do is see star's flying by your view screen then turnoff STO and turn on your screensaver.
Given the hull strength, power, and weapon points of a cruiser, even if this was all Nerf down to Tier 4 for use with a Universal set up, it would be so unbalanced it would be game breaking. Within a day you'd see people on the forums crying for a Nerf. We're talking a tank you can fit with just the 1-2 tac skills you want and then heals. Or simply nothing but heals. A well speced engineer with such a ship could keep himself/herself alive indefinitely by rotating heals with his/her own captain powers.
My 2 Energy Credits worthy is that the KDF needs some actual Klingon ONLY content, and despite the awesomeness of new Qonos (and it is awesome), a re-hash of old faction neutral content for KDF side is not very promising - in so far as I play most of the neutral content first on the Fed side.. More Klingon specific PvE would be my request; and even though I mainly play Fed - I like the idea of Klingons having exclusive powers - I hesitate to give the Feds the same powers. It's bad enough for the KDF side as is. Just my two credits there...
Let them eat CAKE!!!
I see your point but I say this is a non-issue......there is nothing game breaking if you slot all defense and heal stuff- well that is you...you may live the longest in PvP but all the other team needs is 15 kills....mass firepower overcomes all the defenses any ship can mount. Also most skills have shared cool-downs while you might get away with 2 copies of the same skill a third is useless, so an all engineer(or tac or sci for that matter) UniBOffed ship will have many shared cool downs and not be the world beater it sounds like. Tough I bet, but not IWIN caliber.
What we have is people striving for parity in PvP...hint:not gonna happen (unless everyone is given a Captain with the same powers and same ship and same tactics)...still skill, team work and experience will trump luck..usually.
*Sigh*
I've commented in other threads about the new cruiser having all universal boff slots, so to surmise my position on it, it is completely asinine, unbalancing, and game breaking. If this happens the game will tank. There would be not incentive to captain any other ship so STO once again, will become Cruisers Online. And the KDF would be unable to beat any competent FED team with even numbers. Thos ewho think that FEDs are supposed to have more and have better need to remember this is a game and balance is key.
The question was not "Will the KDF be getting any Klingon Exclusive Content?" it was, "Will the KDF be getting any new content." His answer referenced a lot of universal content that can be enjoyed by the KDF and is thus, KDF content. It also made reference to some 'local neighborhood' dailies that we can assume will match Starfleet but have KDF exclusive versions. I'm sorry that you didn't grasp it and that he answered the question he was asked, not the question you wanted to have asked, but your complaint is without merit.
Two points here. One, there are ways around any balance issues and two, he did not say the Enterprise-J would have all universal boff slots, he said it was something they were considering while he also said they were considering ways to make OTHER versions that would be appealing to science and tactical captains. I think you're reading too much into what he said.
I disagree. Why would anyone play any other ship and give up a full universal boff ship? And yes I understand it isn't set in stone and that he said they would consider it and that is was a great idea. Problem is Cryptic has released a lot of stuff that has been lacking in balance and has showed total disregard for the PvP and KDF communities. All I have to go off is what they say and their past performance. Words speak, actions thunder. TBH it sounds like you are a FED who wants a super cruiser with all universals to me. I play both factions, and I still can't understand how anyone can justify it.
Interesting, so when you see "more Klingon missions" you believe that to unequivocally mean "more Klingon exclusive missions" but when Dstahl responded he was quite clearly reading it as "more missions that can be done by Klingons." And because he uses a different, but factually valid, interpretation of the posters question that means he didn't answer it? Again, meritless complaint.
Well that's a good question. Lets look back over our recent STO history and see if we can find a case similar to this one. Oh look, there's already a "full universal BOFF ship" in game that is not played by most players because it has quite a few significant drawbacks, or 'balances.'
Now, I know what you're about to say, you're about to say "Sure, the BOP isn't popular because it has the lowest hull in the game, it's missing a rear weapon mount, it's missing an ensign BOFF spot, and it lacks passive abilities that make it average or below average at a few significant tasks." And you're right.
You're also going to say, "And sure, they can take an ensign spot away from the Tier 6 enterprise, and there's no reason a cruiser would have science vessel or escort passives, but they sure as heck can't give a Universal Cruiser the lowest hull in the game and they probably shouldn't take away one of its 8 guns." And you're right too.
But they can 'balance' a universal cruiser by giving it a relatively low hull strength. If the universal cruiser is the cruiser with the weakest hull and an average turn rate, it will become an expensive and balanced player choice. And if it needs further balancing, they can always take away one of its rear guns, an even bigger hit to a cruiser than to a lightly armored and maneuverable bird of prey. Or they can go an entirely different route, make it freakishly large, give it a low turn rate more in line with Carriers, and science vessel passives. Then it would play like a Klingon Carrier but without the fighter craft.
Well, it is an interesting idea and if you define 'great' as 'interesting' then it fits the bill. Cryptic is not going to release a game breaking super ship that turns all of Federation End Game into people flying different variants of the same ship. None of their 'actions' could have thundered nearly loud enough for you to actually believe this is something they'd do, even on accident.
That's a bit of a logical leap that is indicated in nothing that I've written. If you're able to make such, lets call them, 'intuitive conclusions' that really explains a lot about how you saw what Dstahl wrote and somehow read, "We will make a Universal T6 Cruiser that will be a God ship with no draw backs or penalties."
Many have made attempts to justify such a ship, maybe not a God ship though, LOL. Most if not all are primarily Fed players. So based on the things you have said I have lumped you into that general category. All I'm saying is I fail to understand how anyone who wants this game to succeed throws ship balance out the window so they can have something they think is kewl (not saying that is you).